AGAINST ALL ODDS - Best Motivational Speech (Featuring Chaunte Lowe)
Motivation Daily by Motiversity
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🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
AGAINST ALL ODDS! When things get tough, know that you can get through anything. Even against all odds. A powerful motivational speech and Exclusive Motiversity interview with four-time Olympian Chaunte Lowe.
We recently had the opportunity to interview Chaunte Lowe on our show The Icons! Chaunte is a 4-time Olympian, Olympic medalist, high jumper, and World Champion. Not only that but she holds the American record for high jump and is a 12 time US National champion.
In the interview, Chaunte shares advice on creating a life without limits, how to be your best self, and how to accept yourself for who you are.
Speaker:
Chaunte Lowe: https://www.chauntelowespeaks.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | To you, to the person who's feeling like there's no hope, that you can't see a way out of your current situation or circumstance. |
| 0:10.0 | I want to say first that I'm sorry that you're going through whatever trial it is that you're going through right now. |
| 0:17.0 | It's not fair and you don't deserve it. |
| 0:21.0 | But there is hope on the other side of this trial. |
| 0:25.0 | I want you to think about those feelings, those times where you felt happiness, |
| 0:29.0 | where you felt joy, where you experienced love in a way that you never thought you'd be able to experience. |
| 0:37.0 | And I want you to hold on to those moments and think about your future and think about having those moments of love, |
| 0:44.0 | joy and laughter and peace again. |
| 0:47.0 | And I want you to know that right now it's just a trial, it's just a test. |
| 0:52.0 | The things that seem to hurt you and make you feel like you can't put one step in front of the other, |
| 0:58.0 | it's just something that's going to happen to make you stronger. |
| 1:02.0 | You don't have to get from how you're feeling right now to immediate joy and laughter, it might take time. |
| 1:10.0 | What all I'm asked me to do is put one foot in front of the other and grasp onto that hope with everything that you have and know that this two shall pass. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm rooting for you. |
| 1:24.0 | When you think about what you want out of life, where you want to make your mark, |
| 1:30.0 | you have to start figuring out who you are. |
| 1:33.0 | And so my first step is always to figure out who you are, where can you be great? |
| 1:39.0 | And when you do that, you have to put the blinders on, don't look at anyone else. |
| 1:43.0 | Because nobody else can tell you how to be you. |
| 1:46.0 | Because I dealt with homelessness and poverty, growing up, domestic violence, growing up in a home with a lot of drug abuse and alcoholism. |
| 1:53.0 | But I had that vision of going to the Olympics and I had that skill of jumping. |
| 1:59.0 | I put those two things together and it was really the thing that pulled me through those difficult times. |
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