Welcome back, everyone at the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest. We have the inspirational Lindsay Vaughn in the house. I'm so excited to you here. I was telling you before, it's always great having the greatest of all time in their field. And you're the greatest downhill skier of all time. And it's exciting to have you here. We have some mutual friends, which I'll share more afterwards, but I'm excited to learn

about your mindset because it's always fascinating to me the way people think who get to the top.

And as a former professional football player and USA handball player, I was never at your level.

I never made the Olympics. But I was able to...

You're still professional, so... But I was able to train hard, and I was able to get to a certain level, but not to the level you're at, which is inspiring. So I'm curious. I'm always curious about the most influential person in your life growing up, because I think that has a big influence in our life. So who was the most influential person? And what was the greatest lesson they taught you. Well, I mean, the person that really inspired me was Peekaboo Street because she was like the only person that we had really in skiing at that time that was like, you know, really in the spotlight. And I met her in an autograph signing in Minnesota. You were 10, right? Nine. And so like as soon as I met her, I was like, that's what I want to be. Really? Yeah, because, I mean, I skied for fun before that.

I mean, I trained and I met her, I was like, that's what I want to be. Really?

Yeah, because, I mean, I skied for fun before that.

And, I mean, I trained and all this stuff.

And I loved ski racing.

But I never really had a concrete goal until I saw her.

And then, you know, it was suddenly an attainable goal.

And then, you know, I ended up being on the Olympic team with her in 2002. And she said,

the only thing that she didn't say much to me, because I mean, I kind of followed her,

like her shadow. And she was probably pretty annoyed because I was, you know, 16. But she said,

you know, I asked her when she was inspecting. I said, what are you looking at? And she said, I'm trying to find the fall line. I said, well, where is the fall line? She's like, you have to figure that out yourself. It's like an instinctual thing. Um, and so I always thought about that and, um, it stuck with me, but yeah. You mean when you're inspecting the course? Like you always look at the course and you find your line, right?

And, you know, I'm just like, what are you? You know, I just want to pick her brain because she, you know, she was my idol. I'm like, what are you doing? She wouldn't really teach you that, though. She was kind of like. She didn't really want to teach me that. But I like, you know, try to force it out of her, but it was a good piece of information nonetheless.

When was the first time you beat her?

I actually don't think I did because, oh, no, I might have beaten her in some of the World Cups that year, but she retired after the 2002 Olympics. So I didn't really get a chance to race against her very much. She went out on top, at least, top of her game, I guess. Yeah, definitely above me. Right. Yeah. And she was like, this girl's coming from me, so I might as well get out while I can. Yeah, I mean, she had, it had similar to me. She had a lot of injuries, and she was kind of the same thing, like, beaten, beaten up, so. Right. What do you think made you such an instinctual dominant athlete?

Where did the mindset come from like needing to or the desire to win all the time at the highest level?

I know, I'm a really competitive person.

And I'm always kind of like, I'm like a perpetual one-upper.

Yeah.

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