Lessons On Mindset, Determination and the Turtle Effect from Olympic Gold Medalist Nikki Stone (2020)

Sylvia is joined by US National Ski Hall of Famer Nikki Stone. Nikki became the first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

"If I wanted to be successful, I needed to be soft on the inside, I had to have a hard shell, and I had to be willing to stick my neck out." Nikki Stone

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Topics include

• Early dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal

• Working with fear as an elite athlete

• Grandma's quote, "The brave do not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."

• Recovering from injury, being told to quit, resilience

• The turtle effect and metaphor

• Trying new things to stoke old passions

• Connecting to childhood dreams

• Focusing on questions, not answers

• Motherhood

• Being content and happy with your own accomplishments

Connect with Nikki

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