WEBVTT - Lindsey Vonn

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, I am old. Am I insane? You know?

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<v Speaker 1>Am I gonna totally ruin myself? But my ration is this.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, yes, by the way, you are insane. That

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<v Speaker 2>is insane, But all the rest of it, no, go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>My ration was, you know, I'm getting a knee replacement, right,

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<v Speaker 1>so if I crash, oh jee and I blow my

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<v Speaker 1>stuff out, who cares? You know, I'm just gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>a new great.

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<v Speaker 2>That it's Lindsay. That is not That is not healthy.

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<v Speaker 2>That is not Oh I'm getting a new leg next

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<v Speaker 2>week anyway, So oh my god, that's.

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<v Speaker 1>How my brain works.

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<v Speaker 3>So Hi, I'm Lindsay Vaughn, Olympic champion, philanthropists and entrepreneur.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back everybody. Yeah that right. It is time for

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<v Speaker 2>another episode of Off the Beat. This is your host,

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<v Speaker 2>Brian Baumgartner. And guys, guys, we've peaked, truly, we have

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<v Speaker 2>reached the top of the mountain. It is all downhill

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<v Speaker 2>from here. Get it because my guest today is one

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<v Speaker 2>of the greatest skiers of all time, my friend and yours,

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<v Speaker 2>Lindsey Vaughn. She won a gold medal, she won two

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<v Speaker 2>world championships, and unbelievable eighty two World Cup races. She's

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<v Speaker 2>been on the slopes since before she could even walk,

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<v Speaker 2>so it only makes sense that she wanted to basically

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<v Speaker 2>dominate the entire sport by her mid twenties. Even since

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<v Speaker 2>she retired in twenty nineteen because she said her body

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<v Speaker 2>was broken, she is still breaking new records, like becoming

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<v Speaker 2>the first woman to ski the Strife earlier this year.

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<v Speaker 2>Lindsay is a trailblazer. I was so excited, blown away

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<v Speaker 2>in fact, to get to talk to her. I know

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<v Speaker 2>that you're going to be blown away too when you

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<v Speaker 2>hear about her amazing life and career and by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>all the awesome things that she's been doing lately. So

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<v Speaker 2>strap in everybody here. She is Lindsay Vaughn.

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<v Speaker 4>Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and Squeakna Bubble

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<v Speaker 4>and Squeaker. Cook get every moon lift over from the

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<v Speaker 4>night before.

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<v Speaker 2>What's up?

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<v Speaker 1>What's up?

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<v Speaker 2>Ryan, Lindsay? How are you?

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<v Speaker 1>How good? Hurt you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good? You know we've met before?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you remember us meeting before we're at the Emmy?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh god, well, we've probably met multiple times. That's always embarrassing.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't remember I met you? It was at an event,

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<v Speaker 2>a golf event in Monterey.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's when I got my hole in one. That

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<v Speaker 1>was a long time.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's right. Ye, yeah, got that fact.

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<v Speaker 1>I know. I retired after that. That was. It was

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<v Speaker 1>one and done.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, thanks so much for remembering me. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess you had the whole on one. I guess

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<v Speaker 2>you had the hole in one. That was.

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<v Speaker 1>That was an open bar after that, so I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, Well, yeah there was. How are you?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm great? How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm good. I'm I'm surviving the summer. I

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<v Speaker 2>understand you've been busy doing some programming. We're going to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about that. But it's so nice to talk to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Your career is well one amaze and too incomprehensible for me.

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<v Speaker 2>I was a casual skier for a long time, and

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<v Speaker 2>then I stopped. I felt like it was it was

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<v Speaker 2>best for me to stop. I was shooting this television

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<v Speaker 2>show for for a number of years. Now. I have

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<v Speaker 2>a daughter who is eight and kind of obsessed with it.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I it's I think it's a good kids sport.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't you know. I think it's probably good that

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't continue. While you were doing that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>that show that may have been wildly popular, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>so it's such a great family sport. So I condone

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<v Speaker 1>that I really do.

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<v Speaker 2>I know. Well, now I'm just trying to I'm trying

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<v Speaker 2>to decide if I if I just leave it to

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<v Speaker 2>really fun, helpful ski instructors, or if I actually if

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<v Speaker 2>I actually get back involved. You know what, maybe I'll

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<v Speaker 2>send her to you and then you can teach her

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<v Speaker 2>to ski and.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well we'll try that. Maybe we'll do a

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<v Speaker 1>two for one both of you, you and your daughter.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh boy, yeah, I don't. I don't. Again, I need

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<v Speaker 2>to think about that a little bit more.

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<v Speaker 1>Wells to be negotiated.

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<v Speaker 2>TVD, TVD. As they say in the biz, you've been

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<v Speaker 2>skiing since basically when you could walk more is age

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<v Speaker 2>two or like born on skis or whatever. Do you

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<v Speaker 2>have a first memory or do you just is that

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<v Speaker 2>as it goes as far as you back, as far

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<v Speaker 2>as you remember.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I actually was in my dad was

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<v Speaker 1>coaching while going to law school at night, and he

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<v Speaker 1>actually had me in a backpack while he was coaching.

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<v Speaker 5>So even before I was on skis, I was on

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<v Speaker 5>a person that was right, But I remember, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>I grew up in Minnesota, and man, it was so

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<v Speaker 5>freaking cold there.

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<v Speaker 1>So I remember vivid memories of being really cold, my

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<v Speaker 1>dad bribing me with hot chocolate and donuts, and I

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<v Speaker 1>remember him like worming up my hands with you know,

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<v Speaker 1>blowing on my hand because they were so cold. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I too, two and a half. That's when I kind

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<v Speaker 1>of when I started.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I spent a chunk of time in Minnesota.

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<v Speaker 2>I was doing theater. I was from the south. The

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<v Speaker 2>cold was something that I couldn't It was very difficult

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<v Speaker 2>for me, which I mean, that's like the opposite of you.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, I telled a story that I had moved

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<v Speaker 2>into town and was doing a show in downtown Minneapolis

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<v Speaker 2>theater and I get done, maybe have a beer after

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<v Speaker 2>the show. I don't really remember. But by the time

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<v Speaker 2>I got to my car, this was early days of

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<v Speaker 2>like the automatic like to you know, like opening your car.

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<v Speaker 2>So I hit that and it doesn't unlock, and so

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<v Speaker 2>then I sticked you could still put the key in,

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<v Speaker 2>and I turned the lock and I get in the

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<v Speaker 2>car and my door won't it won't latch because now

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<v Speaker 2>I've moved the latch out of the way and it's

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<v Speaker 2>too cold to go back. But your car doesn't warm

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<v Speaker 2>up if it's not like moving. So I drive home.

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<v Speaker 2>I drive home to uptown Sorry Minne Police Department with

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<v Speaker 2>my door, holding my door with my elbow like cruxed

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<v Speaker 2>in as I'm driving because I'm so I'm so cold.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. No, Minnesota is a was a tough place. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why I don't live there anymore. I love Minnesota, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I think I love the summers obviously more.

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<v Speaker 1>But we didn't have snow days at school. We had

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<v Speaker 1>day's row. It was too cold and we couldn't go

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<v Speaker 1>to school. But actually my uncle managed the Orpheum and

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<v Speaker 1>State theaters in Minneapolis as well, so you should have

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<v Speaker 1>gone there.

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<v Speaker 2>Great. Well, So now those were more touring theaters, so

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I wasn't in Bye Bye Birdie the big musical.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the musicoger Field probably David Copperfield came through the Orpheum.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sure that's someone who did that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he didn't disagree you on stage, so okay, that

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<v Speaker 1>makes sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So as a young child myself, last personal ski story,

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<v Speaker 2>my father was well, eventually he was a doctor and

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<v Speaker 2>he did his residency in Salt Lake City, and my parents,

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<v Speaker 2>allegedly before I was born, were very big skiers, and

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<v Speaker 2>my mom, when she was pregnant with me, skied broke

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<v Speaker 2>her leg in several places. It's now an inch I

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<v Speaker 2>think over an inch shorter than the other leg. And

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<v Speaker 2>unlike you, they never skied again, literally never skied. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>when I was a kid, we were not allowed to go.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's definitely that's a story I've heard many

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<v Speaker 1>times in different variations. But you know, that's why I say,

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<v Speaker 1>if you don't enjoy being on the mountain, if you're

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<v Speaker 1>not confident in what you're doing, and then don't do it,

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<v Speaker 1>because you know, if you're scared of it, it's probably

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<v Speaker 1>best not to. But when you're a kid, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're like Gumby. You could crash and you know, become

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<v Speaker 1>a pretzel and you're totally fine. So I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>If you start young and you get confidence, I'd say

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<v Speaker 1>go for it, but I don't. I'm not a big

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<v Speaker 1>proponent of pushing adults into I always feel responsible for

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<v Speaker 1>other people's injuries as well, So I'm sorry for your

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<v Speaker 1>mother and feel sorry.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, never went back, So I ended up you know,

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<v Speaker 2>when I became a teenager or whatever, started going going

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<v Speaker 2>with friends. Now, I know your mom didn't ski, is

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<v Speaker 2>that right? What was your what was your whole family's

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<v Speaker 2>relationship to skiing as you as you started out, it

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<v Speaker 2>was all different.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, my mom had a stroke when she had me,

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<v Speaker 1>so she couldn't ski. She you know, her balance was

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<v Speaker 1>altered because of the stroke. She just couldn't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>And she tried several times, it just just didn't work.

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<v Speaker 1>And then my siblings, we're all really good, but they

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<v Speaker 1>just didn't want to be me. So there was that

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<v Speaker 1>kind of awkward like resentment. You know, like my my brother,

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<v Speaker 1>one of my brothers. There, it's me, my sister and

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<v Speaker 1>the triplets, and one of the triplets was kind of

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<v Speaker 1>the only other sibling that really love skiing. But I think,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we just enjoyed being on the mountain together.

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<v Speaker 1>I think what brought us all together was really my

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<v Speaker 1>grandparents and you know, all of our cousins and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>my aunts and uncles. We would all get together and

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<v Speaker 1>go skiing, and you know, we would have like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a cabin and keystone and they would all drive down

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<v Speaker 1>from Wisconsin and we would drive from Minnesota and it

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<v Speaker 1>was just a really great family get together. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>now that everyone's older, not very many people still skiing.

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<v Speaker 1>My grandparents are no longer with us, so we just, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>kind of fizzled out. But I'm still holding down the

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<v Speaker 1>fort for the for the skiing and the family.

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<v Speaker 2>For you, when did it become an activity, something fun,

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<v Speaker 2>even something that you were good at, to like, this

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<v Speaker 2>is what I want to be. I want to be

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<v Speaker 2>the best in the world at this. When did that

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<v Speaker 2>come about?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? I started racing when I was seven, and then

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<v Speaker 1>I met Peekaboo Street, who you know at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>she won the Olympics in Nagano in ninety eight, and

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<v Speaker 1>she was the thing at the time. And I met

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<v Speaker 1>her at a ski shop in Minnesota, and I got

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<v Speaker 1>home and I said, Dad, I just want to be Peekaboo,

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<v Speaker 1>And so it kind of changed my mindset. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't that I wasn't good before. I just had

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<v Speaker 1>never thought about skiing in that way. So she'd made

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<v Speaker 1>me think of it, as you know, I have a

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<v Speaker 1>goal to look forward to, which is to be an Olympian.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I got home and my dad and I

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<v Speaker 1>made a ten year plan and I made the Olympics

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<v Speaker 1>when I was seventeen in Salt Lake City, so it

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<v Speaker 1>was It's pretty crazy to think about, you know, just

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<v Speaker 1>meeting her and making the plan and actually getting there

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<v Speaker 1>is obviously a lot of steps in between. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>definitely when I met her, everything kind of changed.

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<v Speaker 2>Did she just happen to be there or did you

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<v Speaker 2>go to meet her?

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<v Speaker 1>It was an autograph signing, I waited for like three

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<v Speaker 1>hours a line.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you met her. Yep, that's incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she's just you know, she was kind of larger

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<v Speaker 1>than line. If she had this you know, amazing personality,

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<v Speaker 1>very charismatic, and I still have you know, I'm probably

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<v Speaker 1>too old for this, but I still have her poster

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<v Speaker 1>that she signed for me framed in my room.

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<v Speaker 2>It does something to me. I don't know, like the

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<v Speaker 2>idea that you know now. I'm sure there's no shortage

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<v Speaker 2>of signings that you're doing. Do you ever think about

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<v Speaker 2>that when you're meeting either little girls or little boys

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<v Speaker 2>at events or signings, that the profound impact that you

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<v Speaker 2>could have on someone.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I've always had that image of myself

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<v Speaker 1>every time I meet a kid, I'm like, this could

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<v Speaker 1>have been me, you know, and I put myself in

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<v Speaker 1>their shoes and you know, actually, also when I got

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<v Speaker 1>her autograph, there was another person there, woman that was

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<v Speaker 1>signing autographs, and I ran into her the bathroom and

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<v Speaker 1>I asked her for her autograph in the bathroom and

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<v Speaker 1>she said no. And I was so young, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and you don't realize it means a bathroom, Like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I get it, don't want to take pictures in the bathroom,

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<v Speaker 1>but it was pretty traumatizing to me. So I always

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<v Speaker 1>have this image of how someone can really positively impact

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<v Speaker 1>you and vice versa, how it can negatively affect you.

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<v Speaker 1>And I always wanted to be like Peegloo was for me,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's why I started my foundation, because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to inspire kids in whatever way I can

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<v Speaker 1>to follow their dreams. And sometimes it just takes, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>one person to open their eyes up to something different.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I could be something more than what I

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<v Speaker 1>think I could be, and I hope I can give

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<v Speaker 1>that to them because she, you know, she changed my

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<v Speaker 1>life in a pretty impactful way.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you still friends?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? She lives like right down the road from me, ironically,

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<v Speaker 1>And it was so funny because I actually directed and

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<v Speaker 1>produced her documentary about two years ago. It's on Peacock

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<v Speaker 1>and I honestly I could barely do the interview because

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<v Speaker 1>I was so nervous. I felt like I was nine

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<v Speaker 1>years old again. It was a pretty cool moment. But

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<v Speaker 1>to be able to tell her story and to have

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<v Speaker 1>her trust in that way was really special. So it

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<v Speaker 1>was a very full circle moment. You never know what's

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<v Speaker 1>going to happen and where people will end up. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just kind of crazy how life works out that way. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I mean that is unbelievable that you meet her

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<v Speaker 2>at a signing and then a few years later you

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<v Speaker 2>end up producing her documentary. That's that's a.

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<v Speaker 1>Couple of years.

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<v Speaker 2>Just a couple of years. We're not going to count

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<v Speaker 2>you and your dad. You devise a ten year plan. Eventually,

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<v Speaker 2>I assume this is part of the plan. The whole

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<v Speaker 2>family moves to Vail, Colorado, Uh, for you to join

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<v Speaker 2>the ski club Vale? Is that right?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? It was a it was a big move. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>my family and my siblings weren't really on board with

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<v Speaker 1>it. It was hard, but yeah, I mean there was a

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<v Speaker 1>reality that living in Minnesota could only get me so far,

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<v Speaker 1>and I had to move to the mountains. And at

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<v Speaker 1>first it was just me and my mom. We went

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<v Speaker 1>for a few months just us, but obviously, like my

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<v Speaker 1>grandparents and my dad, taking care of the other four

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<v Speaker 1>kids was too hard, so we just decided to stick

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<v Speaker 1>to stick, you know, together, and be a family and move.

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<v Speaker 1>And but that was a you know, that's where I

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<v Speaker 1>learned how to ski downhill? Wasn't bail.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was kind of asked that, and then I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't because it felt like I was an idiot, and

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<v Speaker 2>I probably still am. But in Minnesota there's still mountains.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no ski mountains, right, No, No, they're not.

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<v Speaker 1>No. I grew up at a place called Buck Hill

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<v Speaker 1>and it's about two hundred and sixty vertical feet they

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<v Speaker 1>actually have and I love it. It was an amazing

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<v Speaker 1>place grew up and had an amazing coach who actually

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<v Speaker 1>was my father's coach growing up. But they put landfill

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<v Speaker 1>on the top of it to make it higher. So

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<v Speaker 1>that should kind of give you an idea.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's not that doesn't sound correct.

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<v Speaker 1>No, So I mean it's a move to mountains, you know, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Moved to actual mountain. Yeah, it was weird. I was

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<v Speaker 2>trying to navigate that. I was like, I don't remember

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<v Speaker 2>lots of lakes, but I don't remember a bunch of mountains.

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<v Speaker 1>There lots of lots of lakes.

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<v Speaker 2>So you go to Vail. Now your days are you?

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<v Speaker 1>Like?

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<v Speaker 2>You are you going to school?

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<v Speaker 1>Uh? Kind of? I mean, so what. I moved in

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<v Speaker 1>when I was twelve, and they had a ski academy there,

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<v Speaker 1>but I was too young. So for two years I

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<v Speaker 1>did homeschool and I was kind of like, I read

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<v Speaker 1>some books and you know, I took my dad's high

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<v Speaker 1>school German book and I was trying to teach myself German.

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<v Speaker 1>And then eventually it was obviously old enough to join

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<v Speaker 1>the academy, but then I got kicked out of that

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<v Speaker 1>because I didn't need the state requirements for attendance. So

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<v Speaker 1>I ended up having to do like an online school.

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<v Speaker 1>It was kind of a shit show, to be honest,

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<v Speaker 1>but I made it work, you know. I I I

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<v Speaker 1>was doing school work mostly in the summer because in

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<v Speaker 1>the winter I was racing, and I think, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>studying online was actually was nice because I had just

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<v Speaker 1>had a lot of flexibility. But again, I was basically

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<v Speaker 1>teaching myself, so I blame myself if I'm not smart enough.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you were teaching yourself. I don't know think that's

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<v Speaker 2>how that works. Yeah, that was one of the fun

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<v Speaker 2>facts I was given was that you speak fluent German. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it does that. What does bomb gardner mean?

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<v Speaker 1>Bomb gart It means like tree gardener.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go. I trust you. Then, as far as

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<v Speaker 2>I'm concerned, that's what I've been told. Did that help

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<v Speaker 2>you later on, like as you're starting to do international competitions.

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<v Speaker 2>German has got to be a big language in this world, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's the I mean it's the number one language

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<v Speaker 1>because everyone basically, you know, skiing is made up of Austria, Germany,

0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.760
<v Speaker 1>Switzerland and Italy and you know Sutrul, which is northern Italy.

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<v Speaker 1>They all speak. All those countries speak German. And so

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<v Speaker 1>also when I got to a point where I was

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<v Speaker 1>doing interviews, I could do interviews in German and it

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<v Speaker 1>helped a lot. You know, I felt like I connect

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<v Speaker 1>more with the history of the sport. I didn't want

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<v Speaker 1>to be, you know, that person that made other people

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<v Speaker 1>conform to me. I wanted to respect the history of

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<v Speaker 1>the sport. And it's not really applicable to anything else

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<v Speaker 1>in my life. Unfortunately, now that I'm retired, it's not like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm speaking German all the time, but trying

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<v Speaker 1>to learn Spanish and it is just really hard. It's very,

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<v Speaker 1>very different. So it's not helpful right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't speak German.

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<v Speaker 1>Would you speak any other languages?

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<v Speaker 2>French a little? I mean I took a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>years of French perfect.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what that means?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you know what that means? Oh? Yeah. So I

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<v Speaker 2>worked with a French director for a number of years

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<v Speaker 2>and I traveled to Paris with him and I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>they're just not nice. And he goes, well, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>this is the phrase you need to say, jipaul from

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<v Speaker 2>say come in vach espanol par de moi and that

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<v Speaker 2>what is it? What is that? He goes, I speak

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<v Speaker 2>French like a Spanish cow. Excuse me, a Spanish cow.

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<v Speaker 2>And so that's what would happened. I would go into

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<v Speaker 2>a store restaurant in France and I would be trying.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I would say is and they would look at

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<v Speaker 2>me and then they would laugh and they'd be like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>what do you want? Yeah, they're total English speaking like

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<v Speaker 2>now they're there. I'm one of the gang.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good that's a good line.

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<v Speaker 2>I should take that, you cause she should learn the

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<v Speaker 2>equivalent of that of Spanish. Yeah, I speak Spanish like.

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<v Speaker 1>A American bull or something. I don't know. There's I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sure there's some something I could say something. I'll figure

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<v Speaker 1>that out. I'll get back to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you. Please report back. Gravity Corps there at Ski

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<v Speaker 2>Club Veil. This is an intensive program for young skiers.

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<v Speaker 2>How did it help you in your car?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it gave me all of the downhill skills,

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<v Speaker 1>like visualization, and you know, we did a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>which isn't common now. We did a lot of terrain work.

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<v Speaker 1>So I was doing jumps and like you know, doing

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<v Speaker 1>super G and downhill when I was like really young.

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<v Speaker 1>And now everyone's very nervous about kids doing downhill and

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<v Speaker 1>flying through the air, so they make a wait until

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<v Speaker 1>they're sixteen or seventeen years old. And twelve thirteen, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>skiing super G so going like seventy miles an hour,

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<v Speaker 1>which I really enjoyed. And also, you know, I just

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<v Speaker 1>had a great group of people. I skied with girls

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<v Speaker 1>and boys that were quite a bit older than me.

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<v Speaker 1>So I was really good at shadowing people, just learning

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<v Speaker 1>and following behind. And because I wasn't cool, I was young,

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<v Speaker 1>and comparatively to them, I wasn't, you know, in their

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<v Speaker 1>league yet, so I just kind of hung back. I

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<v Speaker 1>learned from everyone, and eventually I beat them, and then

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<v Speaker 1>the rest history. I guess.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you think those limits should be put on?

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<v Speaker 1>It's hard. I mean in all sports these days, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of you know, individual coaching, and you hire

0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.760
<v Speaker 1>like personal trainers when kids are like ten and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they're weightlifting and they're doing all these things, and like,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, you know, what the balance I think.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, obviously, you need to be prepared for your

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<v Speaker 1>sport so that you know you physically can handle what

0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.680
<v Speaker 1>you're doing. But at what point is that too much?

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<v Speaker 1>You know? I see a lot of kids between fourteen

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<v Speaker 1>and sixteen that have already blown out their knees, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, is that because they're doing too much too young?

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<v Speaker 1>Or from a skiing perspective, is it because they're not

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<v Speaker 1>strong enough? Is it because you know, they're weightlifting too much?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know the answer to that, But just the

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<v Speaker 1>way sports have evolved is pretty amazing because at this

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<v Speaker 1>day and age, you have to be so good, so

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<v Speaker 1>young to be competitive because everyone has just gotten everything's

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<v Speaker 1>so individualized. It's it's very hard to be competitive. You

0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.399
<v Speaker 1>really have to. Unfortunately, parents have to spend a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of money in any sport to really get their kids

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<v Speaker 1>to a competitive level, you know, to a very high

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<v Speaker 1>professional level.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, and I don't know if you're going to be

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<v Speaker 2>willing to admit to this or whatever, but I mean,

0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:58.280
<v Speaker 2>obviously it's it's true. So put humility aside for a second,

0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.520
<v Speaker 2>like you're doing it and by your own admission, at

0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.000
<v Speaker 2>this at this time, everybody else is older than you.

0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.840
<v Speaker 2>But you have a specific gift. You have a specific

0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:14.040
<v Speaker 2>skill that, for whatever reason is it enables you to

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<v Speaker 2>keep up and eventually excel and overtake these But to me,

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<v Speaker 2>the issue is, and this is what I'm curious about

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<v Speaker 2>your perspective about. This is what I battle with when

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<v Speaker 2>it comes to sports, is that we start making rules

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<v Speaker 2>that maybe are really sound and good rules for the

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<v Speaker 2>majority of kids, right like ninety nine percent of these

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<v Speaker 2>kids are not ready, but we make these rules that

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<v Speaker 2>potentially undermine people like you in your case. And so

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<v Speaker 2>I guess My question really is just from your perspective,

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<v Speaker 2>are these rules helpful, should they be enforced or do

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<v Speaker 2>we just have to take things more on a case

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<v Speaker 2>by case basis.

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<v Speaker 1>I think rules are malleable. It kind of goes with

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<v Speaker 1>everything that I do. It's good to have guardrails, it's

0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.679
<v Speaker 1>good to have kind of parameters to kind of guide you.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's always exceptions to the rule. For example, with

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<v Speaker 1>my rehab, with all of my injuries from ninety nine

0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.200
<v Speaker 1>point nine percent of people, you say, okay, you tore

0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:24.520
<v Speaker 1>your ACL, it's going to be a nine month recovery, okay,

0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.800
<v Speaker 1>but not everyone recovers the same. I recover quickly, I

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<v Speaker 1>you know, dedicate my time to getting back, and it

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<v Speaker 1>may take me six months. So I think, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>there's just things shouldn't be set in stone. Nothing should

0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.760
<v Speaker 1>ever be set in stone, and there's always going to

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<v Speaker 1>be people that need to be at a certain level

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<v Speaker 1>at a certain time in life. For example, I you know,

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<v Speaker 1>when I was training in Veil at such a young

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<v Speaker 1>age with older kids, I was actually allowed into the

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<v Speaker 1>Junior Olympics when I was eleven and twelve with kids

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<v Speaker 1>that are thirteen and fourteen, and eventually fourteen and fifteen,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was beating them and I needed that competition.

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<v Speaker 1>If if they hadn't have been the rules so that

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<v Speaker 1>I could, you know, go to that next age group, right,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know where I would be, you know, but

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that should be obviously the standard. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's like bowling. You just put some guardrails on

0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.800
<v Speaker 1>and sometimes you can. You know, people are good enough

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<v Speaker 1>to where you can drop them. But I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I they like speed limits, you know, It's.

0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:31.840
<v Speaker 2>Just it's malleable if you're a good enough driver. That's

0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:33.800
<v Speaker 2>what I told the cop last week when I got

0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:38.200
<v Speaker 2>pulled over. Now, sir, I promise you I'm way better

0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:46.040
<v Speaker 2>driving good than anybody else. Yeah, you skied your first

0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:53.040
<v Speaker 2>World Cup at age sixteen. Now you're you're sixteen years old.

0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:58.320
<v Speaker 2>You've had this dream now seven eight years. My math

0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:02.240
<v Speaker 2>is weak. Are you feeling like this is a big deal,

0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:06.600
<v Speaker 2>like I'm making history? Or is it like let me

0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:08.879
<v Speaker 2>just go win this thing? Like how are you feeling

0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:11.120
<v Speaker 2>As a young sixteen year old, I.

0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:14.199
<v Speaker 1>Felt a lot of pressure. Okay, you know I was

0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:17.080
<v Speaker 1>the youngest. Yeah, I mean there was one other girl

0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.960
<v Speaker 1>on the team and she was almost a year older

0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:23.360
<v Speaker 1>than me, but you know, we were by far the youngest,

0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:26.639
<v Speaker 1>and obviously the Salt Lake Olympics were the next year,

0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:30.560
<v Speaker 1>and so my first season, it wasn't just you know,

0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:32.920
<v Speaker 1>let's do the World Cups and see how you do.

0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:35.760
<v Speaker 1>It's I have to qualify for the Olympics next year.

0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:38.680
<v Speaker 1>I had to really establish myself on the team, and

0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:41.560
<v Speaker 1>I struggled. You know, it was it was hard. I had.

0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:45.119
<v Speaker 1>I had to get my legs underneath me and find

0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:49.359
<v Speaker 1>my confidence within that new peer group. And once I

0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:52.159
<v Speaker 1>got it, you know, I really figured everything out. When

0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.639
<v Speaker 1>I was kind of eighteen nineteen, I started getting on

0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.800
<v Speaker 1>the on the podium and I really felt like I belonged.

0:26:57.840 --> 0:26:59.880
<v Speaker 1>But in the beginning, you know, I struggled to find

0:26:59.880 --> 0:27:02.720
<v Speaker 1>my place and again, like being one of the youngest

0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:05.520
<v Speaker 1>people on the tours can be alienating, and again I

0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:08.760
<v Speaker 1>wasn't cool. I was like, homeschooling doesn't help much with

0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:14.399
<v Speaker 1>social skills, just FYI. But I figured it out eventually,

0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:16.119
<v Speaker 1>So it just took me maybe a little bit longer.

0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:21.160
<v Speaker 2>You make that your first Olympics in two thousand and two,

0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.360
<v Speaker 2>What did that feel like? That's that's a different thing, right,

0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:25.120
<v Speaker 2>it was amazing.

0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:28.800
<v Speaker 1>I mean, holy moly. Yeah, and ironically, like I'm on

0:27:28.840 --> 0:27:32.399
<v Speaker 1>the Olympic bid committee trying to get felt like back

0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:36.080
<v Speaker 1>to Olympics in twenty thirty four, which would be amazing.

0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:39.000
<v Speaker 1>But it was such a great gains. I mean it's hard.

0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:41.119
<v Speaker 1>I mean, honestly, it's all downhill from there. You know,

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:45.159
<v Speaker 1>a home Olympics to start off is just incredible. And

0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:47.760
<v Speaker 1>it was also an interesting time. You know, after nine

0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:51.560
<v Speaker 1>to eleven, you know, everyone was on edge. The world

0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.240
<v Speaker 1>was watching us, and we really needed to do well

0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.040
<v Speaker 1>as a team for our country because you know, we

0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:01.600
<v Speaker 1>needed that that morale. And I had the best results

0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:06.760
<v Speaker 1>of the entire women's team, and because you know, all

0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.200
<v Speaker 1>of the veterans who were supposed to get medals didn't,

0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:13.280
<v Speaker 1>it was somehow a disappointment, and so my performance was

0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:16.119
<v Speaker 1>looked at as a disappointment, even though I had the

0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:18.919
<v Speaker 1>best result of the entire team, And so that was

0:28:19.000 --> 0:28:21.399
<v Speaker 1>hard for me and I kind of I thought, okay,

0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:25.639
<v Speaker 1>this is it. I'd established myself and I hadn't, you know,

0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:27.760
<v Speaker 1>in their minds, I had a long ways to go,

0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:30.200
<v Speaker 1>and and kind of wrapping my head around that was

0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:34.000
<v Speaker 1>hard because you focus on something like anything in life,

0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:35.760
<v Speaker 1>you have this one goal and you focus on it

0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:37.439
<v Speaker 1>so hard and you work towards it, and then you

0:28:37.520 --> 0:28:39.760
<v Speaker 1>get there and you realize, oh no, this is just

0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.360
<v Speaker 1>the start, This isn't the end point. This is just

0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:44.880
<v Speaker 1>the beginning. And so you know, I had to figure

0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.080
<v Speaker 1>that out and find my way forward.

0:28:47.120 --> 0:28:53.080
<v Speaker 2>But I got there this stretch of dominance. I I mean, look,

0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:56.640
<v Speaker 2>I knew you were good. I didn't have your stats

0:28:56.680 --> 0:29:02.320
<v Speaker 2>like memorized or whatever. You don't, Brian, I mean, I

0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:09.160
<v Speaker 2>might now overall world champion in two thousand and eight,

0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:14.680
<v Speaker 2>two thousand and nine, two thy ten and then again

0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:18.720
<v Speaker 2>in twelve. Did you feel as though I can't lose?

0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:22.560
<v Speaker 2>Like did you have that feeling they talk about like

0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:26.280
<v Speaker 2>Michael Jordan right like in the zone or whatever. Is

0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:28.120
<v Speaker 2>that how you felt on the mountain?

0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:28.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:29.480
<v Speaker 5>I did.

0:29:29.560 --> 0:29:33.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean there was it was basically me against myself,

0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:39.000
<v Speaker 1>and you know, I felt so confident and it was

0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:42.480
<v Speaker 1>so light, you know, there wasn't I didn't feel a pressure.

0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:45.720
<v Speaker 1>I felt such an ease and such a joy and

0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:50.680
<v Speaker 1>it was such an amazing time, especially from twenty ten

0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:53.440
<v Speaker 1>to twenty twelve was kind of really my prime. And

0:29:54.080 --> 0:29:56.640
<v Speaker 1>I lost the overall title by three points, which was

0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:59.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of there's some political bullshit that went along with it,

0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:04.480
<v Speaker 1>but that era was pretty incredible, and I, I don't

0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:07.479
<v Speaker 1>know I was when I watched Michael Jordan's documentary. I

0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:10.560
<v Speaker 1>think it really struck a chord because you know, eventually

0:30:10.880 --> 0:30:13.960
<v Speaker 1>you have to figure out ways to motivate yourself because

0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:16.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, you keep winning and then I so it

0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:18.280
<v Speaker 1>was like, you know, some one person didn't say hi

0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:21.080
<v Speaker 1>to me, or you know, there's like I would find

0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:24.000
<v Speaker 1>things to focus on so that it would drive me

0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:26.600
<v Speaker 1>and so that we were I don't know that that

0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:29.920
<v Speaker 1>kind of storyline with Michael really hit a chord with

0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:30.480
<v Speaker 1>me as well.

0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:35.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so this you're talking about twenty eleven with the

0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:37.840
<v Speaker 2>three point it's so funny because I just talked about

0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:41.920
<v Speaker 2>you winning four out of five years, and your brain

0:30:41.960 --> 0:30:43.720
<v Speaker 2>immediately goes to the one year.

0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah didn't. That's so fascinating. So I don't know if

0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:49.680
<v Speaker 1>you've noticed this, but I'm highly competitive.

0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:55.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. See here's the thing. I think I'm highly competitive

0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:57.320
<v Speaker 2>until I talk to someone like you, and then I'm like,

0:30:57.360 --> 0:31:01.120
<v Speaker 2>all right, well, I mean there's highly competitive, and this

0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:05.920
<v Speaker 2>the media portrayed this is like you had a bitter rivalry.

0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.480
<v Speaker 2>Do you feel like that was all overplayed or again,

0:31:09.560 --> 0:31:11.760
<v Speaker 2>were you looking for motivation during that time?

0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:14.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean it was it was hard. You know,

0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:16.880
<v Speaker 1>my best friend on the tour, who I spent every

0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:19.920
<v Speaker 1>Christmas with, we were one and two. I mean, between

0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:22.040
<v Speaker 1>the two of us, we run every single downhill for

0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:25.160
<v Speaker 1>like a three year span, and so to be best

0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:28.600
<v Speaker 1>friends with your number one competitor is a challenge, obviously,

0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:32.640
<v Speaker 1>And there was some fishy things that went on at

0:31:32.680 --> 0:31:34.760
<v Speaker 1>the end of the season where I lost by three

0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.120
<v Speaker 1>points to her. There was a couple of races that

0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:41.760
<v Speaker 1>were canceled that really shouldn't have been canceled, and and

0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:46.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, I think that part of it is one

0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:48.680
<v Speaker 1>of the reasons why we had a hard time afterwards.

0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:50.560
<v Speaker 1>You know, she really felt like she deserved it, and

0:31:50.640 --> 0:31:53.920
<v Speaker 1>I felt like these races shouldn't have been canceled, and

0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:56.400
<v Speaker 1>I didn't have a fair shake of getting the title.

0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:58.800
<v Speaker 1>But you know, at the same time that ski racing,

0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:01.760
<v Speaker 1>like I have to accept it and I don't hold

0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:04.480
<v Speaker 1>anything against her, obviously, that's again that's the sport. But

0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:07.400
<v Speaker 1>at the time I think it was hard kind of

0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:10.000
<v Speaker 1>a riff and you know, then she got married and

0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:14.040
<v Speaker 1>things separated a little bit more. But I don't know.

0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:17.040
<v Speaker 1>For women especially, it's just it's hard to be friends

0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.080
<v Speaker 1>with your number one competitor.

0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:24.520
<v Speaker 2>In addition to winning all those World Cups, you win

0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:29.120
<v Speaker 2>the downhill gold and the super g bronze at the

0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:33.880
<v Speaker 2>twenty ten Vancouver Olympics. Talk to me about the moment

0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:40.360
<v Speaker 2>that you win gold. There's the podium, there's the song,

0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:46.160
<v Speaker 2>the national anthem. Like, is this as overwhelming in the

0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:51.000
<v Speaker 2>moment for you as it would appear to be to me?

0:32:51.400 --> 0:32:53.560
<v Speaker 2>Or are you? Is it like these are just all

0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:56.720
<v Speaker 2>the years that I expect this to happen now?

0:32:57.400 --> 0:33:02.640
<v Speaker 1>No, I mean that I still get very emotional every

0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:07.080
<v Speaker 1>time I see that Olympic run. It was really the

0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:11.280
<v Speaker 1>culmination of all of the years of my hard work,

0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:14.800
<v Speaker 1>but also my families, you know, my family sacrifice moving

0:33:14.840 --> 0:33:20.520
<v Speaker 1>to Colorado, and I mean we were not well off.

0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:23.240
<v Speaker 1>We struggled a lot, and moving to Colorado was not,

0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:26.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, an easy move for us. So I just

0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:31.400
<v Speaker 1>felt so overwhelmed with emotion, happiness, but also a lot

0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:34.480
<v Speaker 1>of relief. You know, there's so much building up to

0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:36.800
<v Speaker 1>that point. My entire life had build up to that

0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:39.520
<v Speaker 1>one moment and maybe think about it. It's two minutes.

0:33:40.360 --> 0:33:44.040
<v Speaker 1>My Downhall run was two minutes long. You know. It's like,

0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:48.640
<v Speaker 1>how do you quantify your entire life's work in two minutes.

0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:52.240
<v Speaker 1>So I'm very thankful for that moment. I wish that

0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:55.440
<v Speaker 1>I could bottle it up and experience it, you know again,

0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:59.160
<v Speaker 1>because it happened so fast, and I was so overwhelmed

0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.320
<v Speaker 1>with emotion that I was trying the majority of that

0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:03.959
<v Speaker 1>day and I had to race the next day, so

0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:07.800
<v Speaker 1>I didn't even really get to enjoy it. I had

0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:10.279
<v Speaker 1>to try to focus again for the next day. But

0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:13.600
<v Speaker 1>it was such an incredible experience and I'm so thankful

0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:15.840
<v Speaker 1>for it. And you know, my mom passed away a

0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:19.600
<v Speaker 1>year ago, and when I watched the Olympic run, you

0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:22.040
<v Speaker 1>see me in the finish and then it pans immediately

0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.840
<v Speaker 1>to my mom and so that is just like for me,

0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:28.040
<v Speaker 1>it's so emotional and it's so amazing that I had

0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:29.840
<v Speaker 1>that experience with her and with my family.

0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:35.160
<v Speaker 2>That's incredible. I'm glad you had that too. Thanks in

0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:38.600
<v Speaker 2>twenty fourteen, you tear your acl so you can't compete.

0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:42.319
<v Speaker 2>It's so chea. How tough is this for you to

0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:43.360
<v Speaker 2>swallow at the time.

0:34:44.040 --> 0:34:47.200
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's brutal. I mean, you know, watching all of

0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:50.640
<v Speaker 1>my friends win medals and I'm sitting at home with

0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:54.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, having just had surgery. You know, the Olympics

0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:57.640
<v Speaker 1>are once every four years, and I think for this

0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:01.400
<v Speaker 1>for the public, for spectators, it seems like it happens

0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:03.759
<v Speaker 1>very quickly because you have a Summer Olympics every two

0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:06.040
<v Speaker 1>years and then the Winter Olympics. But for us, it's

0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:08.880
<v Speaker 1>like there's so much that goes on in between, and

0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:12.000
<v Speaker 1>so much build up. And that was really, honestly, I'd

0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:14.040
<v Speaker 1>say even more my prime than when I went into

0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:17.120
<v Speaker 1>Vancouver because I had already won, I didn't have any pressure,

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:19.720
<v Speaker 1>you know, I would have been in such a great position,

0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:23.960
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, it was a brutal experience. I wish I

0:35:24.000 --> 0:35:26.239
<v Speaker 1>had been there, but you know, such as life. So

0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:30.560
<v Speaker 1>I just hunger down and focused on the next Olympics,

0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:33.040
<v Speaker 1>which we were in South Korea, which is my last Olympics.

0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:37.440
<v Speaker 1>And by that point I had been pretty ravaged with injuries,

0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:40.640
<v Speaker 1>so it was not like I was in my prime,

0:35:41.280 --> 0:35:43.359
<v Speaker 1>but I was thankful to come away with another medal.

0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:45.160
<v Speaker 1>So you take what you can get.

0:35:45.320 --> 0:35:49.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, I mean, yeah, you miss out on those Olympics.

0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:53.480
<v Speaker 2>But the next few years, you match or your breaking

0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:58.280
<v Speaker 2>multiple records. Most Super G's won all time downhill victories,

0:35:59.160 --> 0:36:03.800
<v Speaker 2>World Cup. Are these are these wins and these records,

0:36:03.800 --> 0:36:08.560
<v Speaker 2>are they driving you to keep going and do more?

0:36:09.320 --> 0:36:12.799
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Definitely. I mean I'm I'm you know, I'm a competitor,

0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:14.759
<v Speaker 1>you know, and I was never afraid to say it.

0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:17.520
<v Speaker 1>You know, I I need that next goal, you know,

0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:22.280
<v Speaker 1>I want I wanted you know, I enjoy ski racing,

0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:25.799
<v Speaker 1>but I also need, you know, something to drive me.

0:36:26.040 --> 0:36:29.439
<v Speaker 1>And those records were something that drove me, especially when

0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:33.240
<v Speaker 1>I was injured, you know, I I wanted to go fast,

0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:35.560
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to win, I wanted to break records, and

0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:38.799
<v Speaker 1>especially at the end, you know, trying to break sin

0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:42.319
<v Speaker 1>Mark's record was something that really really helped push me

0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:46.560
<v Speaker 1>because I was so close, but you know, ultimately it

0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:50.279
<v Speaker 1>wasn't meant to be. But but yeah, I just I

0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:52.480
<v Speaker 1>feel like there's no shame in saying I was driven

0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:53.359
<v Speaker 1>by records.

0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:58.439
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. What's what's your proudest race of all the races.

0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:01.280
<v Speaker 1>Of all the wins, I don't know, I mean probably

0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:03.400
<v Speaker 1>the Olympics, you know, winning the goal. I think just

0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:06.840
<v Speaker 1>from an emotional perspective and looking at how much my

0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:10.560
<v Speaker 1>family sacrifice. But if I'm thinking about what was the

0:37:10.600 --> 0:37:14.640
<v Speaker 1>most difficult, I think it was coming back from two acls.

0:37:14.680 --> 0:37:17.799
<v Speaker 1>I was out for almost two years and I won

0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:20.520
<v Speaker 1>my second race back and I cried like a little baby.

0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:23.040
<v Speaker 1>You know, it was just it was a It was

0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:26.319
<v Speaker 1>a lot. It was a lot of hard work. You know,

0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:28.960
<v Speaker 1>I had to learn how to walk again. You know,

0:37:29.040 --> 0:37:32.279
<v Speaker 1>it was a it was from you know, bottom to

0:37:32.320 --> 0:37:35.280
<v Speaker 1>the top. I was at freaking the bottom, like minus

0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:37.799
<v Speaker 1>the bottom. I was in the basement. I was you know,

0:37:37.920 --> 0:37:42.520
<v Speaker 1>it was a pretty gnarly comeback. But yeah, I think

0:37:42.560 --> 0:37:45.239
<v Speaker 1>I was most proud outside of the Olympics with with

0:37:45.280 --> 0:37:46.160
<v Speaker 1>that comeback race.

0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:08.279
<v Speaker 2>As an elite athlete, you have to deal with well

0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:12.440
<v Speaker 2>one being in like peak physical condition at all times,

0:38:12.520 --> 0:38:16.879
<v Speaker 2>dealing with injuries, and then you add in to all

0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:22.560
<v Speaker 2>of that skiing where a catastrophic accident can happen at

0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:27.960
<v Speaker 2>any moment. How do you deal psychologically with that cycle

0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:34.880
<v Speaker 2>of injury, healing, rehab, injury that's really unique to skiing.

0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:38.520
<v Speaker 1>Well, honestly, I talk about this a lot now when

0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:44.080
<v Speaker 1>I do public speaking. You know, I approach risk, you

0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:46.759
<v Speaker 1>know when I'm in the starting gate, I've already I

0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:49.200
<v Speaker 1>know what the risks are. You know, I know that

0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:52.680
<v Speaker 1>I could crash, I could be paralyzed. Many people were

0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:56.560
<v Speaker 1>when I was racing. But you can't think about that.

0:38:56.640 --> 0:38:59.279
<v Speaker 1>You have to focus on, you know, being present, being

0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:02.000
<v Speaker 1>in the moment, your the work that you've put in,

0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:06.319
<v Speaker 1>trusting that preparation, and really letting go of that of

0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:09.440
<v Speaker 1>that anxiety or fear, because if you think about what

0:39:09.560 --> 0:39:13.960
<v Speaker 1>could happen, it will happen. So I think about literally

0:39:14.000 --> 0:39:17.640
<v Speaker 1>only performing getting my best all the time, because if

0:39:17.680 --> 0:39:22.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm nervous, if I'm thinking about what if anything negative

0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:24.719
<v Speaker 1>that I'm thinking about, will most likely happen. So, you know,

0:39:24.800 --> 0:39:27.840
<v Speaker 1>I feel like, what's you know, what's the worst that

0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:29.360
<v Speaker 1>can happen. I'm just going to go for it and

0:39:29.360 --> 0:39:31.799
<v Speaker 1>we'll see, we'll see where it ends up. But if

0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:34.040
<v Speaker 1>you think about, you know, the negative, and you don't

0:39:34.080 --> 0:39:37.640
<v Speaker 1>ski your best, you're you've already lost before you've even started.

0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:41.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure this is the problem with my golf game.

0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:43.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure.

0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:45.359
<v Speaker 1>Thinking about hitting it into the bunker and you hit

0:39:45.440 --> 0:39:46.600
<v Speaker 1>into the bunker of.

0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:51.840
<v Speaker 2>Course, of course, yeah, I mean, it's not risking catastrophic

0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:54.919
<v Speaker 2>injury necessarily, But but.

0:39:54.840 --> 0:39:58.000
<v Speaker 1>The bunker is pretty catastrophic yet pond over.

0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:01.439
<v Speaker 2>There is really large and is pretty close to where

0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:07.440
<v Speaker 2>I want to hit it. You were known for putting

0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:15.759
<v Speaker 2>your body on the line skiing courageously aggressively, and how

0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:19.440
<v Speaker 2>did you deal with criticism that you got over the

0:40:19.560 --> 0:40:22.400
<v Speaker 2>years to the type of skiing that you wanted to

0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:25.960
<v Speaker 2>do and the fact that you were dealing with all

0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:29.000
<v Speaker 2>of these injuries because of how courageous you were. Like,

0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:32.600
<v Speaker 2>just talk to me a little bit about your relationship

0:40:32.840 --> 0:40:36.239
<v Speaker 2>with the press at that time and having to having

0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:38.600
<v Speaker 2>to deal with that in addition to everything else.

0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:43.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the press has been, uh an interesting part of

0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:47.440
<v Speaker 1>my career. You know, I've always been very open and forthcoming.

0:40:47.480 --> 0:40:50.680
<v Speaker 1>You know, I don't I don't really hold my cards

0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:52.879
<v Speaker 1>close to my chest, and you know, I'm an open

0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:55.920
<v Speaker 1>book and I do things kind of my way. You know.

0:40:56.000 --> 0:40:59.320
<v Speaker 1>I was just different. I or makeup. I didn't. I

0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:03.360
<v Speaker 1>don't follow trends. I just do what I think is best.

0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:05.279
<v Speaker 1>And I think it was hard for me because when

0:41:05.320 --> 0:41:07.720
<v Speaker 1>I started to get injured, Honestly, at that time, people

0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:09.840
<v Speaker 1>were so negative on me because I was always winning

0:41:10.080 --> 0:41:11.879
<v Speaker 1>and then I want and everyone's like, oh, we want

0:41:11.920 --> 0:41:13.239
<v Speaker 1>you to come back. You know. It's like that that

0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:16.200
<v Speaker 1>classic American story. We you know, we tear her down

0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:18.799
<v Speaker 1>to build her back up again, and then everyone you

0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:20.719
<v Speaker 1>know wanted me to see me and succeed, and then

0:41:21.200 --> 0:41:25.080
<v Speaker 1>and then again. Kind of at the end, it was like, oh,

0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:28.480
<v Speaker 1>now she's getting injured too much and she's risking too much,

0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:32.200
<v Speaker 1>that she's doing this to herself. And you know, I

0:41:32.280 --> 0:41:35.920
<v Speaker 1>was known as this very dramatic person, which is pretty

0:41:36.000 --> 0:41:38.960
<v Speaker 1>hilarious because I am the farthest thing from dramatic. I

0:41:38.960 --> 0:41:42.560
<v Speaker 1>am a simple, like straightforward person. You know, I do

0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:44.560
<v Speaker 1>what needs to be done. You know, if I've heard

0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:47.160
<v Speaker 1>I come back, I don't like I you know, I'm

0:41:47.400 --> 0:41:50.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm not dramatic. And so I struggled a lot with

0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:53.560
<v Speaker 1>the people's perception of me, and I still honestly do.

0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:57.440
<v Speaker 1>It's it's a really hard thing to to accept because

0:41:57.520 --> 0:42:00.640
<v Speaker 1>I just want to like scream at the Internet like

0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:04.160
<v Speaker 1>that's not who I am. But that's just the way

0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:07.240
<v Speaker 1>things are now with social media. Everyone has their opinion

0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:11.120
<v Speaker 1>and and you know, I, yeah, I crashed a lot,

0:42:11.160 --> 0:42:13.879
<v Speaker 1>but guess what downhill you're going eighty miles an hour

0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:17.400
<v Speaker 1>should happen. You know, you put everything on the line,

0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:20.279
<v Speaker 1>and sometimes, you know, you hit a bump and your

0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.759
<v Speaker 1>ski goes the opposite way and before you know what,

0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:25.239
<v Speaker 1>you're blown out your knee again. So you know, I

0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:30.160
<v Speaker 1>just I try not to focus on the external distractions.

0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.719
<v Speaker 1>I always try to focus on, Okay, who am I,

0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:34.719
<v Speaker 1>what am I doing? Why is this important to me?

0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:38.200
<v Speaker 1>Who is important to me? And the Internet is not

0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:41.200
<v Speaker 1>important to me? So but it's still, you know, even

0:42:41.239 --> 0:42:43.799
<v Speaker 1>though I say that, it's still a process. I mean

0:42:44.239 --> 0:42:46.560
<v Speaker 1>never easy. I would say, you.

0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:52.920
<v Speaker 2>Know, in football, in basketball, in baseball, at least for

0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:56.759
<v Speaker 2>the men, you're given a ton of training about how

0:42:56.800 --> 0:43:00.840
<v Speaker 2>to deal with the press. And you are in this sport,

0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:06.040
<v Speaker 2>in golf, in you are in this sport that in

0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:12.520
<v Speaker 2>the United States becomes really really big once a year,

0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:19.120
<v Speaker 2>slash once every four years, and so you're dealing during

0:43:19.200 --> 0:43:26.200
<v Speaker 2>those times with like intense media press. But my guess

0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:29.040
<v Speaker 2>is you're not really given the training for it at

0:43:29.120 --> 0:43:34.000
<v Speaker 2>least here, maybe in maybe in German, you know, in Germany,

0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:37.120
<v Speaker 2>right like you can answer those questions, are you know,

0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:40.239
<v Speaker 2>because they're more used to it or whatever. So I

0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:44.359
<v Speaker 2>wonder one is that true, and two if you could

0:43:44.360 --> 0:43:48.240
<v Speaker 2>have an impact toward young athletes today in your sport

0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:52.600
<v Speaker 2>or potentially ones also that have a similar sort of

0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:55.000
<v Speaker 2>media cycle. Is there any advice that you would give?

0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:57.120
<v Speaker 2>Is there anything you wish you had done different?

0:43:57.719 --> 0:44:02.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean, yeah, I guess looking back you can always

0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:03.920
<v Speaker 1>say I wish I would have done some things differently.

0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:06.719
<v Speaker 1>But advice I always give is to be authentic. Be

0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:10.400
<v Speaker 1>authentically yourself, don't listen to what anyone else says. I

0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:13.880
<v Speaker 1>think we're all different and that difference makes us special.

0:44:14.160 --> 0:44:18.280
<v Speaker 1>And you know, I didn't get media training. I didn't

0:44:18.320 --> 0:44:21.200
<v Speaker 1>really think to a degree necessarily that I needed it

0:44:21.239 --> 0:44:24.840
<v Speaker 1>because I was never hiding anything. I'm just explaining to

0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:28.239
<v Speaker 1>the media what happened, what my experience is, you know,

0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:30.960
<v Speaker 1>what I'm doing, how I'm feeling. I didn't feel like

0:44:31.960 --> 0:44:36.160
<v Speaker 1>that that was a problem. And you know, in Europe

0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:38.719
<v Speaker 1>and when I was doing interviews in German, it was

0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:42.719
<v Speaker 1>pretty simple because there was very little drama. You know,

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:45.560
<v Speaker 1>they were talking more about how is your run, how

0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:47.880
<v Speaker 1>do you physically feel? Instead of who are you dating?

0:44:48.440 --> 0:44:52.120
<v Speaker 1>And that type of conversation was hard for me because

0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:54.640
<v Speaker 1>it was not about sports. Anymore. It was going into

0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:58.439
<v Speaker 1>a different realm that I pop called. Yeah, it's pop cult.

0:44:58.480 --> 0:45:01.480
<v Speaker 1>It's it's just and it's hard. It's hard to manage

0:45:01.520 --> 0:45:06.160
<v Speaker 1>that and every again, like everyone has their opinion, and

0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:10.800
<v Speaker 1>you know, keeping that at an arms distance is hard.

0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:13.640
<v Speaker 1>When everyone's constantly asking me about it. I can shut

0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:16.640
<v Speaker 1>off social media, but when you're giving interviews and it's

0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:20.320
<v Speaker 1>always the same question over and over again, it drives

0:45:20.360 --> 0:45:24.080
<v Speaker 1>you nuts. So I would say, you know, just be yourself.

0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:28.040
<v Speaker 1>Always be yourself, Always be authentic. And I always think,

0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:31.439
<v Speaker 1>if I am not sure about an answer, just wait

0:45:31.640 --> 0:45:34.120
<v Speaker 1>and I'll you know, think about the answer and I'll

0:45:34.239 --> 0:45:37.080
<v Speaker 1>say it maybe later or do my own thing with it.

0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:40.840
<v Speaker 1>But if you're unsure, never answered, because people always like

0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:44.160
<v Speaker 1>to rope you into things, and if you're unsure, you're

0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:45.440
<v Speaker 1>going to get yourself into trouble.

0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:49.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, it's funny because even with all the

0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:53.000
<v Speaker 2>media training they get. I just had a conversation with

0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:58.399
<v Speaker 2>Andrew Whitworth from the LA Rams after losing the first

0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:02.080
<v Speaker 2>Super Bowl that he played with them. He gave a

0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:07.200
<v Speaker 2>quote and the Jenna Basically the quote was, you know,

0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:09.840
<v Speaker 2>how do you feel losing the Super Bowl? And the

0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:13.400
<v Speaker 2>answer that was given was we're all going to die someday.

0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:17.600
<v Speaker 2>And he said even as he was saying it, Now,

0:46:17.719 --> 0:46:20.399
<v Speaker 2>what he explained to me was and he said, I'm

0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:25.040
<v Speaker 2>sure he hasn't memorized like the twelve sentences that he

0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:32.760
<v Speaker 2>said around that quote that actually made that not about

0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:37.960
<v Speaker 2>losing the Super Bowl, right like not about But at

0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:41.640
<v Speaker 2>the time he said, you know, as he said it,

0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:42.680
<v Speaker 2>he knew, like.

0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:44.800
<v Speaker 1>Well, that's that's going to be the head.

0:46:44.760 --> 0:46:46.080
<v Speaker 2>That's that's what they're going to take.

0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:48.839
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean everything can be taken out

0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:54.360
<v Speaker 1>of context. I I tried to not give them sound

0:46:54.360 --> 0:46:56.440
<v Speaker 1>bites like that. You know, I think there's a way

0:46:56.480 --> 0:47:00.200
<v Speaker 1>of being authentic and being yourself while also limiting that

0:47:00.320 --> 0:47:03.719
<v Speaker 1>drama effect that people like to hone in on because

0:47:03.760 --> 0:47:05.879
<v Speaker 1>they're always waiting for you to slip up or say

0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:07.840
<v Speaker 1>one thing that they can use as a headline and

0:47:07.840 --> 0:47:11.680
<v Speaker 1>click bait. And honestly, nowadays they'll just do it anyway.

0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:13.920
<v Speaker 1>So it's at least if you don't say it, it may

0:47:13.920 --> 0:47:17.359
<v Speaker 1>be a little bit better. But honestly, yeah, it doesn't matter,

0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:19.400
<v Speaker 1>it cares, it doesn't matter. That is what it is.

0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:20.120
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

0:47:20.239 --> 0:47:24.000
<v Speaker 2>You retired in twenty nineteen after getting one final medal

0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:27.359
<v Speaker 2>at the World Championships. How does that feel? Is there

0:47:27.400 --> 0:47:32.080
<v Speaker 2>a relief? Is there sadness? Is there a regret? Is

0:47:32.120 --> 0:47:34.520
<v Speaker 2>there a celebration? How does that feel?

0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:38.120
<v Speaker 1>Kind of all the above? I mean, I think physically

0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:40.720
<v Speaker 1>I was really relieved because I was in so much pain.

0:47:41.400 --> 0:47:45.120
<v Speaker 1>You know, I was wearing two knee braces I had,

0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:48.840
<v Speaker 1>was skiing with no lcl I a tibo plateau fracture.

0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:50.840
<v Speaker 1>I was like, you know, I felt like I was

0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:53.719
<v Speaker 1>being held together by duct tape at that point. So

0:47:54.360 --> 0:47:56.719
<v Speaker 1>physically I was like, this is this is what's right,

0:47:56.800 --> 0:48:00.120
<v Speaker 1>this is what needs to happen. But also emotionally, I know,

0:48:00.160 --> 0:48:03.320
<v Speaker 1>I love skiing. I love pushing myself. I love fighting

0:48:03.320 --> 0:48:06.880
<v Speaker 1>for a challenge. I love even the process, the gym,

0:48:07.200 --> 0:48:10.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, the work that goes into it, and then

0:48:10.080 --> 0:48:12.680
<v Speaker 1>obviously the racing and going fast. You know, all those

0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:16.080
<v Speaker 1>things are things that I love dearly and I've done

0:48:16.120 --> 0:48:19.600
<v Speaker 1>my whole life. So you know, going from something that's

0:48:19.640 --> 0:48:21.960
<v Speaker 1>been there is like my rock since I was you know,

0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.239
<v Speaker 1>two and a half years old, to waking up one

0:48:24.320 --> 0:48:28.279
<v Speaker 1>day being retired and that's just gone. It was the

0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:33.279
<v Speaker 1>process was more of mourning as if I something or

0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:35.719
<v Speaker 1>someone had died, had it kind of had to go

0:48:35.800 --> 0:48:39.120
<v Speaker 1>through all the phases. I definitely did some celebrating and

0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:41.520
<v Speaker 1>then I try to take some time off and that

0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:43.560
<v Speaker 1>lasted about two days and then I said, put me

0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:46.080
<v Speaker 1>back to work. I need to I need to do stuff.

0:48:46.120 --> 0:48:49.440
<v Speaker 1>This is too much time on my hands. And I've

0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:52.000
<v Speaker 1>always felt, you know, it's been a few years now,

0:48:52.160 --> 0:48:55.960
<v Speaker 1>but finding that new challenge that gets me excited and

0:48:56.600 --> 0:48:59.839
<v Speaker 1>gets that kind of passion within me going like ski racing,

0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:03.440
<v Speaker 1>that is really hard. That's why I'm always I'm so active.

0:49:03.480 --> 0:49:05.759
<v Speaker 1>I'm in the gym, I'm always trying new sports, and

0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:09.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm working hard. But I'm also finding that balance of

0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:13.360
<v Speaker 1>traveling and doing adventures because I need that. It's something

0:49:13.400 --> 0:49:16.680
<v Speaker 1>that I need for my soul. And people think that

0:49:16.800 --> 0:49:19.320
<v Speaker 1>i'm you know, I'm seeking the spotlight, and you know,

0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:22.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing all these things to get attention, and which

0:49:22.160 --> 0:49:24.520
<v Speaker 1>is just such bullshit. You know, I'm just I'm here

0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:26.960
<v Speaker 1>living my life. I'm trying to do what feeds my

0:49:27.040 --> 0:49:30.080
<v Speaker 1>soul and what makes me happy, and that's it. My

0:49:30.200 --> 0:49:32.680
<v Speaker 1>only goal is to you know, lead a healthy life

0:49:32.760 --> 0:49:35.600
<v Speaker 1>that I'm happy with. That I can have a positive

0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:38.440
<v Speaker 1>impact on others and just feed my dogs. You know,

0:49:38.480 --> 0:49:40.200
<v Speaker 1>I got to work hard to feed those guys. There's

0:49:40.239 --> 0:49:41.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot of them there. You go.

0:49:42.600 --> 0:49:45.000
<v Speaker 2>You you just alluded to it, but you use the

0:49:45.080 --> 0:49:50.040
<v Speaker 2>phrase when you retired that your body quote broken beyond repair.

0:49:50.920 --> 0:49:53.440
<v Speaker 2>After all of those years and all of those injuries.

0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:56.600
<v Speaker 2>Let me ask you this, it's been almost four years

0:49:56.719 --> 0:50:00.560
<v Speaker 2>or four years ish, how as your body resis, do

0:50:00.640 --> 0:50:04.400
<v Speaker 2>you feel better now or do you feel like there

0:50:04.440 --> 0:50:06.160
<v Speaker 2>are things that will never chante? No, you don't.

0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:10.480
<v Speaker 1>I've had three surgery since I retired. One was three

0:50:10.520 --> 0:50:11.000
<v Speaker 1>weeks ago.

0:50:11.520 --> 0:50:11.840
<v Speaker 2>Jesus.

0:50:12.120 --> 0:50:15.919
<v Speaker 1>It's I'm paying the price for pushing myself the way

0:50:15.960 --> 0:50:18.920
<v Speaker 1>I did. But it's a price worth paying.

0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:19.200
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:50:19.320 --> 0:50:22.799
<v Speaker 1>I don't have any regrets. I ski with my heart

0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:26.080
<v Speaker 1>on my sleeve, and that's what I enjoy doing, so

0:50:26.280 --> 0:50:29.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't I don't have any regrets. I'm really hoping

0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:33.040
<v Speaker 1>that I have one more surgery left. I'm not sure

0:50:33.080 --> 0:50:35.719
<v Speaker 1>when i'll do it. Maybe in the next six months

0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:38.080
<v Speaker 1>or so. I hope that will be the last one

0:50:38.120 --> 0:50:41.320
<v Speaker 1>that I'll need for a while. But it's mainly my

0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:45.520
<v Speaker 1>right knee. That's just it's a constant struggle daily. But

0:50:45.800 --> 0:50:48.800
<v Speaker 1>every athlete and every honestly every person you know, these

0:50:48.920 --> 0:50:52.840
<v Speaker 1>you sacrifice something to succeed to get to where you

0:50:52.920 --> 0:50:54.960
<v Speaker 1>want to go, to follow your dreams. You know, you

0:50:55.120 --> 0:50:57.520
<v Speaker 1>can't have your cake and eat it too. So I

0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:01.800
<v Speaker 1>don't regret anything. I just I do hope that the

0:51:01.920 --> 0:51:04.719
<v Speaker 1>magic of medicine will fix me a little bit more

0:51:04.800 --> 0:51:05.879
<v Speaker 1>than where I currently am.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, look, you're understanding it a little bit. Most people

0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:13.720
<v Speaker 2>to achieve their dreams don't have to sacrifice their entire

0:51:14.360 --> 0:51:18.000
<v Speaker 2>body multiple surgeries. Well, let me ask you this, would

0:51:18.040 --> 0:51:22.680
<v Speaker 2>would you ever be satisfied? Just like going and skiing

0:51:22.760 --> 0:51:27.239
<v Speaker 2>a blue ski a blue have a cocktail at the

0:51:27.320 --> 0:51:27.919
<v Speaker 2>fire pit.

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<v Speaker 1>And yeah, that's what's I do really love doing that.

0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:33.440
<v Speaker 1>I like I have kind of like a ski in

0:51:33.480 --> 0:51:36.320
<v Speaker 1>the blue. Yeah, you know, I don't ski moguls because

0:51:36.320 --> 0:51:39.839
<v Speaker 1>that's just nonsense. That makes my knees hurt just looking

0:51:39.920 --> 0:51:42.400
<v Speaker 1>at it. But I like just a nice groomer, just

0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:45.759
<v Speaker 1>an easy groomer. I'm cruising, you know, we ski over

0:51:45.880 --> 0:51:48.600
<v Speaker 1>to the chalet, I have you know, some hot Toddies

0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:51.680
<v Speaker 1>or whatever, Lobos tequila, and then I'll you know, get

0:51:51.760 --> 0:51:54.080
<v Speaker 1>back on the slopes and I'll ski with some friends

0:51:54.120 --> 0:51:55.759
<v Speaker 1>and I'll go back to my car and I'll go home.

0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:58.520
<v Speaker 1>And it's great. I love doing that. It's just it's simple,

0:51:58.600 --> 0:52:02.600
<v Speaker 1>it's fun. It's you know. I started skiing with my family,

0:52:03.000 --> 0:52:06.279
<v Speaker 1>you know, as family ski trips Keystone with my grandparents,

0:52:07.120 --> 0:52:09.520
<v Speaker 1>and that's what it's all about, you know, just being

0:52:09.560 --> 0:52:13.320
<v Speaker 1>out there with your family, enjoying nature. You no cell phones,

0:52:14.080 --> 0:52:16.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, you're just out there enjoying the moment. And

0:52:16.719 --> 0:52:17.520
<v Speaker 1>that's what I do now.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that. I'm so glad for you about that.

0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:23.759
<v Speaker 2>And that's the first time I've actually thought about it

0:52:24.040 --> 0:52:24.279
<v Speaker 2>like that.

0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:24.920
<v Speaker 1>For you.

0:52:25.280 --> 0:52:28.960
<v Speaker 2>It could be like just going out, being able to

0:52:29.040 --> 0:52:32.920
<v Speaker 2>hang out, enjoy being out. Truthfully, I'm really glad.

0:52:33.080 --> 0:52:35.440
<v Speaker 1>Thanks. I mean, it's that's that's what it's all about,

0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:38.279
<v Speaker 1>you know. I mean, life is short. We have to

0:52:38.520 --> 0:52:40.719
<v Speaker 1>enjoy it. If you know we're not enjoying it, then

0:52:41.160 --> 0:52:42.359
<v Speaker 1>do something else that we enjoy.

0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:47.360
<v Speaker 2>I do have to bring this up. You become the

0:52:47.480 --> 0:52:55.719
<v Speaker 2>first woman to ski the street is the strife, and

0:52:55.840 --> 0:52:59.360
<v Speaker 2>you did it at night, so you're not what this is.

0:52:59.640 --> 0:53:03.000
<v Speaker 2>This is antithetical to what I thought you were. Well,

0:53:03.080 --> 0:53:06.080
<v Speaker 2>I know, but I'm saying, like, I thought you were

0:53:06.080 --> 0:53:09.200
<v Speaker 2>gonna tell me like f off about the blue, Like no,

0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:13.279
<v Speaker 2>I've got to go, like I'm going to do Mount

0:53:13.400 --> 0:53:17.640
<v Speaker 2>Baldy or something, or half Dome in Yosemite. They're gonna

0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:20.160
<v Speaker 2>put They're gonna put snow on it for me, and

0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:23.399
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna ski down the face of a clip. Why

0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:25.440
<v Speaker 2>why'd you do it? What made you do it? What

0:53:25.560 --> 0:53:27.279
<v Speaker 2>made you want to do it? And why'd you do it?

0:53:27.480 --> 0:53:30.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I've always wanted to race against the men.

0:53:30.200 --> 0:53:33.120
<v Speaker 1>It's something that I'm you know, I just it's kind

0:53:33.160 --> 0:53:35.200
<v Speaker 1>of like Michelle Wee, you know, it's like the next level.

0:53:35.239 --> 0:53:36.680
<v Speaker 1>I just want to get to the next level. How

0:53:36.719 --> 0:53:40.680
<v Speaker 1>do I make my ski faster? So Red Bull's always

0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:43.560
<v Speaker 1>known this, They've I've been They've been my sponsor for

0:53:43.719 --> 0:53:48.279
<v Speaker 1>like twenty years. They call me up after Thanksgiving and

0:53:48.400 --> 0:53:50.480
<v Speaker 1>they said, hey, do you want to ski to Strike

0:53:51.560 --> 0:53:54.279
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, yeah, absolutely, let's do it. And they're

0:53:54.360 --> 0:53:56.399
<v Speaker 1>like at night and I'm like, I mean, I don't

0:53:56.400 --> 0:53:58.359
<v Speaker 1>know how you're gonna do that, but sure, let's let's

0:53:58.440 --> 0:54:01.239
<v Speaker 1>do it. And they're like, really, honestly, we thought you

0:54:01.280 --> 0:54:02.920
<v Speaker 1>were going to say no, we didn't really have a

0:54:03.840 --> 0:54:04.799
<v Speaker 1>tough plan.

0:54:06.239 --> 0:54:06.680
<v Speaker 2>A plan.

0:54:06.960 --> 0:54:09.279
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, they figured out a plan and it was

0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:11.759
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I creb skiing in Minnesota, which actually I

0:54:11.840 --> 0:54:14.480
<v Speaker 1>skied at night usually after school. We always ski at night,

0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:16.279
<v Speaker 1>so I love skiing at night. But I mean I've

0:54:16.320 --> 0:54:19.200
<v Speaker 1>never skeed a downhill at night, you know, to light

0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:21.680
<v Speaker 1>up a whole downhill course, which they had to do

0:54:21.760 --> 0:54:24.080
<v Speaker 1>it in sections because it was just impossible to do.

0:54:24.320 --> 0:54:27.879
<v Speaker 1>But I mean it was pretty amazing. Again, I love

0:54:28.080 --> 0:54:31.160
<v Speaker 1>pushing the limits. So but I hadn't skied. I hadn't

0:54:31.160 --> 0:54:34.560
<v Speaker 1>skied one run of downhill since my very last downhill

0:54:34.680 --> 0:54:41.080
<v Speaker 1>race in twenty nineteen. So I literally jumped in borrows

0:54:41.160 --> 0:54:43.960
<v Speaker 1>from Ryan Cochran Siegel, who won the silver medal at

0:54:44.000 --> 0:54:46.120
<v Speaker 1>the last Olympics. I borrowed a pair of his skis.

0:54:46.719 --> 0:54:48.840
<v Speaker 1>I did a couple of practice runs, and then I

0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:51.880
<v Speaker 1>did it, and I was, honestly, I was probably the

0:54:51.920 --> 0:54:53.839
<v Speaker 1>most nervous I've ever been in my life. I don't

0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:56.520
<v Speaker 1>really get nervous, but I was like, I am old,

0:54:56.760 --> 0:54:59.920
<v Speaker 1>Am I insane? You know? Am I gonna totally ruin myself?

0:55:00.440 --> 0:55:04.200
<v Speaker 2>But my ration is this, I mean, yes, by the way,

0:55:04.280 --> 0:55:07.120
<v Speaker 2>you are insane. That is insane, but all the rest

0:55:07.200 --> 0:55:08.000
<v Speaker 2>of it, no, go ahead.

0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:11.239
<v Speaker 1>My ration was, you know I'm getting a knee replacement, right,

0:55:11.440 --> 0:55:15.200
<v Speaker 1>so if I crash, oh jeez, and I my stuff out,

0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:17.400
<v Speaker 1>who cares? You know, I'm just gonna get a new

0:55:19.480 --> 0:55:20.560
<v Speaker 1>great is.

0:55:22.320 --> 0:55:24.880
<v Speaker 2>That is not that is not healthy.

0:55:25.680 --> 0:55:26.440
<v Speaker 1>That is not.

0:55:27.960 --> 0:55:32.920
<v Speaker 2>Oh I'm getting a new leg next week anyway, So

0:55:34.000 --> 0:55:34.719
<v Speaker 2>oh my god.

0:55:34.960 --> 0:55:36.000
<v Speaker 1>That's how my brain works.

0:55:36.040 --> 0:55:41.680
<v Speaker 2>So that well, it works. It works for you. It

0:55:41.800 --> 0:55:44.279
<v Speaker 2>worked out, and now your name is there. You can't

0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:47.680
<v Speaker 2>take that away from you, uh, fearless. In the business

0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:51.760
<v Speaker 2>world here, how that's what we call a professional transition.

0:55:52.800 --> 0:55:53.480
<v Speaker 1>You must have done this.

0:55:53.680 --> 0:55:59.040
<v Speaker 2>Advising VC firms. You're working with company, you're making goggles,

0:55:59.120 --> 0:56:02.520
<v Speaker 2>you're making ski clothing with head. Did you notice how

0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:08.239
<v Speaker 2>I didn't try to say that, say it unique? Unique? Yeah,

0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:12.319
<v Speaker 2>you're crushing it. What's the next thing? Business? What are

0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:12.640
<v Speaker 2>you going?

0:56:13.160 --> 0:56:15.960
<v Speaker 1>We were we have some really amazing products coming up

0:56:15.960 --> 0:56:20.759
<v Speaker 1>with my production company called Opera Productions. And obviously the

0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:22.120
<v Speaker 1>strike I get.

0:56:21.960 --> 0:56:23.120
<v Speaker 2>It, opright, I get it.

0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:25.880
<v Speaker 1>Not very many people I got it, get it. And

0:56:25.920 --> 0:56:31.000
<v Speaker 1>then I'm like, I thought this was like, what's apress?

0:56:31.560 --> 0:56:32.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, no, that's not it.

0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:38.400
<v Speaker 2>It comes back to fra Boom.

0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:41.280
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I saw. We have a lot of amazing products

0:56:41.320 --> 0:56:44.800
<v Speaker 1>coming up with that. But obviously, you know, the strikes

0:56:44.800 --> 0:56:49.000
<v Speaker 1>have slowed everything down. But this winter's coming up, so

0:56:49.320 --> 0:56:53.480
<v Speaker 1>my my next ski line is launching. I'm actually launching

0:56:53.560 --> 0:56:56.279
<v Speaker 1>Mend's this year, which I'm really excited about. I have

0:56:56.400 --> 0:56:59.600
<v Speaker 1>my foundation, which we have our annual gala in a

0:56:59.640 --> 0:57:03.480
<v Speaker 1>couple I'm really excited about that. What else I mean,

0:57:03.880 --> 0:57:06.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm on the Olympic bid committee for the Solid Games

0:57:06.360 --> 0:57:09.640
<v Speaker 1>that I said good luck and thank you. I'm on

0:57:09.760 --> 0:57:14.520
<v Speaker 1>the Olympic Broadcast Systems Board. I'm doing some things. I'm

0:57:14.560 --> 0:57:15.400
<v Speaker 1>out here hustling.

0:57:15.840 --> 0:57:17.840
<v Speaker 2>You're doing a lot of things. If you need a

0:57:17.920 --> 0:57:20.440
<v Speaker 2>skier for any of your projects for a prey.

0:57:20.960 --> 0:57:22.520
<v Speaker 1>Hey I will.

0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:23.960
<v Speaker 2>I actually probably don't.

0:57:25.520 --> 0:57:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Don't give a call. I think it could be good.

0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:31.400
<v Speaker 1>You could be in the bar on the mountain seeing You.

0:57:33.280 --> 0:57:35.600
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely know that, friends, I got you.

0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:36.440
<v Speaker 1>You'd crush it.

0:57:36.880 --> 0:57:39.840
<v Speaker 2>You absolutely know that I could do that. Uh yeah.

0:57:39.880 --> 0:57:43.000
<v Speaker 2>I do want to mention the Lenzy Vaughn Foundation providing

0:57:43.080 --> 0:57:46.480
<v Speaker 2>camps and scholarships for girls to pursue all sorts of

0:57:46.640 --> 0:57:51.280
<v Speaker 2>things athletics, academics, the arts, and you had some camps

0:57:51.320 --> 0:57:55.160
<v Speaker 2>this summer I mentioned earlier Strong Girls Camps. Yep, was

0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:55.960
<v Speaker 2>that successful.

0:57:56.640 --> 0:57:59.439
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was awesome. I mean, honestly, you know, again

0:57:59.520 --> 0:58:02.240
<v Speaker 1>it kind of was back to Peekaboo. But we have curriculums,

0:58:02.280 --> 0:58:04.280
<v Speaker 1>so I try to give them skills to be able

0:58:04.400 --> 0:58:08.280
<v Speaker 1>to be confident and have positive body image and all

0:58:08.320 --> 0:58:10.880
<v Speaker 1>of these things that you know are just so difficult

0:58:10.920 --> 0:58:13.960
<v Speaker 1>for kids these days, and try to inspire them so

0:58:14.000 --> 0:58:15.560
<v Speaker 1>they can go out in the world and be strong,

0:58:15.920 --> 0:58:19.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, empowered young women. But yeah, we actually just

0:58:19.640 --> 0:58:22.840
<v Speaker 1>started using our own curriculum this year and I'm really

0:58:22.880 --> 0:58:25.760
<v Speaker 1>excited about it, and we have a couple more camps

0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:28.760
<v Speaker 1>coming up, so I'm just going to try to keep scaling,

0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:33.120
<v Speaker 1>keep impacting as many kids as possible. And I think that's, honestly,

0:58:33.840 --> 0:58:35.800
<v Speaker 1>such a big part of being an athlete is that

0:58:35.920 --> 0:58:40.480
<v Speaker 1>responsibility of past paying it forward. And I've all, you know,

0:58:40.600 --> 0:58:43.760
<v Speaker 1>because of Peekaboo and my parents obviously, I just have

0:58:43.920 --> 0:58:47.520
<v Speaker 1>taken that responsibility to heart. So definitely something that's driven

0:58:47.600 --> 0:58:49.400
<v Speaker 1>me the most since I've retired.

0:58:50.080 --> 0:58:55.480
<v Speaker 2>That is admirable. Congratulations to you. You know, I'm a

0:58:55.600 --> 0:58:59.040
<v Speaker 2>big fan of yours. I wish you all continued great

0:58:59.120 --> 0:59:03.720
<v Speaker 2>success with your production company, with the Lindsay Bond Foundation,

0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:09.320
<v Speaker 2>and with all of your beasts, your VC making shark

0:59:09.600 --> 0:59:14.600
<v Speaker 2>mogulan skills in the business world. Lendsy, I wish you

0:59:14.680 --> 0:59:16.479
<v Speaker 2>nothing but the best. Thank you so much for coming

0:59:16.520 --> 0:59:17.080
<v Speaker 2>and talking to me.

0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:20.200
<v Speaker 1>Thanks Brandon, I appreciate it. Let's go golfing. I got

0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:21.880
<v Speaker 1>a hole in one last time we were together, so

0:59:22.200 --> 0:59:22.880
<v Speaker 1>maybe we'll make it.

0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:25.800
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I must be good luck, I think, so

0:59:26.560 --> 0:59:29.160
<v Speaker 2>let's get it. Let's get it done, all right.

0:59:29.560 --> 0:59:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Lendsy.

0:59:42.960 --> 0:59:45.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm so stoked you came on. Thank you so much.

0:59:45.480 --> 0:59:48.080
<v Speaker 2>It was great to see you again, even if you

0:59:48.160 --> 0:59:50.680
<v Speaker 2>don't remember meeting me the first time. But I get it.

0:59:51.080 --> 0:59:54.080
<v Speaker 2>You made a hole in one and that I'm sure

0:59:54.480 --> 0:59:58.440
<v Speaker 2>caused you. No shortage of celebration between that, your hole

0:59:58.520 --> 1:00:02.600
<v Speaker 2>in one, your foundation, your businesses, you being a damn delight.

1:00:02.960 --> 1:00:07.160
<v Speaker 2>You simply cannot be stopped, it seems, so. My best

1:00:07.320 --> 1:00:12.400
<v Speaker 2>of luck in everything that you have in the future. Unfortunately,

1:00:12.480 --> 1:00:15.640
<v Speaker 2>this podcast does have to be stopped right now because

1:00:15.680 --> 1:00:19.680
<v Speaker 2>we're done. But don't worry, only until next week when

1:00:19.720 --> 1:00:22.080
<v Speaker 2>we're going to be back with another guest who I

1:00:22.200 --> 1:00:25.880
<v Speaker 2>am sure will captivate and delight you. So until then,

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<v Speaker 2>Now long everyone, and have a really good week. Off

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