August 14, 2024 • 18 mins
If I’m Honest with Julia Landauer is back for Season 3! In this episode, I give a recap and opinion on recent NASCAR, Formula 1, and Olympics news. I dive into why I’m bummed that Hailie Deegan isn’t racing full-time anymore, Lewis Hamilton’s comeback, and why it felt so important for USA Women’s Basketball to take the Gold Medal in the Olympics. I also address the fact that we are a mixed-allegiance household, with me rooting for the USA and my husband Ben rooting for France, and what that drama is like. I also share the new cadence for Season 3 of a new episode every other Wednesday and give a sneak peak into the theme of Season 3 solo episodes, which is human performance.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, and welcome to season three of If I'm Honest
with Julia Landauer. You guys, we are in our third season.
That is so cool. Thank you so much for being
along for this journey. It has been an incredibly satisfying
passion project. I have had great feedback from you guys.
It's been really interesting to hear you disagree with me
(00:26):
or agree with me. It's been cool to have this
outlet to be able to dive into topics that I'm
excited about. It's been incredible to be able to talk
with so many really cool and accomplished people as our guests.
You guys have really enjoyed those episodes, and yeah, here
we are. Season three is going to be a little
bit different than season one and season two, not just
(00:48):
in thematic stuff, but we are going to take it
back a little bit. I'm going to be doing one
episode every two weeks instead of every week, and they
will still come out on Wednesdays, but we're going to
do one episode every two weeks. There's gonna be ten episodes,
so it's going to take us through the end of
twenty twenty four. Still going to be a mix of
topics that I'm excited about and guests, which I will
(01:10):
get into more later, but this is something that I
think will be helpful as I balance work and keynote
speaking and having life and doing the podcasting. So really
excited for this new format. It's going to keep it fun,
going to keep it fresh. And yeah, so I've missed you.
And it's been two months roughly since we had my
(01:30):
last episode, and quite a bit has happened since then.
If we look at the world at large, a lot
of stuff politically has happened. It's a very different political
ground for America right now than it was back in June.
Sports Wise, we've had some twists and turns with NASCAR
and Formula One and the Olympics, which I want to
get into. Personally, we were able to go celebrate two
(01:54):
friends marriages in Europe on two weddings in three days.
It was very aggressive. We had to go from Corsica
to Hamburg, Germany during the global IT outage, which we
made it like really really unexpectedly, really grateful. We made
it their no problem. It was so nice to celebrate love.
I am such a sap I love love and I
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cry a lot, and even at the wedding where I
wasn't as familiar with the people. They were Ben's friends
from college. I was crying, even though a lot of
it was in French and I didn't understand everything. And
then the second wedding we went to, which was in Germany,
was for two of our friends, where Ben pointed out
that it was the first wedding where I know both
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the people personally and have developed the same relationship with
both of them, and so it was just really beautiful.
I really ugly cried with hot tears that were painful.
It was just it was so incredible to see their
appreciation for each other and their loved ones and friends
and family, and we all flew out there to see them,
and I just love it so oh so much. I
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just love weddings anyway, So we did that. We made
it back. Work has really ramped up at NASCAR. It's
really exciting. I'm having to learn a lot, you know,
some of that basic business in corporate information and navigating
a lot of new things. So that's been really cool.
And yeah, speaking is going to pick back up again
here at the end of the summer, and I'm working
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on a new keynote that's going to be a completely
different narrative arc, different stories. It's the first real revamp
of Keynotes that I have done in many, many years,
So it's daunting. It's a big task. It's a lot
of creative time, which is hard to find when you're
working nine to five. But I'm really excited for all
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of that. So for the first part of this episode,
I want to dive into some sports related things that
have happened since June so that I can give my
opinion some big things that I think about, including the Olympics,
and then I'll close out this episode by talking about
some of the specific topics I'll get into in season three.
So let's talk about NASCAR first for a little bit.
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Obviously I'm biased, obviously I am working there, but I
still love the racing. I still love what the series
is doing. I am so happy that Chicago for the
second year was more or less a really great show.
We saw some really incredible racing. Weather was a little
less of a factor, still a factor, still a pain
in the butt. I don't think NASCAR can catch a
(04:24):
break when it comes to Chicago weather for their spectacle race,
but at least they were able to get concerts in.
They were able to get a lot of new fans
to the track. NASCAR also unveiled their partnership with ABB
and the electric vehicle. It's really cool to see what
we're doing with that, and yeah, it's just a fun race.
Shane Van Gisbergen is so fun to watch, not only
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on the track because he's so aggressive but so clean,
but then he's also really great from an interviewing perspective
and personality perspective, and I think NASCAR is really lucky
to have him being part of our sport now. And
on the lesser great news with NASCAR, Unfortunately, at that
same weekend, it was announced that Haley Degan and her
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team were parting ways. Now Haley Degan is the only
full time female racer in any of the three national
NASCAR series, and it's just disappointing. Regardless, there are rumors
as to why they parted ways. I'm not gonna look
into rumors or speculations. I do not know firsthand what happened,
but either way, it's a bummer to lose that representation,
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especially because, at least in the immediate aftermath, the team
had cited that they wanted to be able to get
a veteran in the car to be able to help
them improve from a technological standpoint and from a car
performance standpoint, and they got eighth with Joey Logano at Chicago,
but for the two oval races after that, they got
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twenty something and a DNF, So they're not really getting
the development and I think that they were hoping for.
NASCAR has been on a break for the Olympics because
we share a broadcast partner with NBC, and so I'm
going to be really paying attention to how that team
does moving forward and just kind of seeing personally what's
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going on, because either way, it's a bomber to not
have any women racing full time. I'm very badened by
that because I think, again racing is one of those
really cool sports where we can be co ed from
a physicality standpoint and from a performance standpoint, and I
think we just have a little ways to go. So
we will see in positive female racing NASCAR news. I
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am really excited by kind of the next generation that's
coming up. There are a lot of women in their
late teens who are winning in midgets and sprint cars
on dirt, and who are winning super late Model races
and competing up front in the ARCA series, so I'm
looking forward to seeing how those women do in the
coming years jumping into Formula One. For my fellow Lewis fans,
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this has been a fun few racists for us, hasn't it,
Because starting in June and July, for some of those races,
I think we were seeing Hamilton Mercedes were doing incrementally better.
And then there was that breakthrough win at Silverstone for Hamilton,
which is so powerful. The fact that he gets to
win at his home track and his team's home track
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at Silverstone on his final year with Mercedes, it's just
it was really poetic. It's so fun to watch. I
think he's really graceful, really really generous with his team
and fans and all the support that he gets. And
then he inherited the win at SPA when unfortunately George
had his problem. But it's fun to see them come back,
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and it's really fun to see multiple teams competing up front.
I know there are certain adverse situations that Pristavin found
himself in which handicapped him a bit, but in general
I love seeing more teams being competitive. So between McLaren
Mercedes and Red Bull, we're seeing some real, feisty fights
on the f one track. So excited to get back
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to that when we're back from their summer break. And
the last sports related thing that I want to talk
about is the Olympics. The Olympics have been delivering on
so many levels this year. It has been so much
fun to watch Simone Biles, Ilana Mayor like. There are
so many storylines Team USA, the French love for their
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French athletes, which I'm now kind of tangentially invested in
because of Ben. There's so much going on, So let's
first dive into Simone Biles. I will admit, and it
pains me to admit this, but when Simone withdrew from
Tokyo for the Olympics because she cited her mental health,
I I had weird feelings about because I feel like
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the way it was communicated did not really do the
severity of her issue justice. So it seemed like she
just pulled out. And reality is obviously she was experiencing
a disconnect between her mind and her body, almost like
a sense of vertigo, I think is a way to
describe it to non gymnast. But the twisties is what
she had, and when we learn more details, it made
(09:05):
a whole lot more sense why she withdrew. If you
can't safely know where you are in the air, you
could dangerously land on your neck, you could break your neck,
you could become paralyzed. Like obviously that is a huge issue,
but it was communicated in such a weird way. So anyway,
once I learned that, I was like, oh, my goodness,
I hope that she can come back. That's got to
be such a tough way to end your Olympic career
(09:26):
with that withdrawal, right, And so to see her come
back and to dominate on the team and dominate on
the all around and get that gold medal, it was
such a beautiful, powerful redemption performance that she got to
do to claim the gold in a couple of different competitions.
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And I know that all of us older people in
our thirties are like, ah, everyone there is young, but
at twenty seven, she's she's old for a gymnast, And
it's really cool to see her just be peak form.
It's really great to see her team rally behind her.
The power in her moves is so incredible, and I
just like, I get tired watching what she's doing, and
(10:09):
let's talk about the beam. The beam is a routine
that absolutely blows my mind because I cannot imagine walking
straight and balanced on the beam, let alone flipping, jumping,
doing cartwheels, doing handstands, jumping and doing splits. I can't
imagine doing that on the beam. Oh my goodness, that
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thing's several inches wide. It is so so impressive what
they are able to do. And yeah, more power to them.
I would hurt myself very badly if I tried to
do anything on the beam. So that's the moone. Super happy,
super happy for Team USA and gymnastics. Next time the Olympics,
I want to give a shout out to Hans Hankins.
So Hans and his teammate got bronze in the men's
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skiff sailing event. And Hans is the husband of my
friend Helena, who is also a sailor. We were really
good friends in college. She went to Rio placed tenth.
I believe I am such a big fan of Helena.
She was a mechanical engineering student, she got a master's.
She's doing incredible work in the engineering sailing world. I'm
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just such a big fangirl of hers, and so to
know that her husband was able to secure the bronze.
I know that they are such a great team and
it's a great team effort, so just big shouts to them.
There's so many things that you talk about with the Olympics.
Whether it's the French pole vaulter that you know didn't
get to keep the pole on the bar, I guess
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because of his well endowment, or if it's the shot
putters and like or the meme of the shooter for
China she was really cool, and the South Korean woman
who was really really cool. I mean, so many fun
social media gems with the Olympics in addition to the sports,
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or the backdrop of the volleyball tournaments being played right
in front of the Eiffel Tower, or I mean no offense,
La is going to have a hard time keeping up
with the incredible backdrops that Paris offers. But Culver City
here we come. And the last thing I do want
to talk about, though in more depth, is Alana Mayor So.
She is a US rugby player. She I think had
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a pretty good social media following going into the Olympics
because she's very raw and vulnerable and she's a bigger
woman and that allows her to play rugby really really well,
but it means she gets bullied online for not being
in shape, for being overweight. And she's done a lot
of body positivity work through TikTok and Instagram, and she's
really funny and she's self deprecating, but she's also really
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empowering and she embraces everything about her. And so she's
been on social media throughout the Olympics. And not only
was she part of women's rugby team that got bronze
in their tournaments, which is the first time that US
women's rugby has ever gotten a medal at the Olympics,
So go ladies, that's incredible. She supports her team mates
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to be able to score goals or points or whatever
the terminology is, and then the whole time she's advocating
for embracing yourself and body positivity and measuring things in
how you're able to accomplish your goals. So I'm a
big fan, will be forever, and I'm really happy to
see her being able to not only excel at the
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sport that she loves, but to make it more than
just herself and make it about something bigger and inspiring
a lot of people along the way. So Thank you,
Ilana for everything that you do. The last thing I
want to talk about with the Olympics is the fact
that we are a mixed allegiance household. So I as
an American, am rooting for US, and then my husband,
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as a Frenchman, is rooting for France. And it's always
a lot of fun when we have these international competitions
because we get very obnoxiously into our respective home countries.
And sometimes France wins, sometimes the US wins. But with
these games in particular, it got really heated. With the
gold medal matches for basketball, for both men's and women's
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men's basketball had some close moments and we were watching
with other European friends, and so I was the only
one rooting for the US. But we were victorious, which
was awesome. But then the women's basketball game got more
emotional for me, and I can really appreciate, you know,
the French women's team of how incredible it would be
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to win with the home crowd and this incredible Olympic
platform at Paris. But I felt really really invested in
the US women's basketball team coming home with the gold
because those athletes have been doing so much to try
to fight for more equal representation and media coverage and
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sponsorship deals and compensation for athletes, and so women's sports,
especially in the US, has been having this incredible moment,
and I really wanted the US women's basketball team to win,
to be able to carry that momentum, to be able
to continue to have this really incredible platform, and to
just cap out what feels like a few years of
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really forcing the issue and doing what's right for women
athletes anywhere. So I was really happy for them, But
oh my goodness, it gets heated between me and Ben,
and you know, because the US has been winning a
little bit more. It's a it's a it's a touchy subject,
so we might be we might be a little a
little sassy with each other for the next little bit.
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But now it's it's incredible and it is really fun
and add the whole new level of stress to have
this mixed household when it comes to international competition. So
that is my recap of the Olympics. I love the
Olympics so much. I love human excellence, I love human performance.
I love that especially because I feel like the world
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at large is in a really divisive place, has been
for a while now. The fact that this sorts of
the Olympics are able to bring us together and have
us looking towards positive performance and just sheer brilliance and
through preparation and all of these good qualities that sports
bring out in people. I'm really happy that we're able
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to rally around that and have these moments that feel
much more cohesive and unified then I feel like we
have felt as a country for a little while. So
it was really good. I'm very sad it's over, and
I'm already excited for the Winter Olympics to come so
that we can keep rooting and for LA in twenty
twenty eight. To round out this episode, I want to
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give a glimpse into some of the topics I'm going
to dive into this season. And what I decided to
do for season three is to dive into kind of
human performance and human related things that I find interesting.
I realized that while I was actively racing, I was
doing a lot more research on human performance, on how
to increase sleep, on how our brains work, and so
(16:59):
I'm going to dive into a little bit of that.
Some of its stuff that's you know, kind of neutral,
like how we deal with natural highs and coming off
of a natural high and what causes that feeling of euphoria.
Some things are a little more personal, like grief and
processing grief, and I think that's something we've all had
to do at some point in our lives in different ways,
So I want to tackle that. I also want to
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get into daydreaming and some of my thoughts and realizations
around that. And then we're continuing to bring in really
cool guests who I'm excited for you to hear from.
So that is the welcome back episode for season three
of If I'm Honest with Julia Landauer. I hope that
you'll do me a solid and go and subscribe to
the podcast, share episodes that you like. I'm going to
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try to do a better job of posting video clips
so that those can be easily shareable. And sharing is
so valuable for me as a podcaster and for my
producers for all the work that we put in, and
I'm excited to get the season rolling. So every other
week come back for an episode of If I'm Honest
with Julia Landauer. Thank you for letting me be honest
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with you, and I look forward to seeing you in
two weeks
Hello, and welcome to season three of If I'm Honest
with Julia Landauer. You guys, we are in our third season.
That is so cool. Thank you so much for being
along for this journey. It has been an incredibly satisfying
passion project. I have had great feedback from you guys.
It's been really interesting to hear you disagree with me
(00:26):
or agree with me. It's been cool to have this
outlet to be able to dive into topics that I'm
excited about. It's been incredible to be able to talk
with so many really cool and accomplished people as our guests.
You guys have really enjoyed those episodes, and yeah, here
we are. Season three is going to be a little
bit different than season one and season two, not just
(00:48):
in thematic stuff, but we are going to take it
back a little bit. I'm going to be doing one
episode every two weeks instead of every week, and they
will still come out on Wednesdays, but we're going to
do one episode every two weeks. There's gonna be ten episodes,
so it's going to take us through the end of
twenty twenty four. Still going to be a mix of
topics that I'm excited about and guests, which I will
(01:10):
get into more later, but this is something that I
think will be helpful as I balance work and keynote
speaking and having life and doing the podcasting. So really
excited for this new format. It's going to keep it fun,
going to keep it fresh. And yeah, so I've missed you.
And it's been two months roughly since we had my
(01:30):
last episode, and quite a bit has happened since then.
If we look at the world at large, a lot
of stuff politically has happened. It's a very different political
ground for America right now than it was back in June.
Sports Wise, we've had some twists and turns with NASCAR
and Formula One and the Olympics, which I want to
get into. Personally, we were able to go celebrate two
(01:54):
friends marriages in Europe on two weddings in three days.
It was very aggressive. We had to go from Corsica
to Hamburg, Germany during the global IT outage, which we
made it like really really unexpectedly, really grateful. We made
it their no problem. It was so nice to celebrate love.
I am such a sap I love love and I
(02:16):
cry a lot, and even at the wedding where I
wasn't as familiar with the people. They were Ben's friends
from college. I was crying, even though a lot of
it was in French and I didn't understand everything. And
then the second wedding we went to, which was in Germany,
was for two of our friends, where Ben pointed out
that it was the first wedding where I know both
(02:38):
the people personally and have developed the same relationship with
both of them, and so it was just really beautiful.
I really ugly cried with hot tears that were painful.
It was just it was so incredible to see their
appreciation for each other and their loved ones and friends
and family, and we all flew out there to see them,
and I just love it so oh so much. I
(03:01):
just love weddings anyway, So we did that. We made
it back. Work has really ramped up at NASCAR. It's
really exciting. I'm having to learn a lot, you know,
some of that basic business in corporate information and navigating
a lot of new things. So that's been really cool.
And yeah, speaking is going to pick back up again
here at the end of the summer, and I'm working
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on a new keynote that's going to be a completely
different narrative arc, different stories. It's the first real revamp
of Keynotes that I have done in many, many years,
So it's daunting. It's a big task. It's a lot
of creative time, which is hard to find when you're
working nine to five. But I'm really excited for all
(03:42):
of that. So for the first part of this episode,
I want to dive into some sports related things that
have happened since June so that I can give my
opinion some big things that I think about, including the Olympics,
and then I'll close out this episode by talking about
some of the specific topics I'll get into in season three.
So let's talk about NASCAR first for a little bit.
(04:03):
Obviously I'm biased, obviously I am working there, but I
still love the racing. I still love what the series
is doing. I am so happy that Chicago for the
second year was more or less a really great show.
We saw some really incredible racing. Weather was a little
less of a factor, still a factor, still a pain
in the butt. I don't think NASCAR can catch a
(04:24):
break when it comes to Chicago weather for their spectacle race,
but at least they were able to get concerts in.
They were able to get a lot of new fans
to the track. NASCAR also unveiled their partnership with ABB
and the electric vehicle. It's really cool to see what
we're doing with that, and yeah, it's just a fun race.
Shane Van Gisbergen is so fun to watch, not only
(04:47):
on the track because he's so aggressive but so clean,
but then he's also really great from an interviewing perspective
and personality perspective, and I think NASCAR is really lucky
to have him being part of our sport now. And
on the lesser great news with NASCAR, Unfortunately, at that
same weekend, it was announced that Haley Degan and her
(05:07):
team were parting ways. Now Haley Degan is the only
full time female racer in any of the three national
NASCAR series, and it's just disappointing. Regardless, there are rumors
as to why they parted ways. I'm not gonna look
into rumors or speculations. I do not know firsthand what happened,
but either way, it's a bummer to lose that representation,
(05:30):
especially because, at least in the immediate aftermath, the team
had cited that they wanted to be able to get
a veteran in the car to be able to help
them improve from a technological standpoint and from a car
performance standpoint, and they got eighth with Joey Logano at Chicago,
but for the two oval races after that, they got
(05:51):
twenty something and a DNF, So they're not really getting
the development and I think that they were hoping for.
NASCAR has been on a break for the Olympics because
we share a broadcast partner with NBC, and so I'm
going to be really paying attention to how that team
does moving forward and just kind of seeing personally what's
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going on, because either way, it's a bomber to not
have any women racing full time. I'm very badened by
that because I think, again racing is one of those
really cool sports where we can be co ed from
a physicality standpoint and from a performance standpoint, and I
think we just have a little ways to go. So
we will see in positive female racing NASCAR news. I
(06:34):
am really excited by kind of the next generation that's
coming up. There are a lot of women in their
late teens who are winning in midgets and sprint cars
on dirt, and who are winning super late Model races
and competing up front in the ARCA series, so I'm
looking forward to seeing how those women do in the
coming years jumping into Formula One. For my fellow Lewis fans,
(06:56):
this has been a fun few racists for us, hasn't it,
Because starting in June and July, for some of those races,
I think we were seeing Hamilton Mercedes were doing incrementally better.
And then there was that breakthrough win at Silverstone for Hamilton,
which is so powerful. The fact that he gets to
win at his home track and his team's home track
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at Silverstone on his final year with Mercedes, it's just
it was really poetic. It's so fun to watch. I
think he's really graceful, really really generous with his team
and fans and all the support that he gets. And
then he inherited the win at SPA when unfortunately George
had his problem. But it's fun to see them come back,
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and it's really fun to see multiple teams competing up front.
I know there are certain adverse situations that Pristavin found
himself in which handicapped him a bit, but in general
I love seeing more teams being competitive. So between McLaren
Mercedes and Red Bull, we're seeing some real, feisty fights
on the f one track. So excited to get back
(07:59):
to that when we're back from their summer break. And
the last sports related thing that I want to talk
about is the Olympics. The Olympics have been delivering on
so many levels this year. It has been so much
fun to watch Simone Biles, Ilana Mayor like. There are
so many storylines Team USA, the French love for their
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French athletes, which I'm now kind of tangentially invested in
because of Ben. There's so much going on, So let's
first dive into Simone Biles. I will admit, and it
pains me to admit this, but when Simone withdrew from
Tokyo for the Olympics because she cited her mental health,
I I had weird feelings about because I feel like
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the way it was communicated did not really do the
severity of her issue justice. So it seemed like she
just pulled out. And reality is obviously she was experiencing
a disconnect between her mind and her body, almost like
a sense of vertigo, I think is a way to
describe it to non gymnast. But the twisties is what
she had, and when we learn more details, it made
(09:05):
a whole lot more sense why she withdrew. If you
can't safely know where you are in the air, you
could dangerously land on your neck, you could break your neck,
you could become paralyzed. Like obviously that is a huge issue,
but it was communicated in such a weird way. So anyway,
once I learned that, I was like, oh, my goodness,
I hope that she can come back. That's got to
be such a tough way to end your Olympic career
(09:26):
with that withdrawal, right, And so to see her come
back and to dominate on the team and dominate on
the all around and get that gold medal, it was
such a beautiful, powerful redemption performance that she got to
do to claim the gold in a couple of different competitions.
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And I know that all of us older people in
our thirties are like, ah, everyone there is young, but
at twenty seven, she's she's old for a gymnast, And
it's really cool to see her just be peak form.
It's really great to see her team rally behind her.
The power in her moves is so incredible, and I
just like, I get tired watching what she's doing, and
(10:09):
let's talk about the beam. The beam is a routine
that absolutely blows my mind because I cannot imagine walking
straight and balanced on the beam, let alone flipping, jumping,
doing cartwheels, doing handstands, jumping and doing splits. I can't
imagine doing that on the beam. Oh my goodness, that
(10:29):
thing's several inches wide. It is so so impressive what
they are able to do. And yeah, more power to them.
I would hurt myself very badly if I tried to
do anything on the beam. So that's the moone. Super happy,
super happy for Team USA and gymnastics. Next time the Olympics,
I want to give a shout out to Hans Hankins.
So Hans and his teammate got bronze in the men's
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skiff sailing event. And Hans is the husband of my
friend Helena, who is also a sailor. We were really
good friends in college. She went to Rio placed tenth.
I believe I am such a big fan of Helena.
She was a mechanical engineering student, she got a master's.
She's doing incredible work in the engineering sailing world. I'm
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just such a big fangirl of hers, and so to
know that her husband was able to secure the bronze.
I know that they are such a great team and
it's a great team effort, so just big shouts to them.
There's so many things that you talk about with the Olympics.
Whether it's the French pole vaulter that you know didn't
get to keep the pole on the bar, I guess
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because of his well endowment, or if it's the shot
putters and like or the meme of the shooter for
China she was really cool, and the South Korean woman
who was really really cool. I mean, so many fun
social media gems with the Olympics in addition to the sports,
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or the backdrop of the volleyball tournaments being played right
in front of the Eiffel Tower, or I mean no offense,
La is going to have a hard time keeping up
with the incredible backdrops that Paris offers. But Culver City
here we come. And the last thing I do want
to talk about, though in more depth, is Alana Mayor So.
She is a US rugby player. She I think had
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a pretty good social media following going into the Olympics
because she's very raw and vulnerable and she's a bigger
woman and that allows her to play rugby really really well,
but it means she gets bullied online for not being
in shape, for being overweight. And she's done a lot
of body positivity work through TikTok and Instagram, and she's
really funny and she's self deprecating, but she's also really
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empowering and she embraces everything about her. And so she's
been on social media throughout the Olympics. And not only
was she part of women's rugby team that got bronze
in their tournaments, which is the first time that US
women's rugby has ever gotten a medal at the Olympics,
So go ladies, that's incredible. She supports her team mates
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to be able to score goals or points or whatever
the terminology is, and then the whole time she's advocating
for embracing yourself and body positivity and measuring things in
how you're able to accomplish your goals. So I'm a
big fan, will be forever, and I'm really happy to
see her being able to not only excel at the
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sport that she loves, but to make it more than
just herself and make it about something bigger and inspiring
a lot of people along the way. So Thank you,
Ilana for everything that you do. The last thing I
want to talk about with the Olympics is the fact
that we are a mixed allegiance household. So I as
an American, am rooting for US, and then my husband,
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as a Frenchman, is rooting for France. And it's always
a lot of fun when we have these international competitions
because we get very obnoxiously into our respective home countries.
And sometimes France wins, sometimes the US wins. But with
these games in particular, it got really heated. With the
gold medal matches for basketball, for both men's and women's
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men's basketball had some close moments and we were watching
with other European friends, and so I was the only
one rooting for the US. But we were victorious, which
was awesome. But then the women's basketball game got more
emotional for me, and I can really appreciate, you know,
the French women's team of how incredible it would be
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to win with the home crowd and this incredible Olympic
platform at Paris. But I felt really really invested in
the US women's basketball team coming home with the gold
because those athletes have been doing so much to try
to fight for more equal representation and media coverage and
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sponsorship deals and compensation for athletes, and so women's sports,
especially in the US, has been having this incredible moment,
and I really wanted the US women's basketball team to win,
to be able to carry that momentum, to be able
to continue to have this really incredible platform, and to
just cap out what feels like a few years of
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really forcing the issue and doing what's right for women
athletes anywhere. So I was really happy for them, But
oh my goodness, it gets heated between me and Ben,
and you know, because the US has been winning a
little bit more. It's a it's a it's a touchy subject,
so we might be we might be a little a
little sassy with each other for the next little bit.
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But now it's it's incredible and it is really fun
and add the whole new level of stress to have
this mixed household when it comes to international competition. So
that is my recap of the Olympics. I love the
Olympics so much. I love human excellence, I love human performance.
I love that especially because I feel like the world
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at large is in a really divisive place, has been
for a while now. The fact that this sorts of
the Olympics are able to bring us together and have
us looking towards positive performance and just sheer brilliance and
through preparation and all of these good qualities that sports
bring out in people. I'm really happy that we're able
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to rally around that and have these moments that feel
much more cohesive and unified then I feel like we
have felt as a country for a little while. So
it was really good. I'm very sad it's over, and
I'm already excited for the Winter Olympics to come so
that we can keep rooting and for LA in twenty
twenty eight. To round out this episode, I want to
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give a glimpse into some of the topics I'm going
to dive into this season. And what I decided to
do for season three is to dive into kind of
human performance and human related things that I find interesting.
I realized that while I was actively racing, I was
doing a lot more research on human performance, on how
to increase sleep, on how our brains work, and so
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I'm going to dive into a little bit of that.
Some of its stuff that's you know, kind of neutral,
like how we deal with natural highs and coming off
of a natural high and what causes that feeling of euphoria.
Some things are a little more personal, like grief and
processing grief, and I think that's something we've all had
to do at some point in our lives in different ways,
So I want to tackle that. I also want to
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get into daydreaming and some of my thoughts and realizations
around that. And then we're continuing to bring in really
cool guests who I'm excited for you to hear from.
So that is the welcome back episode for season three
of If I'm Honest with Julia Landauer. I hope that
you'll do me a solid and go and subscribe to
the podcast, share episodes that you like. I'm going to
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try to do a better job of posting video clips
so that those can be easily shareable. And sharing is
so valuable for me as a podcaster and for my
producers for all the work that we put in, and
I'm excited to get the season rolling. So every other
week come back for an episode of If I'm Honest
with Julia Landauer. Thank you for letting me be honest
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with you, and I look forward to seeing you in
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