From Burn Survivor to Alaska Dream Builder
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What inspired Captain Ben Swanson to rebuild a derelict yacht?
I lost 100 days of my life in the hospital, and I find Discovery in a derelict state shortly out of the hospital. It's kind of interesting of who rebuilt who, because Discovery was kind of some of my reborn identity coming out of burn accident and raising a family that was just thousands and thousands of hours of blood sweat and literal tears transforming it from basically a derelict captain ben swanson is a seasoned mariner entrepreneur and the founder of discovery journeys drawing from a lifelong dream and a decades-long journey of perseverance he creates unforgettable experiences on the waters of alaska while inspiring others to pursue their passions overcome adversity and define success beyond financial achievement
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How did a burn accident change Ben's perspective on life?
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Welcome back to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. For Inside Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. Joining me today is another amazing legacy maker, Bence Swanson. Bence Swanson has transformed a neglected yacht into a world-class vessel, sharing the beauty of Alaska with guests from around the globe. Good God, man. How does one get into sharing the beauty of Alaska around the globe?
Well, fortunately for me, my dad was my or my folks were pretty adventurous. Right on. So my dad was a commercial fisherman in the 70s in southeast Alaska and fell in love with southeast Alaska. But the reality of having a wife and young son at home was they were apart a lot. Trying to combine both worlds, he ended up selling the fishing boat and buying a sailboat, which originally we were going to sail around the world. Right on. And just as life happens, things change, circumstances change. And we ended up exploring Alaska with that boat. And that was in 1980. And so I grew up doing it. I grew up on boats. Some very early memories are on and around the water, living on a boat. We moved on board when I was eight years old.
And until I left home at 17, we lived on a boat.
I got to preface this with a small story. Living on a boat. Like, we're on a boat. Sorry. One of my first early clients, I'm born and raised in Miami, fresh out of high school. One of my first early clients, he lived on a sailboat with his twin kids and his model wife, and they would travel around the world, and he was a photographer. I'm like, wow, here I am thinking I'm all cool living in Miami, but this MFR is living on a freaking boat.
What challenges did Ben face while transforming the yacht?
Talk about the lifestyle of being on a boat versus being inland like us simpletons.
Well, it's an interesting question because you really don't know the difference until you know. I mean, as I said, some of my youngest memories were on board a boat. There's just so much to do. There's so much recreation. Yes, sir. There's no necessarily yard to go play in, no cats or dogs, no farm animals, none of that kind of stuff. But the marina, boats, I... Had probably my own boat. My dad's friend built me when I was eight years old. Wow. So I put, I don't know, tens of thousands of miles on a rowboat. And then when when I could find a outboard motor and make it run, somebody would give you or something. So went from rowing to motors and haven't looked back since.
That's crazy. It's almost like speaking to like a dancer that starts being a ballet dancer and they end up doing hip hop. Like there's obviously like a transition there. I always find people that just have their, their Navy stripes so profound and leave a completely different life. How similar is your life to say a pirate or, you know, give us the fun, give us the fun stats of what it's like to live in the open seas.
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