Welcome to the Athlete Story show!

In this Athlete Story with former competitive dancer, Chrissy Papetti. we talk about retiring from sports when you are no where near ready for it. In fact, that's a very common scenario - that either injury or lack of results or finances make that decision for you as an athlete. That leads to a sense of unfinished business that you have to deal with.

If you’ve ever thought about starting an online business or leveraging the internet to get your message or services out there then you want to listen carefully to this episode with junior Olympic Champion Rachel Ngom who had to end her sports career in volleyball early due to a severe rib cage injury.

Storyselling is the main theme for this Athlete Story episode with former bobsled pilot, Tom Johansen. Inspired by the Walt Disney movie, Cool Runnings based on the startup of a Jamaican bobsled team, Tom decided to build a Danish Bobsled Team. He already had a career in sales, but was so inspired by this pioneering adventure that he took action.

I love ending the year with this episode with my friend, Emmy Award winning Michael Baltierra from ESPN's storytelling show, E:60.I really do believe that one of the most important assets you have as a world class athlete is the journey you've been on, going above and beyond – and even deep down under - to become the best at your sport. You may have won a medal or a title and that's awesome – but it's the investment you put in and the lessons you got back that will stay with you – and that you can use and contribute with to help other people if you want to share. That's the basic philosophy of Athlete Story and what I'm here to help you tap into.

When you’re quitting sports and you’re trying to find your new way there’s this bit of doubt of, “Who am I actually? I’m the athlete but I’m also a lot of other things.” Everybody is used to seeing you as the athlete. You will have all these doubts coming in on, “How do I even present myself as the non-athlete?”

Career Coach Mark Moyer will takes us behind the scenes of recruiting and show us how the job search game really works. Why is it usually a waste of time to send out job applications and how do you find out what kind of job would even fit you?.

How can you use your athletic mindset to face challenges beyond sports?In this episode Adventure athlete, Matthew Harlow Wetschler shares his incredible story and how he has managed to find himself and thrive in a life where most of what he cherished was taken away in an instant. How what saved him was: Knowing his core values and his athletic mindset. We start with a flashback to his life with sports before his deadly accident.

If you are looking for public speaking tips and media training tips for athletes, then this episode of Athlete Story is for you. My guest is world renowned expert in media training, TJ Walker and the media training tips that TJ will give you are tailored specifically to you as an athlete.

Olympic gold medallist Joe Jacobi is a whitewater canoe slalom athlete turned executive business coach. He has made a whole framework for business coaching out of the images and physical concepts from his sport. In this episode of Athlete Story he shares the lessons from his beautiful sport of navigating river currents.

Traumas can come from all parts of your life and to different degrees – but in sports we are particularly exposed to trauma from injuries, defeats, humiliations. This is often overlooked in psychology for athletes. Even if you don’t really consider yourself traumatized, it is worth knowing that any deeply distressing or disturbing experience is a trauma. It is stored in the brain subconsciously with all its connected emotions, leaving you with an imprint that can come back to destabilize you and cause a lot of trouble when you least expect it.

Have you ever been in a situation where you thought : How can I do so well in training and still not perform in competition ? You know that it is something going on in your head that you are not quite in control of – but what is it ? Where does it come from. How can it impair your ability to perform even though you have the skills ?

In this Athlete Story interview you will get tips on how to keep momentum in difficult situations and find flow in a high risk environment full of obstacles from winner of the Freeride World Tour 2012, Reine Barkered. As you will see, that’s essentially what he does for a living. He shares his view on planning and how going high speed in extreme terrain is not merely about taking risk and hoping for the best – even if it may look like that sometimes.

Prepare, then dare to put yourself out there ! Fear of failure won’t get you anywhere! That was what I took away from my Athlete Story session with Nicole Sydbøge, 2-time world champion and winner of the World Games in Jiu-Jitsu. So much so that I will let this be the motto for this show.

What are the most common mistakes that athletes make when pitching a sponsor? And what are companies actually looking for when deciding whether or not to sign a sponsorship deal? Those are some of the questions you will get the answer to in this episode of the For Athletes series. You will meet a real sport marketing expert from the corporate world who’s been dealing with world class sponsorships for the past 30 years, Keld Strudahl

I am super stoked to announce that soon my first podcast will air. I love listening to podcasts myself as it is convenient on the go or when I’m out riding the bike – or as a great way of chilling. So, I thought it’s time to make Athlete Story available as a podcast as well so that you have that possibility of listening in while on the go.