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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Installment three of Hurdles Turning the Page series

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Speaker 2: Well on this focus podcast, where I talk to inspirational

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Speaker 2: to essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier,

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Speaker 2: more motivated life. We all go through our fair share

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Speaker 2: of hurdles, and my goal through these discussions is to

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Speaker 2: the spirit of New Year reintroductions again, my name is

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Speaker 2: Emily Body. I am your host, the creator of this

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Speaker 2: lovely little podcast.

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Speaker 3: I live in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: I'm a career journalist with a vested interest and health

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Speaker 2: and wellness and tomorrow's installment of Turning the Page, I'm

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Speaker 2: new year, and so much more. A huge thank you

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Speaker 4: I think my.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but like three people have brought

443
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Speaker 1: this up this week. We were talking about the javelin

444
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Speaker 1: at Olympic Trials, and in the warm ups I was

445
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 1: throwing like trash. They were going so short. My first

446
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,160
Speaker 1: two throws awful. Wasn't gonna make a team with those

447
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 1: those throws, and then on the last one, I just

448
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: launched that thing and it was like a three meter pr.

449
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Speaker 4: My eight hundred.

450
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Speaker 1: I've always had like a mental battle with the eight hundred.

451
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: Where I've trained, I will train really well at practice,

452
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 1: but then I get to the track meet and it

453
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 1: looks like I don't train for the eight hundred, and

454
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: it's actually quite embarrassing for myself and for Koshanson because

455
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: I know he's probably having to defend hisself. I'm having

456
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: to tell my parents like dead, I swear I trained

457
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 1: for eight hundred. I don't know what's going on. I

458
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: just get really freaked out. And this year, like mentally,

459
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: I didn't get freaked out in any of the eight hundreds.

460
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Speaker 1: It was something that worked really hard in like my

461
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Speaker 1: sports psychtherapist.

462
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,439
Speaker 4: And so that also went right for me.

463
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Speaker 1: And again those are my three like week events, and

464
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: they all got drastically better this year.

465
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Speaker 3: Two things to double click on. One.

466
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Speaker 2: I love the reframe the power of what happens when

467
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,639
Speaker 2: you get to a place with anything in your life

468
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 2: when you can say I am not my thoughts and

469
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 2: for a while as you said, with the eight hundred,

470
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Speaker 2: you believed I am not.

471
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Speaker 3: Going to execute all the eight hundred.

472
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Speaker 2: I'm not good at this right And when you were

473
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Speaker 2: able to realize that that's just a thought and that

474
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 2: you can change that thought.

475
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Speaker 3: You then had a different outcome. How did that feel

476
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Speaker 3: for you?

477
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: Oh?

478
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 4: That was real. That was amazing.

479
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Speaker 1: Like my very first heptathlon of the year was in Italy,

480
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: was at Multistars, and I was going to win the

481
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 1: heptathlon going into the eight hundred, like oring anything crazy,

482
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: and that one was kind of like, Okay, let's see

483
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Speaker 1: where we're at. But even in those types of truck meets,

484
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 1: I still freak out. I'll be in the back like

485
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: hyper ventilating, and I ran a pr it was fine.

486
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: And then my next one was Olympic trials, and up

487
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: until Olympic Trials, anytime, like even dating back to college,

488
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: if I had to run the eight hundred and like

489
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: something was on the line, I never achieved the thing,

490
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: like not once never uh, And I mean I knew that,

491
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 1: but after I threw the javelin getting ready for the

492
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: eight hundred, usually I am like, I'm not.

493
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 4: Going to be able to do it, how fast? Is

494
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 4: she gonna run? I don't know what I'm doing.

495
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: But that never crossed my mind at all. And we

496
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Speaker 1: had a few hours between Javelin and eight hundred. So

497
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 1: I went back to the hotel, took a shower, I

498
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: laid in my room in silence, which is odd. I

499
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 1: didn't watch TV, I didn't listen to music or anything,

500
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: but I was just like calm. It was the comments

501
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 1: I've ever been. I never had any doubting thoughts. Yeah,

502
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: so that to me was like crazy. And back to

503
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 1: my supporting family. They know I don't like to be bothered.

504
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: I can be real, like leave me alone on meet days.

505
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 4: And in between the Javelin and the eight hundred they

506
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 4: came and I found this card. The other day.

507
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 1: They brought a card and like a power raid and

508
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: maybe like a mug to my hotel room and they

509
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 1: just set it outside. They didn't bother me, and they

510
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: text and was like we left something for you, and

511
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 1: they left me like a super encouraging card. And so

512
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: I think that also just reassured me that, like, you

513
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: got it. And I was already having those those positive thoughts,

514
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: but that was just.

515
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 4: Like all right, I really got it. Because they think

516
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 4: I got it too, and then the same thing in

517
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Speaker 4: the Olympics. Like I think some placement was on the

518
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 4: line at the Olympics.

519
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Speaker 1: I think I did move down after the eight hundred,

520
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: but I was I didn't.

521
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 4: I was not nervous going into the eight hundred in Paris.

522
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: It was more so like I was battling an injury

523
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: and I just want to finish strong, and nothing had

524
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: gone right that entire track of me. I didn't do

525
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: anything well. And I remember walking down the tunnel of

526
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 1: Coach Johnson. We were holding hands because me and Coach

527
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: Johnson are really tight. We were holding hands and He's

528
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: just like, you know, it's the last event. Just go

529
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: out there and do a run that you can be

530
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: proud of, and like you're at the freaking Olympics, Like,

531
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: just just do a.

532
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 4: Run that you can be proud of.

533
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: Finish this thing out like you've already achieved a dream

534
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: that you've that you've wanted.

535
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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the place.

536
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Speaker 1: So I think even in Paris, like I didn't have

537
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Speaker 1: those nerves.

538
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 4: It was more just like.

539
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something I can be proud of, and

540
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna fight y'all in this eight hundred

541
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Speaker 1: and try to run the best that I can and

542
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: finish it out.

543
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 3: So yeah, eight hundred.

544
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Speaker 4: I definitely won the mental battle this year.

545
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Speaker 2: We love to hear that, and I'm also hearing you

546
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: say that there was a lot of power in getting

547
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 2: outside of your comfort zone with allowing people to show

548
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 2: up for you, right, and that you're the kind of

549
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 2: person that typically likes to just be on your own,

550
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 2: navigate your thoughts, get your mind right. But in the

551
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 2: ways that people wanted to show up for you, you found

552
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Speaker 2: a balance that enabled that to happen and also empowered

553
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 2: you to keep your peace.

554
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Speaker 3: And there's a lesson to be learned in that as well.

555
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: Absolutely, like when you have the right people around you,

556
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 1: they can really like uplift you and encourage you. And

557
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: like you said, I could be the type of person

558
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: that's like, leave me alone, I'm by myself, I'm solow,

559
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: I don't need y'all, but really, like you do need

560
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: those people around you. And even there's been years like

561
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: it's the same people that I have around me, but

562
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Speaker 1: I just kind of keep them at a distance. And

563
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: everyone that was that's in my life, especially this year,

564
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: like showed up for me, my friends, like some of

565
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Speaker 1: my best friend I remember last year trials for Budapest,

566
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: one of my best friends called and she was just like,

567
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: I want to pray.

568
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 4: For you if you need anything, like just stuff like that.

569
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 4: We're like yeah.

570
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: The people around me constantly showed up and I let them,

571
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: And I think that was the difference is that I

572
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: let them. I didn't try to pick them out or

573
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: keep them at a distance because I was.

574
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Speaker 4: Just trying to, like focal sook stuff.

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Speaker 2: what went well, what worked in twenty twenty four, you

597
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 2: immediately go and tell me about all of these track events, right,

598
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Speaker 2: But if you have to take a step back and

599
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Speaker 2: look at to lee beyond the athlete, what else would

600
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Speaker 2: you say went well in twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 1: I think just believing in myself like as a person

602
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: and getting some maybe self confidence. I don't necessarily want

603
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: to say self worth, because I don't think I did

604
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: not have that, but just building on that and understanding

605
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: that like I'm a good person, I have a lot

606
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: to offer outside of track. So even if track does

607
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: not go well, like I'm still a good person. I

608
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: still have a lot to offer. And I think sometimes

609
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Speaker 1: when track's not going wrong, you don't have that, then

610
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: tracks all you have to like lean on, so then

611
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: you don't know what to do. And so I think

612
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: the more that I built myself up outside of the track,

613
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: it showed up on the track for me, and it

614
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Speaker 1: makes it makes what's happening on the track like less pressure,

615
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: I guess, because you know that you're fine either way.

616
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Speaker 1: And I would also say that throughout the past like

617
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Speaker 1: two three years, I've really built up like my spiritual

618
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: found and that has helped me a lot on and

619
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: off the track.

620
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Speaker 4: But I definitely think that that starts off of the track.

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Speaker 3: How has that helped you?

622
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Speaker 1: It just gives me confidence that, like the results don't matter.

623
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we want really good results, like we

624
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: work hard to have good results, but at the end

625
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Speaker 1: of the day, like are we doing this for results?

626
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Speaker 4: Are we doing this for something else?

627
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Speaker 1: Are we doing this to make a difference in someone

628
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: else's life or to change someone else's life? And I

629
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Speaker 1: think once I kind of accepted that and knew that,

630
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Speaker 1: then it's like, hey, I'm here, I am gonna work hard.

631
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Speaker 1: Hopefully I get the results I want, but if I don't,

632
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Speaker 1: I know that there's still.

633
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Speaker 4: Like a lasting impact in another way.

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Speaker 1: And I felt that even after, like Paris, I got eleventh.

635
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: I hated that I got eleventh. I've already said that

636
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: I didn't like talking about it, But there's like hundreds

637
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: of kids in my hometown that's freaking out that I

638
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: got eleven, and it's like, oh, okay, like we're still

639
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: doing something really good.

640
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Speaker 2: I think for so many, specifically with it and athletics,

641
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: the ultimate goal is candidly, really just chasing the best

642
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 2: version of yourself and seeing the boundaries as they exist

643
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 2: and what can be pushed within your own potential, and

644
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: so in understanding that and getting to a place where

645
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: you realize that the journey actually is this destination that

646
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 2: makes whatever happens in moments like the Olympics or other

647
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: you know, high stakes occurrences feel a little bit more.

648
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: I don't know they're all going to be important, but

649
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: it just helps put it in perspective.

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Speaker 4: It does. It definitely puts it in perspective.

651
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Speaker 1: Do you also know that there's a lot of people

652
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Speaker 1: that would not literally die, but like die to be

653
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: in the position that you are in. Yeah, and so

654
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: again like you do have to put in the work.

655
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: It's hard work every single day. I'm not going to

656
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: sit here and say that it's not. But also the

657
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: results like that's not the last say yeah, and again

658
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: once you have when you have those supporting people around you,

659
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: like it just makes it that much more fun and

660
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: they kind of, you know, make the experience like worthwhile.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, resilience In twenty twenty four, what would you say,

662
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 2: is something new that you learned in the past year.

663
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: So I would write in my journal before all of

664
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: the track meets, like a scripture or some notes, all

665
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: these things that I would just kind of look at

666
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: it throughout the meats, And one of the ones that

667
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: kept writing was like, if you have faith the size

668
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: of a mustard seed, which is tiny, you can tell

669
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: a mountain to move from here to there, and it's

670
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: going to move and throughout the year. And it's just

671
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: basically saying that you have to have like blind faith

672
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: and that you can do anything if you truly have

673
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: faith in it. And I think that this year that

674
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: is something that I learned, is that when you have

675
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,239
Speaker 1: like real faith in something, it can happen. And I

676
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: feel like that even just about the trials in general,

677
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: like the people on the inside.

678
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 4: Know how trials were falling apart. I think people on

679
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 4: the outside don't.

680
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: And I don't tell people what I write in my journal,

681
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: So this is kind of a crazy story. That was

682
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: one of my things that I wrote my journal, And

683
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: throughout the track meet, Coach Johnson kept saying that scripture

684
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: to me, and I'm like, okay, okay, Coach Johnson, I

685
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: don't know how you know to say that to me.

686
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,719
Speaker 1: And like even throughout like I, things were not going right,

687
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: and I would.

688
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 4: Just be like, Lord, please give me just what I need,

689
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 4: not a lot, just what I need.

690
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: And in some of those events, I would literally get

691
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: like just enough, like I still had to do the work,

692
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: but I would get just enough to go on to

693
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: the next event and still be in like the position

694
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: that I needed to be in. And so that's definitely

695
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: something that I learned that I didn't have, like in

696
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: previous years.

697
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: For someone that hears about how faith has empowered you

698
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: to continue on in difficult moments, and maybe they too

699
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: can relate to that, but then they have a moment

700
00:33:58,640 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: where they feel.

701
00:33:59,520 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 3: Like the faith.

702
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: It wasn't enough and they didn't get the outcome that

703
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 2: they were after, something that you certainly have been through yourself.

704
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 3: How does that not shake your faith?

705
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 4: Oh? It does, it does.

706
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 1: I know some people will be like, you just got

707
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: to keep going, which you do have to keep going,

708
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: but it does shake your faith because then you're wondering, like, well,

709
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: what do I do? What did I do wrong? I

710
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 1: did have faith and I did not get that outcome.

711
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: And I think that it's just like creating they call

712
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: it endurance, but like creating a storm, endurance for you.

713
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 4: For later down the road.

714
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: And just because you have faith and something doesn't mean

715
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: again that you're going to get that specific outcome, but

716
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: you will in another area or you may, you may

717
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: in that area. Like in twenty twenty one, I was

718
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: kind of doing the same thing. I did not get

719
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: the outcome that I wanted, but I think it changed

720
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: me as a person and prepared me for twenty twenty four. Right,

721
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: I did want it in twenty twenty one, Like I

722
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: got the outcome I wanted three years later, and I'm

723
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 1: a better person, Like for it, I feel more prepared,

724
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: I feel more mature, like spiritually, spiritually physically, emotionally, and

725
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: I just didn't have those things in twenty twenty one,

726
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: so it just wasn't on my timing.

727
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 2: I guess this goes back to, though, like being able

728
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: to have that zoom out to look at what you've

729
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 2: done and understanding that faith really is knowing that there

730
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: are things that are happening for you even if it's

731
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: not what you originally set out to do.

732
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, absolutely, because again, sometimes it's not what you

733
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: want to do, but it's like what's what is best?

734
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 4: And then sometimes I.

735
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, like when things are just if I'm not getting

736
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: exactly what I want, I know that that's not necessarily

737
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: the end of that.

738
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, they might show itself in a different way. I

739
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: have goosebumps. Okay, start and keep. This is my favorite

740
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: exercise to do with folks when I take a look

741
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: back at the past year. Right now, you have an

742
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 2: opportunity to leave something behind in twenty twenty four. Something

743
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 2: you want to stop doing going into twenty twenty five.

744
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 3: What is it?

745
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 4: I want to stop doubting myself.

746
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think I don't belong in the spaces that

747
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm in, and I think it hinders me. I'm like, uh,

748
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't think I could actually get a metal or

749
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm good at the javelin, Like I

750
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: want to just stop doubting myself.

751
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 3: How does one do that? Telia?

752
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 4: I think it starts at practice, like reframing.

753
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: If I know that I'm not good in javelin, and

754
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: my coach tells me this all the time, Like I

755
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: come into javelin practice with like an attitude already like oh,

756
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: I'm not.

757
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 4: Good at this, it's just gonna let's just let's just

758
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 4: get the bare minimum.

759
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: And I think I have to kind of start from

760
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: the bottom with some of those things like fake it

761
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: till you make it.

762
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 4: No, I can't tow the javelin. I'm really good at this.

763
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing, and I think eventually it

764
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: will start to click for.

765
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: Me, and that relentless self belief is gonna be the

766
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 2: thing that gets you to where you want to be.

767
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 2: It's highly doubtful that javelin or not. If you go

768
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 2: into a situation and you don't have the confidence or

769
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 2: self belief that you can achieve act or why you're

770
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: not gonna achieve it hard Stile, So you've.

771
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: Already set yourself up FA failure before you've even done anything,

772
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: before you open your mouth, and that you know that

773
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to do with track. It can be

774
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: with a regular job or yeah, meeting, you gotta fake it, zone,

775
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: make it act like you're the president or whatever you

776
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: have to do until you become that thing.

777
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 4: And I think eventually you will.

778
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 2: All right, stop self doubt in twenty twenty five. Keep

779
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 2: what are we going to keep doing in that twenty

780
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: twenty five Something that's working for you right now?

781
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 4: Okay.

782
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: I like to give myself, like small rewards or big rewards.

783
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: I like rewarding myself for doing things that I feel

784
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: like I did well. So I'm going to keep doing that,

785
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: whether it's like at the end of the week, get

786
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: in some ice cream, or like I get appeal are

787
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: in the hip and I buy a purse or something.

788
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: But I think that kind of keeps me going, and

789
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: it's like checking off small goals that helps me get

790
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: to the big one.

791
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna keep doing that.

792
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 2: I love that, keep rewarding yourself, And I love what

793
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: you made sure to mention, which is small things are

794
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 2: also worthy of recognition. I mean, maybe not at every

795
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: small win, You're gonna buy yourself a nice bag. But

796
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: it is important to say, hey, I see you. You're

797
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 2: putting in the work and this might not be a

798
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 2: gold medal right now, but you showed up to practice

799
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 2: every day this week, or you actually drink the amount

800
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: of water you were supposed to drink every day this week,

801
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: right And.

802
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 3: Some of those things are challenging within itself.

803
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: Some they are, and I feel like when you don't

804
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: reward yourself, it can be hard to keep going because

805
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: it feels like you're just on this Ferris whell of

806
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: like NonStop. So I think, yeah, if I'm rewarding myself

807
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 1: or small and again, it don't have to be a bag,

808
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: but like I get some Anti's ice cream at the

809
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: end of the week because I hit all my times

810
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: throughout the week, or I made all my meetings on time,

811
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: or I got all my.

812
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 4: Whatever it is, you know.

813
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: I think small stuff like that just kind of keeps me,

814
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: like it makes me look forward to the next week,

815
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 1: and it makes me want to just like keep building.

816
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 2: Definitely, I need to know what the ice cream flavor

817
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: is you have a go to.

818
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 4: I'm playing Andy's Frozen Custard.

819
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: I'll just get a kid sized chocolate with cheesecake bites

820
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: on top.

821
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 3: Oh so good? All right?

822
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 2: And lastly, there start doing what are we going to

823
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: start doing in twenty twenty five that we're not doing

824
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 2: just yet?

825
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 4: You know.

826
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: I want to start being like more intentional about like

827
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: reaching out to my family members. I think sometimes I

828
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 1: get so busy, or the perception and it's something that

829
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 1: I've complained about, like to close people around me that's

830
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: not my family. I think the perception is that I'm

831
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: so busy that people don't want to bother me. That

832
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: sometimes like I lose contact or not really lose contact,

833
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: but there will go days like I haven't talked to

834
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: my mom on the actual phone, like we've texted, or

835
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 1: like I haven't talked to my dad, And that's something

836
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: that I want to be.

837
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 4: Like intentional about.

838
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: It's just I love reaching out to my family and

839
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: just you know, talking to them, letting them my love them.

840
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 4: I care about them, calling my grandfather like.

841
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.

842
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 4: Like you could wake up tomorrow and life be different.

843
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 3: I know, life could be different.

844
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 2: I think that I can really relate to that idea

845
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 2: or that assumption that this person is busy. I am

846
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 2: pretty positive that's why, you know, my parents don't call

847
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 2: me as much as I wish that they'd call me.

848
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 3: And yeah, like I won't lie.

849
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on, but it feels good to

850
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 2: feel the effort, right, and I think that energy meets

851
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 2: like energy. So that means that if they're making more

852
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: of an effort to reach out to me, I might

853
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 2: not be able to pick up the phone all the time,

854
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 2: but that means that I'm going to give that effort

855
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 2: right back, because it's a two way treat.

856
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it doesn't have to be like a thirty

857
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: minute conversation, but just let me call and check in.

858
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: And sometimes it might feel like I don't say, like

859
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: it's not genuine, but it is genuine.

860
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 4: But you have to make I know myself.

861
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: So I have to make a checklist, like Okay, on

862
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: Tuesday at nine o'clock, I'm calling my dad. Yeah, and

863
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: for the next four tuesdays until it becomes like a

864
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: regular thing, you know, where it doesn't have to be

865
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: like a checklist, But that is something that I want to.

866
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 3: I love that.

867
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: I love that start getting more intentional about talking to family.

868
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 2: And then now reflecting on the year, what would you

869
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 2: say you are perhaps most proud of yourself for in

870
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.

871
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: Definitely making the Olympic team. I'm proud that, Like that

872
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: was just that was a really hard journey. So just

873
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: building on twenty twenty three, like overcoming what happened in

874
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and then like doing the thing.

875
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 4: I would say, I'm.

876
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 2: Proud when you reflect on what happened in twenty twenty

877
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: one and you and you reference overcoming that Hurtle moment.

878
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 2: What was the worst of that in that what was

879
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 2: the most difficult part of getting through the disappointment of

880
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 2: not getting to Tokyo.

881
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: I think it was like the aftermath, like and I

882
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: didn't really feel that until maybe almost two years later,

883
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: because I think, yeah, after twenty twenty one, there was

884
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: a lot of like self doubt on the track, off

885
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: the track, like I was unsure of everything. If you

886
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: asked me what I wanted to eat, it was like,

887
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I was unsure if I couldn't

888
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: make the right decisions.

889
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 4: And I think that that took.

890
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: A really long time to overcome. And I think I

891
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 1: posted a reel on my Instagram a couple of years ago.

892
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: But Arkansas, like they did like a media day for

893
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: the pros where we could get pictures taken and stuff

894
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: in our uniform. And we had that, and then we

895
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: were going to have a truck meet like two days later,

896
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: and it was going to be the first teck meet

897
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: that I was running in since Olympic Trials. And I

898
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: was in shambles, like I was crying, I was I

899
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: did not want to run in the track meet, and

900
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 1: it was because I was scared to run in the

901
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: track meet, like just I mean, I had been training well.

902
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 4: I went through a period where I was like.

903
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,479
Speaker 1: Hurt, overweight for myself for like track, I had gained

904
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: a bunch of weight, but all of that was kind

905
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: of like behind me. Like physically it's like, well, you're

906
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 1: prepared to run the track meet. I think mentally and emotionally,

907
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: I was still not over like what had happened in

908
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: tw twenty one. And it took a long time just

909
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,439
Speaker 1: throughout the year to throughout twenty twenty three.

910
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 4: So that's two years later to gain that back.

911
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so understandable too, Like the frustrations, the feelings

912
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 2: all of that going after something because you don't work

913
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: hard to not get the goal that you're after right,

914
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 2: that's not what the aim is, but to then be

915
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 2: able to get to this place where you can again

916
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: as we talked about before, or separate the difference between

917
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 2: fact and feeling right and be like no, like, I

918
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 2: do recognize that I've been putting in the work, and

919
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 2: I do recognize that I am capable of things, and

920
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 2: I know that this one thing that didn't go my way,

921
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 2: I have the opportunity not to let that one thing

922
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 2: define me, but rather than to learn from it.

923
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, absolutely, and that can be like easier said

924
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: than done, so.

925
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

926
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 4: It's just something that you have.

927
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: To like fill out for yourself, and you have really

928
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: high days, you'll have low days, but if you can

929
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: just try to like keep it there, then I think

930
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say easier, but it's easier to put.

931
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 4: One foot in front of the other.

932
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 3: Definitely.

933
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 2: Now, what would you say you are most looking forward

934
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 2: to in twenty twenty five?

935
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 3: Till ya, I'm.

936
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 1: Most looking forward to like building on what I did

937
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,240
Speaker 1: this year, Like this is the first year that I

938
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: am going to have the same throws coach like for

939
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: more than one year, and so I'm excited about that.

940
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 4: I'm excited that.

941
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: I'm excited that I feel excited to do the tathlot,

942
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: because usually I just don't feel that way.

943
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 4: It's like, oh God, I gotta.

944
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: Do this, And so I am excited to like build

945
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: on last year, and that's just different than how I

946
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: have felt like in year's past.

947
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to do that.

948
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: I'm also excited to just get into more things like

949
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: off of the track I do. I like doing like podcasts,

950
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: and I do am seeing at the Razorback men's basketball games,

951
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: so I get dressed up like in my outfits. I

952
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: go out there and do that, and so I'm excited

953
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: to like do more of those things.

954
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 3: What is it about that that you love?

955
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 4: Everything?

956
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: For me is just like building, right, So I don't

957
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 1: want to do that for the rest of my life.

958
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: I want to go into broadcasting and like sideline reporting,

959
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: and I think doing that just helps me because I

960
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: don't have formal training. I didn't go to college for

961
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 1: broadcasting or anything, so it gives me. And the better

962
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: that I do they are, like the more confident that

963
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: I get that I can do.

964
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 3: The other thing got out and the reps, Yeah.

965
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: And I can I can get dressed up so it

966
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: gives me something, you know, I put on makeup, I

967
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: can my hair get dressed up, and it's just something

968
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: fun that I can do.

969
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 4: And when our basketball team's good, it's even better.

970
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: So we can turn on the hogs and like look

971
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: cute in the process and build a resume all at

972
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 1: the same time.

973
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 2: Oh my god, so many stones. I love that, Telia.

974
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 2: What do you see when you look in the mirror?

975
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: I mean, someone goes to your social media page, they

976
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,439
Speaker 2: see someone with a bunch of followers, and you are

977
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 2: clearly an A six athlete and olympian now, But when

978
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 2: you look in the mirror, what is it that you

979
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 2: see looking back at you?

980
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 4: Uh?

981
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: I see someone that I've never actually said this out loud.

982
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: I think a few people have heard me say this,

983
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: but for the most part, like if people listen all

984
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: the way to this point, I never said this out loud,

985
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: But like I think now, like I see a girl

986
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 1: that came from like a really hard life, I guess,

987
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: and has completely like changed the trajectory of like where

988
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: I came from, like in which telf Falls.

989
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 4: I'm from Witchdolf Falls.

990
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: My parents like own this little store we used to

991
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 1: sleep in there because it was like warmer than sleeping

992
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: at home. And I know when people look at me,

993
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: like they don't see that, and a lot of people

994
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: don't know, like that's what I come from, Like I come.

995
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 4: From very very ghetto, very like no money.

996
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: We would go to track meets come back, all of

997
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: our stuff would be on the side of the road

998
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: because my parents didn't pay the rent. They decided to

999
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: take us to Junior Olympics. And so I'm about to

1000
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: get emotional, But when I look in the mirror, like

1001
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 1: I just see someone that overcame that, I see someone

1002
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: that's like making my family proud because they sacrificed so

1003
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: much for me to like be in this position and

1004
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: to just say, like I ran in the Olympics, like

1005
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: I can I do all of these things, Like I

1006
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: would have never guessed that for myself, and so I'm

1007
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 1: just really proud of that. I'm grateful for my family

1008
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: in any way that like I can help my family

1009
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: or the kids in witchdof falls, like I'm more than

1010
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: happy to do that because without them.

1011
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 4: Like I would not be here.

1012
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: And it's just crazy, like I wake up still sometimes

1013
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: like that's crazy, Like I live in the Olympics, like

1014
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: y'all have no idea like what I came from, so

1015
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 1: and I just never talk about.

1016
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 4: That out loud.

1017
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I see someone that's like very proud

1018
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: of that and humbled and just like looking to continue.

1019
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: On, looking to continue on.

1020
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that, and truly it's something to

1021
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 2: be really proud of. And I know that you are,

1022
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 2: and I have absolutely no doubt that.

1023
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 3: Your family is at all.

1024
00:48:58,200 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 4: Thank you.

1025
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: For those that don't follow along with you just yet,

1026
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 2: where can they find you?

1027
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 3: How can they keep up with you? Give us your details?

1028
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: Mostly on Instagram, It's at Love Underscore, T Brooks, l

1029
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: o v E Underscore, T b r o Oks. That's

1030
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: where i like to do all my stuff at. But

1031
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: I'm on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok I think all the

1032
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: same name.

1033
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:25,919
Speaker 3: Well, cheers to a new year.

1034
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 2: I'm over at Emily a Body and at Hurdle Podcast

1035
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 2: Another Hurdle Conquered.

1036
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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time.