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Speaker 1: Come and Sing. These are the episodes where we discuss
Speaker 1: our sit down interviews, what we learn from them, what
Speaker 1: we take away. In this takeaway episode, we are discussing
Speaker 1: the Lindsey Vaughan, She's so dope. Like sometimes we have
Speaker 1: a guest and I'm like, I want to.
Speaker 2: Be friends with her. No, actually that happens.
Speaker 3: Does that happen?
Speaker 2: It does happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the best conversations that way.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Imagine you go somewhere, you go like and you meet
Speaker 1: a friend at a party and you have a great conversation.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I like that person. I might want
Speaker 1: to be friends with them. That's what happens at my
Speaker 1: job all the time. I have these people on my
Speaker 1: podcast and I'm like, I really like them. Of course,
Speaker 1: life starts lifing and you don't really have time for
Speaker 1: all of your new friends. But I gotta say, most
Speaker 1: of the people that have been on the on the pod,
Speaker 1: if I leave with that feeling of like I would
Speaker 1: like to hang out with them continue conversations anyway. Lindsay
Speaker 1: of course falls into that group of people. Number One,
Speaker 1: She's super competitive, which I can totally relate to.
Speaker 2: She's a competitive maniac.
Speaker 1: She she makes me seem like not a competitive person
Speaker 1: because she is the I'm just competitive and like I
Speaker 1: get a bad rap. By the way, we were talking
Speaker 1: about Ron, they don't like to play games with me.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to beat anybody.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm competitive to myself. I always want to do the
Speaker 1: best version of something that I could do for myself.
Speaker 1: I'm not the person who was like I gotta obliterate
Speaker 1: everybody where. Lindsey said that she don't even play a
Speaker 1: game unless she could just like blow everybody to smithereens,
Speaker 1: which I think is really funny. But you would have
Speaker 1: to have that type of mentality to be the professional
Speaker 1: skier that she is and to be as you know,
Speaker 1: just to be as successful as she's been at it,
Speaker 1: for sure. When she talks about going up to the
Speaker 1: like when they're about to what is I call it
Speaker 1: at the beginning, I'm so nonskier. I don't even know
Speaker 1: the ski terminologies. Oh, when they're about to go down there,
Speaker 1: there's like a lineup, right, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: the right term. There's a lineup, and then she could
Speaker 1: see people's fear on their face and she likes it.
Speaker 2: She's like, Eh, that's crazy behavior. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: And the best way though, makes me like her so much.
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, it's scared. I'm gonna use this to
Speaker 1: my advantage because I'm not. And then she goes and
Speaker 1: she wins, and yeah, but it really she really does
Speaker 1: talk about that drive. And the funny thing is one
Speaker 1: of the takeaways I have from her is that she
Speaker 1: said that she tried to reprogram herself. She tried to
Speaker 1: reprogram that out of herself, but it's so ingrained that
Speaker 1: she can't. Like me, I could go and be like
Speaker 1: I could go to somebody's game night and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just chill. Let me not get too competitive. I
Speaker 1: can tell myself that and actually not be that competitive.
Speaker 1: I could be like, oh, it's just a chill. Lindsey
Speaker 1: can't even there's no switch for her.
Speaker 2: She just wants to.
Speaker 1: Win all the time, and it's so deeply ingrained that
Speaker 1: she cannot reprogram it.
Speaker 2: That's interesting too. She must be fun at night or
Speaker 2: not or not.
Speaker 1: So much fun. I'm not really sure how that goes.
Speaker 1: But there were a lot of takeaways from this episode.
Speaker 2: What are some of yours, Brick.
Speaker 3: I used to be like kind of jealous of people
Speaker 3: who at a young age they already knew. Lindsay has
Speaker 3: been skiing since she's been nine years old.
Speaker 2: She don't know, she had clarity, she knew her agenda. Es, yes,
Speaker 2: she did. That made you like you were jealous of that.
Speaker 3: Because I always and maybe this is a product of
Speaker 3: me coming up when the Internet came around the earth,
Speaker 3: is that you see everybody's successes all the time, and
Speaker 3: like you said, we're only seeing the highlight rail. So
Speaker 3: people who get a start at a young age at
Speaker 3: their profession, that takes them into adulthood. Of course, someone
Speaker 3: who's been doing something for twenty years is most of
Speaker 3: the time going to be better than someone who maybe
Speaker 3: just picked it up.
Speaker 1: Like with you and golf, you're pretty good. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1: Pretty good, Brittany, I don't like where you're going with
Speaker 1: this comparison. I'm pretty good for my group.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying someone a young skier right now now,
Speaker 3: I look up to Lindsay Vaughn and be like, dang,
Speaker 3: I gotta get to that.
Speaker 2: No, I get it, I got I get it. So
Speaker 2: you had jealousy of people who found their career that early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting, and then knocked me back in because
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, she's broken every damn
Speaker 3: bone in her body. She's she she was traveling, she
Speaker 3: felt lonely. It was hard for her to get friends
Speaker 3: like there were.
Speaker 1: So she talks about I don't I know when she
Speaker 1: talks about leaving the house traveling the world at nine
Speaker 1: years old and not really being supervised, really.
Speaker 2: Not just traveling anywhere.
Speaker 3: She's going across the globe to these remote locations to
Speaker 3: go compete in these at nine, and she was like
Speaker 3: the youngest person there with people who are from like thirteen,
Speaker 3: she said, to thirteen to eighteen or something people, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, little Lizzy. She's probably so cute too, little nine
Speaker 2: year old Lindsay.
Speaker 3: But anyways, I love what you said about we only
Speaker 3: see the highlight reel.
Speaker 1: Well, we know that, and that's the that's the downside
Speaker 1: of social media, and that is something that we talked about,
Speaker 1: like aside from it being the highlight reel, and you
Speaker 1: don't see see the hard.
Speaker 2: Things that have to go through it. It's really it's
Speaker 2: not even the hard things.
Speaker 1: Yes, there are hard times that you probably don't see,
Speaker 1: but it's really.
Speaker 2: The every day of it. It's like the every day.
Speaker 1: You always make fun of me when I use the
Speaker 1: word minutia, but it's the minutia, it's the really, it's
Speaker 1: the every day of You have to like that otherwise
Speaker 1: you set yourself up to not have be happy. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're like, Okay, my dream in life is to.
Speaker 2: Give me I don't know, give me one be Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Yes my dream. No, that's that's ridiculous. By the way,
Speaker 2: good luck with that, guys. Hope that dream works out
Speaker 2: well for you, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: My dream is to dance at the I want to
Speaker 1: be in the Nutcracker as a ballerina.
Speaker 2: And then that's all you like, or you all you
Speaker 2: strive for.
Speaker 1: That means in the if it even if it happens
Speaker 1: for you, which is really hard, but even if it
Speaker 1: does happen to you, you're setting yourself to only be
Speaker 1: happy that one. That's not a life. That's like if
Speaker 1: you're a baseball player and you're like, I just want
Speaker 1: to make it to the World Series. If you're only
Speaker 1: happy on the day of the World Series, what an
Speaker 1: awful life that is. If you don't love getting up
Speaker 1: and going to batting practice and getting up and playing
Speaker 1: small teams and getting up and going to the gym,
Speaker 1: then that's probably not the life for you, and it's
Speaker 1: not the dream you should be chasing.
Speaker 2: Is the point. It's like, you really should learn to.
Speaker 1: Find something or to love the journey of whatever your
Speaker 1: journey is, because the other stuff is really cool.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like.
Speaker 1: An award, right, radio Hall of Fame? Great, so I
Speaker 1: get a radio Hall of Fame? What does that one
Speaker 1: day mean? That one day doesn't even compare to the
Speaker 1: everyday grind, the ten years, twenty years, thirty years that
Speaker 1: you put into that. You have to love the ten years,
Speaker 1: twenty years and every day of it. I really feel
Speaker 1: passionate about that, because sometimes even when you're in it,
Speaker 1: you forget that. I have to remind myself that sometimes,
Speaker 1: like are.
Speaker 2: You having fun?
Speaker 1: Like I have to say to myself self, is this
Speaker 1: fun for you? And not to say everything is fun.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you do have to.
Speaker 2: Do a little.
Speaker 3: Most of the time, it might not be fun. It
Speaker 3: might be working out. Everybody's new US resolutionist to work out.
Speaker 2: No, Lindsey likes working out. That's what I'm saying is
Speaker 2: she likes the journey. She likes her journey.
Speaker 1: That's why I will never be a professional skier because
Speaker 1: I do not love working.
Speaker 2: Out every day. I don't enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Now I'm sure this day she doesn't feel like it,
Speaker 1: But for the most part, she enjoyed that journey.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I just don't think it
Speaker 2: should be.
Speaker 1: Yes, things are hard, Yes they require sacrifice and discipline
Speaker 1: and all of that, but you should like most of
Speaker 1: the time doing what you're doing. Otherwise you probably not
Speaker 1: doing the right thing for you.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So make sure whatever that goal is, you really
Speaker 1: love all the stuff.
Speaker 2: Before it a lot.
Speaker 1: And also sometimes it's just a switch in your brain,
Speaker 1: like stop chasing the one thing, the one victory, Like
Speaker 1: start enjoying the thing you got into it for the
Speaker 1: first place. So if you're a painter and then you
Speaker 1: get hired to paint for some museum or whatever, if
Speaker 1: you're only waiting for that gallery opening, then that's you're
Speaker 1: not living your life. You should enjoy every painting that
Speaker 1: you make for the whole year, because that's the life.
Speaker 2: That's the journey.
Speaker 1: And then the other things are just kind of like highlights,
Speaker 1: like they're just moments, metals. All that stuff is kind
Speaker 1: of cool and it's fun for people to say, oh,
Speaker 1: award winning, well this's that, but that's not the life, man.
Speaker 3: And then it post always changes too.
Speaker 1: So once you then there's there's an old interview with
Speaker 1: Jay Cole classically breaks that that down everything that if
Speaker 1: you're whatever you're chasing, there's more of it. That's why
Speaker 1: you got to be present and appreciate what you have
Speaker 1: and and pour into things that.
Speaker 2: Fill you up for sure. Anyway back to Lindsay, what
Speaker 2: other takeaways you.
Speaker 3: Got Speaking of the goal post changing for Lindsay, the
Speaker 3: goal post changed for her when she decided to retire
Speaker 3: from skiing. And I do like this clip about this
Speaker 3: moment where she was watching Kobe at the Oscars get
Speaker 3: his award.
Speaker 2: Were you at the Oscars?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 2: I was at the Oscars that year. Did you see Kobe?
Speaker 2: Did you know Kobe?
Speaker 4: I've met him at the London Olympics. I've been a
Speaker 4: huge I'm always a fan of sports, like I love
Speaker 4: sports in all its forms, so I know a lot
Speaker 4: of athletes and definitely was always inspired by his work ethic.
Speaker 1: And then you were there and you saw him war
Speaker 1: I saw.
Speaker 4: Him like Kobe just won an Oscar, so you know
Speaker 4: it's not possible, chasing nothing is impossible. And guess what,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna win an oscar own a fall flat on
Speaker 4: my face. And I'm totally fine with either.
Speaker 2: I forgot we had an Oscar date.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that for us, look at us manifesting.
Speaker 1: I love what Lindsay said about manifesting too. This is
Speaker 1: this this moment, by the way, if you watch the
Speaker 1: full interview, her and I talk about, you know, doing
Speaker 1: what's next and being excited about projects that we're working on,
Speaker 1: and we were putting it into the air that our
Speaker 1: projects would land us at the Oscars and we would
Speaker 1: attend together. But she had an interesting gem about manifesting.
Speaker 1: Let's play that clip.
Speaker 4: You know, it's again it's like you can manifest it,
Speaker 4: but like there are so many sacrifices that no one
Speaker 4: sees that you know, you make every day that are
Speaker 4: what get you to where you want to go, you know,
Speaker 4: And I've seen so many people in my life that
Speaker 4: were more talented than I was. You know that just
Speaker 4: they thought they were going to make it, they manifested it.
Speaker 4: They didn't work hard like you have to put in
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: Or they work hard, but they don't believe that they
Speaker 1: can actually do it, or they let fear get in
Speaker 1: the way, or they let outside noise get in the way,
Speaker 1: or all of those things. Also Yeah, also true, get
Speaker 1: in your way.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that can get in your way.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of things, mostly yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you got to do the work. That's an
Speaker 1: important part of manifestation. By the way, how funny that
Speaker 1: she was at the Oscars the same year I was
Speaker 1: at the Oscars. It's like we're destined to be friends
Speaker 1: her and I I'll take that as an omen That
Speaker 1: was a great night. I'm so grateful too that I
Speaker 1: was in that room that night.
Speaker 2: When Kobe won the award. How'd that feel? Surreal?
Speaker 1: Mind you when I say I was there. You know,
Speaker 1: you guys think of the Oscars. You think of people
Speaker 1: like in the front rows and fully like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I was in the I was in the back in
Speaker 1: the trench. Yeah, I was in the trenches. I was
Speaker 1: there to support my friend. I'm not an Oscar nominee.
Speaker 1: I was there like I'm Mary's friend in the audience. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say for the Mary's Friends section, my seats
Speaker 1: were pretty good.
Speaker 2: Like I was sitting in front of.
Speaker 1: The lady from get Out and get Out was the
Speaker 1: movie that year, the lady with the.
Speaker 3: T oh oh, yeah, the actress, she's dope.
Speaker 2: I like her anyway.
Speaker 1: All that to say, I was there and Kobe won,
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh man, this has got to
Speaker 1: be an amazing I don't know Mary J. Blige was nominated,
Speaker 1: Kobe won an award. It was just a dope data
Speaker 1: be there. And then Lindsay and I were there. What
Speaker 1: are the chances? Must mean something, must mean we're meant
Speaker 1: to be back there for something.
Speaker 3: I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Take all of that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I also liked when she was talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that she has to be more than an athlete,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, if we learn nothing from Kobe,
Speaker 1: it's about.
Speaker 2: Being more than an athlete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kobe, Lebron, they're all in that demographic of they're
Speaker 3: doing more than This moment in pop culture that happened
Speaker 3: with Kobe where that terrible reporter told them that just
Speaker 3: shut up and dribble.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that Lebron? That was Lebron?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, sorry sums spoken. But you know athletes have
Speaker 3: after they're done playing sports or at the tail ends
Speaker 3: of their careers, you really start to see when they
Speaker 3: start transitioning and you can aspire to win an Oscar.
Speaker 2: And I love that.
Speaker 3: Lindsay she was so she felt like so certain, like
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. Even you were like, this can really
Speaker 3: happen for us.
Speaker 2: No, we believe. That's why we're successful in our lives.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't compare what I've done to what
Speaker 1: she's done or anybody else, but like, I.
Speaker 2: Think we both are.
Speaker 1: Built that way in terms of, like you, we believe.
Speaker 1: I believe anything's possible. Sometimes I have little quiet moments
Speaker 1: where I'm going, you crazy, That's not like the little
Speaker 1: voice will come in my head. The little voice will
Speaker 1: come in my head and go, you're tripping. That doesn't
Speaker 1: happen for people like us, or you know, the self
Speaker 1: doubt notions. I don't let those people live take up
Speaker 1: too much space in my brain. They're there like they
Speaker 1: are for everybody else. But I just feel like they're
Speaker 1: more of a hindrance because to another point that Lindsay made,
Speaker 1: who cares if you're delusional, you have to think that way?
Speaker 1: Who cares if you fuck it up or you fall
Speaker 1: on your face. You can't play the game that way.
Speaker 1: You can't play scared. You don't go at the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain like I could break my ankle, maybe
Speaker 1: I might break my neck. Like you can't go up
Speaker 1: there and think that you have to get up there
Speaker 1: and think, no way, I'm good, I got this. And
Speaker 1: I think that goes across the board for anything in life,
Speaker 1: even me. Like when I try to do things, I
Speaker 1: try to make sure that I see the biggest version
Speaker 1: of it possible in my head. And if I don't
Speaker 1: make it to that, then so what, Who cares? It's
Speaker 1: still the goal. You still try to think big and
Speaker 1: dream big, and then you know, if you fuck it
Speaker 1: up or you make forty percent of the one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: who cares? At least you went for it and you
Speaker 1: still had some It still was worth the journey, and
Speaker 1: still you know the only way to really show up.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, so I love that the way she
Speaker 1: broke that down.
Speaker 2: I thought that was dope.
Speaker 3: Another takeaway I had from this episode was Lindsey talking
Speaker 3: about pay equality amongst women and men sports. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that. I mean, I'm not an avid
Speaker 3: ski watcher, but she brought up great points that apparently
Speaker 3: skiing is not very lucrative sport across the board for
Speaker 3: both men, and.
Speaker 1: Well, that didn't surprise me, but crazy when she broke
Speaker 1: it down, She's like, you only hear about skiing once
Speaker 1: every four years.
Speaker 3: Right, And then it made me think back to the
Speaker 3: only sport, professional sport that has paid equality is soccernis no,
Speaker 3: she said. Lindsay said that tennis supposedly makes the most
Speaker 3: money for women, but soccer is the only sport because
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, when the women's US team won the
Speaker 3: World Cup, they actually filed a lawsuit against the US
Speaker 3: Soccer Federation and they ended up winning and passing a
Speaker 3: rule that men and female soccer players have to get
Speaker 3: paid the same.
Speaker 2: It is the.
Speaker 3: Only sport, which is why can't say why can't anybody else?
Speaker 1: So I say we like, I'm in the WNBA, why
Speaker 1: can't we win the WNBA?
Speaker 2: I put myself in and things have no business, have
Speaker 2: no business.
Speaker 1: But I get it, why can't anybody else? So I'm
Speaker 1: surprised nobody else has followed suit there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they also the women saw team had
Speaker 3: been way more successful for the men's for a while.
Speaker 3: They won two World Cups. They were coming off a
Speaker 3: really really like.
Speaker 2: We know the story.
Speaker 1: We gotta go extra hard to get to get what's deserved,
Speaker 1: you gotta be extra good at it.
Speaker 2: That's say, that's the age old problem.
Speaker 3: But Lindsay seems like the person that isn't scared to
Speaker 3: speak her mind and open up. And this is the
Speaker 3: clip of her talking about how she had to ask
Speaker 3: her counterparts men how much she should be getting for
Speaker 3: brand deals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, play that clip.
Speaker 4: If there's no transparency, how am I supposed to know
Speaker 4: if I'm getting underpaid compared to a man or not.
Speaker 4: So I asked them point blank, and some of the
Speaker 4: top male racers actually told me what they were making.
Speaker 2: And you were like oh, And I was like, whoa.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on in the same ballpark and I need
Speaker 4: to fix that. So I literally went and I was like,
Speaker 4: this is what I need, and this is what you're
Speaker 4: going to give me, and I know what the guys make,
Speaker 4: so don't even try. And I got it.
Speaker 1: Good for her, she got it. You better get that bread, Lindsay.
Speaker 1: You know how much work since she's nine years old
Speaker 1: she's put into this career. That's got to be frustrated.
Speaker 3: It's not just work. Her body. She had screws here,
Speaker 3: plates there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's nuts and bolts down.
Speaker 1: I also inspire by people who are like I was
Speaker 1: joking with her saying like I'm such a whiner in
Speaker 1: the gy like she's so she's like a machine and
Speaker 1: that Really I don't wish to be a machine, but
Speaker 1: I am inspired by the mentality that you have to
Speaker 1: have to be a machine. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Because you could apply that whether you want to use
Speaker 1: it towards working out or towards being a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: But if you would have just apply that same type
Speaker 1: of mental discipline to anything you do, it has to
Speaker 1: lift it up. Like whatever you're doing in the world,
Speaker 1: If you apply that level of just mental discipline, I
Speaker 1: think it's really inspiring.
Speaker 2: The way she operates like that. We liked, Lindsay.
Speaker 3: I need to borrow some of that, Lindsay. Lindsay, determination
Speaker 3: juice works.
Speaker 1: I ain't been to a gym. I keep saying, you're
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I'm like, I'm gonna go to pilates.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna get my core strength
Speaker 1: because you know, as a golfer, I gotta get my
Speaker 1: core strength together.
Speaker 2: I went to pilates one time so far this year.
Speaker 3: It's not too late.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not too late. You're right, I'm going back.
Speaker 2: I'm going back. I'm going in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be inspired by Lindsay Vaughn. Anyway, there was
Speaker 1: a ton of takeaways. I hope you guys enjoyed the episode,
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