Reclaim Your Agency and Restore Your Identity with Olympic Skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender [Episode 18]

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On this week’s episode, Laura chats with Olympic skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender about what it was like growing up with a father who played professional baseball, how she ended up in the niche sport of skeleton, and where being a “go big” type of person has led her. Katie has competed in four Olympics and has seven medals in international competition. Katie shares about losing her father in 2009 while on tour before the Olympics and how the unfolding of that experience ushered in a season of depression as she wrestled with balancing competition and grief.

Katie also was directly affected by the Russian doping scandal at the 2014 games in Sochi as she finished 4th; a Russian Skeleton racer beat her by .04 seconds. She has been active in not only speaking out about anti-doping, but also has been rallying Olympics athletes to put together an Athlete Coalition to represent, defend, and support athletes who feel mistreated by their sport. Katie is passionate about helping athletes maintain their individual voice, their agency, and the confidence to speak up about what they need as a person, not only as a performer.

Learn more here: http://www.hopesports.org/reclaim-your-agency

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