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Green Light with Chris Long

Nastia Liukin On Winning Olympic Gold, Relationship With Shawn Johnson & Gymnastics

Green Light with Chris Long

Chris Long

Sports, Entertainment News, News, Football

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Olympic gymnastics all-around gold medalist, five time medal winner, and cultural icon Nastia Liukin chats with David Vobora about her remarkable journey to become a champion and the struggles of achieving a lifetime goal at eighteen years old. Nastia shares details of her tense friendship with teammate and rival Shawn Johnson, manifesting her olympic gold medal and reflects on her personal journey after sport. A remarkable story of one of the United States' olympic heroes and her Life After. (00:00) - Intro (1:30) - Youth in Gymnastics (20:35) - Celebrity and Fame (38:00) - Road to Olympics (41:45) - Relationship with Shawn Johnson (52:45) - Manifesting the 2008 Olympic Gold Medal (1:10:45) - 2008 Olympic Finals (1:36:00) - 2012 Olympic Trials (2:05:55) - Gifts Life After with David Vobora is an inspirational and motivational podcast that dives deep into guest's personal stories of hardship, perseverance and personal realization. After playing professional football, overcoming addiction, working with Wounded Warriors, and creating the Adaptive Training Foundation, David knows that life-altering events come in many ways, but they always come. On the new series, former “Mr. Irrelevant” in the NFL Draft, Vobora, talks with incredible guests about overcoming adversity in the face of unimaginable circumstances. David identifies crucial—and sometimes tragic—moments in their lives' that helped shape both their success and who they are today. Motivational Podcast | Inspirational Podcast | Perseverance Make sure to like, follow and subscribe on Life After's YouTube and social pages, linked below: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaFfMRZJRbo2_57YUmjqylA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterwithdavidvobora/?hl=en Twitter: https://x.com/LifeAfterWithDV Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lifeafterwithdavidvobora https://youtube.com/@lifeafterwithdavidvobora?si=IdpcHfEtN5V_UQJn And check out the Green Light Podcast here: https://greenlightpodcast.org/

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0:00.0

What if you had achieved everything you'd ever dreamed of by the age of 18?

0:12.0

Well, Nostia Luka, our next guest, Olympic gold medalist, gymnast. She did just that.

0:18.0

Imagine the life-altering moment wasn't tragedy but rather triumphs, but the pressures

0:22.6

of being this person who had to adhere to a highest of possible standard with two parents

0:27.6

that were Olympic medalists themselves, as well as her coaches. Nostia takes us through the story,

0:32.6

her vulnerable story of what it was with teammate Sean Johnson, you know, co-competitor there always one and two,

0:39.6

and ultimately when Nastia won the gold, what that did to her relationship with Sean and the

0:44.0

difficulty therein. It was really impressive for her to be able to speak to how she's redefining

0:48.8

her life now a number of years later as a successful entrepreneur and businesswoman. Y'all

0:53.5

come check out this episode special.

0:56.4

Welcome back to the Life After Podcast. I'm your host, David Vibora, and today is no difference.

1:01.9

We have another extraordinary guest for you. Welcome to the show, Nasty Luka. Thank you so much for

1:06.5

having me. I'm so pumped that you're here. Well, I guess I'm here in your beautiful home.

1:10.3

You mean this isn't your pink marble? Well, I guess I'm here. Yeah. In your beautiful home.

1:11.6

You mean this isn't your pink marble?

1:12.6

Well, I do appreciate pink marble, but I'll tell you what, this room's beautiful.

1:15.6

Your house is beautiful.

1:16.6

Thank you.

1:17.6

You are beautiful.

1:18.6

Everything that we have today to unpack, I'm so excited.

1:20.6

I'm excited.

1:21.6

So with the name like Nostia Lukan, one would assume you're probably not from West Texas. Probably not. Let's start from the jump.

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