All Things Possible With Bethany Hamilton

This week I’m sitting down with Ann Bennett of @simply.unconventional. She approaches health and fitness in a refreshing and sustainable way and I can't wait to share this with you! Ann spent years doing everything “right.” CrossFit for 15 years, keto, low carb, a cleaned-up diet, filtered water. She was still exhausted, falling asleep at 10 a.m., battling monthly headaches, and snapping at her kids so hard in her luteal phase that she’d lock herself in the bathroom and cry. Then one comment on a podcast changed how she thought about stubborn belly fat and hormones. We talk about why chronic dieting and punishing workouts can leave a woman’s body stuck, why I went from calorie-conscious grazing to eating big meals with more carbs than I ever have, and what a 14-minute workout before meals can do. Ann walks through the Core Four principles behind the Kruger Body method and how it works for women in their 30s all the way into their 70s. I share what’s changed for me, including my energy, my balance on a surfboard, and the “cortisol belt” that’s finally shrinking. We also get into Ann’s family’s pecan farm in Oklahoma and what it took to move from conventional farming to healthier soil, and why I’m still debating a mini farm of my own. Friend, if you’ve been tired of being tired, this one is for you. Mentioned in this episode: Ann Bennett on Instagram @Simply.Unconventional Ann’s free masterclass on why eat less, move more fails women (registration required, space is limited) New episodes every Tuesday.     Try the Life Wave Patches!   Experience the Life Wave X20 Water Machine   Stay safe in the water with Shark Banz   Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

I’m wrapping up our Beautifully Flawed retreat here in Hawaii, and I wanted to slow down and sit with my friend Lulu Gribbin. Lulu is 18, a senior in high school, and two and a half years out from a shark attack that took her arm and leg when she was 15. Yesterday we surfed together. We talk about what it takes to face a fear that doesn’t disappear overnight, and how the calm courage you see on the outside doesn’t always match what’s happening on the inside. Lulu is honest about the hospital nights when she cried out to God and asked “why me?”, and about the Bible verse taped to her bed that carried her through. We also get into prosthetic life, adaptive golf and wheelchair tennis, and the virtual reality headset that took her phantom limb pain from a 10 to nearly zero. That experience inspired her to start the Lulu Strong Foundation, which funds technology to help other amputees. Lulu’s advice on a hard day is to pick joy and keep going, even when it’s slow. Her favorite thing to say is that where there’s a storm, there’s always a rainbow. Friend, if you’re in the middle of your own storm, this one is for you. Mentioned in this episode: Lulu Strong Foundation Beautifully Flawed Foundation retreat   Try the Life Wave Patches!   Experience the Life Wave X20 Water Machine   Stay safe in the water with Shark Banz   Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

Today, we turned the lights on in the studio to talk about a different kind of light. My husband Adam, got to sit down with someone whose work has genuinely changed our family's health this past year — David Schmidt, founder and inventor of LifeWave. David opens with a claim that sounds almost too simple to be true: light is foundational to everything, down to the cellular level and your body is emitting it right now. He walks us through the science of biophotons, how his research on destroying cancer cells in college and developing survival tech for Navy SEALs eventually led him to invent phototherapy patches that trigger real biochemical change without a drug or a needle. But David doesn't stop at the science. He ties it back to Genesis — "let there be light" — and we talk about the real difference between chasing longevity out of fear of aging and death, versus pursuing health so we can love God and our families well for as long as we're here. We also get practical: minerals, magnesium, oxytocin, and why no patch replaces the foundation of sleep, movement, real food, and water. This conversation is going to LIGHT you up!   Try the Life Wave Patches!   Experience the Life Wave X20 Water Machine   Stay safe in the water with Shark Banz   Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

I was recently a guest on Dr. Daniel Amen's podcast, Change Your Brain Every Day, and the conversation was so meaningful I wanted to share it with you here too. I sat down with Dr. Amen to talk about something I haven't spoken about publicly much: the last few years have been some of the hardest of my life — back-to-back hardship in motherhood, marriage, business, and health. I've always considered myself resilient, but I got honest with him about hitting a wall I didn't recognize in myself. Dr. Amen actually scanned my brain using SPECT imaging, and what we found surprised both of us — real, physical evidence of impact from the shark attack, decades later. We get into fame and why it was harder for me to process than the attack itself, the toll chronic stress takes on the brain, my journey with Rolfing and nervous system regulation, and how prayer itself measurably changes brain activity.   Check out Bethany on "Change Your Brain Everyday" with Dr. Amen   Try the LifeWave Patches!   Stay safe in the water with Shark Banz   Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

This week on Diving Deeper, Adam sits down with Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller here on Kauai to talk about something we all have but rarely talk about. Our conscience! Pastor Bryan breaks it down in a way that only a great American Pastor would: with a sports analogy! The conscience as a home plate umpire, calling balls and strikes on everything we say and do, and sometimes getting the call wrong. As a window, where a dirty conscience doesn't just make the world outside look dangerous, it makes us start seeing our own sin reflected in everyone around us. We talk about how a tender conscience gets calloused over time, sin by sin, commandment by commandment, and why some of the sins we've stopped feeling guilty over might be the ones we need to feel most. But this isn't just a conversation about guilt. There is GOOD NEWS! Pastor Bryan walks through the difference between guilt and shame, why our own effort can never wash us clean, and how the conscience is made new — cleansed through faith in Christ's blood, and healed through a life of service and love.    Try the LifeWave Patches!   Stay safe in the water with Shark Banz   Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

This week I brought my two dearest childhood friends, Michelle and Noelani, onto the podcast to talk birthing babies! Between the three of us, we've had nine babies, home births, hospital births, an emergency C-section, and a VBAC. We get into the back labor no one warns you about, the moment a single nurse changed the outcome of a five-hour push, and the chaos of a car crash blocking a midwife's route to a home birth. We also answer your Instagram questions — home vs. hospital birth, delayed cord clamping, and prepping baby's position before labor even starts. Friend, however your babies came into the world, we're cheering you on.   Try the LifeWave Patches!   Stay safe in the water with Shark Banz   Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

This week I'm on the beach in California with my new friend Julia Poe Petersen. You might know her voice before you know her name. She sang the collab verse on one of my favorite Forest Frank songs, and I knew I had to have her on! Julia's story is a social media story through and through. Viral livestreams from her bedroom piano during Covid, a husband she met on TikTok, an audience of 850,000+ built. But this conversation isn't really about the growth. It's about what it took to stay steady underneath it. The comparison she battled at 16, the discontent that crept in the moment the whole world showed up in her pocket, and how she found an identity that didn't move every time the numbers did. We talk about rebuilding confidence through faith instead of followers, why she and her husband refuse to fake their beliefs for content, the family-priority stance that gets her comment section fired up every time, and how she's already thinking about protecting her own kids from the platforms that shaped her. Friend, if you or a loved one is struggling with how to navigate the online world with authenticity, this one is for you. Mentioned in this episode: Julia Poe Petersen — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube  Julia's collab with Forest Frank Dr. Caroline Leaf's book "Switch on Your Brain" Up — a new social platform designed to protect kids online                 Resources & Links Sharkbanz: https://www.sharkbanz.com Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

This week I sat down with Emma Sgourakis — known as The Nutrition Coach — right here on Kauai, and we got into something I don't think gets talked about enough: how fear, not food, might be the real thing making us sick. About Emma: Emma is a certified clinical nutritionist based in Sydney with over 20 years in practice, working with everyone from busy moms to professional athletes. She's the only Australian nutritionist officially affiliated with the Peat Nutrition Consultants network, building on the research of the late Dr. Ray Peat, PhD. Her writing has been featured in Australian Elle, Vogue, and Marie Claire, among others. In this conversation, Emma shares her own journey through nearly every diet trend imaginable before landing on something simpler — trusting the body instead of fighting it. We talk about why chronic under-eating quietly wrecks your metabolism, why fruit was never the enemy, why "sugar" isn't one thing (cane sugar, fruit sugar, and fake sweeteners like stevia all send your body very different messages), and why slowing down and actually enjoying your food matters more than we think. Connect with Emma Emma's Instagram: @thenutritioncoach Emma's website: thenutritioncoach.com.au "defending fruit … and other NONcomplex carbs" Resources & Links Active Skin Repair Use code BETHANY20 for 20% off your order. Sharkbanz: https://www.sharkbanz.com Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com “Want to come surf with me and join a life changing experience? Click here

For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has fascinated historians, scientists, skeptics, and believers alike. Is it truly the burial cloth of Jesus, or simply one of history's greatest mysteries? In this episode of All Things Possible, Pastor Brian Stecker sits down with Dr. John Bambaro to explore the remarkable evidence surrounding the Shroud of Turin. Together, they unpack decades of scientific research, archaeological discoveries, historical records, and biblical connections that have made the shroud one of the most studied artifacts in history. While our faith ultimately rests in the risen Christ, this conversation explores how the Shroud can serve as a compelling signpost pointing back to the truth of Scripture and the reality of Jesus' death and resurrection. Whether you're skeptical, curious, or simply looking to deepen your faith, this episode offers a thoughtful and engaging look at one of Christianity's most fascinating subjects. In this episode you'll discover: • What the Shroud of Turin actually is • Why many scientists no longer believe it's a medieval painting • The evidence connecting the cloth to first-century Jerusalem • How the wounds align with the Gospel accounts of Jesus' crucifixion • Why the Shroud continues to challenge both skeptics and believers • How physical evidence can strengthen—but never replace—faith in Christ No matter where you are in your faith journey, our hope is that this conversation leads you to the same place the Shroud points—to the life, death, and victorious resurrection of Jesus Christ. "These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name." — John 20:31   Check out On The Line Podcast Resources & Links Active Skin Repair Use code BETHANY20 for 20% off your order. Sharkbanz: https://www.sharkbanz.com Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com  

At just 14 years old, Ashley Jones faced unimaginable loss. After losing her arm in a traumatic accident, she lost her father only three months later. What followed was a journey marked by grief, faith, perseverance, and discovering that life could still be beautiful. In this episode of All Things Possible, Bethany sits down with elite runner and former collegiate athlete Ashley Jones to reflect on ten years of healing, the role that sports played in shaping resilience, and why some of life’s hardest moments require us to lean in rather than retreat. Together they discuss: Ashley’s traumatic accident and losing her dad just months later Finding hope and community through the Beautifully Flawed retreats Competing as a collegiate runner and overcoming injuries How sports teach discipline and perseverance Learning to embrace discomfort instead of running from it Navigating public attention and living with limb difference The faithfulness of God through seasons of suffering Why there is always hope, no matter where you are Whether you're walking through hardship, facing disappointment, or simply wondering what God is doing in your story, this conversation is a reminder that He is still writing something beautiful.   Resources & Links Active Skin Repair Use code BETHANY20 for 20% off your order. Sharkbanz: https://www.sharkbanz.com Connect with All Things Possible Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurferBethanyHamilton Instagram: @bethanyhamilton TikTok: @bethanyhamiltonofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBethanyHamilton Website: https://bethanyhamilton.com