This is Undaunted Life a Man's podcast.

I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.

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All right, guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.

His name is Brody Malone.

So he is an Olympic gymnast who represented the United States in the 2020 and the 2024 Olympic Games.

And he was the leader of the team, I guess you could call him the leader, of the bronze medal winning team in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. And so I met him earlier this summer. I was down in Louisiana with the Duck Dynasty crew, and he was actually being interviewed in the interview, him and his father were being interviewed literally right before me. And so I was in there with him and his dad and two of his brothers were there. And so we got to hang out for a couple of days. It was just great getting to see this guy and getting, you know, to hold the bronze medal and all the different things. And just to see how normal of a guy he was and how he's just, you know, polite country boy that, you know, he would literally give you the shirt off his back, and not just so that he could show off his, you know, massive biceps and abs and things like that, but just really,

really a solid guy. And so in this particular interview, which, you know, we've had planned for so long,

it just took us this long to get to it because both of our schedules are insane. But we just talked about

what it was like growing up because he didn't just do gymnastics. He was also doing rodeo and he did baseball. But at the age of 12, he kind of had two

things that happened. One, he decided to pursue gymnastics as opposed to the other two sports,

and also his mother died of cancer. And then if you fast forward to the age of 19, his stepmother

died of a brain aneurysm. And so he talked about the faith that he saw his father show and, you know,

losing his soulmate. And then I guess you could say losing his second soulmate, if that's your chosen ideology or phraseology. But also, like, how did that

develop his faith? How did it show him resilience and the ability to rely on God and his provision?

But then we talked about, okay, what is the track from doing gymnastics to training gymnastics,

to training to be an elite gymnast, to then training to be an elite gymnast to then training

to be an Olympic gymnast and how it's different for the men and the women here in this country

in terms of their tracks in order to end up on the Olympic team. And then, you know, he was a rural

Georgia kid, you know, country boy, but then he ends up going to Stanford and Palo Alto to go to

school and to compete on their

Olympic team, or their men's gymnastics team, rather, and kind of the culture shock that he felt

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