This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This Podcast.

Guys, it is such an honor today to have Sydney McLaughlin

Lavroni here. She is as many of you know she has won two Olympic gold medals.

We have enjoyed watching her run since she was 16. She was the

youngest athlete at that time to run track and field in the Olympics. Yeah I

mean my husband said Jenny they're like having to create races for her because like make up races because she keeps

breaking all the world records and where do you go from there so I'm so honored to have you

on and my favorite thing about you Sydney is just how we've all celebrated it as you have just given God so much

glory on your path and so thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me I appreciate it.

I want to talk a little bit about you and just your your mindset right now on the podcast we're talking a lot about emotional health and emotions and I can imagine that you've experienced a lot of emotions that might be even inhabiting or you had to deal with as you run at that level.

What has that been like for you?

Yeah, the book talks a lot about it just in terms of, you know, for so long kind of those emotions consuming who I was in terms of just being afraid of my results being tied to who I was and my identity and you know my value being found in

whether or not I was a winner and whatnot so a lot of fear over the years but you know Christ has been kind and

helping set me free from that and allow me to to walk and in this case run in faith

but those those emotions can yeah definitely in this

emotions can definitely lead to some dark places

if they don't have anything to be rooted in.

Yeah, so the book is called

Running From Fear to Faith.

There must have been, for it to be in the title,

like you, there must have been some significant

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