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Speaker 2: What's going on, everyone, Emily A body here coming to

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Speaker 2: you live from the AG studio. You are listening to

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Speaker 2: episode one eighty five of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast

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Speaker 2: where I connect with everyone from your favorite athletes to

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Speaker 2: top experts and industry CEOs about their highest highs, toughest moments,

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Speaker 2: and everything in between. We all go through hurdles in life,

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Speaker 2: and my goal through these discussions is to empower you

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Speaker 2: course have some fun along the way. This week, I

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Speaker 2: am so amped understatement to be chatting with the one,

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Speaker 2: the only, Jordan Childs. She's a pro gymnast Olympic silver

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Speaker 2: in for best friend and teammate Simone Biles after she

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Speaker 2: Conversation that Team USA Gymnastics has sparked about the prioritization

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Speaker 2: how she unwillingly went to her first ever gymnastics practice seriously,

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Speaker 3: This conversation to be real.

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Speaker 2: It's fun and it's honest, and mostly I'm just thankful

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Speaker 2: We're heading into the holidays this week, Thanksgiving on deck

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Speaker 2: it kind of blows my mind that I get to

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Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Jordan Childs. She's an Olympic

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Speaker 2: Where in the world right now is Jordan Chiles?

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Speaker 1: Currently? I am in Pittsburgh, which is really really crazy

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Speaker 3: You're not practicing at all. It seems very boring.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually, I've been practicing this whole time because we

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Speaker 1: kind of are doing skills that are kind of big

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00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: but kind of not really just things that we can

437
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: do on like every day because we're on a show.

438
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: Well we're on a tour, so you know tours like

439
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 1: it's like artists they sing almost every day. It's like

440
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: for us, we had to flip and do that every day.

441
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 1: So we're practicing this whole time. But afterwards I go

442
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: off to college, so I have to be prepared for

443
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: that because our season starts in January, so I'm kind

444
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: of starting up, starting up. But you know, we'll see

445
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 1: what happens in the future future. I don't know what's

446
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but we'll see what happens.

447
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 2: You're like alluding to the fact that you might be

448
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 2: thinking about twenty twenty four, but we're like, not really

449
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 2: thinking about that yet.

450
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 3: We're kind of just gonna feel it out.

451
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we're just gonna take day by day

452
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: and see what happens. You know, I'm not gonna give

453
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 1: you a for sure answer, but it's up there. It's

454
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: up there.

455
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 2: Let's flash back then now and talk a little bit

456
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 2: about Tokyo. What did it mean for you to even

457
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 2: have a spot on this team in a year that

458
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 2: was unlike any other?

459
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: It was a huge, huge honor. I definitely I'm known

460
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: as the underdog in the Black Horse, So being able

461
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: to be put on a team with not only a idle,

462
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: a inspiration, a hero I don't even know what else

463
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: she is, and then also having three other girls there

464
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: with us, well four of the girls, how many of

465
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: us there, there's six of us, four of the girls

466
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: there that were also amazing as well, Like, I think

467
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: having the atmosphere that we did was so so, so amazing,

468
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: and I'm just happy that I was part of Team

469
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 1: USA in this moment because it's definitely going to be

470
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: in history books and it's definitely going to be at

471
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 1: an Olympics. A lot of people are going to talk

472
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: about until who knows when, So it was huge. I

473
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: loved it.

474
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,959
Speaker 2: It's so interesting for me to like, in all the

475
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 2: interviews I've watched with you and listening to podcasts before

476
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: having the chance to sit down with you today, you

477
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 2: truly are a woman that lifts up other woman, And

478
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 2: I think it's really beautiful how positively you speak about

479
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 2: your not only your friendship with Simone, but Simone as

480
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 2: your teammate. Sometimes when I'm listening to these interviews, I

481
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 2: almost want to take a step back and.

482
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 3: Be like, but how are you, Jordan, Like how are you?

483
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 2: In that I feel as though, and it makes sense

484
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 2: right because you guys are teammates, but so much of

485
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 2: the focus has been on not only like how you

486
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 2: performed in the Olympics, but how you performed in the

487
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 2: Olympics because you stepped in for your team. So I

488
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 2: guess this is kind of like a multifaceted place that

489
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: I'm going with this. But that's really beautiful that you

490
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 2: are such a hype woman. Do you ever feel like

491
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 2: you want to make your own path? That's just Jordan.

492
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: I mean, I've thought of it, as thought of it,

493
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: but you know, how the world works. It's not about

494
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: how like I can present myself any type of way,

495
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: but it's how they're gonna take it because a lot

496
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: of the things, they don't know what happens behind the scenes,

497
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: and they don't know what a lot of us go through.

498
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: So in my head, yes, I've thought of okay, like

499
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: let's see what happens if Jordan goes this way, or

500
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: let's see what happened if Jordan goes this way, But

501
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: it all depends on how my puzzle pieces are supposed

502
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: to be, like put In, and if they fit, they fit,

503
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna take that with me and ride

504
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: with it. So I mean a lot of the time,

505
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, yes, I'm the hype woman

506
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: of everything, and I love being that and I love

507
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: being able just to support others in different types of

508
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 1: ways and just being able to be who I am

509
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: as a person and doing this for myself, because that's

510
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: literally what I've been doing is everything is for myself.

511
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,719
Speaker 1: I don't focus on the outsiders. I don't focus on

512
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: the expectation that I'm supposed to be giving to people.

513
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: I just focus on what I want to do for myself.

514
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: And if that's being a teammate, a best friend, sister

515
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: to somebody who's great in the world, I'll do that,

516
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: and that's what I want to do because I know,

517
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: like i'll support her, I'll do this, I'll do that,

518
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: I'll do the other. But everything happens for a reason,

519
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: Like that's why I go back to, like everything happens

520
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: for a reason, And I think this is a pretty

521
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: cool reason, knowing that I'm best friends with an Olympian

522
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: and somebody who's great in the world and who has

523
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: changed the world in many different ways, because it gives

524
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: me an eye and a perspective on what maybe I

525
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: can do in the future and how I can just

526
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: feel like I change the world, like I've changed multiple

527
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: different girls, like visuals on how they do their hair,

528
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: on how they present themselves and all that and so

529
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 1: just being able to see that from my side, it's

530
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. I like it.

531
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: I love what you said, like being best friends with

532
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: an Olympia and it's like, hey, you're also an Olympia,

533
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 2: not just an Olympian, but like a silver medalist.

534
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 3: But I totally heree you.

535
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really beautiful that, like, you have this

536
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 2: opportunity to have someone in your life that not only

537
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 2: supports you but then also inspires you in return. Let

538
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 2: us now talk a little bit about what stepping in

539
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 2: was like for you. I mean, from you know, the

540
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: couches sing at home, it totally looked like a fight

541
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: or flight kind of situation.

542
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the most devastating thing I've ever done

543
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: in my life. I told her, I was like, this

544
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: is a once in a lifetime thing. I'm never doing

545
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: this for you again. And she started laughing because it's true,

546
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: Like her shoes are so big, and I just wanted

547
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: to make sure I made her proud in those moments.

548
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: Just being able to be like, Okay, I'm stepping in

549
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: for you, like this is crazy. Never thought in the

550
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: world I'd be doing that for anybody in general. And

551
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: being able just to see like the accomplishment that I

552
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: was able to do that. I definitely thought. I thought,

553
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: because I knew I had to do something. It was

554
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: for the team, it was for her, It's for the

555
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: world to see, like, no matter what happens, TMUSA is

556
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: a fight, like we're fighters, no matter what. It was

557
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: so devastating. My heart was aching because at the same

558
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: time I wanted to do it with her. I wanted

559
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: to compete with her, competing as well, but you know,

560
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: having her there supporting us and being able to say, Okay,

561
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: you guys, you got this, you can do this, you

562
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: can do that, like I'm here for you was definitely

563
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: a different perspective on us because we never got to

564
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: see her in that position. She's always the one doing this,

565
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: doing that, and we're like, okay, like you got this,

566
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: you got this. But having the role switch was definitely

567
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: a huge thing, and I think that really opened a

568
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: lot of people's eyes, like she's more than just Simon Wiles,

569
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: and so I think it was it was pretty cool

570
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: for me just to be like, Okay, I'm in your position,

571
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: like what do I do now?

572
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: But definitely how do the clips? Again? Can someone just

573
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 3: remind me?

574
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: It was definitely scary. Scary, but scary, yeah, I was.

575
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: But I'm happy, you know, I'm happy that she was

576
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: able to see a different side and that we were

577
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: able to help her because I felt like we helped her,

578
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: you know, That's what I think. I don't know, I

579
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: can't speak for the other girls, but I feel like

580
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: we helped her and we were able just to be like, Okay,

581
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: we support you, how you're supporting us.

582
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: Give us a little bit more of like a read

583
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: or a vibe of like what it was like to

584
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: be on the floor in that arena.

585
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: It was definitely a gym come true. It felt like

586
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: I was in a fairy tale. At first, I didn't

587
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: know what was going on. I was just like, oh

588
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: my goodness, like where am I? But then when I

589
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: realized after Team Finals and what we were going through

590
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: and how everything ended up, it definitely was like, Okay,

591
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm not in a dream anymore. This is actually real lifetime,

592
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: and I'm very very happy where I am. And I'm

593
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: very happy that I was able to even be out

594
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: there on that floor just representing Teamy. I say, you know,

595
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. My vibe. Obviously, you guys saw

596
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: I was pumped, I was high, I was just out there.

597
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, it

598
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: was all about making sure we were going to stay

599
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: together and just support each other no matter what we

600
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: were going through.

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Speaker 3: Happy Hot. He's everyone.

668
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: Probably our whole other vibe. Actually being handed the silver metal.

669
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 2: I mean that that was a.

670
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: Huge thing for us as well, because I don't I

671
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: really don't even know like what was going through everybody's

672
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: brains after Floor and even after Vault in general, because

673
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: we were just like, okay, guys, we just gotta go

674
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: out there hit do whatever we need to do and

675
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: hope that we medal. And just being able to say

676
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: that we got a silver medal and knowing that we

677
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: did it with all of our heart and joy and

678
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: our passion was it was amazing. That silver metal was

679
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: like my shield. Lets me know, like, Okay, all that

680
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: ache and pain and stress you went through in the

681
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: past and in the moments and all that is definitely

682
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: like it shielded in that metal. So I'm just really

683
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: excited and I'm happy that we were able to do

684
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: what we did out there, because that was a lie.

685
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: It was stressful, but you know, we fought.

686
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll never forget.

687
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 2: I feel like I was like making coffee on the

688
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: morning that you were on the Today Show. I think

689
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 2: it was like that maybe the day after you won

690
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: silver when they like sprung Michael Phelps on you.

691
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Yes, it was on the Today Show.

692
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: We had to do our end.

693
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: That moment lives ren free in my mind of like

694
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 2: me thinking about being twenty years old and like being

695
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,280
Speaker 2: offered like like a superhero, like on a silver platter

696
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: in front of like all of America.

697
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: That was crazy. I literally was just like in awe

698
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 1: because they had told us, they told us he was there,

699
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: but I was like, is there any way I could

700
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: meet him? And they were like, well, we can see

701
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: what we can do. And I was like okay. So

702
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and they offered us sushi or

703
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: whatever or something like that, and I was like, Okay,

704
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: we're sitting there, Dada, we're gonna eat sushi, We're gonna

705
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: do this. And the next thing, you know, he just

706
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: pops up and I was like, oh my gosh, my

707
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: Mom's probably gonna kill me. Like it just it just

708
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: came out. I was like, oh, what did I just say?

709
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: Because I was so starstruck that he was standing right

710
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: in front of me.

711
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 2: I loved witnessing this aside from Phelps, Like, was there

712
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 2: anyone else on the ground in Tokyo that you came

713
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: into contact with and you were like, oh my god.

714
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: We met the softball team and they did. They were,

715
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: first off, they're really tall.

716
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 3: I was like, yeahay, compared to you guys, I was like, oh.

717
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: My gosh, my nay. But yeah, we met, like the

718
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: softball team. There's obviously a lot of people that I

719
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: wish I could have met, but you know, the whole

720
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: COVID protocols that we had to do, and we weren't

721
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: staying in the Olympic village and all that stuff, so

722
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: I think he was the only one.

723
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 3: Maybe it a little challenging.

724
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of was. But at the same time,

725
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: I'm kind of happy that we were able just to

726
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: be in our own little world because we kind of

727
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: were there. We were there longer than everybody else, basically

728
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: because we were there before the Olympics even started, and

729
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: we ended to a day before closing ceremony, so it

730
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: was like we were everywhere. Even if we tried to

731
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: find people and meet them, it would have been too.

732
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: Hard and you had to quarantine for the full time

733
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 2: once you got there.

734
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, we had a quarantine and we had to

735
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 1: do spit tubes every morning.

736
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 2: Spit tubes talk sweet, so literally just spitting into a

737
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 2: tube and then they test it for COVID and then

738
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 2: you go about your day.

739
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was really nasty.

740
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 3: What's the uh, what's like the COVID protocol right now?

741
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 3: For you on the tour?

742
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: So basically we have to be masked the whole time,

743
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,479
Speaker 1: like right now, like when we're out and about. Even

744
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: if the state or whatever has their own code protocols

745
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: and they don't have to wear a mask, we still

746
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: have to wear a mask due to as we're still

747
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: traveling and all that. We don't want any of us

748
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: to get COVID. We all stay in our own rooms,

749
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: we all have like different buses. We can't go on

750
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: to each other's buses basically, like we can do like

751
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: like if we want to go out to eat, we

752
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: can go do that, but we just have to be masked.

753
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: If we leave to like a different state, say like

754
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: we have an off day and we have to go

755
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: do like a photo shoot or something somewhere else, we

756
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: have to get tested when we get back.

757
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: So I do want to pivot a little bit right

758
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: now and talk a little bit.

759
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you were saying earlier that you know that

760
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: you've had the opportunity to inspire so many young women

761
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 2: in so many different ways. For you coming into your

762
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: own I cannot even imagine how I would have navigated

763
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 2: being twenty years old and having so many eyes on me.

764
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 2: So I want to talk to you a little bit.

765
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: I guess about that and what it's been like for

766
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 2: you to come into your own with again just kind

767
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: of being a little bit under a magnifying glass.

768
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't really thought of it that way.

769
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 3: How do you? How do you think about it?

770
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: I mean personally, like a lot of people, when people

771
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: are like, oh my gosh, you're so famous, you're this,

772
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: you're that, I like, look at them, like, huh, who

773
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Because I don't even consider myself famous.

774
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: I barely consider myself an Olympian at this moment. Like

775
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: even when I say, I'm like that's me, Like what,

776
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: Like I okay? Cool. So when when people like say

777
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: you're my idol, you're my inspiration, you're my hero, You've

778
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: helped me through tough times, this, that and the other,

779
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: it's like a really really like heartwarming situation that I

780
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: love because it makes me feel like, Okay, when I

781
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: was younger, it was hard for me to find the

782
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: things that you guys found in me. So it was

783
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: definitely like it was like they're like trigger moments. I'm

784
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: just like, oh my gosh, like you felt that like

785
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: what I did, You felt that in you, Like it

786
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: took me a while just to even find out for myself.

787
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. It's pretty amazing that I have

788
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: little ones looking up to me and being like, oh

789
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 1: my gosh, you're my favorite, Like you've helped me discover

790
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: like I can do this with my hair and this,

791
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: and like it's pretty cool just to realize, like, wow,

792
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: I've put a huge impact on a lot of girls out.

793
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: There, So you keep coming back to the hair moment. Yes,

794
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 2: can we talk about that a little bit, like why

795
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 2: is it the hair moment for you?

796
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: So when I was younger, I went to an all

797
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: white school and every single girl just loved touching my

798
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: hair and I never knew why, and it kind of

799
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: made me feel like, okay, like you guys need to

800
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: stop touching my hair, Like okay, I get it, it's

801
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: curly cool, whatever. And I didn't really like embrace my

802
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: curls at that moment because of that, and so I

803
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: always wanted my hair straight, always wanted it straight, and

804
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: it was something that my mom didn't like because she

805
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: was like, your curls are so beautiful this time. I'm like,

806
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: and then I would tell her, but people are touching it.

807
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 1: I don't like it, and da da dah and all

808
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: this stuff. So it took me a while to really

809
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: embrace my own curls until my very first competition and

810
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: I wore a poof and all of a sudden, it

811
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: was just like Jordan Child's new hair, this that, and

812
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: little girls doing this, doing that, and I was just like, mom,

813
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: what's going on? Because I was young. I was like

814
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: thirteen at that time, so I was like, what's going on?

815
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: And she was like, your poof inspired young younger girls

816
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: out there to let their hair do what they want

817
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: to do and not go against like and not having

818
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: in a bun and do this. And I was like,

819
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: oh okay. Still didn't think of anything until recently, like

820
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: maybe three four years ago. I was just like, you

821
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: know what, I'm just gonna keep embracing it and see

822
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: what happens. And ever since then, girls have been coming

823
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: up to me, Jordan, you. I love how you did

824
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,280
Speaker 1: your hair this time and this time, and I've done tribal,

825
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: I've done this, I've done that because it's like, my

826
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 1: hair is my crown and it's my beauty and I'm

827
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: gonna take that with me when whatever I do. And

828
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: that's basically how how the younger girls saw it, as in,

829
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 1: if Jordan can do this, I'm gonna do it too.

830
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: You mentioned you mentioned earlier going to college. Talk to

831
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 2: me a little bit about how you feel about that.

832
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I don't even think like I can't

833
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: wait personally like I cannot wait. I can't wait just

834
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and have that

835
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: college experience and being able to be with the team

836
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: and exploring new things and making new friends and doing

837
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: I don't even know like what college people do basically,

838
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna be fun. I can't wait

839
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: to finally start competing for them UCLA. The Bruins have

840
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 1: always been since I was I don't know, eighth grade.

841
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: Whenever you're how old are you then? Thirteen? For twelve thirteen? Yeah,

842
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: that's how long I had been with UCLA.

843
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 3: Amazing. I mean, it sounds like it's going to be

844
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 3: so good.

845
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 2: And do you expect that you'll still be able to

846
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 2: see your family a lot being over in California?

847
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: Or I can only tell you my family's gonna be

848
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: there all the time. I'm the youngest of five, so

849
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: it's going to be a constant. I'm coming to LA

850
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: this week because that they have nobody no more kids.

851
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 2: Such a big theme for USA Gymnastics this year talking

852
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: about mental health. Do you feel as though, because this

853
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 2: conversation has kind of come to the forefront, that there

854
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 2: are more resources available to you or do you feel

855
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 2: still like it's your responsibility to seek them out.

856
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: A lot of the time. So I don't even know.

857
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: Way back when they offered a sports psychologists to help

858
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: with whatever we need. And it was kind of like,

859
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,439
Speaker 1: if you want to do it, you do it. If

860
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: you don't, then you don't. But after without dealing with

861
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: USAG and all that and just going on about like

862
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: what you want to do, it's what you want to do.

863
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: Nobody can control if you want to go to a

864
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: sports psychologist, if you want to go to therapy, if

865
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: you want to do this, if you want to do that.

866
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: It should be all based on what you want to do,

867
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: and so they really take that into consideration, like I'm

868
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: not going to force this person to do this or

869
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: give you this team and think that this team is

870
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: good for you. It's all about like, Okay, this is

871
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: what I want to do, just how I want to

872
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: do it, and that's it. So it just depends on

873
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: who you want to be. Like, for instance, me personally

874
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: my sports psychologist, I was just like, okay, this is

875
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: this is how long I want to do it, and

876
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: this is how long I need you for and then

877
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: I'll see if I want to come back. And she

878
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: was like okay, So it like like I said, it

879
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: just depends on who you are.

880
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 2: I would say, uh, it's pretty cool that you've had

881
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: the opportunity to do something like that, and it's super

882
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: interesting in today's climate where so many experts will say

883
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 2: that taking the time to quote unquote exercise your mental

884
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 2: health or deal with your mental health is just as important,

885
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 2: if not more important, than spending that time in the gym.

886
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: Yes, definitely. Like I said before, our mind tells our

887
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: body what to do, so if our minds aren't in

888
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: the right position, we could get hurt, like really really

889
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: bad or even like not have an amazing practice. So

890
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: mental health is something that a lot of us do

891
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: go through because you never, like gymnasis is a crucial

892
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 1: and drama sport, like it's really really bad, but being able.

893
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: A lot of the girls at my gym go see

894
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: a sports psychologist and they're younger than me only because

895
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: of what they've gone through, and so they need to

896
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: be able to speak out and speak to somebody who

897
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: can understand and feel like, Okay, this person knows what

898
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: I'm going through type, so you know, it just it

899
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: just depends. I mean, I know a lot of people

900
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: who are older than me and are still going to

901
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: the sports psychologists because it's not just an athletes, it's

902
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 1: in everybody. Everybody has something that's mentally will they say

903
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: something no, But I feel like a lot of the

904
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: time you can feel it from somebody, and that's what

905
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,720
Speaker 1: That's how I am. Like if I feel like something's

906
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: not right with you, and then two days later you're

907
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: just like, oh my goodness, Like I I was so

908
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: not in the right like because I felt that, and

909
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: I can be like, oh, yeah, I know, I felt

910
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: that from you. So that's how it is with me. Yeah,

911
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: I can feel when people are in the not really

912
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: in their right mind.

913
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 2: Half the time, you have that intuition. You have that

914
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 2: intuition now going forward. I mean you had spoken about

915
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 2: having a negative experience with coaches in the past. Talk

916
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 2: to me about who you're working with now and perhaps

917
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 2: maybe who you'll be working with at UCLA.

918
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: So right now, my coaches are Laurent and Ciscil from

919
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: they go to WCC, and it's been amazing. They literally

920
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: brought the love of the sport back to me and

921
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: I was able to actually feel comfortable speaking up and

922
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: saying this and saying that, and just being able to

923
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: actually have fun with my sport. They're amazing coaches. I

924
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't change the world for them because literally it was

925
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: a fun, fun ride to have them with me on

926
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: my journey and just feeling like I was able to

927
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: do something again. So I love them to death like

928
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm gonna miss them, but you know, I

929
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: gotta move on. I gotta move on. And then yes, yes,

930
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: and then for UCLA. Chris Waller is the head coach

931
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: of the UCLA gymnastics team, so I've known him since

932
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: I was little as well. And it's gonna be it's

933
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: gonna be really fun. We're gonna see what we can

934
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: do with the team and how everything gets put out

935
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: there and how lineups go and competitions and all that.

936
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be really fun. Hopefully we'll do big

937
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,479
Speaker 1: things for the NCAA's and all that, and I can't

938
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: wait to finally be on that that solid soil.

939
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure that everyone's going to be rooting for

940
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 2: you to do just that. When you think right now,

941
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 2: I mean when I go to your social media page,

942
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: I look at you. Obviously, everyone knows you to be

943
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 2: Jordan Chiles, the silver medalist, the gymnast, Simon Bile's best friend.

944
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: You've got a hell of a lot of followers. Four

945
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 2: hundred and fourty one thousand people. When you look in

946
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 2: the mirror, what is it that you see looking back

947
00:49:58,239 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 2: at you?

948
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 1: A little girl who had big dreams that are finally

949
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: coming true.

950
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 3: I love that.

951
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 2: Oh, I just got kill. What other goals do you

952
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 2: have on the horizon? I mean, i'd say that going

953
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 2: to the Olympics is a pretty big one. But what

954
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 2: else excites you right now? What else are you excited

955
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 2: to go after?

956
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: Well, I want to get into acting and stunt doubling,

957
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: So I don't know, there's like a lot of things

958
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: that I want to do. I want to be in

959
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: a Marvel movie. A lot of people say my voice

960
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: can be in like a cartoon, so I don't know

961
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: what they said. I would be really like really good

962
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 1: at voiceovers, and I was like, what, okay, anyways.

963
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 3: Well, Jordan, people used to tell me that, and then

964
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 3: I started a podcast, so maybe you're going to start

965
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 3: a podcast.

966
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'll start a podcast. I want to get

967
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: into I mean, I do have my own business and everything,

968
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: so I want to continue the business part of it.

969
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: That's why I'm going to be majoring in his business

970
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: for school, which is a lot of people keep telling

971
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: me that's so hard. I'm like, I like math, so

972
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: I think I should be fine. And then I want

973
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: to get into like hopefully real estate one day. That's

974
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: something that I kind of have been thinking about. My

975
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: mom's an interior designer, so hopefully like we can like

976
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: put our two works together and make do really big things.

977
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: So I think that'd be really cool.

978
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 2: I love the array of things here, like business, major, stunt, double,

979
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 2: real estate.

980
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 1: I'm an all the way. I'm all everything type of girl.

981
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: I love the entertainment side. One thing that I really

982
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: want to do, though, is be a backup dancer for

983
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: somebody or even in a music.

984
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 3: Day stop it, yeah.

985
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: I really like I really want to be a backup

986
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: dancer for just someone. I don't care, like, I just

987
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: want to be a backup dancer or be in a

988
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: music video. That's something that I've just always wanted to

989
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: do because I think it's cool. I don't know it just.

990
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 3: It is cool. It is cool. Wait, but if you could,

991
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 3: if you could pick anyone, who you going with? Normany

992
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I love this Breeze.

993
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: She's like she's literally my favorite artist. Like I don't know,

994
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,760
Speaker 1: I feel like we're like ever since fifth harmony days.

995
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: When I look at her, she looks a lot like

996
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: my cousin on my dad's side for some reason, well

997
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't know why. So ever, since then, I've thought

998
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: I was related to her. So, you know, I just

999
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: had to say it. I just had to put it

1000
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: out there.

1001
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 3: Natural fit, all right, Normani. If this gets to your people.

1002
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 2: Jordan Childs wants in your next video, yes, and you

1003
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: speaking into existence, you know how it works.

1004
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: I know.

1005
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 2: I would love to ask you. As we kind of

1006
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 2: finish up here. You mentioned again being having this opportunity

1007
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 2: to be a role model for so many young women.

1008
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 2: When you think about some of the biggest lessons that

1009
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 2: you've learned over this past year, what is it that

1010
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 2: you want to tell them to.

1011
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: Never give up, to always thrive for something bigger, and

1012
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: just to realize, like, no matter what is being thrown

1013
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: at you or the expectations, to know that you're doing

1014
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: it for yourself and not for anybody else, and you know,

1015
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: just have fun with it. I'm all about fun. That's literally,

1016
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: like my motto is fun fun fun, Like just go

1017
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: out there, have fun, do what you love, and you

1018
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: should be able to enjoy the rest of your career

1019
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: and what you want to do in life. I mean

1020
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: I say that for everybody, like literally everybody, not just athletes,

1021
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: like artists in different types of way, like just go

1022
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: out there and have fun because you never know what's

1023
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: going to happen in the future. You never know if

1024
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: this is going to be your last chance. You never

1025
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: know if this is going to be something that you'll

1026
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: never do again. So you just want to go out there,

1027
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: have fun with it and enjoy the moments that you

1028
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: have and experiences. I can even say my favorite quote

1029
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: is my own quote that I made up, is always

1030
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: believe in the power of your dreams. Your dreams are

1031
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: bigger than you think, and if you believe hard enough,

1032
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: they'll come true. So that's what I got to say.

1033
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 3: It's a good one. It's a good one. It's a

1034
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 3: good one. All right.

1035
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 2: Well, you're great at offering advice. I'm going to ask

1036
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: you for one last piece of it right now.

1037
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 3: You have an.

1038
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 2: Opportunity to give the Jordan in twenty seventeen when she

1039
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 2: was like, Nope, I'm out, I want nothing to do

1040
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 2: with this one piece of advice. Looking back on that

1041
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 2: hurdle moment, right now, what do you tell her.

1042
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: You believed you could and so you did.

1043
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 3: Killing it.

1044
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 2: Closing the podcast with the banger, Jordan, how do the

1045
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,720
Speaker 2: hurdlers keep up with you? How do they follow along

1046
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 2: with you? Give us all of your details.

1047
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: I have Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. You guys can

1048
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram at Jordan Chiles, on Twitter at

1049
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: Chiles Jordan on Facebook. I have two Facebook accounts. One

1050
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: is my personal and one is my fan page, but

1051
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 1: they're both Jordan Childs and then on TikTok at Jordan Chiles,

1052
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: it will come up as baby Joe and I'm still

1053
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: that person.

1054
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 3: So you've been killing it on the top.

1055
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you.

1056
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 3: You inspire me to talk more.

1057
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,760
Speaker 1: Hey, if you gotta If you gotta talk, you gotta.

1058
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: You gotta do it the right way. You just gotta

1059
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: put your fist in it. You'll do good. You'll have fun.

1060
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: I actually have so much it, like I literally have some.

1061
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 3: I think that's like what it's supposed to be about. Though.

1062
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 2: Right I'm over at Emily a Body and at Hurdle

1063
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 2: Podcast Another Hurdle Conquered.

1064
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time

1065
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 2: In my