This week’s episode features Kelly Gunther, an Olympian in 2014, Motivational Speaker, to inspire people with her story and the passion that drives her. Since early in her childhood, six years old to be precise, she always wanted to be competing in the Olympics in ice skating. But to get through where she wanted to go, she would have to undergo a lot of hardships and difficulties. She shares during the podcast the power of the mind and how important it is to be mentally strong despite overwhelming pain and failures. Not only that, she shares her own story and how she kept herself going while most people would falter and begin wandering. Listen as she brings matter-of-fact truths that need to be heard.
HIGHLIGHTS
03:50 High moments of being an Olympian and problems with her learning disability growing up
10:20 The turmoil for Kelly during a Russian event but overcame it with a dream rehabilitation center
18:43 Family issues, loner mindset, and difficult high school life: A counsellor session she brought with her whole life
25:47 Kelly's advice to all the people who are suffering or affected by addictions from their loved ones
31:56 How to reach out to Kelly and her future plan
36:20 Dating, career, and Faith: Prioritizing what's what in a world full of distractions
40:03 Final thoughts
QUOTES
14:31 "Like you said, so many people just give up and throw in that towel. But, you know, why be there and be miserable and not be able to get out of the pit. I'm in no way saying that it's easy and it doesn't take years upon years to get out of it. Everyone's different, it could take five days or five years ... but it's all because of how strong we are."
25:53 "Just really know who you are and be strong-willed. Really get to know who they are and to really understand that they have to change within whom they are. And I will say that until I'm blue in the face because no matter how bad we want to change them, we can not change them for whom we want them to be."
27:01 "You have to go through that c*ap, and that mud, and that quicksand to be able to get out of it and to use whom you are. Because as you asked me earlier, you know, 'what do you do if you stay on that quicksand?' You're always gonna stay on that quicksand. You're never gonna get out but if you realize that it's just a time period that you're in it, you're in it ... you get to choose if you want to come out of it."
35:38 "You're always proving, not only to yourself but to everybody that you can do it and that comes my skating background, and that comes from, you know, just who I am from all those setbacks ... and be who you are."
38:54 "It always reminds me that as much as I want to be in the driver's seat, that I am not. And that God is 1000% percent in control and in the driver's seat. So the reminder is that God's gonna lead me ... that's why I think really the true passion comes out of my story and who I am because He was through me and that's what he's given me to do."
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