0-9:00 discussion w Ro Molly and Alysia about REDS and Conference Ro went to with Endocrinologist Kathryn Ackerman MD MPH

Meet-our-team

See our website www.keeping-track.com  for slides from the conference 

9-Tianna introduces herself-resume is lit!

11:30-Tianna’s beginnings in track

13:30-Tianna’s approach of show up every day, and how she earned a car and a scholarship in Highschool

16:00-Tianna’s decade between medals, how she stayed motivated

Track is a vehicle for other things

18:00-”physics doesn’t give a F***”

20:00-in 2005, Tianna was surprised to win and not ready to handle the weight of a world championship as a college sophomore

24:00-advice to young athletes, why she likes “The Alchemist”

(link to her e-books and courses )

25:00-”i was chasing a ghost”, disappointment in 2006 world indoor , not medaling after winning gold months earlier, the expectations were so heavy

29:00-importance of showing the journey not just the arrival

(link to tiannabee.com)

31:00-existential crisis in the life of an athlete-being enough but wanting more from the sport, how she had to address her mental health

Buddhism and yoga are her strategies 

33-Tianna’s experience in an abusive relationship

(share her poster, and another other resource for abuse victims)

Link to book Tianna for her  talk “performance Fuel” 

38-Tianna calls out powerful coaches for being more responsible with the way they handle athletes , who are trusting them with life changing decisions that go beyond sport

41- How Tianna left her relationship and the risk and fears involved

45:-How Tianna was competing ok but mentally unhealthy years ago, and is now in a good place mentally but is waiting for her performance to catch up. Seeing self as a whole person, committing to the next Olympic cycle, proving self she can do it healthy 

46-Tianna’s resources and advice to abuse victims
(share the signs of abuse poster on www.keeping-track.com , and her blog for abuse victims)

49-What Tianna would like better told, advice to listeners:

“I want to give athletes permission to be the whole mess that we are sometimes, and to take all of that with you to the track and to..work those demons out there on the oval. You don’t have to hide anything and you can be you and you dont have you win every time- and odds are you'll lose way more than you win.... “

“....If its a bad time right now its temporary and if its a good time right now, its temporary, so keep moving”

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