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CHEERS! with Avery Woods

gold medals & motherhood | shawn johnson east

CHEERS! with Avery Woods

Avery Woods

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

3.93.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Shawn Johnson East joins Avery for one of the most open, honest, and fun conversations yet. The Olympic gold medalist opens up about growing up in Des Moines with a coach who changed everything, what it really felt like to walk into the Beijing Olympics at 16, and the identity crisis that followed retiring from the sport she built her whole life around.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Avery. Welcome to Cheers.

0:21.3

Hi, Sean.

0:22.3

Hi.

0:22.7

How are you? Great. How are you? I'm so good. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. I have a confession to make. Please make it. You just met my summer intern. Yes. She was a gymnast her entire life. I actually wondered. Yeah. I saw her walking down the street past us because we were like crevishly parked in our car.

0:38.7

Uh-huh.

0:39.2

And I had a mental thought.

0:40.2

I was like, she looks like a gymnast.

0:41.3

So she's captain of USC cheer. Oh my. Oh my gosh. She's in USC business school. Wow. She's very responsible. She's such a good kid. I've known her since she was very young. And she is part of our, basically part of our family and so this summer she's like I'm looking for

0:55.5

an internship and I said come on and I said you know I'm having Sean on the podcast this week she's like

1:00.9

John Johnson I said yeah and she's like can I come I said yeah so we'll have to get a picture together

1:07.4

yes yes yes so she looks up to you a lot and I I mean it's so funny because when I think about you, I remember watching you on the Olympics when you were 16. Yeah. Which is insane to think about, like, as a mom. Yeah. Like, I have a seven-year-old, but I think about if he was 16 competing in the Olympics, I would be freaked out. And I also remember you from Secret Life

1:30.5

of the American Teenagers. Of course. Yeah, because that is one of the most iconic scenes in

1:35.9

television history. I hope you know. Yeah. I think I single-handedly like opened up my acting

1:41.3

career in one day and then burnt it to the ground oh no oh come on

1:46.2

not that i will ever act again in my life because it was the it was a not a horrible experience

1:51.2

it was really fun but like that is so bad no but i and it won't die no it won't die we were

1:57.4

going to make you do a tic-tock sound to it And also, you look the same. Oh. You haven't aged a day. Thank you. I want all your beauty tips. Thanks. Yeah, it's true. You know, the talks. Yeah, the top, bow talk. Oh, I'm frozen right now. Yeah. Yeah, I have no movement in my face, but it's fine. Okay, tell me about your drink, because we got you, your iced coffee. Yes. I make every single morning, my husband makes it for me an iced oat milk latte with honey and cinnamon. So you do your own at home. I'm the same. I do. It's hard for me to go to coffee shops. Do you feel the same? I'm so attached attached like my coffee so I'm very excited for this

2:34.8

thank you so okay well cheers let's cheers it up this is from the local coffee shop next door

2:40.1

the fact we have a coffee shop next door is great oh that's that's delicious that is really good

2:45.5

so I do brown sugar honey sea salt oh yeah is my latte delicious and I love it I watched um I don't mean to my latte. Delicious. And I love it.

2:51.0

I watched, I don't mean to talk trash about Kylie Jenner. I love her, but like I watched her video of her making her ice latte at home. And I said, what the fuck? It was the most watered down ice coffee. I said, I've got to make her a video. And like, it was like creamer and then the banana syrup and then I saw someone like collab it.

3:09.6

Yeah.

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