In this episode, I am joined by Caitlin Sargent Jones. Caitlin is a recently retired Olympic track and field athlete. Caitlin talks about how her start in athletics wasn’t a typical one and how her use of small goals has helped her achieve amazing things in her career. Caitlin is also a physio and she explains how she had an internal struggle with herself with her physio brain and her athlete brain particularly when it came to injuries. She mentions how seeing a sports psychologist really helped her mindset shift between the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. This was the first time I got to ask an athlete about the transition into retirement and Caitlin articulates it so well. We discuss identity and how there is a grieving process too. Caitlin shares some great insights that she has learnt throughout her career and I hope you can learn as much as I did!

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