When was the last time you wanted to quit?

Not the "I'm tired today" type of quit… The real kind. The "maybe i'm just not cut out for this" at 2am kind (🙋‍♀️)

For me personally, the urge to quit shows up for me more than I’d like to admit. And I’ve never had a good framework for understanding that emotion.

Until now.

Bronte Campbell has competed in 4x Olympics. She’s won 3x gold medals (and many others!) she’s a world champ, world record holder, and co-founder of Earthletica. She’s a winner. And she doesn’t quit.

In this episode on Female Startup Club’s podcast, Bronte taught me something I’ve never actually heard before, that’s changed my pov on the “it’s time to give up” feeling.

Impatience vs Helplessness:

Most of us treat these two feelings like they're the same thing. But they’re not even close!

Bronte trained every single day of her career alongside her older sister, who won two olympic bronze medals at her very first games, at just 16. They were in the same squad, competing at the same events in the same pool… and Bronte was always second.

And she said the only reason she could stand on the international stage and beat everyone in the world is because she had to learn to perform under that intense pressure every single day. It became a skill (read: superpower). But only because she stuck with it.

The lesson she left me with:

→ She competed for less than one minute every four years at the Olympics
 
→ Everything else was what made that minute possible

→ The grind is not the pathway to the result. The grind is the result

So what if everything you're doing right now — the unsexy, unglamorous, really hard stuff — is actually the point? And you just keep going.

We also get into:

→ Her first professional deal paying $500 per year 🤯 
Why you are almost certainly being undervalued.. and what to do about it

→ How she figured out an injury through an unlikely therapy type
How to use pain meditation to unlock what your body is actually holding onto

→ Will the Olympics still exist in 100 years?
What still needs to change for women at the highest levels.. and why it matters for professional women.

→ Competing at the Olympics on her period
Managing hormones, periods, stress, and burnout while performing at your best. Especially if you’re a high-achiever

→ How she knew she was different, even from a young age
The signals to look out for in your children and what it really takes to raise a champion to become the best in the world at anything

This is one of my favourite conversations I've ever had.

🎧You can listen (or watch!) the episode here! 

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your hype girl,
Doone x

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