Nastia Liukin: ...how my life would change after becoming an Olympic gold medalist

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We want to give a very warm welcome to our guest on this episode, Nastia Liukin. Nastia is, of course, an Olympic gymnastics all-around gold medalist, a television commentator, a top competitor on Dancing With The Stars, and the author of the book, Finding My Shine, which is her autobiography. Nastia’s passion these days lies in inspiring others. She's created an app, Grander, which enables young girls to be mentored by their biggest role models. In our conversation with Nastia, we discuss the path from being a little girl in the gym to winning gold at the Olympics, the impact of that on her life, the most defining moment of her career (it's not what you'd think it would be!), her thoughts on body shaming, and how she has overcome self-doubt. Nastia is a true inspiration and this is definitely a must-listen interview! You can learn more about her on her website at http://nastialiukin.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. We want to give a very warm welcome to our guest on this episode, Nostia Lukin. Nostia is, of course, an Olympic gymnastics
0:23.6	all-around gold medalist, a television commentator, a top competitor on Dancing with the Stars,
0:30.0	and the author of the book, Finding My Shine, which is her autobiography. Nostia's passion these days
0:36.2	lies in inspiring others, and we want to hear all about that. Nostia's passion these days lies in inspiring others, and we want to hear
0:39.0	all about that. Nostia, thank you so much for joining us today. We're so, so excited to have you.
0:45.4	Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. Take us back to those early years, because it seems
0:50.8	like you were practically born on the balance beam. You started doing gymnastics at such a young age.
0:56.8	Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right.
0:59.0	Both my parents were actually gymnasts.
1:00.8	My dad competed at the 88 Olympics,
1:02.9	won two golden two silver medal as my mom as a world champion.
1:05.5	And so when I was born, I really did spend a lot of time growing up on the gymnastics floor as opposed to, you know, taking my first step as a baby, I guess, on a living room.
1:18.0	It was really, like, on the gymnastics floor, and then it was on the balance beam.
1:21.7	And for me, it was truly something that I just fell in love with, and I had such a passion for.
1:27.0	And it was never something really wanted me to had such a passion for and it was never
1:27.6	something really wanted me to do because they knew how hard it was but they also saw how much love
1:32.9	and passion that I had for it and they just wanted you know me to know that it was never going to be
1:37.7	forced by them but how difficult was it growing up with parents who had succeeded so much
1:43.5	themselves in that sport?
1:45.4	To be honest, it was actually, I thought of it as an advantage.
1:50.2	I never really thought that it was difficult.
1:52.2	I always thought it was the coolest thing in the world because, you know,
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