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Podcast: Big Questions with Cal Fussman
Episode: Diana Nyad: On Finding A Way
Description: As the fifth anniversary of Diana Nyad's record-breaking swim between Cuba and Florida approaches, Diana explains to Cal what it took to make the 110-mile journey in 2013 at the age 64. (This episode contains explicit or triggering content.) The Youtube video that shows Diana taking her first shaky steps on land at Key West after swimming for roughly 53 consecutive hours in waters filled with sharks and poisonous jellyfish is a profound place to start. The takeaways in this episode get to the essence of the quote: "Success is the ability to move from one fa...