Episode 33: Liv Stone - I'm A Para Surfing Champion and Life Is Beautiful!

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Hello, beautiful humans.
Welcome to another episode of

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So today, my guest is Olivia

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Stone.
Live is a surfer, a Model, A

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disability Advocate and a
four-time USA, Paris surf, gold

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medalist.
Having been born with a

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congenital.
Limb difference, live has

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shorter arms with two fingers on
each arm, but despite her

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differences live, doesn't let
anything hold her back, she rips

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it on the waves and off her full
life.

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Reflects that happiness is not
based on our circumstances, it

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comes from with and overflows
throughout luck.

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Live.
Awesome.

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Thank you so much for having me.
That was a beautiful by.

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Oh I love to that it like very
quickly captured, like

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everything was perfect.
You're so welcome.

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And I should be thanking you for
coming on and telling us all

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about you.
I'd love to hear about how you

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grew up and what your family was
like.

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Yeah, for sure.
So I grew up in Pennsylvania in

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a really small town in Lancaster
about like 5,000 people.

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And I grew up with two older
brothers, and two amazing

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parents to amazing see.
Siblings and I always grew up in

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sports.
So I always played soccer and I

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play like all different types of
sports like hockey all different

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types of sports.
But I really stuck with soccer

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for like 10 years and loved it
was always really active.

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A lot of my family lives in
Pennsylvania and very

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family-oriented.
Grew up, always being with my

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family going on trips.
We always went to North Carolina

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for the summer vacation and
Yeah, I was always really active

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and two older brothers, that
really pushed me to be.

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I feel like the woman that I am
today and like, no mercy type

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love and you know, a little
picking on me here and there,

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but it was all out of love and
they're very protective of me,

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and I can hold my own for sure.
And yeah, two parents that have

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been supporting my dreams ever
since I was really little.

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And I went to the same school
growing up and always liked made

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friends.
And I mean, a small town it's

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like everyone.
Knows everyone.

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So, yeah, from what I
understand, it was Amish Country

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in Pennsylvania.
So, very wrongly, very homegrown

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if you will.
Exactly.

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Yeah.
And there's like a ton of farms

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everywhere.
It's like I'll go home and like

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smell, you know, the manure and
the field that I was like, yep,

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I'm home around it actually buy
a couple of farms and one of

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them is actually Amish.
And so, I grew up all my life,

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seeing horse and Buggies, and
carriages and Other than types.

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I mean it's a very interesting
culture but when we grow up with

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it, it's like oh, that's just
kind of a part of their life and

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it's all very like I would say.
Yeah, just homey and cozy.

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And yeah, I like the Amish would
always bring us homemade cookies

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on Christmas and they make the
best food and so, yeah, that

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sounds amazing.
So now being born with a

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physical difference, I'm just
curious from your point of view.

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Did you feel different when you
were a kid, or was it something

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that you just kind?
Of accepted.

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And it was just the way that
things were.

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I think it was probably a little
bit of both and so going back to

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the beginning, like, my parents
had no idea that I was going to

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have shorter arms with two
fingers on each hand, so like

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they didn't catch it on the
ultrasound.

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So I came out and I was just
like that, and my brothers were

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like, okay, yeah, this is just
live.

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My family was like, oh, this is
just the way I live is and I

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wasn't treated any differently
with my family and a lot of my

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friends treated me the same as
well, but Then yet again, like

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you go through.
So like at home in my family, I

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didn't feel any different, but
then it was interesting because

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then I would go out in public or
I would go to school and people

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would stare and I would get
questions and maybe people

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didn't, like, would it be
friends with me?

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And maybe I wasn't included and
all the sports and all the

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activities or arts and crafts is
a little harder for me.

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And so like there were like
things throughout like my

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childhood that I'm like, wow,
like I am so much different than

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everyone but the Same because I
feel like at home I was always

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just live and like an athlete
and a goofball and just like

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full of energy.
So I would say when I was, I got

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a little older, like, starting
to hit puberty that I'm like,

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wow, I am a lot different.
Especially, you know, when I'm

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like interested in boys and
like, you know, getting in a

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friend group and so then I
started to be like, wow, I

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definitely am different and then
I struggled with that for quite

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some time.
Like I feel like it took me

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until I was like Holly, 15 or
16.

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When I moved out here to really
like accept my disability, and

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like be like, well, this is who
I am.

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And then I have a purpose
through that instead like it

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took me a while to get there for
a while, I was like, oh, I live.

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It doesn't like, I don't not
that I don't have a disability

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because obviously I do, but I
didn't want to talk about it.

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And I felt really embarrassed
and never wanted to even mention

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it.
So I just threw, I think

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maturity and growing up.
I just became like more

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confident in who I am.
Okay.

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Amazing.
When you are in school where

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there any particular
accommodations that were made

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for you in terms of you know
having I guess that you know in

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the classroom or work and things
like that.

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Yeah.
So when I was in like K through

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12, I had a 504 plan.
So it's like this document that

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is signed by me and my parents
and my teachers that I get

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certain combinations.
Like, for example, I'll never

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forget.
I used to bring my own markers

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to school my own.
Markers because I bite markers

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to open them and I'm like, well,
I can't just be going around

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opening everyone's markers and
then giving them another people.

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So I brought my own set of
markers and because that's how I

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opened them.
And so I had my own set of

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markers, I had my own set of
textbooks at home and textbooks

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in school, so I didn't have to
carry them home with me as well

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as I had a locker closer to my
classrooms that like, made sense

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for me, instead of like whole
caring.

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All my books, all the way to one
side of the school.

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And then All the way back.
And then I also had I'm trying

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to think what else I had
extended time on tests for

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typing and writing and yeah
throughout my school like my

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school was very very
accommodating.

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I had that 504.
We we talked about it every year

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to renew it.
And yeah, I think and then I

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also got a computer that had
voice to text.

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So instead of typing, I could
talk to my computer and it would

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type out like my essay for me.
Amen.

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For new technology.
An exhaust.

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Now if you know just dictating
help so much and the voice

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recognition is so good.
Now, compared to what it is,

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he's to be a disaster but now
it's actually really really

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Advanced.
Yeah, it definitely is for sure.

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I don't use it as much as I like
I think I'd want to I still type

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a lot because I think the more
you voice to text the better, it

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recognizes your voice and the
easier it gets.

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But like, I got kind of
frustrated with it for quite

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some time.
So I'm like, I'm just going to

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type right now.
You're an advocate for

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individuals who are living with
disabilities.

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So did you always know that you
wanted to use your voice to

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bring awareness and change for
other people?

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I would say no, it like I kind
of said, like when I was like 15

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or 16, then I was able to kind
of be like, wow, like my story

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can make an impact and I didn't
hadn't really realized that I

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was always just like stoked on
Sports and you know, excited to

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learn.
I feel like It would be like, I

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don't know if I could say I
loved school because I feel like

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no teenager loves school, but I
like to learn.

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And so, like I was like, okay,
I'm going to go to college.

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I'm gonna like play sports, I'm
going to play soccer and then

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like my whole life kind of
changed when I realized that

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like, I could make an impact
with my story of my disability

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and how me just being me and
sharing others.

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Like what I do when I can't do
like how I feel about a certain

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subject can actually really
Inspire someone else.

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And so when I realized like I
had that Like, I don't want to

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say, like gifts, but when I
realized, I had that ability to

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spread hope and awareness for
other people like me.

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I really tried to harness that
as much as I could around like

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15 or 16.
Mmm.

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Yeah, this is.
She said before, I know that a

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lot of people who do have
physical or neurological

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differences, I've been
interviewing quite a lot of them

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for my podcast and I come across
a lot because my son is also

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disabled.
And so I'm within the community

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and do that with a lot of
people, there is a lot of shame

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or embarrassment and And the
aspects of the fact that people

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are becoming more open and being
more vulnerable, in sharing

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their stories helps so much.
It helps us all to realize that

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we're not alone in feeling this
way, and it helps other people

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who perhaps don't have those
types of disabilities to be more

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understanding and accommodating
and compassionate.

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Frankly, and moving the world
forward in a way that we can all

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just like live harmoniously
together.

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Exactly.
And I think too, like my dad and

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I were actually A just talking
about this and how like who does

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my target audience want to be
like, is it young girls with

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disabilities?
The disability community.

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And I was thinking, it's like, I
feel like it's Universal.

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Like, it can be people with
disabilities because my story,

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like they can relate, they can
connect and they could be like,

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wow.
Like I deal with that too.

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But there's also people who
aren't disabled that like I want

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to change this stereotype
mindset and those like

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preconceived notions of people
with disabilities and Even if

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they don't have a disability
then they like learn from me.

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How to treat a disabled person
or visually impaired, or

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mentally disabled her like just
any type of difference?

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Honestly, exactly, for sure.
Now you said that, you first

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experience and fell in love with
surfing after you had been doing

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soccer for quite some time but
surfing seems to become the

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thing that just opened up your
eyes and opened up your doors

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and that happened after you met
Bethany Hamilton.

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Can you tell us more about it?
Yeah, for sure.

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So when I was working or 50, and
I can't remember, I'm like

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really bad with dates but like a
while ago, I served with Bethany

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Hamilton.
For the first time I ever was on

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a surfboard was with her.
She does a retreat with 10 or 15

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young women that have limb
differences in.

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They do a retreat, it's
faith-based and they get in the

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water and they get to Surf with
Bethenny and it's in California.

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So I flew out to California from
my very first California trip.

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And I was also able to Surf with
Bethenny, so that was like the

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first time I was around the
surfing culture and I really

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loved it for Some reason I just
like fell in love with it, and I

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like stood up on my second.
Wave, it felt so natural.

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And like, with soccer, it was
something that I felt like I was

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good at, but it was like, I had
to, you know, work.

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So, so, so hard and it wasn't
something like some athletes,

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like it's a natural ability, you
know what I mean?

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Like, there are some people who
just like born naturally, gifted

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at playing soccer, and I feel
like that really wasn't me and

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so I liked it, I worked hard but
like, nothing was like clicking

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like that.
Aha.

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Haha, I'm going to play in
college and it was just kind of

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like, I don't know, it didn't
feel like my thing even though

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I've been doing it all my life,
and then when I found surfing

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and surf with Bethenny and then
came out to California, a lot of

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different times after that
through CIF events challenge

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athletes foundation, and I
traveled to California again,

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served more and more in the
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The more I fell in love with it
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I swear every time I'm out
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More and more, and it's
something that I was just felt

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natural.
Add it, if that makes sense.

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And I had never felt that way
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It was always like, like, we
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practice, where, like, surfing
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I'm stoked to go surfing
everyday and boy you are good.

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You've won metals, like, how
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this point?
It seems like it happened so

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fast.
It's incredible.

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Yeah, it happened all so fast,
like, my first world

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championships with Team USA, and
they needed a woman on their

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And so I felt that spot and then
the next year and I didn't, I

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mean, it was my first
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I didn't do the best, and then I
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throughout the next couple of
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And that's when I won my first
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the following year, when my
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team Metals, 40 Beyonce, because
we compete against different

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countries, so yeah, two world.
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fast.
Like I said, I feel like it came

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really naturally to me and I
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in the sport.
So, yeah, did the rest of your

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family?
Take up surfing as well.

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No, no, no, definitely not
Marian's.

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Actually, no, my dad.
Tried it a couple times.

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He says that he popped up to his
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I don't believe it.
No one saw it.

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Exactly.
No one's thought.

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He's like my feet touch the
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I'm like, I don't know if they
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That's so that's why it was so
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He came on a couple different
times with me but my mom she

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doesn't serve but she comes with
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films me surfing.
So we'll go surf like it's all

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routine well like wake up we'll
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hours and then she films my
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we come back home we do a video
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watch what I can do better.
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Kind of like football film.
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Yeah, so it sounds like it was
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you said I'm starting to get
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Were you surfing everyday?
Or was it something that you

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would do on the weekends?
Yeah, I would definitely serve

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almost every day.
I would say like four to five

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times a week consistently and
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summer.
It's usually every day.

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came from Pennsylvania where I
imagine you weren't close to

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waves or things like that at
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you found, something that you
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Natural like a fish owner, no
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But yeah, and I know that
feeling of really like, working

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and trying hard because it was
like, when I was younger, I

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would do dancing, or I would do
piano where I do these things,

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but they never came as naturally
to me as they came to other

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people.
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So, you know, that feeling you
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times as hard sometimes, because
you just your brain and it's

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almost like, you know, the
neurons just don't fire in the

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regular.
Yeah, no, exactly.

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Parker.
Yeah.

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Sometimes it really just takes

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that moments of just like, yeah,
you've got to try a bunch of

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different things.
You have an affinity for and

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then perhaps something will
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popped up.
So we always like I said, we

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went to North Carolina almost
every year to the beach and it

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was called Emerald Isle a
beautiful, little Beach town.

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And so I always grew up going to
the beach every summer and my

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mom used to always call me like
a mermaid, because I was always

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in the Water.
And she taught me to swim at a

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very young age, like, in a pool.
And like, I think I was like, I

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don't know, like, four years
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everyone was kind of like,
because of my disability.

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They were like, do you really
think you should be getting her,

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like, in the pool?
And I'm like, and I'm all stoked

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and my mom's like, yeah, she's
fine.

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And then, I learned how to swim
and I've always loved any type

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of water sport growing up.
And I've always had like this

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connection with the ocean and
love the beach and I know.

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Of people do but I loved just
like going under waves and body

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surfing.
But like I never went on a

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surfboard, we were only there
for, you know, a couple weeks

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out of the year.
So when I added the surfboard

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into the mix, I felt like that's
when everything started to

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click.
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Would you consider yourself
moving towards more of like a

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professional Surfer angle?
Oh yeah, I will.

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So I am technically like a
professional adaptive Surfer but

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like they only have limited
stops and limited It's so it's

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not like I'm like traveling
every weekend or anything, but I

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do compete.
And yeah, I would say that but

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also just a free Surfer that can
just go travel when they want

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and go to different spots and
get film and hang out and surf,

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rather feel like it's a bit of
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That's so nice.
Now you're also a side from

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surfing and you know keeping fit
that way, you also have a lot of

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different workout routines and
you share those on your Tick

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Tock and I mean, you're done.
Lifting with straps, you have

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these different ways of being
able to work out and you kind of

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figure out your own ways of
making things more

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accommodating.
Are there specific things that

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you can share user that you do
that are you know, kind of

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interesting or different.
Yeah, I use a lot of straps like

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for everything and so those
straps I put on dumbbells and I

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put them on.
There was other weights that

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have that.
You can put a strap on and then

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I also use bands.
So like working on Like my

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shoulders, I use bands a lot and
I'm trying to think what else?

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Well for a water bottle.
I guess, that's Jim related, I

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always use a handle because like
carrying it like in my Crypt arm

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is not really the best.
So I always use a handle and I

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do a lot of straps.
That's like the biggest thing

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that helps me in the gym as
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As I would say, just in general,
I always buy clothes that are

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easy to On there's some
different adaptive like tops

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where they're magnetic instead
of buttons because I 100% cannot

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do buttons.
I mean like I can but it like

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I'm they're trying to like get
the little thing to go through

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the hole and it takes forever.
So I love like magnet shirts and

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for shoes, I can't tie my shoes
but it's not the best.

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I like these noon Thorn, a key
flies, that's what they're

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called and they have a zipper
instead and a little Velcro.

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And I love them and I work out
with them.

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They're so easy to put on as
well as and like Comfort is a

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big thing so they have to be
comfortable and for serving

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sides of things I use paddles on
my hands so that I can, you

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know, pull water, faster and
deeper.

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So I have aquatic Prosthetics on
my arms, that I have to help me

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paddle and to get into the wave
better as well as all my

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wetsuits have front zippers
because a lot of wet suit

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They're back and you got to like
kind of grab a strap and pull

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up, and that's very difficult.
And some of them are even pull

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over your head, which for sure I
cannot do.

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So I have a couple custom-made
suits with a front zipper and a

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little strap on it.
So I can just pull up and down

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and get in and out of it really
easily.

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And for driving, I use a knob on
my steering wheel and which

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really helps like especially
like spinning.

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The wheel is really difficult
and I don't know.

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I think that would be.
I mean, I'm sure there's a lot

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more that I like I'd go around
the house and be like, oh, that

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and yeah, as far as fashion
goes, I was so happy when I

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discovered Billy shoes, they I
think Zappos sells them and

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Zappos is actually pretty good
for adaptive.

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I believe that you had done some
modeling for Zappos and says are

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so great.
There's are not accessible for

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sure.
And these Billy shoes are

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wonderful, because they
essentially have a zipper that

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goes around the rim.
You and allows you to place the

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foot right into it, and zip it
back up, rather than having to

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worry about the tong and a lip
and all of the ties and such

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one, especially for people, with
prosthetics, Goose feet, don't

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bend or move at all.
It's just like plastic.

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And then there's people with in
wheelchairs, where they're also

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again, their feet aren't gonna
like move to get into like a

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boot.
So, I worked with Zappos

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adaptive and ugh.
And we created the ugh.

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Boot that.
Zips on both sides and then

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folds open so that you can put
your foot in so much easier

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because odds, I feel like even
for everyone, dogs are really

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difficult to put on.
And so those zippers really help

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ll have to look this up for my
son to because he doesn't have

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eggs yet.
Yeah they're perfect for winter.

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I mean or Southern Californians.
They're like it's like 60

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degrees and everyone's wearing
gloves in the sweatshirt and a

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dogs and dogs.
Exactly.

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It's so funny for like East
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Like in the winter here we have
like low Use and then in

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Pennsylvania, it's like snowing
my dad sends us a video of

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shoveling the driveway.
We're like going to the beach,

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surfing, funny difference, and
you can Ski and Surf in the same

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day in California, and some, you
know, with you.

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That's pretty amazing.
Yeah, cool.

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Now, you've also posted
scripture, Sunday, videos on

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Tick Tock, and so, it seems like
your faith is a very big part of

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your life.
Can you tell us about your

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relationship with God and some
of your favorite Bible verses?

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Yeah, for sure.
So, I grew up going to church

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and my parents are Christians.
And so think I was even baptized

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when I was really little and,
you know, accepted into the

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church and we've gone to a
couple different churches

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throughout my childhood, but I
was always, God was always a big

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part of my life growing up.
I mean, I was always told that,

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you know, you have a
relationship with Jesus and then

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you go to heaven and so that was
always like my life.

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I grew up like that.
But I think around my teenage

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years when it becomes harder and
you become like oh I don't You

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know, you kind of question a
little, you're like, well, I

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don't know.
Like, is that right?

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Is that, like, what do I do?
You're kind of like, in that

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phase of just not.
Knowing I know not, everyone

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goes through that.
But for me, I went through that

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and I just kind of pushed my
faith away from me.

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And I kind of was like, oh, I'll
do this.

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My own way, which, like never
works out.

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And so, I would say last year or
like eight months ago, I feel

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like my faith has always been,
like, up, and down, and up and

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down.
And so, like, I'd be like,

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garnet.
Churchill, I'm going and not to

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church and not reading my Bible
and I feel like that's very

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normal.
But I really found my faith

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again like eight months ago and
have been really dedicated to

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also sharing the love of Jesus.
I feel like it's really

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important because of the
platform that I like em able to

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have and to share with others
like that.

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You know, Jesus wants to be part
of your life and I'll pull up a

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script, one of my favorites, if
that's okay.

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Course, let me see here.
But I just started going to this

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small Church in Oceanside where
I'm living right now and I

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absolutely love it.
It's like 50 people on Sundays,

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only one service and there's
like little bell that they ring

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every morning.
It's like a steeple.

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I just really love it.
Okay, this is my favorite.

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So Ephesians 3:16 through 19 and
I pray that you being rooted in

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established in love may have the
power together with all the

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Lord's.
Holy people to grasp, how wide

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and how How long and how high
and deep is the love of Christ

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and to know that this love that
surpasses knowledge that you may

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be filled to the measure of all
the fullness of God.

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I really like that.
All of you gents is really good,

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but yeah, I've just been great.
I like, I feel like when I was

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younger, I didn't realize that
it was like a friendship with

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Jesus and it's not this
fear-driven religion.

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It's, you know, having a
relationship with Jesus and

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being forgiven and knowing that
you're gonna mess up, you know,

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and build.
In that relationship and so

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good.
Just it's a daily process.

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That's beautiful.
I actually went to a Christian

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junior high school and I
remember we used to actually

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memorize Bible verses and it I
actually get Florida every now

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and then I'll sit to myself and
I'll be like you know he who

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dwells in the secret place of
the most high shall abide under

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the shadow palettes so they're
not want he maketh me to lie

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down in Green Pastures, I'm like
a Hiatus it's just there it kind

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of like spills their who yells
and cheers.

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So Soul and you recognize that,
you know, these are actually

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really powerful words.
Yes, I love that.

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Yeah, yeah, I know beautiful and
so I can't help but notice and I

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think that everybody else
probably around, you notices,

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that you just radiate such
positivity, you've got this

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magnetic positive energy and so
what do you attribute that to?

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How is it that you have been
able to retain in?

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What would be considered
somewhat difficult

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circumstances, right?
Some sorts of challenges, but

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you know, what is it?
That really kind of keeps you.

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In this mindset, I would say my
mom, I mean, my mom is like one

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of my biggest mentors and heroes
and she's always like embodied

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this like positive mindset and
then also, like her mom.

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My grandma who passed away a
couple years ago.

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She was always chose joy and
like lived life to the fullest

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because I feel like it takes a
lot more energy to be negative

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and to judge, and to be down.
And of course I've had my down

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moments but it takes more energy
to like be sad than to just be.

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Happy all the time and like
spread that joy and like, with

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my grandma.
And my mom, like, I've seen the

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lives that they've impacted
through their joy and through

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their positive mindset and also
to.

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So, that's from growing up,
that's what I've seen.

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And then having a disability, I
have every reason to be down and

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to, you know, struggle with
depression and I have, when I

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was younger and to struggle with
a lot of fear and shame.

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And I mean, don't get me wrong,
I think everyone.

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Those moments and I do too but I
honestly look at it as I don't

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know.
I just like, I feel like I live

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a happier life when I'm more
positive and that like, I don't

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want to waste any time, dwelling
on my circumstances that I can't

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change because ultimately I'm
not ever going to get better,

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like, or like grow arms.
I mean, it's just not going to

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happen and these are the
circumstances.

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And I have, this is how God made
me.

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These are how my cards were
dealt.

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And that's who I am.
And then picking out like my

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strength.
Of Surfing and spreading light

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through surfing and spreading
light through Jesus.

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And honestly, I'd feel like
Jesus makes me positive as well

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as a lot of different people in
my life, the ocean and you can't

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help but smile when you see the
water.

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So I want others to feel that
love and that Joy beautiful.

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Listen about your upcoming
plans, what's going to happen in

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the future with you, I would say
for my athletic Endeavors, the

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Paralympics.
Hopefully is going to have

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Optive surfing and 20:28 in Los
Angeles.

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So I'm really hoping that they
pick up adaptive surfing because

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it's all like this process of
the paralympic committee getting

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surfing.
So I'd love to go to the

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Paralympics in the future and
continue to train continued to

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compete as much as my schedule
allows and in terms of

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short-term and more spiritually,
just growing my relationship

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with Jesus with my family, with
my boyfriend, my friends work,

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Being on those relationships,
I'm in college.

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So finishing my degree as well
as trying to impact as many

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people.
As I can with my story and

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continuing to work on my
platform, taking it day by day

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and just allowing like a natural
progression of things if that's

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God's plan and as well as.
Yeah, just also was surfing just

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getting in the water and getting
better and enjoying the ocean

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and enjoying beautiful
California because I am.

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I'm very blessed to live here.
So just I would say taking it

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day by day but long term would
be Paralympics.

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That sounds really cool.
I'll live Stone.

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Thank you so much for being my
guest today.

532
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I am really happy to have been
able to have this conversation

533
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with you.
You are so inspirational to so

534
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,000
many.
Thank you.

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Thank you so much for having me.