Gabby Thomas: Staying on Track
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay is joined by American track and field athlete and Olympic champion Gabby Thomas for a girl-talk chat! Gabby shares how she first got into running, what drew her to study neurobiology and global health at Harvard, and how difficult it was to juggle life as both a full-time student and elite athlete. She opens up about the moment she realized the Olympics were within reach, her training journey to Tokyo, and the mental toll of discovering a tumor on her liver just weeks before the Games. Gabby reflects on the emotional crash that followed the Olympics, how she prepared for Paris 2024, and what training and life look like today. She also talks about her pre-race rituals like breathwork and meditation, the mental health tools that keep her grounded, and what it’s been like navigating public attention, from airport stalkers to fan interactions. Gabby shares advice for young athletes struggling with pressure or burnout, and talks about launching Athlos, a new women’s track league she co-founded to uplift and support female athletes!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.1 | It was an entire investigation. |
| 0:05.7 | I didn't understand how they had my information. |
| 0:08.1 | Thomas says a group of strange men has been following her wherever she travels. |
| 0:12.2 | Stocker like showing up at the airport. |
| 0:14.2 | It happened a couple of times, actually a number of times before I ended up posting about it. |
| 0:18.5 | I was generally scared. |
| 0:20.6 | I was flying home from Chicago. And I remember I had actually changed my flight the evening prior and they were at the airport. And so I was thinking, okay, well, this must be a coincidence. I don't even know how I rationalized that in my head. Yeah. The first time I signed a couple of them when I stopped signing them because I had a flight to catch, you know, they got mad. And then it happened again, same airport. Didn't sign anything. They were very hostile and mad. But what was really strange about that instance, too, was, yeah, they had bought dummy tickets. They bought dummy plane tickets so they could follow us into the boarding area. And then it happened again at the Miami airport. They had tickets. They were at the gate. |
| 0:54.6 | If they're capable of figuring out when and where I'm flying on last minute notice, |
| 0:59.3 | like what else can they figure out? Even if you don't feel like you're in danger, it's just the |
| 1:04.4 | fact that it's the entitlement that people feel like they can put you in that situation. |
| 1:08.1 | So when I made a post about it, I was genuinely looking |
| 1:11.5 | for answers. I was curious to know, like, does anyone know what's going on? How could this be |
| 1:15.8 | happening? Someone working at the airline tipping them off for people to just feel like they're |
| 1:21.0 | entitled to that type of access just because they see you like on the internet or on TV. It's just, |
| 1:27.1 | it's really scary. |
| 1:44.1 | Gabby, welcome to the squeeze. |
| 1:45.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:46.7 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:47.7 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:48.5 | I feel like we've been trying to like get this nailed down for quite some time. |
| 1:52.9 | Oh yeah. |
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