Major milestone for shark survivor Bethany Hamilton | Today Show Australia — Transcript

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1. 0:00the age of 13 Pro Surfer Bethany
2. 0:01Hamilton was attacked by a 14t tiger
3. 0:03shark in Hawaii now despite the result
4. 0:06in the loss of her left arm she never
5. 0:08let that stop her she became an
6. 0:10inspiration around the world and such
7. 0:12and as such Hollywood film Soul Surfer
8. 0:14was based on her story 20 years on from
9. 0:17the accident Bethany reflects on all
10. 0:19that she's achieved since and she joins
11. 0:21us now from Hawaii aloha aloha Bethany
12. 0:24how are
13. 0:26you thanks for having me it's a pleasure
14. 0:30so nice to catch up um you've come so
15. 0:32far since that attack of course and so
16. 0:35much time has passed now what would you
17. 0:36say is the biggest thing you've learned
18. 0:39from the whole
19. 0:41experience oh my gosh I really truly
20. 0:44believe that when we first face
21. 0:46adversity and we're willing to adopt and
22. 0:48keep trying and keep going um so much
23. 0:51Beauty can come from our challenge so
24. 0:54fast forward now I'm a mother of four
25. 0:56children my youngest is 5 months old I
26. 0:58have three boys and a girl and now I'm
27. 1:01surfing with my children and it's just
28. 1:03such a blast and I'm so grateful for my
29. 1:05life oh it's so great but I mean it
30. 1:08happen so young and you've got young
31. 1:09kids now what do you teach them about
32. 1:11resilience and about you know things
33. 1:13like surfing and just getting out
34. 1:15there you know it's so interesting now
35. 1:18being in a mother role because they're
36. 1:20all their own little beings and so you
37. 1:24know with that I'm just trying to
38. 1:25encourage them to you know if they fall
39. 1:28or if something doesn't go perfect how
40. 1:29they want it um I encourage them to try
41. 1:32again or you know remind them that they
42. 1:34can do it or they've already done it you
43. 1:36know just encouraging them with that
44. 1:38mindset of like try again and keep
45. 1:41trying till you get it and if we have to
46. 1:42take a break a little bit here and there
47. 1:44and then get back to it we can um but
48. 1:47yeah they're their own beings and so I
49. 1:50hopefully just by them watching me adopt
50. 1:53and make the most of my life with one
51. 1:54arm like it's so amazing I'll see them
52. 1:57do stuff with one hand sometimes I'm
53. 1:59like wait you have the other hand use
54. 2:00the other hand that's amazing you know a
55. 2:03lot of people would really struggle I
56. 2:05think to confront the thing that has
57. 2:07been at the center of a lot of trauma or
58. 2:09um or pain in their lives you got back
59. 2:13out there on the surfboard um and it's
60. 2:15still such a big part of your life being
61. 2:17in the ocean to this day what did you
62. 2:20have to draw on to get back in the ocean
63. 2:23the first
64. 2:24time oh my goodness well I would say
65. 2:27there's two key things that help to me
66. 2:30to get back on my board um number one my
67. 2:33faith in God and just trusting that God
68. 2:35had a plan In This Storm of my life for
69. 2:38this wipe out and then two my deep
70. 2:41passion for surfing you know fast
71. 2:43forward now I have four children and I'm
72. 2:45still surfing and I just absolutely love
73. 2:49being in the ocean I love the art the
74. 2:51creativity the challenge of it it really
75. 2:53pushes me um not only doing it in the
76. 2:56ocean but I feel like it pushes me in
77. 2:58other areas of my life when things feel
78. 3:01really hard just having that resiliency
79. 3:03to like you know push through that
80. 3:05physical and mental pain um that life no
81. 3:08doubt will throw our way and so yeah I
82. 3:12think just the Deep passion um and my
83. 3:14faith in God um those are two things
84. 3:17that you know pushed me to keep going
85. 3:20when you know everyone else is probably
86. 3:22looking in on my life thinking wow I
87. 3:24would never get back out there and Sur
88. 3:27again no but you can you can you just
89. 3:30have to be willing to try I think that's
90. 3:32why so many things have you know
91. 3:33happened around you there's the Soul
92. 3:35Surfer movie there's the Unstoppable
93. 3:36documentary you have a children's book
94. 3:38now you're a motivational speaker what's
95. 3:40the children's book tell us about that
96. 3:41it's called surfing past
97. 3:43fear yes so surfing past fear is just my
98. 3:47book on um a a young girl she wipes out
99. 3:51breaks her arm and then she gets back
100. 3:53out there and surfs again and pushes
101. 3:56past her fears and now being a mom and
102. 3:59just one wanting resources to help me
103. 4:01Inspire my children to be resilient cuz
104. 4:04even though they live with me each and
105. 4:06every day there's still like that sense
106. 4:08of like I want to be the best mom I can
107. 4:10be and so reading to them books that
108. 4:13Inspire them to be resilient and push
109. 4:16past their fears and Inspire them to you
110. 4:20know be their best version of themselves
111. 4:22because at the end of the day they're
112. 4:24not me they're their own and so as their
113. 4:26mom just inspiring them to overcome and
114. 4:29so pushing past Their Fear they're very
115. 4:31lucky to have you you're an inspiration
116. 4:33in so many ways Bethany so nice to catch
117. 4:35up thanks so much for joining us thanks
118. 4:37Bethany thank you cheing you all on
119. 4:40everyone out
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