Latest / Hurdle with Emily Abbate / 117. Kerri Walsh Jennings, Pro Beach Volleyball Player & 3X Olympic Gold Medalist

Transcript

117. Kerri Walsh Jennings, Pro Beach Volleyball Player & 3X Olympic Gold Medalist · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Confidence is something that I work on every single day.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: My Self talk is something I work on every single
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: day because I want to be unconditional in myself, you know,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: always within, not coming from without.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: Hey Hurdler's Emily Abadi here bringing you Episode one hundred
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: and seventeen of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where I
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: sit down with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: their big ones to how they've gotten through some of
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: life's toughest moments. On the show, you can expect a vulnerability, motivation,
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: and candid discussions with everyone from top athletes to aspiring
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: entrepreneurs on what it really takes to follow your passions.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: My mission is simple to.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Inspire you to be your best self, move with intention,
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: and have some fun along the way. Today I am
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: bringing you my conversation with Carrie A.
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: Walsh Jennings.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: She is an American professional beach volleyball player, three time
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: Olympic gold medalist and one time Olympic bronze medalist, And honestly,
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: I grew up following Carrie and it was like she
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: was the example of female strength and athleticism and just
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: an all around boss, a household name in sports. So
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: I say this to her when we start chatting today.
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: She has been someone I've wanted to chat with for
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: quite some time now, and the opportunity came my way
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: thanks to one of her sponsors, the California Almond Board. Now,
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: on that note, I do want to take a second
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: just to talk about the sponsorship side of things, so
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: to speak. I know sometimes it can feel a little
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: bit wonky when you hear buzzwords or messaging, but these
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: sponsors and power people like Carrie like me to do
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: what we want to do. And I can speak from
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: my side of things with companies like the ones that
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: you'll hear from today Athletic Greens and Beam. These are
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: companies that I use their products on the regular. I
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: truly believe in what they have to offer, and it's
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: kind of a symbiotic relationship and that they also believe
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: in what I'm putting into the world. They believe in
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: who I am as an individual, and together we can
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: do some really great stuff. So, of course, when the
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Almond Board approached me about the opportunity to chat with
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: Carrie for Hurdle, it was an absolute no brainer for me,
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: and it's clear to me from our conversation that she
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: appreciates them just as much as they appreciate her. A
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: little insight as to what Carrie and I talk about today.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: We talk about her growing up in Santa Clara. She
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: talks to me about her journey through the sport, playing
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: in college, going pro, and we cover not just the
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: highlights of her career like those gold medals, but also
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: the hard times.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: We also reference quite a bit Michael Gervai.
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: He is a performance psychologist, someone that works with some
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: of the best of the best, not just athletes, but
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: top CEOs, etc. And God are the takeaways and the
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: nuggets and the pull quotes from Carrie about doing the
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: work in your strength, self confidence, coming back from failure.
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: They're all in there, and they're all the kind of.
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: Stuff that's really going to motivate you while you're listening
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: to be your best self and walk away from this
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: episode with a ton of inspiration. Before we get into
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: the swing of things today, I do want to take
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: the time to shout out my sponsors. First up, Athletic Greens.
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: A lot of you have been tagging me in your
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: Athletic Greens packages and shake your bottles lately, and I
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: am all about it. The Greens powder has the anti
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: accident equivalent to twelve servings of fruits and vegetables. It's
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: also got prebiotics, probiotics, adaptagens, and superfoods. One of the
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: questions I get often is when do you consume your age?
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: A lot of people I know, they do it literally
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: first thing in the morning. You roll out of bed,
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: use the bathroom, you walk into the kitchen, you shake
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: up your athletic greens.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: For me, I'm a get up workout.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: Then have my athletic greens sort of gal this way,
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: it's not switching around in my stomach, and it's kind
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: of like my reward for myself, like job well done.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: Now it's really time to start the day. And let's
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: be real, Not every single day is the picture perfect
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: example of healthy eating and habits. But for me with
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: that morning movement, with my morning shiker bottle of athletic Greens,
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: I know that I'm doing something could for my body
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: to get things going in the right direction. They are
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: offering Hurdle Listeners an awesome deal. You've got to take
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: advantage of this. It's twenty eight travel packs a seventy
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: nine dollars value, absolutely free with your first purchase. Just
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: head on over to Athleticgreens dot com slash hurdle Again,
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: that's Athleticgreens dot com slash hurdle to get yours today,
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: no code necessary. Next shout out of the day to
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: my friends at Beam.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: I fell in love with Beam because of their Dream
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: Sea Powder. Basically, it's a dream boosting blend as they
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: call it, that helps you wind.
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: Down for the night.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: It's got melatonin, magnesium, alfianine, and of course their CBD powder.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: I mix it with almond milk and it tastes like
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: a sweet, hot chocolate.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: But it's even better because I know that it's gonna
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: help me sleep through the night.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: I'm so so into anything that can just help me
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: quiet my mind, calm down and get a better, more
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: RESTful sleep. Well, the company recently released their Dream Capsules,
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: which have all of the benefits of that Dream Powder blend,
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: but in a convenient pill form. I'm personally hooked on
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: this new offering from Beam, and I know that you
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: will be too.
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: They've got a great deal for you, guys.
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: Head on over to BEAMTLC dot com to get fifteen
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: percent off your purchase today using the code Hurdle at
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: checkout again. That's Beam TLLC dot com. Use the code
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: Kurdle at checkout to get fifteen percent off your purchase today.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: One last bit of housekeeping before we get into today's episode,
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: I would love, love, love for you to sign up
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: for the newsletter Hurdle Weekly. It comes out every Friday
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: morning in the same format as the five minute Friday episodes.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: The link to subscribe is in the show notes, so
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: please do so. And also when you're in there, there's
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: an opportunity for you to like what you're reading.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: You can comment, so engage with me.
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: I want to have a conversation with you always with
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: what's going on in our country more than ever, to
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: support one another, to show up for one another, and
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: that has always been my goal here with the hurdle community,
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: at Emily Abodi and at Hurdle podcast on social and
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: if you have a hurdle moment of your own to
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: share where you just want to say hi, I'm always
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: an email away, It's Emily at hurdle dot us.
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: With that, let's get to hurdling today.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Carrie Wall Jennings. She needs
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: no introduction if you ask me, but obviously an American
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: professional beach volleyball player, a multi time Olympic gold medalist
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: and Olympic bronze medalist. I mean, the accolades are endless,
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: of course. Well, fun fact, Carrie, you were on my
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: original what I refer to as my dream guest list,
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: and so I'm am to be talking with you today
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to start us off with a fun question.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: I once heard you say that you practice and prepare
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: for every single situation so that when you get on
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: the court, you're ready. And I bring that up now
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: because obviously with a pandemic, there's been a lot of
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: things that we have not been able to prepare for
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: as a nation. So what have you been doing to
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: kind of show up and handle these unforeseen times?
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: Emily?
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Such a good question, And yeah, it's just a gnarly
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: rollercoaster of a time, so emotional, so so exciting. You know.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: I think through chaos, ideally better structures and change, positive
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: change comes, and with a pandemic it's just sad. Yet
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of healing going on as well. And
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: you know, the really wonderful realization for me is that
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: the way I've trained myself as an athlete and the
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: way I was raised as a human and by nature
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: as well, Like faith is very prominent in my life.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: Personal accountability and responsibility is very very present in my
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: life every single day on and off the court. And
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: I am looking at this challenging time as a way
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: for me to show up and to set the tone
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: for how I show up in really challenging hard times.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm a mother now, I have three kids eleven, ten,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: and seven, and I cannot, you know, be crazy every
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: day and be an emotional rollercoaster. And so what I'm
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: doing is I'm acting as if I chose this. And
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that line of thinking, because if you
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: act like you chose it, you take responsibility for how
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: you show up and situation good or bad, and then
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: you have the power to control it, you know, to
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: show up in the way you want. Whereas I think
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, and I'm seeing this with my family,
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: with my friends, a lot of people are feeling victimized
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: by this, totally understandably. You know, it showed up out
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: of nowhere, and it took away our Olympics, It took
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: away our school or prom or weddings like so many
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: amazing things, and their heartbroken by it, and they're kind
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: of on the defense. And so what I like to
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: do is to be on the offense, to be really proactive,
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: and to choose how I'm going to show up in
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: my days. And I really appreciate my upbringing and my
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: life as an athlete because it's trained me to deal
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: with uncomfortable situations and it's trained me to focus on
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: what I can control.
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: This truly sounds like spoken from an athlete who has
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: taken some time to think about the mental side of things.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: Are you still working with Michael Jervais.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love him. That man is a world changer
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: one by you know, well, now he's scaling because he's able,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: you know, thank goodness for all this technology. But he's
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: changed my life, my marriage, myself, my soul.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: He's incredible.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: Reflecting on your time working with Michael Gervais, would you
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: say that there's been any like absolutely breakthrough moment that
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: literally changed everything for you?
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Gosh, Emily, I mean, there's just so there's so much
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: with him, and like with all good teachers and guides,
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: he just keeps guiding me deeper and deeper into myself,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: you know, like, I feel very deeply, I think very deeply.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: But he makes me articulate very deeply. And when you
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: when you talk about hard conversations, you know, usually we
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: have kind of our patent answers, and then he'll go
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: one under that and then one under that. I'm like,
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: oh my hell, I don't even have words for these
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: things I'm feeling. But he kind of sits with you
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: in silence, without judgment, and he does that, so he's
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: he's really shown me the power of listening because he
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: is an amazing listener, the power of self awareness because
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: he like, you know, you show up and you're like
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: ready to get deep, right, and you're talking about things
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: that either you have resentment about or fear about or doubt,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: and he talks to you about it in such a
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: gentle way. But then he's like he checks in with
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: my body, like where do you feel that emotion? And
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: label that emotion? You know, and self awareness, Emily is
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: a superpower. Like if you can train yourself to be
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: self aware, like gosh, my mind is racing right now.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to take a deep breath or
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm sweating right now, Like what's behind this?
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Like the ability to stop and like take kind of
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: stock of how you feel. It just allows you to
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: reset and move forward powerfully. And Gervais has given me
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: that in Leaps and Bounds, and he's also taught me
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: that confidence comes from one place and one place only,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: and it's literally the way I speak to myself. My
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: self talk dictates the way I show up in the world,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: because Emily doesn't matter if you think I'm rad, It
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter if my family thinks I'm amazing and smart
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: and beautiful, or my husband or the fans, like, all
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: of that stuff is outside of me. And if it's
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: outside of me, that means the sense stable because those people,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: those things, those situations have to be perfect and there
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: every time for me to like get the benefits of
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: them loving me and supporting me. But when they're not there,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: if I'm relying on that, it's just I'm in shambles.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: And so self confidence is something that I work on
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: every single day. My Self talk is something I work
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: on every single day because I want to be unconditional
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: in myself, you know, always within, not coming from without.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: For those of you who might not know Michael Gervais,
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: he's a high performance psychologist. He works with a ton
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: of athletes, fortune one hundred CEOs, the whole gamut. Such
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: an interesting and brilliant guy. What I'd love to dive
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: into a little bit now, of course, is, as you mentioned,
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: the Olympics have been pushed back, So I'd love to
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: hear about what your routine looks like now with this shift.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well again, thank goodness, I've been trained to be
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: nimble and adaptive and you know, have a healthy lifestyle.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, like so many my world, my schedule just
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: shut down, you know, and I'm a very scheduled person,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: and so it was just so gnarly to have, you know,
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: to go from training, you know, three trainings a day,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: six hours a day to nothing for a while, and
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: to have all my tournaments counseled, all these things. So
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: it took me a while to figure out my schedule
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: and to figure out that I needed a schedule. And now,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: you know, Emily, I'm just I'm doing the same things.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: It's just a little with a little bit different intent.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: So movement is hugely important, and every single day meditation
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: is huguely important, and every single day my health and
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: nutrition habits are just off the charts because with this pandemic,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: with this virus, Like, I don't want to wait for
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: a vaccine, you know, I don't. I don't want to
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: wait for an authority to say, okay, now you're safe again.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Like I believe it's my job to support my immune system,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: you know, so I can fend off these things. So
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: there's a huge focus on great nutrition. And that's why
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: I'm really proud to be talking to you today. Almond
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Board my partner with California Almonds. They set this up,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: and you know, it's just so important to fuel yourself
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: with beautiful, real food. And my partnership with California Almonds
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: allows me to like get on my platform and be
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: like you guys, we can live healthy lives. We can
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: we can feel good in our bodies. We can literally
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: ward off disease and virus if we choose the right foods.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Foods are medicine, and so my snacking and my you know,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: my eating in general. I really had to figure out
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: the right balance between. I had to I had to
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: get more disciplined. I was snacking constantly the first two weeks,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: and it was so frustrating. The goodness I reached for
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: healthy things like almonds, you know. So it just reminded
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: me that I am what I'm surrounded by. I need
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: to be really mindful when to go to the grocery
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: shore when I stop, because I don't want to have
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: the crap around because I'm going to reach for it,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So mindfulness is huge, nutrition is huge,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Sleeping is huge. Connecting with my people, you know, I
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people are feeling really lonely and
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: they miss their people. Like Thank goodness, I have a
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: family of five, and we all really sincerely like each other.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Otherwise this would be really, really hard. So I'm just
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: really again focusing on what I can control, and I
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: live myself truly. You know. My life is a lifestyle.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: My habits are ingrained in me, and so I think
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: that's how I'm surviving this pandemic. And my head sound straight,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: even though I am emotional and I'm kind of all
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: over the place. My head sound straight, my feet on
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: on the ground, and I'm just eager to make the
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: best of it.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Making the best of it is really just about as
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: best as we can do. I love what you said
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: about reaching for obviously the almonds and keeping other healthy
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: snacks around I remember when I listened to you on
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: a rich role you mentioned that you were drinking the
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: four sigmatic chaga mushroom hot cocoa.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe, well, I drink every four sigmatic product all the time.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Aside from I mean that stuff and the almonds, what
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: would you say, are other smart things that you integrate
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: often into your diet and regular routine.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what this is. I mean, this
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: is something my trainer told me, said out loud a
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: month ago to somebody else. He's like, you know, when
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: you're when you're constructing your meal, whether it's a snack
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: or a full on meal, the first thing you need
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: to think about is your protein. And that to me
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: because sometimes I'm just confused, you know, and I don't
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: know what to structure my meal around. But as an athlete,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: as a high performing human, as someone who wants to
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: keep building muscle and supporting my entire system, protein is
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: obviously huge. And when he said that, Emily, I was like, duh,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Like everything I need. I need protein to every meal,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: you know. And so when he said build your meals
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: and your snacks around protein, it was like a light
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: one off, and now like I just made my kids breakfast,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: and they all wanted apples, and so I put I
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: was like, awesome, great, great fiber, great, you know, vitamins.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Let me put some natural almond butter so you can
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: have the protein, you know, to offset that blood sugar spike.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: And so just things like that are really really helpful
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: to me. You know, when I go shopping, I literally
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I work as hard as I can to avoid the
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: inside aisles, you know, I shop on the perimeters, which
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: again it's just real food. I want to ingest and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: digest real food because that's where the nutrients are. You know,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: it's processed when it's in a package, so yummy, so amazing.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: They just have to put other things in their preservatives
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to keep them that way. And I don't need that
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: in my body. Yeah, so I just I choose healthy basically,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: you know, and I look at it as I want
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: to feel good and it's an exciting thing and I'm
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: learning the healthy swaps that I can do in my life,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you know. But nutrition is hugely, hugely important. My snacking
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: is really important. I didn't realize I was a grazer,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you know, And so every week, you know, when I
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: do have time to meal prep, I do make really
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: healthy snacks. We have our almond balls that we make
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that are energy bites, you know, with the protein and
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: which things that are going to like prepare me to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: go and have a great workout, or go and help
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: my kids and their zoom calls. For school, I mean,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: let's not talk about homeschooling. I will lose my mind.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I'm such a bad teacher. And then entrees. You know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I just I eat my protein, I eat my greens,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and everything is for performance and everything is for feeling good.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And I want my kids to live that way. So
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I need to be a good role model.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: You know, nutrition is such an important part of your
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: life these days, as well as you know, being a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: stellar athlete and training. When you were growing up, I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: know you were born in Santa Clara. Was athleticism a
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: really important thing? Were you an active kid?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: My goodness, gracious, yes, Well my parents are both athletes.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: My mom played three sports at Santa Clara University. My dad,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: you know, played basketball and some for basketball and baseball.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: He's a stud.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: The group their parents were studs, So I just it
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: was unavoidable, you know, I think in my DNA, I'm
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: part I'm just like part of it, part of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: data is you're a competitor.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: You have no choice.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I was raised, it was just we were just constantly playing.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: You know, I have a billion cousins. We all grew
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: up around each other.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm one of five kids, and that was
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: our life. Our life was faith, family in sports. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: fast forward now I'm forty one, I have kids on
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: my own, and my life is faith, family in sports,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and it's rat So when did you first get into volleyball? Then?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I played everything growing up. When I found volleyball,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I was just head over heels in love and I
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: was ten in the fifth grade. And I continue to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: play every single sport. When I got to high school,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I played basketball and volleyball. And I'm a really big
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: advocate for multi sport athletes. You know, I'm sure you're
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: well aware of it, but there's so many young kids
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: who are starting to work for a college scholarship when
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: they're ten years old, and therefore they're specializing and only
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: doing one sport three sixty five, twenty four seven, And
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that's just it makes me sad. I fully understand, and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I understand the rationale. To me, it's just flawed, you know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and to me, the best of the best in any realm,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: but certainly in sports are the athletes who are utility players,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you know, who have a very well rounded knowing and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: mastery of the game, not just one little dimension. And
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so I really appreciate that I played a lot of
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: sports growing up, but volleyball, Emily, like, prior to volleyball,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be the first girl
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: in the NBA. I thought I was going to be
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the first major league pitcher, and then I found volleyball,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and I was just like, no, this is what I
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: want to do.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: You went to Stanford on a volleyball scholarship. When you
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: were there, do you think I'm definitely going to take
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: this pro or did you think this is something I'm
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: going to do in college?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I just I didn't think about it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I just my life has been so awesome and just
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that it keeps unfolding as it should. You know, there's
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: not a lot of premeditation of about what's next. And
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I feel like I live my life so honestly and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: like I can't do anything fake, Emily, Like I can't
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: force something, I can't do something today that I hope
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: turns into something down the road. You know, I just
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I need to do things authentically, and so I think
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the fact that I live my days so truly, it
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: just keeps leading me to like my heart's desire and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to what's next. In high school, you know, I love volleyball,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and my parents would take me to Stanford games and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I'd go watch and I walk the campus and that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: planted that seed and then I, you know, I worked hard.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I got that scholarship, and you know, something else came
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: knocking at the door, just because I think I was
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: living so honestly and I was living out my heart,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so now with volleyball,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: just every time, I just keep leveling up, and there's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: no more levels to go in my competitive career and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I've been doing it for twenty years. So I'll segue
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to something else, you know, which I have a company
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: called P fourteen forty, which I will be in the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: natural segue. But I'm not even thinking about that, you know,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just living my life.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: After you started playing in college, was there a specific
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: moment or in an event that made you decide like,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I've got to keep running with.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: This well, I think just my true love for it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: You know, people can talk to me, they're like, Carrie,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: why are you still going?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: My goodness?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Like it's almost greedy at this point, you know, And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, well, what do you want me to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: cut off this love affair that I is still going strong? Like,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that's not fair. I would feel just so sad if
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I gave up something prematurely, because on paper, it's been
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: twenty years, you know. And so I'm just keep following
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: my heart and I just have I still have big
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: goals and dreams with what I'm doing. And I've said
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this in so many interviews and it's so my truth.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: It's like, two things keep me well, Three things keep
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you me going in the game. My love for the game,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: my sincere love for the people I've been surrounded by,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the relationships that I fostered has been incredible. The best
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: part of this time civilion, and then the personal growth
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that I get, you know, because every goal that I'm
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: trying to strive, I have to become the person capable
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of attaining that goal, and whether I fall short or not,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it almost doesn't even matter because I'm becoming something more
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and better and that's the gift of all these things.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: That's why it's so important to have something to aim for.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't have anything to aim for,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: we're kind of like, Okay, I'll do this and this
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and this. But if you know what you're going for,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: it's your system, your mind, your spirit like organizes itself
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and organizes the life outside of ourself to help you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: do that. And it's so cool.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: You mentioned personal growth, you mentioned falling short.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people when they chat with you,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: they probably immediately go to that bronze medal. But my
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: question for you really is, if you think about your
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: career thus far, and you mentioned twenty plus years, here
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: is a specific instance that was quote unquote a failure
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: that really just launched you into a better understanding of
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: who you are and what your strengths might be.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Oh well, what a good question. You know that bronze medal.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: People actually don't want to talk about it because I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: think they don't want to hurt my feelings.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Really, I would think that that like when people talk
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: about winning and losing, so to.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Speak, they're like, well, there was that one bronze medal.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I know, but it's like the secret in the closet,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: which is crazy.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I might be projecting on them.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: That could totally be my issue because it was for
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a while, for a while, you know, when we won it,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I was so happy. I was so proud because, honestly,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and I'm at that point again, I was It was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the hardest thing I've ever done as an athlete, to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: literally get your heart ripped out of your chest, to
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: fail on the world's biggest stage. The way I framed
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: it was that it was my fault that I, you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: had the worst game and I took our team out
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of it. And the way you frame challenges and failures
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: like oh my gosh, it sucks up, it sets up
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: your road to healing from that failure in learning. And
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: so I really put myself in a hole there but
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to win and to like have to be everything that
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I try to teach my kids to be, you know,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: have high character. If you get knocked down, believe in yourself,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: get back up. It's not always going to be easy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: You always just fight and fight and fight, and that's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the gift of sports. And so April and I did
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that and we triumphed, and it was gnarly and it
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was so beautiful. For two years after that, Emily, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: was in a tailspin, like every time, oh my gosh,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: every time I played, I stepped in the court, I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: played in fear. Every time I step in the court.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: You know. I used to look at the athletes being like, okay,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I know your weakness. Here here, here, I can you know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I see you, I respect you, but I'm going to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: go after you. But the way I framed it after
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: that is like, oh my gosh, I've been so exposed.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I'm so weak, like they all know. And it was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: just so not me and it was so confusing. And
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: what I came down to is that I just didn't
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: realize that I had wrapped my entire identity on winning.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Not that I wont everything before, but in the world's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: biggest stages, like when it was like crunch time, I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: won and we won, and every every team win, you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I stepped up and I did my job, And this
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: was one situation where I didn't, and I felt like
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it was all my fault. And so I really had
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to come to grips with like it shook me down
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to my foundation, and I did a lot of work
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: with Gervebe. I had to forgive myself. I had to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: talk about the shame that I felt. And this is
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: all for sports, you know, like imagine like and which
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: is my life. Like I'm not trying to demean sports
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: because this is everything to me, but imagine you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: screw ups in life, like we are so mean to ourselves.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And so the self love part of everything, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I talk about mindfulness and self love and sitting in
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: stillness and a lot of people think it's woo and flufy,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm like you, guys, you don't understand, Like, if
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you help self love, you can handle you can handle anything,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: any failure because you know you can learn and grow
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: through it. If you sit in stillness, you can always
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: return to the moment, which is your point of power.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: These things that seem so flufy are like leading edge
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: laser sharp weapons that I can use. And so I've
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: needed a lot since Rio, and I think the gift
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: of Rio is that it did. It humbled me and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I had to go deeper into myself. And at this
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: point now, even on top of everything with the pandemic,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it's like, I want to go out there and just compete.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: You know, I know what I want. I want to dominate.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I want to win that gold medal, but that even
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: causes stress and pressure, right, And Gervais he taught me
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: he's like Carrie, instead of talking about a big moment,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: instead of talking about the pressure that you feel, you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: when it's thirteen all in game three, He's like, just
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: look at it as this is a competitive moment. And Emily,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: when he said that, I was like, that is so genius,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: because I know, if I know anything in life, I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: know I'm a competitor and I'm born to compete. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: competing is just all about giving your best to what's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in front of you. And I can do that with
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the best in the world in any sport, male, female,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: whatever you got, And so that's what I'm really I've
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: learned that since Rio and with this pandemic. You know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: we were so ready for Tokyo, but we were kind
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of pissed off and like almost wanting to be done,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but so excited the journey. But you know, when you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: want something too bad, you can suffocate it. And now
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I think the gift of this pandemic is that we're
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: just gonna be grateful and we're gonna go out there
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and press play and be playful. I want to be
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: playfully joyfully dominant. That's like my goal. I want that combination,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and now I think I think that's possible as we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: go into Tokyo.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: What aside from volleyball right now excites you, I.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Mean, growing up, you know. I just I'm really getting connected,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Like I live in my spirituality every single day, and
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I'm just understanding myself more and feeling closer to my creator,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: my children and seeing their you know, souls thrive and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: their minds grow and their curiosities lead them into themselves.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: That's really beautiful. You know. I'm really excited for our
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: world right now, even though I know it's so gnarly
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and there's so much going on. I just I really
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I've lived it. I've lived rock bottom lifting me up,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and I have burnt my house down and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: rebuilt it better. And so I think that's where our
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: world is. That certainly here in America, I believe that's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: where we're at. And I know there's so much, you know,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the toxicity and the negativity is so loud, but I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: look around and I see so much good and so
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: much unity, and that's what's going to lead us forward. Powerfully,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and I want to be part of that light movement.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You know. Gosh, it's like one person who has a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: positive message is like a million times stronger than one
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: hundred people with a negative message, you know. And I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: see so many kind of light workers and healers and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: leaders in the world, and I'm so excited.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: On the day to day front right now.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I mean you had mentioned I think three different practices
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: or something earlier in our conversation, So what does it
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: look like for you now?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just there's always so much opportunity. Like
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I've had so many injuries in my life, and my
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: mum always just saidkay, there's opportunity here. There's opportunities Dad,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: tools to your toolkits. So we take it one day
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: at a time. We have like things planned like three
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: weeks out where our kids could get excited about, and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that kind of takes the pressure off of the pressure
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of the moment. You know, there's always something to look
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: forward to. But the day to day is it's really basic.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: You know. For me personally, I start every day with mindfulness.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I sit in meditation for fifteen minutes, I do my
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: gratitude journal, and I write my thoughts. You know, writing
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: makes me smarter and it holds me accountable and I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: can kind of flush out my thoughts and where I'm at.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You know. The family wakes up around six thirty and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: we have a rad breakfast together. You know, it's really fun.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: The kids are always so alive and awake and happy
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in the mornings. And then usually between nine and three,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like my husband and I, Casey and I are doing
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the business. You know that we ran that we run
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: P fourteen forty. We're training, we're training with our kids.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: We're playing one on one in the backyard. But we're
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: doing mostly you know, business stuff between those times and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: after that, it's just a free for all with our family.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: This is such a great time because it's like we're
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: in a fish bowl with our family and our kids
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and their little mirrors like I when I'm messing up
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: or when I'm being too casual with my you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: my snacks that I reach for if I'm eting too
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: much junk, or if I'm on my phone too much,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: or if I'm grumpy, like I get immediate feedback on
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: their little faces and it makes me better, you know.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And this is such a time where our kids are
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: looking to us for leadership and guidance, and that's really
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: inspiring to me. You know, it makes me better, It
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: makes me more thoughtful because the best leaders in my
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: life it's like Mike Truvak. He doesn't tell me how
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to do it. He guides me as I figure out
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: my way, you know, and he leads by example. And
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I want to be that way for my children, with
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: my husband, and certainly for the world.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Definitely. And I'm totally with you on the writing things
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: down note. It's like a cornerstone for me of my
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: morning routine. When you think about some of the best
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: advice that you have been offered in your career, what
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: do you think about?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: You know, I just keep coming back to personal accountability.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: To me, personal accountability is the antidote, antidote to chaos,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: you know. And I feel like there's the tendency is
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: just we you know, we're all we're all victimized by
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: life in life to different varying degrees, and you know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and there's so many blessings even when we're in those
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: challenging places. But I just I I keep coming back
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to the fact that if I can show up in
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: my days, show up in every situation and act like
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I chose it. I can therefore master the situation and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: master the moment. And again, I don't want. I don't
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: want anything outside of me to determine my fate or
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: determine to determine my happiness or the way I show up.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And so for me, I'm really working on that, like
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: just to just to focus on what I can control,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you know, and to be the change I believe is
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: necessary and to be to set the tone I think
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: will help the situation. Like Mike GERVEI, at the end
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of every podcast, he's like, finished this sentence. It all
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: comes down to blank and for so long, and I
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: still believe this. I would say love, right, Love is
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: behind everything in my life, even the fear and the doubt.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Love is the bottom line. But to me, I think
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a more powerful thing to do, to say, at least
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: right now for me, is that it all comes down
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: to me. You know, it comes down to me. Like
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I am the leader of my own life. I create
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: my own life, and I really want to encourage people
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and empower people to look at life that way because
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: then literally, man, you are the captain of your own ship.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: I love that well right now?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: You know, if I scroll over to your Instagram, I
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: see a woman that is a volleyball player, a mother.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: She's got two hundred and thirty seven thousand followers and change.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: When you look in the mirror, what is it that
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you see looking back at you?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Oh? Man, well, I'm tempted to not be nice to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: myself right now?
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Good is that the first person to say that I know?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I got I bet everyone says that, you know,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And that's why it's probably a good exercise. There's a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: meditation you do where you literally close your eyes and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you talk yourself in the mirror, and it's really hard
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: for me. So thank you for reminding me that that's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: some work I have to do.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm caring.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. When I look in the mirror, Emily,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I I really see a sincere human that is very
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: much a work in progress. And both sides of that
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: sentence are equally important, because I really want to be
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: grateful and happy and accepting of where I'm at and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: yet always working toward better and happily. So not because
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I feel shame or you know, I'm you know, I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: just because there's always more to be and to do.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And so that's kind of where I'm at in life
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: right now. I really don't look in the mirrors too
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: much anymore, but you know, but I really like the symbol,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: symbol symbolization of a mirror, symbolism. And you know, there's
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: a jeweler I love Me and Roe. They have this
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: beautiful gold disc and it's called the Tibetan Mirror, and
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: so there's just four dots that kind of go on
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a diamond shape and they say, like, when you go
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to heaven, a mirror is going to be placed in
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: front of you, and you're going to have your life
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: played out in front of you. And so we should
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: live our lives in a way that when we do
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: get there, we'd be proud, and you know, and so
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that symbolism. And yeah, when I look
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: at a mirror, I'm grateful and I want to be better.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll close this out here with the question that
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I finish off every episode. Right now, you have an
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: opportunity to give yourself one piece of advice. I'd say
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: during that hurdle moment after the bronze, when you came
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: back and you were just kind of second guessing yourself
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: a lot. You have an opportunity to offer yourself one
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: piece of advice during that difficult time.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: What do you tell yourself?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Man? What a great question. I guess there's two sides
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of it. It's like, one is that failure is part
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of it, it's supposed to be hard. And the other
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: side of it is you can do hard things and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: you'll grow from this. I think that those kind of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: couple phrases would round out how I wish I would
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: have framed it. It took me two years to get there.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: And you know what, you're still showing up and doing
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: hard things.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome, man, it's really cool. I'm like
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I've done I've talked over five thousand kids and coaches
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and parents in the past two months two and a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: half months since all this happened, and like I just
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I always get to the point in the conversation where
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you, guys, you can do hard things, Like
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: you know that about yourself and know that it's like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: it's your spirit that dictates that, and that's that's your essence.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: And so every time I talk to someone like I'm
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: talking to you, Emily, I'm talking to myself. You know, yeah,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and these things are simple, but it doesn't mean they're easy.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And like it's like living a healthy lifestyle. It's simple,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: but it does not make it easy. And that's why
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: it's so important to create great habits, you know, with
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: your sleep routine, with your nutrition routine, with your recovery
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and you're you know, moving every day in your gratitude journal,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: whatever it is. We are our habits and so we
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: might as well what we might as well make those awesome.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your time today, Carrie.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're welcome. Emily, You're rad I really really appreciate it,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and I want to I just want to say thank
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you one more time to my partners at the California.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I'm on board. They are an authentic partner of mine
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: and they really fuel my days and they help fuel
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: this dream. I want that fourth gold medal Emily in Tokyo,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and my partners are a huge part of it. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a rad why ride. I can't
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: wait to see the person I come, you know, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: evolve into to make this dreamer reality.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Please take a moment to leave a quick review by
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: clicking the link with the description to this episode. We
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: all face multiple hurdles in life. I want to hear
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: about yours. Reach out to me at Emily at Hurdle
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: dot us. Connect with the podcast on Instagram and Twitter
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: at Hurdle Podcast. Carrie, how do they keep up with you?
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Give me the details?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, okay at Carrie Lee Walsh on all
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: social channels. I would be honored if every one followed
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: at Platform fourteen forty. That's our company based on body
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: mind and spirit optimization and volleyball, and that's it. And actually,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: if you go to my Instagram account, I gave my
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: phone number to everyone. Emily feel like a crazy woman,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: but it's so cool to see these I'm literally it's
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: so intimate and I'm getting through it, Like I sent
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: someone a happy birthday message today, you know, it was
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: so fun. So they can go to my Instagram account
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and there's a text button and they can connect with
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: me in a more intimate way there. But most importantly
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: it's at Platform fourteen forty. I would appreciate support behind
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: this movement and behind this great sport that I love
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: so much.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I am at Emily a body at Hurdle Podcast. Another
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.