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Beyond The Box: Haley Adams Talks Handling Expectations, Lessons From 10+ Years Of CrossFit & The Reason For Her Gap Year · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Try to enjoy the whole process because it could be
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  Speaker 1: gone tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on, everyone, Emily Abadi Here, you are listening
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  Speaker 2: to another episode of Hurdle, a podcast featuring the mindset, secrets,
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  Speaker 2: and true stories of the most inspiring women in sports
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  Speaker 2: and wellness, empowering you to live a healthier, happier, more
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  Speaker 2: motivated life and of course, conquer your own hurdles. Today,
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  Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Haley Adams. She's a ten
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  Speaker 2: season CrossFit Games veteran and the newest addition to the
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  Speaker 2: Red Bull family.
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  Speaker 3: Hailey's journey is one of.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible highs and challenging lows. A former gymnast, you found
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  Speaker 2: her passion for CrossFit at just fourteen years old. She
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  Speaker 2: quickly rose to elite status, earning the title of Fittest
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  Speaker 2: teen on Earth at the twenty eighteen Crossbit Games. Since
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  Speaker 2: moving to the individual division, she's established herself as one
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  Speaker 2: of the most consistent athletes in the sport, finishing fourth
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  Speaker 2: in the world in twenty twenty and securing top ten
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  Speaker 2: finishes in every Crossbit game's appearance until her break in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. In this episode, we dive deep into
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  Speaker 2: Haley's story of resilience and healing. We chat about the
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  Speaker 2: weight of expectations, and she opens up about the intense
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  Speaker 2: pressure she felt after moving to the individual division and
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  Speaker 2: how negative social media comments impacted her body image and
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  Speaker 2: her relationship with food. We also talk about finding a
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  Speaker 2: balance and that necessary year off from competition that helped
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  Speaker 2: her focus on both her mental and physical health. Haley
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  Speaker 2: talks to me about how she rediscovered the joy in
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  Speaker 2: training and learned to prioritize her wellness over purely burning calories,
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  Speaker 2: and last but not least, we also reflect.
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  Speaker 3: On her remarkable career thus far, including being.
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  Speaker 2: The youngest female at sixteen to qualify for regionals and
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  Speaker 2: her fifth place finish at the twenty twenty four CrossFit
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  Speaker 2: Games following her comeback. There are so many things to
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  Speaker 2: love about this conversation, but I really adore her insights
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  Speaker 2: into life beyond the.
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  Speaker 3: Box that's what crossfitters call their gym.
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  Speaker 2: It concludes her love for Disney movies and her ever
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  Speaker 2: growing family of animals, from cats and an Australian shepherd
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  Speaker 2: to an axe a Lottel, which I had never heard
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  Speaker 2: of before this conversation. And for permit crabs. Make sure
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  Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And with that,
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  Speaker 2: let's get to it. Let's get to hurdling.
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  Speaker 3: Today. I am down with Haley Adams.
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  Speaker 2: She is a CrossFit athlete, a new red Bull athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Haley, how we doing, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. So many amazing things
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  Speaker 1: happening lately, and yeah, I just excited to sit down
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  Speaker 1: the chat.
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  Speaker 2: So many amazing things happening lately. Clue me in. What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So number one being I did just sign my
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  Speaker 1: Red Bull deal and it's been an amazing few months
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  Speaker 1: with them already. I've gotten to do so many cool things.
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  Speaker 1: Our season's getting started, so just ramping up for that,
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  Speaker 1: so in the gym a lot training, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just think it's going to be a really good year.
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  Speaker 1: So I've just been super excited and looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: everything to come.
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  Speaker 3: A really good year.
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  Speaker 2: And you're in the middle of the CrossFit Open. For
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  Speaker 2: those that aren't familiar with the CrossFit Open, give me
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  Speaker 2: the rundown.
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  Speaker 3: How does this work?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the CrossFit Open is kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of our season. It doesn't really matter exactly for
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  Speaker 1: the super early athletes, but we still have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do it to continue. So it's something that everyone can do,
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  Speaker 1: Like anyone in the world can sign up and do
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  Speaker 1: these workouts and submit their score. So it's for three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: one workout a week, and yeah, everyone just gets to
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  Speaker 1: throw down together and it really brings community. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: we've just finished up the second week and one more
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  Speaker 1: week of that. But yeah, so cool to throw down
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  Speaker 1: the community.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is cool.
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  Speaker 2: It is cool because, like you said, everyone around the
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  Speaker 2: entire globe is doing the same workouts and kind of
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  Speaker 2: seeing where they stack up. Now, this is your tenth
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  Speaker 2: season technically as a games athlete. Yes, wow, how does
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  Speaker 2: it feel when I say that to you?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't even know where the time has went,
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  Speaker 1: Like I cannot believe that it's been ten years and
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  Speaker 1: not just like ten years of doing crossed, it like
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  Speaker 1: ten seasons of training and competing so I really hope
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  Speaker 1: the ten's going to be special. But yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, it is a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Again, when you say that ten years as a
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  Speaker 2: CrossFit athlete, what comes to mind? I mean, so much
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  Speaker 2: has happened during that time period for you, And I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure ten years ago, when this journey really began, you
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  Speaker 2: never anticipated that it would bring you to this point.
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  Speaker 1: No, I never thought that I would be where I'm
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  Speaker 1: at right now and that this is my life and
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  Speaker 1: that this is my job. But the one thing that
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  Speaker 1: stands out probably is just like how hard I have
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  Speaker 1: worked through everything, Like I've had lots of ups and downs,
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  Speaker 1: lots of downs, but just the thing that I'm most
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  Speaker 1: proud of is how hard I've worked over the last
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  Speaker 1: ten years. Because I don't give myself enough credit, but
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard this sport and it's not for the week,
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  Speaker 1: and I've just put in so much work, even as
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  Speaker 1: like a young girl, so even to know so I'm
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  Speaker 1: the most proud of that.
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  Speaker 2: For those that aren't familiar with your story, give me
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  Speaker 2: some context as to what initially drew you to CrossFit,
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  Speaker 2: because for me, it can be a really intimidating sport.
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  Speaker 3: To get into.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've played sports my entire life, like basically
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  Speaker 1: everything that you can think of. But earlier in my
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  Speaker 1: teenage years, I was a gymnast and had been doing
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  Speaker 1: gymnastics for a while, and I was just getting a
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  Speaker 1: little bit burnt out and there was a CrossFit gym
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  Speaker 1: right beside my gymnastics gym, and they had like these
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  Speaker 1: big seat through windows so you could see and I
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  Speaker 1: saw these women like throwing these weights around and like
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  Speaker 1: hanging from the pull up barn doing pull ups and
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  Speaker 1: jumping rope, and I was like, I really want to
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  Speaker 1: try that. Like, I'm so sick of gymnastics. I've done
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  Speaker 1: everything else. I just need something new. And so I
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  Speaker 1: did all my research on CrossFit and begged my dad
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  Speaker 1: to take me because I wanted to do it so bad.
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  Speaker 1: I was like fourteen years old, I think, and then
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  Speaker 1: he finally took me. I did my intro class, and
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  Speaker 1: literally the rest is history. Fell in love.
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  Speaker 3: The rest is history.
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  Speaker 2: And having that background in gymnastics is actually super beneficial
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  Speaker 2: for someone in CrossFit bea because there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of movements relative to the sport, right.
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  Speaker 1: Like I had no problem really learning the genetics movements
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  Speaker 1: because I just picked it up super fast.
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  Speaker 2: What would you say at the beginning was the most
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  Speaker 2: intimidating part of the sport?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the most intimidating part for me was definitely the
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  Speaker 1: barbelle because although I had played a lot of sports,
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  Speaker 1: I had never really strength trained, so I just felt
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  Speaker 1: that was the hardest thing for me to pick up.
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  Speaker 1: And seeing how strong those girls were, I was like
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  Speaker 1: not even close to it, So that was really like,
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  Speaker 1: it is still as hard for me to get stronger,
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  Speaker 1: But that, for sure at the beginning was very intimidating.
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  Speaker 2: It's entirely understandable and something that we hear often, especially
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  Speaker 2: from women, this fear almost of I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What to do with this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to do anything with a barbell
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  Speaker 2: in a way that's safe. For someone that's interested in
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  Speaker 2: integrating barbell movements into their routine more regularly, what advice
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  Speaker 2: would you have for them?
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  Speaker 1: My advice would be, for sure, learn the technique, because
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  Speaker 1: if you're just throwing around waight and you don't know
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  Speaker 1: you know the correct form, you're gonna hurt yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: I was guilty of that. I had some really sketchy
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  Speaker 1: videos back in my day of just lifting heavy and
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  Speaker 1: not knowing how, but yeah, just learning the form correctly
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  Speaker 1: and making sure that before you add on a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of weight, like you have all that down and then
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  Speaker 1: you can slowly start to add weight and then before
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  Speaker 1: you know it, like you're lifting what you couldn't a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. And that's what's my favorite part about it,
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  Speaker 1: is like you're doing things that you didn't think you
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  Speaker 1: could do. So strength training is really cool in that aspect.
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  Speaker 2: And before you knew it, you were really succeeding within
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  Speaker 2: the CrossFit world. Talk to me a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: when you realize just how much potential you could have
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  Speaker 2: within this sport.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So just a couple months after I'd started CrossFit
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  Speaker 1: was my first open and they had the Teenage Games
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, I really want to try
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  Speaker 1: that and like make it, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'm good enough. And I think I actually ended up
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  Speaker 1: winning the open that year in my age group. I
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  Speaker 1: did yeah, and qualified for the Teenage Games within like
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  Speaker 1: just a couple months of doing crossfits. So I think
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  Speaker 1: from then on, like I really believed in myself and
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  Speaker 1: it sparked confidence of like whoa you can be good
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  Speaker 1: at this.
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  Speaker 2: You can be good at it, and you continued on
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  Speaker 2: to be good at it now knowing what you know now,
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  Speaker 2: when we think about those early years, is there anything
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  Speaker 2: that you would have done differently from the get go?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, like, looking at my whole journey, I wouldn't change
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  Speaker 1: a thing, but if I was giving advice to someone else,
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  Speaker 1: I would definitely say just to have more fun with
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  Speaker 1: it and don't put so much pressure on yourself and
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  Speaker 1: like still be a kid. You know, you don't get
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  Speaker 1: that time back in your life. Doesn't mean you can't
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  Speaker 1: work hard and you know, make sacrifices, but you also
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  Speaker 1: only live once and you're only a teenager once. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would be my advice. But I would change a
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  Speaker 1: thing in my journey, but just giving it to someone else.
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  Speaker 2: And you've certainly, you know, as you said, some highs
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  Speaker 2: and certainly a lot of lows within your own journey.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk a little bit about the lows.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to start with what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and getting back into the swing of
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  Speaker 2: things in.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to go back before that, when you
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  Speaker 2: did start to experience a lot of success within the
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  Speaker 2: sport and a lot of eyes on you. What would
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  Speaker 2: you say was the most difficult aspect of that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's hard when you have eyes on
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  Speaker 1: you constantly, and you're also growing up, so your body's changing.
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  Speaker 1: You're competing against these women and people are like you
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  Speaker 1: start to see like negative comments about yourself, and you're
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  Speaker 1: also just like a young girl. So having all of
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  Speaker 1: that at such a young age is really hard. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not for the week for sure. But I put
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  Speaker 1: so much pressure on myself when I started competing as
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  Speaker 1: an individual, so like an individual technically is like eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and above. So when I aged out of the teenage
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  Speaker 1: division is when I really started to put pressure on
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  Speaker 1: myself because that was like the legit girls, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: everyone watched that, everyone had something to say. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say basically, from like twenty nineteen on, I really
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  Speaker 1: started to like put a ton of pressure on myself.
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  Speaker 3: And what did that look like in practice?
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  Speaker 2: When you say I was putting a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 2: on myself, paint me a picture of not only maybe
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  Speaker 2: what the training would look like, but then what the
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  Speaker 2: inner dialogue looked like.
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  Speaker 1: For you, Yeah, I was definitely overtraining. I was training
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  Speaker 1: so much because I was scared that someone was going
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  Speaker 1: to outwork me, which is not always the best thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, but in my head, that's what I thought
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  Speaker 1: the best thing was. So I was overtraining. I was
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  Speaker 1: constantly thinking about when I was going to compete, or
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  Speaker 1: like how I was going to win, or how I
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  Speaker 1: was going to qualify, or how I was going to
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  Speaker 1: do this and that, Like all that mattered to me
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  Speaker 1: was simply what number I ended up at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year. That's all I cared about. That tunnel vision.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing else in the world mattered to me. That's all
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  Speaker 1: I cared about.
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  Speaker 3: And so training at least two sessions a day, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, at least and way too much, way too
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  Speaker 1: much in those two sessions for sure, and not eating
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  Speaker 1: enough everything on top of it just so bad.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I listened to an interview that you did,
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  Speaker 3: and you were talking.
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  Speaker 2: About how like you would go through phases where you'd think, like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I need to eat lunch, and that lunch was literally
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  Speaker 2: a bag of iceberg lettuce.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, actually that was way back in gymnastics days,
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  Speaker 1: like thinking that I needed to lose weight, so I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I'm just gonna pack a bag of
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  Speaker 1: lettuce for lunch. I was like twelve, thirteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd like to say that my issues started when
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  Speaker 1: I was like in an elite individual, but I think
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  Speaker 1: they started like way back when, and I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize that it was an issue.
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  Speaker 2: And so as you started to train more, did you
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  Speaker 2: garner an understanding of perhaps at least what type of
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  Speaker 2: nutrition you needed to sustain that so your view on
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  Speaker 2: food changed a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it was kind of interesting because I knew
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  Speaker 1: what I needed to do as an athlete to feel myself.
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  Speaker 1: But as I got older, I'd say around like twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, I really started to have this other like
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  Speaker 1: brain of certain eating issues and body image issues. So
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  Speaker 1: I knew, on one side, I knew what I needed
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  Speaker 1: to do to feel myself as an athlete, but on
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  Speaker 1: the other side I was dealing with these other issues
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  Speaker 1: is like just completely opposite, you know. So it was
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  Speaker 1: really hard to navigate that because I was like fighting
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  Speaker 1: two battles at once, and it's still as hard. But
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  Speaker 1: those were yeah, not fun.
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  Speaker 2: Times, yeah, of course, and completely understandable. Right, It's so
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  Speaker 2: hard when so many people have exposure to you and
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  Speaker 2: have access to you, especially in the way of the
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  Speaker 2: world and social media. You spoke so beautifully about what
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  Speaker 2: happened to you around your birthday in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Can you give me can you pat me a picture?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So, oh my goodness, that was such a not
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  Speaker 1: a good birthday. I was already having a really, really
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  Speaker 1: hard time the last few months after the Games in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty I had gotten ninth, which I thought was
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  Speaker 1: the absolute worst thing in the world. Ninth in the world,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, but it was because it was like
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  Speaker 1: my littest placing that I just felt like I was nothing,
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  Speaker 1: no one. Totally not true, but that's all I could
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  Speaker 1: think about. So those next few months I just put
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  Speaker 1: myself in the ground. I was not eating enough. I
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  Speaker 1: was just training NonStop because I was like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: ever let that happen again. But yeah, so basically just
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  Speaker 1: tear myself apart for months, and then my birthday rolls
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  Speaker 1: around and I didn't want to do anything. My parents
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  Speaker 1: were actually in town. They're like, why don't you go
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  Speaker 1: do something like eat cake, blah blah blah. I' was
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  Speaker 1: like no, like just miserable. And then after that, I
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  Speaker 1: honestly just had like a total mental breakdown, Like I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go to the gym, it was hard to get
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  Speaker 1: out of bed. I went home North Carolina, was not eating,
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  Speaker 1: Like it was one of the darkest times in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Like I looked back on that and I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how I got through that, but
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  Speaker 1: just total breakdown for quite a few weeks, probably even
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  Speaker 1: a month or two. But that was like a total
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  Speaker 1: crisis for me. Like it made me stop and be like,
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  Speaker 1: is this what you want for the rest of your life?
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  Speaker 1: Is this what you want to be known for? Is
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  Speaker 1: this how you want your family and your friends to
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  Speaker 1: see you? Like I was just not the person that
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  Speaker 1: used to be. I was a miserable as a mean
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  Speaker 1: and then I eventually just like cracked and could not
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  Speaker 1: do anything. And you know, it was definitely what I
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  Speaker 1: needed to happen, because I would have just kept going
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  Speaker 1: in my ways. But it was definitely a turning point
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  Speaker 1: in my life for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about going back home to North Carolina. What
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  Speaker 2: was the inner dialogue like when you made the decision
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  Speaker 2: to actually go. Was that something that you had the
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  Speaker 2: knowing that you needed to do or was that more
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  Speaker 2: like external advice thoughts encouraging you to make that trip.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just didn't want to be alone at
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  Speaker 1: that moment. So I wanted to go with my family
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  Speaker 1: because I was by myself in Cookville. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: I need to go be with people at least just
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  Speaker 1: you know, be with my mom dad. So that was
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  Speaker 1: the reasoning behind that. But I ended up staying for
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  Speaker 1: like quite a while because I just didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be alone with my thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so as you're in an environment where you're surrounded
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  Speaker 2: by people that have so much care and concern for you,
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  Speaker 2: what does the healing journey begin to look like?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for weeks, I was fighting myself and like
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  Speaker 1: I just felt so angry because I couldn't understand like
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  Speaker 1: going back of like I worked so hard and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't understand why I couldn't get up and go work
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  Speaker 1: out or like eat or anything. So I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? So I fought that battle for
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks of like you're being lazy or
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: being like just all this stuff. And then once I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: finally weeks later, probably a month later, came to the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: choice of not competing. I felt like a thousand pounds
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: had been lifted off my shoulder. I was like, that's
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: what it was, you know, And it didn't just instantly
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: get better. Like it was really hard after that too,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: you know, dealing with like the open, starting the season,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: starting having to announce everything that it was competing and Yeah,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: but once I made that choice was when I could
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: finally start healing. Like I couldn't start healing in those
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: weeks even after I went home, because I was just
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: fighting myself. But once I stopped fighting myself, I felt
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: like that was the first.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Step announcing everything. Yeah, that was tough talk to me
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I went back and forth for a while to decide
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: how I wanted to do it. If I just wanted
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to be like, hey, guys, I'm just taking the air off,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: like you know, I've been doing this for a long time,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And then I was like, if you actually,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know, told people the real truth and it shouldn't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: be a shock, Like it was pretty op because I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: was dealing with something, But if you could just help
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: one person, then it's worth it. And I went back
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and forth for a long time because I was just
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: like embarrassed, and I was like, I don't really know
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: if I want to share that, blah blah. But I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'm going to share it
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: because I think that it's going to help someone else
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: out there, and I think that it could help another
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: young girl that maybe is going down that track that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I went down. So that's what I landed on, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I wrote up this really long caption about you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: being vulnerable and telling the world why I was stepping
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: out and I wasn't sure. I didn't say i'd be
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: back either, So it was it was really scary and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it was hard, but I'm so glad I did it
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the way I did it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the moment you press post or share it, whatever
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it is that the button says these days, you press
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: that button, are you like a hands off kind of
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: person who're like, Okay, it's done, I need to walk
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: away for a little bit.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Actually, at that time, I put my phone down because
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I was already just like super overwhelmed from like trying
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: to write the caption and make it the way I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: wanted it to be. That I just put my phone down,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But the amount of support I got was insane. It's
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: still like my best post to date. Like, the comments
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: were so so kind, and that also was like a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: healing point for me of like, hey, these people don't
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: only just follow you because of you got top five
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: or whatever, Like, they follow you because they like you,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you know. So that was also a healing moment for
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: me too, because I felt that people only cared about
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: me or liked me because of how it plays.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some numbers, and I'm not sure if
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: all of these are up to date, but we're talking
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a woman that now has at least at least a
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty five pound back squat, a two
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen pound this is wild to make clean
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: and jerk, a three hundred pound dead left, one hundred
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and eighty five pounds snatch, and a two hundred and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: thirty pound pound squad.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: That's insane.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you, it's insane, and it's such a testament to
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: the work that you've put in, you know, So to
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: have this beautiful moment when so many individuals within your
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: community can look at you and say, hey, we see you,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and you are so much bigger than the numbers that
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: you put up, it's special.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like of course they follow you because I think
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you're cool and like the work out fast, whatever, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: they also saw something in me, like the way you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I compete, or my heart or my personality, like they
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: saw something bigger than just a number, and like me,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: realizing that helped so much, like it still to this day.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Like that's why I try to share more about just
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: like life because you know, people want to see that too.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But I do want to gain some context also about
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: what your care team looks like during this time, who.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Were you talking to?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: And then when you started to get back into working out,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that also came with so many challenges.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So obviously my immediate support was my mom. She was
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: an angel, Like she held my hand through the whole thing,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: every step. It was really scary, but she was there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And then also the rest of my family around. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: then I had a really I still do have a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: really close friend. Her name is Tasia. She is an angel,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and so she was very you know, very dear to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: me during that time and helped too. And then also
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: like on the you know, more therapy side of it,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I had a sports psychologist that I was talking to.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: She kind of helped me make the decision too to well,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: obviously it was all up to me, but not compete.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I had an amazing team and they were
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: so so kind and honestly, it really shows you like
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: who your people are when you go through something like
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that and decide to like step back like those those
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: are my ride or dies, and there's so many more
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't even name, but yeah, amazing team.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: How did you know that you were ready to get
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: back into it, because I know that you said when
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: you shared your truth, when you were transparent with what
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: was going on, you weren't even entirely sure if you'd
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: ever get back to that point.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Basically from the time that I went home,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: so like in the middle of December, for I'm talking months,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I did not step into a crosswit gym. I was like,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be there, I don't want to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: do it, I don't want to see it. I did
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: not do any kind of CrossFit for months. I was
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: going to Planet Fitness with my mom and walking on
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the treadmill and doing bodybuilding machines like no crossbit. Like
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you know how people say like, oh, I'm taking some
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: time off al blah blah, but they still work out. No,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that was not me. I was so like done with it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't want anything to do with it. Nothing. But
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: then around I guess it was in the summer, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was like hopped in on the CrossFit workout and it
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: killed me, but I was like that was kind of fun.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Like maybe I kind of missed that a little bit,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: but wasn't like, oh I want to compete. But I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: just slowly started like doing stuff like that again. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: was like, I kind of missed this. And then I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: think it was September. I was like, you know what,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to try again. I think I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: want to try again, and it just I literally woke
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: up one day and I felt like that, And that's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: literally the best way I can describe it, because that's
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: exactly what happened. I was like, I'm just gonna try
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: this again, and if it doesn't work, that's okay, or
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: if I get overwhelmed or you know, go back to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: bad habits and I'm not gonna do it. But I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: had already put so much work in and like healing
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and just having balance and everything in my life that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I was like, if this doesn't work, that's okay.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: It's really beautiful to hear that you had this perspective
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: of if it doesn't work, it's okay, If it doesn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: feel like it used to, it's okay. You were truly
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: just going with your intuition. For so many there's this
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: large sense of fear when you return back to something
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that maybe at one point or another you had a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: negative connotation with. How were you able to set those
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: fears aside to embrace the modality for what it was.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, the thing I told myself from the beginning
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: was that I never ever want to feel like how
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I felt again, Like I was not willing to sacrifice
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: anything for that. No amount of trophy placing was ever
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: worth that to me, because it was just so miserable
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: for so long, and I didn't want to live my
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: life like that. So that was the easiest thing for me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I was like, it feels like that again, I'm out, like,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I don't want to feel like that. But I've found
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: ways to make it fun, even though it was so humbling,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: trying to like get in shape again, so humbling, But
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I've found ways, you know, to have balance and not
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: take it so seriously all the time. And I just
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: put a lot of work in outside of the gym
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that I could obviously see had translated into the gym,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So that was made it so much easier to transition.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Finding the fun is a really good piece of advice,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: super applicable both in the situation that you're describing and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: also for anyone that's just getting started. Working out can
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: be really challenging, even if you are an.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Elite CrossFit Games athlete.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: For you, what was going through your mind when it
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: wasn't necessarily as easy as it used to be?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it was so humbling. I was like
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I did not even have callouses on my hands, Like
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: my hands were ripping. I was like failing things that
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I could do with my eyes closed. But honestly, I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: don't regret it at all, because that's exactly what I needed.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: If I jumped back in right to the same numbers
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and fitness, like, I don't think I would have grown
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: any but like forcing myself to like basically start from
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the beginning again and like rebuild everything mentally and physically,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I think shape the journey perfectly.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: This is about fitness.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It's not about fitness, right, It's this opportunity to face
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: challenge head on and see who you really are. When
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: things aren't easy, that's when we have the opportunity to learn.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, and that's exactly what happened.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: So as you start to get into the weeds again
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: doing movements that start to feel a little bit more familiar,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: do you have a understanding pretty quickly that all right, yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to get back to where I was.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Actually it was in the beginning I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: was I don't even know if I want to do this,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: because this one felt so hard. I was like, I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: have so much work to do, like so much to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: get back to where I was, And I wasn't sure
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: if I ever was gonna be able to get back
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to where I was because it felt so far away.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: But every week I just kept showing up and something
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: would get easier. I'd be able to lift more, do
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: more reps, and every single week just kept getting better.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Kept getting better. Now you talked about going to North Carolina.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I know you've also had sometimes spent in Virginia, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: now you're back in Cookeville. In those other places outside
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of Tennessee, you have been so open about the balance
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: that they brought to your life. How do you bring
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: that balance with you to Cookeville, knowing that it is
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: such an intense CrossFit community over at CrossFit Mayhem or
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: your train.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it made me nervous coming back here when I left,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: because I just felt like I associated the environment. Not
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: that it's bad here, but like I had just had
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: so many bad days here for myself that I was
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: scared that it was going to make me feel some
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: type of way. But when I came back that summer
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: before the Games, I had honestly felt totally fun. Like
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it didn't trigger me. It didn't make me feel any
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: type of way or did me feel like I have
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to overtrain or anything. Like. I just felt so much peace.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: So that's how I knew I had like truly healed.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that honesty is really important. Fun fact,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I've been to Cookville, which is oh such a I know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: such a random thing. I once came down to Tennessee
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: to Mayhem to interview Rich Frowning Okay for an article
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: for men's Health and spent like thirty six hours with
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: him and his family at the barn. I thought, oh cool,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: all this stuff, and it's such an interesting place because
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: for those that know nothing about CrossFit, You would have
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: no idea that there was such an ingrained community around you.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, there's an amazing community here and I'm very lucky.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what do you think that that community then
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: gives back to you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: You talked about being able to be back.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: In that environment and feeling safe, But bigger than that,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: why is it beneficial for you to be there?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Specifically for me?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Now, it's not as much as like the athletes that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: are here, like they're all super cool and good for me.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It's that I've got a lot of friends here that
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I've known me for a long time. So just to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: be able to like see them every day and work
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: out with them every day does so much good for me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need anyone, you know, competing with me
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: every day anymore. I'm ten years into this, But just
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: having people that I know that support me and love
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: me no matter what and just show up for me
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: does way more than an athlete beside me push me everywhere.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: So just having like that amazing community here, there's a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: lot of cool people.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It's it's cool to hear about and it's so interesting
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: because you you may get a point to say, I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: don't need anyone. And also the community is really beneficial.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I when I say the community, I'm like, I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: have like just random people that show up for an
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: hour a day. They show up for me every day.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: They come and work with me. They do their one
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: workout of the day with me. We show up at
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: four and we grind just grod. So they're not like
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: elite athletes or anything, but they show up. They still
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: show up for me every day.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: So, now that you're back truly into the swing of things,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: how are you feeling about where CrossFit is as a
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: community and where it's going.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I think the community is in a much better spot
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: right now than it has been in a long time,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and it's seeing everyone do the open and participate. I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: think it's in a really good spot. And I think
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: we all just need to like stick together and like
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: get that old CrossFit feeling back. And yeah, I think
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of people feel the same.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I know, it's it's been a sticky couple of years
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: for crossbit and now with the emergence of so many
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: other things, specifically, I mean so many crossfitters now dabbling
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: in the high rocks world.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you see for yourself personally?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: When we think about moving forward knowing that all of
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: that is in the mix.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Personally, I just love CrossFit and I think that will
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: always put a special place in my heart. But I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: also think it's really cool that we have opportunities to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: go do other things like high Rocks and you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: these other fitness comps that are starting, And I think
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it's cool that it's not just everything in one basket,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you know, it's you can go run a race this
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: week in and do a CrossFit comp this weekend and
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: do this, And I just think that's cool that there's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities now.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and as an athlete in a sport that may
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: not be the absolute most mainstream, that opportunity can become
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: really critical to your livelihood.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get eyes in all different areas.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Now, you mentioned earlier how you were so happy that
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you were vulnerable when it came to sharing your story
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: and taking that time off. That vulnerability is something that
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: you still maintain, especially with your audiences over on social
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Are there times where it's harder to be open than others.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean at the end of the day, like
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: everyone struggles and we still have our struggles. I still
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: have bad days all the time, and sometimes I'm like,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like I have an image to uphold of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you know, being happy and healthy and healed, but like
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I still have bad days and some days or sometimes
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you're supposed to be this role model that's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you know, all these things now, but you know you're
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: having a bad day and you know you're not saying
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: or you're not following what you tell other people to do.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So I battle with that a lot. But at the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: end of the day, it's like, that's why I try
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to share everything that I can, Like, Hey, it's okay
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to still have bad days. It's not the end of
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the world. It doesn't mean that you're you know, taking
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a step backwards or going into your old ways. So
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's why I even when I'm having a bad day,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I try to share it because I think that, you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of people think that they're the only ones
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in there not.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what did the last bad day look like for you, Hayley?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: It depends. There's different levels. The last one was I
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: think I was honestly so exacted. I'd definitely trained too much,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: had a little overtraining day, and then I just it
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: just makes me tired, and then I'm snappy and I
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: feel like everything you know is going wrong or this
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: or that, and I just get down on myself or
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: like the way I look or yeah, so just all
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that into one and then ends up in a little crash.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Out and then how do you pull yourself out?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It's actually a lot easier to pull myself out now
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: than it used to be. But I'm just like, hey,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it's not that serious, Like it's okay, you know, like
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: take take a few minutes, be upset about it, cry
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: about it whatever, but move on like it's okay. And
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I I know that sounds like super easy to do,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: but genuinely, I've worked so hard to get to that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: place that that's literally what I do.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so challenging and so relatable. Right you are
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: there other ways that you cope? Is it reaching out
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: to people? Is it journaling? Is it mindfulness? Like what's
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: in the toolbox for you?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Ways that I cope would probably be watching Disney movies.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I know that sounds really like not a good coping mechanism,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: but and this makes me think about anything else other
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: than what I'm upset about. It makes me feel, you know,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: just warm and fuzzy and happy on the inside, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, it's okay, it's not that serious.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: It's not that serious. Now.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Pivoting back to talking a bit about your training. Are
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: we still in the gym twice a day typically?
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, So still in gym twice a day, just I'm
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a bit more careful with my volume though, and like
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: try to do things intentionally instead of just working out
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to burn calories.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: And then how do those training sessions typically differ? Because
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: someone who may not have a full understanding of CrossFit,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: here's that you're in the gym twice a day, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: they think, how is that not overtraining?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean actually every session is different, Like no
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: session looks the same. But usually, like my morning sessions
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: are from like nine to twelve. You know, they come in,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: warm up, hit a workout that's like twenty thirty minutes,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and then I'll lift for a while and then I'll
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: do one more shorter workout. So it sounds like a lot,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: but it really isn't. And there's a lot of like
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: chit chat in there, warm up, cool down, lots of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: chit chat. And then in the afternoon it's kind of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: like the same thing. Maybe like one less workout, but yeah,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: same thing.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: It's impossible to hear this and not think about the
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: fact that you are extremely diligent in what you do.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Would you say that you've always been this way? Is
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: this something that was modeled for you as a kid
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: as you were coming up within sport?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I've always been this way. My mom has videos in me,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: like during fifth grade to field day, like selling my
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: soul to like win the fifty meter dash or like
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: when anything. It's always been in me to try to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: be the best. And yeah, it's just something that I
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: haven't been taught. It was just ingrained in me like
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I was born like that, I guess.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: And on the days that maybe you're not feeling the
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: most diligent, on the days that you are feeling a
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: little bit tired, what helps you show up and keep moving?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Honestly, it's never even been an option to me, Like,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: of course I wake up tired. Of course I wake
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: up not motivated. But it's never even like been an
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: option in my head to like, oh I don't want
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to go, or I don't go, you know, like I
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: just go, like I know I have to. It's my job.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, So you're like, yeah, this is just
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: how it is. But it doesn't mean that those days
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: don't happen.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, they happen all the time. This morning, I wanted
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to keep sleeping, but like, it's just not an option
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: to me to not go, Like, yeah, I know that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I would beat myself up more if I didn't go.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You know what's so funny is that so many hear
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: that and they think your job is truly to work out?
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: What kind of job is that?
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: When I say that back to you, can you imagine
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: that this is how you found your way here to
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: making a living.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: No, it's honestly the coolest job ever. I get to
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: go so many places, I met so many cool people.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I get to do things like this. It's amazing.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as you are now in this tenth year, you
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: said before that you hope that it's a good one.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: What would make this year great? Aside from maybe finding
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: that top spot?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been working so so hard in the gym
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: this offseason, just really trying to you know, not that
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: it's about placings, but make myself proud even if that
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: isn't a top spot. So number one, make myself proud
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: because there's not a worst feeling than not being proud
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: of yourself and your efforts. And then number two just
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: continue to you know, leave an impact on people and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: inspire people.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, when you think about that, that goal
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: setting that goes beyond a number, is that something that
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: you're continuously auditing. Is that something that you talk about
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: a bit with your coach? Where do those goals come
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: into the mix?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I don't really talk about a number anymore, just because
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's a slippery slope. But I know
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: that when I'm very fit and at my fittest and strongest,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that I know what I'm capable of. So it's kind
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: of like something that we don't really say, but we
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: know we want to do, you know, but just don't
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: want to put that pressure on myself. Yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Of course, now as you are, you're saying like kind
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: of taking a step back not necessarily focusing on a
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: certain number. That doesn't mean that there can't be a
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: benefit to having a certain.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Amount of data around you.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Right With that said, how do you focus on listening
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: to your body when there is so much access to numbers?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I usually just take it day by day,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: but I've been doing this for so long that I
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: know myself so well, so like I know paces that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: should be hitting, I know numbers that I should be hitting,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and I know what that would look like on a leaderboard.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: So I just again, I just know myself so well
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: that I know where I should be.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: How do you relax? How do you take time for
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: you outside of the Disney movies?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I will not look at anything CrossFit outside of the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: gym once I leave this gym. Nothing. It's either just
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: like super girly stuff or Disney or I have lots
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: of animals, so keep myself busy with animals, literally, anything
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: but working out or CrossFit.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Tell me about the animals please.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I have two cats, an Australian shepherd puppy, so good.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I have an axel lottle. You know what that is?
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: No, it's like.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: You have to look it up. But they're rightly popular.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised you haven't seen it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: No, I've never heard. And then I have four hermit crabs.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. The hermit crabs are kind of like
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: the biggest wild card here.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: No, the ax a lottle, I've promised the axe lottle
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: is the coolest one.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: How did you find yourself with that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I saw at a coffee shop and I was like,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I really want one of those, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: then just does some research on it and got one.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: But I love keeping myself busy with animals.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: That's a lot to handle them.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when you have to travel and stuff for
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: your work.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thankfully. My mom loves her grandbabies.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: There you go. And so how far away are your
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: parents now?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm from North Carolina and they still live there,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: so it's like five and a half hours, so I'm
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: not too terrible, but just far enough.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: What would you say now being back in Cookeville is
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the best part of it for you? Knowing that your
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: family is a you know, considerable amount of way.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: For me, I think it's just the community and the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: environment that I've been around here, and it just you know,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: showing up for this crew every day, like both four
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: pm crows telling me about like it just brightens my day,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Like I look forward to that. So I've built some
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: things here over the last few years that have really
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: just you know, paid the way for me. And yeah,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think my day to day would look the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: same without them and my happiness here.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Ten years ago you never anticipated that you'd be doing
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: what you're doing now. So when you think ten years
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: into the future, what do you envision for yourself?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope that I can keep doing this for
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: a couple more years or as long as my body
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: allows me to and to keep you know, being myself
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and speaking my truth and honestly, Yeah, just staying true
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to myself.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, just staying true to myself.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: When you I mean, obviously you have an affinity for animals,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: do you think about doing something with that when.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I would love to have like an animal
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: farm one day, a big piece of land, like and
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: just have a bunch of animals.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: The other thing that I think could be really helpful
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: for us to talk about, you talked about so beautifully
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: your journey navigating you know, a little bit of disordered
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: eating and then also overtraining. Now, what would you say
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: your relationship is like with your body.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually super interesting now because I have come
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: so far. Back in the day, Like when I was
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: really struggling, I would wear like these super huge T shirts.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that unless you're doing it
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: for a reason of Like you think that you look
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: bad or you know, you're just insecure, Like that's all
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I would wear because I truly just believed that I
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: looked so terrible and had this terrible image in my
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: head of how I looked and just hated myself. But
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: whereas now it's like I really love style and I
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: love wearing cute gym outfits, and you know, sometimes I
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: still do wear baggy fits because they're super cool, like
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you know, style it up and it looks great, but
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: it comes from a place now of like I think
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: it looks cool, where it's like I'm not doing it
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: because I hate myself. So just like in that area,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I've grown so much, and like my relationship with food
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: is like night and day, like so much better and
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: it takes a long time, like it does not happen overnight,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and I still have bad days too, but I have
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: worked so hard and like anyone that knows me with
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Josh for this, like I'm a completely different person in
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: that category.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I think that for me as well.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I was big into CrossFit over a decade ago, and
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: when I was into CrossFit, I felt like that was
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: a pretty triggering component of it, just seeing so many
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: people around you being so diligent with their intake and
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: really looking at food specifically as fuel. Would you say
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: that now you're looking at it a little bit less
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: like fuel and a little bit more like just what
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, honestly, yeah, it still can be hard, so
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I have to be careful with like, you know, how
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I look at food, or you know, even the things
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: that you look at on social media, you know, can
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: still be triggering. But yeah, like it's just food at
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know, And it took
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: me a long time to get to that mindset. It
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean again, still doesn't mean I don't have issues
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: or whatever bad days, but it is just food and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: it is fuel too. Like I've gotten better about fueling
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: my workouts, Whereas before I would go so long without
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: eating because I just wanted to like burn calories. But
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: now like learning how to fuel workouts and how the
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: science behind that has been really cool too.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: It's helpful, and it's helpful, especially when you see how
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: it impacts your body and your performance, knowing that there
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: was this whole category, this whole thing that maybe before
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: was demonized and now it can be your biggest tool.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I mean even just like fueling myself. I'm like,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: how did I not do that?
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: For so long?
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I go like three hours about food and
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I'm starving, Like how did I do that?
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: And I think what's so interesting too, is it's one
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: of those foundational components that so many overlook, and by
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: overlooking that, you think like, hey, I was one of
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the top ten in the world, and I was hardly
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: zoning in on this. But if you think about food
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: as fuel and you think about, hey, maybe I should
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: prioritize my sleep, it seems so simple, but it can
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: be the biggest A mock, Yeah.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: No, it really is. I mean that's like, you know,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the work inside the gym is like, honestly the easier part,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Like for me, it was the sleep the nutrition, and
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I'm still working on that, but it's like once you
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: get that down it, you know, you feel so much better.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: What does recovery look like for you these days? Haley?
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Honestly, lots of just laying on the couch and with
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: my little animals and some stretching. I'm not super great about,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: you know, all the recovery stuff, but a lot of
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the recovery for me is mental. Like I again, I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: don't like talking about watching it. Nothing about crossloit. When
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I'm at home, like that helps me feel refresh and
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: just like ready to go. When it's time to go
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: to the gym and work, it's time to go. And
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: then when it's time to turn it off, it's time
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to turn it off. So that is the biggest thing
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: for me.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the mental can be such a massive piece. Yes,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: that's all for you. What would you say you're inner
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: dialogue is like these days? And how has your relationship
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: evolved with your inner dialogue over time?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I feel like I'm still my biggest critic,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: but I've learned to be a lot nicer to myself
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, like this is
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the voice that you're stuck with, like in your head,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: you know, so might as well make it nice. But
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: it's again a lot easier said than done. But I
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: really really try to make an effort to not be
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: as negative about myself, because you know, I believe that
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: those words really do go somewhere when you're constantly saying
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: it and putting it out in the universe. But yeah,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I just I really make an effort to try to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: be nicer in myself and realize that I'm just trying
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: my best out here too. You know, I'm doing my
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: best and that's all you can do. It's not worth
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: beating yourself up over or losing sleep.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: So you're about to step out onto a competition floor,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: what are the things that you're typically telling yourself?
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Well, honestly, I try to keep myself like calm down
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and not too up. So I usually I am just like,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you know what to do, like this is just another workout,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Like just go do exactly what you need to go do.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: But also number two, I get really like competitive and
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: comp so I also get a little bit fired up,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: like you know, you're going up and you're like, Okay,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this. And then number three, one thing
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: that I over the last few years after my year
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: off was like actually enjoying being out there, like try
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: to enjoy the whole process because it could be gone tomorrow,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: you know. Like once I learned to enjoy competing again,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: it was like a whole different experience.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much beauty to be had in the journey,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: and if you're really basing your success on what happens
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: at the very end of it, then you're missing the point.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you miss everything. Like you look back and
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: it's all just like what just happened, you know, like
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: you don't even remember.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: It entirely, entirely so for you.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Right now, someone comes to your Instagram page, they see
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: this strong woman that has been a doing CrossFit now
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: in her tenth season. But when you look in the mirror, Haley,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: what is it that you see looking back at you?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I think it goes back to what I said at
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the beginning. All I see is a lot of work.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Like I've worked so hard to get where I'm at,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: and I've been through a lot of things that I
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: have shared, some haven't shared. But I just I'm really
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: proud of myself and I'm proud of who I've become.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of the image that I've like upheld. And
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: then yeah, I'm proud of myself for even just being
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: an inspiration to someone else. So, yes, the physical stuff
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: is cool, but there's a lot bigger things than that.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: To me, there are bigger things than that.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: And on this journey that you're on of working to
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: be vulnerable with your audience, what would you say is
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: the most challenging part.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I think the most challenging part would be, honestly, like
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: just a mental side of it, Like I think everyone
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: always seems so happy all the time, and you know
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: this workout win great, or we're posting this highlight blah
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: blah blah, when it's really not like that at all,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: And I think anyone that has social media can relate
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: to that, like you see this person that's squatting this
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: amount and you can't do that, or this that blah
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: blah blah. They look like this, they're wearing this, and
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: it's just like a never ending comparison battles. So I
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: would just you know, say, just it is what it is, like,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: guess your social media at the end of the day,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: like we all have our own stuff going on.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the comparison trap can be really yeah, really for
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: sure to stay out of that.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Now, right now, Haley, before I let you go today,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: you have an opportunity to offer yourself a piece of advice.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to that Hurtle moment, that rock bottom
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: moment in twenty twenty two when you really just felt
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: like you could not do it anymore. Knowing what you
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: know now, what advice would you offer to your younger self.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Honestly, like in that moment, I would tell myself to
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: not give up. I'm so glad I didn't give up,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: because if I did give up, I wouldn't be where
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I'm at right now. I wouldn't have, you know, gotten
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  Speaker 1: all these amazing things. I wouldn't be with Red Bull.
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  Speaker 1: But because I took a chance myself and realized, like,
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  Speaker 1: sure I was at rock bottom, but it can't get worse. Like, sure,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: things get hard, but you know, don't give up on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so glad I did it.
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  Speaker 2: It's so special because in that moment when you had
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  Speaker 2: to take a step back, there was probably a part
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: of you that thought you're giving up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, I'm done. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do this anymore. And I'm so glad that something in
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: me woke up that day and I was like, no,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: we're going to do this again, because I would think
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I would have regretted it for the rest of my
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: life if I did it.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: By taking that step back, Hayley, you chose yourself, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the most beautiful example.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, and I think so many amazing things came from
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that so great.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm so glad that we were able to sit
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: down today. For those that aren't keeping up with you
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: just yet, give me at your details.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Where do they find you on the socials?
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  Speaker 1: On Instagram, I'm Haley Adams a h L E Y
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: that's there's fifteen ways to spell it, and then Adams
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  Speaker 1: with four s's. I'm on TikTok.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Mostly just Instagram, mostly just Instagram.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm over at Emily Body and at Hurdle Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time