S2E214 How to Get Back on Your Horse with Anna Buffini
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Anna Buffini has been pursuing her dream of becoming an Olympian since she was a little girl. In this episode, she describes the discipline, dedication and sacrifice it takes to become a champion and shares the principles that help her to overcome disappointment and adversity.
YOU WILL LEARN:
- What she does to compete at the highest level.
- How she handles pressure and setbacks.
- How her faith helps and guides her.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“The Hiding Place,” by Corrie Ten Boom
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“You have to be consistent, and that consistency creates habits that create success.” – Anna Buffini
“You have to have a why; you have to have a goal.” – Anna Buffini
“You need to realize that this too shall pass.” – Anna Buffini
“You can't give up when failures hit, you have to keep moving forward.” – Anna Buffini
“You're not going to be a high achiever without being mentally tough.” – Anna Buffini
“You can't find your identity in what you do. You have to find your identity in whose you are.” – Anna Buffini
“There's such a power in hope. You can't take for granted that we have the opportunity to hope and to dream.” – Anna Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:07.7 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:20.7 | You know, I always start the show when I have an interview and I'll say, |
| 0:23.7 | oh, a very special guest for you today. |
| 0:25.8 | But I have a really extra special guest for you today. |
| 0:28.6 | She's my own daughter, Anna Befini. |
| 0:30.8 | Many of you follow Anna on her Instagram and so on and forth. You know she's a professional |
| 0:36.4 | equestrian. But for those of you who don't know and I certainly don't want to presume everybody |
| 0:40.4 | knows everything about my family, give you a little background. |
| 0:43.4 | Anna's been an athlete like her mom her whole life. She was a gymnast at a very young age and |
| 0:49.4 | won actually a National Championship as a gymnast, won a California state championship and she got into horse riding about 20 years ago very young kid and 10 years ago she was actually the young rider national Champion and also won the North American Young Rider team competition with a team from section 7. I remember having a section 7 hat on that was reminded me where I was from. Two years later she was the under 25 |
| 1:17.7 | US Grand Prix National Champion and she was the reserve champion which in horseology they use these terms reserve champion. |
| 1:25.0 | It means she finished first and second, which has never been done before or since. |
| 1:29.0 | And she kept moving along in her career. |
| 1:32.0 | And so by 2019 she was the reserve under 25 |
| 1:36.4 | National Champion again and by 2022 she had turned pro and now she's competing |
| 1:42.1 | against other professionals from all over the world and she managed to make it to the World Cup final in Aiken in Germany which is kind of like the masters of horse riding a fantastic place in Aukin, just a remarkable competition and she went out there on |
| 1:57.9 | her lonesome during the COVID years and a year later she was a finalist in the World Cup and the World Cup is just like what it sounds. |
| 2:07.3 | This time it was actually held in the States and she was a finalist and finished in six |
| 2:11.2 | place which was let's just say that was better than what |
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