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0:00today we sit down with Bethany Hamilton
0:02she is an author a wife a mother a
0:04health and wellness Enthusiast and a
0:06professional Surfer Bethany was born and
0:08raised in Hawaii where she was well on
0:10her way towards becoming one of the best
0:12female Surfers of her time when tragedy
0:14struck on Halloween day
0:182003 then all of a sudden it just like I
0:21felt like a tug on my board right away I
0:24knew it was happening Bethany was
0:26attacked by a large tiger shark off the
0:28coast of kauwaii where she lost her
0:30entire left arm by the time she reached
0:32the hospital she had lost 60% of her
0:35blood but miraculously she survived you
0:38think you're going to surf again I think
0:41I know just 3 weeks after the horrific
0:44attack that almost ended her life with a
0:46bandage still on her arm Bethany was
0:49back in the water trying to recapture
0:51that dream of becoming a professional
0:53server in 2005 Bethany won her first
0:57national surfing title and in 2007 Just
1:004 years after she lost her arm her
1:02ultimate goal was achieved when she
1:04started competing on the professional
1:06surfing circuit more recently Bethany
1:09found herself in the news yet again only
1:11this time not everyone was standing
1:13behind her Hawaii Pro Surfer Bethany
1:15Hamilton says she will not compete in
1:17World surf League events because of its
1:19new rule that will allow transgender
1:21women to compete in women's surfing
1:24events Bethany is the kind of woman that
1:26stands up for what she believes in even
1:27when it's difficult she is demonstrating
1:30that you don't need easy you just need
1:32possible so without further Ado Bethany
1:36Hamilton Aloha Bethy yeah good to be
1:40here I had to throw in the aloho we were
1:41talking the car on the way over here I'm
1:43all about using the the pigeon when I
1:45can I got myoha shirt on today so he
1:47wore this for you I came prepared I love
1:49it but we are honored to have you here
1:52thank you so much for agreeing to do
1:53this really appreciate it yeah you have
1:56been one of our Dream guests from the
1:57very beginning a thank you we were
2:00talking about like who do we just really
2:01want to have on and then Bethany
2:03Hamilton was just like I have to have
2:04her because we've been huge fans for 20
2:07years uh something really funny is NAA
2:10who's our oldest their first daddy
2:12daughter date was to go see Soul Surfer
2:14a so sweet that was their first day out
2:17and they went to lunch and they saw Soul
2:19Surfer and then we bought the DVD and
2:22watched it 500 times and the soundtrack
2:25so yeah getting to know the real Bethany
2:28has been really interesting a thanks and
2:32you guys love sharpi and we love sharpi
2:34so yes oh my gosh I had sharpet through
2:38most of my childhood now we're dogless
2:41but I've always had a thing for the
2:44wrinkly rly Poli yeah I love every yeah
2:48we lost ours about four weeks ago he was
2:5114 and so we are also dogless but it was
2:55just it's always so fun to see like
2:57anytime that you had them like in your
2:59documentary to see the sharp we like
3:02oh cuz you don't meet very many people
3:04that have them no it's kind of more of a
3:06rare dog but I feel like in Hawaii
3:09there's a lot of like pit bulls and like
3:12just bigger dogs like more hunting es
3:17sort of dogs and then so my mom and I
3:19fell in love with Sharpes and we had a
3:22few over the years yeah I grew up with
3:25them too I started getting them in the
3:26'90s and then I talked him into it love
3:29them my favorite dog of all time for
3:31sure you got to Surf with one of your
3:33dogs correct at least one of your dogs
3:35um you know taking sharp is surfing
3:38they're not exactly water dogs so I was
3:41going to say our dog give the water it
3:43was hectic we were usually kind of uh
3:46you know I don't know uh getting
3:48scratched or um just holding our dog on
3:52the board making sure they didn't fall
3:54off yeah yeah yeah we got to see a
3:57couple shots was that your actual dog in
3:59the movie yes so we had our dog act as
4:03the dog in the movie Soul Surfer and
4:05that was not um great on the director
4:08because our dog wasn't super well
4:10trained like you know set dogs yeah but
4:14it was fun and we made it work yeah I
4:16think that's amazing so how is it having
4:19somebody play you in a movie it's
4:23interesting I mean I am definitely a
4:26rare human in that not many people are
4:29are still living their life while having
4:32an actor play them so when we filmed um
4:36Soul Sur for the movie I was like 19 or
4:4020 and so I still had a lot of Life to
4:43Live you know and so it was weird
4:47picking out someone to play me I
4:48remember at the time it was like the top
4:51picks were Dakota Fanning h a Sophia Rob
4:54who ended up playing me and a couple
4:56other girls
4:58and yeah it's just weird because too a
5:02lot of young people will like become a
5:05fan of the actor when I'm like the real
5:08person but I think like there's a bit of
5:10a crossover there too and
5:14so yeah I don't know it's weird yeah I
5:16can't imagine it 19 I know there're so
5:19it's so funny because like I they watch
5:22the movie our kids watch the movie and
5:24then when we watch Unstoppable they were
5:26like oh that's Bethany Hamilton so it
5:29was so for them and so they were very
5:31excited to meet the real Bethany
5:33Hamilton because the actress that plays
5:36you they're like oh that's AOA girl or
5:38that's that's a Willy Wonka girl that
5:40choose the bubble gum so so different
5:43but yeah it's been fun um are you still
5:46competitively
5:47surfing um yeah I mean I did an event
5:50this year um but I don't have any events
5:53on my schedule right now I'm still
5:55surfing at a high level but I also have
5:57four children so I have like a uni unque
6:00season I would say I'm like mostly done
6:02but if an event pops up here and there
6:04I'm down I also prefer to compete in
6:08like really good waves so a lot of the
6:09events aren't held in good waves so I'm
6:12kind of like okay if an event pops up in
6:14good waves then I'm excited to jump in
6:17yeah what is your preference what is a
6:18good wave to you I mean preferably on a
6:21reef growing up in Hawaii we have just
6:24such incredible waves it's kind of hard
6:26to leave because you go elsewhere and
6:29like I competing from the age of uh 10
6:33to now
6:36internationally um over the years you
6:39know and we would travel all over the
6:41world and then the waves were always
6:44just subpar compared to where I am from
6:47and where I grew up and the type of
6:49waves I'm you know always surfing and
6:51so um but yeah I just really like strong
6:55powerful Reef waves in particular and um
6:59but I mean a good wave is a good wave
7:01wherever you end up going like I've had
7:03incredible waves all over the world so
7:06yeah it's just such a different
7:07lifestyle or like our dream is you know
7:10to not go to Disney World but to go to
7:13like you know an epic surf spot yeah
7:16that's so amazing you know what's crazy
7:17is growing up in Hawaii myself is
7:19actually became aware of you when at a
7:21very young age for me I remember seeing
7:23you uh competing I think it was
7:24somewhere in wakei um in like a some
7:26kind of a Youth Event um in like the
7:30early mid mid 90s I guess get R it was
7:32on like Oceanic Cable I remember
7:33watching probably CH like the China Ura
7:36classic women's event or I did a bunch
7:40of wyi events and I remember like it was
7:43crazy because this was before I lost my
7:45arm and I had um I got on the news so it
7:50was like big for me as like a little
7:52girl you know and then I was like in the
7:53newspaper too yeah so that's what was so
7:57crazy about when I did lose my arm I was
8:00pretty well known within at least Hawaii
8:03and then even I had finished second in
8:05the national title um at 13 with with
8:09two
8:10arms uh 18 and under so it was like a
8:14really successful result for a
8:1713-year-old and so my name was kind of
8:19already buzzing so when my event
8:21happened like it went like super viral
8:25not social media viral just like news
8:28like all the time
8:30because at that time I think my space
8:32was just getting going or maybe maybe
8:34early days Facebook but it wasn't really
8:37like a big thing yeah yeah it was just
8:39where people shared pictures and they
8:40had the song playing on your profile
8:42yeah it wasn't like it is now so and you
8:45even imagine what that wave of media
8:48would have been like had it been so much
8:50later oh my gosh yeah now but then it
8:52would have like been a wave and then
8:54it's instantly over like one day later
8:57that's true that's true yeah I remember
8:59remember seeing I'm like Oprah and Ellen
9:01and everything you were so little you're
9:03just a little girl so that had to have
9:05been so scary did you enjoy doing all
9:08that media back then no I hated doing
9:11interviews but I did have a heart for
9:14other people and so once I started
9:16surfing with one
9:17arm um I think just my story went even
9:22more viral because people attached on to
9:25like that courage and the ab the
9:28willingness to keep trying and to
9:31overcome and so it was amazing like I
9:34would receive letters from all of all
9:36over the world all different walks of
9:38lives all different types of passions
9:40all different types of
9:42challenges and so that really like
9:46encouraged me I guess to share my story
9:48you know I think my mom and dad kind of
9:50led me along too like hey look we can be
9:53an encouragement so let's go and share
9:56your story and So eventually fast
9:58forward I went to writing my book which
10:01I didn't really write it I was a part of
10:03that Journey but it was like kind of
10:05like my mom and my pastor friend who is
10:07a writer and um in my head as my teenage
10:12self was just like all I wanted to do
10:14you know was be with my friends and go
10:16surfing um but then I wrote and then we
10:19worked on the book and I was like okay I
10:20don't have to tell my story now cuz
10:22people can just read it yeah but then
10:25there's the whole like you got to do a
10:27media tour now little one and you didn't
10:29know that I didn't understand that
10:32concept and so literally I'm like flying
10:34in New York City I did like 30
10:37interviews or more and I was so mad I
10:42was just so angry was like get me out of
10:46this place like I just wanted to go home
10:48and go surf so surfing to me was so much
10:51more than just like my Sport and passion
10:54it was also like a little bit of an
10:56outlet and safety place and like an esap
10:59escape from everything on land and I
11:01would still say the same thing to this
11:03day like getting in the ocean I'm lucky
11:06enough as a mom to like my hubby will
11:08let me get out there and so I'll sneak
11:11away and get in the ocean and it's just
11:13such a place of Rejuvenation and like I
11:16don't know place to be present and to
11:19just be creative and enjoy God's
11:21beautiful creation and so from teenagers
11:25to Mom life it's like my little Safe
11:28Haven yeah I mean sense it's almost like
11:30the world can't get you out there yeah
11:32and specifically like obviously we can
11:34bring things in our mind but when you're
11:36up and riding on a wave you're not
11:39thinking about the list of things to do
11:42or the mountain of laundry or the
11:44interview coming up you're just thinking
11:46about riding that wave and so I'm not
11:50like really like a new Agy but I I do
11:52love the idea of just being like fully
11:54present and now with like technology and
11:57devices and the endless to-do list and
12:00like the responding the emails and text
12:02messages and calling this person and
12:04that person like I think everyone at
12:07times just feels distracted or pulled in
12:10some direction maybe it's social media
12:13maybe it's binging TV shows um whatever
12:16it may be like I love that the ocean is
12:20a place where I can't bring anything
12:22with me especially when I'm up in
12:24writing a wave and it's just a place to
12:26like kind of rejuvenate and um kind of
12:29slow down so I think for me like growing
12:33up in Hawaii I grew up with like a
12:36really raw natural childhood like I
12:39wasn't on a device I was like climbing
12:42lava rocks diving into the ocean looking
12:45for shells riding Turtles like body
12:49surfing like doing so many fun things
12:52and I like look at our young people now
12:54and I'm just like what are we doing to
12:57our young children like now you see
13:00children on the side of the road like
13:01I'll just be driving by and then the
13:03other day we we were heading to the
13:05airport we in uh the East Coast Delaware
13:08and 6:00 in the morning you see two
13:10teenage kids just hunched over looking
13:13at their devices they didn't look happy
13:16they didn't look like they were being
13:17creative they didn't look like they were
13:19healthy either and to me that's so
13:22devastating to see the way our people
13:25are growing up and the lack of um
13:28inspiration they have for life so to say
13:32and so yeah I don't know where I was
13:34going there I just like I'm so
13:37passionate about being in nature because
13:39I think nature brings out the best of us
13:42so I love that and I'm with you that's
13:44everything I miss about Hawaii growing
13:45up there not that I was surfing on your
13:47level but just spending time out on the
13:48ocean was a place of uh healing like you
13:50said finding God and U you know just
13:52sitting out between sets waiting on the
13:54next set to roll in a nice Sunset just
13:56um yeah devoting that that time and
13:59attention to God and creation and being
14:01very grateful it's what I miss maybe the
14:03most about for sure um love you had to
14:06say there about our young people you are
14:07running a camp correct for moms and
14:09daughters yeah so the last couple of
14:11years I started a motherdaughter
14:14mentorship program and the idea is to
14:17like talk about all the hard subjects
14:20like anxiety depression Health um dating
14:26drugs and alcohol um conflict the mother
14:30daughter relationship and relationships
14:33across the board and then like adding in
14:36a inperson element so some people come
14:39and do like a retreat or a surf day with
14:41me and it's just been really cool to be
14:44a part of it I have a heart for teenage
14:46um girls and teenagers across the board
14:49because I have three boys but I look it
14:52back on my life and you know I don't
14:54really like celebrating myself so to say
14:57but like I look at 13 18-year-old
14:59Bethany and I'm like why was she so
15:01resilient and I really attribute a lot
15:03of it to one my faith in God and but two
15:08like my relationship with my mom in
15:11particular and the way she and I um
15:14bonded um in my early tween and then
15:18teenage years and just just having that
15:21foundation in my own like home and my
15:24dad too I mean my dad was super awesome
15:27he was just awesome in his own way like
15:28he was more like the sport dad like you
15:31know he would do special like surf trips
15:33with me or you know we'd drive to the
15:35other side of the island at 4 in the
15:37morning and go surfing and um just like
15:40special things like that but um yeah I
15:44feel like culture now pulls children
15:47away from their parents and their family
15:51and this
15:53unknowingly separates that Bond and that
15:56relationship and so are young people are
15:59way less confident and way less um kind
16:03of sure of themselves so that when the
16:05conflict hits they're maybe not as
16:08resilient as they could be obviously
16:11there's always going to be that
16:12resilient one and we all have a bit of a
16:14resilient in us but um yeah I just for
16:18me I just wanted to recreate something
16:20like that and just a a space for like if
16:24Mom is struggling with her daughter it's
16:26a space for them to like devote time to
16:29one another and to like rekindle that
16:31relationship that is so and I have a lot
16:34of motion motion like there we go we
16:38made it go so funny so I have like big
16:42dreams cuz I'm a mom of three boys too
16:44and my husband's amazing so I hope to do
16:47like a Father's son one day um plus all
16:50the moms are like can you do one for my
16:52son and my husband and so yeah it's been
16:54a cool Journey though just seeing like
16:57young girls lives transform like the big
16:59thing I've noticed is there's a lot of
17:01anxiety in our young people and
17:03depression and kind of hopelessness and
17:06so trying to like reillumination
17:29you are very resilient and you are very
17:31like this badass girl that stands up for
17:34what she believes in but at the same
17:36time it's it wasn't just a story of like
17:38up up up success like you show when
17:42you're frustrated and you show and you
17:45talk about like I would come in crying I
17:47would come in feeling defeated and
17:48that's real and it's so helpful to hear
17:51somebody that we look up to say I had
17:55those days too where I just felt so
17:57defeated and
17:59I it there's it's just brings a lot of
18:01Hope because I have days where I feel
18:03defeated at the end of the day and so
18:05it's nice to hear that it's not
18:08relatable you know when it's just up and
18:10away and so I have that little there's
18:13this little clip of you when you were
18:14still in the hospital when somebody I
18:16don't know who it was asked you like
18:17what's next Bethany and you just said I
18:20don't know yeah and it broke my mom
18:23heart because I think to hear your kids
18:24say that you'd feel like you'd want to
18:26fix that yes totally
18:29I know my mom did such a good job of
18:31navigating that but my mom actually
18:33didn't think I could surf again really
18:36my mom was like let's move to the
18:37mountains and you can learn to snowboard
18:39or how about you take on photography she
18:41was trying to fix it but she didn't
18:43think I would be able to serve and so
18:46that was like an interesting like little
18:48mom moment where as amazing as my mom
18:51was she didn't she couldn't she didn't
18:54have the resilience that even I had and
18:57so once I set myom mind on wanting to
19:00learn how to surf I uh I was just all in
19:05it was like I'm going to try this I
19:07don't know if I'll be able to do it but
19:09I want to try and so I popped up on my
19:12third wave um the first day back in the
19:15water and rode it all the way to the
19:17beach it was just like a small little
19:19simple wave but it felt like one of the
19:20best waves in my life and then from
19:24there there was just no turning back and
19:27I you know I couldn't have dreamed my
19:29future I just was willing to try and put
19:32myself out there and do what I didn't
19:33know anyone else had done like I didn't
19:35know anyone with one arm let alone a one
19:38arm Surfer and so for me it was very
19:41much like you know exploring unknown
19:44territory yeah and you did actually end
19:46up winning at Nationals didn't you yeah
19:48so I went back to competing um the the
19:53following I lost my arm in October
19:56started competing in January made the
19:59national final that next summer and then
20:02the summer following I won a national
20:05title so that was pretty crazy I'm
20:07pretty cool that had to have just been
20:09amazing after everything and working
20:11your way up to just like yes I can do it
20:15yeah and I was too like I was competing
20:19against all the people I'd grown up with
20:22and you know a lot of those girls went
20:24on to win national or World titles so
20:27there wasn't El of like maybe I didn't
20:29fully reach my potential that I could
20:31have if I had had two arms but then I
20:34look at my life from a nons surfer
20:37perspective and just the ripple effect
20:39that my life has had on the world around
20:42me and it's just so beautiful to see how
20:45God has taken something so awful and
20:47turned it into something so beautiful
20:49and um yeah I'm just grateful for the
20:53life that I do have yeah it's it's a
20:55beautiful example to people to just
20:57overcome and Ne go for it and do you
21:00ever sit there and wonder what would
21:01have been or do you just not let your
21:03brain go there or I don't really go
21:05there too much cuz I don't really feel
21:07like that's very healthy yeah um and I
21:11look at my life that I do have and I
21:13have like four beautiful children a
21:16wonderful husband and just so much that
21:19I look forward to every single day and
21:21I'm just like I might not have any of
21:23that my life could be totally different
21:26you know I think of like my peers and
21:28surfing I'm like the only one well one
21:31of my friends has a child but not many
21:34of them have children and I just feel
21:37like that's like the greatest blessing
21:38in life is my my children and I'm just
21:42like w what would my life have looked
21:44like you know I guess I could think like
21:46that but I almost am like whoa I hope
21:49that I would have even like you know
21:52hopefully had a child by now
21:56um anyway I don't know where I'm going
21:58with that like I
22:00just I'm grateful I feel like God's plan
22:02for my life is better than my own yeah
22:05sometimes he does disrupt our plans
22:07doesn't he he's it's almost like he
22:09protects us from going down the wrong
22:11way even if it's like this horrible road
22:13block that like why would you do this to
22:15me but he's actually putting you in a
22:17different direction that is so much
22:19better speaking of your husband Adam
22:21he's from Kansas originally is that
22:22correct so he grew up in Kansas and he
22:25was supposed to be here but our little
22:27guys got sick and I don't know we didn't
22:30feel like dealing with a babysitter when
22:32they're sick they've been pretty
22:33clingy and and a sweet and beautiful way
22:37of course but um he grew up in Kansas
22:41and so now he lives in Hawaii cuz once
22:44he met me I'm like I ain't leaving so
22:46you're either staying or we're not going
22:48to work it seems like that'd be a pretty
22:49easy choice though you know it has its
22:53pros and cons like I think it was a hard
22:55adjustment for him after like a few
22:58years um like he did really well the
23:01first couple years he was really
23:02immersed in the culture he was working
23:05with a organization called young life
23:07and he was starting it up on the west
23:09side of kwaii so it's like kind of like
23:11the harder area of the island like a lot
23:14of family abuse a lot of hardship and
23:17like I would say some quite a bit of
23:19child neglect um and so here comes this
23:23big 6'4 like super loving super friendly
23:28um
23:29you know Caucasian guy and he's like
23:32coaching football he's doing substitute
23:35teaching he's like fully immersed in the
23:38culture and so that was kind of cool
23:40because I grew up I was born and raised
23:43in haai and so there's definitely a
23:45cultural difference you know a lot of
23:47people don't really understand and so it
23:50was nice when I met him he understood
23:54Hawaii he was like really thrown into
23:56the thick of it right early on
23:59and but yeah I mean it was a hard
24:01adjustment phase for sure and you know
24:04being away from his family is for sure
24:06hard but I would say now in hindsight
24:09he's stoked and he loves it and he surfs
24:12a bit but he doesn't have like quite the
24:14passion that I do so it's nice for me
24:17cuz I get priority he's like okay you go
24:19surf are firing and I'll get leftovers
24:23if there's any um you know anything left
24:25yeah and he'll be on the beach playing
24:27with the kids or the baby ways yeah so I
24:30mean um but the thing is like being from
24:33Kansas he's a super athlete and then he
24:35like going into the ocean he's super
24:37humbled cuz the ocean is just a whole
24:40different ball game it doesn't matter
24:41how athletic you are surfing is super
24:44hard and so he was definitely humbled by
24:47surfing and um we joke lately I'm like
24:50are our almost nine-year-old is going to
24:52be better than you any day now H good I
24:56saw him on The Little Wave he's good
24:59he's super good I'm like hun you got
25:01like two more ears and TOS is going to
25:03be spraying you in the face it's amazing
25:06he definitely got mom's jeans yes crazy
25:09so I came up I was just you know going
25:12through my Instagram and I saw a photo
25:15of you standing there looking beautiful
25:17in your bikini with I stand up for what
25:20I believe in I was like what happened
25:21cuz I knew like that it was such a
25:24strong post but you always do everything
25:27with such Grace like you can be fired up
25:30about something but yet you approach it
25:33without I don't know just so gracefully
25:35I'm need to learn from you cuz I get all
25:37heated and then I'm
25:39like so something that we've talked
25:41about quite a bit actually on our
25:42podcast we actually talked about you and
25:44Riley and was when all of a sudden Title
25:479 starts changing so you've already been
25:50through so much learning how to surf
25:52with one arm becoming a pro Surfer
25:55you've overcome all these things and all
25:57of a sudden
25:58you he you get an email saying hey
26:02biological males may be surfing against
26:05women and like what is what does that do
26:08to your psyche as yeah well I mean we
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27:25let's get back to our conversation with
27:26Bethany Hamilton well I mean we had kind
27:29of foreseen it coming because it was
27:31already happening in a lot of other
27:33sports and I had sens that it was going
27:35to come to surfing but then the way it
27:38did come was just in an email one
27:40morning like oh we rule change like
27:43biological meals can not compete with
27:45females as long as their testosterone is
27:47at this level and they've been taking a
27:50certain sort of hormone replacement for
27:52like a minimum of 3 months or I don't
27:55remember the exact details I'm probably
27:57getting that wrong so you guys can go
27:58fact check yourself um but so I received
28:03that and I'm surfing in an event in aahu
28:06and at the point at that time or and
28:09still there hasn't been any like major
28:12males competing in the main League of
28:16female um performance surfing so
28:19shortboard there is one male competing
28:22in the longboard Division and that
28:25individual is um smoking chicks so it's
28:29super
28:30frustrating but and that individual also
28:33won a male event like a couple years
28:35before he won the female event so to me
28:38that's just like what in the world is
28:40going on and why are we so okay with
28:43this um but to me I just like surfing is
28:47a sport where it no doubt like males
28:51surf substantially better than the
28:53females their strength their paddling
28:55abilities their strength in their leg
28:58and their torso it's just substantially
29:00different like while there are a handful
29:03of girls that are absolutely like we're
29:05all like incredible in our own way and
29:07we're pushing our sport in such an
29:09incredible ways but um I don't know why
29:12I feel like I have to even talk about
29:14that because it doesn't really matter at
29:16the end of the day yeah but um yeah it's
29:19just wild to me and it was pretty lonely
29:22I was basically the only female surfer
29:24that spoke up about like against it and
29:28the thing I've been pondering lately is
29:30like why is everyone so scared like the
29:33fact that Society is scared to speak up
29:36about something that is important and
29:38that does matter for a you know this
29:42next generation of upand cominging ath
29:45athletic girls like it's so wrong to me
29:48that Society is at this point of like
29:51being too scared to speak what they
29:53believe because they think that they're
29:55going to be considered mean or phobic or
30:00um you know an awful person and so that
30:05to me is really sad and unfortunate and
30:08I also feel like there's a need to call
30:10out like none of the previous women
30:13World Champs spoke out for female sports
30:17and I'm like you guys literally have
30:19nothing to lose and they're not willing
30:22to speak up for the next generation and
30:26so I think there's this element of like
30:29you don't know what you got until you
30:31lose it and so at some point like if
30:34things don't change at some point the
30:37girls are going to lose what they've got
30:39right and so that will be super sad but
30:42maybe it has to get to that point for
30:44the girls to realize that you can't just
30:47um be laxidasical and let go of
30:50something that you have just in the
30:52namesake of like the loudest voices um
30:56who think that they can just control
30:58Society right yeah because it is a vocal
31:01minority I think we could all
31:02acknowledge that and amongst your female
31:04competitors was there was the General
31:06consensus that hey this is this is
31:09garbage yeah I think probably at least
31:1270% um are pretty like not for it maybe
31:17more I would hope more but you know some
31:20people just feel like they're being mean
31:22and so they're almost like being
31:24brainwashed to think like oh I'm being
31:26mean if I don't in include everyone but
31:29the truth is like you're not being mean
31:31like it's just simply not fair game for
31:34males to compete in the female Division
31:36and you girls will be taken advantage of
31:39if you don't speak up because the
31:43strength differences are just undeniable
31:47they are what they are yeah it's the
31:48most infuriating part of it for me is
31:49that every time something like this has
31:51rear its ugly head is is the the silenc
31:53amongst those who should be the most
31:55outspoken so credit to you for for in
31:58and I will say like the world surf
32:00League made everyone sign a
32:01non-disclosure agreement at the start of
32:03the year and they that we they would the
32:07athletes would be fined
32:09$10,000 and that they would be um
32:12removed from the world surf league so
32:15there is an element of like losing their
32:17entire career and there are no males in
32:20like the main surf League competing in
32:22the female division yet uh they are in
32:25the longboard but um
32:28yeah so there's kind of an element of
32:30like well there's no risk quite yet you
32:32know so let's just be like silent and
32:35milk it while we can you know yeah I
32:37always wonder when you see it happening
32:39in the high schools and the colleges
32:41it's I don't know how parents bring
32:43their daughters to an event that they
32:45know they can't win like why not why
32:47doesn't the whole team just say no and
32:49then maybe this nonsense would stop
32:50totally totally you know like all it
32:53takes is everyone saying no and so the
32:55lack of unity is the problem
32:58and I would not allow my daughter to
33:00compete against a male if it was um in a
33:05setting that was truly unfair cuz for
33:08example I've competed in a male event uh
33:11in Bali at ping pang and I chose to
33:15enter that event like it's more of a
33:17specialty event and like it's totally
33:19fine like but like to take you
33:23know a a potential like women's world
33:27title like that is a major issue
33:30scholarships you see these little boys
33:34just smoking past the girls and
33:36different running events beating them by
33:38seconds and taking scholarships and
33:41titles away from them and it just is so
33:44frustrating to see and I don't
33:45understand where the parents' heads are
33:46at yeah totally I think it's just the
33:50society as a whole being very
33:52laxidasical
33:53and it takes work and effort like I put
33:57more like mind time into that than I
34:01would have liked like you know I have a
34:02lot going on I have four children it's
34:04not like I want to be thinking about
34:06this subject all the time and it's not
34:09like I'm out there campaigning all the
34:11time for female sports but I just like
34:14make it known that I'm not for this and
34:18um just try to empower our next
34:20Generation to like know is a healthy
34:23boundary to have in the right time and
34:25place and if you can't learn to say no
34:29like your life is going to have a lot of
34:31problems and you will be taken advantage
34:33of in a lot of different ways and so
34:36it's important to teach our young people
34:37to say no um in a lot of different ways
34:41um you know it's so true and this is
34:44just one way yeah that is so true that's
34:46such a good thing to teach especially
34:47our girls but just children in general
34:50the power of know can bring so much
34:51peace into your life you don't do things
34:53you don't want to do you're you don't
34:55find yourself at parties where you're
34:56like why am I here like so much power in
34:58no you're still learning sometimes I
35:01know sometimes I still end up at parties
35:03I don't want to be at
35:04going yeah he's really good at saying no
35:08to things and then I start I try to be
35:11the and the Yang you know it's or you
35:14know like I feel like my husband and I
35:16are like that I'm like no and he's like
35:18I'm like no well I thought it was really
35:21Brave and I loved your one minute video
35:23you were so respectful in it and you
35:24really just posed questions you asked a
35:26lot of important and practical questions
35:29but there was a lot of backlash from the
35:31world what happened but there was a lot
35:34of backlash I tried not to look cuz I
35:36was like this isn't going to be good for
35:37my mental health yes and the fact that
35:41you know no matter what end of the
35:43spectrum of life you your World Views
35:46are at like being mean is not okay no
35:49and I saw some really dark sides of
35:51people like they're like I hope a shark
35:53bites off your other arm like I hope
35:55you're dead like I'm like w cuz I don't
35:58want males and female sports like y'all
36:00are
36:01insane but let's point out that no
36:04matter what side of the political
36:06Spectrum you're on there's mean people
36:09everywhere like in every um you know end
36:13of the spectrum so to say and so the
36:15unfortunate thing is a lot of times the
36:18mean people are the loudest ones but
36:20there's a lot of people in the middle
36:22that are actually just nice and um but
36:25you can still have your opinion and your
36:28World Views and to me it's like
36:31important to like talk about these sort
36:33of things with our children because you
36:35kind of don't want to become the mean
36:38loud person right but you also don't
36:40want to be the hyper silent passive
36:42person so it's like finding that balance
36:45in life and um having these important
36:48conversations with our children because
36:50the way our society is going right now
36:52and it's like lately there's been Wars
36:55going on on college campuses fighting
36:57about other Wars and I'm like wait how
36:59is this being productive like we're
37:01literally fighting here in the US about
37:04wars over somewhere else and while I
37:07think war is super unfortunate and I
37:09hate that there's death no matter what
37:11side of the war they're on I like I hate
37:14that there's innocent death um there's
37:17still like probably a better way to to
37:20you know work through these World issues
37:24um that isn't so aggressive and mean and
37:27harsh and you know maybe I've even felt
37:30like aggressive and harsh at times
37:33towards certain subjects but trying to
37:37work through that and like find my calm
37:39and peace again and like figure out a
37:42better way of facing these issues
37:44because it's not healthy for ourselves
37:46to also be like living in anger or you
37:50know loudness or frustration and so I
37:53feel like 2020 and 2021 taught me a lot
37:56about that because I don't want to be
37:58angry about things all the time like I
38:01want to be able to love my family well
38:03and if you're fuming with anger then
38:05that anger is going to come out in a lot
38:06of different ways and so being able to
38:09work through um our disappointments and
38:12our
38:13frustrations and try to you know find
38:15some level head yeah yeah that's that's
38:18probably like so much of the
38:20conversations that go on inside of your
38:21home or in your own head even but
38:24publicly the I think you're right on the
38:26money like you I know exactly where you
38:28stand you're so strong in it you're such
38:31a strong voice for it and sometimes it's
38:33just a picture but it's like yeah and
38:35but yet you do it in such a kind way and
38:38with so much respect and so much grace
38:40and they're going to get mad at you
38:41anyway it doesn't matter how you say it
38:44it's it just doesn't matter they're
38:46going to come for you anyway but there's
38:48so many people behind you they're just
38:51not they're not the loud people on
38:53Instagram and that was super interesting
38:55cuz I had people from like out of the
38:57Woodworks that would normally like never
38:59say hi to me and they're like out of the
39:02Woodworks like thank you so much so I
39:04feel like the majority was supporting me
39:07um like I would just have the randomst
39:09people come up to me like who normally
39:11would like kind of let me have my space
39:13like for example we shop at Costco and
39:15so Costco is like the place of social um
39:18function like you go there to socialize
39:21basically and in kwaii you end up like
39:23spending half of your time in there
39:25talking to someone and so I like after I
39:27spoke out against males and female
39:30sports it was just like people out of
39:31the Woodworks like thanks so much I'm
39:33glad someone's speaking up like you're
39:36welcome it wasn't very fun but we did it
39:40no it wouldn't be very fun but it's so
39:41important and there's so few people
39:43doing it that it's so refreshing to see
39:47yeah I recently met Riley gains and we
39:50didn't really get to talk too much but I
39:52heard her talking to a group she read
39:54her book to a group of young children
39:57and one of the things that stood out to
40:00me was like just how lonely she felt
40:02when she was started speaking out cuz
40:04she was like one of the loudest OG
40:07Originals like this is not okay like no
40:09way am I being okay with this and she's
40:12been like she's you know fullon
40:15campaigning for female sports like
40:18politically and um like just using her
40:21voice and um just hearing her say that I
40:24was like oh I'm so sorry like in my my
40:27heart and head I was like oh she was
40:29just felt so alone in her journey and so
40:33to me it's just a reminder that like
40:36sometimes we have to do uncomfortable
40:37things to see good and change happen and
40:41it's not going to last forever so no
40:44that's right yeah that's so true I think
40:46you're just on the right side of it but
40:48yeah when I heard that they weren't even
40:50allowing your name on the girls jerseys
40:52like um so for a little context for
40:56listeners you can pick a name to put on
40:58your jersey for the surf yeah it's like
41:00a women's day of the year or something
41:03and so they did a Sur Surf Contest where
41:06all the athletes could put like their
41:08favorite women on their Jersey and so
41:11the world surf League uh denied a bunch
41:14of athletes to put me on their Jersey
41:16cuz all the athletes were like most of
41:18them were pretty stoked I think even all
41:20the guys that was other thing I was like
41:22kind of bummed none of the guys really
41:24spoke out either because I think most of
41:26the guys were not for it um but none of
41:29them spoke out but I guess their careers
41:32were on the line but even the former
41:34Male World Champs like female World
41:36Champs come on like guys like you know
41:39that this is not okay and this will not
41:42end well for the
41:44females um and so yeah anyway I got
41:48what's it called cancel cultured yeah I
41:51got full cancelled by the world surf
41:53league and they no one names anymore Bey
41:55Hamilton was not allowed on anyone's
41:57Jersey wow that's so crazy because
42:00you're the most inspirational female
42:03surfer I think surfer in the world and
42:07you've definitely got to be one of the
42:08most known names as far as surfing I
42:10think in surfing for sure yeah yeah so
42:14it's the natural like kids are going to
42:16want to be like Bethany Hamilton so to
42:18be denied that is just insane yeah it's
42:21weird I think that you've given people
42:23strength even if they haven't spoken yet
42:25I think totally and like I think over
42:29time things will turn back around but
42:32like for example recently I just try to
42:34like post every now and then but there
42:36was a women's longboard event and the
42:38organization tried to say no to the the
42:41male coming to compete in the female
42:43division but it was by the state law the
42:46organization would get shut down if they
42:48don't abide by the state law so at the
42:50end of the day actually like it's a
42:52bummer but while all the girls could say
42:55no the state might still
42:58um overpower them but at the end of the
43:01day if none of them show up then they
43:02have no event and so you know maybe if
43:06it gets to that point like hopefully the
43:08girls will just say no I think that's so
43:10great so how what is your what are you
43:13most excited about now moving forward
43:15where's your passion lie now moving
43:18forward oh I mean I'm just so like in
43:20love with my children and love spending
43:23life with them and serving them and just
43:26getting the choke on their faces every
43:29day um my youngest is almost a year and
43:33my oldest is almost nine so we just have
43:36like a really fun household and um
43:39that's pretty much like what I'm most
43:41excited about like of course I like
43:43helping other people and so I have like
43:45my different programs I'm working on
43:47some cool projects um to support
43:50families to be together more and to like
43:53just Empower them to live a healthy life
43:57mentally emotionally spiritually so soon
44:00I'll be launching the Bethany Hamilton
44:02Network it'll be kind of like a um just
44:05like a A Step Beyond social media but a
44:09place to empower and encourage our young
44:11people and families as a whole really NE
44:13and then the mother daughter program
44:15hopefully fatherson down the road maybe
44:17podcasting soon too so but the
44:21nitty-gritty of every day is for sure
44:23like motherhood and just trying to find
44:25time to get in the ocean yeah and yeah
44:27and be present there too it's so true
44:29you can't like Boggle your brain down
44:31with all this nonsense like the outside
44:33noise when you're with your children
44:34because you want to be totally present
44:37they as you know with a almost
44:399-year-old like they grow so stinking
44:41fast yeah and then with your fourth one
44:44you know how fast it goes so it's like
44:46savoring every single moment totally I
44:49actually am feeling that a lot with LA
44:51I'm like if she wants me to hold her I'm
44:53holding her if she wants to nurse she's
44:55nursing if she wants something I'm like
44:58quick to kid yes I love that we were
44:59just talking about that in the car he's
45:01like I think you can spoil a baby I'm
45:02like nope you can't like fer eyes them
45:05like I'm totally into that I mean I do
45:07tell her no like to a certain extent but
45:10she's definitely like the baby of the
45:13family and the big boys spoil her too
45:17like they're so sweet with her it's like
45:19heart melting detective brothers that's
45:21going to that's so great it teaches them
45:23to be good Brothers good Fathers good
45:26men good men yeah I feel like my older
45:28too definitely have a little bit of that
45:30like natural paternal Instinct like the
45:32way they treat her is just so sweet
45:36that's awesome so sweet yeah oh man I
45:38miss those days yeah it our baby is the
45:41age of your oldest and so I still I want
45:44him to be a baby so bad but he doesn't
45:46just do that like fall into you anymore
45:48thing you know and I have to come ask
45:51him for a hug and my teenage son doesn't
45:53want to hug me at all and I'm like come
45:55M come back to me but as babies they
45:58were just I wore them constantly we
46:01nursed forever until they felt like
46:03being done or I was about to pop with
46:04them then X baby yeah and it it was just
46:08such a beautiful time like if I I know
46:11when I'm old that will be the time I
46:12want to go back to you yeah like it's
46:15you're just like you're in the most
46:16beautiful season in life and you just
46:18don't even need anything to wreck your
46:21shine right now no for sure it's so
46:24great all right well thanks so much Beth
46:26again
46:27[Music]
46:29can't wait to hear what this next year
46:31has in store I keep falling in this
46:32chair what this next year has in store
46:34for you that you have been really fun to
46:37follow on Instagram and I'm so glad
46:39everybody needs to go follow you because
46:41it's so encouraging and like I don't
46:44know you'll post stuff about snacks and
46:45I'm like yeah we shouldn't be eating
46:47those so it's oop sorry a junk food
46:51please it's encouraging like I literally
46:53put the veggie straws back when I was
46:55yes
46:57someone actually put some in my goodie
46:59bag as I arrived at the hotel here and I
47:01was like read the ingredients I'm like
47:03no please no I was at the grocery store
47:06and I grabbed okay let's finish this off
47:09cuz I always like to encourage people in
47:10their health and it's hard you got to
47:14filter through social media but if you
47:16look up how vegetable oil is made you'll
47:19know you should not be consuming it so
47:22go on YouTube and Google search how is
47:24canola oil made oh no it's strained
47:27through hexane it goes through all this
47:29Machinery it's really like not supposed
47:32to be e and the history of like some of
47:35these vegetable oils it used to be an
47:38ingredient that went in paint and then
47:40they found a new ingredient that they
47:42preferred for the paint and then they
47:44started like but they already had this
47:46production of all this vegetable oil so
47:49then they started adding it into the
47:51food and while sugar has a super bad
47:54wrap I actually think vegetable oil is
47:56what's caus causing heart disease and
47:58Alzheimer's and a lot of these um modern
48:02day diseases that are way more rampant
48:04than they used to be and if you look at
48:06the uh history of Health you can see as
48:10soon as they started adding vegetable
48:12oils in those particular disease
48:14Alzheimer's and heart disease started
48:17going way crazier and if you start to
48:20look in all the ingredients of anything
48:22that's just not natural from the earth
48:25um it all has vegetable oil like you
48:28it's hard to escape it and so once you
48:31become aware and you start looking
48:33you're like wo this is in everything why
48:36is it in everything and is this supposed
48:38to be eaten and so like there used to be
48:41a campaign too anti butter but people
48:43have been eating butter from the
48:44beginning of a time and butter was never
48:47really like a big issue and yes there's
48:50people lactose intolerant but I think
48:52it's because our guts are not as healthy
48:54as they used to be so you want to heal
48:56your gut
48:57say no to the canola and vegetable oils
49:00and your family will be like that much
49:02more healthy and so you guys got this I
49:05just like we didn't talk about health
49:08that's my thing is like I really want my
49:11family to be healthy and um myself I
49:14want to age well so that like when I
49:16have grandkids I'm like crawling on the
49:18ground and teaching them how to surf you
49:20know versus like sitting you know being
49:22stuck somewhere so what does your diet
49:24look like for the most part what is it
49:25you're consuming um I mean we like we
49:26eat everything but we just eat like real
49:29food no processed stuff so for example
49:32like breakfast like my favorite
49:34breakfast if I'm in charge I'm making
49:36crepes with like um a little a little
49:40flour a little like cassava or like some
49:43sort of root like potato sweet potato
49:46and then a lot of eggs and we'll just
49:48make little Crepes um and we're not like
49:51super restrictive on sugar I'm kind of
49:53into so like they'll still have like
49:55honey or maple syrup like real stuff not
49:58like these artificial sweeteners because
50:01especially young children like you watch
50:03them they're moving all day long they're
50:05burning that so as long as they're
50:07getting protein to balance out the
50:09carbohydrates like they're going to be
50:11fine and so yeah and even like like my
50:16children have never been on an
50:17antibiotic yet because we eat super
50:20clean and healthy and so they're a
50:22little more resilient with their
50:24sicknesses and like if we had to we
50:26would
50:27because antibiotics has its time and
50:29place but I as a child was given a lot
50:31of antibiotics under 8 years old so I
50:34had a lot of gut issues and so trying to
50:37um I guess like I can only teach so much
50:40but I would just say you have to
50:42advocate for yourself or the society
50:46will put you in your place and so um
50:51I've just found like cuz I'm you know I
50:53come from a professional athlete
50:55background so I've been working at
50:57performing for so many years so I did a
51:00lot of my own research and I I got
51:03advice from experts along the way but at
51:06the end of the day like the biggest
51:07advocate for myself was me and the
51:10biggest advocate for my children is me
51:12absolutely and the biggest advocate for
51:14my husband is me and
51:17so it's cool though cuz my husband's on
51:20board and he supports that and I can
51:23trust that like if I'm not around he's
51:25cooking up a good meal for the family
51:28you or if he goes to the grocery store
51:30he's coming back stuff every now and
51:33then I'm like hun where you hungry
51:34shopping today never go hungry um we
51:37have a lot of like fruit trees and we
51:41have a lot of food growing on our
51:42property but we're not gardening at this
51:45point I think we might at some point in
51:47our lives we've had Gardens along the
51:49way but we kind of travel a lot and so
51:51it's kind of hard and my brother's a
51:54farmer so we get like fresh milk from
51:56him
51:57and we get fresh meat from him as well
51:59so we get like good raw or like good red
52:02meat like we know our animals so um yeah
52:06we eat everything but not anything
52:09artificial or like processed so every
52:13now and then we might have like a num no
52:15which has like vegetable oils and I'm
52:16not like super OCD about it but we try
52:19to for the most part make that like a
52:21rare occasion and we bake cookies and we
52:24like my boy just big muffins that other
52:26day now that my 9-year-old's reading
52:29he's like I'm like if you want to bake
52:30you can as long as you can read the
52:32recipe so now he's like starting to bake
52:35a f that's always a that's always
52:39powdery yeah it's a chaos in the kitchen
52:42for sure but I'm like you guys got to
52:43clean it up too yeah it's so fun when
52:45and they are so proud of themselves when
52:47they do it they accidentally put too
52:48much baking soda in the day so that was
52:51like they were bummed but what was the
52:53one we had recently was it salt it was
52:54salt instead of sugar oh
52:57yeah we still ate it we tried to like
52:59it's okay K was like how are the cookies
53:01dad cuz he rapes them whenever she makes
53:03the cookies and he was
53:04like they taste like the ocean we fed
53:07the muffins to our chicken so we have
53:10chickens so they can eat anything we
53:12don't eat our chickens got the cookies
53:14too we're like they're a little salty
53:17yeah she put like 3/4 cup of
53:19salt funny but yeah well we won't keep
53:22you any longer we appreciate you so much
53:24thank so much for having me thank you
53:28all it is living in the new
53:33world
53:35[Music]
53:36with the rich men nor the rich men Lord
53:40knows they all just want to

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