Briel Adams-Wheatley

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762 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson · Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Honestly, we showed up at the pool one day and my dad just threw me in.

And he's like, okay, swim.

And I just sank to the bottom.

And then finally, after a minute, he jumps in after me and he's like, okay, well, if you want to go to the pool, you're going to have to learn how to swim.

And so we spent probably two and a half years going to the pool every summer.

And we started with learning how to float.

and making sure that I could roll myself over underwater and everything.

Or when I would jump in the water, I'd have to make sure that I was ready to come up with my face first instead of my butt first so that then I could get air.

And then we learned how to propel myself through the water.

And so my dad just taught me how to swim kind of like a dolphin, just up and down, up and down, up and down.

So it all started in the seventh grade.

I was, once again, just trying to find my own independence, my own voice.

And so one day I saw a flyer of them promoting that there was a talent show audition.

And I was like, I'll do the talent show audition.

And then in my head, because I used to talk to myself all the time, I was like, but what am I going to do for the talent show?

And I was like, oh, I'll just dance.

And so then I choreographed a dance in my head to what song was it?

apologize okay okay yeah and I had my cousin go with me and I did the audition and then I got done and I went home and I told my mom and she's like what did you do I was like I danced and she's like no really what did you do though and I was like I danced and she's like okay show me this dance then so I show her the dance and she's just sitting there and

And I'm like, oh, what?

And she's like, that was the worst thing I've ever seen.

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