Chaunté Lowe: ...the power of positivity in making a comeback

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our guest on this episode is an inspiration to people around the world. She is four-time Olympic high jumper Chaunte Lowe.

Chaunte brought home a bronze medal in 2008 and has held the American record for the women’s high jump both indoor and outdoor. She was in training for a fifth Olympic appearance as she coped with breast cancer, chemotherapy, and a mastectomy. She rallied after those treatments, only to get Covid-19 along with the rest of her family.

Her website is chauntelowespeaks.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.5	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.7	We are so thrilled and honored to welcome our guest on this episode,
0:19.5	who's an inspiration to people around the
0:21.7	world. She is four-time Olympic high jumper, Shantay Lowe. Chanty brought home a bronze medal in 2008
0:28.8	and has held the American record for the women's high jump, both indoor and outdoor. She was in
0:34.3	training for a fifth Olympic appearance as she coped with breast cancer, chemotherapy, and a mastectomy.
0:40.9	She rallied after those treatments only to get COVID-19 along with the rest of her family.
0:46.5	Chanty, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:49.2	Thank you for having me.
0:51.0	At what point did you realize that you weren't going to be making it to the Olympics in
0:56.2	Tokyo? I think it was up to the very last minute. I tried my hardest. I trained. I put in extra
1:02.9	sessions, but like the lung capacity and just like filling little things in my heart made it
1:09.2	pretty obvious that I wasn't going to be able to try again.
1:11.5	Even before all of this, you'd already gone to the Olympics four times. So why did you decide you
1:16.4	wanted to go again even before that breast cancer diagnosis? Yeah. So actually it was the breast
1:21.1	cancer diagnosis that made me want to go a fifth time. I was done per se after the 2016 Olympics, but I kept training just in case I got
1:31.3	that itch and I would be within striking distance of being able to come and compete. And then when I
1:36.1	got that breast cancer diagnosis, I became painfully aware of all the women that were diagnosed
1:42.6	with breast cancer. It's one in eight women should be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
1:47.3	And I was like, oh my gosh, I didn't know this.
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