Finding Your Why with Jordan Chiles
Baby, this is Keke Palmer
Wondery
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Olympian and world champ Jordan Chiles flips the script in an empowering and playful convo with Keke. She opens up about how she found her voice and released her trauma through her memoir 'I’m That Girl'. They talk sisterhood with Simone Biles, body image, dating, family, and yes, a little Red Lobster. From gold medals to glow-ups, Jordan proves she’s that girl through strength, joy, and unshakable self-belief.
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, I am so honored to sit down with two-time Olympian, world champion, and all-around |
| 0:10.9 | force of nature, Jordan Childs. |
| 0:13.3 | This conversation right here is about what it takes to fight for your place and your peace. |
| 0:18.3 | We're talking about everything, what it felt like to have an Olympic gold |
| 0:21.0 | medal given and then taken, the racist backlash she survived, and how she found her voice |
| 0:26.1 | again. In her memoir, I'm That Girl. Jordan doesn't hold back. This is bigger than gymnastics. |
| 0:31.3 | It's about the emotional toil of injustice, the power of sisterhood, the courage to keep showing |
| 0:36.5 | up, and the beauty of family |
| 0:38.1 | saying, I'm enough through joy, grief, love, and legacy. Jordan is teaching us at all. |
| 0:44.1 | Strength doesn't always look like gold. |
| 0:47.1 | No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, popo, Amazon music, sit back and listen. |
| 0:52.0 | Life, love, sex, science, covering it all. |
| 0:56.1 | Especially the backers' money always involved. |
| 0:58.3 | No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense. |
| 1:00.6 | Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and kids. |
| 1:05.5 | So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only one gets to go. You know it's your girls. |
| 1:05.5 | Baby, this is, this is Kiki. |
| 1:09.9 | Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah. |
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