Inspirational stories to help you be just 1% more badass than you were yesterday. Our BIG badass moments in life are made possible by the culmination of our SMALL badass moments. I keep it REAL. Made with love.
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Yo. I’m Christine Lozada and tbh, I didn’t think I was a badass for a very. long. time.
Even now, I still struggle to hold the title. But holy mofo, I hold onto my (imaginary) badass trophy with a death grip (that I also use to hold my champagne glass) and if you try to take it away from me, you’ll realize that I’m a very sweet girl. With a VERY swift right hook.
I noticed every guest on the show also struggled with calling themselves “a badass”. Why? It’s relative.
For example, the struggle with feeling “badass” happens when you race in triathlons, but it’s “just” the sprint distance and even though you’re a top finisher in the swim and you JUST learned how to competitively swim… if your friends are a bunch of Ironman athletes (i.e. they do sprint triathlons for breakfast). Well. You’re not just vanilla ice cream. You’re melted vanilla ice cream on a hot day in the Glamis sand dunes after droning yourself riding ATVs and no one cares about you.
Literally nobody.
Or here’s another example about the time I wondered if I’d be lost in the ocean with 29 foot manta rays.
Imagine you’re in the Maldives scuba diving with manta rays for the first time and you discovered a new device called a “reef hook” i.e. “the thing that will hook your BODY to the OCEAN FLOOR so when the current is raging around you and 18 mantas are swimming a few feet from your face you don’t get swept a half mile away from the boat and potentially never get found”.
The reef hook is your life line. And you’re surrounded by a bunch of insanely talented manta-ray-researchers-who have-done-this-8,000-times-divers and they literally look like they just sat down with their popcorn to the manta ray movie and they’re ready to enjoy the show.
You hold onto your reef hook “life line” like a child holding it’s mom’s hand in a scary haunted house.
Relatively speaking. This does not feel like badassery.
Anyway, this bit was written after that crazy-current-manta-ray thing just a few weeks ago. And I am your host.
Enjoy. Because this podcast has been made with so much f*ing love you’re going to taste it. In a good way. And it doesn’t have calories. Win-win.
xoxo
Podcast Episode 1: Roberto Ochoa
BADASSERY IS: Shark 1 made you frozen. Then a seal saved you from 55 sharks.
