Simone Manuel | Turning Your Dreams Into Reality

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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel isn’t just making waves in the pool. She’s making waves in bigger conversations around race, mental health and self-empowerment. On this episode, Simone shares how she got into swimming (at the early age of 4, when she swam across the pool during her second lesson), the attitude and actions that help her stay motivated when the future of competitive swimming (and, well, everything) is on hold, and how we can all protect our dreams, even when they seem out of reach or off limits.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trained, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.
0:05.0	I'm Ryan Flairity, the senior director of Performance at Nike.
0:08.0	On every episode, I call up the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset, movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:16.0	All the ways to train your body and mind.
0:19.0	Today, I'm chatting with a gold medalist swimmer who overcame not just the world's top competition, but also decades of racism.
0:26.0	I had to protect myself from those stereotypes and misconceptions or even the negative history of swimming.
0:36.0	And I also had to protect my dream from myself and my own doubts of, is swimming a sport that I can be good at.
0:45.0	And that's really difficult because it's like, well, why don't I just go ahead and do track?
0:49.0	People will like me there. Why don't I go ahead and do basketball? People will like me there.
0:53.0	And so I think it's challenged me in that way where if something is really important to you, like so, so important to you and you love it to your core, then nothing should stand in your way.
1:11.0	That was Simone manual who in 2016 at just 20 years old became the first black woman to win gold in an individual swimming event at the Olympics.
1:20.0	The sport Simone goes on to explain has a difficult history of exclusion and segregation in America where Jim Crow laws and their legacy made it almost impossible for black athletes to compete.
1:31.0	But like Tiger and Golf and Venus and Serena and tennis, Simone is breaking down barriers and swimming with her talent, skill and a force of will.
1:40.0	And like her mentors, she's hoping to inspire a generation of young athletes to follow in her wake.
1:45.0	But my conversation with Simone isn't just about the barrier she's breaking. It's also about how she's breaking them.
1:51.0	We get into how she balances rigorous training with emotional well-being, how she uses self-talk to buoy her confidence.
1:57.0	And above all, how her love for the sport has guided her through every stage of her career.
2:05.0	Hey, Simone.
2:06.0	Hi.
2:07.0	Thank you so much for being here today. It's really nice to meet you.
2:09.0	Nice to meet you.
2:10.0	First off, swimming is one of those sports that's just unique and that most swimmers started a very young age.
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