Interview: Tianna Bartoletta, Gold Medalist, Olympian and Author of "Survive & Advance"

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Amira Rose Davis interviews Tianna Bartoletta, track and field Olympian, gold medalist and author of the memoir "Survive & Advance." They talk about Tianna's writing process, the experiences that have impacted her life and career, this year's Olympic trials and how she's wrestling with the 2020/21 Tokyo Olympics. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, flame throwers.
0:11.0	Last year, I had a really dope conversation with Tiana Bartoletta about the work that she was doing as a yogi and organizing track and field athletes around the world.
0:22.5	I have no idea where time has gone. I don't know how it's already been a year, but it has been a busy year for my girl. And so I'm so
0:28.4	thrilled to be back in touch with Tiana because in addition to her three gold medals and her, you know,
0:36.6	multi-time being an Olympian and gearing up for the track trials,
0:40.7	she still has found time to write and drop a memoir that will be coming out today, June 8th, called Survive in Advance.
0:49.5	So, Tiana, welcome back to burn it all down.
0:52.0	I'm so excited to be back.
0:53.8	I want to be a regular guest, honestly.
0:56.3	Oh, let's make that happen.
0:57.8	Absolutely.
0:59.0	So first and foremost, like, I'm writing a book right now.
1:02.9	I don't know how because writing a pandemic has not been cute at all and writing is hard in general.
1:09.3	But I was so thrilled not only to see that your memoir was
1:12.4	dropping, right? But the title, survive in advance is like, yes. Like, I know for me,
1:18.7	it's thinking of resilience and perseverance that is absolutely a mantra, and I know that that
1:22.7	applies so much to your life. And I, you know, want to know everything you want to tell us about the
1:29.7	memoir, about what it's like to have written your story, you know, and the power behind that.
1:35.1	So, yeah, what can you tell us about survive in advance?
1:39.4	Oh, my goodness. You have never lied about what writing in a pandemic is like.
1:45.0	Because on the one hand, you're like, I have all this time.
1:49.0	I'm not going anywhere. I'm not doing anything else.
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