Steve Leitch struggles with addiction and loss before deciding to swim the perilous Ka'iwi Molokai Channel. During train | dG1fTTJxQ2YxWUJPdDA
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00:00If I had been looking at these challenges 10 years ago,
00:05I would have been doing all these swims for me,
00:07for Steve, for the adoration, for the applause,
00:10for the crowd, for the, could I get famous off this?
00:15There aren't that many people that have done this.
00:17Less than a hundred, 70% fail rate first time around.
00:21I mean, that's a pretty big task.
00:26But that very quickly changed
00:28into I have to go swim to serve others.
00:31My why had to be bigger.
00:33Steve has this thing where he just has to continually
00:36be trying to be more of himself
00:39so that he can help other people
00:40become more for themselves as well.
00:42It's a never ending quest that he goes on every single day.
00:46And now it's, who can I serve?
00:49Can I be the sweat equity for a mission
00:53to help underprivileged people?
00:56That's way more important.
00:58So I just ask the Lord to bless Steve,
01:01the rest of the crew.
01:03Sometimes it's even the people that you're closest to
01:06that will kind of push back and be like,
01:07why would you do that?
01:08Why would you swim that far?
01:11Why would you work so hard towards something like this?
01:14Why not?
01:16Whatever it takes.
01:17I mean, that's the answer for all of this.
01:19Whatever it takes.
01:21How would you beat addiction?
01:22Whatever it takes.
01:23How'd you beat cancer?
01:24It's whatever it takes.
01:25How'd you get mental health counseling for children?
01:27It's whatever it takes.
01:28We need more of that in our society.
01:30Whatever it takes to help somebody else.
01:32The people that I'm gonna swim for,
01:34don't ask to be put in those positions.
01:36I'm asking to be put in this position
01:38to push my body to the limit.
01:40I need to finish this for them.