Today’s guest is Lindsey Vonn, the most successful women’s ski racer of all time. We were super excited to interview Lindsey, we both have grown up ski racing and Lindsey has been our hero since we first started skiing. We really appreciate Lindsey’s open and thoughtful answers to our questions. Lindsey talked about the challenges she has faced, advice she is willing to share with our listeners and insights into what the Lindsey Vonn Foundation is doing to help out young girls. We hope you enjoy the episode.
Show Notes & Links Of Interest
Introduction and Lindsey’s background [0:00]
Question: Where did Lindsey grow up and what was her childhood like? What gave her the confidence to leave home to train at Vail? [1:07]
Question: What was one of her hardest things to overcome on her journey to success and how did she attack it? [2:20]
Question: Tell us about the Lindsey Vonn foundation and the scholarships they have been giving out? [3:22]
Question: Who is your favorite mentor or role model and how have they contributed to her success? [4:18]
Question: What are you passionate or curious about right now? [5:04]
Question: What are her best methods for fighting self-doubt and dealing with failure? [5:31]
Question: What advice would she give a young girl pursuing her dreams? [6:39]
Question: How have you handled change over the course of your career? Is there anything that you were confident on earlier in your career that you changed your opinion on? [7:29]
Question: If your life had gone differently and you had not been a professional skier, what do you think you would be doing? [8:49]
Question: What one quality or trait do you feel young girls should embrace as they purse their dreams? [9:23]
Conclusion [9:55]
Lindsey Vonn’s Bio
Lindsey Vonn is a former alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She won four World Cup overall championships—one of only two female skiers to do so. Vonn is one of 6 women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing (slalom, giant slalom, downhill, super-G, and super combined). She won 82 World Cup races in her career, which is the most ever for women ski racers.
Vonn represented the United States in four Winter Olympics, winning one gold and two bronze medals. Her gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics was the first one for an American woman. She also won a record 8 World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline, 5 titles in super-G, and 3 consecutive titles in the combined. In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the overall record for men or women. She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women. Vonn is the most successful American ski racer and considered one of the greatest of all skiers.
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