Our chat today is with world champion para-surfer Sam Bloom, and her husband Cam. Born on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Sam had everything she had always dreamed of. She’d travelled extensively, fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a nurse and was a happily married mother of three young boys.
But without warning, the dream turned into a nightmare when on a 2013 family holiday in Thailand, Sam fell through a rotten balcony railing and crashed six metres onto the concrete below.
Lucky to be alive, she’d suffered devastating injuries, including severe damage to her spinal cord that left her paralysed from the chest down. Broken and hopeless, Sam reached her outer limits of physical and mental suffering. But with courage, determination and a little help from an unlikely feathered friend, she made her way back from the edge, scarred but undefeated. 'How' is the subject of this podcast episode.
6:00 Sam and Cam’s background, and how they met…
11:30 Talking the importance of travel in the like of the Blooms
16:00 That fateful trip to Thailand
18:30 Moving hospital to hospital… to hospital
19:40 Sam’s recollection of the incident
21:20 ‘Memories are so subjective’
25:00 When Sam realises the severity of the incident…
26:20 Cam is mopping up and trying to hold it together while Sam spends months in hospital
30:00 Sam arrives home… and its not how you think she would be
32:00 Enter penguin .. a fluffy magpie chick. Life changes
36:00 Cam and his accompanying photography. What he couldn’t photograph
38:20 How about the impact on the boys?
43:00 How the book started
52:00 Recruiting the actors for the movie version of the book
54:10 Doing time with their Hollywood counterparts… and shooting in their own home
59:15 Sam reconnects with her passion of surfing
1:02:00 SurfLakes Yeppoon … artificial surf facility in Queensland
1:05:00 Australian Championships- Surfing …and what’s next
External Links
https://sambloom.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/sambloomaustralia
https://www.instagram.com/samjbloom/
Contact Us
www.unforgiving60.com
Email us at debrief@unforgiving60.com
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THE RESILIENCE RETREAT INFORMATION
Be guests of the authors of The Resilience Shield between 27-30 October 2022 on Fitzroy Island off Cairns, North Queensland, Australia
Info and bookings here: https://resilienceshield.com/retreat/
Music
The Externals – available on Spotify
Mitchell Martin- – available on Spotify
Special Episode- Embrace the Virus! Leading Through COVID-19.
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S2E5- Alec Torelli: Life Lessons Learned from High Stakes Poker
S2E4- Mark Wales: SAS Journeyman- Beyond Survivor to Tough Luxury......
S2E3 – Placing Explosive Charges on Glass Ceilings - Monika Georgieva
S2E2- Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Gently Across the Pacific! - Heather Taylor
S2E1- SAS Tactics to Fight the Apocalypse - with Mick Neven from the Apocalypse Comedy Podcast
@RV14 - The Season 1 Finale! On Heard Island & the last 12 months, the co-host's Performance Appraisal Report & Season 2 planning
S1E34- Climbing Active Volcanos in the Sub Antarctic - A Unique SAS Mission
@RV13- On Jimmy McKeown, Melina Mellino, Chris Huet and our Recommended Reading List
S1E33- Chris Huet- The Precision of a Fighter Pilot and the Passion of a Poet
S1E32- Go Run Trails! Melina Mellino on trail running and embracing fun, nature & life
S1E31 – Jimmy McKeown- Master Distiller of the Year; The Young Whipper Snapper
@RV12- On Richard Baker, RSL, Alyssa Azar, SAS Selection as an Everest and Climbing Active Volcanos
S1E30- Alyssa Azar- With the World at Her Feet. The youngest Australian to climb Everest
Special Episode- On 'Mateship'. Ben and Tim are interviewed by Maxine Brown from the RSL
S1E29- Richard Baker- Journalistic Royalty- Proving the pen is mightier than the PONG SU!
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S1E28 – Jack Moshovis – Building High Performance Aircraft in the Sky!
S1E27- Sam Penny: English Channel Swimmer- 'I didn't come this far to only come this far'
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