From Pro Skier to Real Estate Powerhouse: Athena Brownson’s Grit, Grace & Battle with Lyme Disease
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful and deeply personal episode of The Mike Litton Experience, former professional skier turned real estate mogul Athena Brownson opens up about her inspiring life journey—from growing up on the snowy peaks of Breckenridge to overcoming debilitating chronic Lyme disease and building a thriving real estate career in Colorado.
Athena shares the shocking truth behind her early retirement from competitive skiing, how resilience shaped her path through physical and emotional adversity, and how mentorship and grit became the keys to her success. She now speaks publicly to raise awareness about Lyme disease, mentors young professionals, and continues to dominate the real estate world—all while battling an invisible illness.
What you’ll get from this episode:
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Raw insight into living with chronic Lyme disease
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Athena’s powerful shift from athlete to entrepreneur
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Life lessons on discipline, mindset, and visualization
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Real estate career tips from a $100M+ producing agent
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The power of mentorship and giving back
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| 0:00.0 | foster connection so that people can help you get through this because you really find out |
| 0:06.5 | who your people are when you're going through difficulty and it's hard that's almost you know |
| 0:12.1 | a period of mourning in itself as just realizing like all of the acquaintances that you |
| 0:18.4 | you know probably were social with quickly go away. |
| 0:23.1 | It screws into your own cell and then creates a biofilm around the cell that makes it |
| 0:29.6 | really difficult to treat because that biofilm is almost impenetrable. |
| 0:36.4 | So it's really been a period of reinvention once again. And making sure that, |
| 0:46.0 | yes, just because I am battling Lyme disease, and I'm getting a lot better, even just the fact that I'm able to do this speak on |
| 0:58.3 | podcasts and be near all this electricity I used to have such a bad sensitivity to electricity it's |
| 1:06.6 | called an electrical magnetic frequency sensitivity from my past that if I wasn't engaged in something |
| 1:13.9 | that I was passionate about and that I really could put my heart into and have impact, |
| 1:21.5 | that I was going to, you know, really go downhill quickly. And I think that makes you sicker. |
| 1:27.2 | So throughout the |
| 1:29.2 | hardest times in this journey, and I mean, I have stories that I could get into that are |
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