How to Perform Under Pressure Without Losing Yourself | Chloe Kim

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

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4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim opens up about the mental battles most people never see behind the podium, including competing injured, an ADHD diagnosis that reframed her entire career, and why winning everything still left her searching for peace. You will walk away with a new way of thinking about pressure, self-worth, and what it actually means to show up for yourself.

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0:00.0	I did not give up when I could have.
0:02.0	People were telling me that maybe it wasn't a good idea to do this.
0:05.0	I was not going to let up. Like I wanted to believe in myself and show myself that I could deal with this. I don't know if you can ever truly eliminate self-doubt. I think you can maybe quiet the noise a bit, but the minute something doesn't go your way, that self-doubt's going to come right back. right back. At just 17 years old, she became the youngest woman to win Olympic gold in snowboarding,
0:23.6	establishing herself as one of the most dominant athletes in her sport.
0:27.6	We have the inspiring Chloe Kim in the house.
0:30.6	My dad later on told me that if I didn't make it by the time I was 13 we wouldn't be able to afford it anymore the most
0:38.4	pressure I felt from them was actually as we got closer to my first Olympics I had to have a
0:43.3	sit down with my parents like guys this doesn't feel good really this feels really intense
0:47.8	I am so grateful that I got to go through some really intense moments at such a young
0:53.5	age because now I feel like I can
0:55.7	get through whatever and accomplish whatever I put my mind to.
0:59.7	And what was the greatest lesson you learned from that experience?
1:03.0	I think grit.
1:04.6	Like true grit.
1:08.6	Before I had you on here today, we had another snowboarder on. I don't know if you know Amy Purdy. Love Amy. And she was just singing your praises saying how much she loves you. I love her to death. And I was like, Amy, if you could ask her one question, you know, about Chloe, what would it be? And she goes, how does she perform under pressure and just look so free? And that was one of the things she was asking about, like, how does she look so free at the highest stages in the world? And I'm curious, how do you perform under pressure and make it look so egregious? Wait, I just made a face when you said that because I feel like I feel the same way about her. Really? Yeah. So I feel like the call is coming from within Amy.
1:48.9	No, Amy's amazing.
1:50.5	She's such an inspiration.
1:51.7	She has such an incredible story and everything she's done for her sport.
1:56.6	It's been like so cool.
1:58.8	Yeah.
1:59.1	And she's so cool.
2:00.1	Yeah.
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