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As always, 00:02:17.580 --> 00:02:20.000 my name is James Gearing and this week I am so 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.840 excited to bring on the show... bethany hamilton 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.460 now what makes it even more amazing is that she's 00:02:25.460 --> 00:02:28.620 about to embark on an international tour promoting 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:31.879 her new film unbreakable and i was able to catch 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.340 bethany right before she left the film in itself 00:02:35.340 --> 00:02:37.819 i cannot recommend it enough i actually watched 00:02:37.819 --> 00:02:39.979 it yesterday and i watched it again today not 00:02:39.979 --> 00:02:43.000 only is bethany's story incredibly powerful but 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.439 also the cinematography is beautiful in this 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:48.789 film so you must watch that So in this conversation, 00:02:48.930 --> 00:02:50.889 I want to explore the space between the lines. 00:02:50.949 --> 00:02:53.169 Her story is being well documented, especially 00:02:53.169 --> 00:02:56.210 some of the tragedy of her early life. But we 00:02:56.210 --> 00:02:59.830 went into fitness, into nutrition, into her mindset, 00:02:59.909 --> 00:03:02.949 what made her so successful not only as a youth 00:03:02.949 --> 00:03:05.969 athlete, but then post -injury as an adaptive 00:03:05.969 --> 00:03:09.349 athlete competing alongside non -adaptive athletes. 00:03:09.849 --> 00:03:11.949 So it was an incredible conversation. I feel 00:03:11.949 --> 00:03:13.689 that we covered a huge amount of topics in the 00:03:13.689 --> 00:03:16.120 time that we had. Before we get to the interview, 00:03:16.219 --> 00:03:18.319 as I always say, go to the podcast app that you 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:20.319 listen to this on and subscribe to the show. 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.759 Leave feedback. I love reading your feedback. 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:24.819 But most importantly, leave a rating. 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Well, Bethany, I want to say 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:17.959 firstly, thank you so, so much for agreeing to 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:19.740 come on the Behind the Shield podcast at such 00:04:19.740 --> 00:04:23.160 short notice. Yeah, no worries. Glad to be here. 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:25.459 And I want to say thank you to Eric Goodman, 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.360 Foundation Training founder, for connecting us. 00:04:29.660 --> 00:04:32.500 Yep, I've been nerding out on Foundation lately. 00:04:32.819 --> 00:04:36.939 So if y 'all are looking to get your health and 00:04:36.939 --> 00:04:39.720 posture and body alignment functioning good, 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:43.199 I recommend checking it out. It's amazing. Absolutely. 00:04:43.459 --> 00:04:44.879 All right. Well, I like to go chronologically. 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:46.779 Obviously, I know we've got a time constraint, 00:04:46.819 --> 00:04:49.000 so I want to make my questions kind of short 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.939 and sweet. But just give me an overview of your 00:04:52.939 --> 00:04:55.980 parents' background and then your childhood introduction 00:04:55.980 --> 00:05:01.079 into surfing. Yeah. Well, I was born and raised 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:04.680 here in Kauai, Hawaii, where I still live. And 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:09.339 yeah, I think for a lot of people, it's natural. 00:05:09.459 --> 00:05:13.389 They'll let the ocean be. kids playground especially 00:05:13.389 --> 00:05:17.129 my parents um being that they were surfers and 00:05:17.129 --> 00:05:19.949 i also had two older brothers who loved being 00:05:19.949 --> 00:05:23.850 in the ocean as well so yeah i guess we spent 00:05:23.850 --> 00:05:25.949 more time at the beach than the playground growing 00:05:25.949 --> 00:05:29.550 up and it created like a just natural love for 00:05:29.550 --> 00:05:34.269 the ocean and once i started surfing i just had 00:05:34.269 --> 00:05:38.519 a knack for it and really loved it and Especially 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.920 as I got around the age of eight, I started catching 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:47.399 waves on my own and just really fell in love 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:49.639 with riding waves and the challenge and beauty 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:57.319 of it. I started to get competitive. My parents 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.800 were just super supportive of me along the journey 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:05.259 and just saw all the potential I had and kind 00:06:05.259 --> 00:06:08.360 of cheered me on. Now, one thing I've talked 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.920 about with quite a few people from either a coaching 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:14.300 background or were athletes themselves is we 00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:16.959 see a lot of parents living vicariously through 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:18.920 their children. So they put them in all these 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.000 baseball camps, for example. And a lot of these 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.500 kids are just – they're not going to get to that 00:06:24.500 --> 00:06:27.339 highest level. And there's a certain point where 00:06:27.339 --> 00:06:30.100 many of them even get burnt out or injured on 00:06:30.100 --> 00:06:34.660 it. You, however, the anomaly, you're the athlete 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:38.230 that – just had that innate passion and that 00:06:38.230 --> 00:06:40.889 innate skill and picked up that specific sport 00:06:40.889 --> 00:06:45.649 so well. So looking back now, what was it about 00:06:45.649 --> 00:06:48.750 you and surfing you think that was so different 00:06:48.750 --> 00:06:51.410 than the average young boy or girl that takes 00:06:51.410 --> 00:06:53.250 up surfing but just gets to a certain level? 00:06:54.269 --> 00:06:57.769 Yeah, well, I think my parents were definitely 00:06:57.769 --> 00:07:03.209 living vicariously through me. they also had 00:07:03.209 --> 00:07:09.970 like a good healthy balance and they yeah they 00:07:09.970 --> 00:07:12.490 just supported me in a way that was like cheering 00:07:12.490 --> 00:07:16.129 me on but not like too forceful or too pushy 00:07:16.129 --> 00:07:20.629 and they kind of let my natural drive be like 00:07:20.629 --> 00:07:24.370 the leader so to say like from my vantage point 00:07:24.370 --> 00:07:27.629 and then they were just there to get me to the 00:07:27.629 --> 00:07:32.339 beach and Yeah, and then I think I definitely 00:07:32.339 --> 00:07:37.019 had a lot of the natural drive to be really competitive 00:07:37.019 --> 00:07:40.360 with it. And, you know, as much as I love surfing, 00:07:40.459 --> 00:07:43.819 I also loved competing and still do today. I'm 00:07:43.819 --> 00:07:49.779 just naturally competitive. So that kind of just 00:07:49.779 --> 00:07:54.339 was kind of my driver or my leader for the sport. 00:07:58.149 --> 00:08:00.970 Just to give you guys a background, I was winning 00:08:00.970 --> 00:08:05.089 almost every event in my local community. And 00:08:05.089 --> 00:08:07.689 then at 13, I was in the national championship 00:08:07.689 --> 00:08:12.329 finals and finished second in 18 and under at 00:08:12.329 --> 00:08:17.930 age 13 or 12, maybe. And so I was competing against 00:08:17.930 --> 00:08:21.970 high school girls and it showed that I was just 00:08:21.970 --> 00:08:26.180 going to be good. And so when I lost my arm, 00:08:26.300 --> 00:08:31.220 that kind of made everyone question, including 00:08:31.220 --> 00:08:35.580 myself. Yeah, well, so what I saw from, you know, 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:38.000 the leading up is, you know, you had this passion. 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:39.820 You also had this fearlessness. And then you 00:08:39.820 --> 00:08:42.700 had, you know, the incident with, you know, with 00:08:42.700 --> 00:08:46.179 the attack. Up to that point, the ocean was your 00:08:46.179 --> 00:08:49.039 solitude, your safe space, you know, where you 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:51.399 connected with nature. What was that journey 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:55.110 like? to get back to trust the ocean again and 00:08:55.110 --> 00:08:58.070 make it your your healing environment after you 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:03.389 know that one moment yeah i guess um yeah because 00:09:03.389 --> 00:09:07.190 my world was flipped upside down and i i would 00:09:07.190 --> 00:09:10.490 touch on too that like i didn't feel really angry 00:09:10.490 --> 00:09:15.929 at god or i didn't feel angry um about the situation 00:09:15.929 --> 00:09:19.850 but more i've immediately felt like just grateful 00:09:19.850 --> 00:09:23.539 that i was alive and I knew that I could very 00:09:23.539 --> 00:09:28.039 well have been dead. So I think that helped me 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:32.320 a lot rather than being caught up in just, you 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:40.480 know, anger and hate and just, yeah, just, I 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:43.279 think those emotions can really bring you down. 00:09:43.340 --> 00:09:46.500 And especially when you're in a such life, life 00:09:46.500 --> 00:09:51.860 altering circumstance, like. I just being grateful 00:09:51.860 --> 00:09:56.240 kind of led me to just be more positive and just 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.840 be able to move forward. And I trusted and hope 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.139 that God had more for my life beyond that. And 00:10:03.139 --> 00:10:06.179 even though it felt like really chaotic and not 00:10:06.179 --> 00:10:09.720 sure what the future would hold, I just kind 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.519 of just kept trucking along. And then as I share 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:17.120 in my new documentary, Unstoppable, there's a 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.799 scene where. A guy named Mike Coots, who lost 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.860 his leg to a shark, was like, hey, I went surfing 00:10:23.860 --> 00:10:27.200 this morning. It's totally possible to get up 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.679 with one arm. So he was kind of my first light 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:34.299 bulb of inspiration. And once he told me that, 00:10:34.419 --> 00:10:37.080 I was determined to get back in the ocean. And 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:42.980 I guess my fear of sharks was not as great as 00:10:42.980 --> 00:10:48.330 my fear of losing surfing. Yeah, well, you touched 00:10:48.330 --> 00:10:50.529 on gratitude and that was another thing that 00:10:50.529 --> 00:10:52.710 was poignant from the movie. And by the way, 00:10:52.710 --> 00:10:55.990 for everyone listening, Unstoppable is not only 00:10:55.990 --> 00:10:59.049 such an incredibly powerful story, you know, 00:10:59.049 --> 00:11:01.610 of which the, you know, the attack is like a 00:11:01.610 --> 00:11:05.289 minute blip in your true life story, but also 00:11:05.289 --> 00:11:10.470 is so, so beautifully shot. But when post -injury, 00:11:10.470 --> 00:11:12.850 when you talk about being grateful that it wasn't 00:11:12.850 --> 00:11:15.980 your best friend Alana that was bitten. It really 00:11:15.980 --> 00:11:20.299 underlined the power of gratitude. Rather than 00:11:20.299 --> 00:11:23.679 looking at the one thing that you lost, you seemed 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:25.879 to focus on all the things that you still had. 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:31.899 Yeah, and I definitely did. And so as I started 00:11:31.899 --> 00:11:36.000 surfing, once I popped up on my first wave, it 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.679 was like no turning back. And I was just on a 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.200 mission to be the best surfer I could be with 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.080 what I had. So, like we said before, I've had 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:48.600 many members on here of the adaptive community. 00:11:49.059 --> 00:11:51.860 And obviously, you talk about your dad putting 00:11:51.860 --> 00:11:54.200 the handle on so you're able to duck dive with 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.639 your first surfboard. But back then, that was 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:00.720 before what we're seeing now with the huge adaptive 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.340 athlete community. What was that physical journey 00:12:04.340 --> 00:12:09.840 for you? Again, realizing that you have to change 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.610 the way your physicality is. finding ways to 00:12:13.610 --> 00:12:15.870 do it rather than you know the word that that 00:12:15.870 --> 00:12:18.149 you openly say you don't like the disabled word 00:12:18.149 --> 00:12:20.429 where again you're focusing on what you can't 00:12:20.429 --> 00:12:24.529 do but you apply what you can do yeah and i was 00:12:24.529 --> 00:12:28.149 definitely all about just adapting and i i just 00:12:28.149 --> 00:12:31.309 love the idea of like adapting because that has 00:12:31.309 --> 00:12:34.490 to do with everyone regarding regardless of whether 00:12:34.490 --> 00:12:37.429 you have a limb difference or a physical difference 00:12:37.429 --> 00:12:41.610 it's just life dealing with the ups and downs 00:12:41.610 --> 00:12:44.710 and the challenges and the painful times, um, 00:12:44.830 --> 00:12:48.090 just being able to adopt through those and kind 00:12:48.090 --> 00:12:52.450 of be resilient is so important. So, um, and 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:54.870 a lot of that has to do with just the mind, like 00:12:54.870 --> 00:12:59.190 having a resilient and adapting mind. Um, cause 00:12:59.190 --> 00:13:02.509 especially as you get older, like I noticed like 00:13:02.509 --> 00:13:06.789 how the effects of being negative or, um, ungrateful 00:13:06.789 --> 00:13:11.379 or just kind of like, Doubting myself or my abilities 00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:15.799 is so powerful that it can just really hold us 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:19.539 back from being our best selves or loving those 00:13:19.539 --> 00:13:23.000 around us well or being able to forgive those 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.879 when they make mistakes or forgive ourselves 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:30.980 when we make mistakes. Yeah, it can just be debilitating 00:13:30.980 --> 00:13:34.649 having a poor mindset. Absolutely. Well, with 00:13:34.649 --> 00:13:36.389 that, I mean, obviously, you've got the physical 00:13:36.389 --> 00:13:38.529 side, the mental side, were there any kind of 00:13:38.529 --> 00:13:42.250 types of therapy that you found work better, 00:13:42.370 --> 00:13:45.509 you know, to bring you not only the journey out 00:13:45.509 --> 00:13:47.990 of that initial event, but then creating a strong 00:13:47.990 --> 00:13:53.110 mindset for your athletic career? Yeah, unfortunately, 00:13:53.549 --> 00:13:57.149 well, maybe not, unfortunately, but I really 00:13:57.149 --> 00:14:01.669 didn't do anything special. In my younger years, 00:14:01.789 --> 00:14:04.850 I hardly even saw a therapist after I lost my 00:14:04.850 --> 00:14:09.370 arm, maybe like two times. But I don't think 00:14:09.370 --> 00:14:11.730 I suffered too much from like post -traumatic 00:14:11.730 --> 00:14:15.730 stress stuff. So thankfully, I don't think that 00:14:15.730 --> 00:14:20.190 was too much of an issue. But I think just being 00:14:20.190 --> 00:14:22.710 in the ocean was really healing for me. And just 00:14:22.710 --> 00:14:25.929 knowing that I could still do what I love to 00:14:25.929 --> 00:14:30.590 do most. And, you know, being present. like the 00:14:30.590 --> 00:14:32.950 ocean and riding waves in particular when you're 00:14:32.950 --> 00:14:35.009 up and riding on a wave it's like the ultimate 00:14:35.009 --> 00:14:37.210 form of just being present and doing what you're 00:14:37.210 --> 00:14:40.570 doing so that was pretty yeah it just worked 00:14:40.570 --> 00:14:43.789 out good for me and then now in my adult years 00:14:43.789 --> 00:14:49.690 um just as an athlete and a surfer I I definitely 00:14:49.690 --> 00:14:53.210 just kind of focus try to focus on my strengths 00:14:53.210 --> 00:14:56.450 and I do a little bit of um just kind of mental 00:14:56.450 --> 00:15:00.500 training like affirmation sort of stuff like 00:15:00.500 --> 00:15:03.100 just meditating on my strengths and what I can 00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:08.059 do and um yeah it seems to be helpful just kind 00:15:08.059 --> 00:15:12.500 of believing that I can do you use any visualization 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:14.320 at all of the ways that you're gonna you know 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:18.779 anticipate getting um I wish I did more of that 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:22.679 I do kind of naturally I would say but like I 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.059 don't have like an intentional like visualization 00:15:25.059 --> 00:15:29.009 time Right. Now, what about the breath hold training? 00:15:29.230 --> 00:15:32.129 You know, you're featuring in the movie Carrying 00:15:32.129 --> 00:15:33.850 the Rock Underneath, which looks kind of reminiscent 00:15:33.850 --> 00:15:36.190 of some of Laird Hamilton's stuff. What does 00:15:36.190 --> 00:15:39.309 your physical preparation look like to get to 00:15:39.309 --> 00:15:42.690 the level that you're at? Yeah, I always joke 00:15:42.690 --> 00:15:45.549 with people that I've been like training since 00:15:45.549 --> 00:15:50.269 I was, you know, seven years old because I would 00:15:50.269 --> 00:15:53.029 just go and like get pounded in the surf for 00:15:53.029 --> 00:15:56.720 fun or. You know, we'd go to like natural lava 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.120 rock pools like with my dad a lot growing up. 00:16:00.139 --> 00:16:03.539 And he and I would like try to swim as far as 00:16:03.539 --> 00:16:05.500 we could underwater without taking a breath. 00:16:05.980 --> 00:16:08.720 So it's just and then also like I would go shell 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:11.019 diving and just hold my breath while picking 00:16:11.019 --> 00:16:14.740 shells underwater. So I did all these natural 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:18.019 like kind of playful training growing up. And 00:16:18.019 --> 00:16:20.679 then all my girlfriends and I would go rock running 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:25.909 growing up. So now I'll just I still do some 00:16:25.909 --> 00:16:29.370 of that stuff, but I'll also just do like normal 00:16:29.370 --> 00:16:32.350 breath holding, like sitting on the couch or 00:16:32.350 --> 00:16:34.769 if my husband's driving, like sitting in the 00:16:34.769 --> 00:16:38.049 car, just holding my breath. Because he's a terrifying 00:16:38.049 --> 00:16:41.190 driver. Is that for training? No, for training. 00:16:42.129 --> 00:16:46.669 He's a pretty good driver. So thankfully. But 00:16:46.669 --> 00:16:49.230 yeah, and then just a lot of cross training. 00:16:51.309 --> 00:16:54.470 And I've changed a lot of how I do things now 00:16:54.470 --> 00:16:57.169 that I've had two children and just being a lot 00:16:57.169 --> 00:17:00.450 more gentle on my body. But I also still want 00:17:00.450 --> 00:17:03.129 to be explosive. So just kind of getting creative 00:17:03.129 --> 00:17:08.210 with that with different trainers. And I've been 00:17:08.210 --> 00:17:13.450 dabbling with foundation and just trying to keep 00:17:13.450 --> 00:17:16.509 the fluidity in my movement as well, though. 00:17:16.609 --> 00:17:18.950 Like kind of, I don't know, a lot of the stuff 00:17:18.950 --> 00:17:22.680 I do is like very. Has like dancer, kind of dancer 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:26.440 -esque sort of movements. Just because surfing, 00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:28.420 you don't want to be rigid, but you want to be 00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:31.380 flowing and kind of forget what the terms are. 00:17:31.700 --> 00:17:34.839 There's terms for it all, but be like kinetic, 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:39.180 flowing movement throughout the whole body. Absolutely. 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.440 Well, you mentioned the children as well. So 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.539 a very kind of pertinent thing for me, a couple 00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:48.549 of things. When you first got pregnant, you know, 00:17:48.589 --> 00:17:50.170 as people will see when they watch the film, 00:17:50.230 --> 00:17:52.230 there were some challenges in your performance. 00:17:52.329 --> 00:17:54.150 But then when you were more heavily pregnant, 00:17:54.349 --> 00:17:57.609 you noticed that actually you were surfing better. 00:17:58.289 --> 00:18:00.990 So tell me about that experience because I think 00:18:00.990 --> 00:18:02.950 that was a beautiful thing seeing you, you know, 00:18:02.970 --> 00:18:05.490 I'm assuming you were probably six or seven months 00:18:05.490 --> 00:18:08.269 by that point riding some of your best waves. 00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:12.329 yeah it was interesting that wasn't definitely 00:18:12.329 --> 00:18:14.529 not part of my plan to get better at surfing 00:18:14.529 --> 00:18:17.029 while I was pregnant I guess a lot of people 00:18:17.029 --> 00:18:20.450 there's a lot of different opinions about that 00:18:20.450 --> 00:18:23.329 sort of stuff but growing up in Hawaii you're 00:18:23.329 --> 00:18:25.869 always seeing pregnant women surfing like it's 00:18:25.869 --> 00:18:30.349 kind of normal and um it's not much of a worry 00:18:30.349 --> 00:18:36.539 um so yeah surfing was like surfing while I was 00:18:36.539 --> 00:18:39.259 pregnant wasn't like really a question so to 00:18:39.259 --> 00:18:45.539 say um but the cool thing was you know a lot 00:18:45.539 --> 00:18:47.440 of people don't realize but I'm almost six foot 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:51.779 tall and um I'm pretty like really naturally 00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:55.259 strong and then plus I cross train so I have 00:18:55.259 --> 00:18:58.599 cross training strength and so I surf very strong 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:01.140 and kind of powerful and like heavy back footed 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:04.460 So when I was pregnant, it kind of forced me 00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:07.279 to just kind of slow things down a bit and just 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.480 get more smooth, which was something I wanted 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.980 in my surfing. It was just hard to make myself 00:19:12.980 --> 00:19:16.400 do. But being pregnant kind of just naturally 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:20.799 made me do that more. And then so that was kind 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.680 of how I got better in that, like, I just got 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.980 smoother and more flowing. um and then i try 00:19:27.980 --> 00:19:30.119 to like keep that going after i got pregnant 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.099 too or once i had the baby just kind of keep 00:19:33.099 --> 00:19:36.480 that natural approach just a bit more smooth 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.799 and flowing with the with the waves yeah and 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:43.119 it struck me as you know like you said that there 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:46.519 there's a you know polarizing opinions of that 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:49.480 but what i see um especially here in the u .s 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.900 at the moment is that it's deemed healthy to 00:19:52.900 --> 00:19:57.359 put on 30, 40, 50 pounds during pregnancy and 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.299 not exercise, but it's deemed unhealthy to be 00:20:00.299 --> 00:20:03.799 in the gym or on the water until you almost have 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:05.680 the child. And I personally think that's completely 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.380 backwards. Oh, my gosh. I was going to hold myself 00:20:09.380 --> 00:20:13.160 back from saying some stuff like that. Go ahead. 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:16.400 A lot of pregnant women just eating whatever 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.039 they want just because they think, oh, I can 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.220 do whatever I want while I'm pregnant. But really, 00:20:21.259 --> 00:20:25.279 you should be eating nourishing, nourishing healthy 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:30.359 foods for your body and for your baby. And these 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.259 so -called cravings shouldn't be the leader of 00:20:33.259 --> 00:20:36.859 what you eat. rather what the best interest in 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:40.519 hand for your baby and for yourself while you're 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.619 growing a little human being and even that goes 00:20:43.619 --> 00:20:47.200 into childhood too like you hear these comments 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.980 of like oh kids can get away with whatever eating 00:20:49.980 --> 00:20:52.579 whatever but like they're in the most critical 00:20:52.579 --> 00:20:56.400 development in the younger years so they should 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.980 be eating more nourishing and more healthy foods 00:20:59.980 --> 00:21:05.220 than ever as children to grow a nourishing healthy 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:10.019 mind and body and just be a healthy human so 00:21:10.019 --> 00:21:12.440 there's just like kind of a lot of like kind 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:15.920 of lame excuses out there that aren't good for 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:18.619 anyone yeah no i agree one of the things i'm 00:21:18.619 --> 00:21:20.420 trying to i mean i'm not personally trying to 00:21:20.420 --> 00:21:22.180 fix but hopefully being part of the tapestry 00:21:22.180 --> 00:21:24.859 to fix it is is the food in the schools you know 00:21:24.859 --> 00:21:28.180 this is the most crucial time to teach kids about 00:21:28.180 --> 00:21:30.720 food and eating and cooking and we're kind of 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:35.089 screwing it up Oh, my gosh. That's amazing. I 00:21:35.089 --> 00:21:37.509 love that you're doing that. My husband and I 00:21:37.509 --> 00:21:39.130 are actually planning to homeschool our kids, 00:21:39.210 --> 00:21:43.349 and I have all kinds of plans to educate them 00:21:43.349 --> 00:21:46.569 really thoroughly in health. I mean, naturally, 00:21:46.670 --> 00:21:48.890 they'll just learn because that's how we live 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:53.869 and eat, and that's our way of life. But I want 00:21:53.869 --> 00:21:56.549 them to have all the knowledge behind it so that 00:21:56.549 --> 00:22:00.250 they're driven in their own knowledge to take 00:22:00.250 --> 00:22:03.769 care of themselves. young adults absolutely now 00:22:03.769 --> 00:22:05.369 what are some of your philosophies nutrition 00:22:05.369 --> 00:22:09.430 wise to perform the level that you do oh yeah 00:22:09.430 --> 00:22:14.549 i mean um i just eat pretty whole foodie and 00:22:14.549 --> 00:22:20.089 um we eat like grass -fed and humanely raised 00:22:20.089 --> 00:22:24.609 animal and um i personally have been eating like 00:22:24.609 --> 00:22:26.890 a lot of bone broth and just a lot of veggies 00:22:26.890 --> 00:22:31.369 and um some Kind of like, what do you call them? 00:22:33.509 --> 00:22:36.809 Squashes and sweet potatoes and stuff like that. 00:22:37.029 --> 00:22:41.049 Not too much green. Yeah, it's interesting just 00:22:41.049 --> 00:22:45.450 kind of going into adulthood as a woman. It feels 00:22:45.450 --> 00:22:48.869 harder to kind of just be really slim or whatever, 00:22:49.009 --> 00:22:51.849 even with the amount that I move. So I feel like 00:22:51.849 --> 00:22:54.769 I'm always trying to work out what's best for 00:22:54.769 --> 00:22:59.299 me. And energy -wise, too. I just do so much 00:22:59.299 --> 00:23:01.619 and I know that I'm pushing my body more than 00:23:01.619 --> 00:23:05.420 the average kind of human. And so finding ways 00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:09.819 to support it the best I can that empower me 00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:13.579 to have good energy and good recovery and strength. 00:23:14.660 --> 00:23:20.200 Right. Well, you also in the film start realizing 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:23.140 areas of surfing, which is a very broad spectrum 00:23:23.140 --> 00:23:26.400 of styles. that you want to improve on which 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:28.099 I thought was phenomenal because you didn't just 00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:31.220 stay in your lane and I mean that in a positive 00:23:31.220 --> 00:23:34.420 way but you realized that there was aerial and 00:23:34.420 --> 00:23:37.779 big wave and barrel and all these other specialties 00:23:37.779 --> 00:23:40.259 that you wanted to conquer you wanted to add 00:23:40.259 --> 00:23:42.559 yet another layer to your already incredible 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:46.200 surfing so was there like a pivotal moment that 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:48.920 started that thought process or was it kind of 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:51.400 again from that little eight -year -old girl? 00:23:52.040 --> 00:23:54.839 Yeah, I mean, ever since I was a young girl, 00:23:54.940 --> 00:23:59.319 I think I started doing my first airs when I 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:03.440 was 12. And I was also going for barely waves 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.819 at that age and big waves. So I think I've always 00:24:07.819 --> 00:24:11.980 wanted to just be a really well -rounded surfer 00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:15.880 and kind of push myself in all aspects. it just 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.900 keeps it really fun too and like not boring like 00:24:18.900 --> 00:24:21.759 when you just focus on you know I love actually 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.220 surfing little waves too and like trying to push 00:24:24.220 --> 00:24:26.619 myself in little waves and like to perform well 00:24:26.619 --> 00:24:30.799 um but I also love huge waves like I just I love 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.579 it all and I love being able to kind of push 00:24:33.579 --> 00:24:36.059 myself in all areas whatever the ocean provides 00:24:36.059 --> 00:24:38.599 then we just go for it and like have fun with 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:44.420 it um so it was cool like Being in the filmmaking 00:24:44.420 --> 00:24:51.720 space, we allowed more freedom to just have the 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:55.000 time to put the energy and focus on all these 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.460 different aspects, whereas otherwise I would 00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:01.880 have been having to do other work stuff that 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:06.559 would pull from my focus. Making the film just 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:09.599 provided that open space to really work hard 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:11.880 and push myself in all the different areas of 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.180 surfing. Yeah, it was just so much fun. I just, 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.559 you know, like for me, it wasn't definitely, 00:25:17.660 --> 00:25:19.839 it wasn't about making the film, but it was just 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:22.059 like, oh yeah, let's make the film so I can go 00:25:22.059 --> 00:25:26.539 on surf trips. And then even like, like a lot 00:25:26.539 --> 00:25:29.339 of my drive after have, once I found out I was 00:25:29.339 --> 00:25:31.299 pregnant, I was like, well, should we do this 00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:35.220 film? And I was like, well, I just want to have 00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:37.960 like the motivation to keep surfing and pushing 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:40.500 myself after I have the baby. So yeah, let's 00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:43.619 keep doing the film. Another thing that really 00:25:43.619 --> 00:25:46.240 struck me about the film is you were very vulnerable 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.980 and honest in the storytelling of it. And there 00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:53.740 was that moment when you had Tobias where you 00:25:53.740 --> 00:25:58.890 struggled with the surfing. you know you're surfing 00:25:58.890 --> 00:26:01.309 tracked and and motherhood and i thought that 00:26:01.309 --> 00:26:03.890 was probably a crossroads that a lot of you know 00:26:03.890 --> 00:26:06.269 moms and dads find themselves where yeah of course 00:26:06.269 --> 00:26:09.309 a child is as you know now completely changes 00:26:09.309 --> 00:26:11.410 the way you look at life and you know even like 00:26:11.410 --> 00:26:13.930 time management and that kind of thing so what 00:26:13.930 --> 00:26:18.069 was that experience for you like oh it's definitely 00:26:18.069 --> 00:26:21.769 a big adjustment phase and kind of um just finding 00:26:21.769 --> 00:26:25.190 the balance is still to this day a continual 00:26:25.190 --> 00:26:30.019 thing and um But like it's cool with professional 00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:33.680 surfing, like my kids can come to the beach with 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.200 me or they can kind of distract me from my gym 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.859 focus. And I don't mind that. And I like having 00:26:40.859 --> 00:26:44.420 them just be a part of my life and be in kind 00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:46.480 of the thick of it all. And they travel with 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.019 us a lot, too, or they travel with us everywhere 00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:53.079 just about. So I just love kind of incorporating 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:56.640 them into our world. You know, we'll do kids 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.099 stuff, but they also come along for a mom and 00:26:59.099 --> 00:27:03.680 dad at a time. So, yeah, I think it just makes 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.079 for a really special upbringing. And if they 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.140 couldn't be a part of it, I probably wouldn't 00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:10.900 want to do it all or do as much as I'm doing. 00:27:11.099 --> 00:27:14.220 But thankfully, like my husband and I, we just 00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:18.640 we teamwork everything we do. We have kind of 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.740 a lot of different facets going on from just, 00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:23.960 you know, I do some. motivational speaking I 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:27.039 do endorsements and now we've launched our own 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:30.339 online e -course for empowering people to live 00:27:30.339 --> 00:27:34.259 their unstoppable life and so we have a lot of 00:27:34.259 --> 00:27:35.859 different things going on and then this year 00:27:35.859 --> 00:27:37.980 I'm going to be competing full -time on the world 00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:41.519 qualifying series as well so there's just a lot 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:43.859 kind of on our plate but we just kind of like 00:27:43.859 --> 00:27:46.720 pass the kids back and forth and we have a lot 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:49.940 of family who live nearby so we can drop the 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:51.579 kids with grandpa and grandma here and there 00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:55.480 and Yeah, it works out good. So I just love being 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:58.519 able to share life super thoroughly with them. 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:01.940 And I want to raise my kids. I don't want someone 00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:05.680 else raising my kids. So I'm thankful that I 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:09.339 can. That is amazing. And it's a very sad thing, 00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:10.980 kind of like the pregnancy thing we were talking 00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:13.059 about earlier, when you also hear someone say, 00:28:13.259 --> 00:28:16.799 well, we have kids now, so we can't travel anymore. 00:28:16.980 --> 00:28:19.000 Whatever it is, I can't pursue this dream anymore. 00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:23.099 And that's so wrong. You can engineer so many 00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:24.859 situations where you can. It may not be all the 00:28:24.859 --> 00:28:26.920 time, but my little boy, who you're going to 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:28.700 meet in a minute, which is brilliant, because 00:28:28.700 --> 00:28:32.099 you're definitely one of his heroes, he's been 00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:35.119 all around the world. I mean, the first time 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.839 he was six weeks old when I took him home back 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:39.420 to England. But yeah, I mean, there's no better 00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:43.859 way of giving a child a grounding of, you know, 00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:46.680 the humans that inhabit this planet with us than 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:48.940 to take them around the world and show them all 00:28:48.940 --> 00:28:52.460 these other cultures. Yeah, it really is special. 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:55.799 Yeah, my four -year -old has spent most of his 00:28:55.799 --> 00:29:02.900 birthdays internationally. And he does great 00:29:02.900 --> 00:29:05.839 with other kids, but he also has a really great 00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:10.759 ability to interact with adults and just people 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:13.079 of all different backgrounds. So it's cool to 00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:16.799 just see how he is developing in such a beautiful 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:21.299 way to be just an awesome human. Absolutely. 00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:23.180 Well, you mentioned the Unstoppable Year. So 00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:25.200 let's talk about that for a moment. What made 00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.119 you come up with that platform and tell people 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:30.910 exactly what it is? Yeah, well, I've always loved 00:29:30.910 --> 00:29:33.809 like just encouraging other people. And often 00:29:33.809 --> 00:29:36.369 I've done that through storytelling, my book 00:29:36.369 --> 00:29:43.630 and now my films. And then also, I'm pretty present 00:29:43.630 --> 00:29:46.730 on social media, but I also don't really like 00:29:46.730 --> 00:29:48.950 social media that much. I just think it's a really 00:29:48.950 --> 00:29:51.789 dark and kind of awful place for a lot of people. 00:29:52.509 --> 00:29:54.690 And they don't really know why and they don't 00:29:54.690 --> 00:29:57.089 know how to set that boundaries for themselves 00:29:57.089 --> 00:30:01.970 to kind of, yeah, just recognize that social 00:30:01.970 --> 00:30:05.650 media has a really dark impact maybe for a lot 00:30:05.650 --> 00:30:10.089 of them. So and I also felt like it's very shallow 00:30:10.089 --> 00:30:13.029 and I just kind of wanted to create a space that 00:30:13.029 --> 00:30:16.529 was a really safe because I speak to a lot of 00:30:16.529 --> 00:30:18.809 young people. And so I want it to be a safe and 00:30:18.809 --> 00:30:22.900 healthy place for kids. So the Unstoppable Course, 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.460 we wanted to create that and just empower them, 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.500 but also equip them to live an unstoppable life 00:30:28.500 --> 00:30:32.480 and to recognize that they can overcome and to 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:35.880 empower them to just be thoughtful humans in 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:38.119 the way they live their life. And so we talk 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:42.980 about mindset, slowing themselves down and being 00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:48.900 present, how to overcome obstacles. how to live 00:30:48.900 --> 00:30:52.700 passionately, uh, how to live healthily and kind 00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:55.220 of, it's like this ultimate kind of package of 00:30:55.220 --> 00:30:59.279 like, it's a year long course too. So it takes 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.980 to me to have like true change takes time. So 00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:06.259 yeah, we're just empowering them through a long 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:08.819 year of like really encouraging them in their 00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:12.200 journey. And, um, it's been really fun so far 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:15.279 cause I've just like hearing the feedback, um, 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:17.839 people are. are definitely going to finish the 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:20.680 year with their lives being changed. So that's 00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:22.559 a big goal of mine is just to change people's 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.400 lives in a real way that actually is long lasting. 00:31:27.259 --> 00:31:29.869 Brilliant. Well, I've got my little boy. starting 00:31:29.869 --> 00:31:32.630 on this so i will let you know how he does he's 00:31:32.630 --> 00:31:34.609 he's definitely had some of the challenges you 00:31:34.609 --> 00:31:37.029 know with that a lot of you know young kids these 00:31:37.029 --> 00:31:39.190 days especially with like you said social media 00:31:39.190 --> 00:31:41.410 and then you know some of the the dangers in 00:31:41.410 --> 00:31:44.769 the schools um there are some stresses on him 00:31:44.769 --> 00:31:47.490 so it's so great that he has someone you know 00:31:47.490 --> 00:31:50.490 who he respects that he can you know watch every 00:31:50.490 --> 00:31:52.609 day and you mentioned about having other other 00:31:52.609 --> 00:31:55.109 inspirational people on there as well and just 00:31:55.109 --> 00:31:57.230 give a positive platform that your kids can go 00:31:57.230 --> 00:32:00.150 to and maybe you know on a daily basis or even 00:32:00.150 --> 00:32:01.769 if they're not having such a great day they can 00:32:01.769 --> 00:32:04.230 go back and listen to some of them again yeah 00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:06.970 and then we do like the live q and a's so they 00:32:06.970 --> 00:32:10.789 can like kind of see us each month and ask questions 00:32:10.789 --> 00:32:14.200 and just kind of get deeper on some of the topics 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:16.759 that maybe they're struggling with more than 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:19.519 the other topic. And yeah, it's really fun. I 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.839 love being able to do what I do. And on top of 00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.940 that, still be surfing and mommying and wife 00:32:25.940 --> 00:32:30.099 and yeah, just valuing my family time and travel. 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:33.400 And yeah, we're kind of doing a lot of like ultimate, 00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:37.519 ultimate living. Absolutely. Well, another area 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.700 that you kind of touch on, you just certainly 00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:44.089 don't, you know, like preach too much about it 00:32:44.089 --> 00:32:46.450 but faith is obviously a very important thing 00:32:46.450 --> 00:32:49.569 to you so you know how has that factored into 00:32:49.569 --> 00:32:54.450 certain areas of your life oh yeah for sure um 00:32:54.450 --> 00:32:58.109 i i mean definitely when i lost my arm like i 00:32:58.109 --> 00:33:00.990 already believed in god and i believe that like 00:33:00.990 --> 00:33:03.509 i understood that like the world wasn't a perfect 00:33:03.509 --> 00:33:07.089 place and that i didn't expect my life to be 00:33:07.089 --> 00:33:11.089 perfect either um so when i lost my arm i think 00:33:11.089 --> 00:33:14.950 a lot of that kind of led me to be positive and 00:33:14.950 --> 00:33:18.910 be thankful that I was alive and living and, 00:33:18.910 --> 00:33:22.349 and to be hopeful that there was more than this 00:33:22.349 --> 00:33:26.250 current chaos that I was facing. And then even 00:33:26.250 --> 00:33:28.710 to this day, like still, yeah. And just like 00:33:28.710 --> 00:33:31.490 my Christian faith has definitely taught me a 00:33:31.490 --> 00:33:34.289 lot about forgiveness too, because God forever 00:33:34.289 --> 00:33:38.150 forgives us no matter what we're. how awful we 00:33:38.150 --> 00:33:41.769 may be and I think like in the marriage relationship 00:33:41.769 --> 00:33:44.470 especially like being able to forgive your spouse 00:33:44.470 --> 00:33:48.430 or you know ask them to forgive you is like so 00:33:48.430 --> 00:33:53.809 so key and so it's kind of been a strong point 00:33:53.809 --> 00:33:56.130 for my husband and even though we've only been 00:33:56.130 --> 00:33:58.549 married now for like we're coming up on our seventh 00:33:58.549 --> 00:34:01.809 anniversary but um yeah we're going strong and 00:34:01.809 --> 00:34:03.950 we love each other and we love doing life with 00:34:03.950 --> 00:34:07.390 each other so I feel thankful to like my faith 00:34:07.390 --> 00:34:11.250 for that. And, um, yeah, it carries a lot into 00:34:11.250 --> 00:34:14.550 parenthood too. And yeah, just overcoming hard 00:34:14.550 --> 00:34:17.849 times. So, yeah. Well, and also what I've seen, 00:34:17.909 --> 00:34:19.429 you know, from the outside looking in as your. 00:34:20.349 --> 00:34:22.170 You're interpreting your faith, you know, in 00:34:22.170 --> 00:34:24.070 a very, very positive way with the gratitude, 00:34:24.130 --> 00:34:26.170 the compassion and the kindness. And, you know, 00:34:26.170 --> 00:34:28.250 that I think is what no matter what people's 00:34:28.250 --> 00:34:30.929 faith are, if that's the core of what you believe 00:34:30.929 --> 00:34:34.130 and what you do, then you, you know, you have 00:34:34.130 --> 00:34:38.150 an incredible faith. Thank you. So I got one 00:34:38.150 --> 00:34:39.949 more question for you. And then, you know, I'm 00:34:39.949 --> 00:34:42.269 going to grab my son and then we'll let you go. 00:34:43.570 --> 00:34:48.809 The entire film, there is so much that you're 00:34:48.809 --> 00:34:51.389 doing. that scare a lot of people watching, whether 00:34:51.389 --> 00:34:54.150 it's the little girl jumping off the pier or 00:34:54.150 --> 00:34:56.210 obviously the attack or, you know, the incredible 00:34:56.210 --> 00:34:58.289 waves that you, that you were surfing, despite, 00:34:58.369 --> 00:35:01.510 you know, getting smashed into the rocks. What 00:35:01.510 --> 00:35:05.750 do you do to overcome fear when you are, you 00:35:05.750 --> 00:35:08.170 know, in an environment that actually you find 00:35:08.170 --> 00:35:13.510 yourself actually scared at that moment? Oh gosh, 00:35:13.650 --> 00:35:19.960 maybe, I don't know. I would say like, Dealing 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.320 with fear kind of comes really natural to me. 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.260 I don't overthink it, but maybe I kind of face 00:35:25.260 --> 00:35:29.380 it and just acknowledge that I feel fearful. 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:35.300 And then from there, I either just head on, go 00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:39.440 for it, or I don't know, take some breathe. I 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:42.159 mean, when it's in the ocean, I breathe and just 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:46.739 kind of talk to myself like, you got this. you've 00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:50.840 trained a lifetime for moments like this so because 00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:53.940 it kind of I realized that it takes a lot of 00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:57.420 like kind of ocean power to get me feeling really 00:35:57.420 --> 00:36:04.260 afraid um but I don't know I pray pray about 00:36:04.260 --> 00:36:07.360 it and just ask God to help me or I'll talk to 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.039 my husband about it um I think just talking about 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:13.380 fear is helpful and like getting another kind 00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:17.050 of um someone you trust like to kind of dig into 00:36:17.050 --> 00:36:21.369 it um it's cool but yeah I don't know if that'll 00:36:21.369 --> 00:36:25.730 be helpful for anyone but um yeah just try not 00:36:25.730 --> 00:36:28.829 to let the fear stop me from going for it and 00:36:28.829 --> 00:36:32.929 thankfully like I'm surfing today at a professional 00:36:32.929 --> 00:36:36.730 level and I could have very much have let like 00:36:36.730 --> 00:36:40.309 fear stopped me so I'm thankful I didn't let 00:36:40.309 --> 00:36:42.829 it stop me from surfing and doing the thing I 00:36:42.829 --> 00:36:46.380 love to do the most Absolutely. So just to kind 00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:49.320 of look at the subtext, the fear is diminished 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:51.179 because you have so much faith in your ability 00:36:51.179 --> 00:36:54.739 and the training that you've put in. Yeah. And 00:36:54.739 --> 00:36:57.599 I think too, just being able to kind of recognize 00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.820 it and know that it's there, but like kind of 00:37:00.820 --> 00:37:04.630 almost like let it. drive me gotcha brilliant 00:37:04.630 --> 00:37:07.889 all right well um i'll do i'll ask you this question 00:37:07.889 --> 00:37:09.449 and i'll go grab my son after we're done what 00:37:09.449 --> 00:37:10.929 i'll make sure that everyone listening those 00:37:10.929 --> 00:37:13.230 were to find you know that all the stuff online 00:37:13.230 --> 00:37:16.650 so um so you've got the the film has come out 00:37:16.650 --> 00:37:18.730 it's been out in america since june i think it 00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:21.429 was an incredible film i tell everyone listening 00:37:21.429 --> 00:37:23.869 you need to watch this this film um then you 00:37:23.869 --> 00:37:25.949 have the unstoppable year where can people find 00:37:25.949 --> 00:37:29.730 you and all this content online Awesome, thank 00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:33.610 you. Yeah, Unstoppable is out. Unstoppable, my 00:37:33.610 --> 00:37:36.329 documentary, is now out. It's going to be online 00:37:36.329 --> 00:37:40.010 on Netflix and all the online spaces, so you 00:37:40.010 --> 00:37:41.969 can watch it from your couch, because I personally 00:37:41.969 --> 00:37:44.510 am too lazy to go to the theater. And I was in 00:37:44.510 --> 00:37:46.469 the theater for a short time, so that was cool. 00:37:47.210 --> 00:37:49.590 And then it's actually going to be releasing 00:37:49.590 --> 00:37:52.969 internationally this year, so I'm excited about 00:37:52.969 --> 00:37:58.070 that. Otherwise, you can find me at BethanyHamilton 00:37:58.070 --> 00:38:02.570 .com or at Bethany on social. So, yeah, thanks 00:38:02.570 --> 00:38:04.690 to everyone for hearing me out.