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Lindsey Vonn discussed her memoir, which details her record-breaking ski racing career and her transition into entrepreneurship. The discussion touched upon her meticulous 10-year plan to reach the Olympics, starting at age nine, and her candid discussion about struggling with depression.
Yeah, I mean, my dad definitely helped me with the planning.
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Episode: America: WTF | Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn discussed her memoir, which details her record-breaking ski racing career and her transition into entrepreneurship. The discussion touched upon her meticulous 10-year plan to reach the Olympics, starting at age nine, and her candid discussion about struggling with depression.
Yeah, I mean, my dad definitely helped me with the planning.
But we had...Yeah, I met P. Guistri, my idol when I was nine. Came home and I was like, this is it. This is what I want to do. And I was like, okay, let's make a plan. We printed out calendars. We had highlighters. It was like a whole thing.
So when you're nine, you have to like build up a point profile. You know, certain requirements that you have to make in order to kind of make the progression to even get to the US ski team and then to the Olympics.
So my dad was a racer when he was growing up. Right, right, right. He was a junior racer. So he knew kind of all the levels that I needed to get. And, you know, obviously I had to start expanding my repertoire because I was from Minnesota.
Skiing was like the most simple thing in my life, the easiest thing. Everything else was hard and skiing was like my sanctuary.
Episode: TDS Time Machine | Conversations with Olympians
This was described as Lindsey Vonn's new memoir detailing her record-breaking skiing career and her new journey as an entrepreneur. The host found it inspiring, particularly how Vonn discussed struggling with depression while maintaining no fear on the slopes.
My guest tonight is Olympic gold medalist and the most decorated female skier of all time, Lindsey Vonn. She's here to talk about her new memoir about her record-breaking skiing career and her new journey as an entrepreneur.
I also didn't know, and this was really cool to read in the book, you're an interesting human being in that you talk about how hard life was for you in some instances.
Lindsay Bond, congratulations on writing an amazing book. It's really fun. It's a really inspiring story.
All right, people. Lindsay's memoir, Rise, is available wherever books are sold.
