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Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Chris Harrison coming to you from the home office in Austin, Texas.

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Speaker 1: It is hot in Austin, and on the show today,

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Speaker 1: I have well a fellow Austin night, Alison Gibson, an olympian,

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Speaker 1: just came back from Paris. But Austin's a little lonely

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Speaker 1: these days. My girl LZ Lauren Zema is at camp.

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Speaker 1: You know, you guys remember how Lauren always talks about

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Speaker 1: Experience Camps. So this is the week where she volunteers

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Speaker 1: at Experience Camps, this amazing organization that she's gotten so

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Speaker 1: involved with, she's now on the board. It is camps

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Speaker 1: for kids that have lost a parent or a sibling

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Speaker 1: or you know, their caretaker, and they go to this

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Speaker 1: camp for a week and unplug and they get to

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Speaker 1: be around other kids that have survived, that have been

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Speaker 1: through this as well. And most of these kids have

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Speaker 1: never been around anybody else who's dealt with what they're

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Speaker 1: dealing with, and so it is remarkable to see these

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Speaker 1: kids get together and they can talk about suicide and

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Speaker 1: the fact that one of their parents may have died

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Speaker 1: by suicide or what have you these tragic stories that

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Speaker 1: is so hard for these kids to share. So Lauren

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Speaker 1: is up there in Maine, by the way, smart girl

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Speaker 1: getting out of Austin and being in Maine where it's

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Speaker 1: fifty degrees. But she's up there doing amazing work. And

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Speaker 1: it really changed Lauren's life last summer when she volunteered

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Speaker 1: for the first time, and so she's doing it again

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Speaker 1: this year. But man, this house gets really quiet when

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Speaker 1: Lauren's not around. But so she won't be joining me

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Speaker 1: on the show today. But I am so excited for

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Speaker 1: our guest because this is so wild. So Lauren and

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Speaker 1: I are on a plane flying back to Austin and

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Speaker 1: the pilot gets on. This is several weeks ago, a

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Speaker 1: month ago, whatever. And the pilot gets on and says,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, we have an Olympian on board, and

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Speaker 1: I want to wish you know, Alison Gibson, the best

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Speaker 1: of luck as she heads to Paris to represent the

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Speaker 1: United States. I didn't think much of it. So we

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Speaker 1: go to baggage claim and I just happened to be

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Speaker 1: standing next to this young girl waiting for my bag,

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Speaker 1: and I look down and I see the credential on

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Speaker 1: her backpack she was carrying, and I said, Alison Gibbson

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Speaker 1: and had like Olympic swimmer or whatever, and I could

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Speaker 1: tell that she was probably the girl. I said, wait,

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Speaker 1: are you the Olympian that our pilot just mentioned? And

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Speaker 1: it was, And so I struck up this conversation with her.

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Speaker 1: And she is a springboard diver and has she performed

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics last time as well? I think it

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Speaker 1: was over in Asia and Tokyo maybe, but that was

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Speaker 1: during COVID, so a very different experience. She made the

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Speaker 1: team and she got to go to Paris. She was

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Speaker 1: really excited when I met her. She was going to

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Speaker 1: go early so she could take part in the opening ceremonies,

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Speaker 1: even though the diving wasn't for like a week and

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Speaker 1: a half in. She wanted to really go and take

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Speaker 1: it in. So I really took an interest in a

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Speaker 1: personal interest. I DMed her. We had talked a couple

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Speaker 1: of times and I was following her story. I was

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Speaker 1: really excited, started following our on social media, etc. Alison

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Speaker 1: Gibson had the biggest nightmarish moment that you could ever

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Speaker 1: imagine at the Olympics. These people, these Olympians, train their

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Speaker 1: entire lives. They give everything. They are going through school,

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Speaker 1: they're working, but at the same time they are training

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Speaker 1: like you and I could not comprehend. And the thing

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Speaker 1: about the Olympics, it's only every four years, and everything

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Speaker 1: comes down to that moment, the pressure, everything, and Alison

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Speaker 1: Gibson had something happen to her that had never happened

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Speaker 1: in her entire life, and her first dive resulted in

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Speaker 1: a zero point zero. It was considered a non dive.

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Speaker 1: She hit the diving board. She did a dive that

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Speaker 1: she had done a million times, and her heel and

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Speaker 1: believe it is the three meter springboard, and that was

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Speaker 1: her Olympic moment, And that is why I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk to Alison Gibson today, our Olympian, because of the

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Speaker 1: way she handled this moment really hit me. I was

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Speaker 1: so heartbroken for her. But then when I saw how

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Speaker 1: and appreciate her so much more than anybody who stood

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Speaker 1: And that's why I wanted to take a moment and

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Speaker 1: talk about this story with Alison Gibson Olympia. Hey, what's up,

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Speaker 1: my friend?

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Speaker 2: My gosh, not much.

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Speaker 3: It's been a crazy whirlwind since I saw you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, think how much life has changed since

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Speaker 1: I saw you. And I just did a little intro.

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Speaker 1: I gave kind of the thirty thousand foot level of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy. I like equate it to a metamorphosis.

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Speaker 3: I think the whole past year of my life has

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Speaker 3: been transformative, but the past two months of my life

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Speaker 2: Been crazy.

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Speaker 3: Like I feel like, obviously I'm the same person, but

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Speaker 2: And I mean, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy because I told everybody the reason I wanted

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Speaker 1: a fan. And what I said was and I don't

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Speaker 1: mean this too, you know, I'm like so much older

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Speaker 1: than you, but I was so proud. I was as proud,

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Speaker 1: if not more proud of you than anybody standing on

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Speaker 1: the way you handled that situation just struck me, And

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Speaker 1: maybe it struck me a little harder because of you know,

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Speaker 1: what I had gone through as well in my life,

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Speaker 1: and you know, being canceled and going through all that.

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Speaker 1: When you go through something that's like such a lightning

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Speaker 1: bolt moment that you don't see coming in your life,

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Speaker 1: I always find it interesting to see how people react.

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Speaker 1: And the way you acted and reacted to that just

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Speaker 1: made me really love and adore you so much more

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Speaker 1: than I already did. I was such a fan before

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Speaker 1: we dive into how your life has changed, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about why it changed. Tell me about the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, I think to add to the gravity of

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Speaker 3: this story, you almost need to hear a little bit

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Speaker 3: of the background of how.

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Speaker 2: Pes got to the Olympics in the first place.

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Speaker 3: So basically I competed in the Tokyo twenty twenty Olympics,

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Speaker 3: And I'd always dreamed of going to the Olympics and

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Speaker 3: But Tokyo was this gutting competition for me because I

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Speaker 3: Like that's impossible, right, Like that's crazy. Why would I

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Speaker 3: The way, eventually went to Olympic trials, made it to

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Speaker 3: It was kind of like, wow, like this is my

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Speaker 3: the leap of faith, Everything's fallen into place. Now is

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Speaker 3: Like I was like, this is it, This is why

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Speaker 2: Why I was called back, And.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was going to that competition with so

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Speaker 3: much confidence. It was like everything, everything was ready. By

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Speaker 3: meant a lot more to me than competing. Again, my

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Speaker 3: mission was to encourage and inspire people, and everything that

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Speaker 3: to me, this event and this Olympics and my appearance

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Speaker 2: About me winning a medal.

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Speaker 3: It was about bringing awareness to the things that I

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Speaker 3: care deeply about, bringing awareness to a story of coming

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Speaker 3: It was about so much more following along the pathway

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Speaker 1: Two things just struck me as listening to you, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. And it's tough. I have to attribute

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Speaker 3: And then there's so many people who can relate to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And actually that's a question I want to throw

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Speaker 1: the pool shock when people that you thought you knew

439
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,239
Speaker 1: and love start turning against you and you kind of

440
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 1: just want to swim to the bottom of the pool

441
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: in life and just disappear. And you're right, you want

442
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: to just you wake up every day and it was more,

443
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 1: and it was more, and it was more, and it

444
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: was very public and you want to just put it

445
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: all in the closet and not talk about it, and

446
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 1: You're right. The more I opened up about it, even

447
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: when I started doing this podcast and I ranted about

448
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 1: it and just really opened up for like an hour

449
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:36,719
Speaker 1: and a half, it was so cathartic naming it, talking

450
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 1: about it, saying it like anything going through addiction, going

451
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 1: through anything, When you talk about it and communicate about it,

452
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 1: it definitely takes the power and takes the air out

453
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Speaker 1: of it. But it is the thing that struck me

454
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: immediately was I never defined myself by being the Bachelor host.

455
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: I love doing it. It was a wonderful job, and

456
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: I still enjoy doing TV, but I much more love

457
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: being a great dad. I love being, you know, a

458
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 1: good son, a good friend, a good neighbor, a good

459
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Speaker 1: citizen of the world. And and it was funny people

460
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 1: kind of cringe when you mentioned faith. And I even

461
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: said that on Good Morning America, and I remember Michael

462
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: Strahan rolling his eyes and it's like, oh God. And

463
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, it is, oh God, you know,

464
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: like you know, because I am very strong in my

465
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Speaker 1: faith and I believe in that, and so when you

466
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: have that kind of foundation, I was like, you guys

467
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: can't touch me. I'm good. I know, I know where

468
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: my self worth is and it wasn't on that diving

469
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: board to begin with. If you had achieved all that

470
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,479
Speaker 1: greatness and gotten a gold medal, that's really cool, but

471
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: that that wasn't going to make us love Alison anymore.

472
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that that's such a good point

473
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 3: about identity. Right. This is something I think about a lot,

474
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 3: and I was even talking to some people about that earlier. Today.

475
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 3: When you go to your grave, you, I guess, can

476
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 3: bury treasure with you. You can't take it with you, right,

477
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 3: You can't take your money with you. You can't take

478
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 3: your material things with you. A metal gets dusty on

479
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 3: a shelf and you're forgotten, and your name is forgotten people,

480
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 3: people don't care, even the best of the best, their

481
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 3: names are forgotten.

482
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Speaker 2: But what isn't forgotten is the impact that you can have.

483
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 3: Right. If you can change one person's life, and that

484
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 3: person then goes on to have children, and the impact

485
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Speaker 3: you had impacts the way they raise their children, right,

486
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 3: that's a generational alas. That is my mission, right, My

487
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 3: mission is again redefining what is success, what is value,

488
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 3: and what is purpose? Right? My purpose here on this

489
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 3: earth is to do as much as I can to

490
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 3: have a positive impact on the people around me. And

491
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Speaker 3: even if that's just one life, I'm going to my

492
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 3: grave knowing that I've won. And sometimes I think we

493
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 3: get lost and we get lost in likes on social media,

494
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 3: and we get lost in you know, am I pretty enough?

495
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 3: Or am I skinny enough? Or do I have enough money?

496
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 3: Or do I have a big enough house? And we

497
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 3: lose sight of the fact that what truly matters is

498
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: the community around us, the impact that we're having on

499
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: those around us in the world, and just the power

500
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Speaker 3: of conversation, the power of feeling known.

501
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Speaker 2: You know that.

502
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 3: Those are those are the things that bring the most

503
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 3: joyful and exciting moments. And I care much deeper about

504
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 3: that than I do about these other things.

505
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Speaker 2: And that's the question I ask myself every day.

506
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Speaker 3: How am I? Am I living an intentional life?

507
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: You're way too young to have this. Get a perspective,

508
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: you learn.

509
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 3: You learn these things if you if you have a

510
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 3: hard not I don't. I haven't had a hard life,

511
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 3: but I've been through a lot.

512
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Speaker 1: Well it's still fascinating, That's why I mean, I think

513
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Speaker 1: it's I find it fascinating to talk to people who

514
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: have gotten to the grandest moment and either succeeded or

515
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: failed in that moment and how they handle that. You know,

516
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: to me, failure would have been not making it that far.

517
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: Failure would have been scratching and not going on. In

518
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: my mind. You didn't win, you lost the competition, but

519
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: you didn't fail, and that, to me is the most

520
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: important thing. And so I love talking to people that

521
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: have been on this stage where the lights are the

522
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: brightest and they are walking the tightrope without a net

523
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: and they fall. Then how do you deal with that?

524
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: And I find that fascinating To watch you go through

525
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,719
Speaker 1: it with such grace and poise well beyond your years,

526
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: is incredible. What is the whatever give me two things

527
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: that have surprised you, good and bad? After this experience

528
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: at the Olympics.

529
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Speaker 3: I would say what surprised me in a good way

530
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 3: was the outpouring of support. The amount of people who

531
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 3: reached out to me just on social media, like moms

532
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 3: saying I'm glad you're somebody that our child can look

533
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: up to. The way you represented your faith was inspiring.

534
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 3: You know, athletes reaching out to me, people reaching out

535
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 3: to me to come speak, you know, there are churches,

536
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 3: there are organizations who are like, we want to hear

537
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 3: your story.

538
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: It's an amazing testimonial. No one will have this story.

539
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's different, right, it's different. And so that

540
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 3: really surprised me, just like how much it gripped people.

541
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 3: And then also the fact that there were a lot

542
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 3: of these news outlets that were publishing stories. And I

543
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 3: started my own personal blog kind of tracking my journey

544
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: through the Olympics, and they found it and then they

545
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: were quoting it and they were linking to it, and

546
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 3: it's so cool because it's linking to my testimony and

547
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: like God's work in my life and all of that,

548
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 3: and I'm like, this is so cool that you know,

549
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 3: if I would have made it to the final and

550
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 3: got in fourth place, I would have not gotten to

551
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 3: any of this coverage. Right, But because of this jarring,

552
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 3: difficult moment, because of this dark moment, so much good

553
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 3: has been shared. And I think that there's so much.

554
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 2: Beauty in that.

555
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 3: So that's something in a positive light.

556
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 2: That I've really enjoyed.

557
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 3: And then in terms of a negative response, I don't

558
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 3: really know. I think one thing is a lot of

559
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 3: people have come up to me and they say you

560
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: need to get redemption, you need to train for the

561
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 3: next Olympics, and I'm like, I'm like, yes, you know,

562
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: it would be great, But in some extent I'm like,

563
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 3: I don't need redemption because I know I know my worth,

564
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 3: I know my value, I know how good I am,

565
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 3: and I know my identity, and so I think that's

566
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 3: kind of like an interesting thing where people are like, no,

567
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 3: you need to go so that you can get redemption,

568
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 3: and I'm like, is that a reason? Is that a

569
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: reason to go back?

570
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: Redemption? To me is is when you step up on

571
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: that stage and you didn't rise to the occasion. Yeah,

572
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: And to me, you rose to the occasion tenfold. And

573
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: again that doesn't mean you win, right it does?

574
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 3: You know?

575
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: Three people get to essentially win at the Olympics and

576
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: every sport, and so the redemption thing is you know,

577
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: that's that's for if you you know, I remember, like

578
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,239
Speaker 1: to your Tokyo story is very interesting. I feel like

579
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: in Tokyo you felt like you failed yourself, Like you

580
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: got to the stage and you didn't perform like Alison

581
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: usually performs mentally emotionally, you weren't there. You did you

582
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: did in Paris yeah.

583
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 3: I think in Tokyo, I didn't take ownership of what happened.

584
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 3: So this is why coming back, this why is story

585
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 3: arc is so important. That's why coming back to train

586
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 3: for Paris was so important because Tokyo left to move

587
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: with a lot of unresolved issues where I fell like

588
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 3: I wasn't good enough and I was embarrassed and I

589
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 3: was like, I don't deserve to be an Olympian. I

590
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 3: don't deserve to wear these colors, like all these doubts,

591
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: and I just hid away and I hid that part

592
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 3: of my life and I was like, you know what,

593
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: forget it.

594
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: I was never an athlete. I'm going to just go

595
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 2: on forget about it.

596
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 3: And so in going back to Paris, I literally had

597
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 3: to confront all of that. I confront all of that

598
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: and face it and overcome it. And coming out of Paris,

599
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 3: I told myself, I will not I will not hide again.

600
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 3: I will not let this defy me. I will not

601
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: stay down. I'm going to share this story and I'm

602
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 3: going to tell this story because there's power in this

603
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to let this fear and this

604
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 3: failure control me.

605
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: I'm tired of it.

606
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you. We all learned a lot. But Alison,

607
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: it sounds like God had the biggest plan for you. Yeah.

608
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: I mean it took this to have that realization. Like

609
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: you said, if you'd finished four, he'd been like okay,

610
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: But it took this moment. And I always say when

611
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: I went through my stuff that you know, it was

612
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: really this, this gift, it was a blessing. But God's

613
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: gifts and God's blessings don't always end up under the

614
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: tree in this cute little package with the red bow

615
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: on it. That's not how life works. It can come

616
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: in slamming your feet into a diving board or getting

617
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: canceled on the grandest scale in front of everybody. Sometimes,

618
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: you know, God slaps you upside the head and that's

619
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: how you learn your lesson.

620
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 3: I think it's funny oftentimes we look at God like

621
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 3: a vending machine or like he owes us something. And

622
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 3: that was that was one thing. You know. I went

623
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 3: into this and I was like, okay, God, like I

624
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 3: did the thing. I came out of retirement and I

625
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 3: trained and I did well, and I made it to

626
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 3: the Olympics. I'm like, okay, God, I've done everything you've

627
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 3: told me to do. Therefore I deserve this outcome. Right,

628
00:32:58,600 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 3: That's kind of what was going on my head, Like

629
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 3: this is my moment, It's going to happen, like I

630
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 3: deserve it. I've you know, all this stuff, and I

631
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: think this was such a good reminder. God's like, I'm

632
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 3: not a I'm not a bending machine. Like it's not

633
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 3: if you do this, then I'll do this.

634
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,959
Speaker 1: Right, if I push a five, then this will this

635
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: metal will fall out, and I get it.

636
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And I think it's so important to remember that.

637
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 3: It's so important. I mean, after I finished my competition,

638
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 3: I asked why to God? I said, God, why would you?

639
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: This is mean?

640
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: Like, why would you?

641
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: This is mean?

642
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 3: This is my biggest fear, Like, if you are a

643
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: good God, why would you let this happen? Well, I asked,

644
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: I said why, And.

645
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: I questioned, asked the big man.

646
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: There are two paths that could go down. I could

647
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: go down.

648
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 3: You know, if God was a good God, he wouldn't

649
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 3: let this happen. Therefore God doesn't exist. I'm going to

650
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 3: do whatever I want. I'm going to hide in the shadows.

651
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 3: I'm going to drown in my sorrows. I'm going to

652
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 3: drink I'm gonna do whatever it takes to forget about this, right,

653
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 3: So that's one path I could have taken. And the

654
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: other path I took was, you know what, God is

655
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 3: a good God, and the devils at work and whatever

656
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: you know the devil tries to use for evil, God

657
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 3: can use for good. And I thought, okay, Alison, like,

658
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 3: where's the light, Where's the silver lining, where's the positive

659
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 3: outcome of this? And as I looked for that, As

660
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 3: I looked for the light, as I shift in my

661
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 3: perspective from I'm angry at God, this isn't fair he

662
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 3: didn't do his vending machine duties and give me a medal,

663
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 3: I shifted my gaze towards what was good? What was

664
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 3: my mission? My mission coming into this was to impact

665
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 3: and inspire or encourage and inspire people. Right.

666
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 2: Did I do that?

667
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 3: Yes? Right? My mission coming into this was to raise

668
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 3: money for kids and Kenya.

669
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 2: Did I do that?

670
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 3: Yes? Right. I'm looking I'm checking these boxes and I'm like, wow,

671
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 3: Like I did this. I did this my whole mission.

672
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 3: And coming back to the Olympics, I was already an Olympian.

673
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter my mission coming back to the Olympics

674
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 3: was to actually do something good with the platform I've

675
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 3: been given. And as I looked at that, I was like,

676
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 3: I have achieved these things that I set out to do.

677
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: And I realized that there's so much light and so

678
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 3: much goodness, and I thought, God, you know, God didn't

679
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 3: give me the answer to the exact answer to the

680
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 3: prayer that I thought I wanted, but he did answer

681
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 3: my prayer, and he did give me a platform, and

682
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 3: he did give me a voice to do the things

683
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 3: that I wanted to do and that I had put

684
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 3: on my heart to do. And so I think it's

685
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 3: actually really important for people to ask the question sometimes

686
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 3: why would you do this, God, and then set their

687
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 3: eyes on the good things that can come out of

688
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 3: it in the bright side. And you're not always going

689
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 3: to understand. You're not always going to understand the world

690
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 3: and why the world works and why it doesn't right.

691
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 3: You're not also answers I'm never gonna answer. But if

692
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 3: you change your perspective and you look, you begin to

693
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 3: see all the goodness and all the beauty in these

694
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 3: hard and difficult moments. And if you stop looking selfishly

695
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 3: at yourself, and if you humble yourself to see the

696
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 3: impact beyond your emotional pain. You begin to recognize again,

697
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: like how great and amazing even your hardest moment can be.

698
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: And so, yeah, I don't know where I was going

699
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: with that, but.

700
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: Well it's often, well you're brilliant. And by the way,

701
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: I think in short, what you're saying is, these blessings

702
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: are not often what we've asked for, what we wanted,

703
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: it's what we needed. Yeah, And that there's a big

704
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: difference in what we want and then what we need.

705
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: And I came to the same realization when I went

706
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: through what I went through. I'm like, these are blessings

707
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: of it slowed me down, it got me off the road.

708
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: I spent time, very important time with my kids at

709
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: a very pivotal time in their life. I was able

710
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: to stop and find the love of my life and

711
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: Lauren z Eima and get married and have a relationship

712
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: I never thought I was ever going to have. Yeah,

713
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: And you know, just so many other relationships were strengthened

714
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: and moved on because of that moment that I thought

715
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: was terrible was a bad thing, And it's like, no,

716
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: you may not have wanted this, but you needed it.

717
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: While I have you for a couple of minutes. I

718
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: still have to ask about the overall Olympic experience, being

719
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: there at the opening ceremony, staying at the village. Did

720
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: you stay at the Olympic Village?

721
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:15,959
Speaker 2: I did, Yes.

722
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: So much was talked about the Olympic Village, the beds,

723
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: the food. Okay, tell us the truth.

724
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I will say the beds are pretty uncomfortable,

725
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 3: all right. So the mattress, like the bed frame is

726
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 3: made of cardboard. The mattresses made of plastic. It's not SOPs.

727
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 3: So I actually learned that from Tokyo. I brought my

728
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: own mattress topper. It was the best decision ever.

729
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: Money made college move, by the way, that's what we

730
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: do in college.

731
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 3: And then USA Diving actually provided us with mattress toppers

732
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 3: as well. So the bed actually ended up being pretty comfortable,

733
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 3: which I was thankful for.

734
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 2: Initially it was not.

735
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 3: We did have air conditioning units in our rooms, which

736
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 3: was really good. Other countries did not. So thankful to

737
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: the United States. United States for providing that a lot

738
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 3: of people complained about the food. I think that there's

739
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 3: a lot of entitlement. I'm just gonna say it.

740
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 2: I think there's a ton.

741
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 3: Of entitlement, and these athletes are like, we want what

742
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 3: we want, we want it now, and we want it

743
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 3: to be this way. And I'm like, look, you guys,

744
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 3: they're trying to feed eight thousand and ten thousand people

745
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 3: every single day, three.

746
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: Meals a day from people from around the world.

747
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 3: People from around the world. I don't know why you expect,

748
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 3: Like Michelin five, you know, I was thankful, right. We

749
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 3: had the fruit that we needed, we had the vegetables

750
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 3: we needed, we had protein, we had bread, we had

751
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 3: we had every food group that you need. Did it

752
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 3: taste the best? Maybe not? Was it sometimes dry? Maybe?

753
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 3: But you have everything you need in one place. I

754
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: was so thankful for that, and I personally didn't think

755
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 3: the food was that bad. And then also we had

756
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 3: the village bakery. My good friend Tony the baker.

757
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's I saw you take a baking lesson.

758
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 3: Best best baggett in the world. Wow, Tony is the best.

759
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: Shout him out. He worked so hard.

760
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 3: He would get up at five am to get to

761
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 3: the village because people loved his baking so much that

762
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: he would run out of baguettes like.

763
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: Buy three eight three pop every day.

764
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 3: Every day he was out, so he would get there

765
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 3: early at five am, start his work, start baking so

766
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 3: that we could have our baguettes thing, and our little

767
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 3: chocolate breads and all of that. And he would make

768
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 3: over a thousand bagettes today. I mean it was crazy.

769
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: And his staff worked so so hard.

770
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: It's awesome. The unsung hero of the Olympics.

771
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is.

772
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 3: And I just want to say, that's the thing, Like

773
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 3: people are so quick to complain and so quick to judge,

774
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 3: and it's like, these people are getting up early so

775
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 3: that you can have this thing that you want, and

776
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 3: these people are pouring their hearts and their souls and

777
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 3: a lot of them were volunteers, right right, There's so

778
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 3: many people who are volunteering to be there and to help.

779
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 3: They're not getting paid, they're taking time away from home,

780
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 3: time away from their jobs. And so I'm sitting here

781
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 3: and and be completely honest with you, is everything perfect.

782
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 2: No, nothing's going to be perfect.

783
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: Right, It's never going to be. They won't be in

784
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: la either, by the way.

785
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 3: But I'm so thankful. I am so thankful for all

786
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 3: the workers and all the people who came to Paris

787
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 3: from all over Europe. All over the world, to drive buses,

788
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 3: to cook us food every day, to clean after us.

789
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 3: You know, like the Olympics wouldn't run without those people

790
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 3: sacrificing time. And so, if I'm going to be honest

791
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 3: with you, that's my honest opinion, I'm thankful.

792
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: I love it. Two very important questions. Number One, we

793
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: hear the stories about Olympic hookups. All these beautiful, talented,

794
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 1: highly functioning, wonderful athletes, and they're in the Olympic Village.

795
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: I mean it's basically summer house on steroids. I mean, so,

796
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: first of all, did you find a love connection? Number two?

797
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: Did you witness that this is like it's one big party.

798
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 3: I did not find a love connection. I did meet

799
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 3: a lot of very interesting people. I will say it was.

800
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: And by the way, Steph Curry shouts Steph Currey, he's

801
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 3: the nicest guy ever.

802
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: Out of all the basketball players, he's the best.

803
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: You ran into Steph and the dream Team.

804
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 3: I ran into Steph and he was I traded a

805
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 3: pin with him. He's so sweet.

806
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is unanimously I've never heard a bad thing

807
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: about him. We've been in some same golf tournaments. I

808
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: don't know him, but everybody loves him.

809
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just like you know, you would ask for

810
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 3: a picture with him and he'd be like, what's your name?

811
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 2: What's your sport?

812
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 3: And then he had his little camera and he's like,

813
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 3: let me take a sabie with you. And I was like,

814
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 3: Steph Curre wants a stoping with me?

815
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: Steph. And by the way, he had the greatest Olympic run.

816
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: That guy is awesome. It's awesome to watch. Who was

817
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: did you meet it? Did you meet? If I know

818
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: you didn't find love, but did you make a friend?

819
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: Meet somebody that you're like, I can't believe I just

820
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: met this person from I don't know, China, Australia, Ukraine, wherever.

821
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: That You're like, you got to just know and and

822
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: that you may carry on this relationship or friendship afterwards.

823
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's a great question. I mean, I

824
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 3: feel like I met a lot of really great people.

825
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 3: Not a ton of people from other countries necessarily, but

826
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 3: definitely some USA athletes. There are some people. There's a

827
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 3: track athlete. Her name is Quanera, and she is such

828
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 3: an amazing sweet girl and it was funny I saw

829
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 3: a little sparkle in her eye and she saw a

830
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 3: little sparkle in mine and turns out she's a believer.

831
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 3: And we had these really cool moments where we would

832
00:42:54,840 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: pray together, and I think that that was really really cool.

833
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 3: In addition, I ran into a few people, So the

834
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 3: term water safety has never really like come to my mind.

835
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 3: You know, I've talked about drowning before and issues with

836
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 3: people not knowing how to swim, and someone in a

837
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 3: water sport, you know, we hear about like we know

838
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 3: how to swim, but we hear people who don't know

839
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 3: how to swim a lot. And it was crazy because

840
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: I met four different people in my time in Paris

841
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 3: who are each in their own way, working on solving

842
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 3: this problem with water safety around the world. And one

843
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 3: of them is a fellow diver from Jamaica. He's actually

844
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 3: like the only Jamaican diver. And I think, if I'm

845
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 3: going to talk about a connection I made with an

846
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 3: athlete from another country, I've known him for a while,

847
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 3: but we ended up talking about this and what it

848
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: looks like to bring water safety to kids in places

849
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 3: where there isn't a ton of access to pros water

850
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 3: and where people do drown it in floods and what

851
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 3: does it look like to save lives through that, And

852
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 3: so it's really cool because I'm actually trying to get

853
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 3: a group together to discuss what each of these people

854
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 3: are doing in their perspective areas and then how we

855
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 3: can potentially work together to basically start figuring out what

856
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 3: does it look like to continue this conversation of water

857
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 3: safety not just in the United States or in your

858
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 3: perspective regions.

859
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 2: But just globally around the world.

860
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 3: So I think that's probably one of the coolest relationships

861
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 3: and conversations I had, and it's been really cool to

862
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 3: kind of see the dominoes just keep falling with that

863
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 3: with the people I keep meeting in the conversations that

864
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 3: I keep having. So I'm really excited about that kind

865
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 3: of Following the Olympics.

866
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: One of the other the other question I had because

867
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: following you on social media, you took us into the

868
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: gifting suite as you got all your gear. You're wearing

869
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: some gear now it's probably the is that Ralph Lauren?

870
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 3: Yes, this is the closing ceremonies jacket.

871
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: And I love that. I loved I don't know if

872
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Speaker 1: it was you or somebody did a good Ricky Bobby

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Speaker 1: because it looked like NASCAR gear and so something did

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Speaker 1: a good Talladiga knights. But how much gear did you

875
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: come home with from Team USA?

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Speaker 2: So much?

877
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Speaker 3: Actually, I do think we got more in Tokyo.

878
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Speaker 1: Because they felt bad because of COVID.

879
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. We got it so much.

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Speaker 3: So we have two We get two basically checked bags,

881
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 3: so two really big bags. One is for Ralph Lauren,

882
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,240
Speaker 3: one is for Nike, and then Skims, so Kim Kardashian's

883
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: like clothing brand.

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Speaker 2: Skims also gave us clothes.

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Speaker 3: So I came home with two checked bags and a

886
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 3: duffel with all sorts of stuff. I think from Nike,

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Speaker 3: I got three pairs of shoes from or four pairs

888
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 3: of shoes from Rolf Lauren. I got one pair of shoes,

889
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 3: and then obviously a ton of jackets, yeah, shorts, shirts,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you name it.

891
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 2: It's so much.

892
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 3: It's all like laid out on my bed right now,

893
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't know where to put this in.

894
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: I can't fit in my closet.

895
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 3: It's too much. But yeah, it's it's a lot, a

896
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 3: lot of clothes.

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Speaker 1: So the craziness is subsiding. Yeah, you're you're back here

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Speaker 1: in Austin. Welcome home. By the way, I know you

899
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Speaker 1: just got home. I think you went to Torchies Tacos

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Speaker 1: the other night.

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Speaker 3: I did.

902
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Speaker 1: I did, Like I need some I need tex mex

903
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: I need caso. No, that's my go to as well.

904
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm coming home, I'm going straight to Chewi's getting

905
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: my fiet is, I'm getting my caso. What does life

906
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Speaker 1: look like for you, Alison? What post Olympics. I'm sure

907
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: it takes a minute to come off that high. But

908
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: now that you have, what's next?

909
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that is the question everyone's asking and

910
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 3: I don't have an answer to.

911
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: It's like graduating college, what what are you going to

912
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: do now?

913
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Speaker 3: Like the company, Legend Labs, that I've worked at for

914
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: now like two and a half years, they want me

915
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 3: to come back on full time. So I actually am

916
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Speaker 3: at the office right now. I'm already kind of back

917
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 3: to work getting caught up on everything, which has been

918
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 3: really good. And then also on top of that, I

919
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 3: have a few different churches in organizations that want me

920
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 3: to speak.

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Speaker 1: I bet I think there's a whole world about to

922
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: open up in that regard. I'm telling you.

923
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Speaker 3: There's a church in California they want to fly me out,

924
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 3: which I'm really excited about that. And then there's an

925
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 3: organization that I volunteer for called BSF Bible Study Fellowship.

926
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Speaker 2: We're starting that on September ninth, So.

927
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Speaker 3: Just doing a lot of preparation and staff meetings for

928
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 3: that in preparation for the semester to start there. And

929
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 3: then obviously this side project of trying to figure out

930
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 3: how to get people together to talk about water safety

931
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 3: around the world. That's been a really fun little thing,

932
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 3: just trying to get a meeting scheduled, and then still

933
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 3: raising money for kids in Kenya. Hopefully going to find

934
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 3: time to actually take a trip out to Kenya to

935
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Speaker 3: see the school schools in person. I haven't been able

936
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Speaker 3: to do that yet, but there's an amazing donor who

937
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 3: said they would support that, which is an amazing blessing.

938
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Speaker 3: So I'm hoping. Yeah, I'm hoping to do that.

939
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Speaker 1: Your plate is still full, so I'm not.

940
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Speaker 2: Busy at all.

941
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Speaker 3: I'm like, no, I literally hit the ground on Saturday.

942
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 3: In the next day, it was already like boom boom, boom,

943
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 3: boom boom, Like I already had like ten things lined

944
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Speaker 3: up well.

945
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you carving out some time for me and

946
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: talk about blessings when I think that you know, you

947
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: were put in my path. We ended up on the

948
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Speaker 1: same flight back home from Minnesota. You were at the

949
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Speaker 1: Olympic trials and the pilot announced, Hey, there's an Olympian

950
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: on board, and I happened to just run into you

951
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: at baggage claim. And you know this, And if you

952
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: think about these Olympians, we see you on NBC and

953
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: it's the lights, the cameras and all the gear and

954
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: the stuff. But for ninety nine point nine percent of

955
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: the people who aren't Lebron James and Steph Curry, these

956
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: are just normal people who are in college or working,

957
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: or moms or dads, what have you. And this is

958
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, Allison was by herself holding a backpack in

959
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: baggage claim and this is an Olympian. This is this

960
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: is the juxtaposition of all that is fast to me.

961
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: And so the fact that you were put in my

962
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 1: path and I got to know you and then watch

963
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: how you, in your own little way have impacted and

964
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: changed the world. I'm so grateful and I'm grateful that

965
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Speaker 1: our paths have crossed.

966
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am as well. I think everything happens for

967
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 3: a reason, and I don't know exactly where I'll be

968
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 3: in a year, but all I'm trying to do right

969
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 3: now is walk faithfully, Walk faithfully, continue to take leaps

970
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 3: of faith, continue to walk in my calling and what

971
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 3: I'm meant to do. And as long as I'm doing that,

972
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 3: I know I'll be okay because everything's always worked out,

973
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 3: So it's not always about exactly knowing the future, but

974
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 3: it's just about knowing where you're going to put your

975
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 3: foot next and trusting that everything will come together.

976
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Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to go wrong if you continue to

977
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Speaker 1: do that. Alison Gibson. Out of the Olympic Games, I know,

978
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Speaker 1: we got to know a lot of people, a lot

979
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Speaker 1: of a lot of names and faces that we didn't

980
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: know before and weren't familiar with, but we sure do now,

981
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 1: and you were definitely one of them. And it could

982
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: have been a bad thing, but it turned out to

983
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: be a great thing, and I'm glad to now call

984
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: you a friend and I appreciate it, and hopefully our

985
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: paths will cross maybe a torchies, maybe at Chewy's over

986
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: some tex mex soon.

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00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Torchies.

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00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,959
Speaker 3: If you're listening free kso I would love.

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Speaker 1: Sign endorsement deal Torchies. Let's go Alison. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: You take care. I hope to see you soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Follow us on Instagram at the most

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