Okiki Podcast 29: How to become an Olympian with Sarah Wells
I don’t know about you, but I happen to be a huge fan of the Olympic Games. I would go as far to say an Olympics junkie. I have not missed a single Olympic games, whether it is the Winter or Summer Olympics , since the age of five. I resonate with the journey, discipline and struggle that athletes go through to try an achieve massive goals. I’m always amazed when I see sports like track and field, and gymnastics where we see people push past previous levels of human limitations, breaking world records on LIVE TV. So you can imagine, when I found out that the Olympics would have to be postponed it was a bit of hole in my heart and in my summer excitement.
Yet, I am thrilled to say that I had the opportunity to interview an REAL OLYMPIAN, an opportunity I never thought I would have. Let me introduce to you all Sarah Wells!
Olympian Sarah Wells is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. As an Olympic semi-finalist and Pan Am Games silver medallist in the 400m hurdles, Sarah’s reputation was built through overcoming challenges and achieving the “impossible”. Before finding the sport of track and field, Sarah was cut from every high school team she tried out for. It was thanks to a teacher who suggested she try running – that teacher believed in her before Sarah ever did. Together that teacher and her became coach and athlete and made the Olympics together just a decade later.
Sarah recognizes not everyone is going to have that “teacher” or person in their lives, who believes in them, so the Believe Initiative was created to be that person for as many people as possible.
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Sarah wanted to originally be a dancer, and when she couldn’t succeed in that space, she tried out for several teams and track was the only team that didn’t make cuts.
She had a coach that saw her potential to run, and within eight months of training, she went on to win the provincial and then national championship that year.
She had developed a stress fracture right before the Olympics tryouts, and what was meant to be a three month wait to train become a nine month wait. This forced her to sort out her identity and worth outside of being an Olympian. Eight months later, she made it to the Olympic finals, to be chosen to go the Olympic games, where she was a semi-finalist and one of the youngest competitors in the field.
Make sure to document your process, especially through journaling. Reflect on how far you’ve come and make a choice to keep believing in yourself towards your goal.
Take inventory of the voice you allow to speak into your life, specifically voices that tell you it is impossible to reach your goals.
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Fiyin Obayan is the founder of Okiki Consulting, where she helps business owners communicate their personal brand or company brand stories through video content, in order to communicate to their target audience.
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