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Jul 25, 2026 20 min

S2 EP15: Training While You Wait

from The GiGi Meier Podcast Hosted by GiGi Meier

You are doing the work. Showing up, pushing through, keeping the promises you made to yourself. From the outside it looks like you have it handled. Underneath it, you are exhausted, quietly wondering if any of it is actually going anywhere. It started on a drive to a baseball tournament for my son. I watched hundreds of college recruiters and MLB scouts spend a full week grading every swing, every pitch, every rep, with no verdict handed out at the end of it. Angela Duckworth's research on grit shows there is always a lag between effort and outcome. Most people quit right in the middle of that lag, mistaking the silence for proof it is not working. It is not proof. It is just the lag. Key Takeaways:✨ Why tracking the process you control matters more than tracking the outcome you don't, and how to find your own version of a scout's radar gun✨ Why one person's feedback is never the whole verdict, and how building a small panel around you gives you a far more accurate read✨ How to decide your next move before the waiting wears you down, so exhaustion never gets the final vote ✨ Rewrite. Reclaim. Reinvent. ✨ Because the actions you take when no one is looking still matter even if the outcome hasn't arrived. Get full access to GiGi Meier at gigimeier.substack.com/subscribe

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