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330. Embracing Greatness: Rhasidat Adeleke On Her Olympic Debut, Finding Her Fast & Defining 'Success' · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: You're not going to always win, and if I was
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  Speaker 1: only exposed to winning every single time, I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to last in this profession. So I just feel
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  Speaker 1: like everything that you experience, good or bad, is going
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  Speaker 1: to shape you and soe who you are.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Everyone, Emily ABOUDI Here you are listening to episode three
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where
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  Speaker 3: I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest
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  Speaker 3: hies and toughest moments to essential tips on how to
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  Speaker 3: live a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go
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  Speaker 3: through our fair share of hurdles. My goal through these
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  Speaker 3: discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and
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  Speaker 3: move with intention so that you can stride towards your
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  Speaker 3: own big potential and of course have some fun along
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  Speaker 3: the way. I am next level excited to bring you
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  Speaker 3: this week's conversation with one of the fastest women on
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  Speaker 3: planet Earth, Rashida at a Leka.
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  Speaker 2: She's a Nike athlete.
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  Speaker 3: We had this conversation live in Austin during the running
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  Speaker 3: event at Nike's Women's Community Night, and what a time
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  Speaker 3: was had. Not only were the community ViBe's elites, but
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  Speaker 3: we had a blast. Rashida is an Olympian. She went
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  Speaker 3: to college at ut but competed at this Summer's Games
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  Speaker 3: for Ireland, where she was born and raised. In the episode,
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  Speaker 3: we talk about such powerful stuff, including themes of resilience,
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  Speaker 3: overcoming adversity, dealing with quote unquote the haters, and how
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  Speaker 3: she's finding her fast. She talks about adapting and homing
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  Speaker 3: in on her technique to run more efficiently, what it
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  Speaker 3: was like to make that really big transition moving from
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  Speaker 3: Ireland to Texas, and how she navigated a massive disappointment
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  Speaker 3: coming in fourth in the four hundred meters in Paris.
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  Speaker 3: To say that I appreciated Rashida's vulnerability would be an understatement.
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  Speaker 3: It is so powerful her story, her tenacity, the way
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  Speaker 3: that she sees competition as an opportunity for growth. She's
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  Speaker 3: putting in the work and modeling for so many that
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  Speaker 3: when you truly believe in yourself, the sky is a limit.
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  Speaker 3: A massive thank you to my friends at Nike for
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  Speaker 3: empowering me to be up on the stage with her,
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  Speaker 3: for giving us a platform to motivate each other to
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  Speaker 3: come together in community. This is a high that I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be on for quite some time. If you're
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  Speaker 3: on over there, get to it. It's over at Hurdle Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I am over at Emily Abadi. And of course, the
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  Speaker 3: link to do so is in the show notes. With that,
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  Speaker 3: let's get to it, Let's get to hurdling.
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  Speaker 2: I could not be.
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  Speaker 3: More elated to be here in Austin, Texas tonight with
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  Speaker 3: Nike running and my unbelievable guest.
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  Speaker 2: My guest tonight is an Olympian.
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  Speaker 3: She is the first Irish woman to break the fifty
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  Speaker 3: second barrier in the four hundred. She's also the first
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  Speaker 3: Irish woman to ever make a sprint final in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: Please welcome to the stage, Rashida at a Leca.
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  Speaker 2: Hey girl, Hey, I'm happy to be here. Woo uh.
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  Speaker 3: First, I just gotta like acknowledge this stellar squad of
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  Speaker 3: outfits in the front row.
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  Speaker 4: I love We've got some.
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  Speaker 2: Ut girls in the house.
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  Speaker 4: I know who go.
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  Speaker 3: We love to see it. We love to see it.
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  Speaker 3: A ut graduate next.
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  Speaker 4: To me, yes May twenty twenty fours, twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Four, twenty four. A lot has happened for you in
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  Speaker 3: the last year. How does it feel to be back here?
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  Speaker 3: Also this week from any of you in town visiting
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  Speaker 3: knowing that is also the running event, So a lot's
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  Speaker 3: happened for you since the running event twenty twenty three?
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  Speaker 2: How's it feel to be back?
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I was literally just saying how it feels
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  Speaker 1: like I was just here yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: And so much has happened. So much has changed in
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  Speaker 4: my life since the last time I was.
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  Speaker 1: Here, from graduating to becoming a full time professional athlete
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  Speaker 1: and going to the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: Just so much going on, just casually going to the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: No big deal, no big, no big deal. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: into the Olympics in a little bit. But first and foremost,
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk a little bit about something that
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  Speaker 3: I know many of these women in the front row
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  Speaker 3: and resonate with, and that is the adaptations that you
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  Speaker 3: have made to your running form as you came into
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  Speaker 3: your own within running. Talk to me a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about what you changed with your running form and how
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  Speaker 3: that helped you progress within the sport.
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  Speaker 1: My technique was literally terrible when I first started running,
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  Speaker 1: and my coach would get at me all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought it was pretty perfect that my technique,
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  Speaker 1: but he taught.
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  Speaker 4: Other was so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When I got to ut, he was literally horrified at
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  Speaker 1: the way I ran. Coach flow, so I had to
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  Speaker 1: first of all, get my arms right because I used
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  Speaker 1: to run my arms out and my elbows were going out,
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  Speaker 1: and he had to make sure I was swinging them
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  Speaker 1: in a good motion that's going to promote going forward
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  Speaker 1: and not swaying from side to side my knees. I
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  Speaker 1: did not left my knees at all. I was basically
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  Speaker 1: dragging my legs across the track, so he needed.
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  Speaker 4: To get that right too.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the main thing was using my core
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  Speaker 1: what I was running, because I would arch my back,
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  Speaker 1: especially when I started it's a fatigue, I would arch
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  Speaker 1: my back and that shortened my stride. So he wants
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I was keeping my forman in upright,
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  Speaker 1: so then I'd have a longer stride and be able
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  Speaker 1: to lift my knees higher.
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  Speaker 2: It's all helpful, right, and it all counts.
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  Speaker 3: You think it's just working on the run itself, but
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  Speaker 3: the run has so many different components.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all the little things that you won't realize
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  Speaker 1: because when you go onto the truck or you on
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  Speaker 1: you go on a run, you just think, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just running and then you know I'm trying to shave
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  Speaker 1: the time. But it's those little things up to one
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  Speaker 1: percentages you can change and your technique and strengthening just
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  Speaker 1: so many different aspects that will go towards you being
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  Speaker 1: able to run better and faster and faster.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of running faster, you cut off an entire second,
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  Speaker 3: which just for context, when you run around the track
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  Speaker 3: in the way that you do, cutting off an entire
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  Speaker 3: second is a lot of time, right, So cut off
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  Speaker 3: an entire second from your time in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that's the form change that's really helping
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  Speaker 3: you with that or what else do you attribute that to?
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  Speaker 4: That was a couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: I think because I was newly introduced to the four
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  Speaker 1: hundred meters, I had so much more improvements to be made,
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  Speaker 1: So I think that came along with training. I was
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  Speaker 1: doing more volume in my training, so I was able
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  Speaker 1: to do longer distances that would generally apply to me
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  Speaker 1: being able to run farther and faster in the fourhundred
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  Speaker 1: meters and definitely technique definitely applied. But I think also
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  Speaker 1: competing and training with girls who were better than me
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  Speaker 1: helped me improve. Also, because I wasn't the leader of
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  Speaker 1: the pack anymore, I had to keep up in every
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  Speaker 1: single training session, so mentally and physically that strengthened me
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  Speaker 1: and helped me run faster.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that really applies beyond running, right,
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  Speaker 3: when you want to level up, it's so inspiring to
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  Speaker 3: surround yourself with individuals who you look up to, who
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  Speaker 3: you aspire to, right, because any of the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: learn something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: M I felt like when I was around, even with
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  Speaker 1: track and in order spaces and aspect, being too comfortable
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  Speaker 1: didn't allow me to grow. So when I put myself
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  Speaker 1: situations where I was uncomfortable, I was learning new things,
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  Speaker 1: gaining experiences. Sometimes you fail and sometimes you're going to
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  Speaker 1: learn things from that failure. So it was very important
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  Speaker 1: for me to experience those those aspects. So then I
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  Speaker 1: was able to grow and get better in several different avenues.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a mindset shift right is getting to that
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  Speaker 3: place where you don't necessarily view failure as something that's bad.
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  Speaker 2: You view failure as.
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  Speaker 3: Something that empowers you, as something that you can learn from. So,
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  Speaker 3: speaking of mindset, have you done any specifically for mindset
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  Speaker 3: training that has helped you level up within this sport
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  Speaker 3: to get to where you are now?
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that helped my mindset and
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  Speaker 1: sport was experience. I did try to talk to a
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  Speaker 1: psychologist and it did help in different aspects, but I
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  Speaker 1: think how I really was able to level up was
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  Speaker 1: true experiencing failure. And one thing my coach told me
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  Speaker 1: coming to ut was because I from Dublin, Ireland, it's
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  Speaker 1: a smaller country and in track, I was a big
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  Speaker 1: fish in a small pond almost, and when I came
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  Speaker 1: to Texas, I was competing against some of the best
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  Speaker 1: athletes in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Literally the times.
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  Speaker 1: That they were running were world class, and now I
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  Speaker 1: was a small fish in a big pond. So I
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  Speaker 1: had to kind of get used to losing, which was
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  Speaker 1: really hard because I would never lose when I was
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  Speaker 1: back home, when I was competing on the European circuit.
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  Speaker 1: So he always said, you need to have short term memory.
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  Speaker 1: With failure, you need to be able to get over
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  Speaker 1: that hump and keep going. Don't let it drag you down,
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  Speaker 1: don't let it defer your progress, because if you sit
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  Speaker 1: on your failure for too long, it's going to take
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  Speaker 1: you so much longer to get to the success. So
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  Speaker 1: if something bad happens or it's not going the way
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  Speaker 1: you anticipated it for to go, you need to get
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  Speaker 1: over it and action. You know what am I going
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  Speaker 1: to do to make this better? So I think that
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  Speaker 1: was probably the biggest thing on Aaron that helped me
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  Speaker 1: make progress.
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  Speaker 2: That goldfish mindset.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you mentioned, growing up in Ireland. Also fun fact,
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  Speaker 3: I've run a marathon in Dublin. So now you and
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  Speaker 3: I have this in comment. Yeah twins Irish friends. But
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  Speaker 3: beyond that, growing up in Dublin, Ireland very different than
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  Speaker 3: being here in Austin. Share a little bit with us
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  Speaker 3: about that shift. What made you want to come to
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  Speaker 3: Austin and how was that experience from the get go?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hard at first coming out. I think
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  Speaker 1: people were quite negative about me coming over. Initially they
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  Speaker 1: were like, oh, you're gonna be, as I said, going
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  Speaker 1: to be a small fish in a big pond. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be very hard to adapt to being
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  Speaker 1: over there. You're not going to have your family, your friends,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, although that was true.
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  Speaker 4: I saw it as a positive risk.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people, so it's a risk if you go,
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  Speaker 1: you might get injured, you might do this, you might
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  Speaker 1: not work, And I feel like sometimes you need to
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  Speaker 1: take those risks.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it was calculated. I knew that to
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  Speaker 4: be the best.
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  Speaker 1: In the world and to do what I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do and what I loved and make a career of it,
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  Speaker 1: I was going to need to make that change and
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  Speaker 1: it was hard at first, but I think I made
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  Speaker 1: it a priority to surround myself with people who are
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  Speaker 1: going to help me elevate and help me feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I had my team which had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of anternacial students, so that also gut that like family aspect.
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  Speaker 1: My coach was very good at being able to make
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  Speaker 1: me feel comfortable. The staff, so the transition was you know,
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  Speaker 1: they made the tradition a lot easier. But I really
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  Speaker 1: was hard because my mom was such a big aspect
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  Speaker 1: of my life, especially being in Ireland on my friends
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  Speaker 1: and my family and not having her out here to
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  Speaker 1: you know, just give that support and that motally loave
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  Speaker 1: that you know, you kind of lean on on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis. That was very hard, especially when the times
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  Speaker 1: were tolf and I wasn't competing well and everything was
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  Speaker 1: new and I had to meet new people and make
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  Speaker 1: new friends. But it took time and I just had
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  Speaker 1: to learn to have patience and you know, accept the process.
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  Speaker 3: You're or false you started doing your own laundry when
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  Speaker 3: you moved to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So like saying my mom was a big aspect,
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  Speaker 1: she was a huge aspect in my life in Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: No, at the very least with the laundry, right, but
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  Speaker 3: beyond that, I mean, as you mentioned strong relationship with
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  Speaker 3: your mom, such an amazing role model for you.
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  Speaker 2: How would you say that that special?
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  Speaker 3: I would say intimacy with her really shaped who you are, let.
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  Speaker 1: In every way, almost like my morals, my ethics, my
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  Speaker 1: work ethic, everything that I am today is kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a mold of who she is. And I looked
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  Speaker 1: up to where she was very hard work and very determined.
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  Speaker 1: She did so much for me to be able to
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  Speaker 1: achieve my goals. She would literally change your shifts at work. No,
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  Speaker 1: she was a single mom, so like it was me
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  Speaker 1: and my trace, my two siblings, and she would be
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  Speaker 1: at work and she would literally take her twenty minute
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  Speaker 1: lunch break, she would come pick me up, take me
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  Speaker 1: to training, and.
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  Speaker 4: Go back to work.
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  Speaker 1: And she just did so much to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: I was happy, my siblings were happy, and we had
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  Speaker 1: every single opportunity we could to be successful and do
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  Speaker 1: what we love to do. So, yeah, it means so
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  Speaker 1: much for me to be where I am because I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be here without her. And every time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, oh, this is hard, Like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I can keep doing this. Sometimes you know
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  Speaker 1: them times you have hard days, I'm like, I have
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  Speaker 1: to do this because she sacrificed so much for me
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  Speaker 1: to get here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you just learned that mindset from her. You
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  Speaker 3: learned there's no other options. Exactly how valuable is that?
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  Speaker 3: So it sounds like you have a lot to be
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  Speaker 3: grateful for from your upbringing. When you reflect on your
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  Speaker 3: upbringing in Ireland, what would you say, aside from the
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  Speaker 3: time with your mom and her dedication to you and
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  Speaker 3: your siblings, that you're most grateful for.
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  Speaker 4: Irish people are really really nice.
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  Speaker 1: So I think being around at it just taught me
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  Speaker 1: to be really kind and to show respect to everyone,
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  Speaker 1: because that's all I was surrounded by.
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  Speaker 4: So it definitely ropped off on me.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been to so many different countries, some different places,
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  Speaker 1: and I just realized how kind and genuine Irish people were,
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  Speaker 1: So that definitely had an effect. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: how I wanted to present myself on the person that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what I think is awesome though, I truly
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  Speaker 3: believe that energy attracts like energy, right, and so I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying that the people.
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  Speaker 2: Here aren't very nice as well. You all are very
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  Speaker 2: kind and wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Spoken from a New Yorker who maybe not a everyone
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  Speaker 3: is this kind, But you came here and you brought
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  Speaker 3: that light with you, and that light attracts other light,
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  Speaker 3: and so did you find that when you got.
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  Speaker 2: Here that you felt a warm sense of welcome?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely like when I was around my teammates and even
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  Speaker 1: regulars too. I hate saying that, sorry, even like non athletes, oh.
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  Speaker 3: As regular folks in the room. It's the non superhumans,
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  Speaker 3: it's us, it's me.
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  Speaker 4: Non athletes regular.
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  Speaker 1: It was really easy to make friends because I felt
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  Speaker 1: like when I was just being myself and the people
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  Speaker 1: who I attracted were very similar to me. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I made a really nice community being out here in
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  Speaker 1: Austin that I still have now that I'm still here.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I was regular folks.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you first started athletics at fourteen, which is so impressive,
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  Speaker 3: and from the get go you were wildly successful at it.
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  Speaker 3: Did that impose or put a certain amount on pressure
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  Speaker 3: on you, of pressure on you to succeed do well?
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  Speaker 2: And how did that feel for you?
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  Speaker 1: I think starting off, I put a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: on myself, so I was definitely had the high achiever mindset.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to win everything from the very first day
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  Speaker 1: I stepped on the track, and that wasn't exactly how
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  Speaker 1: it went because I had joined, but there were people
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  Speaker 1: who had been training since there were eight, ten, eleven,
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  Speaker 1: and they were really good. So I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: going to start doing my very first rate the next
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  Speaker 1: day and blow everyone up to the park, and that
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  Speaker 1: definitely didn't happen. So it was learning to adapt and
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  Speaker 1: continuing to have the mindset that regardless of what happens,
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  Speaker 1: my goals remained the same. And as I got better,
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  Speaker 1: and as I achieved more success, I just made sure
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  Speaker 1: that my goals didn't change. You know, being at the
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  Speaker 1: top is just so that I have to do, and
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  Speaker 1: I worked very hard to achieve. So that's carried on
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  Speaker 1: even to the point that I am now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and beyond setting goals that might have something to
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  Speaker 3: do with time, you also have this opportunity that is
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  Speaker 3: unique to define what.
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  Speaker 2: Success feels like or or looks like to you.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So, for you, when you think about success today,
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  Speaker 3: what does that feel like to you? What does that
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  Speaker 3: look like to you? What is success in your definition?
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  Speaker 1: I think making progress every day and becoming a better
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  Speaker 1: version of myself that's success because I'm better than I
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  Speaker 1: was yesterday. And although we sometimes have these goals and
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  Speaker 1: we don't see ourselves as successful until we've reached that goal,
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  Speaker 1: becoming a better person and becoming a better version of
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  Speaker 1: yourself every single day is success within itself. And not
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to say that those goals shouldn't be there, They definitely
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: should be there because it gives us something to go
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: for and something to reach for. But I think just
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: having that mindset that I'm getting better every day and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'm becoming a better version of myself is really important
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: because I feel like we're so hard on ourselves sometimes.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: It's so true.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: But you mentioned moving to Texas and then becoming a
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: small fish in a big pond, right, you came from
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: being at the top of the top, So coming here
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and having to learn these hard lessons about success because
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: it wasn't every day that you were coming in first,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: was that challenging.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: It definitely was.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: It was a lot of tears, like, and that's normal,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and that's okay because we're gonna feel whatever emotions.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: We're gonna feel like it's okay to feel those emotions.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: But I think it definitely just taught me so much
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: about myself, about my mindset, and I grew and it
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: was necessary making that move and feeling those emotions and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: having those losses shape me to who I am today.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Because the professional world is so much harder than even
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: in college, so you're not going to always win.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: And if I was only exposed to.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Win in every single time, I wouldn't be able to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: last in this profession. So I just feel like everything
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that you experience, good or bad, is.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Going to shape you into who you are totally.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to double tap on your decision to
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: go pro in just a second.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: But you bring up such a.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Truly valuable point here, which is that again, we have
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: this opportunity to frame our mindset and to understand that
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: not everything is going to always go as we'd hoped.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And someone once taught me that when things don't go
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: as you'd hoped. To your point, you have this opportunity
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: then to feel your feelings, and it's an it's a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: privilege to get there, right, It's a privilege to feel
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: your feelings so that you can learn from that moment
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: and then you can move on. No one works hard
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: for things not to go as they'd hoped, right, who's
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: ever failed at something?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Yep, hi, every hand in the room, we've all failed
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: at something right. So now we have this opportunity then
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: to figure out what we do with that failure. How
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: do you learn from that failure so you can move
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: in the direction that you want to go.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Now on turning pro.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: You made the decision in twenty twenty three to forego
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: your eligibility turn pro.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Firstly, how did that feel for you?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: And how has your first year been as a Nike athlete?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Amazing?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So turn and pro It's so crazy because it happened
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: so quickly. My first year, one of the four unereiters,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I ended up putting NTAA Championships and it just it
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was at home in Austin, Texas. Our team won, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it just spent like the perfect time to turn professional.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: And it's crazy because that was such a monumental achievement
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and it happened so fast that I don't feel like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I really got to appreciate at the time because go
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and pro was something that you only hoped you could
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: do as a child growing up and doing athletics. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: when it happened, and when it was happening, I think
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: because while I was running and performing as I was
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in college, it was almost expected like oh, I'm gonna
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: copro at the end of this, so you know, it
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: didn't feel like, oh my god, I just signed my
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: first personal contract. And also because I was still competing,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I had world championships, I didn't get to really take
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in that whole moment and rejoice. But I think once
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the season ended in twenty twenty three, I was really
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: able to sit down and realize, like my dream coming true,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Like I'm a Nike professional athlete, something that I had
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: dreamed of since I was young, like I would have
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: all the Nike pros growing up, I'd have all the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: latest Nike trainers.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: The girls in the Fever were like, yuh, Like I.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Spent all my mum's money on getting the latest of
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: everything Nike. So when it happened, you know, I really
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I really now get to appreciate, like, this is what
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I've dreamed of. So it's amazing. My first year as
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a professional athlete was great, ups and downs. You know,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I feel the first year as a professional athlete. They
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: always says it is the hardest year because there's so
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: much adaptations that you have to make, And it definitely was,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: New experiences, good and bad.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: But as I say, they helped me shape how I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: perceive things now and it's going to definitely help my future.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: It's shaped like my.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Whole like view on track, on hard work, on consistency, discipline,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and what it takes to really be the best at
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: what you do because it's very different to college.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, can you shed some more light on some of
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: those adaptations.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I'm super interested in that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So I think in college life is so fast paced,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you know, you have school, you have training, you try
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to fit in a social life, and everything is just flowing.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: But I think those things actually help. Although I was
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: still in school my first year as a professional athlete,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: it was still different because I was on the team anymore.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: So I had to make a couple of changes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But now my coach and my trainers weren't pushing me
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to do things.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I had to do them on my own.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So it's that part that I needed to have my
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: self discipline and my trainer ut isn't there to force
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: me to come in early and do my rehab anymore.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I have to do it on my own.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And I kind of struggled because I was so used
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to getting that text, oh you coming in today to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: do your rehab for practice, and I had to remember
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to do it myself and just really small things like that.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: It can build up to you not having that consistency
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: that you need to be able to make those improvements
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that will translate to my performance on the track. So
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of changes. I definitely learned a lot.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I still kind of had my college mindset as my
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: first years a professional, but I think now knowing what
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: it takes on what I need to do, I'm able
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to make those changes for my next of common year.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: And what I'm hearing you say is that self belief
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: is so important to going in this direction.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: For you, I have to ask, what's your why?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Why is it that you keep showing up when it
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: doesn't feel so shiny and it doesn't feel so exciting
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: and you are a little fish in a very big pond.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: What is your why?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I think because I've came so far to the point
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: where failure now isn't an option, Like it's too late
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to turn back, and too many people are like looking
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: up to me and are inspired by what I do.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: In Ireland, there's so many little girls that look up
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to what I do and they send me these amazing
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: messages like you made me start running or my kids
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: run because of you. And I have to kind of
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: set an great example for people who look up to me,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: because I looked up to Odors too, So it's bigger
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: than me now and I'm not just doing it for myself.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'm doing it for semi other people who invested in me,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: who gave up their time, who just believe in me
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and believe in what I can do.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: That you know, Fader just isn't an.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Option to forget Ireland. I mean, look at all the
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: women in this room, am I right? It's so true
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and what an opportunity. And I think that that's always
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: something to remember is yes, you have so many eyes
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: on you, but each of us, every single day have
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: the opportunity to inspire someone. Regardless of how many people
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: are following you on social media. Right, every day you
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: have the opportunity to be a kind and decent human
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: that shows up and can show someone else the way,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: that can model the way by just being yourself.
• 25:56
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to the summer and I
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: want to go. I would love to go back to Paris,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: but I want to go to Paris. And first and foremost,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: before we dial in specifically on the Olympics, we have
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: to talk about your pre race routine. So aside from
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: putting on those spikes, what else is a must before
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: you get on the track.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: M Aside from like the typical e hydrate, sleep, recover
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: all that makeup, okay.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Makeup, hair.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I think the ladies are like, yes, yes, it's a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: very like look good, feel good. Like I'm at the Olympics,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Like there's so many cameras, like I need to, you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: look my best, so yeah, makeup and hair, just you know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and just being able to get those pre race vibes
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: like I like to be in a good mood and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a good vibe before I go out to the track,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and that kind of releases all the tension that you
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: have before you compete, you know, at such a major level.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I you know, when I'm going out for a marathon,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Like it's just so different.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I wish it could be like that. Hair
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: has got to be on point.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I'm like by the second, by the fourth minute, I'm
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: like this is over.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: You're out there for forty seconds.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, exactly, So it just said little there for like,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to practice, I do not wear Mako because I'm dying
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a terrible death that practice. But when it's the race,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm only running for forty nine hopefully for
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: eight forty seven seconds, So yeah, I just try to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: make sure I, like, you look my best because it's
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: nothing worse. And when they post your race pictures and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you just I was like, I can't please delete that,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like that's terrible. So yeah, I you know, I'm like, okay,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: at least I'm looking. I'm looking Okay.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call up the producer at NBC News and
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: be like, guy, this doesn't work.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Why would you do that to me?
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work. Yeah, why are you gonna be like that?
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, So then we know your previous utine getting getting
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: the vibe right, look good, feel good?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: The Olympics.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: First Olympics, What are the feelings arriving in Paris?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: When I first walked into the Olympic Stadium, I mean
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the Olympic village, it was like, oh my god, I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: am here. It was that moment of realization something that
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I've dreamed of for so long was actually happening, and
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: come into fruition. I'd walked in and I'd seen I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: had all my suitcases on my Charlie. I was with
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: some of the staff from Marland, and all I saw
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was all the flags and all the buildings and all
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the athletes walking around, and they had our country gear on.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I've been to like the Youth Olympics some stuff, so
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it was quite similar to that, but it was just.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Magnified like it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: It was just so special, and I was like, thank
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: you God, like I'm here, I made it, and I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see what I can do. I'm so
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: great for this opportunity. And they're like, let's get the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: show on the road.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Do you say anything but civic to yourself when you're
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: on the starting blocks.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I just kind of try to tell myself like you've
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: got this, you know, try to reassure myself, and you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I say a little prayer and I'm like, Okay, let's
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: let's go.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I think what's so impressive when I have the opportunity
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: to sit down with athletes of your caliber.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Is just this like resounding trust in the training.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: It's it's really as though you get to this point
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: where you understand that when you show up you have
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: no other option. It's like getting to that start line
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: and not having your mind right. It's just like getting
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: to the start line and being like, oh, I'm I
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: need to train for X amount of hours I need
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: to put in this work.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: It's like you arrive and you're there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: You are fully there, and so it's always so interesting
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: to hear about that that pre race moment before the
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: starting going gun goes off.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I think having your mind right it's something that people
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: sometimes don't understand how to effect it can have Like
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: not being in the right headspace to compete is almost
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: like having like a sorny, you know, it's so much
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it's just as important as the physical aspect to have
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the mental aspect right. And sometimes that can be hard
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: because how do you get yourself right for a race.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: It's so nerve wracking and it's so hard to be
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: able to get yourself psyched for some one that might
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: hurt because.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Some distances hurt to ron and.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: It's just just the fear of failure as well. But
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I think it's remembering why you do it and see
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: as opportunity, not a threat. You know, being able to compete,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: being able to do something you like, something you love,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: it's an opportunity. And you know you want to bring
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: yourself to the line because you've worked for this and
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: this is now your time to show the world and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: show yourself what you've been working on and show yourself
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the progress you've been making.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: It's all controlling the controllables, right, But the thing about
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: them is, no matter how much practice, right, there are
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: going to be times where it feels like we just
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: can't get it under control. There are gonna be moments
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: where it just feels bigger than us. So for you
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: to have that understanding like, okay, this is like to
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: an extent within my power and I'm just going to
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: take a deep breath and do what I do. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: so you went out there and you did what you did.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Talk to us about the final ten seconds of your
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Olympic final. Where are you do you black out what happens.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: In that moment?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm tired.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I was first forty go by, I'm so tired.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: But I think I was in about four place.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And I was edging myself into turred and I could
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: see for my PERI for view that I was now interred,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and I was like, please hold on, hold on, hold on,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: hold on. And it's so crazy, Becase because when the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: girl was passing me, I just saw my metal running away.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: And it's devastating because there's nothing you can do.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I literally can't move my legs any faster than I can, like,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I'm so tired, I'm trying my very best, and it's
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: just nothing you can do in that moment, and it's
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: that feeling of like helplessness and something that you worked
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: so hard for so long and you dreamed of, like
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I would, you know, envision myself an Olympic podium, and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: when it doesn't happen and you cross that line and
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you look at the screen and your name isn't the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: top three and your name isn't where you want it
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to be, it's like that's it. You know, now I
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: have to wait another four years to this again. So yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it was it was really hard to get over. You know,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: people kept, you know, trying to re storm like you're
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: so young, you did amazing, but you know, at the moment,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you're just like it's so hard to hear that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: It's so hard to hear. Oh, I'm proud.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: It's so hard to hear you know, all the great
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: things people are saying, because you can only think of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the fact that I could only think of the fact
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that I.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Didn't achieve what I set out to achieve.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I feel like a couple. Even
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: like weeks after the Olympics, like I would just just
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: randomly start crying because like I would see what I didn't.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Have and what I didn't do.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: So it was really hard to get over and I'm
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: still working on it. But it's experience and I learned
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a lot from the experience, and you know, I feel
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: like I have the opportunity to do more and be
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: more these next couple of years. And that's all, you know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: There's nothing else I can do than to keep moving forward.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna cry right now. Shoot, thanks for sharing that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: And it goes back to what we were saying earlier,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: right about you need to feel your feelings and if
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: you don't go through that period of time where you're
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: experiencing that, someone.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Get me a napkin. We need napkins from the bar
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: of on the stage. Please.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: If you don't go through that moment to feel your feelings,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: then you can't move forward. So to have that opportunity
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: to feel this and learn from this, thank you, Come
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: on up, Come on up, sweetie.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: We are in this together. Thank you.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, now you get to move forward just like you said,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: and you get to use that moment that day as
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: your fire to keep showing up and pursuing your why
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: and embracing the badass human.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: That you are. Thank you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I'm sure also that this teaches you about how you
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: want to navigate disappointment moving forward, right, And it also
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: shows you the goodness of the people that we keep
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: at our table, in our what I like to refer
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: to as our board of directors, right, Because when you
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: look around you and you see the people that support
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: you and the people that you care about, your mom,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: the people that you articulated so beautifully are part of
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: your why, it encourages you to pick your chin up
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: and keep showing up. So, now that we've had some
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: time since the summer, what does showing up look like
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: for you these days?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I think always trying to remember that I need to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: do my best to become bear at every single aspect
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: of my life. Really, so it goes so far beyond
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: just that like X, you know, I need to sleeper, hydrateer,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: eat beer, and just overall becoming a better person mentally
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and physically is going to help my performance. So that's
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: what showing up is like. It's I didn't that. Okay,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: you know, things might not have bet my way, But
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: what can I do now to make things go my way?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: What can I do to you know, change my destiny
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and make sure that I don't feel the same way
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: in twelve months, you know, And even if it doesn't happen,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: it's knowing that I did what I could do to perform.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: And I think that is such a good point. Right.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: All it takes, I say this all the time. All
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: it takes is all you've got.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: But some days you might have you might not have
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: what you had yesterday. And so having the grace with
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: yourself to be honest and say, but I gave it
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: what I had today. And there are so many things
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: that are beyond our control that also impact how we
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: show up on the regular. So having the grace with
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: yourself to be like, this is how it is now,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: this is how it is today, and tomorrow I get
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: the opportunity to stand up and do it again and
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: put on my makeup and be like, damn girl, you
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: look good and I got this.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: There are certainly more eyeballs on you these days than
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: there used to be. So there were some things that
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: came out after the Olympics that were a little difficult,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: And it broke my heart to hear your mom's like
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: in news articles defending you against the haters. Whoever came
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: up with the word haters. I hate the word haters.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: It sounds some kind of way. What is it like
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: for you to put the blinders on? How do you
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: stay in your lane and focus on the things that
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: are important to you and not let the naysayers get
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: in your way?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I think when you get to, you know, a certain
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: point that's just comes. Regardless of what you do, good
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: or bad, people are always gonna have something to say,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and it's so important just to not let that affect
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you and define who you are, because the people around
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you will reassure you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: That, no, you are a good person.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: No like what they're saying isn't true, and you should
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: no doubt within yourself and I do. I feel like
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable and I know who who I am.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: So what some random guy that's a known tree for
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: seven six on Instagrams has to say, wow, yes, it's.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Not like it doesn't it's always someone.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: That doesn't have a profile sig now, is it not?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, if you say such and such,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, you know, I know who I am.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: My family and my friends like they love and appreciate me,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: So I'm not really too faced about what people who
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: have no idea about who I really am have to say.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Totally and so on that same note, then, knowing that
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: you have and exemplifying such grace, right, you're like, I'm good, Like,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I'm all set with that. It's a it's a quality
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: that exhibit I'm gonna say a word that doesn't actually exist.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: It's exhibited by someone that's a role model. And you
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: are a role model.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: You already talked about not only your followers, but then
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: also all these women in this room looking up to you,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: in your class and your great How does that make
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: you feel that I'm looking at you and I'm like,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: you're a role model? Does that make you feel excited, anxious, nervous, privileged?
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: What comes with that?
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: It's definitely your privilege overall.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes it can feel a little pressurizing because
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like I have to be perfect all the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: time and I have to always say the right things
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and do the right things, and I can't make any mistakes.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: But ultimately, it's such a privilege to be even considered
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: as someone's role model, because that's a pretty heavy title
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: for someone to give you. You know that they look
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: up to you, they aspire to be like you, and
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: you know you give them so much inspiration. So I
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: definitely see it as something positive, although sometimes it can
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: be dawned in and especially when I was kind of
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: coming up the ranks and I was a bit younger,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and I was kind of phased and scared about the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: term role model. I think now I've grown into it
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate and I'm happy to be someone's role
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: model because I think growing up, I had my role
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: models and.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I looked up to them.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: So it's always important that the younger generation, even any generation,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: or anybody has someone that you know they want to
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: look up to entirely.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: And mean, speaking of role models, the culture, the climate
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: of women's sports right now is electric. Right we see
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: so many strong women showing up and not just being
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: dominant as a woman in sport, but honestly, just being
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: dominant in sport, like this is what we are here for.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: So how do you feel about being a dominant woman
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: in sport and also just about this climate that we're in,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: about all the eyeballs watching us go after our big potential.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I think it's amazing, honestly, Yeah, yeah, because I think
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: this is definitely a time where women in sports has
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: being way more appreciated, and there's definitely separate platforms where
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: we're seeing on the almost and sometimes.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Above the same level as men's sports.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And I'm absolutely here for it because I definitely think
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it's about time that we're getting that recognition, we're seen
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: in the same light, we're being given the same opportunities.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm definitely here for it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it. I'm here to support it too. Well.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: As we wind down here, a few more questions.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Firstly, like I mentioned, such a massive following on the
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: social such an amazing room of women right here that
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: look at you and they see a strong woman, an
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: athlete going after her big potential. But I'm curious when
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: you look in the mirror mirror Rashida, I was like
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: combining your name and the word mirror. What is it
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: that you see looking back at you?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Honestly, just like see myself. I don't see like everything
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: everybody else is, because no, I've been myself since I
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: was born, So I just sometimes forget that, you know,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: people perceive me in the way like I'm a professional athlete,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I'm an Olympian, because when I look in the mirror,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I just see myself the same person I've been growing
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: up and nothing really has changed because my family's saying
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: my friends are the same.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't really see.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Myself as above anyone are different or special, even though
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: like some might say so, I think it's it's just I'm.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Just the regular.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Okay. So you've articulated what you don't see? Oh what
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: do you see? Oh?
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: And she's like, you're gonna make me say nice things
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: about myself?
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Who is who else has trouble saying nice things about themselves?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Higa, it's me, yep.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Someone who's a go get, you know, I someone who
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to settle for the bare minimum, who has
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: great aspirations, too strong, who is kind, who's genuine, and
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: someone who just wants to show love to everyone and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: make people smile and make people happy. And yeah, I
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: feel like that's kind of what I see when I
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: see myself, and.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: I see many of those things looking at you too.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring some levity into this and finish us
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: off here with a few fun, fun, fun questions. Favorite
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Nike shoe oohs okay, here we go.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Hey, get that one? Take that up? Favorite warm up drill.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Her knees?
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: That is it gets it gets your That's my least
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: favorite warm up drill. Oh yeah, yeah, too much effort.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: So when it basically simulates me? Wroteen, So it just
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: guessed me.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Prefer fair, fair fair. Okay.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Do you have what could be considered a most surprising
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: song on your workout playlist?
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Anything? Jesse J?
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Jesse J? Is that surprising?
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I mean I like jesse J. I'm not like vibe Vibe. Okay. Uh.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: You mentioned makeup being a part of your pre race routine.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: What is like one makeup product that you cannot live without?
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Oh? Do you have specific brand, a favorite favorite?
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: I just have it everywhere every single moment.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Speaking of makeup brands, you recently met Rihanna Casual Soft
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: flex for me for her. Is there another celebrity that
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: you would literally lose it if you met?
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Oh? Probably Bolts.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, the crowd goes.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, can I tell you that I've met him? I
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: have a nice guy run the Doublin Marathon, met Usain Bolt.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: I have a few cool things in my life. Okay,
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: do you have a favorite place to get a taco
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: in Austin for anyone you might be visiting right now?
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you're gonna tell me like it is.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: So I don't actually get tacos, Okay, I go to
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Taco Way sometimes, but I only had my first taco
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: last year, and I've I know, and I've been in
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Austin for four years, and I went to Mexico last
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: year and I had my first taco in Mexico.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: So yah, ever in your life?
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: In my life? Yeah?
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: All right? Or really learning some things in the room tonight.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: So if anyone talks to Rashida after she gets off
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: the stage, give her talker.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Recommendations because she needs them. Yeah, she needs them.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: And then our last question for tonight, right now, you
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: have an opportunity, knowing what you know now an Olympian,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: to offer yourself a piece of advice. Looking back on
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: the beginning of your running journey, what do you tell
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: your younger self?
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Ooh, I would definitely tell myself to be patient. I
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: think that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Can sound so basic and you've probably heard it a
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: million times before, but when it comes to the way
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I was growing up, I wanted everything exactly when I
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: set my eyes on it, you know, and I just
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: was so impatient. And I think if I was a
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: little bit more patient in the way that I approach
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: things and in my success and allowing things to just
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: happen and flow, I wouldn't have felt so pressurized to
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: achieve things so quickly. And even now, like, being patient
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: is just so important because you know what is meant
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: free will not pass you. And I think it's so
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: important to remember that, especially when we feel like things
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: aren't going our way. And I always felt like things
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: aren't going my way and I was like, when is
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: this gonna happen for me? And I've always compared myself
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to everyone like, oh, this person got already, Like why
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: happens I achieved this? Yet they're the same age as
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I am. And I think patience is literally a virtue,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: so you hear it so much I hear to someone
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: almost always so much to previatient people, woul always say
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: be patient. And I think it's very different to hear
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: advice and to listen to it, but to receive it
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and to actually apply it to your life is very different.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: And I think applying patients and actually becoming a patient
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: person was very important and is still important in me
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: being able to get to where I want to go.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to tell you that I know that
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: I was listening to you tonight, and I'm sure that
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: this room was listening to you tonight. So many unbelievable
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: takeaways from you, and truly your light is irrefutable, and
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: I am so elated to continue to watch you as
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: you go on your journey. For those that might not
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: keep up with you on social I don't think they
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: can necessarily keep up with you out there, just yet,
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: give us some information.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: How do we follow along with you on Instagram? The socials?
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Give us the deeds?
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Oh so yeah, I'm Rashida underscore de on all my
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: social platforms and Instagram, twittering, so.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: You'll see her. You'll catch her outside running around Austin.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: If you don't yet follow hurdle I'm over at Hurdle
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: podcast and at Emilah Badi. If you listen to the show,
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: you know what happens next, another hurdle conquered.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time. Thanks so much for joining
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: us here