WEBVTT - Best Of Dear Chelsea: Lindsey Vonn 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:02.920 Oh, hello, good afternoon. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.920 Buenos tardes, I mean buenos I don't even know what 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:08.400 I mean. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.880 I'm so sick of my bell correcting me in my 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:11.799 fucking Spanish. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.800 I mean, like, she corrects everything I say, but she's 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.880 not correcting me to speak proper Spanish. She speaks slang 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.000 Spanish admittingly. She says to me, well, this is how 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.360 we speak in Mexico. And I'm like, great, but I'm 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.800 trying to learn Spanish for Spain and true. And I 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.520 also don't want to point out that I don't ever 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.600 correct her fucking English, never and never say oh no 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.479 that words, those words go in the opposite direction or anything. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.000 But she is riding me like a wave. Oh my gosh, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.400 we will get off my jock. I'm like, do you 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.080 want me to learn Spanish? Or don't you if you keep. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.560 Putting up these barriers? Uh? 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.279 And she just loves it, though, But I gotta give 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.080 it to her, like I know that that must be 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.200 satisfying for her to be able to correct me all 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.320 the time, tell me what to do. And you asked 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.400 her to it, Well, yeah, I said I wanted to 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.120 speak Spanish. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.320 You could let me slide a little bit with my grammar. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.640 But you know what I love. I'm such a grammarian. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.440 I care so much about grammar that I really want. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.560 I want to speak proper Spanish anyway, It's just it's 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.200 too much of a beginner's Spanish to be there yet. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:20.160 Yea, what have I learned this week? I learned about 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:20.959 Cuba and sugar. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.640 Oh, tell me about well, you know, after this, I 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:25.920 learned all about Spain. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:26.720 Oh. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.360 I have to promote a show April twenty. It's Spokane. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.880 That's the second show we added in Spokane. It's not 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:36.080 quite sold out, so please buy your tickets, you motherfuckers. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.600 And what other shows do I need to promote? Well, 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.440 they're all really almost sold out. Red Rocks Amphitheater. That 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.560 one's not sold out yet. Red Rocks Amphitheater. That's a 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.280 big one, that's like. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:46.120 Ten thousand people. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.560 I can't so yeah, go to Chelsea Heler dot com. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.680 There are some tickets for some other shows. But yeah, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.720 and I'm going to add a whole bunch of new 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:53.840 dates I think. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:54.600 Sometime this month. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:55.760 Yeah, fantastic. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.120 It's so hard to figure out where I am. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.600 I thought I was in Cuba, So I learned all 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.279 about the Spanish conquering Cuba and then the English conquering Cuba, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.000 and then they had a treaty and they gave Cuba 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.760 back to Spain, and then they kept Florida, and then 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.919 they kept the Lower Mississippi some areas around there, and 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.520 then they discovered sugar during the Atlantic slave trade, which 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:16.720 was started by the English. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.400 I'd like to say that, make sure. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.040 We keep that mentioned so that people fucking understand history, 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.400 because I am so confused about so many things. I 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.640 was like, well, didn't we all come from Egypt to 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.880 my brother one day He's like, no, you asshole, And 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.120 so now I'm reading a book. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.640 Then we all came from Africa. Everybody came from Africa. Yeah, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.480 So anyway, the sugar. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.640 Yeah, so Cuba was the center of sugar for a 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.480 long time. Slaves were responsible for all of the prosperity 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:49.240 of the United States, beginning the United States and basically 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.280 taking all of the sugar cane, hacking it, cutting it, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.360 transferring it, blah blah blah. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.240 And so that's when the Atlantic slave. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.280 Trade peaked, was during the sugar I want to say rush, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:00.640 but I don't think it's called a rush. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.720 I like calling it a sugar rush. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.120 Yeah, sugar rush. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:05.240 That's a different gun. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.560 That's a difference. That's something too. So yeah, there's that. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:13.240 And then I'm learning about Neanderthals and Denisovans and Anatolia 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.840 and Homo erectus and how we all kind of changed 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.079 and when we split off, like right before Homo erectus 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.480 we split off, we diverged. One became chimpanzees and the 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.480 other became modern humans. Oh my god, short history of 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.160 humanity is called I need. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.840 To read what you're reading, because like, as a kid 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.840 who grew up going to Christian school, where we had 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.200 let's say, a warped and abbreviated version of science, I 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.960 didn't even know that like Pangaea existed until I was 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.480 in college. I remember saying to a teacher once, why 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.480 does it look like the two, you know, halves of 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.840 the earth would fit together? And they're like, that's just 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.080 a funny thing God did. Like that kind of stuff 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:50.800 was what I grew up. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.600 I also believed that we were Everything was connected, even 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.040 the islands, and not all the islands like Sardinia Corsica 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:00.640 were never part of the mainland. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.640 They were just like they were volcanic. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.200 Yes, yes, so they have their own thing going. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.520 So that's interesting too that that would naturally happen, that 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.360 there would be elands sprinkled everywhere. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.880 You know, I mean, I guess I got such bad 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.640 science education. I didn't even remember the word for continence. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.360 You know, the halves of the world. It's just wild. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:19.320 Yeah, it is wild. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.240 And you know, you know you read something and you retain. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.360 I'd be interested in my level of retainment. I want 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.520 to take tests after every book I read to see 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:28.880 how much I took in. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.560 I think we're trying to send you back to college. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:36.719 I wouldn't some sort of curriculum quite frankly, Okay, what 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:37.200 do we got. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:38.760 What's happening to me? 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.480 Well, Chelsea, I had had my. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.520 Ski buddy on today, but I won't tell you that 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:44.359 is until she's on. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:49.599 That's very exciting. So, Chelsea, I had an email come 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.000 in about Dana, who had called in her step son 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.120 was being sort of vaguely creepy and yes, yes, and 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.400 she mentioned like he was maybe being able to touch 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.120 you peely with her son. And I just thought this 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.520 email was so important that I wanted to share it 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:11.120 with you. Heather says, hello, Chelsea, and Catherine, I wanted 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.880 to say thank you for providing the audience with the 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.159 mother that called in about her steps on she feels 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.040 uncomfortable around. While I had no doubt this would be 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:23.040 your response, I truly appreciate you not minimizing the seriousness 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.560 of needing to take action to protect her younger son, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.760 self and family. I'm also in awe of the mother's 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.000 strength to reach out for advice, because that is so tricky. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.400 I mean, it's like it's this sort of nebulous thing. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.159 My personal story includes eight plus years of a very 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.160 close family friend grooming me as a child with uncomfortable touching, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.120 inappropriate sexual conversations for an adult to have with a child, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:51.800 shower peeping, accidental quote unquote porn exposure, and more. While 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.920 rape never occurred, it has left years worth of trauma 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.200 response that I'm working through with a great therapist. However, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.920 at the time it was brushed off by others as 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.760 creepy old man vibes or that shoulder or waiste touching 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.920 wasn't considered a sexual touch even if I didn't want it. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.719 I think I was meant to hear this podcast today 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.040 as my therapy session this week was focused on my 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.080 continued struggle with not freezing in a moment when someone 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.599 touches me in a suggestive but not legally sexual way. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.160 The mother listening to her intuition and taking charge to 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.279 keep her young son safe could have a huge impact 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.120 on her son's future. It's something I wish would have 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.039 happened for myself. Her older steps on clearly also needs support, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.920 and I'm thankful you communicated to prioritize safety of family 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.800 while acknowledging his need for help too. It's these conversations 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.920 and stories that I hope will help others think differently 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.760 on the impact these quote unquote micro traumas can have 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.719 over time. Thanks so much for your awesomeness and sharing 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.200 both the funny and needed stories of our lives. Heather. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.599 I like how she said micro trauma because I learned 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.960 about complex trauma from a friend of mine over the 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.000 weekend who I hung out with, and he was telling 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.599 me about complex trauma is trauma over time, right, like 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.240 neglect or alcoholism or drug addiction, something like that that 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.919 you lay witness to. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.840 If you have a sibling that has a terrible. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.880 Schizophrenia, that would be complex trauma, which is different than 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.800 event trauma rights and PTSD is related to event trauma. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:25.120 But I want to underline the intuition part because more 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.680 and more people are talking about intuition and understanding that 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.080 it is a very concrete, if. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.040 Not measurable thing. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.840 And for every woman and man that is listening to 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.400 all our gaze. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:38.960 You all have it. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.640 We all have intuition. We all have a feeling in 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.600 our stomach and our gut. Sometimes it's in your heart, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.320 or it feels like in your heart, but it is 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.480 really in your gut when you meet someone, and it's 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.200 the exact opposite of the feeling you get when you 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.400 know something's wrong, when somebody comes into your space a 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.080 person and you know they're dangerous right away you see 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.520 that they're sketchy, or that they're unhinged, or that they're unpredictable. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.680 That feeling right there. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.800 You can also have in the opposite way about something 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.800 you should do, or somebody you should move towards, or 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.560 a thing that is right, And if you really listen 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.520 to yourself, you are going to know what that is. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.320 And we don't talk about intuition in the way that 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.040 we need to, because young girls need to trust their intuition. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.760 They need to trust the way that their body feels, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.760 because your body will tell your brain what is happening. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:30.240 And it is. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.360 It's such a concrete thing. It's like you when you're 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.839 in a certain situation or you're around someone who makes 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.880 you uncomfortable, it turns into a physical reaction. Your stomach 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.080 gets in and not your hair goes up on the 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:43.800 back of your neck. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.800 Like trust your changes. The way you're holding yourself and 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.319 carrying yourself changes, like. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.240 The body is communicating with you. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:51.520 Yeah. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.360 You know, sometimes I fold my arms when I'm in 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.600 a conversation and I realize how off putting that is. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.920 Like that's the definition of being defensive, is having your arms, 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.040 even if that's a comfortable position for you. That's how 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.920 it's kind of received most of the time. And that's 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.360 because my body's doing it. My body is saying, oh, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.439 I'm uncomfortable in this conversation, and you have to listen 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.120 to those signals or you know, sometimes it's just ego, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.440 like oh they're saying something that I don't like or 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:18.319 in the great. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.000 Way or whatever. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.280 But yeah, I think that's a great conversation for any 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.199 parents listening to have with your young children. Yeah, following 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.760 your gut. It is so important, especially with situations like 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.920 the ones we're just talking about. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.760 Where it's not illegal, it's not illicit, but it is 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.520 something that is having an effect and an impact on 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.280 that child or that adult. You know, this can happen 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.600 in adult situations as well. One really helpful listener, Tatiana, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.319 wrote in saying some of the early warning signs of 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.520 psychosis are a worrisome drop in grades or job performance, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:55.040 trouble thinking clearly, suspiciousness or uneasiness with others, a decline 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.160 in self care or personal hygiene, spending a lot more 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.040 time alone than usual, and strong inappropriate emotions are having 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.280 no feelings at all. And I think that's a really 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.320 important thing to point out as well, because that age 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.439 they said, like twenty seven right around there, that's kind 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.240 of when some mental illnesses will present themselves to people. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.480 So thanks to everyone who wrote in about that. So 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.280 I thought this was so important to highlight and really 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.720 paying attention to, you know, those little things and if 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.720 someone says I'm uncomfortable, like listening to them and seeing 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.480 what needs to what Steff's need to be taken. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.600 So okay, So who's our first guest Okay, our first guest. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.360 We it's our only guest. I forgot that I'm not 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.400 on a TV show right now. Our guest today. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.640 Is a friend of mine, a good friend of mine, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.520 and she's an Olympic gold medalist and she's a skier. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.680 But before I introduce her, I really want to mention 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.920 her philanthropy. She has a foundation called a Lindsay Vaughn Foundation, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.320 which empowers underserved girls with camps, scholarships and more. So 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.000 please make sure you are aware of that and check 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.760 it out. She wrote a great book which everyone should read. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:10:59.600 It's called Rise. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.559 Okay, please welcome Lindsay vat Ah. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.080 There she is, Miss America. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.640 I was hoping that I was gonna interrupt you your 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:10.600 ski day today. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:11.360 Where are you? 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.400 I'm in Orlando. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.400 Oh yeah, you know. I have a dilemma. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.400 Actually, I'm glad you brought up Florida because for my 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.280 new tour, I was just on the phone with my 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.400 agents this morning and they were going over routing for 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.120 the fall dates that were going to announce later, and 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.480 Florida was on the list. And I said, guys, I 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.880 don't know about Florida anymore. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:30.640 And they're like, well, do you really want. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.400 To punish the people in Florida, Like you have people 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.040 you every time you go, you go to like six 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.920 stops of Florida. I'm like, no, I don't. I don't 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.920 want to punish the people of Florida. They're being punished enough. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.719 But I feel like as a statement, I just have 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.120 to say fuck off. Like when is enough enough? Like 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.520 all of this legislation, Like I feel like DeSantis needs 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.400 to know. Certain people aren't going to come. I'm sure 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.560 they don't care about me. But if more people do it, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.600 But then there's the argument that you're affecting revenue, you're 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.960 affecting people's jobs, you're affecting people's lifestyle. So I don't 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.240 really know what the right answer is. If anybody listening 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.440 has feelings on this, please DM me. Actually, DM lindsay, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.440 shall I go through them first and then she'll read 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:06.840 them to me? 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:10.920 What are you doing in Orlando? 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.600 I'm speaking, you know, Apparently some people want my advice 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.160 for some reason. I don't know. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.960 I believe it. You're a champion. We were just watching 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.280 your night race at k I'll say. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:29.520 The streef, the streef in cloth kids, fool kids, puel kits. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.280 Fuel Yes, kids fuel the strife. Yes, good job guys. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.559 Yeah, and this video is of you skiing the world's 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.600 hardest ski run. You were not only the first woman 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.000 to do it, but you also did it in the dark, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.559 just to make it more insane. This video is crazy. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.280 I'll put a link to it in the show notes. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.480 It's a hard one. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.640 Honestly, I've not run into one American that has gotten 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.040 it right so far. But it's okay. The effort was there. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.560 I appreciate you well. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.160 It's also a hard line to ski. It's it's not 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:00.840 even a line. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.320 I don't even know what the fuck you would call 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.079 what you do, but it is so so hardcore, it's 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.040 so bad. As I mean, all my ski buddies from 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.160 Whistler who are real ski you know, like they know 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.800 how to ski and they are just like you have. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.079 When that video came out, we must have watched it 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.440 like fifteen times. If you haven't seen it, she did 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.800 it with Red Bull. You can watch it on Lindsay's Instagram, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.960 which you should be following her anyway, because you put. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:22.520 Out great content. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.480 I saw you powder skiing the other day and I 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.959 wanted to ask you, how do you because if you 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.880 spent your life training, you know, downhill and solom and 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.280 all the stuff that you do, do you spend a 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.400 lot of time in powder before you retire? 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.480 Oh No, I never powder skied because I was so 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.599 worried that I would hurt myself. And some of the 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.560 other athletes would go powder skiing, like if our race 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.920 was canceled because of so much No, you know, definitely, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.280 I would say some of the girls would go, like 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.480 people that are from California that grew up skiing powder, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.080 But I didn't grow up skiing powder. I'm from Minnesota. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:02.319 There's not one powder day in the entire season. It's 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.439 mostly man man and you're cool as hell. So I 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.719 just I love skiing, you know, and it's powder is 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.439 a lot easier on my knees. And while it's not 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.719 something that you know, I've grown up with, I just 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.600 I love it and it's fun and it's the most 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.560 exciting thing that I can do outside of racing. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.560 Yeah, powder skiing is really fucking fun. And you know 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.960 what is so fun about it, or so funny about 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.720 it is that when you learn how to ski technically, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.400 as Lindsay can speak to way more than I can. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.040 But from what little I've gleaned. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.880 Everything you learn about regular skiing goes out the window. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.560 When you ski powder, you know, you're not on an agle, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.400 you're not turning, You're bouncing like a bunny rabbit through 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.479 the snow and just like hopping like boom boo boo. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.640 Yeah, it's like leaning back. It's the exact opposite that 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.600 any instructor would ever teach you. It's all just lean 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.840 back and ride the wave. It's like surfing. It's pretty 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.120 funny because your point is the exact opposite of what 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.880 you've been told, what you've been taught, and just throw 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.560 it all out the window. Yeah. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.760 Yeah, Well you've been through a lot and you've been 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.320 injured a lot, and I want to talk a little bit. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:11.680 I know you. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:12.520 Lindsay wrote a. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.840 Great book about her whole life, her autobiography, and in 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.680 it you talk a lot about your recoveries from many 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.120 different accidents, and I want to know obviously you were 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.120 mentally tough. You couldn't survive all of this and continue 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.200 to go back out there, especially what you just skied, 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.120 and kidspoel like. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.160 Why would you do that? 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.600 You said, I mean, I think you said you had 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.000 like your surgery ready to go in case you did 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.520 wipe out and hurt yourself. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:38.080 Is that true? 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.320 Yeah, I mean I'm getting my knee replaced, so I 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.760 figured this was a perfect time to do it, because 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.600 if I crash and I need surgery, I'm getting it anyway, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:50.160 so I don't mind risking it. But I've had my 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.920 fair share of surgeries. I mean, you've hurt your knee, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.400 you know, you know the deal. But I don't think 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.640 it's ever impacted my passion for ski racing or for 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.640 skiing in general. I just love the mountain. I just 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.040 wish it had been a little bit easier on my body. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.040 But I don't have any regrets. You know, despite the 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.200 fact that I limp around most of the time, I 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.400 still wouldn't change anything. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.080 Well, let's talk about the mindset that allows you to 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.280 do that, because you work out really hard, so I 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.920 know your body's been beaten up, but you still have 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.880 a significant amount of strength left and determination in order 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.000 to keep all of that going, which I think is 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.520 really vital for I think all women, you know what 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.360 I mean, with like our physicality, It's like you get 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:31.320 an injury and you can. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.200 Be so down on yourself. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.520 First of all, it's depressing and you're immobile, and then 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.920 you're taking pills and you're you know, you're trying to 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.640 recuperate and all of that is like a real negative 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.680 downer on you. So to be able to pick yourself 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.240 back up that from that, not once, but repeatedly is 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.440 very admirable. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:48.720 And to keep going. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.080 You know, I know a lot of people who get 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.480 into an accident, they don't want to ever do that 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.600 thing again. And it's like, oh, I want to do 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.560 that thing right away again because I don't want to 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:56.160 be scared of it. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.760 Yeah, exactly. I mean I think to your point, a 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.280 lot of people can get down and I got very down. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.399 I mean I got really depressed when I was injured. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.920 I missed the Olympics. I was injured back to back acls, 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.320 which took me out for almost two years in a row. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.960 And it's really hard to find anything positive, you know, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.480 when you especially when you repeatedly get injured, like what 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.200 am I doing? 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:18.560 You know? 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.160 Why am I doing this? And it's hard to find 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.760 the motivation. But I think for me it always goes 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.840 back to passion, you know why I love ski racing 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.400 and I've always had and that's why I kept doing 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.119 it and kept coming back, but it doesn't make the 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.800 recovery any easier. You know, it's always with rehab, it's 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.480 always two steps forward, one step back, and sometimes one 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.840 step forward two steps back. You know, it's a very monotonous, long, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:48.560 slow grind, and I just have learned through repetition that 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.600 you just have to stick to it and keep going, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.600 you know, keep putting one foot in the front in 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.080 front of the other, and that's the only thing you 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.360 can do, honestly. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.040 And your transition since you've retired has been You're still 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.920 really involved with the US ski team. You're still really 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.960