Michael Phelps – After the Race [DEEP DIVE]

I recently watched Michael Phelps: Medals, Memories & More and there are so many lessons we can capture from this three-part series that I wanted to explore it further on the podcast this week. His story alludes to the importance of what happens after the race, and I’m sharing how this is relevant in our lives.

Life feels difficult for many of us right now. People are tired of the pandemic and wanting to go back to normal, and the uncertainty is tough because we are all so raw. But these times have allowed us to develop our feelings systems, and there’s a lot we can take from Olympic athletes to help us with this.

Michael Phelps is the best Olympian of all time, and his three-part system of preparation, racing, and recovery has enabled him to win all of his gold medals. This system can help us stop suppressing our feelings and self-sabotaging and start feeling our emotions.

I invite you to consider what we can learn from Michael Phelps this week. By developing an awareness of what’s going on inside, you can enhance your capacity to feel your emotions and manage them accordingly. We can create an emotional intelligence that we can integrate into other systems to thrive in our lives.

Listen in this week as I discuss the importance of being able to process your emotions and what we can learn from Michael Phelps’ Olympic success. I’m exploring how to cultivate a feeling system and become a deliberate creator so that you can show up better, become the person you want to be, and create the life you truly desire.

Your voice matters! Make sure you subscribe to the show and leave a review in Apple Podcasts. Tell me what you love and why you’re here and maybe you’ll hear a shoutout to YOU in a future episode!

LISTEN HERE

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

• How Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian of all time and how to use this to improve your life.
• The importance of knowing your capacity.
• Where I see the beauty in this difficult period of our lives.
• How to flush out the emotions that get built up in our systems.
• The issue with striving for perfection.
• Why we don’t tend to want to deal with shame and pain.

RESOURCES FOR YOU

• Make sure you subscribe to the show and leave a review in Apple Podcasts
• Sign up here to receive Friday Podcast updates, Sunday Love letters, and Wisdom Wednesdays.
• Michael Phelps: Medals, Memories & More – documentary series
• Promising Young Woman – movie
• There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing – New York Times article