Speaker 1: Hey, fam, Hello Sunshine. Today on the bright Side, Olympic
Speaker 1: hurdler and sprinter Queen Harrison Clay. She's here to talk
Speaker 1: about this summer's Paris Olympics, her dedication to empowering female athletes,
Speaker 1: and how hosting on Airbnb enables her to do it all.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday, June sixth I'm Danielle Robe.
Speaker 2: And I'm Simone Boyce, and this is the bright Side
Speaker 2: from Hello Sunshine, Simone.
Speaker 1: We both want to be athletes. I know we're going
Speaker 1: to be following the Olympics. They're only one month away,
Speaker 1: and there's been so much anticipation and so many high
Speaker 1: profile returns like Simone Biles. There's also been some devastating
Speaker 1: losses like Gabby Douglass having to pull out due to
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. I feel like I need a countdown
Speaker 1: on my whiteboard in my kitchen.
Speaker 2: Road to the Olympics. I can already hear the theme
Speaker 2: song in my head. I'm so ready for it.
Speaker 3: Give it to me.
Speaker 2: As we get closer to the kickoff in Paris, Danielle,
Speaker 2: we are going to talk a lot about the roads
Speaker 2: of the Olympics right here on the bright Side, and
Speaker 2: I'm really excited because we're going to be bringing the
Speaker 2: best and the brightest voices on to tell us who
Speaker 2: we should be paying attention to, what goes into being
Speaker 2: an Olympian, and also the feeling of what it's like
Speaker 2: to be in the stands. I have never actually attended
Speaker 2: an Olympics. It has eluded me, and I've got to
Speaker 2: do it one day.
Speaker 1: It's such a bucket list moment. Also, I feel like
Speaker 1: you and I we've talked about being patriotic. It feels
Speaker 1: like such an ultimate American moment to go be at
Speaker 1: the Olympics. It's super exciting.
Speaker 2: I would for sure wear a cape of some sort
Speaker 2: if I went like it would be a flag, probably
Speaker 2: either the American flag or the Rings flag, but there
Speaker 2: would be a cape involved for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, we are joined by someone who's actually in the
Speaker 1: mists of training for the Olympic trials. Queen Harrison Clay
Speaker 1: made history in two thousand and eight when she became
Speaker 1: the youngest member of the US track and field team
Speaker 1: to compete in the Summer Olympics in Beijing. And beyond
Speaker 1: the track, Queen is also just so fly like. She
Speaker 1: has amazing style, wears cool lipstick, cool clothes, and she's
Speaker 1: also really passionate about empowering female athletes and helping them
Speaker 1: succeed on and off the field. She's actually doing something
Speaker 1: about it too, through a social organization that she co
Speaker 1: founded called the Athletic Girls Club for girls age thirteen
Speaker 1: to seventeen and eighteen to twenty three. She's just empowering
Speaker 1: female athletes across the board.
Speaker 2: I mean, we know sports are integral and shaping our
Speaker 2: future leaders. We've talked a lot on the bright side
Speaker 2: about that pipeline from the field to the c suite,
Speaker 2: But there's new research out that underscores the positive impact
Speaker 2: on mental health. So it turns out that girls who
Speaker 2: participate in sports can have lower rates of depression and anxiety.
Speaker 2: And this is so interesting, Danielle. Girls who play sports
Speaker 2: report one point five times higher levels of meaning and
Speaker 2: purpose compared to those who never played.
Speaker 1: I feel that in my own life playing I don't
Speaker 1: know if I necessarily play sports, but I work out
Speaker 1: and having a strong body gives me a strong mind,
Speaker 1: and vice versa, like one feeds the other. So every
Speaker 1: time we have an athlete on our show, she affirms
Speaker 1: what you and I both know to be true. One
Speaker 1: After the Break, the Fast and the fabulous Queen Harrison
Speaker 1: Clay is here and we're talking about her Olympic journey,
Speaker 1: the moment that almost kept her from making the Olympics
Speaker 1: last time, and the power of her community. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. This segment is in partnership with Airbnb. We're
Speaker 1: back with Olympic hurdler, sprinter, entrepreneur and mom, Queen Harrison Clay.
Speaker 2: And that's not all. She's also in the Airbnb host
Speaker 2: club too. Queen, Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I'm excited to hopefully become
Speaker 3: a bright Side bestie.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're ready, one girl, girl, you ain't
Speaker 2: got to do that thing. You're already there.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, what's up. I'm here.
Speaker 1: Your name is Queen, You're in. We're good, And I'm
Speaker 1: excited because Simone is hosting for Airbnb. You're hosting for
Speaker 1: Airbnb one day. I aspire to be a host. But
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by your origin story. I read that you
Speaker 1: first started running track as a way to make friends.
Speaker 1: At what point did it become a parent that you
Speaker 1: could really do this at an elite level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely started with making friends. I mean, I
Speaker 4: come from a huge family. I'm one of twenty three
Speaker 4: children that my dad has. Fun fact, so my friends
Speaker 4: were always just my family. That's what my parents told me, like,
Speaker 4: your your family is your friends. And then we moved
Speaker 4: from upstate New York down to Richmond, Virginia, and I
Speaker 4: didn't know anyone. I was going to middle school and
Speaker 4: everyone was kind of clicked up from elementary school or
Speaker 4: in local neighborhoods. And I was like, well, what's the
Speaker 4: biggest team or organization that I could jump on? And
Speaker 4: I saw the track team and it was co ed,
Speaker 4: you know, so that was actually added on this because well,
Speaker 4: so you know, me young pre teen girl joined the
Speaker 4: track team and I kind of just took to it immediately.
Speaker 4: I had a running past in the past, but to
Speaker 4: be in an organized sport that was my first time.
Speaker 1: I think that's so cool.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I just had a friend tell me that I should
Speaker 1: join a run club to meet men. So now you
Speaker 1: have confirmed her suspicions. I'm going to do it. But
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about how opportunities for female athletes
Speaker 1: have changed drastically in recent years, and you were training
Speaker 1: and discovering the sport in the early two thousands. What
Speaker 1: kind of road map existed for you at that time.
Speaker 4: Oh my, it's so different, different terrain. I mean, there
Speaker 4: still are uphill battles. But when I started, it was
Speaker 4: very much your track athlete. There was no distinction between
Speaker 4: male or female. And I think there were good parts
Speaker 4: about that because people were kind of treated equally on
Speaker 4: in the sport at that time. But then it also
Speaker 4: didn't take into account the nuances that come along as
Speaker 4: being a female athlete, as being a woman, a young woman,
Speaker 4: and how our body develops differently, so that one size
Speaker 4: all approach that we kind of got boxed into when
Speaker 4: I was younger. It's good to see it now, to
Speaker 4: see female athletes and women in general just shining as women,
Speaker 4: not just as an athlete, like honing in on what
Speaker 4: makes us different and celebrating that. It's dope to see.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, Queen, you qualified for the Beijing
Speaker 2: Olympics in two thousand and eight when you were just
Speaker 2: a sophomore at Virginia Tech. As someone who failed at
Speaker 2: literally every sport, I don't know what that feels like.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping to live vicariously through you through this question.
Speaker 2: What do you remember about getting that call or getting
Speaker 2: that news.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So when we'd qualify for the Olympic Games, there's
Speaker 4: like a host and a series of event. So I
Speaker 4: was in my collegiate season. We had the NCAA National Championships.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget this. My coach put me in an
Speaker 4: event I usually didn't do, which was the four x
Speaker 4: one relay.
Speaker 3: I'm on third leg, I'm running for my team, and
Speaker 3: I ended up pulling.
Speaker 4: My quad muscle, which is like detrimental to sprinting because
Speaker 4: it's huge muscle that you need.
Speaker 3: So I didn't get to finish that.
Speaker 4: National championships and Olympic trials were about two and a
Speaker 4: half three weeks away, so any thought I had of
Speaker 4: making the team kind of started to diminish because I
Speaker 4: hurt myself and Team USA is a very competitive team
Speaker 4: to make. But thankfully I had a great team around
Speaker 4: me that rallied. We did so much physical therapy and
Speaker 4: treatment and all that type of stuff, and even just
Speaker 4: mentally training to say, look, if you can be well
Speaker 4: enough and healthy enough to step out on the line,
Speaker 4: the sky is the limit. And I literally ran on faith,
Speaker 4: like I look back at that race, and I think
Speaker 4: about it. I was out in laying eight, which is
Speaker 4: like not a you know, like not the best.
Speaker 3: Lane to be in.
Speaker 4: I was the last person qualified into the final Olympic trials.
Speaker 4: Even on the last straightaway a girl fell over the
Speaker 4: hurdle rolled.
Speaker 3: Into my lane.
Speaker 4: I had to jump over her, and somehow I still
Speaker 4: was able to get second place and make the Olympic
Speaker 4: team as this nineteen year old. And so I think
Speaker 4: that was a testament if I didn't know before then
Speaker 4: that I belong here. I have the mental fortitude and
Speaker 4: the physical attributes to be an Olympian integrate. That solidified it.
Speaker 4: I still get chills thinking about it and looking at
Speaker 4: that race.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 2: We often hear about athletes having this really intense mind
Speaker 2: body connection, and an athlete like Simone Biles has talked
Speaker 2: about how you know, before certain events she had either
Speaker 2: a good gut feeling or a bad gut feeling about
Speaker 2: what was about to happen. So that day, when you
Speaker 2: were qualifying for the Olympics, what was your mental state?
Speaker 4: Like what I do remember was like the freedom. There
Speaker 4: was something about getting injured two weeks prior, nobody looking
Speaker 4: at me to make the team. There wasn't that added
Speaker 4: pressure from the public. I was a long shot by
Speaker 4: their eyes. So I think being able to just go
Speaker 4: in there authentically, like run my best race without those
Speaker 4: additional pressures, my mind was free because whatever the outcome was,
Speaker 4: I was proud. Yeah, and I was even prouder to
Speaker 4: make the team, obviously, but I was just proud to
Speaker 4: have withstood all the things that happened that season to
Speaker 4: still stand on that line and represent myself, my family,
Speaker 4: and my university.
Speaker 3: That it was a freedom that allowed me to make
Speaker 3: that team.
Speaker 1: Queen, you mentioned mental fortitude, and you know, I've read
Speaker 1: a few books about sports psychology because I think so
Speaker 1: much of it is applicable to our daily lives. One
Speaker 1: of my favorites is How Champions Think by doctor Bob Rotella,
Speaker 1: and in sports he talks about this moment of psyching
Speaker 1: yourself up. But it doesn't just happen right before the race.
Speaker 1: It happens in the weeks leading up to the race.
Speaker 1: And now you're leading up to the Olympic qualifiers for
Speaker 1: the Paris Games. How are you psyching yourself up and
Speaker 1: preparing for that make or break race?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everyone's adopted it now when they're like
Speaker 4: the lulu is the Salulu I swear like athletes. We've
Speaker 4: been doing that for ages where it doesn't matter like
Speaker 4: how you're seated going into a race, and that means
Speaker 4: you could be coming in as the twelfth fastest or
Speaker 4: the second fastest. When you come to that field of
Speaker 4: play or that line in your mind, you've told yourself
Speaker 4: you're better than everyone else in that race because the
Speaker 4: race is against you versu yourself. And so as I
Speaker 4: get ready for the Olympic Trials, get ready for the
Speaker 4: Paris Games, every day is about chipping off at being
Speaker 4: better than I was yesterday, a week before, even an
Speaker 4: hour before. And I think once you with age, with maturity,
Speaker 4: comes that self confidence that if I can beat myself yesterday,
Speaker 4: why can't I beat anyone else in the world. And
Speaker 4: that can go into so many different industries, not just
Speaker 4: an athlete.
Speaker 2: So how do you find that self confidence on days
Speaker 2: when you're not feeling confident or when you need to
Speaker 2: push through those near misses as an athlete.
Speaker 4: Looking for like outside motivation, especially now I'm a mother,
Speaker 4: you know, going into motherhood, she just turned to this
Speaker 4: may but now there's like this additional external factor that
Speaker 4: motivates me to shine my brightest as the brightest star
Speaker 4: that I can be. It used to be me, It
Speaker 4: used to be the accolades, and those things are still important,
Speaker 4: but now family, especially this young girl, impressionable who I
Speaker 4: want to be her greatest version of herself. I would
Speaker 4: be remiss not to be my best version. So when
Speaker 4: it's hard and it's hot, or you know, I have
Speaker 4: a ding here and bang the knee here, I just
Speaker 4: can regroup and think not just for myself, but for
Speaker 4: little Queen Cary, that's my baby.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought her up because I want
Speaker 1: to know what training looks like for the Paris Olympic Games.
Speaker 1: Now that you're a mom, it's got to be different.
Speaker 3: Oh, it is.
Speaker 4: Very different in great ways and in really challenging ways.
Speaker 4: I would say maybe within the past two months it
Speaker 4: just felt very all consuming. It was like never an
Speaker 4: off switch because when I go into training and I'm
Speaker 4: at the track, I'm fully focused on that. And in
Speaker 4: the past, when I leave the track, I would be
Speaker 4: able to decompress fully.
Speaker 3: I can put my feet up on the.
Speaker 4: Couch, getting the ice back whatever, and focus totally on me,
Speaker 4: but now it switches from track queen to mommy queen,
Speaker 4: in which case it leaves less space for me to
Speaker 4: just have that same type of recovery.
Speaker 3: But I've gotten the gist of it.
Speaker 4: It just kind of has taken some time to learn
Speaker 4: how to be selfish and not think of it as
Speaker 4: a bad way. I mean, I would have never gotten
Speaker 4: to the place that I am if I wasn't selfish
Speaker 4: throughout my career and my life, because I have to
Speaker 4: be for these hundreds of a second that I'm trying
Speaker 4: to get to win or to go to the Olympic
Speaker 4: Games and get a gold medal. So doing that when
Speaker 4: your mother seems kind of taboo because they say no,
Speaker 4: selfish is bad, selfless good. But you have to have
Speaker 4: that balance, and I've learned it.
Speaker 1: So I love that you just said I am selfish
Speaker 1: because we are taught as women to be selfless. You
Speaker 1: said it, What does being selfish look like like? Give
Speaker 1: me specifics if you can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about prioritizing my time and my recovery. It
Speaker 4: goes without saying that your baby or your child is
Speaker 4: always going to be at the forefront of your mind.
Speaker 4: But initially it would be I'd get done with training
Speaker 4: and I'm like rushing home, like, no, there's no stops.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm like, the only place you need to
Speaker 4: go is a grocery store or something for her. And
Speaker 4: now it's like, Okay, do I need to go get
Speaker 4: in the cold tub? Do I need to go to
Speaker 4: the chiropractor? These are things I need to do for
Speaker 4: my body to perform at its best, and so I've
Speaker 4: taken that time even if it's like, oh, you want
Speaker 4: to go get your hair done, which is something I
Speaker 4: used to love to do, because just as much as
Speaker 4: Fast as part of my brand, so is fabulous. So
Speaker 4: I'm like that brings me joy, and it makes training
Speaker 4: better and it makes my life better. And so tapping
Speaker 4: back into those things that bring me joy makes training
Speaker 4: that much that much better.
Speaker 1: I am. I love that you said fast and fabulous
Speaker 1: because one of my favorite athletes growing up was flow Jo,
Speaker 1: and I feel like she made fast and fabulous possible.
Speaker 1: So I love that you're carrying the torch. But you
Speaker 1: have a new title that you're adding to your resume.
Speaker 1: You're the co founder of Athletic Girls Club, which is
Speaker 1: a new membership based social organization dedicated to empowering female athletes.
Speaker 1: Why is this club so needed?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: My's beyond needed.
Speaker 4: I think it literally just about what I wish I
Speaker 4: had when I was younger, you know, like you mentioned
Speaker 4: flow Jo, I remember seeing playbacks and replays of her
Speaker 4: and how she came to the line. It felt like
Speaker 4: her authentic self. And so with Athletic Girls Club, I'm here,
Speaker 4: I'm a living testament to bringing your authentic self to
Speaker 4: the line.
Speaker 3: And I know the root of that is.
Speaker 4: The confidence and the self awareness that I got through sport.
Speaker 4: So that's our common thread of all the girls in
Speaker 4: the Athletic Girls Club. We are all connected through our
Speaker 4: love of sport because we're active or we're active female athletes.
Speaker 4: But we know only less than one percent goes on
Speaker 4: to be a professional athlete.
Speaker 3: So it's like, how do they pivot?
Speaker 4: How do we provide resources and a network that if
Speaker 4: they want to host their own podcast, we have a
Speaker 4: network within the Athletic Girls Club that they can tap
Speaker 4: into and do an internship.
Speaker 3: It's really that just.
Speaker 4: Paying it forward that I've done at a unofficial capacity
Speaker 4: most of my career to now make it a thriving
Speaker 4: membership club that I'm really excited about.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for you as you create the version of
Speaker 2: community that you want to see in the world. You
Speaker 2: talked about how isolating it can be as an elite athlete,
Speaker 2: and this word community, it feels like it gets thrown
Speaker 2: around a lot these days, and sometimes it feels really hollow,
Speaker 2: and I don't know that it carries a lot of meaning.
Speaker 2: So I'm curious what does community mean to you.
Speaker 4: As definitely thrown around a lot. I think community to
Speaker 4: me is more. It's not just the word or us
Speaker 4: grouping together physically. It's about we have this common thread
Speaker 4: and I want you to be the best version of yourself.
Speaker 4: You want me to be the best version of myself.
Speaker 4: So how do we pool our resources, our mind, our
Speaker 4: strengths so that everybody in our community can be the
Speaker 4: best version of ourselves. I mean, a rising tide lifts
Speaker 4: all ships, and so what we hope and look for
Speaker 4: Athletic Girls Club and this network that create to do
Speaker 4: is to rise all of our girls. I mean these
Speaker 4: are girls that are thirteen to seventeen and then eighteen
Speaker 4: to twenty four. You know, this is a really distinct
Speaker 4: group of young girls and women that we know if
Speaker 4: polished correctly and given the space and the freedom to
Speaker 4: express themselves in whatever way that looks. They're going to
Speaker 4: be the change makers of the world, and we just
Speaker 4: want to be a small part of helping them get there.
Speaker 2: How has your community shown up for you? Oh?
Speaker 4: I mean now, they help me with babysitting, So that's
Speaker 4: a huge part of community because.
Speaker 3: I need that mental space.
Speaker 4: But they also rally behind me through my wins, my losses,
Speaker 4: my injuries, my triumphs. I've had a strong team of coaches,
Speaker 4: family and friends that have uplifted me and held me
Speaker 4: to say, you as you are today is the perfect
Speaker 4: version of you. It doesn't matter what your time was
Speaker 4: at that race, which is hard to hear as an
Speaker 4: athlete because we're very tuned into our athletic performance.
Speaker 3: Dick our worth.
Speaker 4: As you are, Queen, you are perfect as this Now.
Speaker 4: How can I help you achieve something else? Or how
Speaker 4: can I help you appreciate the achievements you've had thus far?
Speaker 4: That part is more difficult for me, but my community's
Speaker 4: helping me work through that too.
Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back with Queen Harrison Clay.
Speaker 1: And we're back with olympian and entrepreneur Queen Harrison Clay.
Speaker 1: When you're a highly driven person, that can be difficult.
Speaker 1: You know, Queen, we've talked a lot about what you've
Speaker 1: given to the sport, but how about what sports gives
Speaker 1: to you to girls? Why is it important to encourage
Speaker 1: girls to stay in sports?
Speaker 4: Sport it literally helps throughout your entire life. I can
Speaker 4: say that boldly and proudly because I know so many
Speaker 4: many women that competed in sports, maybe in high school
Speaker 4: or college.
Speaker 3: They're not doing it anymore, and they always talk about
Speaker 3: the foundations and the fundamentals that they learned in sports,
Speaker 3: how it helped them throughout their career. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: talking about c suite level position women that are in
Speaker 3: these amazing companies, and they always dial back and say, yeah,
Speaker 3: I did growing or water polo, or I learned how
Speaker 3: to work within a team at a young age and
Speaker 3: that helped me get to where I am today. So
Speaker 3: I say, sport obviously for the physical benefits and the
Speaker 3: health benefits, but that team camaraderie, the confidence and self
Speaker 3: awareness that you have within yourself and your body. It's
Speaker 3: very difficult to find those spaces, especially as a young
Speaker 3: woman and a girl growing up. So when you're in
Speaker 3: that sporting realm and it's like your input directly affects
Speaker 3: the output. I mean, what better way to showcase how
Speaker 3: hard work can help you and the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: In sports?
Speaker 1: You're a mentor to women, to athletes. I love that
Speaker 1: you wear bold lipstick to sort of encourage women to
Speaker 1: show up boldly as themselves. Simona and I get to
Speaker 1: interview so many athletes on this show, and it seems
Speaker 1: like there's this point in time where it feels really
Speaker 1: difficult to find yourself outside of sport because it's so
Speaker 1: all consuming, it requires so much dedication. You so clearly
Speaker 1: have done that, like you have Queen the athlete and
Speaker 1: Queen the human being. What do you attribute that to?
Speaker 4: Maturity and the confidence that you get with going through
Speaker 4: things and learning along the way?
Speaker 3: Young Queen Beijing two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: Queen Oh no, she would not be doing all this
Speaker 4: stuff because there's you kind of hit it on the head.
Speaker 4: There's this myth in sports of if you're to be great,
Speaker 4: it has to be all consuming. It's an amazing film
Speaker 4: to be on that top of the podium. I won't
Speaker 4: say it's not. However, it's fleeting right. You're on the
Speaker 4: top of the podium, and then you got to work
Speaker 4: extra hard to get back to the top. So when
Speaker 4: all your eggs are in the one basket and you're
Speaker 4: not able to even enjoy life the fruits of your labor,
Speaker 4: I feel like you you may have a shorter career
Speaker 4: as well, because what fun is it to like keep
Speaker 4: hammering for the same exact goal. You're not going to
Speaker 4: graduations or birthday parties. I mean, I'm telling you this
Speaker 4: is what we are taught at a young age. Being
Speaker 4: an elite athlete means all that other stuff can come later.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately, sometimes later happens and you look back and
Speaker 4: you're like, wow, I really missed out on some opportunities
Speaker 4: or some things that I wish I would have done.
Speaker 4: So now you know me in this stage in life,
Speaker 4: I know there's you know, there's duality. There's Queen the athlete,
Speaker 4: and I am very much an elite athlete. I'm still
Speaker 4: doing my thing. I got Athletic Girls Club because I
Speaker 4: want to inspire the next generation of change makers and
Speaker 4: women in this world that have a foundation in sport.
Speaker 4: I can do all those things and I will, and
Speaker 4: I'll keep being an advocate that you don't just have
Speaker 4: to be one dimensional.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you more about being an
Speaker 2: airbnb host because I'm getting ready to become a host myself.
Speaker 2: How's that supplemental income feeling, girl?
Speaker 4: Okay, because I'm talking about extra money. I think it's
Speaker 4: so unique for me, especially because when you're training sometimes
Speaker 4: you have to go here, here, here, you know, like
Speaker 4: right now we're in Atlanta. We're usually based in San Diego.
Speaker 4: So I would either just be paying mortgage for my
Speaker 4: house to sit there.
Speaker 3: Right do it? Or it's like, let's offset those costs.
Speaker 4: And I think sometimes people don't think about that as
Speaker 4: well when it comes to being an Airbnb host. Maybe
Speaker 4: you don't want to host and it's not about making
Speaker 4: a profit. It's like, let me offset the cost while
Speaker 4: I go to Europe on baking exactly, and it just
Speaker 4: feels good. Like you said, I'll keep that money in
Speaker 4: my pocket.
Speaker 2: It's so easy, that's the best part about it. It's
Speaker 2: like you already have the house, you might as well
Speaker 2: let somebody else stay in it, make a little extra cash, exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, tell me about what makes your space special, like
Speaker 1: what's what is it like? Like, what color is it?
Speaker 1: And also what's been your favorite part about hosting.
Speaker 3: So our home.
Speaker 4: First of all, it's called so cozy SoCal, right like,
Speaker 4: so if hopefully that sums up what are you getting.
Speaker 4: It's cozy like deep set couches where you can like
Speaker 4: fall asleep and my husband has many times. And then
Speaker 4: because it's about less than two miles from the beach,
Speaker 4: we have all this outdoor space and like livable outdoor space.
Speaker 4: So there's a table, there's a fire pit. We're gonna
Speaker 4: put some Olympic rings out there. We're like, are we
Speaker 4: too literal? I don't think, so let's put some Olympic
Speaker 4: rings in.
Speaker 2: Well, your husband's an Olympian too, right, So.
Speaker 3: Exactly we're an Olympic family. Lean into it the next
Speaker 3: step exactly.
Speaker 4: But it's a lot of outdoor indoor Liverpool space. It's cozy,
Speaker 4: it's well equipped. I mean everything from coffee maker to cups,
Speaker 4: to sheets to can openers, whatever you need is in
Speaker 4: the house. All you got to do is get food
Speaker 4: and bring your body and have a great time.
Speaker 3: Just get cozy.
Speaker 2: So you're currently training to qualify for Paris. Have you
Speaker 2: already started looking at Airbnb's in Paris, yet just like
Speaker 2: a little browsing just for fun.
Speaker 4: We have really my in laws, like my husband's family,
Speaker 4: They're like, they don't play. Can we find something big
Speaker 4: enough for all of us? So what we're hoping is
Speaker 4: like a couple of little apartments that are in the
Speaker 4: same building so that we're all within reach because we're
Speaker 4: just so close knit.
Speaker 3: But you know, I've been looking in Paris, and then
Speaker 3: I've also been looking for.
Speaker 4: After the games when it's vacation, Like, Okay, where are
Speaker 4: we going. I'm trying to go to Sardinia, Let's go
Speaker 4: to Italy, Let's go to all the places.
Speaker 3: Since we're already in Europe.
Speaker 4: You gotta get your bank, you gotta get your bang
Speaker 4: for your book when you go over there.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to get your travel tips with your
Speaker 2: two year old because I have not brought my toddlers
Speaker 2: to Europe yet, but I really want to.
Speaker 1: But I'm also scared.
Speaker 3: You'll never There'll never be that age again.
Speaker 4: Whatever fear you have lean into, like this is an experience.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been on a plane with toddlers when
Speaker 2: they are screaming four hours and the whole.
Speaker 3: Plane is looking at you. I have it.
Speaker 4: I haven't experienced, I've seen it, and you know hindsight.
Speaker 4: I'm like, girl, you can't be judging, because no, you
Speaker 4: really never know.
Speaker 3: But you know what it's like. Just have a little checklist.
Speaker 4: You know your babies, you know what makes them excited
Speaker 4: and what they love to do.
Speaker 3: Just triple it times for and let all those other
Speaker 3: rules go out the window.
Speaker 4: Like screen time, girl, get it much as much as
Speaker 4: you get, as much snacks as you want.
Speaker 2: Andy sugar, screen time, all the bad things. You get
Speaker 2: it all whenever we're traveling.
Speaker 3: Because I'm just trying to watch a movie too.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to live in peace. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to protect my piece. Okay, thanks that It'll be great.
Speaker 2: It will be Queen. This has been so much fun
Speaker 2: chatting with you. Thank you so much for bringing your
Speaker 2: light to our show and sharing your experience of being
Speaker 2: an airbnb host. I'm so excited now.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me and like, get
Speaker 4: to it. Come on, get that thing listed so I
Speaker 4: can come and stay at your house.
Speaker 3: Because I think you got a pool, so list it
Speaker 3: so I can come.
Speaker 1: It's true, yus, this has been so awesome.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Queen, Thank you so much. A'll have a
Speaker 3: great one.
Speaker 2: Queen Harrison Clay is an Olympic hurdler sprinter and the
Speaker 2: co founder of the Athletic Girls Club. We'll be cheering
Speaker 2: her on when she competes in the Olympic Trials later
Speaker 2: this month. This segment was in partnership with Airbnb. And
Speaker 2: that's it for today's episode. On tomorrow's show, it's Flirty Friday.
Speaker 2: Here at the bright Side, We're bringing you another edition
Speaker 2: of our dating and relationship segment, Catching Feelings, this time
Speaker 2: with flirt coach Ben Cameras.
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