0121 - Veteran Cancer Survivor to Endurance Athlete | Amanda Kimiko
Together We Go
Greg Lapin
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Amanda Kimiko is a veteran, endurance athlete, and 2x cancer survivor living in Utah. Medically retired from the Army after 7 years of service, surgeries, and 16 months of chemo, she climbed 30 of Washington’s highest peaks and embraced Ironman and ultramarathon challenges. Amanda qualifies for the Ironman World Championships and will be racing Leadville 100 for the charity organization First Descents, supporting young adults impacted by cancer. Amanda’s IG: @justmissamanda Fundraising for First Descents: https://support.firstdescents.org/fundraiser/5145405 -- Sign up for USCCA and protect your rights here:
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Amanda, thanks for coming in. |
| 0:01.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:02.0 | I got a little bit of your story and... All right, Amanda, thanks for coming in. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:12.7 | I got a little bit of your story and a friend of mine connected me with you. |
| 0:18.4 | And the grasp that I got from your social media, which is just a glimpse obviously into your life, is that you're super |
| 0:27.6 | inspiring and you're doing a lot to help people understand adversity and how to overcome it and also people especially |
| 0:38.1 | who are afflicted with cancers how it doesn't have to be the end of their life. They could move on and they could |
| 0:45.1 | evolve as a person. Let's back up because there is an origin story with you and |
| 0:49.7 | where you came from you, you're actually a veteran which is really cool thank you for your service |
| 0:53.8 | man I feel old talking about your recent experiences in the military my sergeant major |
| 1:01.6 | experiences are very old. |
| 1:03.0 | But you went into the military and you went in to the military post your college experience. |
| 1:10.0 | What did you go to school for? |
| 1:12.0 | So I went to the University of Washington for society ethics and human behavior. |
| 1:15.6 | So it was double with a human rights minor actually. |
| 1:19.2 | Really? |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah, very strange. |
| 1:21.2 | That's very philanthropic. What was the desire to do something like that in your |
| 1:26.5 | academic experience? Yes, actually I grew up with an Asian dad so I'm Japanese. |
| 1:31.0 | Oh really? Yes, half Japanese. What? I'm Japanese. Oh really? |
| 1:33.0 | What? |
| 1:34.0 | I'm half but too right? |
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