Toby Brooks

What would you say to that athlete who's tempted to kind of pull within their shell instead of lean into the community around them?

I love that.

And I would say as a healthcare provider, I wanted to make that part of the recovery.

If I saw an athlete starting to withdraw, I'm concerned about them.

Their psychological health could be suffering.

But I also want to encourage team leaders, if you've got an injured teammate and they're not part of the day in and day out, it's easy to focus on kind of what I have in front of me.

But a good leader recognizes the entire team and maybe can, you know, that invite from the team captain means a heck of a lot more than it means from the strength coach or the athletic trainer.

Yeah, great advice.

we don't have the benefit of perspective.

You don't know that it's all going to end well.

You get to go to opening ceremonies.

You get to skate.

You don't know that in that moment.

So now you do, and you can look back on that.

And I really try to encourage my listeners to recognize the value of reflection.

What we've been through is important, but unless we look back, we really can't understand the gravity of what we've learned.

So when you look back at that version of yourself, when your Olympic dreams were potentially in jeopardy,

What do you understand about yourself now that maybe you couldn't see then?

I love that.

It absolutely is.