About this episode

Athena Brownson shares her journey of overcoming significant physical challenges and the lessons learned from her experiences as a professional athlete.

Send us Fan Mail I’m very excited to bring you an extremely inspirational and energetic guest, who has been through a ton of challenges to get to where she is today. I was so honored to get to interview her in-person in the Hive and experience her energy. Athena Brownson is a former professional freestyle skier who has endured 27 surgeries, including nine on her knees. She believes that the resilience lessons she learned from being a pro athlete from the age of 15 and these injury experiences...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Stahl

Guest: Athena Brownson

Topics covered

• resilience
• physical pain
• professional athlete
• injury recovery
• inspiration

Keywords

• freestyle skiing
• surgeries
• knee injuries
• resilience lessons
• inspiration

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