BEST OF: Shawn Johnson on Get Real in 2019

Get Real with Caroline Hobby

Nashville Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Enjoy this best of episode of Get Real from 2019 with Shawn Johnson!

Shawn Johnson started pursing her dream of gymnastics at 12 years old. At the age of 16, she took home the gold medal at the Olympics. She explains how mental training and visualization was just as important as physical training for her big win. We talk about how she was lost after winning the highest award in her sport plus how it felt to win Dancing with the Stars and why she decided to walk away from the Olympics for a second time just a week before tryouts. We also talk about our pregnancy’s, fears of motherhood and heartbreak of miscarriage.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.1	So what happened to Chappaquittic?
0:07.2	Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
0:09.2	There are many versions of what happened in 1969
0:11.7	when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond.
0:15.2	And left a woman behind to drown.
0:18.7	Chappaquittic is a story of a tragic death
0:20.7	and how the Kennedy machine took control.
0:23.4	Every week, we go behind the headlines
0:25.1	and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
0:28.3	Listen to United States of Kennedys
0:30.1	on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
0:32.6	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:37.8	I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that
0:45.4	meant.
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0:56.1	secret life of abuse. But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to the Turning River Road on the
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