Kathryn Plummer: The Nation's #1 College Volleyball Player Talks Pressure, Mental Health, & Stanford's "Secret Sauce"

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kathryn Plummer is a former Stanford volleyball player, where she earned three NCAA championship titles and was named the NCAA player of the year two years in a row. On top of her collegiate accolades, Kathryn is the only player in history to win FIVB World Championship medals in both indoor and beach volleyball. Kathryn dishes on the "secret sauce" that was the key to her and the team's success at Stanford, as well as getting personal about the pressure she faced and how she managed to succeed despite the rigorous academic and athletic lifestyle as a Stanford athlete. Kathryn also talks about finding her identity off the court, how she learned to ask for help, and what it's like to be the best college volleyball player in the nation. You've never heard Kathryn as real or raw as she is during this interview!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:03.1	Hi, I'm Caroline Stambury and I am divorced not dead.
0:07.4	Fresh off the back of my divorce, I'm bringing real stories, real life, real talk on all things
0:12.4	that aren't said. Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves for the happily ever after?
0:17.0	Does our love story really have to be one great lengthy novel or can we be happy with a book
0:22.2	of short but exciting love stories? I guess we'll find out on divorce not dead and lucky me,
0:27.4	you'll be joining me for the journey, so buckle up.
0:35.5	I always try to like spend pressure in a positive way, so I always say like if you don't feel
0:39.6	pressure you're not doing something right, but I think like pressure and expected to be
0:43.4	two different things. It's like I'm totally fine with feeling pressure and like feeling nervous,
0:48.0	but then expectations are like people wanting you to do well, but it's also like if you don't do well,
0:54.8	then like there's something wrong with you and it's honest to say like a standard we put on
0:58.1	yourself is what someone else puts on you and so that was tough.
1:06.2	Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former Dio and athlete and mental
1:11.6	health and body image advocate. Every Wednesday I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly inspiration
1:17.6	and the realest conversations around everything and anything. Now let's get real.
1:29.0	Welcome back to RealPod. I hope you are just as excited as I am for two days guest, the legend
1:36.3	herself Catherine Plummer. Known to her homies as Plum Dog. She's here today to talk about so many
1:44.7	things. This was a really fun one for me because I had played against Catherine for three years
1:50.1	in the pack 12 and of course I knew her as an iconic outside hitter for the Stanford women's volleyball
1:56.1	team, but I never got to speak with her or get to know her and so today I get to pick her brain and
2:01.2	hear all about her, her life, the team and volleyball. For those of you who don't know Catherine,
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