252: Scotty and Tiffany Smiley | Hope Unseen
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Major (Retired) Scotty Smiley became the first blind active-duty officer in military history following a face-to-face confrontation with a suicide car bomber in Iraq in 2005. After his injury, Scotty’s faith led him to forgive his attacker and inspired him to rebuild his life while continuing to serve his country in the U.S. Army. His wife Tiffany's drive and support are an incredible model of partnership in resilience.
He recently completed an Iron Man and was featured in the film "Beat Feat"
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Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye, Johnny Waite & Guest host Lonnie Mayne
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We're here at City Field, Spartan Stadium race going on. |
| 0:04.0 | Joe did some incredible interviews including Scotty Smiley. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, listen, it was an amazing interview. It was amazing, not only Scotty Smiley, but his wife was here as well, Tiffany, together an amazing team. |
| 0:15.0 | But Scotty Smiley was a wounded, wounded Army officer, West Point graduate. |
| 0:20.9 | He became the first soldier in the United States Army returned to active duty while |
| 0:25.7 | 100% blind. |
| 0:27.7 | In history. |
| 0:28.7 | Never been done before in history. |
| 0:30.7 | It's been done a couple times that I'm aware of afterwards but he |
| 0:33.6 | was the first guy which means he has to trail blaze when he has to be he has to |
| 0:39.0 | still meet all the criteria and he has to and he has to fight through bureaucracy and and that's really |
| 0:45.0 | kind of to me a lot of the interest and some that came out in this interview that |
| 0:48.4 | you're going to see that was amazing he didn't fight through it on his own right |
| 0:51.7 | his wife that what the stand she took for him |
| 0:54.3 | unbelievable really incredible if he's rocky bellboa his wife is Apollo Creed |
| 0:59.5 | and and and Mick and Adrian. |
| 1:03.7 | And Adrian. |
| 1:04.7 | Hey speaking of standing, who's standing here? |
| 1:06.7 | We got Retired Colonel Tim Nye, we got Seth for the Seed Huntress, we got Johnny, we got |
| 1:12.0 | Joe de Santa founder and CEO of Spartan race we got marrying our producer keeps us on |
| 1:15.2 | track and and you know what Spartan up what are we we're grit resiliency |
| 1:19.9 | partners we're now up to six days a where we've got somebody from our team who's |
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