You are listening to The Heart and Hustle Podcast. We are your host, Evie McLeod and Lindsay Roman. Welcome

back to the show, my friend. Today is such a fun episode. We have a unique guest on the show,

one that is in a little bit different niche of life than I guess who we normally have on the show.

But we got to welcome the incredible Samantha Peschick to the show. Now, she is a former silver medalist from the 2008 Women's Olympic Gymnastic team.

She's a female entrepreneur, a sports broadcaster, motivational speaker, and women's

mental health advocate.

16 years after her Olympic performance, Samantha returned as the women's gymnastic analyst

for NBC primetime for the 2024 Paris Olympics,

imparting her firsthand experience and knowledge of the sport throughout the games.

Now, outside of her career in sports broadcasting, she's the founder of Beam Queen,

the premier clinic dedicated to empowering gymnasts through the power of confidence on the beam.

And with over two decades of experience in gymnastics, Samantha's mission is simple to help

gymnast accomplish their goals on and off the beam. Yes, and that is the perfect segue to what

we talked about with Samantha today. So she kind of talked to us about both her journey and

experience as an Olympian from a young age through, you know, what her Olympic experience was like.

So much cool backstory there that you just, you got to know because it's so cool.

But also what she has learned through the years, both as a Olympian, as a, you know, a gymnast

and as a coach of how sports tie in so well with just life lessons and what you can learn from sports,

what it's like to transition from, you know, an Olympian to an entrepreneur, her journey there,

the mindsets that she sees consistently being taught at her boot camps to, you know, these

athletes that also apply to just life, to entrepreneurs,

to business, and how all of those tie in. There were so many conversations or like, you know,

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