Simone Biles & Laurie Hernandez on Medals, Mental Health and Self-Trust

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In anticipation of the Olympic games, today is a special encore episode of Glennon and Abby’s conversation with Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez. Originally titled: HOW TO SAY NO with Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez. Discover: 1. What we can learn from Simone’s revolutionary decision at the Tokyo Olympics to choose her physical and mental health over the world’s expectations of her. 2. The tiny decisions that helped Laurie practice trusting herself again after surviving a toxic coach. 3. Why Simone, Laurie, and Abby believe their talent is both a blessing and a curse. 4. The places and times Simone and Laurie create where they have nothing to prove—to remind themselves they are human beings, not performance machines. 5. How Simone and Laurie are a big part of one of Abby and Glennon’s favorite family stories. About Simone: Simone Biles, one of the greatest gymnasts of all-time, is the first woman to capture five All-Around World Championship titles. She is the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history—male or female—with 25 medals overall (19 gold), and is a seven-time Olympic medalist (4 gold). A three-time Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year, she earned the rare distinction of having four skills named in her honor—called The Biles. Simone’s autobiography Courage to Soar is a New York Times bestseller. Simone advocates for change and supports initiatives that provide education and assistance for children and young adults associated with adoption and childcare. Instagram: @simonebiles Twitter: @Simone_Biles To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things, and with the Olympics opening ceremonies this Friday, and the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team kicking off!
0:11.0	With their first group stage game tomorrow against Zambia, we are revisiting our
0:16.0	2021 conversation with Simone Biles and Lori Hernandez.
0:21.6	Simone is representing our country again in France and at 27 she will be the
0:27.0	oldest female American gymnast to compete at the Olympics in 72 years.
0:32.1	Did you watch her incredible performance in the Olympic qualifiers
0:37.0	finishing first in the all-around? I mean she's just so good. In this episode we talked to Simone about her revolutionary decision at the
0:46.4	Tokyo Olympics to choose her physical and mental health over the world's expectations of her.
0:53.8	I didn't know you could do that.
0:59.4	I didn't know.
1:01.0	She taught me something in the last go around in the last Olympics.
1:05.3	Thank you so much for that, Simone.
1:07.5	And Lori shared the tiny decisions that helped her practice trusting herself again
1:11.4	after surviving a toxic coach.
1:14.2	Simone Biles and Lori Hernandez are a public revolution
1:19.2	doing the ultimate hard thing,
1:22.3	modeling what it looks like for women to say,
1:26.4	world, I am worth more than what I can do for you.
1:32.2	I am more than your experience of me. I am mine and I will say when enough is enough. I
1:39.2	will abandon the entire world's expectation of me before I will abandon myself. This conversation
1:48.0	had us asking, who do I need to disappoint so that I can finally stop disappointing myself.
1:53.7	And I really loved when Simone said at the end of the day I was worth more than
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