Amanda Beard | Coming of Age in Competitive Sports

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Beard grew up in the spotlight. She graced the Olympic podium by 14, racked up eight USA Swimming national titles and appeared on the covers of numerous sports and lifestyle magazines. But with the glamour and glory came intense media scrutiny that led her to struggle with body dysmorphia, depression and self-harm. On this episode, Amanda shares her coming-of-age story as a young woman in professional sports. She speaks about pressures specific to female athletes and explains why they can be so harmful. Having found confidence and happiness since her early days in the pool, she also tells us how athletes and their support systems can prioritize self-worth and well-being.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Shalaine Flanagan and you're listening to Train, Body and Mind.
0:06.4	Yeah!
0:07.4	Oh hello, welcome to Train, Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic
0:12.3	fitness.
0:13.3	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:15.3	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:20.1	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:22.8	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:25.3	Today, I'm talking with one of the youngest Olympic medalists in the history of US
0:29.7	women who, despite tremendous success, struggled with body image and self-confidence.
0:39.9	I'd look at my body and I would think I was fat and giant and disgusting and if anyone
0:46.0	else looked at me, they'd think I was kuku, right?
0:48.7	Like, are you kidding me?
0:50.4	You work out six hours a day, you're fit.
0:53.5	So it's just having this misperception of what your body is actually looking like and
0:58.6	really kind of being extremely mean to yourself over it.
1:03.9	That's Amanda Beard, looking back on her struggles as a teen.
1:07.5	A lot of girls go through that and boys too.
1:10.8	But not many go through that while racking up eight US national swimming titles and seven
1:15.5	Olympic medals.
1:17.3	Three of those medals, a golden two-silvers, came during Amanda's first Olympics when she
1:22.3	was just 14 years old.
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