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Q: What is your personal mission?
A: "To champion those who dare to be extraordinary, and inspire others to lead inspired lives." That fuels me from the inside out!
Q: Who would you most like to meet?
A: Eric Moussambani, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Burnett, Cory Booker, Tyler Perry, Brian Johnson & Alexandra Jaye Johnson, and Rudy Ruettiger. If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have met Jim Henson - creative genius behind the Muppets!
Q: Why do you love underdogs so much?
A: Because they're in it purely for the love of the game (sport, art, practice, whatever). It's about the pursuit of personal best and daring to push themselves beyond what is comfortable or familiar. In my view, that is a life fully lived, and that kind of courage deserves to be celebrated!
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Q: What have you learned that you would most like people to know?
A: That today is all there is, so make the difference you want to make - today. Your legacy as a human being is made up of all the moments of every day you've been alive on the planet, so make your moments count.
Q: What's it like to live with an illness like diabetes?
A: It definitely has its ups and downs and requires constant attention and management, but overall I'm grateful, for it has given me a perspective I wouldn't otherwise have had. I'm very much in touch with my own mortality and the fragility of life.
Q: You seem so happy all the time. Do you ever get down?
A: I have my share of challenges and frustrations like everybody else, but I truly believe that life unfolds as it's supposed to, and it's up to me to look for the lessons and make the best out of whatever situation I'm in.
Q: Do you ever stop?! What do you do to relax?
A: Naturally, there is a balance between going 100mph and taking "down time" to relax and re-charge the mental batteries. There are a few different things I do…meditate, go for a walk on the seawall, take a bubble bath, write in my journal, and I'm a huge movie buff so movies are always a great escape.
Q: Favorite movies?
A: Can hardly limit it to “Sandy’s Top 10”…the list of favorites keeps getting longer! The Blind Side, Rudy, Dead Poets Society, The Shawshank Redemption, Remember the Titans, Under the Tuscan Sun, It’s a Wonderful Life, Gladiator, Million Dollar Baby, When Harry Met Sally, Jerry Maguire, Pay It Forward, Pollyanna, The Color Purple, The Notebook, Top Gun, The Power of One, Ever After, The Matrix, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Sound of Music, Romance on the Orient Express, Love is Forever, Serendipity, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Peaceful Warrior, Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, Rocky Balboa!
Q: Craziest fantasy?
A: To dance with John Travolta!
Q: Wildest dream?
A: To co-produce and host a show called “Stories of the Underdog” featuring uplifting stories that inspire us all to be our best!
Q: Favorite word in the English language?
A: Possibility.
Q: What is something about you people might be surprised to know?
A: I skydive every year on my birthday! Admittedly, there are times when I have more "balls" than brains, but I enjoy being out on the edge and experiencing life intensely and passionately.
Q: Best advice you ever received?
A: Ask for what you want! I have met so many extraordinary people and had some pretty outrageous experiences from simply being bold enough to ask.
Q: What are you most proud of?
A: Being a worthy role model. As a speaker, it's easy to talk the talk - but infinitely more important to 'walk the walk'. I sleep well at night. With all the travel and speaking I do,
it is truly a privilege to use my life in this way, and I am the same person on the inside today as I was when I started - in awe of this whole experience and incredibly grateful
to be able to do what I do.
© 2012 Sandy Struss Enterprises. All rights reserved.
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