The Adventure of Self-Love with Sarah Herron

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Herron is a creative, filmmaker, and non-profit founder. Sarah was born without the bottom half of her left arm, a condition known as congenital limb difference. After appearing on season 17 of The Bachelor, she received an outpouring of love from women and girls with their own physical differences. Sarah then found a passion for outdoor adventure and was inspired to found SheLift, a non-profit organization aimed to help women and girls with physical differences embrace outdoor activities.

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0:00.0	Finding love is a bit of an adventure, especially finding radical love of yourself.
0:10.0	Today's guest has an incredibly unique story of finding all sorts of love through the outdoors and by pushing herself out of her comfort zone
0:18.0	Sarah Heron is a creative a filmmaker a nonprofit filmmaker, a non-profit founder, and an entrepreneur.
0:24.8	Born and raised in Denver, Colorado,
0:26.8	a place known for its access to lots of outdoor activities,
0:30.4	Sarah didn't love spending time outside as a kid.
0:33.0	She was born without the bottom half of her left arm.
0:36.0	It's a condition known as a congenital limb difference
0:39.0	and it affects about 2,000 babies born in the US every year.
0:44.0	Because of this physical difference,
0:45.9	Sarah often felt timid and embarrassed.
0:48.3	She didn't love how her arm looked in a ski jacket
0:51.2	or having to ski with one pole, and she just wasn't as confident as she is today.
0:55.6	In her 20s things started to change and when she decided to say yes to being on a
1:01.1	national TV show things changed even more.
1:06.8	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:11.6	As a kid. worth living.
1:14.5	As a kid, Sarah didn't love doing sports.
1:17.3	She didn't want teammates looking at her or treating her differently because of her limb difference.
1:21.6	In her 20s though, she was living in LA and she was
1:24.9	working at a place called 72 and Sunny, which is a top marketing firm. While there, a friend
1:30.5	nominated her to Trout for the reality show The Bachelor.
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