How To Live Unstoppable – Bethany Hamilton

[00:00:00] kind of her bring your time and bring

[00:00:03] your shame

[00:00:04] bring your gear welcome to educate for

[00:00:07] life radio and podcast I’m your host

[00:00:08] Kevin Conover my web sites educate for

[00:00:10] life.org and I have a fantastic guest on

[00:00:14] the program today she was born in Hawaii

[00:00:15] in 1990 she began competitive surfing at

[00:00:19] age 8 and her career very promising

[00:00:22] career looked like it was over at age 13

[00:00:24] when a shark actually bit off her left

[00:00:26] arm but she resumed surfing shortly

[00:00:29] afterward and won a national title in

[00:00:31] 2005 a little bit more about her the

[00:00:34] movie Soul Surfer came out in 2011 and

[00:00:36] it tells the story about her experience

[00:00:38] and recently her second movie

[00:00:40] unstoppable came out in July of this

[00:00:42] year and today literally today October

[00:00:45] 14th it comes out on iTunes and Amazon

[00:00:48] and I highly recommend you check it out

[00:00:50] it’s an incredible story about

[00:00:52] resilience about determination about

[00:00:55] developing a mindset that that helps you

[00:00:58] to move through difficult things in life

[00:01:00] and Bethany is a Christian she loves the

[00:01:04] Lord and she talks about her Christian

[00:01:06] faith and is constantly representing

[00:01:07] Christ to those around her she’s

[00:01:09] actually going to be here in San Diego

[00:01:11] October 26 she’s going to be at the Rock

[00:01:14] Church with the anchored in love

[00:01:16] conference and a quick description of

[00:01:18] that it says anchored in love is an

[00:01:20] inspiring one-day conference for junior

[00:01:22] high high school and college age girls

[00:01:24] their moms and mentors designed to help

[00:01:26] young women discover their true beauty

[00:01:28] purpose and Worth Bethany thanks for

[00:01:31] being on the program today

[00:01:38] oh yeah I am so excited that you’re

[00:01:41] going to be here in San Diego and I’m a

[00:01:43] high school teacher I teach Bible at a

[00:01:45] Christian high school and I think your

[00:01:47] message is so necessary and so needed in

[00:01:51] today’s culture where there’s so much

[00:01:52] that young people are wrestling with and

[00:01:55] trying to work through and there’s so

[00:01:57] much that seems to be coming against

[00:01:59] them

[00:02:00] yeah and that’s a huge part of my life

[00:02:03] my mission is to help also young

[00:02:06] people’s approvers toast times when it’s

[00:02:08] like almost a Bible verse and this world

[00:02:11] will have trouble with her overcome the

[00:02:14] world

[00:02:15] hey man that’s awesome ATP and I always

[00:02:19] think of that because it’s less the

[00:02:21] truth of the matter we are gonna have

[00:02:23] some time and trouble and soon as

[00:02:26] prevalent but it’s finding our way to

[00:02:34] overcome you okay yeah I love it I love

[00:02:37] it and you know for those of you who are

[00:02:39] listening who haven’t seen her story

[00:02:42] you know Bethenny I wanted to ask you

[00:02:44] you know you you were amazing how you

[00:02:47] push through these things and I when I

[00:02:50] when you see the story of your life it’s

[00:02:52] almost in a sense it feels like you were

[00:02:55] almost born with this determination and

[00:02:57] I think you know how much of being

[00:03:00] unstoppable with the movie that came out

[00:03:02] how much of that is a mental mindset

[00:03:05] versus you know the physical strength

[00:03:08] how did you develop such a strong

[00:03:11] resilience and determination oh my gosh

[00:03:15] sometimes I look at my 13 qualities like

[00:03:20] yourself and I’m like why did you do

[00:03:27] that I feel like I spent a lot of time

[00:03:30] like actually well we can stop the whole

[00:03:33] just thinking about all that yeah well

[00:03:36] is it that drills me and kept me moving

[00:03:39] forward and I think just having a

[00:03:43] ruining mystic I like you know most of

[00:03:46] us as we have being tough kind of not to

[00:03:49] sound or feel like something’s holding

[00:03:53] us back it can be easy to kind of just

[00:03:56] redirect or just saying oh no I can’t

[00:04:00] deny that for me surfing was sexist

[00:04:05] being passive and it was just what I did

[00:04:07] every single day I woke up looking

[00:04:10] forward to it and I went to bed dreaming

[00:04:13] of it so when I left I’m as soon as I

[00:04:17] got a hint of inspiration um I knew I

[00:04:20] had to at least try I was just gonna get

[00:04:23] out there and try and then once I did

[00:04:25] try I got up on my third wave loaded all

[00:04:27] the way to the beep and then there’s no

[00:04:30] turning back and of course it wasn’t

[00:04:32] easy um all the best things in life

[00:04:35] don’t have to be necessarily so I think

[00:04:39] just kind of keep seek I kept seeking

[00:04:43] after that like that desire of the love

[00:04:46] for it and that feeling of writing Leah

[00:04:49] steps company kind of Baskin yeah and so

[00:04:53] how does that thank you I had so much

[00:04:56] purpose and belief in myself because I

[00:04:59] knew who I was as a child of God and I

[00:05:03] always trusted that God has more for my

[00:05:06] life but that I just thought I was like

[00:05:11] hey I think this will come out of this

[00:05:13] even though it seems so terrible right

[00:05:15] now yeah yeah and that’s such a powerful

[00:05:18] message – how does that translate into

[00:05:20] the message that you give – you know for

[00:05:22] example at the conference anchored in

[00:05:25] love how does that experience and what

[00:05:27] you’re talking

[00:05:28] about their translate into the message

[00:05:29] you give to these young women as far as

[00:05:32] the other things that they you know they

[00:05:34] probably you know most people don’t have

[00:05:36] their arm bit off by a shark but but

[00:05:38] they have other struggles in their life

[00:05:40] so how do you encourage them in that

[00:05:44] what with what you’re saying you had at

[00:05:46] that passion that you just you look

[00:05:47] forward to going back into the ocean

[00:05:49] what do you tell those young young women

[00:05:53] yeah I think a lot about some crowd yeah

[00:05:58] your mindset and keep using positives or

[00:06:01] one thing that stood out to me students

[00:06:04] rather than dwelling on my hey my arm

[00:06:07] and sighs life is rough

[00:06:08] I was painful that I was alive so

[00:06:11] approaching like tough times must

[00:06:13] gratitude like hey that’s really hard

[00:06:16] but what’s something I can be thankful

[00:06:18] for and look forward to and maybe the

[00:06:23] people around you are bringing it down

[00:06:26] but we just remember that you can be

[00:06:29] about person that uplifts those around

[00:06:31] you notice the positive like encourage

[00:06:34] ER and yeah it’s like we can all

[00:06:38] overcome our difficult circumstances if

[00:06:41] we look for the good in situations and

[00:06:45] just find another way to do it

[00:06:48] like I couldn’t survive it with no

[00:06:51] little success in my own new way with

[00:06:54] one arm yeah so finding your new way of

[00:06:58] kind of like approaching whatever it is

[00:07:00] that feels like it can hold you back

[00:07:03] there bring you down yeah I thought that

[00:07:05] was so cool how your dad put that little

[00:07:08] handle on the on the board to help you

[00:07:10] be able to duck dive and go into the

[00:07:12] waves and everything for those of you

[00:07:14] listening my guest today is Bethany

[00:07:16] Hamilton you can learn more about her at

[00:07:18] Bethany Hamilton comm she’s also on

[00:07:20] social media Instagram and everywhere

[00:07:22] else you can follow her and you may or

[00:07:24] may not know so Bethany you have a

[00:07:27] husband and two kids right yeah that’s

[00:07:36] my greatest passion for sure and like

[00:07:38] right now that’s so cool now your

[00:07:40] husband I read is from Kansas how did

[00:07:43] how did your from Hawaii and he’s from

[00:07:45] Kansas how did you to connect

[00:07:48] yeah so after college I came about the

[00:07:53] high to help a friend for a young life

[00:07:56] organization juice on the west side of

[00:07:58] toys and his friend and their family

[00:08:03] they absolutely loved Adam and very like

[00:08:05] streaming to try to find in the life so

[00:08:10] they sent us awesome we met up at the

[00:08:13] beach one day and we jumped off a 40

[00:08:17] foot closer to the Oh smooth just to get

[00:08:20] to know each other that that’s great

[00:08:23] that’s pretty awesome so yeah we really

[00:08:28] awesome friendships and then about a

[00:08:31] year later we were engaged and cocaine

[00:08:35] to get married that’s fantastic and you

[00:08:39] have two little kids now Tobias and

[00:08:40] Wesley so how has you know how has

[00:08:43] having these two little kids come into

[00:08:45] your life how has that impacted your you

[00:08:48] know what you’re doing with movies and

[00:08:50] surfing and everything else how do you

[00:08:53] navigate all those different things that

[00:08:55] you’re doing it’s very empowering so

[00:09:01] it’s doing a lot very kind of motivation

[00:09:04] for like good things then so that I

[00:09:07] think on see your son and I close out

[00:09:10] and sweets and what not are they surfers

[00:09:14] also my husband and I this is really

[00:09:20] special kind of culture together yeah

[00:09:24] yeah it’s a big exhibition okay enjoy it

[00:09:27] yeah let’s celebrate it also venture

[00:09:29] further I like this like C anodized to

[00:09:32] go it’s really fun I’m just saying it

[00:09:35] together with Evan young my little guy

[00:09:38] my philosophy and my rules are like the

[00:09:42] water and yeah it’s a fun fun unlikely

[00:09:46] super thankful for that that’s really

[00:09:49] great love saying like the common ones

[00:09:52] are I rather do everything we do with it

[00:09:55] so you know I also saw that you’re

[00:09:58] you’ve actually started a course online

[00:10:01] for people as

[00:10:01] called live unstoppable what is that for

[00:10:05] people to know how they can be involved

[00:10:07] in what you’re doing there

[00:10:09] No so I stand in this place is kind of a

[00:10:13] silencing so long time now and I also am

[00:10:19] pretty on top of the whole social media

[00:10:22] realm Instagram and Facebook and whatnot

[00:10:25] and no one else and don’t love and I

[00:10:29] felt like it’s like such a shallow world

[00:10:32] and a place of lacking stuff so to me I

[00:10:36] wanted to share more and Sally my

[00:10:41] husband when I realized team of

[00:10:42] like-minded people who we trust kind of

[00:10:46] came together and I create this online

[00:10:48] course to inspire young people to be

[00:10:51] their beautiful selves and to live and a

[00:10:53] supple license to kind of expose all of

[00:10:56] those areas of life that can make us

[00:10:58] more confident and solid and this

[00:11:02] testing or like who God has created us

[00:11:06] to be

[00:11:07] yeah I know yeah this closes was little

[00:11:11] you’re gearing up to have so excited to

[00:11:13] be doing more than like I don’t know I’m

[00:11:17] just able to actually equip people

[00:11:18] versus just kind of be a little

[00:11:21] inspiration here and there and so it’s

[00:11:24] been really exciting this two seasons

[00:11:26] past is having so far and we believe in

[00:11:29] the monster about two months ago

[00:11:31] so yes it’s exciting so those want to

[00:11:35] close it all and you feel like you could

[00:11:38] benefit from it check it out on my

[00:11:39] website with Bethany Hamilton calm and

[00:11:42] yeah not the month will be like live

[00:11:44] CUNY – and if it’s pretty like more

[00:11:47] intimate than Mike must things like you

[00:11:50] can just you can catch up with me on

[00:11:53] Simone for that’s awesome yeah that’s

[00:11:57] fantastic

[00:11:57] IIIi think so much kids need that

[00:12:00] mentorship and that discipleship and

[00:12:02] encouragement you know there’s a lot of

[00:12:03] people out there that are giving

[00:12:04] positive messages about resilience and

[00:12:07] they call it grit and these sorts of

[00:12:09] things but you are you are integrating

[00:12:12] your faith in God and Jesus Christ in

[00:12:14] you know everything you do what role did

[00:12:17] God play – Jesus Christ play in you

[00:12:20] becoming you know having this

[00:12:21] unstoppable mindset and

[00:12:23] and how do you communicate that to the

[00:12:24] young people and other people many

[00:12:26] people who are listening to you and what

[00:12:28] you have to say

[00:12:30] Wow you know since I became a Christian

[00:12:36] it’s been case has been kind of my rock

[00:12:39] in my strength to all of life’s

[00:12:42] challenges beyond callosum on this is

[00:12:46] day Liam insane things that can be like

[00:12:48] so frustrating or discoursing if so I

[00:12:52] have found that just being able to refer

[00:12:55] to God’s Word and his not only his law

[00:12:59] but his love for us feeling the way you

[00:13:02] know Christ dying on the cross person

[00:13:05] how that translates to every single day

[00:13:09] and that can empower us to live

[00:13:12] unsolvable and you know I’m putting out

[00:13:15] this knot of like hey live and stoppable

[00:13:17] and that can look so many different ways

[00:13:20] but really direct what makes me

[00:13:22] unstoppable is Jesus Christ like it’s he

[00:13:27] has overcome and conquered sin and death

[00:13:30] and all the evil and that is what a

[00:13:33] power overcome it’s like it’s through

[00:13:36] Christ that I’ve been able to yeah

[00:13:40] overcome so yeah that’s that’s fantastic

[00:13:46] ways and hope that someone will find

[00:13:50] some demonstration and my along the way

[00:13:53] yeah in the movie you constantly

[00:13:57] reference Christ in the movie you’re

[00:13:59] very open about your faith was that ever

[00:14:02] was that ever scary for you did you ever

[00:14:05] because you know you’ve been on shows

[00:14:07] like Oprah and all these different

[00:14:08] things

[00:14:08] was there ever a point where you were

[00:14:10] afraid to share your faith or be up be

[00:14:12] upfront about your faith in all this

[00:14:16] that you’ve been going through

[00:14:18] yeah I think it is like finding the

[00:14:22] balance like I’m not trying to like

[00:14:24] young people in the house before just

[00:14:26] joining my son honey because I was too

[00:14:30] young and speaking normally very violent

[00:14:40] process I am I really

[00:14:49] it seems everything things and you just

[00:14:53] said it right yeah okay yeah absolutely

[00:15:01] okay and then yeah so in the movie

[00:15:06] you said something pretty amazing as a

[00:15:08] young girl you said that you were glad

[00:15:10] it happened to you and not to your

[00:15:12] friend Ilana I thought that was a pretty

[00:15:14] amazing statement that at such a young

[00:15:16] age you felt that way you know looking

[00:15:20] back and where God has brought you

[00:15:22] through that would you say that you know

[00:15:27] would you say to somebody that hey God

[00:15:28] has used what happened in my life to

[00:15:31] really impact a lot of people and take

[00:15:32] me to a larger stage I mean it seems

[00:15:35] like that’s the case but I just wanted

[00:15:37] to hear your perspective on that and

[00:15:39] that traveling through that did you have

[00:15:41] a lot of times where you asked God why

[00:15:43] God did you let this happen to me or did

[00:15:46] you always feel like you know what

[00:15:47] there’s a good reason for this happening

[00:15:51] I definitely felt like I knew like I

[00:15:54] already early on this is a good that was

[00:15:58] stemming from what seemed so terrible or

[00:16:01] I think sometimes when we’re so close to

[00:16:05] us the turbulence of a challenging time

[00:16:09] it’s hard to have that perspective but I

[00:16:13] don’t know somehow you can have a quote

[00:16:16] up in your house it’s like hey right now

[00:16:18] is really fast that in six months from

[00:16:21] now I’m going to be overcoming this I

[00:16:23] said it’s going to come from this or

[00:16:25] maybe not even six months maybe six

[00:16:27] years from now like for everyone’s

[00:16:31] situation is always it’s different so

[00:16:34] that I’ve heard so many people say like

[00:16:37] they went through tremendous pain and

[00:16:39] then one day they were able to share how

[00:16:43] without seeing that pain with someone

[00:16:45] else going through something similar it

[00:16:47] was incredibly worth it

[00:16:50] so that’s honestly so perspective of

[00:16:53] like what’s something you can do in

[00:16:55] school for and so I know that like good

[00:16:59] will come from what seem so terrible

[00:17:02] unless that’s been the case in my life

[00:17:04] like I could never have posted my other

[00:17:07] stories the way it turned out and only

[00:17:10] God could and so yeah I just praise God

[00:17:14] for like all the good that come from

[00:17:17] let’s start it off as like yeah yeah so

[00:17:24] my guest today is Bethany Hamilton you

[00:17:25] can check her out on Bethany Hamilton

[00:17:27] calm and if you’re in Southern

[00:17:29] California she’s gonna be here very soon

[00:17:31] October 26th anchored in love at the

[00:17:34] rock joints Rock Church in Point Loma

[00:17:36] she’s also going to be in Rancho Santa

[00:17:38] Fe at shine forth which is also in

[00:17:42] October so you’re doing a couple events

[00:17:44] here Bethany and in a Rancho Santa Fe

[00:17:47] when you were growing up did you surf in

[00:17:49] San Diego at all

[00:17:51] I don’t a lot like you my grandpa was

[00:17:54] convey so I went there a lot as a child

[00:17:57] and it still pops nice undies all have

[00:18:00] money sitting laughs and the lotteries a

[00:18:03] little cold for me but I guess I gotta

[00:18:05] overcome that challenge that’s great

[00:18:09] and then you’re also doing an event it

[00:18:12] looks like in January called beautifully

[00:18:14] flawed can you tell us a little bit

[00:18:15] about that

[00:18:17] I’m so beautiful slide Jose about my

[00:18:22] Sunday supervision so here is now or so

[00:18:25] you put on a retreat for every young

[00:18:28] person woman and now I’m still doing my

[00:18:31] first cousins retreat so if y’all have

[00:18:36] any friends with limb difference you

[00:18:39] think could benefit check it out at

[00:18:41] bunch of oxygen.com

[00:18:44] and you can find more information on

[00:18:46] this amazing prici it’s really my

[00:18:48] favorite part of every year and it’s so

[00:18:52] life-giving and just really is a special

[00:18:57] time for these women who have faced so

[00:18:59] much but they’re overcoming two and this

[00:19:02] is hopefully Authority is designed to

[00:19:05] help them continue to over comments I

[00:19:07] say light and strengthen yeah just be

[00:19:11] encouraged and they journey absolutely

[00:19:14] well we’re almost out of time here but

[00:19:17] for those of you who are listening

[00:19:18] Bethany Hamilton comm she’s got all

[00:19:21] kinds of resources on here that are

[00:19:23] meant to encourage you and I think

[00:19:25] personally you know probably more than

[00:19:28] 50% of the battle here is helping our

[00:19:30] thoughts get in line with Christ that is

[00:19:32] beginning to think more and more like

[00:19:34] God right and adjusting our thinking so

[00:19:37] that it’s not negative but it’s positive

[00:19:39] and it’s hopeful and so her movie

[00:19:43] unstoppable is available on DVD it’s

[00:19:45] also available to be streamed on Amazon

[00:19:47] it’s an incredible testimony that she

[00:19:49] has about the goodness of God redeeming

[00:19:52] the pain that we’ve been through so

[00:19:55] Bethany thank you so much for taking the

[00:19:56] time to be with us today really

[00:19:57] appreciate it

[00:19:59] ah Aloha everyone yeah that’s awesome

[00:20:03] great okay so we will be back again next

[00:20:07] week and if you’re going to be in town

[00:20:10] in San Diego we’re local here kay praise

[00:20:12] FM 106.1 and AM 12:10 and Bethany we’ll

[00:20:16] be at the Rock Church October 26th

[00:20:18] that’s an event for women it’s event for

[00:20:20] college aged girls junior high high

[00:20:22] school moms mentors and so take the time

[00:20:25] to go and check it out you will be

[00:20:27] absolutely encouraged and begin to have

[00:20:30] your thoughts renewed lined up with God

[00:20:33] and as he works through your life and

[00:20:35] works through each of our pains and

[00:20:36] helps us to overcome them through Christ

[00:20:38] so god bless you and I hope you have a

[00:20:40] fantastic Tuesday we’ll see you next

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