Vicki Golden, Nitro Circus Freestyle Motocross Athlete
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Vicki Golden, a professional freestyle motocross rider and four-time X Games gold medalist.
Vicki is the first female member of the SoCal freestyle motocross team Metal Mulisha and also performs in Travis Pastrana's Nitro Circus Tour.
In 2008, at age 16, she became the Loretta Lynn's AMA Women's Amateur Champion.
Three years later, she earned her first gold medal at the Women's Moto X Racing in the Summer X Games and collected her second and third gold medals in 2012.
In addition to becoming the first female competitor in a Moto X freestyle competition, (which resulted in a bronze medal win in the best whip category in 2012), Vicki was nominated for the ESPY's Best Female Action Sports Athlete award in 2014.
In March of this year, Vicki laid it down again in Auckland, New Zealand when she landed her first ever FMX backflip off the 15-foot Next Level ramp, ranking her as the only woman who has flipped one of the largest FMX ramps in the world.
I had the fortune of speaking with Vicki only a few days before she performed a record-breaking stunt on HISTORY's Evel Live 2 where she sped through a series of flaming wooden boards.
She was the first female to break the record which was set back in 2006.
You’ll get a chance to hear how Vicki prepared for this stunt and what was going through her mind in the days leading up to it.
I’ve always had a deep appreciation for those who perform in the world of extreme sports, pushing at the edges of their capacity, where there are real consequences when things go wrong.
We touch on that in this conversation as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Once you get that feeling of risking it all and you know what could go wrong or it has gone wrong before, |
| 0:08.0 | so you know the consequences, you've felt the consequences, but you still go for it and you when you actually get to |
| 0:16.0 | reap the benefits and feel the feeling then that's what makes it all worth it. |
| 0:30.0 | All right, welcome back or welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training a Sport and Performance Psychologist, |
| 0:37.0 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:40.7 | And the whole idea behind these conversations |
| 0:42.4 | is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery. |
| 0:46.5 | And what does that mean? What are we going to try to learn? |
| 0:49.0 | We're going to try to understand their psychological framework. |
| 0:52.0 | We're going to try to dig to understand what they're really searching for and how they make sense of the world around them in conjunction with that mission, their search. |
| 1:00.0 | And we also want to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:05.0 | I am really excited to announce that this year, Finding Mastery is releasing our first ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes. Having spent decades... first ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:12.6 | Yes. |
| 1:14.2 | Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people |
| 1:18.0 | on the planet, I know the high-performer types in your life |
| 1:21.1 | can be a little tricky to buy for. Their standards |
| 1:24.2 | tend to be really high, they rarely settle. We all know the drill here and that's |
| 1:29.2 | why we put together a list of some of our favorite products that have been utilized by many of the |
| 1:33.8 | leaders and athletes and creatives that we've worked with on the path for them to be |
| 1:38.6 | able to reach their potential. The products that are on this list are all products that I use. |
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