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Berner Phone

Victoria Garrick: Body Image & The Hidden Opponent

Berner Phone

Des Bishop

Comedy, Stand-up

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Garrick used to play volleyball at USC and now she is giving TED talks about mental health and raising awareness on social media about body image and eating disorders and so much more. She is no stranger to hell and we love her so much.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/berninginhell/support

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0:00.0

the fact that I can like speak to high schoolers and be like, I didn't have Snapchat when I was

0:03.6

year-age. I'm like, I'm not that old. Like, we had to send nudes to the old school.

0:23.0

What is up you guys? It is another episode of Burning a Hell, but today I'm so so so so excited

0:29.0

because we have a badass bitch. And I just met her and I apologize for calling you a bitch so early,

0:34.1

but it was a good kind of bitch because you walked on to the number one ranked team in the nation.

0:39.4

And then fast forward, you won a lot of shit, let's just say, for volleyball at USC. You are one of

0:46.7

the top athletes in the nation at that point, but despite the success of your career, the high pressure

0:52.8

environment took a toll on your mental health. You started battling depression, performance

0:57.9

anxiety, and then you decided instead of letting it kind of take over you, you did a 2017 TED talk

1:04.7

called the Hidden Opponent that went viral. And you basically became like blew up on social media

1:12.8

talking about mental health, body image, authenticity. And you're just the perfect guess for burning

1:19.5

in hell. So welcome. Thanks. I'm so hyped to be here. I know, yeah, I know we literally just met,

1:25.8

but I do feel like I know you because I've been following you and I think both of us have

1:29.7

personalities where like anyone who follows us knows us. Yeah, we definitely don't hold anything back.

1:36.2

And then I was looking at your YouTube and you talk about such wild stuff and it's funny because I

1:40.4

had one of those like morning poops where I was just reflecting on my life and I was just like,

1:45.2

damn, like you've been through some shit. And it's like, especially as a female athlete,

1:50.4

it's hard to explain to people the pressure. Like people are like, how do you handle summer house?

1:54.2

And I'm like, I've been through college athletics. Wait, yes. Can we just talk about how you are low

2:00.8

key a division one athlete? Like, why did I have to find that out through heavy research for this

2:08.1

today? Like you are so legit. Oh my god. Like, well, I played tennis for Wisconsin. Wisconsin was

2:14.5

actually pretty big in volleyball. And in my last semester, I was doing some like broadcaster

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