The Iron Butterfly

I talk to International Medalist Hannah Miller about her skating experiences: An athletic and artistic skater, she was Novice Champion with a lot of promise, and decided to relocate for skating after turning 18 -- she moved to LA to train with coach Rafael Arutyunyan in the hopes of improving her technique and progressing her skating. We discuss her experience in LA regarding training, environment, social life, support system, and her eventual decision to move back home. Now obtaining her master's degree in Sports Psychology, she shares her story of struggles with body image and other mental issues stemmed from skating, dismantling that and learning to accept yourself, and advice to young skaters as well as retired ones.

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I talk to Team USA figure skater and coach Sean Rabbitt on transitioning out of competitive skating, what retirement is like, his passion for coaching and the positive influence you have on your students, what skaters should takeaway from their practices, body image in skating for men & women, being proud and satisfied with your career, current skating, and more!

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This episode I sit down with my mom and skating coach Nina Edmunds. We talk all the details on a parent-coach relationship with your own child: the most difficult parts, separating skating from home life, how we handled navigating out relationship in a positive way. We talk about her skating background coming from Russia, and the differences between coaching in the US and Russia. She also gives advice to parent coaches and skating parents.

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This episode I talk to 1988 Olympic Bronze Medalist and former Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Debi Thomas about her skating career, her mentality when she won the Bronze Medal at the ’88 Games in Calgary, obtaining a Pre-Med Engineering degree from Stanford University while at the peak of her athletic career, her experiences as a surgeon in the financially driven medical system, her professional opinions on today’s medicine and surgeries — emphasizing surgery as a final option after exhausting other methods and encouraging people to do their own research + find doctors who will prioritize health rather than expensive operations, her pivot to a more homeopathic approach with healing using quantum meta-physics, and more of her thoughts on today’s world.

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I breakdown the Ladies event at the 2021 World Championships this past weekend. In order: Josefin Taljegard, Satoko Miyahara, Eva Lotta, Yelim Kim, Bradie Tennell, Olga Mikutina, Rika Kihira, Kaori Sakamoto, Loena Hendrickx, Karen Chen, Alexandra Trusova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Anna Scherbakova, and my thoughts on how we need to focus on optimizing a skating fanbase and skater's health through better judging practices.

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Talk to 2011 Junior Champion and International Medalist Courtney Hicks about her experiences in skating: coaching history, injuries in sport, finding herself as a skater through artistry, and what she can bring to the table now!

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I chat with US Silver Medalist Ross Miner about his 2018 Nationals performance: not being selected for the 3-person Olympic team after his amazing performances won him the silver medal. We talk about life after skating: the difficulty in transitioning into retirement and what it was like going back to school (college) after being homeschooled since 6th grade, mental training in skating and how it can be stigmatized, the importance of having a positive support system in sports, the current quad trend and direction of skating, and what he's doing now!

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I chat with 2020 Junior Champion Lindsay Thorngren about her skating career thus far: She was 2019 Intermediate Champion, skipped the novice level and won the Junior Ladies Championship the following year, and is currently ranked 6th in the US Senior Ladies field. We talk about her experience competing internationally, and her goals for the upcoming Olympic year: to make the 2022 team!

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I chat with 2015 Junior National Champion Andrew Torgashev about his skating career thus far, consistency and mental training, training in Colorado Springs and now Los Angeles, and his future plans with skating!

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I talk to my Olympic teammate Jason Brown about his skating journey: growing up competing, being at the Olympics as our first time competing internationally as Seniors, Olympic sparkle moments, the artistic side of skating, the headspace that resulted in not making the 2018 Olympic team + the dark moments that came with that, to his current skating today and strategy for the 2022 Games!

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