Allyson Felix - How to Handle Pressure, Failure, and Reinvent Yourself as an Olympian

What do you do when you achieve everything you set out to accomplish — and it still doesn’t feel like enough? Allyson Felix is the most decorated track and field athlete of all time: 11 Olympic medals. 5 Olympic Games. But the most important lesson of her career had nothing to do with winning. In this episode, Allyson opens up about: the grief of losing the identity you’ve built your life around what it really felt like to win silver when the world expected gold training at 4am in the dark while pregnant to hide it from sponsors the New York Times op-ed that forced Nike to change maternity policy and the moment she stopped tying her worth to her results Whether you're chasing a goal right now — or wondering what comes after you reach it — this conversation will change how you think about success, identity, and what you're really running toward.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.