365. Catching Up with Tatyana McFadden

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Ali Feller

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

"We spend so much time in our lives comparing ourselves. So my mantra is, life isn’t about what you don’t have. It’s what you do with the gifts you are given."

Tatyana McFadden is one of the most-decorated athletes of all time. She is a 17-time Paralympic medalist (she's been competing at the Games since she was 15!) and 23-time World Marathon Majors winner, and she's currently gearing up for this year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo, where she hopes to compete in every distance from the 100m up to the marathon. On this episode, Tatyana catches us up on all that's happened since the last time she was on the Ali on the Run Show. She talks about her film, Rising Phoenix, which she both helped produce and stars in. She talks about her friendship with Prince Harry, and about being on an episode of Project Runway. And she talks about her ambitious plans for Tokyo this summer, where she will compete in the Paralympics for the sixth consecutive time.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

Tatyana talks about her upcoming race plans (4:45)
How is Prince Harry doing? (6:45)
All about Rising Phoenix (9:00)
Tatyana’s advice for extending longevity in this career (25:30)
Reflecting on life a year ago (33:20)
All about being on Project Runway (41:00)
On Joe Biden including the word “disability” in his victory speech last year (47:20)
How Tatyana trains to be successful at such a range of distances (50:45)
Who does Tatyana look up to? (54:30)
What the qualifying process looks like for the Paralympics (56:00)

What we mention on this episode:

Tatyana McFadden on Episode 115 of the Ali on the Run Show

Rising Phoenix on Netflix

Ya Sama! by Tatyana McFadden

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by the socially distanced
0:04.7	AJC Peach Tree Road Race.
0:07.5	Registration for the limited capacity in-person and virtual events on July 3rd and 4th
0:14.2	ends on Saturday. So go sign up today at AJC.com slash Peach Tree.
0:25.2	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show.
0:27.2	I'm your host Allie Theller and I am very excited to be here today with a bonus episode.
0:32.4	A conversation with one of the most decorated athletes of all time, Tatiana McBadden.
0:38.7	The last time Tatiana was on The Alley on the Run Show was back in January 2019,
0:43.9	episode 115. So we're long overdue for a catch-up. Tatiana McBadden is a 17-time
0:52.0	Paralympic medalist who is gearing up for this year's games and not just in one event.
0:57.5	Not in two events. No, no, no. Tatiana is training to compete in every distance from the 100
1:04.5	meters up to the marathon. The range of this woman is incredible. If you're new to Tatiana's story,
1:12.0	let me give you a little refresher. She was born in Russia with Spina Bifida, a disease that left
1:17.4	her paralyzed from the waist down. She spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage
1:22.3	keeping up with the other kids by crawling on her hands because she didn't have access to a wheelchair.
1:28.2	When she was six years old, Tatiana was adopted by Deborah McBadden, who at the time was the
1:32.9	Commissioner of Disabilities for the Bush Administration and who happened to visit the orphanage
1:38.4	on a business trip. Tatiana moved to the United States, was introduced to sports as a way to get
1:43.5	strong and was competing at the Paralympics by the time she was 15 years old. Her story is
1:50.0	remarkable. I love any opportunity to get to talk with Tatiana or to hear from her. And if you
1:55.3	haven't yet seen her film on Netflix, I urge you to watch Rising Phoenix. We talk about it a lot
2:00.8	on this episode and it is such an important, beautiful, powerful film. So today we are covering
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