This Mindset took me to the Olympics...and Beyond - with Amputee Sprinter Sydney Barta

All links: https://impossibleperformance.com/Some people survive the day that changes everything; a rare few decide, in hindsight, that it was the best day they ever had.At six years old, on a crisp and windy morning at a fun run, Sydney was standing exactly where her mother told her to wait when a race banner caught the wind and came down on her foot. Twenty-one surgeries, compartment syndrome, and four months in the hospital later, the decision was made that would define her life. She does not tell this as a tragedy; she tells it as the luckiest day she has known, because the banner missed her head, she kept her life, and in the loss she found a Purpose she is certain she would never have discovered otherwise.What she built from there is staggering: a Paralympic sprinter at seventeen, an American record holder, a Stanford bioengineer bound for Oxford and then medical school, with the aim of becoming the orthopedic surgeon she never had — one who is also an amputee. Along the way she and Matt trade hard-won lessons on being your own advocate in a system that too often talks past the patient; on the myth of the limitation you accept before you ever test it; and on the strange, uncomfortable courage it takes to rest when every instinct says push. As their shirt reads: Limitations do not exist; almost all of them are chosen before they are ever hit.Who's to say whether you can or cannot; but you can know, for a fact, that you can try.Shared in her own words; personal medical experiences and decisions are her account, not medical advice.With guest Sydney Barta · IG @sydney.barta 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible PerformanceIG @impossible.performance · www.impossibleperformance.com❤️‍🔥Support the show