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058 Meryl Davis | Olympics to Classroom

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Andrew East

Business

52K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Check out the full podcasts on my website! http://www.andrewdeast.com/podcast Meryl Davis is an American ice dancer whom many of you likely recognize from the numerous accolades she's accrued over the past 10+ years with her partner Charlie White. Davis and White teamed up in 1997 and they are currently the longest lasting dance team in the United States. They are the 2014 Olympic champions, the 2010 Olympic silver medalists, two-time World champions, and six-time U.S. national champions. (And that's just to name a few). She now attends the University of Michigan, where she is majoring in cultural anthropology, and studying Italian. Meryl is also a part of UNICEF Kid Power as a brand ambassador. It was such a pleasure to sit down with the legend that is, Meryl Davis, to talk about her career. Meryl chats with me about where she's at now and the different re-directions in her life. Tune in to see where the transitions have led her to today. Also be sure to check out Himalaya!!!- the best podcasting app around. Download their app and give me a follow! Connect with Meryl: Instagram: @meryledavis Twitter: @Meryl_Davis Connect with Andrew: Instagram @andrewdeast Twitter @andrewdeast Youtube @AndrewEast Facebook @AndrewDEast

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0:00.0

It's such a big part of success and sport and then kind of going it semi alone is, you're

0:14.3

going rogue a little.

0:16.2

There's a lot of like, what are you doing now?

0:18.7

You know?

0:19.7

I totally get it.

0:21.0

Like, what are you doing to live up to these, these, the Olympics and NFL and all of these

0:26.7

things?

0:28.7

You know, incremental progress and then also I feel like the light turns on you like,

0:32.5

whoa, it is the same, you know?

0:35.5

Hello and welcome back to redirected.

0:37.3

I'm your host Andrew East and this is a show where we sit down with celebrities, athletes,

0:41.9

entrepreneurs, really anybody who has encountered significant unexpected changes in life.

0:48.0

And I think we all take a step back, we can acknowledge that everybody goes through significant

0:51.9

unexpected events in life.

0:53.4

And so I wanted to sit down with these people who have gone through those well in order

0:56.7

to learn something myself and share that wisdom with you.

0:59.8

Today we have a real treat with us.

1:01.0

We sit down and talk with world and Olympic ice dancer and figure skater, Merrill Davis.

1:06.5

And she talks us about how she ultimately transitioned away from her sport that she had spent

1:10.8

her entire life doing and into something else, found her new passions and pursued those

1:16.6

with her whole heart just like she did figure skating.

1:19.5

And I think this is an important episode because every one of us at some point devotes

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