Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Dominique Dawes on Olympic Gold and Pursuing Excellence
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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan and Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes talk about the difficulty of striving for an extraordinary goal during a pandemic, how to maintain creative and athletic momentum while staying safe, the most important moments that an athlete experiences, and more.
Dominique Dawes is a retired American gymnast. She is a three-time Olympian and has won medals at the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympic Games. She also won several gold medals in the USA Gymnastics National Championships between 1991 and 1996. Dawes is a member of the International Gymnastics and USA Olympic Halls of Fame.
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| 1:06.9 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Steal Podcast. My guest |
| 1:15.6 | today is someone that I grew up watching on television. I guess the first Olympics I remember |
| 1:22.4 | are the Atlanta Olympics. Then obviously she was also in the Sydney Olympics and the Barcelona |
| 1:27.6 | Olympics, which is, that was only like five years old. So don't quite remember that one. |
| 1:32.2 | But my guest today is Dominique Dawes, otherwise known as Awesome Dawesum. A three time Olympian, |
| 1:38.7 | a world champion, gold medal winner. She is the first African American woman to win an individual |
| 1:46.1 | Olympic medal in gymnastics. And just an incredible athlete. We actually happen to have the same |
| 1:53.2 | speaking agent. That's how we connected. I'm with a company called Vayner Speakers and so is Dominique. |
| 1:58.8 | And so this is an awesome conversation. We were talking about the business that she's open recently. |
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