From Paralyzed To Olympic Hopeful in 18 Months | Leanne Taylor
Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast
Taren Gesell
4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Two years ago, Leanne Taylor was on an afternoon hilly bike ride with her boyfriend when a simple braking error changed her life -- she went over her handlebars, breaking her spine and paralyzing her from the belly button down. But with an endlessly positive spirit, Leanne turned potential tragedy into a whole new path in life: she's now in the Canadian Paralympic program and poised to potentially compete in the Tokyo 2021 Paralympics.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK. |
| 0:09.0 | In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love. |
| 0:23.0 | Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science, |
| 0:28.4 | and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident |
| 0:34.1 | and your finish lines strong. |
| 0:36.3 | And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep |
| 0:39.5 | this show fun and accessible for everybody. Let's do it. Today's podcast is brought to you by thefeed.com. |
| 0:45.3 | You love to feed. I enjoy feeding. Fun story about the feed.com. Originally, all of this |
| 0:51.4 | triathlon, Taron podcast, YouTube, website, everything started out as |
| 0:55.8 | a race nutrition as in like your number one most important race. And my idea was that I was |
| 1:02.5 | going to review and give advice on how to use nutrition products. So I was going to try all the |
| 1:08.3 | electrolytes and bars and shoes and gels and then |
| 1:11.8 | give advice on which ones I liked and then how to use them in different scenarios. And in the |
| 1:16.7 | startup process of buying three or four thousand dollars worth of nutrition products, somebody said, |
| 1:23.1 | hey, you know that exists on the feed.com. And I was like, oh, oh, I'm going to do it better. |
| 1:29.8 | Well, I didn't end up doing it better. |
| 1:31.5 | And five months later, I owned $4,000 of gels and chews and bars. |
| 1:35.9 | We had a room full of gels and chews. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.7 | So I was taken care of for a few years. |
| 1:39.8 | That was great. |
| 1:40.7 | But I continued on with doing YouTube videos, which I liked a lot more than selling |
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