The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

I used to care so much about portraying a perfect life and acting like everything was okay

when really things were far from it.

I was secretly battling anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder.

So it was a lot.

I'm Victoria Garrick, former Division I athlete, mental health advocate, and host of

RealPod. Every Wednesday, I sit down with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more to talk about

the inner thoughts and feelings that we're all struggling with. So leave the filters and face tunes at the

door and join me on RealPod.

Thank you. join me on RealPod. Hi, I'm Maddie Orlando, and this is my sister, Lauren.

Hi.

We have an eight-year age gap.

So we don't always agree on everything, but at least we have different perspectives.

On this podcast, we discuss basically anything you would talk about with your own sister.

So, welcome to our fam.

Hi, guys, I'm Maddie. And I'm Lauren. And welcome or welcome back to the sister diary. As you can hear, I guess, we don't have an interesting intro. We don't have a new intro. We don't have an exciting intro. You know what? I would love to say that this is something that we're working on. But we haven't worked on it at all. We got to start working on it. We really have done zero work. We made a big promise last week, I think, that we would have a

very exciting intro and we failed to deliver. But maybe in the future, maybe if any of you guys

actually have some ideas, how we can switch up the intro, that would be awesome. Yes, we need to hear

them. So please DM us at the sister diary. Let us know what you think.

For this week's episode, we talked to Taylor Lindsay Newell, who had such an incredible story to share.

She was a competitive gymnast planning to go to the 2012 Olympics, but she was involved in an accident and ended up being paralyzed from the neck down. So she's a quadriplegic.

Yeah. So we met Taylor through our dad. As some of you may know, our dad's a lawyer. So he actually

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