Amber Pierce Career Retrospective: Part 1 — Successful Athletes Podcast 54
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Please be advised: this episode contains discussions about mental health that may be difficult for listeners.
If you are in need of help or support, please contact:
In the US: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — tel:18002738255 In the UK: Samaritans — 116 123
This week, we have a very special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! Before she was a professional cyclist, Amber Pierce was a high-level swimmer aspiring to be an Olympian. However, the physical, emotional, and mental stress of transitioning to college athletics, eventually led to a breaking point. Tune in as Amber shares the first part of her story about motivation, identity, and self-doubt in the world of sports, in this episode of the Successful Athletes Podcast.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, coach Jonathan here. |
| 0:01.6 | This week's episode contains open discussions on sensitive topics, |
| 0:05.4 | including toxic relationships, eating disorders, and suicide. |
| 0:10.1 | We feel these discussions are important to have as they bring awareness to issues rarely |
| 0:14.0 | discussed but often suffered in the world of sport. We encourage everybody to be an ally inside |
| 0:19.5 | and out of our cycling community to everybody around us. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the Success Lathletes podcast presented by trainer road where we interview |
| 0:26.5 | successful athletes to make you a faster cyclist. This week we have a very special episode |
| 0:31.2 | for listeners at the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast. You'll recognize this voice on the other line. |
| 0:35.4 | It's Amber Pierce. How you doing Amber? |
| 0:37.4 | I'm doing great. Thanks for having me Jonathan. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, we've, it's been months now since we have been trying to make this happen. |
| 0:44.7 | But with everything as things are, it's been tricky to be able to pin down a time and prioritize |
| 0:51.1 | this. But you're actually on your own maternity leave right now. |
| 0:54.6 | And it's funny. I was like, Hey, I know you're on leave. |
| 0:57.6 | Don't ask you this because you're on leave. But if you want to, you know, we could absolutely do |
| 1:03.4 | this. We want to do a retrospective of sorts on your career. Like look back |
| 1:08.1 | for people that have listened to the podcast. You had a swimming career that started at a very |
| 1:12.2 | young age when all the way through college at Stanford and then pivot to cycling and then |
| 1:17.7 | you are in the women's world tour and over in Europe and racing at that level. |
| 1:22.0 | And, but there's a lot of stuff to cover. And I feel like if to pardon the meme reference here, |
| 1:27.3 | but people probably are like that guy with like the dots being connected on the board with all |
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