EP 232: Natalia Grossman (Olympian) — Her Breakout Success, Overcoming Mental & Physical Hurdles, & What It Takes to Win

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Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Natalia Grossman is a World Champion and 3x overall World Cup winner and will compete for Team USA at the Paris Olympics. We talked about spending time in Mexico as a kid, her breakout year in 2021, dealing with public criticism, working on her mindset, how to win without being the strongest person competing, hard outdoor sends and goals, her happiest moments, her top training advice, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit. My guest
0:07.8	today is Natalia Grossman. Natalia had a breakout year in 2021. She's been incredibly dominant ever
0:14.6	since. She was the 2021 world champion. Since 2021, she's won 10 World Cups. She was the overall winner three years in a row, and now she'll be competing in the Paris Olympics for Team USA. And this episode surprised me. It was really lovely to talk to Natalia and what I didn't know about her before getting to know her in this episode was that she's actually
0:39.1	had a pretty rough time through the last few years. I assumed that after her breakout year,
0:44.9	she was just on fire. Everything was just going great. But it's actually been a challenging
0:49.4	couple of years for her between dealing with public criticism after her initial success and learning
0:55.8	how to deal with that and expectations and working on her mindset with that to some mental
1:01.5	and physical hurdles that she's had to deal with and overcome. So I really appreciated this
1:06.4	conversation and how open she was. It was really lovely to get to know her and to chat with her,
1:11.3	and I hope you all enjoy. Climbing is taking place in the Olympics starting today. This episode
1:17.6	will publish on August 5th, and climbing begins on August 5th and goes through August 10th.
1:23.2	You can find the full schedule at olympics.com. Be sure to tune in and support all these amazing climbers who are representing climbing.
1:30.1	It should be a lot of fun.
1:31.8	And please enjoy Natalia Grossman.
1:49.4	Natalia Grossman, welcome to the show. It's great to have you here.
1:51.6	Thank you for having me.
1:58.1	I thought it would be fun to start with some of the basics and get to know you a bit before we dive further in here.
2:00.5	You're born in Santa Cruz, California? Yeah. Okay, and mom is originally from
2:04.5	Mexico, is that right? Joe and Norma, your parents, Joe and Norma. Yeah. So how did your mom and dad
2:12.0	meet? It sounds like your mom's side of the family is still in Mexico. How did they meet?
2:20.5	Yeah, part of her family's still there.
2:27.5	So my dad's from New York and he went to medical school in Mexico and my mom was working at the school and yeah, they met there and then she like came back to the U.S. with him eventually at some point and they were here
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