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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, she pivots listeners. Today We're going to do

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Speaker 1: something a little different with the holiday tomorrow. I hope

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Speaker 1: most of you are driving or traveling somewhere sudy and warm,

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Speaker 1: so I wanted to share some of our older episodes

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Speaker 1: that you might have missed. Links are in the description

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Speaker 1: for easy access, So pick your fave for multiple faves

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Speaker 1: and let us know what you think. With the Olympics

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Speaker 1: right around the corner, I couldn't help but share our

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Speaker 1: episode with the world's most decorated track and field athlete

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Speaker 1: male or female, Alison Felix. Over the course of her

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Speaker 1: running career, she competed in five Olympics and nine World Championships,

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Speaker 1: winning a total of thirty medals between the two. An

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Speaker 1: incredible professional feat but not Allison's full story. During our conversation,

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Speaker 1: Alison shared how her journey has been about more than

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Speaker 1: just medals, and since we recorded, she had another baby.

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Speaker 1: This episode is safe to listen to with kids in

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Speaker 1: the car.

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Speaker 2: The first two Olympics, I got silver medals, and then

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Speaker 2: it was the third Olympics where things, you know, really

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Speaker 2: came together for me and I finally got, you know,

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Speaker 2: ultimately my individual gold medal. Just success was like gold,

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Speaker 2: Like that's the only way to like determine it, That's

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Speaker 2: the only way that it measured up. And I just

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Speaker 2: I went there a really difficult time after getting the

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Speaker 2: second silver medal, and I was just like this, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if this is ever gonna happen for me.

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Speaker 2: And then after you know, going back the next four

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Speaker 2: years and dedicating myself and you know, giving everything I had,

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Speaker 2: when it finally did come together, it didn't exactly feel

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Speaker 2: like what I thought it would. I think I had

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Speaker 2: like I had built it up to be, you know,

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Speaker 2: this incredible thing. Like I thought everything was going to change.

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Speaker 2: I thought my life was going to be different, and

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Speaker 2: then it happened and kind of like nothing changed, and

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Speaker 2: I went back to life and everything was the same,

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Speaker 2: and it took me time to unpack it. But I

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Speaker 2: think it was just, you know, the magic was along

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Speaker 2: the way. It was the process. It was the growing,

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Speaker 2: the stretching, becoming, you know, all of that, and so

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Speaker 2: it was less about the actual accomplishment, but more about

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Speaker 2: the journey to get there.

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Speaker 1: Once you finished Allison's episode, give Paula Nierres a listen.

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Speaker 1: Her episode is from season one back when we did

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Speaker 1: just ten episodes, and even though we had a limited

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Speaker 1: number of slots, I knew I wanted Paula on. I

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Speaker 1: met Paula when I was working at the Service Member's

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Speaker 1: Legal Defense Network, and her story stuck with me. A

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Speaker 1: Navy veteran, Paula left behind the life and career she

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Speaker 1: knew and loved to pursue her authentic self as a

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Speaker 1: transgender woman and eve of the very holiday when we

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Speaker 1: celebrate and honor freedom. I thought her story was only

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Speaker 1: fitting as someone who fought for both country and self.

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Speaker 1: If you're thinking about listening with your kids, Paula's episode

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Speaker 1: does have some mentions of self harm, so listen with care.

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Speaker 1: Here's a short clip.

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Speaker 3: This is still you know, ten to fifteen years before

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Speaker 3: anybody was going to challenge any of these policies in court.

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Speaker 3: And you know, Charleston in nineteen ninety two not a

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Speaker 3: bastion of progressive thought. It wasn't you know, it wasn't

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Speaker 3: the battlefield to fight in. And you know, and that's

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Speaker 3: one thing is that in pivoting and looking at you,

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Speaker 3: how you deal with situations is I'm a firm believer

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Speaker 3: in keeping your autonomy is I'm not a big fan

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Speaker 3: of victim feeling like you're a victim. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: society has stigma, and society discriminates against you know, and

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't lessen the impact of what that

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Speaker 3: can be because you know, I'm very privileged, you know,

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Speaker 3: which gives me some of the armor and the weapons

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Speaker 3: to be able to deal with that in a way

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Speaker 3: that other people can't. But every single one of us

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Speaker 3: has the capacity to make the decisions for how we're

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Speaker 3: going to live our life. If you want to be free,

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Speaker 3: if you want to live authentically, you've got to be

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Speaker 3: willing to pay the price to do that. You know,

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Speaker 3: freedom isn't free. So for me, you know, obviously living

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Speaker 3: authentically was important enough for me to make a decision

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Speaker 3: to live authentically and pay the price, you know, sacrifice

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Speaker 3: my career in the Navy, deal with discrimination.

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Speaker 1: I truly cannot recommend Paula's episode enough. Her episode won

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Speaker 1: a few awards, so it's definitely worth a listen. Finally,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to share an episode that lives with me

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Speaker 1: to this day, Tetiana Podo. On this emotional episode, Tetiana

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Speaker 1: recounts her personal experience as Ukrainian civilian volunteer working to

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Speaker 1: help her father's unit on the warfront. She left her

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Speaker 1: job at Spotify and Silicon Valley to return home to

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Speaker 1: When I last spoke with Tetiana, her father was recovering

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Speaker 1: award from President Zelensky for defense of Ukraine, a huge honor,

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Speaker 1: and now she has started a venture capital firm founded

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Speaker 1: to source and nurture precede stage defense tech companies with

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Speaker 1: an impact on Ukraine's victory. They're on the front lines

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Speaker 1: fighting for freedom that we are so lucky to celebrate

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Speaker 1: this week. Despite the heavy nature of this episode, Tetiana

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Speaker 1: speaks with such a lightness and hope throughout it all.

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Speaker 1: For Tetiana's episode, You're more than welcome to listen with

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Speaker 1: your kids. It is safe for kids, but it is

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Speaker 1: some heavy content, so listen with care.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's just like numbers, and I feel like

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Speaker 4: a lot of people become defensive dies by this. You know,

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Speaker 4: a lot of people get used to it. It's all

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Speaker 4: all news to many people, but for us, it's just continued,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's been a year, but you know, maybe

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Speaker 4: it's not on the front page of the news, but

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Speaker 4: for me, it's really horrible. It's still you know, my

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Speaker 4: father is there fighting. You know. It's like you never

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Speaker 4: get used to the fact that every morning people you

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Speaker 4: love are in danger. But people are not scared.

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Speaker 5: If anything, people are very committed to victory. It's like

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Speaker 5: people a grieve whenever something bad happens. It feels personal.

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Speaker 5: But people when they drink, they toast them, they say,

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Speaker 5: to victory, to victory.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed these throwbacks and check them out

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Speaker 1: during your July fourth travels. Each one truly has a

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Speaker 1: special place in our hearts here on the she pivots team.

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Speaker 1: If you do listen to a throwback episode, post a

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Speaker 1: photo and tag us on Instagram at she pivots. The

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Speaker 1: podcast special Thanks to the she Pivots team, Executive producer

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Speaker 1: Emily eda Velosik, Associate producer and social media connoisseur Hannah Cousins,

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Speaker 1: Research director Christine Dickinson, Events and logistics coordinator Madeline Snovak,

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Speaker 1: and audio editor and mixer Nina pollock I endorse she

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