6 Things Every Retiring Athlete Needs To Hear

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Whether you just graduated, suffered a career-ending injury, got cut, or are simply saying goodbye to the sport you love, this episode from the heart of Former Division I Volleyball Player and PAC-12 Champion, Victoria Garrick, has 6 meaningful pieces of advice that will help guide you towards whatever may be next in life.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:30.0	Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former D.O.N. athlete and mental
0:43.4	health and body am a javikit. Everyone stay, I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly
0:48.4	inspiration and the realest conversations around everything and anything. Now let's get
0:54.2	real. Welcome back to RealPod everybody. I hope you are doing wonderful today and welcome
1:04.8	to any new listeners who are tuning in for the first time. My name is Victoria. I'm a
1:10.2	former D.O.N. athlete and played volleyball at the University of Southern California in
1:14.7	Los Angeles for four years. Graduated in 2019. So I know what it is like to dedicate your
1:20.8	life to sport. I know what it's like to love and enjoy a sport and most importantly for
1:26.4	today's episode, I know what it's like to have to move on from sport or move forward from
1:32.0	sport. And the chances are if you've clicked on this episode, you're an athlete. I'm sure
1:36.5	we do have some people listening who are friends of athletes, siblings of athletes, teammates,
1:42.5	people who love athletes and just want to support them. But today I really want to speak
1:46.8	to you, the athlete, who's having to navigate that next chapter of life and whether you
1:52.8	are graduating and it's just that time or whether you got injured and it was taken from
1:59.2	you, whether you were cut and you didn't have a choice or you're leaving because of your
2:03.7	mental health or family reason or something else. This episode today is for anyone who
2:09.4	has to walk away from sports. I know it can feel terrifying. It feels like you're starting
2:15.0	over and you don't know what's on the other side of the page. If you turn the page, what's
2:19.8	going to be there? What lies ahead? What does this mean? I know that fear because that's
2:24.8	exactly how I felt too. And now that I've spent some time out of college and in the real
2:30.4	world, I've been able to reflect and look back on what the transition was like for me.
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