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- So growing up, I feel
like my biggest mentors

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were my parents,

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just because not only what they
accomplished in gymnastics,

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but what they were able to do

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outside of their careers as athletes.

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So they've always inspired me.

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(hypnotic electronic music)

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I co-founded a company called Grander

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and our mission is to try to empower

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and inspire the next generation,

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really for them to be the
best version of themselves.

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And whether that is a gymnast,

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an Olympic athlete, an
athlete of any sort,

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an entrepreneur, a lawyer,
a founder, a scientist,

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whatever it is that you want to be,

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we're kind of building
this global community

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where they're able to interact

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with like-minded young women,

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but also to hear from their mentors.

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So growing up, I never really realized

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actually how lucky I was

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that my parents were world
and Olympic champions

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and I had that access
right in front of me,

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in that a lot of other young women

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don't have that necessarily.

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So we wanted to just build this community

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of really driven, motivated young women

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who want to be the best
version of themselves.

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Something my mom actually taught
me when I was a little girl

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was that you can never quit on a bad day.

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And I remember coming home
from training some days

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and telling her that I wanted to quit

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and because my parents never pushed me

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or made me do gymnastics,

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she would say, "that's fine,
you can quit, but not today."

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And she would make me go
back to the gym the next day,

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the next day, and the next
day, until I had one good day.

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And finally after a good day, y'know,

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'cause moms always know
when we have a good day,

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she would say, "okay
great, now you can quit.

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"We'll enroll you back into public school,

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"find another activity that
you're passionate about."

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And I would always say,

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"I don't know what you're talking about.

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"I never said I wanted to quit."

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And so basically it
saved me multiple times

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because at the end of the day,

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the most important thing is to
find something that you love

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and that you're passionate about

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and that to me was
gymnastics for so many years.

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And so what I realized,

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from that simple message
of never quit on a bad day,

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was that regardless of what
career path you decide to take,

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whatever it is that your job is,

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we're all going to have bad days.

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We're gonna have days where
want to throw our hands

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up in the air say I quit, I
don't want to do this anymore,

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it's too hard, I'm
frustrated, I'm injured,

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whatever it is and that's fine.

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It is okay to move on,

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it's okay to go in a different career path

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or on a different avenue,
but not after a bad day.

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And so I feel like that's
kind of what has helped me now

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through business and through
just life in general,

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is that not every day is
going to be easy or exciting

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or you're gonna feel fulfilled

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but getting through those hard days

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and kind of going back to okay,
what is it that my goal is,

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and for me, that was always the Olympics

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and winning a gold medal.

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And so on those bad days, I
would visualize and look ahead

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and so now being able to
do that same thing in life

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and also in business,

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those are the things
that helped me at least,

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helped me get through those bad days.