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About Athena Brownson:
Athena Brownson is a former professional skier and X Games athlete from Breckenridge, Colorado. After more than a decade in elite skiing, multiple major injuries, 27 surgeries, and a long battle with Lyme disease, Athena reinvented herself as a real estate entrepreneur, developer, speaker, and advocate for chronic illness awareness.
Topics Covered:
Athena Brownson’s story
X Games skiing and professional athletics
Growing up in Breckenridge, Colorado
Becoming a professional skier at 15
Skiing 300 days a year around the world
Extreme sports, fear, discipline, and visualization
100-foot jumps, 1080s, backflips, and big mountain skiing
Nine ACL tears and 27 surgeries
Why Athena had to walk away from skiing
Chronic Lyme disease and invisible illness
Fatigue, joint pain, neurological symptoms, and recovery
How Lyme disease changed her life
Real estate, development, and entrepreneurship
Building homes in Denver, Colorado
Reinvention after pain and illness
Resilience, mindset, faith, hope, and healing
About Ross Mandell:
Ross Mandell is a former Wall Street professional, entrepreneur, author, and capital formation expert. On Going Public with Ross Mandell, Ross interviews athletes, entrepreneurs, investors, doctors, creators, and high performers about success, failure, reinvention, money, health, business, and what it takes to rebuild after adversity.
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⏱️ Chapters
00:00 — Athena Brownson: X Games Skier, Pain, Pressure and Reinvention
06:08 — Ski Sponsors, Prize Money and Competing Around the World
10:02 — Visualization, 1080 Tricks and the Athlete Mindset
15:18 — Colorado Roots, Adrenaline Addiction and Family Influence
20:03 — Why Skiing Was the Best Business School for Athena Brownson
24:16 — Walking Away From Pro Skiing Before Knee Replacements
30:14 — Chronic Lyme Disease, Autoimmune Issues and Years of Treatment
34:17 — Building a Survival Toolkit and Refusing to Quit
40:38 — $300K Out of Pocket and Why Insurance Won’t Cover Lyme Treatment
47:35 — Denver Real Estate, Development and Building Luxury Homes
56:08 — The Doctor Who Helped Save Athena Brownson’s Life
1:02:03 — Athena Brownson’s Five-Year Vision for Health, Love and Success Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.