Hello, everyone and welcome to the Evolve with Emily Show. I'm your host, Emily Hayden,

and today I'm really excited to have a guest here in the studio with me. He is a first form elite athlete. He is a gymnast and all around badass. You cannot leave his Instagram without a smile on your face and some inspiration in your heart. Everybody please welcome. Stacey Irvin to the show. Welcome. Thank you, Emily. Thank you for having me on here. I'm seriously so excited because I love having my first form fam with me and to have you in Houston is amazing.

Honestly, it's like every time we've had a conversation, it's something that is worthy of having recorded.

Literally like at dinner, the last athlete weekend, we were like, dang it, this should be recorded right now.

They were like, well well that's okay let's

actually get in the studio and press record exactly all right um let's give them a little background

for people that haven't discovered you yet tell me a little bit about stacey before first form

what did you do tell me a little bit about your gymnast background yeah i've done quite a few things

um by back strong as part of my background would be gymnastics right like I did gymnastics since the age of six

So you know people ask me how long I've done it and I would say since I was six so that would be about

22 years. That's wild and although I don't do it competitively anymore, like I still keep up with some aspects of it.

And so I'm going to just keep adding that time up, you know.

Of course.

So through gymnastics was able to go to the University of Michigan.

I was on the junior national team ahead of college,

had some international assignments, competitions in Europe, went to the Great Britain National

Training Center for a competition. During that competition, I'm like 15 years old at that time,

but we're competing against future Olympians and future teammates and collegiate competitors and just a really great experience.

But junior national team through gymnastics, senior national team during my college years, one back-to-back national championships and Big Ten Conference championships with my team.

That was incredible experience. That's something you just can't forget. back-to-back national championships and big 10 conference championships with my team that was

incredible experience that's something you just you can't forget like ever teams actually at

NCAAs this weekend they have day two tonight so they have a strong chance of winning I went to

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