The Truth Behind Early Success | Tara Lipinski, Unfiltered

Tara Lipinski (0:00)

So then I remember coming out of the spin and I come around the rink and I pass the judges and the media are all above and I'm going into my first jump, which is obviously an important part here. And I remember in that moment, I remember saying to myself, that angry, you're gonna show them.

Michael Gervais (0:29)

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Dr. Michael Gervais by trade in training a sport and performance psychologist. And the whole idea behind this conversation is to learn from people who are challenging the edges and the reaches of the human experience and business and sport and science and life in general.

We pull back the curtain to explore how they have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds in an effort to express their potential.

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Now, this week's conversation is with Tara Lipinski.

I'm sure you know her name. She is internationally recognized as a figure skater who changed the games. And you might remember it was way back, 1998, at the Nagano Olympic Games, where at the age of 15, she became the youngest athlete to win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Games.