I felt like super world. I felt like nothing can stop me. I came to this new school. I was doing good. I was in the gym every day. I lost the way all my times were up. My heights were up. We had really good coaches and great

facilities there. So I was just on top of the world. Grades were great and then I felt the sharp pain in my back and I remember falling to the ground and looking around like, oh my goodness, what happened? You know, I thought I got shot and out of nowhere is a stress fracture. So with stress fractures, you don't know how they happen they just happen over time and when I

found out I had a stress fracture my coach said koi I'm sorry you can't run with that you

literally have to stay off your feet and I was just like,

what do you mean? I just got good. I just figured things out. I feel good at this school. I'm not

bullied like I was a team captain I was just like no so I feel like everything that I work for and all the progress that I had made had been taken away from me. Hey there's Light Watkins, I'm the host of at the end of the tunnel, and if this happens to be your first time listening to this show,

here's what you're in for.

I interview luminaries, artists, philanthropists, athletes, creatives, basically anyone

who's gone above and beyond to be the change that they want to see in the world.

Sometimes they start movements or they create films or they write books that inspire people.

And in the case of this week's guest, she created a thriving platform called Get Loved Up, which consists

of her bustling social media channels, her YouTube channel, books, and a podcast of the same name.

She is Koya Webb, and Koya grew up in a small town

in Tennessee with dreams of becoming an Olympian athlete in track and field.

She became a student of the learning process pretty early on

after proving to herself that if she put in the work she could do pretty much anything she

said her mind to and Koya ended up getting a track scholarship to college,

only to have a freak lower back injury a year later that caused her to have to drop out of competition

for a while. That was when she discovered the power of

yoga and breath work and then she returned a year later stronger than ever.

Then she took one of the biggest leaps of faith in her track career by cold calling a track coach in

San Diego to convince him to train her for the Olympics.

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