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World Champion runner, Chanelle Price, joins Laura today to share her remarkable story and the lessons she has learned through it all. A supremely talented elite athlete, Chanelle\u2019s many achievements include competing at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships at the age of 16, running the second fastest 800m of all time by a high school female which qualified her for the Olympic Trials when she was 17, and becoming the 2014 World IAAF Indoor Champion \u2013 the first American woman to ever win 800m gold at an indoor or outdoor world championship. Along with these great successes, Chanelle has experienced some devastating low points in her career, and she courageously discusses them all here today.\n\xa0\nShe begins by sharing how she came to find her way into track, her early successes, her struggles with insecurity, and the dark days of her time at college. Chanelle then provides a highly personal account of the factors that led her to contemplate suicide, and how beginning her journey with Christianity pulled her through that tragic time. She also discusses the many challenges she still had to face throughout this journey, the difference between her Olympic Trials experiences, and training for Tokyo during COVID. She draws the conversation to a close by highlighting the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship with sport, surrounding yourself with the right supportive people, her current definition of success, and the crucial role her \u2018why\u2019 plays in keeping her motivated and moving forward. Chanelle holds nothing back as she recounts the shining mountain peaks and dark, dark valleys she has encountered in her fascinating journey, and how these have helped her to become the woman she is today - an individual overflowing with faith, strength, character, and commitment, who undoubtedly \u2018brings a smile to God\u2019s face\u2019.

Episode Highlights:\n\xa0

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• How Chanelle found her way into track
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• Her early success
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• Chanelle\u2019s struggles with insecurity
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• Her college experience
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• Seeking a sponsorship deal
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• Chanelle\u2019s contemplation of suicide
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• Her journey with Christianity
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• Drifting away from and returning to God
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• The many challenges Chanelle has worked through
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• Moving to train in Eugene, Oregon
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• Training for Tokyo during COVID
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• Chanelle\u2019s Olympic Trials experiences
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• The importance of maintaining a healthy relationship with sport and surrounding yourself with supportive people
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• Her current definition of success
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• Chanelle\u2019s \u2018why\u2019
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Quotes:\n\xa0

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• \u201cI just didn\u2019t really find track fun. It felt more like punishment.\u201d
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• \u201cOnce I started that singular focus on track once I got to high school, you know, it really paid off.\u201d
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• \u201cIt was definitely the success that got me to like it.\u201d
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• \u201cThat is where my sense of identity came from was my achievement on the track.\u201d
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• \u201cI don\u2019t know who I am if I\u2019m not Chanelle Price the track star.\u201d
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• \u201cIt was like a 100 pound weight on my shoulders every time I went to race.\u201d
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• \u201cBehind closed doors, I was really, really, really struggling.\u201d
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• \u201cChase after Me like you chase after track.\u201d
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• \u201cYour worth is not based off of how you perform out there on the track.\u201d
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• \u201cTo whom much is given, much is required.\u201d
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• \u201cI was just a completely different person on the track.\u201d
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• \u201cYou know, God, I\u2019m going to come back to You.\u201d
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• \u201cThe past 4 years have been the hardest years of my life\u2026He answered, but it just wasn\u2019t really what I expected.\u201d
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• \u201cI miss being that desperate for Him.\u201d
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• \u201cIt was a very humbling experience.\u201d
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• \u201cGod, I don\u2019t know what You\u2019re doing, but I\u2019m about to break here\u2026I don\u2019t know if I can take this.\u201d
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• \u201cEvery other month I said I was going to quit.\u201d
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• \u201cMaybe He\u2019s telling me it\u2019s time to move on.\u201d
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• \u201cI knew that this extra year was definitely a blessing in disguise for me.\u201d
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• \u201cHonestly, I considered retirement after that.\u201d
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• \u201cThe woman that you have become through this journey is worth it.\u201d
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• \u201cI\u2019m not thinking about anything else besides using my gift, and for me that\u2019s when things seem to fall into place.\u201d
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• \u201cSome pressure is good, don\u2019t get me wrong, but it shouldn\u2019t get you to the point of suicide like it has for me in the past\u2026that is not a healthy relationship with sport.\u201d
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• \u201cThis is what you do. It\u2019s not who you are.\u201d
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• \u201cThe person that we become along the way - I think that\u2019s what brings a smile to God\u2019s face.\u201d
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• \u201cThe sole thing that kept me going was my \u2018why\u2019.\u201d
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• \u201cDon\u2019t sacrifice the gift.\u201d
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• \u201cThere is always hope beyond what is happening in front us right now.\u201d
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Links:

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