1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: It's not what are we chasing, it's who are we becoming? 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: Who do you want to becolm. 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Emily a body here. 4 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 3: You are listening to Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where 5 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 3: I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 3: ties and toughest moments to essential tips to live a healthier, happier, 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 3: more motivated life. We all go through our fair share 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 3: of hurdles. My goal through these discussions is to empower 9 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 3: you to better navigate yours and move with intention so 10 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 3: that you can stride towards your own big potential and 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: of course have some fun along the way. For this 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 3: week's episode, I am talking to coach del Gee Taylor. 13 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 3: She's the head coach for Brigham Young University's women's cross 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 3: country and track team and also coaches the professional athletes 15 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: at Swoosh t C in Utah. In this episode, del 16 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 3: g courageously shares her experiences growing up as a young 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 3: Indian woman in an environment where she rarely saw herself reflected. 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 3: She talks about the challenges of finding her own way 19 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 3: when the traditional roadmap didn't align with her aspirations, and 20 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 3: how deeply influential coaches were in her life from an 21 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 3: early age. We also dive into her significant role in 22 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 3: inspiring women for Nike's After Dark Race series and why 23 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: her recent trip to Mumbai for that event was so 24 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 3: profoundly meaningful. And as always, del Git offers her most 25 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 3: valuable advice for anyone facing their own hurdles and how 26 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 3: to find the strength to shine even when you're not 27 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 3: feeling your best. Make sure you are following along with 28 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 3: Hurdle over on social It's at Hurdle podcast. I am 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 3: over at Emily Avadi and if you're not yet subscribed 30 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: to the weekly Hurdle sub stack, get in on that. 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: It's absolutely free. The link to do that is in 32 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: the show notes. With that, let's get to it. Let's 33 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 3: get to hurdling. 34 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: Today. 35 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 3: I am sitting down with coach del g Taylor. Welcome 36 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 3: to Hurdle Coach Taylor. How are we doing today? 37 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: So good? Thanks for having me. Oh my god, thanks 38 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 2: for being here. I'm feeling hyped right now. I love it. 39 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 2: I'm just going to tell you, how are you doing? Really? 40 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: How are you feeling right now? I'm so good? I 41 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: love well. 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: I love southern California, So any chance to come back 43 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: to Cali is a good opportunity, but also just to 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: be a part of this weekend and yesterday kicking off, 45 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: just feeling a little bit of the energy coming into 46 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: After Dark Tour, being in Mumbai a couple of weeks 47 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: ago to really feel it. 48 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 2: Was just a good pre to this one. 49 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, super humble in a way that this is 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: actually coming to fruition when we first talked about this 51 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: maybe several years ago, that this is something he was 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: interested in doing, and to now to really see it 53 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: come live. Yeah, and to be a part of it, 54 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: to have a piece in it, a small piece in it, 55 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: but yeah, nevertheless an important piece I. 56 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: Feel like in it is Yeah, it means a lot. 57 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 3: This is special. But tell me about why Mumbai was 58 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 3: special for you. 59 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: I didn't even realize the depth of what I would 60 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: feel showing up in Mumbai, but to be surrounded by 61 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: women who look exactly like me, that share a similar 62 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: story to mine, doing something that we weren't allowed to do, 63 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: we weren't encouraged to do, we weren't supposed to do. 64 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: I never thought in my. 65 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: Lifetime I would see that happen thousands and thousands of 66 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: women with similar stories to mine, that look like me 67 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: that now have a space and a sense of belonging 68 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: in sport. 69 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: Wow, it was so powerful. 70 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so cool and such a full circle moment 71 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: for you saying here, we didn't have these opportunities when 72 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 3: I was younger. Talk to me a little bit about 73 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 3: how running became an integral part to your life from 74 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 3: a young age. 75 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, as a young Indian girl, you are born with 76 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: a blueprint for what your life is supposed to be like, 77 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: and it's been written for you, and your job is to. 78 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: Just follow the path. And I was struggling to find my. 79 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: Space as a young Indian girl in a classroom where 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: no one else looked like me. And I remember being 81 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: in fifth grade and having a race out on the 82 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: playground and I beat all the boys, and all of 83 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: a sudden, I was like, Wow, I love this. 84 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 2: This is so fun. 85 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: And at the same time, I had a teacher that 86 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: started asking me about what my dreams were and I 87 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 1: didn't understand that question because it wasn't something that anyone 88 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: had ever asked me. I thought my path in life 89 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: would be exactly what my parents wanted it to be, 90 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: and it would mimic what my mom and my aunt 91 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: and older female cousins. 92 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: Were living, and so running gave me a sense of confidence. 93 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: And it also so when you're really good at something, 94 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: people see you. 95 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,679 Speaker 1: And for the first time, I was seeing for something 96 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: other than what I had been seen for and it 97 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: became a source of my confidence, and I fell in 98 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: love with it. 99 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 2: I fell in love with it because it gave me 100 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: a sense of identity. 101 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love what you said about goal setting and 102 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 3: coming up with your own goals. You were led to 103 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 3: believe that this roadmap that had been crafted for you 104 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 3: was what you air quotes wanted. And so to have 105 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 3: that level of self awareness where you knew in your gut, 106 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 3: this isn't what I want. Talk to me about deviating 107 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 3: from that roadmap. How did that make you feel? 108 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 4: Well? 109 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 2: It wasn't. It wasn't this. 110 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: Aha moment right where I just woke up one day 111 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, I'm going to create my own blueprint. 112 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: It was this blueprint was still there, and I was 113 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: trying to figure out ways to create and navigate a 114 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: different path within the blueprint. And years went by until 115 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: I finally had enough confidence and courage and a little 116 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: bit of crazy to realize that that blueprint isn't. 117 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 2: Going to work. 118 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: I can't navigate my future through this existing blueprint, and 119 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: I need to be the architect of my own blueprint. 120 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: And even to this day, I think, now in my forties, 121 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: I feel very confident about being that architect. But up 122 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: until not that long ago, I still felt bad about 123 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: this existing blueprint that I was supposed to be following. 124 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 2: So it takes time. Yeah, it takes time. 125 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 3: So in practice this looked like leaving your parents' house. 126 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 3: In practice, this looked like doing some soul searching for yourself. 127 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 3: And in practice, ultimately this led you to running in college. 128 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it happened in those really similar steps of 129 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: just chasing a dream that no one could have dreamt 130 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: for me, and that I wasn't even allowed to dream 131 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: for myself. But there was something inside me that wouldn't 132 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: let it go away. 133 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 2: And people call that. There's different words for that. For me, 134 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: I would say it's purpose. 135 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: My purpose was to be involved in the sport, and 136 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: at that time, at nineteen twenty, I thought that meant 137 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: being a college athlete. But now looking back twenty five 138 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: plus years later, thirty years later, Wow, maybe it was 139 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: for this, For this exact moment, for being in a 140 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: role of a coach and inspiring other women to chase dreams, 141 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: but originally running became my purpose. 142 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned the words courage and bravery. Where do 143 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 3: you think you garnered that courage and bravery to make 144 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 3: that decision for yourself despite it being so counterintuitive within 145 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:57,679 Speaker 3: your culture. 146 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: I think some of it is nature versus nurture, right, 147 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: some of our personality were born with I've always been 148 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: someone that questioned, well, why are we doing it that way? 149 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: Or why are women supposed to do that? Why is 150 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: that expectation there? Why am I supposed to go to 151 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: college and study medicine? And so just that little question 152 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: of why asking myself. I never had the guts to 153 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: ask other people that, but I would always ask myself, well, 154 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: why does it have to be that way? Why do 155 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: my brothers get to do all of this stuff? But 156 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: as an Indian girl, I'm held to these standards. Why 157 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: is it different? Why is there a double standard? So 158 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: I think for me, it was the questions I was 159 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: asking myself, and then the nurture part of it is 160 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: getting around influences in your life that are also asking you. 161 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: My fifth grade teacher asked me what is your dream? 162 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: That was a question on a assignment that we had, 163 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: and I filled it out just like my parents would 164 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: have wanted me to. And she had the courage to 165 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: pull me aside a couple weeks later and say, no, 166 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: this is about your dream. 167 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: What is your dream? 168 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 1: I didn't understand the question, and she didn't understand my life. 169 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: So that instilled something in me, this external question of 170 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: what is my dream? What do I want that to be? 171 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: It's important for women to ask ourselves, whatever stage of 172 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: life we're in, what is your dream? 173 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 3: And I know that that's a question now that you 174 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 3: ask your athletes at the top of every season, how 175 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 3: does it feel for you to be in this position 176 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 3: where now you are the person, just like your fifth 177 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 3: grade teacher that's cultivating that level of self inquiry within them. 178 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 2: It's so empowering. 179 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: I feel lucky and blessed to be able to be 180 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: the person to ask women every August. 181 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: What is your dream? 182 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: And then there's follow up questions because a dream without 183 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: a plan is not going to go anywhere, right, and 184 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: so me being the person that gets to then invest 185 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: in those dreams, that's why I ask about them. 186 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 2: It's like, what's your dream? Now me as a coach, 187 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: my job is to invest in that dream and make 188 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 2: it my own. 189 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: And that's where the beauty in what we accomplish together 190 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: is so much deeper than maybe someone who doesn't have 191 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: that same investment in the dream. 192 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 3: Let's flush that out a little bit more though. So 193 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 3: I'm sure that some of the young women that you 194 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 3: work with their dreams are rooted in cross country within 195 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 3: running on the track, right, But then I'm sure you 196 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: also get answers to this question that are so much 197 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 3: bigger than running. That dichotomy is really fun. That relationship 198 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 3: is really fun. So when you are looking at the 199 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 3: dreams that have nothing to do with running, I would 200 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 3: almost assume that that's kind of the more fun part. 201 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the transformational journey that you get to witness 202 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: as a coach. It's not what are we chasing, it's 203 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: who are we becoming? Who do you want to become? 204 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: Let me help you through this sport. Figure that out, 205 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: number one, because eighteen to twenty three that's a transformational 206 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: time in any young woman's life. So to be an influence, 207 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: understanding the responsibility of what that looks like and who 208 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: and how I need to inspire them, But also understand 209 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: that ten twenty thirty years from now, I have women 210 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: who call me that I coached once upon a time 211 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: and they are reaping the benefits of some of that 212 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: confidence and that courage that was instilled in them in 213 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: those college years. 214 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 3: You share that eighteen to twenty three being such a 215 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 3: transformational time, something that you know a lot about when 216 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 3: you think about those years for you who helped shape 217 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 3: your transformation. 218 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: Well, had a really good female collegiate coach that showed 219 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: me you can be a mom and a coach. She 220 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: had two kids and she was coaching at the Division 221 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: two level, and we have to see her to be her. 222 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: Understand that women have to see her to be her. 223 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: And so already this notion of raising kids and coaching 224 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: has been brought. 225 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 2: To life by someone else, not by me. So that 226 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 2: was one. 227 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: But then I went I had the opportunity to run 228 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: for the Nike Farm team out at Stamford, and I 229 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: met a man by the name of Frank Gagliano, and. 230 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 2: He was probably one of the first. 231 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 4: Men in my life life that really believed in me, and 232 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 4: that changed the trajectory of my life. 233 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 2: What did him believing in you? 234 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 3: Look like in practice, because I'm sure now when you 235 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 3: reflect on how he made you feel and the actions 236 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 3: that he used to make you feel that way, you 237 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 3: bring that into your current coaching practice. 238 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely, he inspires me every day. For one, it was 239 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: seeing me on an equal playing field. He saw me 240 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: as an athlete and my goals mattered. But then he 241 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: also saw something in me that I hadn't seen in myself, 242 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: and that was the potential to become a coach. And 243 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: that is a very important and incredible thing to be 244 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: able to see the potential in someone before they see 245 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: it in themselves, and then to have that conversation and 246 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: letting them know I see this potential in you. Had 247 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: he never pulled me aside and talked about this journey 248 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: in coaching, I for sure would not have been a coach. 249 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to be 250 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: a fifth grade teacher to meet other ten year old 251 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: girls and boys and help them chase streams. That was 252 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: really what I wanted to do until that moment with 253 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: Frank Gagliano. 254 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,959 Speaker 2: Just like you said before, in order to be her, 255 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 2: you need to see her. 256 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 3: When you were of a certain age, you had people 257 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 3: that saw you as maybe you were in fifth grade, 258 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 3: and then as you graduated within life and within sport, 259 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 3: you met someone else that saw you as all that 260 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 3: you have to offer, and that then changed the trajectory 261 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 3: of your path. And it's so amazing and beautiful to 262 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 3: hear that these individuals inspired you to become this person 263 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 3: now that has this opportunity to inspire others. What I 264 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 3: love about what you're saying with this essence of I 265 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 3: see something special in you is that oftentimes that conversation 266 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 3: is what sparks someone's justin level of self belief, right, 267 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: And then to get to that next step where yes 268 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 3: it starts with someone saying I believe in you. Then 269 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 3: that athlete or that person or wherever you may be, 270 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 3: within or without sport, says, holy shit, I believe in myself. 271 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 3: When you get to this place where you have this 272 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 3: innate level of self belief, no one can take that 273 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 3: away from you. That doesn't mean that there aren't going 274 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 3: to be moments that you doubt yourself. But what it 275 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 3: does mean is that that opens up the door for 276 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 3: you to try things that maybe you were scared of 277 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 3: trying before. So for you, as you start to come 278 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: up within sport. Although you have this level of belief 279 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 3: from gags, where is it that you really find your 280 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 3: strength on your own two feet when you step into 281 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 3: this coaching role. 282 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: As a coach, I get that strength and confidence from 283 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: my women. And that is the crazy thing about empowerment. 284 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: People think that strong women and confident women just found 285 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: that somewhere. No, the way we become more confident is 286 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: by instilling confidence in it. I've spent twenty years doing 287 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: that for women and what that has done for me 288 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: as kind of I'm reaping the benefits. The return of 289 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: investment on investing in someone else is that you yourself 290 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: also get that same confidence and that source of empowerment. 291 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: And so it's important for women to learn how to 292 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: build up other women, how to instill confidence in the 293 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: women around you. That's going to help you be a 294 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: strong woman. 295 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 2: Talk to me about getting the job at BYU. 296 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: Getting the job at BYU it was not something I 297 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: would have ever seen in my future. I was at 298 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: the point of my career where other division one universities 299 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: were recognizing what I was doing at a small D two, 300 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: and so opportunities to interview for positions around the country 301 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: were popping up. BYU was one of those in the 302 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: summer of twenty sixteen, and I decided to take the interview. 303 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: My in laws live in Utah. If I'm being totally honest, 304 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: that's why I went. I thought I could spend a 305 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: couple days with them and check out BYU. My only 306 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: real ties to BYU were I love basketball and watching 307 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: Jimmer in his early years when they were. 308 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 2: Making a big deep run. I became a fan of that. 309 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: And then I worked out there once and got kicked 310 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: off the indoor track because I was in a sports bra. 311 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: And so those are really my two encounters with BYU. 312 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: But I thought, let me go interview for this job 313 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: and go through the process. And when I got on 314 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: campus and started going through the interview process and understanding 315 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: that there was going to be a group of women 316 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: who culturally had a similar upbringing. There are similarities between 317 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: what I went through culturally and what women at BYU 318 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: have gone through culturally, and that was the draw. 319 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: It wasn't yeah, can I do it at the highest level. 320 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: There's always that question, but it was more I want 321 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: to do it with these women at the highest level. 322 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 3: And it was also this aspect of understanding that you 323 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 3: could bring something to them that maybe they had been missing. 324 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: It was and my why the question is that's what 325 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: got me to BYU. 326 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 2: The women and people ask why do I stay? 327 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: Right, I've had a lot of success over the last 328 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: nine years, and I've had opportunities to go to other 329 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: D one P four schools in why and my why 330 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: is still the same, The same reason why I came 331 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: to BYU. My women is the same reason why I 332 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: stay My women and who they're becoming and what they're accomplishing. 333 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,719 Speaker 1: And I have a front row seat to watch these 334 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: women chase streams that they never even knew they could 335 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: chase or that they could have and had now turning 336 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: women from the collegiate level and watching them go into 337 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: the professional world, it's so fulfilling. 338 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 2: It's fulfilling. 339 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 3: And when some of your women graduate, is there almost 340 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 3: a morning feels like a big word to use here, 341 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 3: But you develop such strong and special relationships with these 342 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 3: women and then they spread their wings and they leave 343 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 3: the nest. How does that make you feel? 344 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: It is every five to six years you kind of 345 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: go through that where you spend so much time with 346 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: these women and they think it's going to be like 347 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: this forever, and I do too. When you're in it, 348 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: you think that relationship is going to be like that forever, 349 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: and it can't because someone else is going to come 350 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: in as an eighteen year old and they're going to 351 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: need that same time and care as what my alum 352 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: have had. But there's this sisterhood that's been created. So 353 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: whatever we're doing on our journey, and I'm not saying 354 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: just with BYU women, my women that I've coached and 355 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: former athletes that I've coached, even at cal State Stanislaus, 356 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: feel a connection to the athletes I'm coaching now. They 357 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: know they're getting the same experience and the same investment 358 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: that I gave them, and they feel connected to the 359 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: current athletes through that. 360 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, what does success feel like to you? That word 361 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 2: has changed so much. 362 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: You know, when I first started coaching success with outcomes, 363 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: it was finishes and it was being relevant nationally. And 364 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: I still care about that stuff obviously being a competitive 365 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: person in sport. But success for me is how many 366 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: people can I inspire along the way, whether that be 367 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: in coaching or whether that be athletes in other programs, 368 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: young girls in sport, the nine, ten twelve year old girls, 369 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: what can I do to inspire them? 370 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: That is success. That's what I want my legacy to be. 371 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's irrefutable that you're doing that. And also 372 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 3: it's so special when there's moments like that viral moment 373 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 3: of you running alongside the track a few months back 374 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 3: now yelling on the track you are what did you say? 375 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 2: You are her? Yeah? 376 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: So backstory, I my name, Well, they obviously coach Taylor. Yeah, 377 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: but the women call me the woman, right, So has 378 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: the woman sent out the workout yet or where's the woman? 379 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 2: And so they refer to me as the woman. 380 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: And before I started saying you are her, I was 381 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: saying you are the woman, you know, just kind of 382 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: throwing it back at them, and yeah, and then just. 383 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 2: That you are her. I don't know where that came from. 384 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: It was so good, it was and it was captured 385 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: because I was miked up, and you kind of forget 386 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: in the moment that you're even miked up. 387 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 2: But I think for my women to watch that afterwards. 388 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: They only see and hear from their perspective what the 389 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: race feels like. And they're hearing these commands and they're 390 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: hearing this encouragement and a little bit of crazy and 391 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: they love that energy. But then for them to go 392 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: back and watch it from my perspective, what I'm going through, 393 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: what I'm screaming at them, and how excited I am. 394 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, it was special that we captured that moment. 395 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 3: I mean, it's my alarm every day. I don't know 396 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 3: if you know this. I wake up everything you are, 397 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,959 Speaker 3: you are her. I'm like, okay, a little aggressive this morning, 398 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 3: but sometimes aggressive. 399 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 2: Sometimes you're so aggressive you need that pep talk. 400 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 3: But the thing is, as someone who is at the 401 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 3: forefront of being such an outstanding leader for so many 402 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 3: young women, not only on the team, but of course 403 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 3: broader than that, with such a large reach, what do 404 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 3: you do on the day is that you don't feel 405 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 3: so shiny and that you don't feel you are the woman. 406 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: Well, we all have those moments where we're not feeling it. 407 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: My recharge comes from the thing I do, which is coaching. 408 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: And that sounds so cliche because it is so exhausting 409 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: at times, especially as we're getting towards the end of 410 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: the season. We're heading into national championships next week and 411 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: then the youth you know, obviously usays next month. At 412 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: the end of July, and so this is kind of 413 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: crunch time for my coaching and for my athletes and you. 414 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 2: I end every season exhausted, but throughout the season I 415 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 2: will never use that word. Yeah, no, I can't. 416 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: I have to be at my best for my women 417 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: to be at their best. But recharging for me is 418 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: a run, a very slow run, or just taking some 419 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: time and sitting in my backyard with my family and 420 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: not thinking about the sport. This thing is consuming, and 421 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: I believe if you have to be really good I 422 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: believe if you want to be really. 423 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 2: Good at something, there has to be a small level 424 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 2: obsession during the crunch times. And so I am obsessed 425 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 2: with my craft and that helps and gives permission for 426 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: my women to be obsessed with their craft. When you 427 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 2: have two people equally obsessed with their craft, magic can happen. 428 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 2: I've seen it. I've witnessed it. 429 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: I'm twenty twenty four Olympics in Paris standing there watching 430 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: two women in the Olympic final. 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Again that 497 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 3: url drink l mnt dot com slash hurdle to receive 498 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 3: a free Element stable back with any order today. With that, 499 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 3: let's get back to it. And it's so relatable, right 500 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 3: when you have a steep passion for what it is 501 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 3: that excites you and in our case both of us 502 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 3: doing different things. But for me within cultivating these conversations 503 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 3: and for you guiding these women towards seeking their own potential, 504 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 3: you can't cheat that passion. 505 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 2: The passion is what fuels you to keep showing. 506 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 3: Up on these times where it is exhausting, right, but 507 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 3: it also is the same thing that gives back to 508 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 3: you time and time and time again. Paris, What a moment, 509 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 3: such a moment, Such a moment I feel like for 510 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 3: the rest of my career, I'm going to compare every 511 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 3: moment do running around Paris and interviewing my idols. Talk 512 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 3: to me about what that moment meant for you to 513 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 3: be there witnessing such greatness from these two women that 514 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 3: you got to go along that journey with. 515 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, when you're in it and you're so 516 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: focused on getting them to the starting line and getting 517 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: them prepared and building their confidence and making sure that 518 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: they walk in that arena feeling just as worthy and 519 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: ready to do something on the biggest stage of their life. 520 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: But I'd never thought what it would feel like for 521 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: me to walk into that arena, because I was so 522 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: focused on what are they going to feel? And so 523 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: when I walked into that arena, and I always have 524 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: the same seat on the front row, and I took 525 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 1: a moment prior to them competing, just sitting there and 526 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: soaking in the crowd, the feeling and really asking myself, 527 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: did I ever think in my wildest dreams, did I 528 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: ever think I would be coaching in an Olympic final. No, 529 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 1: I couldn't have seen that. No one could have seen that. 530 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: And so really for me, it was just a moment 531 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: of let me soak this all in. I don't know 532 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: if it'll ever happen again. I'm hoping it will LA 533 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, but yeah, I just those are the 534 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: moments that all pressure is released, Yeah, and you kind 535 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: of just get to soak it all in and be 536 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: proud when was the. 537 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 3: Last time you walked into an arena And I'm not 538 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 3: just actually talking about like the STAD difference, but an 539 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 3: arena within your life where you maybe we're dealing with 540 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 3: a little bit of that self doubt, where you had 541 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 3: to consciously squash those nerves that feel a little bit 542 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 3: bigger than you. 543 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: I feel I catch myself there all the time. Anytime 544 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: you're really passionate about something and you invest a lot 545 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: in it and you care a lot about it, You're 546 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: gonna have a little bit of self doubt. Every athlete 547 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: at the highest level feels that. Every coach at the 548 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: highest level feels that. I talk to colleagues all the 549 00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: time where it's like, oh, are we doing this thing? 550 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: And if I'm not feeling that, then I want a question. 551 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: Did I go all in? If I'm not feeling a 552 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: little bit of self doubt? Did I go all in? 553 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 2: Yeah? 554 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: There's rooms that maybe we walk in and we wonder 555 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: do we belong? Does our voice matter? What Nike's done 556 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: for me is put me in these rooms where my 557 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: voice does matter. What BYU has done for me is 558 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: put me in those rooms where my voice matters and 559 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: the value piece is there, And so when someone else 560 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,479 Speaker 1: is investing and showing you that value, you yourself are 561 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: gonna feel it. But self doubt, that's a part of 562 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: the journey every step of the way, and I want 563 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: to always have that. It's a good self check. When 564 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: you doubt yourself, you're questioning am I doing things the 565 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: right way? That's the best question you can ask yourself. 566 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 2: Who are you outside of being a coach? Mom? That's 567 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 2: my best title? Yeah? Yeah, I have two boys. 568 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: I wear them right here proudly, taj Nave and one's 569 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: about to be fourteen and sixteen, and being a mom 570 00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: has rewritten my whole childhood. That's what that's for me. 571 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 3: What is it that you hope to offer your boys 572 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 3: that maybe you didn't feel like you had. 573 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 2: There's two things posted on both boys. 574 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: When they walk outside of their door every day from 575 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: their bedroom. I have a note up there that says 576 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: I believe in you, and another one right below it 577 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: that says life responds to effort. And those two statements 578 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: they see them every time they walk into their bedroom, 579 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: and I say those to my boys all the time. 580 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 2: I didn't I love you. In the Indian culture is done. 581 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: Through acts of service, It's through caring for your children, 582 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: cutting up fruit, making sure they have all the things 583 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: that they need. It really is, that's the Indian way 584 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: of saying, we make you chaw. That means I love you, 585 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: and I have been very intentional as a mother to 586 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: make sure that my boys hear those words all the time. 587 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 2: And then also coupled with that, I believe in you. 588 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, that I believe in you is so special and 589 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 3: I'm sure that they are so proud of what you've 590 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 3: done and seeing how you show up to be this 591 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 3: figurehead for so many others. 592 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 2: Have they expressed that to you. 593 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: Now, as they're getting into their teenage years, they are 594 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: a little more vocal about it. I think growing up 595 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: it's just mom. I'm just mom, yeah, and they don't know. 596 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: But now we go into places and people are stopping me, 597 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: and they're kind of seeing different articles and just different 598 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: things that I'm doing, different parties we have at our house. 599 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: They're like, wow, my mom is coaching in the Olympics 600 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: and they got to go along and witness that. 601 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 2: So that was really powerful. But I think that where 602 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 2: they're going. 603 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: To see the benefit is if they choose to get 604 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: married or they have children and they have daughters, how 605 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: they're going to parent, how they're going to be a 606 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: partner to another woman. This is normal for them. What 607 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: I'm doing is their norms. So they're going to be 608 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: the biggest cheerleader for any woman in their life and 609 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: any girl when they become they become girl dads. They're 610 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: going to be the best at it because I so hopefully, 611 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: by example, have shown them what it looks like to relent, 612 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: least chase the dream that. 613 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 3: By example, though you're modeling that behavior. Obviously, again we're 614 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 3: saying hi as being the Olympics, the parties before the Olympics. 615 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 3: When you reflect on perhaps what some of the lowest 616 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 3: moments have been for you within this journey of your career, 617 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 3: what comes to mind. 618 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: Last year's NCAA Championship and why is that had a 619 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: team that I felt like could definitely podium, possibly win, 620 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: probably win. It was one of my more talented teams, 621 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: and we just weren't prepared emotionally Internally, the team chemistry 622 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: was off, and as a coach I sensed it, but 623 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: I really couldn't do anything about it. And coming home 624 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: from that national Championship with I know we were still 625 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: top fifteen in the country. 626 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 2: I was going to say fourteenth. We were fourteenth, but 627 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 2: it was. 628 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: It was probably a really low point, probably the lowest 629 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: point in my coaching career, to feel like I had 630 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 1: failed those women, I had failed to see. I was 631 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: trying to put a band aid on it, to just 632 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: get us through November, just get us through the championship. 633 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 2: And you can't. 634 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: You can't put a band aid on team culture. You 635 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: can't put a band aid on inconsistent leadership. You can't 636 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: put a band aid on anxieties and insecurities. You can't 637 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: put a band aid on it. And I tried to. 638 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: And walking through my doors, my son sees my face 639 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: and I'd been crying. I'm not even I don't get emotional. 640 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: I'm passionate, but I'm not an emotional woman, and he 641 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: completely breaks down, just sobbing. At that moment, I was like, Okay, 642 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: this can't be this big, This can't be this big. 643 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: But what people don't understand and what people don't see 644 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: when you're a mom and a coach, there's a sacrifice 645 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: that your children make and your husband and when things 646 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: don't pan out, invest it and it hurts them too. 647 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 1: So let my women down right, that's the coach. And 648 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: people will tell you all the time it's so nice. 649 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 1: When you're a parent. 650 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 2: You walk in and you're like, oh, this is what matters. 651 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 2: But when I walk. 652 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: Into my house, my child is crying, and I was like, 653 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: wait a minute, I've let my team down and I've 654 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: let my boys down, and that was kind of a 655 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: double whammy and the chance for me to completely change 656 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: my perspective and where I was placing myself worth. 657 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 3: What I'm hearing you say though, now is that you've 658 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 3: had time to reflect on that moment, understanding that maybe 659 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 3: how it felt in that letdown isn't actually the lesson 660 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 3: to take from it. So now, in the time since then, 661 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 3: after walking through the door and seeing your son and 662 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 3: feeling like you let your girls down, how do you 663 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 3: reflect on that now? 664 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: Well, I think I was placing emphasis on the wrong thing, right. 665 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: We all, regardless of understanding your legacy and understanding your purpose, 666 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,239 Speaker 1: we all get lost in chasing outcomes. 667 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 2: And the real power lies in the journey. 668 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 1: And for me to reattach that now, I could have 669 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 1: I could have shied away from the hard moments, and 670 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: I could have not chosen to grow as a coach 671 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,359 Speaker 1: but instead I did some self reflecting in the month 672 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: of December and asked myself the hard questions, why did 673 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: that hit me so hard? And someone who preaches that 674 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: failure is part of the process, why could I not 675 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: process it? 676 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,839 Speaker 2: And it's easy to trust the process when things are 677 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 2: going well. 678 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: It's really hard to trust the process when things aren't processing. 679 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: And so for me, I became a better coach because 680 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,800 Speaker 1: of that. I doubled down on those same women. I 681 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: made sure that they understood it was about the journey. 682 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 1: And if I'm attaching my self worth as a coach 683 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,239 Speaker 1: to the outcome, my women are doing the same thing. 684 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm setting an example to my boys that your self 685 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,760 Speaker 1: worth comes from what you do and not who you are. 686 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: And so I changed the who I was that moment. 687 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 3: What a beautiful opportunity, though, And then to be able 688 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 3: to go back to those women and recultivate these special 689 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 3: conversations to instill in them that this is truly an 690 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 3: opportunity to rise up from something that you didn't hope for. 691 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 3: And that's such an important lesson in this As with 692 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 3: any quote unquote air quotes, failure is that we don't 693 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 3: work hard for failure. We don't work hard for things 694 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 3: to not go as we'd hoped. However, it takes a smart, educated, 695 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 3: strong person to take that hard moment, that hard hurdle, 696 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 3: and say, I'm now going to use this to my advantage. 697 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,280 Speaker 1: I came across this quote as I was trying to 698 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 1: figure out ways to inspire my women, and I'm scrolling 699 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,280 Speaker 1: through all these things, reading books, I'm trying to find 700 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: something that I can grasp on, and it was this 701 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 1: quote that now the butterfly symbol has become part of 702 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: our team culture. 703 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 2: It's just it's everywhere. 704 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 1: You'll see it on me next week d C Doublea's 705 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,839 Speaker 1: But it was just when the caterpillar thinks the world 706 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: is ending, she becomes a butterfly, and we decided from 707 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 1: that moment on, we're chase see butterfly moments, understanding that 708 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: the caterpillar is part of the process and we're going 709 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 1: to find ourselves there. But what we're really chasing is 710 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:07,880 Speaker 1: those butterfly moments. 711 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I love that right now, Coach Tayler. 712 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 3: When someone goes to your Instagram page, they see a 713 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,280 Speaker 3: ton of followers, they see a woman who is at 714 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 3: the helm of Buiu's track and field program. But when 715 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 3: you look in the mirror, what is it that you 716 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,640 Speaker 3: see looking back at you? 717 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 2: Oh, I see someone who took a chance on herself. 718 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,560 Speaker 1: I see ten year old me. I see sixteen year 719 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: old me. I see eighteen year old me that walked 720 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: out of the house with nothing to my name. I 721 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: see thirty year old me that just became a new mom. 722 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: And then I see me as I am now. And 723 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 1: that's someone who I'm really incredibly proud of. 724 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so special. 725 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 3: We are releasing this episode the day after the La 726 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 3: stop of the After Dark Tour. It's been such a 727 00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 3: special journey. I myself training for the half marathon. You guys, 728 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 3: athletes all over the world toward their own starting lines. 729 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,120 Speaker 3: When you take a step back and look at the 730 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 3: magnitude of your impact, does it really hit you. 731 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 2: In these moments? It does. 732 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: My circle of women has just been the athletes that 733 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,360 Speaker 1: I coach, right, And that's a small community that you 734 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: can still inspire a larger community through those small. 735 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 2: Twenty thirty women, forty women. 736 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,760 Speaker 1: But now to have an opportunity, my collective of women 737 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,960 Speaker 1: has just gotten larger, and so all these women that 738 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,720 Speaker 1: are getting on the starting line, I feel a part 739 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: of their journey, and that's powerful. 740 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,880 Speaker 2: Running is bigger than running. You know that, I know that. 741 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 3: What would you say One of the most resounding lessons 742 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 3: is that running has brought to your every day. 743 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: The confidence that comes from finishing something that you started 744 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: running does that every single day, whether it's a two 745 00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: mile jog or a half marathon. You build confidence from 746 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 1: setting out to do something and then finishing it. 747 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,360 Speaker 2: The confidence is special. 748 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 3: One piece of advice that you offer to individuals as 749 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 3: they approach their own starting lines, whether we're talking about 750 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,800 Speaker 3: on the runner, off the run, every day is a 751 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 3: chance for a new beginning, something that you know very well. 752 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 3: For someone who is approaching their own starting line, what 753 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:19,760 Speaker 3: do you tell them? 754 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 2: This is a privilege. 755 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: This is a privilege, and so if you approach it 756 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 1: that way, your mindset and your entry into that starting 757 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 1: line is going to be from a gratitude mindset. And 758 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,720 Speaker 1: running is a privilege. The ability to move our body 759 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,680 Speaker 1: is a privilege, and sometimes we forget that and it 760 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,560 Speaker 1: becomes a little bit of a punishment. Our sport is 761 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 1: sometimes a punishment for other people's sport, right, but it 762 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 1: really isn't. 763 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,719 Speaker 2: It's a privilege to be able to do this. 764 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,399 Speaker 1: And so when women enter with that mindset, it's going 765 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,720 Speaker 1: to serve them. 766 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 2: Women. 767 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 3: To be in this position now, to be such a 768 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 3: vocal leader for so many women, something that you did 769 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 3: not see from a young age. 770 00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:58,839 Speaker 2: What does it mean to you? 771 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,840 Speaker 1: It is my the feeling that you've lived your purpose, 772 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,800 Speaker 1: that you're living your purpose every single day, nothing else 773 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,760 Speaker 1: is left to accomplish. 774 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,279 Speaker 2: That's what it means to me. 775 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 1: And I've just come to realize that late in my forties. 776 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: So for the young women out there that are just 777 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,200 Speaker 1: trying to figure life out, whether you're eighteen or twenty 778 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,239 Speaker 1: eight or thirty eight, understand that one day you're going 779 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 1: to wake up. If you just consistently work hard and 780 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,319 Speaker 1: put your head down and stay true to yourself, you're 781 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 1: going to wake up one day and you're going to 782 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,600 Speaker 1: be exactly where you were meant to be. And that's 783 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,280 Speaker 1: where I'm at now, and it is it's such an honor. 784 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,960 Speaker 3: Does that mean that you could be content if you 785 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 3: had to tomorrow stop doing what you're doing, would you 786 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 3: feel content with what you've done? 787 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,960 Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, I feel very content. There's so much 788 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 2: more I want to do. 789 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,799 Speaker 3: But yeah, right now, you have an opportunity to offer 790 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,560 Speaker 3: your younger self a piece of advice, the one that's 791 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 3: walking out of the house without her shoes on, saying, 792 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 3: I've got to do my own thing, knowing what you know. Now, 793 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,840 Speaker 3: what would you tell yourself during that hurdle moment You're. 794 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:06,319 Speaker 2: Gonna make it. 795 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,040 Speaker 1: You're going to make it, because that was a question 796 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,840 Speaker 1: I couldn't answer, and I would love to tell her. 797 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 2: You're going to make it. 798 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 3: So so so grateful that we have the opportunity to 799 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,920 Speaker 3: sit down. For those that aren't following along with you 800 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 3: just yet, tell us how do we find you on 801 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 3: the socials? 802 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:22,719 Speaker 2: How do we keep up? 803 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,040 Speaker 1: You can follow me on Instagram dolgit do Songe Taylor 804 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 1: and yeah, just follow the journey at YU and my Pros. 805 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 3: TC, swosh TC, I'm over at Emile Body and at 806 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 3: Hurdle Podcast Another Hurdle Conquered. 807 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.