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EP 1 : Learning the Winning Attitude with Dominique Arnold Highlight
Dominique Arnold an American record holder, a world champion, an Olympic champion. A known coach.
If you are aiming for success to be bigger and stronger. And have the idea of wanting to be the next Shaquille O'Neal's or a superstar in your own ways. Dominique Arnold is able to help people get stronger, better, and more confident in what they do, it doesn't matter what sport he's coaching, as long as you have that attitude.
Learn some basic from the champion on how to be a champion in your own ways.
Episode Highlights
Dominique [00:03:26] Strength training had opportunity to work with. Although I did track. I had the opportunity to work with athletes outside of track, you know, namely CBA athletes. You know, Chinese basketball players must really work with them. And just the ongoing cycle of of wanting to be bigger and stronger. You know, they get it. They get the idea of wanting to be the next Shaquille O'Neal's out here. So, you know, they want to put the working. So it's been a pleasure for me to actually do things outside of track. You know, even though track is my first love, being able to to help people get stronger, better and more confident, what they do, it doesn't it doesn't matter what sport I'm coaching, you know, as long as you have that attitude. And I'm fine with it.
Dominique [00:05:22] Coach is this is it. That was his translation. He said what we might say, some different kind of like, you know, jovial kind of guy de plume or some a happy coach, you know. So why what you say crazy if you say isn't happy, why you say a crazy man. But I have interesting moments like that as a coach because, you know, as an athlete, you know, you have a different pair of eyes. The way we see a complication or we see, you know, someplace we visit, you know, you see it through different eyes as a coach.
Ari [00:07:09] You know, and seeing all of the greatness that came before you and then saying I could do that. I got this period. I could do that again. What did they do different? OK, I can I can manipulate and mold myself into this position. That was something that Tyson attributes a lot to his success. And being probably the greatest fighter of all time is where he would he was forced and then he chose to watch all of the videos, all of the study and study and study and go.
Ari [00:11:02] Yeah, but I was I was remembering, you know, I had somebody come and put a gold medal on my on my chest and. I looked at it and I I was like, why, why is this coming on to me? Right. He starts it while I'm wearing his gold medal, showing me Olympic record, broken world record, broken record, broken indoor and outdoor.
Ari [00:12:21] And you know what you need to do now to matter of doing it enough times in your mind. So that when you do it, then it'll being. Right. And he comes back with all these records, and that's just kind of what what I was reminded about by what you were saying is can't be there and do it in your mind before you do it in reality. The other was thinking about when you was when you were saying that is use other people who have been there before to make that have made the mistakes so that you don't have to.
Dominique [00:13:35] Yeah, well, hopefully we learn to make less. They won't make the same mistakes. But, you know, the other side of that coin is trusting that the people who give you this information, to tell you the truth about the mistakes they made in this competition, some of these guys, a lot of you. So you don't meet them, you know. So you sit there, you go out there and focus on something that has nothing to do with them. They're like, oh, yeah, I gotcha. So, you know, that's when it comes to you do your own research.
Ari [00:17:49] Yeah. So what are your what in your childhood? Made that because, you know, you come from Long Beach, which most right out of California have no idea. They think Long Beach. They think beach. They have no idea what's what the real Long Beach is like.
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Ari&Dominique.mp3
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Ari [00:00:50] I'm Ari Gronich and this is. Create a new tomorrow podcast.
Ari [00:01:00] This is Ari Gronich, welcome to create a new tomorrow podcast. I'm here with Dominique Arnold and we are we were having a great conversation before getting on this call, so we're going to bring that on. Let me tell you about Dominique, though, a little bit.
Ari [00:01:15] He is the oldest man in history to ever run a twelve point nine one. Hundred ten meter hurdles. Right,.
Dominique [00:01:25] To run under twelve nine, one.
Ari [00:01:27] Under under under twelve point nine one.
Ari [00:01:31] He is an ex American record holder, a world champion and Olympic champion. I mean, this guy has done everything. Let me introduce you, Dominique. Why don't you tell them a little bit more about who you are and what makes you somebody.
Ari [00:01:48] I would want to talk to.
Dominique [00:01:51] Well, one what makes me a person you would love to talk to because of my brilliant personality. That's right. How does it receives everything else? But I am. Oh, yeah. Slash artist. That's why we're showing you my my my job. I think I did. All right. Yeah. I have a very artistic background. My personality reflects that. So I'm very welcoming. So that's why I need to talk to me. Dog from LBC.
Ari [00:02:25] Tell us a little bit about, you know, your career. And nowadays what you're doing, minus, of course, the the current situation, but.
Dominique [00:02:34] Right, right. Well, my career was kind of leval career 1999 to 2000. No, actually, no, no, no. Yeah. Two thousand. Let Mia Hamm, umpteen team member, Gulf War plays ranked number two, ranked in the top five in the world.
Dominique [00:02:53] You know, three to five times broke the American record while breaking the world record bronze medalist world into a bronze medalist.
Dominique [00:03:05] U.S. champion 2006, incidentally, champion, 1996. Maybe I just. Oh, yeah. Gentile's champ, you know, it's good to be a champ, when you a champ you a champ you a champ.
Ari [00:03:18] You know, nice Mel Brooks line to tell us what you're doing right now and you know how you're seeing the next generation.
Dominique [00:03:26] Strength training had opportunity to work with. Although I did track. I had the opportunity to work with athletes outside of track, you know, namely CBA athletes. You know, Chinese basketball players must really work with them. And just the ongoing cycle of of wanting to be bigger and stronger. You know, they get it. They get the idea of wanting to be the next Shaquille O'Neal's out here. So, you know, they want to put the working. So it's been a pleasure for me to actually do things outside of track. You know, even though track is my first love, being able to to help people get stronger, better and more confident, what they do, it doesn't it doesn't matter what sport I'm coaching, you know, as long as you have that attitude. And I'm fine with it.
Ari [00:04:19] Absolutely. So you've been you've trained in Saudi Arabia. You've trained in what countries have.
Ari [00:04:26] Have you been able to coach in.
Dominique [00:04:30] Actually coached in Singapore? You mentioned Saudi, Malaysia, Indonesia. I mean, it's been kind of crazy. It's kind of interesting. When I was in China, I did not know that they paid that much attention to track and field because as I was a coach, I was in one of the hotels. One wanted to one as I checked in. Someone went on YouTube, saw my name, and the next day I was in a newspaper. I actually should have brought the newspaper clipping and show you and show you what the newspaper was in the newspaper today. Dominick Dunne and I had one of the guys that I worked with him, CBA I said, can you read this for me? Because I'd never know what to say. And he kind of read the top line and he says, Well, we're now crazy.
Dominique [00:05:22] Coach is this is it. That was his translation. He said what we might say, some different kind of like, you know, jovial kind of guy de plume or some a happy coach, you know. So why what you say crazy if you say isn't happy, why you say a crazy man. But I have interesting moments like that as a coach because, you know, as an athlete, you know, you have a different pair of eyes. The way we see a complication or we see, you know, someplace we visit, you know, you see it through different eyes as a coach.
Ari [00:05:54] Absolutely. So what do you think is the secret to your success being?
Ari [00:05:58] I mean, being a top athlete for 11 years, eleven plus years, is no short, you know, accomplishment.
Ari [00:06:07] So what do you think your secret to your success was?
Dominique [00:06:11] Easy. I didn't feel like I accomplished as much as I did the year before. So that following year. Always one. The first. You know, push my body, push my mentality further just so I can, you know, do something that no one thought was possible. You know, that was it. I wanted to, you know, eat a lot of athletes. I want to be the greatest. So I don't want to be the greatest. I just want to do something that went beyond great. So I still have that.
Dominique [00:06:38] Every hour we have a little crazy twitch in that brain. Little piece of bulldog. And I use that. You know, I use that as motivation because I just felt like I wanted to do something that was unheard of.
Ari [00:06:51] That's pretty awesome.
Ari [00:06:52] You know, when I was talking to you before Mike Tyson came to my mind, because what you were talking about is watching the videos, watching the people that came before you.
Ari [00:07:09] You know, and seeing all of the greatness that came before you and then saying I could do that. I got this period. I could do that again. What did they do different? OK, I can I can manipulate and mold myself into this position. That was something that Tyson attributes a lot to his success. And being probably the greatest fighter of all time is where he would he was forced and then he chose to watch all of the videos, all of the study and study and study and go.
Ari [00:07:48] And that's a thing that you had had mentioned as well during our previous conversation. What is. Oh, definitely joining do for you as a person and as an athlete.
Dominique [00:07:59] Say that again. I, I missed it for the first part.
Ari [00:08:02] What does the questioning do for you? The person and as an athlete
Dominique [00:08:07] A way of questioning what it does.
Dominique [00:08:09] Is it one? It forces me to go find an answer. You know, as you just mentioned about videotapes I've watched. I don't know how many videotapes of how many races before we had better technology. I mean, I watched a ton of times. I can tell you verbatim from start to finish what the announcers said, what the reaction was, you know, of all these races that I watched because I was so in tune, because I wanted to make sure whatever mistake they made, I didn't make it. So I wanted to immerse myself even to the point where when I watch certain videos of athletes at the Olympics, I put I put myself.
Dominique [00:08:50] In their shoes, as if I'm actually here looking down a track at the Olympics, I'm not even near you. I'm trying to force myself to think how they maybe thinking that that time, you know, based on their body language. So I've I've really immersed myself into, you know, just being a student, you know? And to me, that really made the biggest difference.
Ari [00:09:13] Does that happen with a lot of athletes?
Dominique [00:09:16] No, no. Because fortunately, I had the opportunity to talk to you know, we see we talk. You know, we have lunch, dinner, breakfast. We go to these competitions. And I went I told a story, I think I'm a nut that. But it's one of the things that I think is necessary when you don't know, like, I don't know what it's like to be at the Olympics at that time because I wasn't there, you know. So I have to I wanted to make sure that I felt like I was somewhere already, like we've talked before. Let's run the fastest time in practice 20 times. And by the time we get to the race, you've already done it. You know, if I felt like I was at the Olympics or world championships before, the nerves won't be there.
Dominique [00:10:01] So, you know, I remember talking to one of the guys who actually won the Olympic and telling him about the race. And I saw his race that he won. And I said, I saw you, you know, before the race you were doing these gestures. I was thinking maybe you were thinking this and he agrees. Yes, I was doing that. How do you know that?
Dominique [00:10:20] I was just guessing based on I saw you count some hurdles. I saw you. You mouthed something. And so that helped me understand it. Wow. If I can fake what this guy is thinking and I'm not there, then I'm closer to my goal. And I actually thought I was. Mentally, at least,.
Ari [00:10:37] That's awesome. Yeah. Know, you reminded me a little bit, I was I was in 2004 in Greece. I was working the Paralympics at the time, which, you know, I love those athletes way more than you Olympic guys.
Ari [00:10:50] You are out of out of control in the allowed. But Paralympic, no ego. Right?
Dominique [00:10:57] There's more I always do, I think is more rewarding.
Ari [00:11:00] It is.
Dominique [00:11:01] I think it is.
Ari [00:11:02] Yeah, but I was I was remembering, you know, I had somebody come and put a gold medal on my on my chest and. I looked at it and I I was like, why, why is this coming on to me? Right. He starts it while I'm wearing his gold medal, showing me Olympic record, broken world record, broken record, broken indoor and outdoor.
Ari [00:11:28] So he was a marathoner with one of the rifles on his back. So he had a shoot.
Ari [00:11:34] Well, you know, he had given me a bullet at one point. I didn't know it was it was his pin, his Olympic pin, you know, the bullet. I had done something totally different with him than training him that day, the day before he competed. I had said to him because he came in so nervous. You're really nervous. What's going on is that I'm competing tomorrow. I said, OK, stop presses.
Ari [00:12:00] Let's stop. We're what we were going to do. And I did. I did meditation. And I just said, you've been here before. You've done this before. Now just go back in your mind and run it as if you're there. That's right.
Ari [00:12:16] And you will you already know the information. You already know the course. You know the end.
Ari [00:12:21] And you know what you need to do now to matter of doing it enough times in your mind. So that when you do it, then it'll being. Right. And he comes back with all these records, and that's just kind of what what I was reminded about by what you were saying is can't be there and do it in your mind before you do it in reality. The other was thinking about when you was when you were saying that is use other people who have been there before to make that have made the mistakes so that you don't have to.
Ari [00:13:03] So you don't have to learn from your mistakes. You can learn from them.
Ari [00:13:07] And that's really trysting way of thinking because we do have a couple thousand years or so of history that we can.
Ari [00:13:18] All right. What are the mistakes that were made before me?
Ari [00:13:23] And if we're willing to learn and be a student, like you said, then we can learn those mistakes and make new ones for other people to learn eventually.
Dominique [00:13:35] Yeah, well, hopefully we learn to make less. They won't make the same mistakes. But, you know, the other side of that coin is trusting that the people who give you this information, to tell you the truth about the mistakes they made in this competition, some of these guys, a lot of you. So you don't meet them, you know. So you sit there, you go out there and focus on something that has nothing to do with them. They're like, oh, yeah, I gotcha. So, you know, that's when it comes to you do your own research.
Dominique [00:14:06] You know, we're figuring out things on your own. And that's to trial and error of, you know, just being an athlete, you know, and you really can't trust a the guys who have done some you can blame you. You'll find out who those people are. But for the most part, now you got your own stuff.
Ari [00:14:22] Awesome. So tell me, what is. Give me give me your perfect metaphor for.
Ari [00:14:28] An athlete right in. So you're the metaphor is that you want to have an athlete's results with your common life.
Dominique [00:14:42] All right. I've got to start thinking about my go back to my my rap repertoire.
Dominique [00:14:48] Now I've got to I've got an album coming out. Oh, man.
Dominique [00:14:57] You stuck me on that one Miley revision bill. OK. Why do we believe that one? I like that question, though. Yeah.
Ari [00:15:03] I like a metaphor for life based on an athlete's perspective. Let's put it, you know, see if that helps.
Ari [00:15:12] Well, so here here's my thought. You look great. feel great.
Ari [00:15:17] What makes a high performer in life great?
Dominique [00:15:29] You know, I don't want to sound repetitive. I guess that's why I'm I'm searching because I don't want to sound repetitive.
Dominique [00:15:36] You know, I'm really looking for something new, new to say that might trigger some different somebody else.
Ari [00:15:41] But I think you were saying in our in our last conversation before we started recording about belief.
Dominique [00:15:51] We asked a lot and what I said, you know.
Dominique [00:15:57] I just know for me it was an athlete. Now I have to think of other athletes. But, you know, we're talking.
Dominique [00:16:08] I know when it came to Woodstock, my belief when it came to me being homeless, you know, at a time when I had to believe and so on, so forth and not get down on myself because I was in that situation, you know, it really was. Easy for me to believe because I knew that I was capable, you know? I didn't know how I would get to that point. As far as being a top athlete. But I did start like I was capable. I did do a measurement. You know, I measured myself against the college guys who became professionals. So the dead guys were at 35. And now he's a professional. I ran a fashion to him. Regardless if our role is different, our passion different. I still have that belief that if he can do it, I know I can do it. I mean, I have all the resources around me, but I know I can at least at least do what he did or. A little slightly better. We we have the thing definitely when we go to certain processes in life, especially for us, it is a struggle because you cannot get to kind of trick yourself into believing that what's happening is not really happening. Because if you just emerged immerse yourself in to the situation, then you really should really live in it. So you're not thinking about what's ahead of you. So I really couldn't live. So you had the beliefs. The belief thing was it seemed like it was automatic. You know, I hate to make it sound so simple at that time. It was, although the parts were difficult. It was a simple process to have to think, you know. So what was difficult for you to say? Yes.
Ari [00:17:49] Yeah. So what are your what in your childhood? Made that because, you know, you come from Long Beach, which most right out of California have no idea. They think Long Beach. They think beach. They have no idea what's what the real Long Beach is like.
Dominique [00:18:07] Right. Or do you think Long Beach? They think Snoop Dogg, you know, and every every place has its its nice area and it's not so nice areas. I just happen to live in those places where it was so nice. And it does calm you a certain way. You know, you mean in a ghetto being the hood. You want to call it. It does make you a certain way. You are. Your edges are a little bit harder. You know, no matter how I mean, people look Snoop Dogg now and I don't see the gangsta rap guy. You see almost a grandpa with his dreads and gray hair and smoking weed, you know. But you also see a side of a lot of African longbeach has a great reputation. Great. Not good of having someone the most professional athletes come out of one place, a city, a small city at a time. Long Beach Poly High School had more initial athletes than the number one major division one college. So, yeah, we're we're bred a certain way. Like I mentioned to you before, we're talking about health. We were healthy growing up. You know, we had a whole bunch of citrus trees on street, lemon trees, apple trees, plums, great vines everywhere. So we may have been poor, but we still a might have it from your backyard.
Dominique [00:19:40] I think that's how I got there.
Dominique [00:19:41] You know, honestly, here's a story real quick of how I even became a hurdler. My brother wasn't I didn't run track into too senior year. You know, I was playing football the first three years of high school before ninth grade was wasn't implemented. But he said, hey, man, you you mean you always running around everywhere. And we used to play tag, of course, and cross, you know, the way our neighborhoods are. You have everybody has a fit. So in order for me to get away, I want to be attacked. I would jump through the yards I run and jump and jump the fences. And so my brother actually said one day. So, I mean, you got to jump. The fence is walking and run the hurdles. You know, I really think so. Yeah. So I went over a hurdle in the first race. I ran the weekend I sixty nine and that was it. So my was like, oh well you actually won. I guess so. I don't know. So I thank my brother for making me chase me over fences and a suggestion that I will never lose.
Ari [00:20:42] That's awesome. You never know how you're going to become the person who came. And. And so I really appreciate you sharing that.
Ari [00:20:51] As always, I ask at the end of the show three tangible steps that somebody can take in order to change their world, live their passion and create a new tomorrow.
Ari [00:21:03] So what are as a as a top athlete, what are your three actionable steps that somebody can do right now in order to improve who they are,.
Dominique [00:21:16] Where an athlete know what you want?
Dominique [00:21:19] Because if you go out there without a plan, you don't know. You can't have that step two or three. Know what you want to accomplish, whether it's football or basketball. A time sermonic catches tackles certain how to win a high jump. No, no, Dad. Write it down. You hear stories of Kevin Young who went broke to work in the fall hurdles. He ran a. He wrote a time to put up on his wall. He look at that time all the time. So he had a visual. Go write it down. See your visual go. The next step is obviously, if he if you're already in a situation where you have someone to help you with that goal, then utilize them to the fullest capability. You know, you never want to not give yourself an opportunity to be great. So you have people around you let them help you and guide you. The third one is execute. You know, and that goes without saying if you have the first lady, you know what your goal is. The second when you have the people around you to help you with that goal. Third, executed to the best of your ability because you surprised yourself. I always tell my athletes, no matter what stage you're at, whether it's high school or college or professional, whatever coach or person you have around, you do exactly what they ask you to do because they're phases. And we learn and you never know what one thing you may miss out on because you're second guessing. So do everything you actually do. Give yourself and your body and your talents, your genetics, an opportunity to show show you what you have. So you've got to execute what what the people in the second phase, what they are giving you based off the first phase, what with the idea that you gave to start the whole process.
Ari [00:23:03] It sounds like it's not just good for athletes, it's good for businesses. It's good people in general, families, you know, smackingly. Absolutely.
Ari [00:23:14] Ask for help. And then execute that plan.
Dominique [00:23:18] That's a little, you know, real quick, I'm I'm sure the last name. We will get information, but we're afraid to question the process. A lot of times. Because you don't question the process, you don't know where you're going. You know, we have we have we have Google Maps. Now, you watched a little car driving around. New roads are being built so that little cars go down those new roads. So it is uncharted territory. But we never ask a question. We're that we're the Google Maps car and we have to go to those areas. We've never been to before. You know, what's the next state? So that's one for me. That whole question is, is showing me a new route to go that I didn't know was there. So then I learned more about myself. And you can add more to to your.
Ari [00:24:04] That is so awesome. Thank you so much for being here. I'm sure that the listeners have gotten so much out of your wisdom, your experience and your time. And I really appreciate it.
Ari [00:24:17] And this has been another episode of Create a New Tomorrow, Activating Your Vision for a Better World. And Dominique Arnold, one of the world's greatest track athletes of all time. So thank you. So much being here. Really appreciate it. And and we'll talk again.
Dominique [00:24:41] Well, also, I love, your show big guy.
Ari [00:24:43] Absolutely.
Dominique [00:24:43] Take Care man
Ari [00:24:48] Thank you for listening to this podcast. I appreciate all you do to create a new tomorrow for yourself and those around you. If you'd like to take this information further and are interested in joining a community of like minded people who are all passionate about activating their vision for a better world, go to the Web site, createanewtomorrow.com and find out how you can be part of making a bigger difference. I have a gift for you. Just for checking it out.
Ari [00:25:13] And look forward to seeing you take the leap. And joining our private paid mastermind community. Until then, see you on the next episode.
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Dominique Arnold an American record holder, a world champion, an Olympic champion. A known coach.
If you are aiming for success to be bigger and stronger. And have the idea of wanting to be the next Shaquille O'Neal's or a superstar in your own ways. Dominique Arnold is able to help people get stronger, better, and more confident in what they do, it doesn't matter what sport he's coaching, as long as you have that attitude.
Learn some basic from the champion on how to be a champion in your own ways.
Episode Highlights
Dominique [00:03:26] Strength training had opportunity to work with. Although I did track. I had the opportunity to work with athletes outside of track, you know, namely CBA athletes. You know, Chinese basketball players must really work with them. And just the ongoing cycle of of wanting to be bigger and stronger. You know, they get it. They get the idea of wanting to be the next Shaquille O'Neal's out here. So, you know, they want to put the working. So it's been a pleasure for me to actually do things outside of track. You know, even though track is my first love, being able to to help people get stronger, better and more confident, what they do, it doesn't it doesn't matter what sport I'm coaching, you know, as long as you have that attitude. And I'm fine with it.
Dominique [00:05:22] Coach is this is it. That was his translation. He said what we might say, some different kind of like, you know, jovial kind of guy de plume or some a happy coach, you know. So why what you say crazy if you say isn't happy, why you say a crazy man. But I have interesting moments like that as a coach because, you know, as an athlete, you know, you have a different pair of eyes. The way we see a complication or we see, you know, someplace we visit, you know, you see it through different eyes as a coach.
Ari [00:07:09] You know, and seeing all of the greatness that came before you and then saying I could do that. I got this period. I could do that again. What did they do different? OK, I can I can manipulate and mold myself into this position. That was something that Tyson attributes a lot to his success. And being probably the greatest fighter of all time is where he would he was forced and then he chose to watch all of the videos, all of the study and study and study and go.
Ari [00:11:02] Yeah, but I was I was remembering, you know, I had somebody come and put a gold medal on my on my chest and. I looked at it and I I was like, why, why is this coming on to me? Right. He starts it while I'm wearing his gold medal, showing me Olympic record, broken world record, broken record, broken indoor and outdoor.
Ari [00:12:21] And you know what you need to do now to matter of doing it enough times in your mind. So that when you do it, then it'll being. Right. And he comes back with all these records, and that's just kind of what what I was reminded about by what you were saying is can't be there and do it in your mind before you do it in reality. The other was thinking about when you was when you were saying that is use other people who have been there before to make that have made the mistakes so that you don't have to.
Dominique [00:13:35] Yeah, well, hopefully we learn to make less. They won't make the same mistakes. But, you know, the other side of that coin is trusting that the people who give you this information, to tell you the truth about the mistakes they made in this competition, some of these guys, a lot of you. So you don't meet them, you know. So you sit there, you go out there and focus on something that has nothing to do with them. They're like, oh, yeah, I gotcha. So, you know, that's when it comes to you do your own research.
Ari [00:17:49] Yeah. So what are your what in your childhood? Made that because, you know, you come from Long Beach, which most right out of California have no idea. They think Long Beach. They think beach. They have no idea what's what the real Long Beach is like.
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Ari&Dominique.mp3
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Ari [00:00:50] I'm Ari Gronich and this is. Create a new tomorrow podcast.
Ari [00:01:00] This is Ari Gronich, welcome to create a new tomorrow podcast. I'm here with Dominique Arnold and we are we were having a great conversation before getting on this call, so we're going to bring that on. Let me tell you about Dominique, though, a little bit.
Ari [00:01:15] He is the oldest man in history to ever run a twelve point nine one. Hundred ten meter hurdles. Right,.
Dominique [00:01:25] To run under twelve nine, one.
Ari [00:01:27] Under under under twelve point nine one.
Ari [00:01:31] He is an ex American record holder, a world champion and Olympic champion. I mean, this guy has done everything. Let me introduce you, Dominique. Why don't you tell them a little bit more about who you are and what makes you somebody.
Ari [00:01:48] I would want to talk to.
Dominique [00:01:51] Well, one what makes me a person you would love to talk to because of my brilliant personality. That's right. How does it receives everything else? But I am. Oh, yeah. Slash artist. That's why we're showing you my my my job. I think I did. All right. Yeah. I have a very artistic background. My personality reflects that. So I'm very welcoming. So that's why I need to talk to me. Dog from LBC.
Ari [00:02:25] Tell us a little bit about, you know, your career. And nowadays what you're doing, minus, of course, the the current situation, but.
Dominique [00:02:34] Right, right. Well, my career was kind of leval career 1999 to 2000. No, actually, no, no, no. Yeah. Two thousand. Let Mia Hamm, umpteen team member, Gulf War plays ranked number two, ranked in the top five in the world.
Dominique [00:02:53] You know, three to five times broke the American record while breaking the world record bronze medalist world into a bronze medalist.
Dominique [00:03:05] U.S. champion 2006, incidentally, champion, 1996. Maybe I just. Oh, yeah. Gentile's champ, you know, it's good to be a champ, when you a champ you a champ you a champ.
Ari [00:03:18] You know, nice Mel Brooks line to tell us what you're doing right now and you know how you're seeing the next generation.
Dominique [00:03:26] Strength training had opportunity to work with. Although I did track. I had the opportunity to work with athletes outside of track, you know, namely CBA athletes. You know, Chinese basketball players must really work with them. And just the ongoing cycle of of wanting to be bigger and stronger. You know, they get it. They get the idea of wanting to be the next Shaquille O'Neal's out here. So, you know, they want to put the working. So it's been a pleasure for me to actually do things outside of track. You know, even though track is my first love, being able to to help people get stronger, better and more confident, what they do, it doesn't it doesn't matter what sport I'm coaching, you know, as long as you have that attitude. And I'm fine with it.
Ari [00:04:19] Absolutely. So you've been you've trained in Saudi Arabia. You've trained in what countries have.
Ari [00:04:26] Have you been able to coach in.
Dominique [00:04:30] Actually coached in Singapore? You mentioned Saudi, Malaysia, Indonesia. I mean, it's been kind of crazy. It's kind of interesting. When I was in China, I did not know that they paid that much attention to track and field because as I was a coach, I was in one of the hotels. One wanted to one as I checked in. Someone went on YouTube, saw my name, and the next day I was in a newspaper. I actually should have brought the newspaper clipping and show you and show you what the newspaper was in the newspaper today. Dominick Dunne and I had one of the guys that I worked with him, CBA I said, can you read this for me? Because I'd never know what to say. And he kind of read the top line and he says, Well, we're now crazy.
Dominique [00:05:22] Coach is this is it. That was his translation. He said what we might say, some different kind of like, you know, jovial kind of guy de plume or some a happy coach, you know. So why what you say crazy if you say isn't happy, why you say a crazy man. But I have interesting moments like that as a coach because, you know, as an athlete, you know, you have a different pair of eyes. The way we see a complication or we see, you know, someplace we visit, you know, you see it through different eyes as a coach.
Ari [00:05:54] Absolutely. So what do you think is the secret to your success being?
Ari [00:05:58] I mean, being a top athlete for 11 years, eleven plus years, is no short, you know, accomplishment.
Ari [00:06:07] So what do you think your secret to your success was?
Dominique [00:06:11] Easy. I didn't feel like I accomplished as much as I did the year before. So that following year. Always one. The first. You know, push my body, push my mentality further just so I can, you know, do something that no one thought was possible. You know, that was it. I wanted to, you know, eat a lot of athletes. I want to be the greatest. So I don't want to be the greatest. I just want to do something that went beyond great. So I still have that.
Dominique [00:06:38] Every hour we have a little crazy twitch in that brain. Little piece of bulldog. And I use that. You know, I use that as motivation because I just felt like I wanted to do something that was unheard of.
Ari [00:06:51] That's pretty awesome.
Ari [00:06:52] You know, when I was talking to you before Mike Tyson came to my mind, because what you were talking about is watching the videos, watching the people that came before you.
Ari [00:07:09] You know, and seeing all of the greatness that came before you and then saying I could do that. I got this period. I could do that again. What did they do different? OK, I can I can manipulate and mold myself into this position. That was something that Tyson attributes a lot to his success. And being probably the greatest fighter of all time is where he would he was forced and then he chose to watch all of the videos, all of the study and study and study and go.
Ari [00:07:48] And that's a thing that you had had mentioned as well during our previous conversation. What is. Oh, definitely joining do for you as a person and as an athlete.
Dominique [00:07:59] Say that again. I, I missed it for the first part.
Ari [00:08:02] What does the questioning do for you? The person and as an athlete
Dominique [00:08:07] A way of questioning what it does.
Dominique [00:08:09] Is it one? It forces me to go find an answer. You know, as you just mentioned about videotapes I've watched. I don't know how many videotapes of how many races before we had better technology. I mean, I watched a ton of times. I can tell you verbatim from start to finish what the announcers said, what the reaction was, you know, of all these races that I watched because I was so in tune, because I wanted to make sure whatever mistake they made, I didn't make it. So I wanted to immerse myself even to the point where when I watch certain videos of athletes at the Olympics, I put I put myself.
Dominique [00:08:50] In their shoes, as if I'm actually here looking down a track at the Olympics, I'm not even near you. I'm trying to force myself to think how they maybe thinking that that time, you know, based on their body language. So I've I've really immersed myself into, you know, just being a student, you know? And to me, that really made the biggest difference.
Ari [00:09:13] Does that happen with a lot of athletes?
Dominique [00:09:16] No, no. Because fortunately, I had the opportunity to talk to you know, we see we talk. You know, we have lunch, dinner, breakfast. We go to these competitions. And I went I told a story, I think I'm a nut that. But it's one of the things that I think is necessary when you don't know, like, I don't know what it's like to be at the Olympics at that time because I wasn't there, you know. So I have to I wanted to make sure that I felt like I was somewhere already, like we've talked before. Let's run the fastest time in practice 20 times. And by the time we get to the race, you've already done it. You know, if I felt like I was at the Olympics or world championships before, the nerves won't be there.
Dominique [00:10:01] So, you know, I remember talking to one of the guys who actually won the Olympic and telling him about the race. And I saw his race that he won. And I said, I saw you, you know, before the race you were doing these gestures. I was thinking maybe you were thinking this and he agrees. Yes, I was doing that. How do you know that?
Dominique [00:10:20] I was just guessing based on I saw you count some hurdles. I saw you. You mouthed something. And so that helped me understand it. Wow. If I can fake what this guy is thinking and I'm not there, then I'm closer to my goal. And I actually thought I was. Mentally, at least,.
Ari [00:10:37] That's awesome. Yeah. Know, you reminded me a little bit, I was I was in 2004 in Greece. I was working the Paralympics at the time, which, you know, I love those athletes way more than you Olympic guys.
Ari [00:10:50] You are out of out of control in the allowed. But Paralympic, no ego. Right?
Dominique [00:10:57] There's more I always do, I think is more rewarding.
Ari [00:11:00] It is.
Dominique [00:11:01] I think it is.
Ari [00:11:02] Yeah, but I was I was remembering, you know, I had somebody come and put a gold medal on my on my chest and. I looked at it and I I was like, why, why is this coming on to me? Right. He starts it while I'm wearing his gold medal, showing me Olympic record, broken world record, broken record, broken indoor and outdoor.
Ari [00:11:28] So he was a marathoner with one of the rifles on his back. So he had a shoot.
Ari [00:11:34] Well, you know, he had given me a bullet at one point. I didn't know it was it was his pin, his Olympic pin, you know, the bullet. I had done something totally different with him than training him that day, the day before he competed. I had said to him because he came in so nervous. You're really nervous. What's going on is that I'm competing tomorrow. I said, OK, stop presses.
Ari [00:12:00] Let's stop. We're what we were going to do. And I did. I did meditation. And I just said, you've been here before. You've done this before. Now just go back in your mind and run it as if you're there. That's right.
Ari [00:12:16] And you will you already know the information. You already know the course. You know the end.
Ari [00:12:21] And you know what you need to do now to matter of doing it enough times in your mind. So that when you do it, then it'll being. Right. And he comes back with all these records, and that's just kind of what what I was reminded about by what you were saying is can't be there and do it in your mind before you do it in reality. The other was thinking about when you was when you were saying that is use other people who have been there before to make that have made the mistakes so that you don't have to.
Ari [00:13:03] So you don't have to learn from your mistakes. You can learn from them.
Ari [00:13:07] And that's really trysting way of thinking because we do have a couple thousand years or so of history that we can.
Ari [00:13:18] All right. What are the mistakes that were made before me?
Ari [00:13:23] And if we're willing to learn and be a student, like you said, then we can learn those mistakes and make new ones for other people to learn eventually.
Dominique [00:13:35] Yeah, well, hopefully we learn to make less. They won't make the same mistakes. But, you know, the other side of that coin is trusting that the people who give you this information, to tell you the truth about the mistakes they made in this competition, some of these guys, a lot of you. So you don't meet them, you know. So you sit there, you go out there and focus on something that has nothing to do with them. They're like, oh, yeah, I gotcha. So, you know, that's when it comes to you do your own research.
Dominique [00:14:06] You know, we're figuring out things on your own. And that's to trial and error of, you know, just being an athlete, you know, and you really can't trust a the guys who have done some you can blame you. You'll find out who those people are. But for the most part, now you got your own stuff.
Ari [00:14:22] Awesome. So tell me, what is. Give me give me your perfect metaphor for.
Ari [00:14:28] An athlete right in. So you're the metaphor is that you want to have an athlete's results with your common life.
Dominique [00:14:42] All right. I've got to start thinking about my go back to my my rap repertoire.
Dominique [00:14:48] Now I've got to I've got an album coming out. Oh, man.
Dominique [00:14:57] You stuck me on that one Miley revision bill. OK. Why do we believe that one? I like that question, though. Yeah.
Ari [00:15:03] I like a metaphor for life based on an athlete's perspective. Let's put it, you know, see if that helps.
Ari [00:15:12] Well, so here here's my thought. You look great. feel great.
Ari [00:15:17] What makes a high performer in life great?
Dominique [00:15:29] You know, I don't want to sound repetitive. I guess that's why I'm I'm searching because I don't want to sound repetitive.
Dominique [00:15:36] You know, I'm really looking for something new, new to say that might trigger some different somebody else.
Ari [00:15:41] But I think you were saying in our in our last conversation before we started recording about belief.
Dominique [00:15:51] We asked a lot and what I said, you know.
Dominique [00:15:57] I just know for me it was an athlete. Now I have to think of other athletes. But, you know, we're talking.
Dominique [00:16:08] I know when it came to Woodstock, my belief when it came to me being homeless, you know, at a time when I had to believe and so on, so forth and not get down on myself because I was in that situation, you know, it really was. Easy for me to believe because I knew that I was capable, you know? I didn't know how I would get to that point. As far as being a top athlete. But I did start like I was capable. I did do a measurement. You know, I measured myself against the college guys who became professionals. So the dead guys were at 35. And now he's a professional. I ran a fashion to him. Regardless if our role is different, our passion different. I still have that belief that if he can do it, I know I can do it. I mean, I have all the resources around me, but I know I can at least at least do what he did or. A little slightly better. We we have the thing definitely when we go to certain processes in life, especially for us, it is a struggle because you cannot get to kind of trick yourself into believing that what's happening is not really happening. Because if you just emerged immerse yourself in to the situation, then you really should really live in it. So you're not thinking about what's ahead of you. So I really couldn't live. So you had the beliefs. The belief thing was it seemed like it was automatic. You know, I hate to make it sound so simple at that time. It was, although the parts were difficult. It was a simple process to have to think, you know. So what was difficult for you to say? Yes.
Ari [00:17:49] Yeah. So what are your what in your childhood? Made that because, you know, you come from Long Beach, which most right out of California have no idea. They think Long Beach. They think beach. They have no idea what's what the real Long Beach is like.
Dominique [00:18:07] Right. Or do you think Long Beach? They think Snoop Dogg, you know, and every every place has its its nice area and it's not so nice areas. I just happen to live in those places where it was so nice. And it does calm you a certain way. You know, you mean in a ghetto being the hood. You want to call it. It does make you a certain way. You are. Your edges are a little bit harder. You know, no matter how I mean, people look Snoop Dogg now and I don't see the gangsta rap guy. You see almost a grandpa with his dreads and gray hair and smoking weed, you know. But you also see a side of a lot of African longbeach has a great reputation. Great. Not good of having someone the most professional athletes come out of one place, a city, a small city at a time. Long Beach Poly High School had more initial athletes than the number one major division one college. So, yeah, we're we're bred a certain way. Like I mentioned to you before, we're talking about health. We were healthy growing up. You know, we had a whole bunch of citrus trees on street, lemon trees, apple trees, plums, great vines everywhere. So we may have been poor, but we still a might have it from your backyard.
Dominique [00:19:40] I think that's how I got there.
Dominique [00:19:41] You know, honestly, here's a story real quick of how I even became a hurdler. My brother wasn't I didn't run track into too senior year. You know, I was playing football the first three years of high school before ninth grade was wasn't implemented. But he said, hey, man, you you mean you always running around everywhere. And we used to play tag, of course, and cross, you know, the way our neighborhoods are. You have everybody has a fit. So in order for me to get away, I want to be attacked. I would jump through the yards I run and jump and jump the fences. And so my brother actually said one day. So, I mean, you got to jump. The fence is walking and run the hurdles. You know, I really think so. Yeah. So I went over a hurdle in the first race. I ran the weekend I sixty nine and that was it. So my was like, oh well you actually won. I guess so. I don't know. So I thank my brother for making me chase me over fences and a suggestion that I will never lose.
Ari [00:20:42] That's awesome. You never know how you're going to become the person who came. And. And so I really appreciate you sharing that.
Ari [00:20:51] As always, I ask at the end of the show three tangible steps that somebody can take in order to change their world, live their passion and create a new tomorrow.
Ari [00:21:03] So what are as a as a top athlete, what are your three actionable steps that somebody can do right now in order to improve who they are,.
Dominique [00:21:16] Where an athlete know what you want?
Dominique [00:21:19] Because if you go out there without a plan, you don't know. You can't have that step two or three. Know what you want to accomplish, whether it's football or basketball. A time sermonic catches tackles certain how to win a high jump. No, no, Dad. Write it down. You hear stories of Kevin Young who went broke to work in the fall hurdles. He ran a. He wrote a time to put up on his wall. He look at that time all the time. So he had a visual. Go write it down. See your visual go. The next step is obviously, if he if you're already in a situation where you have someone to help you with that goal, then utilize them to the fullest capability. You know, you never want to not give yourself an opportunity to be great. So you have people around you let them help you and guide you. The third one is execute. You know, and that goes without saying if you have the first lady, you know what your goal is. The second when you have the people around you to help you with that goal. Third, executed to the best of your ability because you surprised yourself. I always tell my athletes, no matter what stage you're at, whether it's high school or college or professional, whatever coach or person you have around, you do exactly what they ask you to do because they're phases. And we learn and you never know what one thing you may miss out on because you're second guessing. So do everything you actually do. Give yourself and your body and your talents, your genetics, an opportunity to show show you what you have. So you've got to execute what what the people in the second phase, what they are giving you based off the first phase, what with the idea that you gave to start the whole process.
Ari [00:23:03] It sounds like it's not just good for athletes, it's good for businesses. It's good people in general, families, you know, smackingly. Absolutely.
Ari [00:23:14] Ask for help. And then execute that plan.
Dominique [00:23:18] That's a little, you know, real quick, I'm I'm sure the last name. We will get information, but we're afraid to question the process. A lot of times. Because you don't question the process, you don't know where you're going. You know, we have we have we have Google Maps. Now, you watched a little car driving around. New roads are being built so that little cars go down those new roads. So it is uncharted territory. But we never ask a question. We're that we're the Google Maps car and we have to go to those areas. We've never been to before. You know, what's the next state? So that's one for me. That whole question is, is showing me a new route to go that I didn't know was there. So then I learned more about myself. And you can add more to to your.
Ari [00:24:04] That is so awesome. Thank you so much for being here. I'm sure that the listeners have gotten so much out of your wisdom, your experience and your time. And I really appreciate it.
Ari [00:24:17] And this has been another episode of Create a New Tomorrow, Activating Your Vision for a Better World. And Dominique Arnold, one of the world's greatest track athletes of all time. So thank you. So much being here. Really appreciate it. And and we'll talk again.
Dominique [00:24:41] Well, also, I love, your show big guy.
Ari [00:24:43] Absolutely.
Dominique [00:24:43] Take Care man
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