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How To Find Meaning & Purpose After Sports: Real Talk With Two Division I Athletes

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Health & Fitness, So Much To Say, Athlete, Taylor Swift, Perfectionist, Eating Disorder, Friendship, Self Help, Self-improvement, Self Care, Athletes, Mental Health, Overcoming Eating Disorders, Body Neutrality, Sports, Education, Body Image, Recovery, Perfectionism, Real Talk

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Many athletes struggle to find their identity after their sport ends. On this episode of Real Pod, former USC and Pitt Quarterback, Max Browne, joins host and former USC Volleyball Player, Victoria Garrick, to discuss meaning and purpose. How do I transfer my passion from the game to passion for a job? How do I manage the new changes in my body and appetite? Where do you find motivation if you don't have a coach or team to hold you accountable? How do I discover what my new path in life is going to be? Victoria and Max dive into all of these questions and so much more.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:02.8

I don't think move on is realistic, especially when you're talking about something that is so close

0:08.0

to your heart in such a big part of your identity and your purpose. Like decades of sport.

0:12.1

Exactly. Like I'm never moving on from my experiences in football. That is never, ever, ever happening.

0:17.8

Like those are rooted deep in my heart, in my gut, in my fabric, how I'm wired, how I'm made.

0:23.7

But I move forward with those lessons, with maybe those heart breaks, with those shortcomings,

0:28.7

with the great times, the high school memories, the best friends, all that stuff.

0:33.0

You move forward with those lessons and you keep stacking, stacking those experiences.

0:42.9

Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former D.O.N. athlete and mental health

0:48.5

and body amazh advocate. Everyone say I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly inspiration,

0:54.3

and the realest conversation around everything and anything. Now let's get real.

1:04.7

Welcome back to RealPod everybody. How's it going? I am excited for today's conversation.

1:10.9

The theme for this episode just came on a whim one night. I will save that story for the episode

1:18.1

because I will explain it in like five minutes. But basically I just had this moment and I thought,

1:23.2

wow, this is such an interesting thing. You know, moving on from sports, something we spent so many

1:29.9

years of our life doing, how do we move on? How do we handle these emotions? And I just wanted to

1:36.4

have a conversation about that and you know, I don't know all the answers, Max doesn't know all the

1:41.1

answers. That's my, I guess we can call him my guest, but maybe more like my co-host today. My

1:46.1

boyfriend, Max Brown, is back on the podcast. He's been on a few times actually. You can listen to his

1:52.8

whole football story. It's called the Max Brown interview. And he is here today to just have

1:59.1

this conversation with me. Max has great thoughts, opinions, perspective. He's had such a different

2:05.0

experience than me as well. So I thought that those things together would make for a good conversation.

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