Ibtihaj Muhammad -USA Olympic Fencer, Author & Entrepreneur

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🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American sabre fencer, 2016 Olympic medalist, 5-time Senior World medalist and World Champion in the sport of fencing. In August 2016, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab and is also the first Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal for the United States. In addition to fencing, Ibtihaj is an entrepreneur and author. In 2014, she launched her own clothing company, Louella. This summer she partnered with Mattel to release their first hijabi Barbie doll, modeled in Ibtihaj’s likeness. She also released her memoir, PROUD: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream, this summer. She was on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential list, and serves as an important figure in a larger global discussion on equality and the importance of sports.Today Ibtihaj is here to talk about the silver-lining of adversity, how to resist the current administration and how her faith has empowered her as a woman and an athlete.

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0:00.0	Hello Girl Boss. This is your host, Sophia Amaruso, and we have a great guest today.
0:09.6	She's Olympic fencing, medalist, author, and entrepreneur, Ibihaj Muhammad.
0:15.0	We'll get to her chat with her in just a second, but first I want to invite you to join the
0:19.0	future of Girl Boss. Go to the future girl boss. dot com and also remember if you like what you hear on today's
0:26.2	show go ahead and rate review subscribe and tell a friend Success. It's such a complicated idea and yet for so long we've all collectively
0:40.4	subscribe to a single definition of the word which was likely given to us by a white-haired
0:45.3	dude, somewhere in a boardroom in the 1960s. And there's nothing wrong with that definition,
0:50.8	with the notion of climbing a corporate ladder with a singular focus.
0:54.0	But it's time to make space for a few other definitions, for side hustles and well-being and failing forward,
1:01.0	and for the idea that success is a wild ride, not the destination at the end of it.
1:06.0	Join me for a journey into the lives of women who are redefining success and paving the way for others with grit and grace.
1:13.0	I'm Sophia Maruso, the founder and CEO of Girl Boss Media, and this is Girl Boss Radio.
1:18.0	If Tihaj Muhammad is a United States Olympic fencer, author, and entrepreneur.
1:28.0	Ipti Hoss started her fencing career when she was 13 years old. She went on to Fence at Duke University
1:35.4	where she became a three-time All-American Fencer and earned a dual degree in international
1:40.8	relations and African studies.
1:43.8	In August 2016, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in
1:48.0	hijab, and is also the first Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal for the United States. It's about you feeding
1:55.7	yourself those positive ideas of success and strength that I think are the
2:00.6	difference between winning and losing. Because at that level, everybody's really good.
2:05.8	But I think it's about who's at the top of their game
2:08.7	mentally that separates the women from the girls in a sense.
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