What's up folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak. And what you can do to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

An amazing episode this week. We've got Scout Bassett, Paralympic Track athlete, and member of the

Woop Women's Performance Collective on the podcast. She's joined by Jeremy Powers, our sports

marketing manager of endurance sports. Scout grew up in an orphanage in China following the loss of her right leg and a chemical fire when she was a newborn.

She was adopted and moved to the U.S. going on to graduate from UCLA, first starting in triathlon and then moving to track and field,

though she nearly quit in the sport in which she's now the American record holder.

It's a powerful and honest conversation really underscores that success doesn't come easy.

And there are many struggles and challenges along the way.

Scout discusses how she got started in sports, how she overcame her sense of otherness, the power of therapy and how it got her through the darkest moments of her life, the importance of asking for help and putting pride aside, living out of her car when she was pursuing professional sports, navigating feelings of failure, especially on the public stage and

using that as fuel, taking risk and embracing failure as the true differentiators for greatness,

what it's like to be a woman and a disabled athlete in pro sports, and what she's learned

from her whoop data, including a powerful story about whoOOP helping her realize that she had COVID-19.

It's a story we've heard before.

Very powerful conversation.

And Scouts very, very honest.

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Without further ado, here is Scout Bassett and Jeremy Powers.

Thanks, Will.

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