When Success Still Feels Like Failure | Elli Overton

What happens when you’re one of the best in the world…and still feel like a failure?Three-time Australian Olympic swimmer Elli Overton (https://www.ellioverton.com) knows exactly what that feels like.WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IL56sy9fKS0At 22, Elli walked into her second Olympics confident, accomplished, and ready to win a medal. She’d built her life around that goal; training, eating, sleeping, sacrificing and visualizing that one race. Then she finished fifth.FIFTH. IN. THE. WORLD.And her brain translated that extraordinary accomplishment into: I’m a failure.In this episode, Elli gets incredibly honest about the dangerous line between pursuing excellence and tying your entire identity and worth to the outcome. We talk about the crushing disappointment of missing the podiumthe question she still hates being askedthe perspective she wishes she’d had as a young elite athlete.Now pursuing a career in mental health, Elli is using those hard-earned lessons to help athletes, parents, coaches, educators and high-performing organizations rethink success and failure.Because there’s a HUGE difference between “I failed at something” and “I am a failure.”How do we chase extraordinary goals, push ourselves to our potential…and still be okay when we don’t get the medal?THAT’S the conversation. Elli Overton is a three-time Australian Olympic swimmer, a mother, a TEDx speaker, and a children’s book author. She is also pursuing licensure as a marriage and family therapist. Through her speaking and consulting, Elli helps individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in life and sport by fostering sustainable excellence through self-awareness, resilience, and healthy perspectives on success and failure.Anne Bonney helps organizations stop waiting for people to “get on board” with change and gets them moving through the discomfort and into action.​  Anne Bonney is a change keynote speaker and emcee specializing in the human side of organizational change, including resistance to change, seeking excellence and resilience, emotional intelligence, and change leadership.