Retiring From Competitive Skiing at 23 with Grace Miller

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What if your wild idea no longer brings you joy? Retired pro skier, Grace Miller, is intimately familiar with a change of course. Grace grew up in Alaska and started skiing at a young age. Before she was out of high school, she was recruited to compete at the highest level, but at age 23 after competing on the world stage, Grace decided to leave skiing behind to pursue some new wild ideas.

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0:00.0	On this podcast, we talk to a lot of professional athletes and adventurers who are performing at the highest level.
0:08.0	But what happens when that commitment no longer brings them joy?
0:12.0	Leaving behind a sport that has been a major part of their identity can be tough to reconcile.
0:17.0	People aren't one-dimensional.
0:19.0	It's so easy for people to get labeled like as an athlete as an artist as a singer but people are so much more than that we all have
0:27.1	different passions and hobbies and we have multiple of those and it's totally
0:31.1	okay if you're giving up one passion because you're going to find
0:33.7	something else in life. Retired pro skier Grace Miller is intimately familiar with
0:39.5	this change of course. Grace grew up in Alaska and started skiing at a young age. Before she was out of high
0:45.9	school, she was recruited to compete at the highest level. But at age 23, after competing
0:51.6	on the world stage, Grace decided to leave skiing behind to pursue some new wild ideas.
0:57.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studio's production brought to you by Capital One.
1:08.8	Grace Miller skis with one pole.
1:11.4	She was born with a limb difference and her left arm ends just a few
1:14.8	inches below her elbow. Growing up in Alaska, Grace spent many weekends skiing
1:20.0	with her mom and competing on her high school ski team.
1:25.0	Grace Miller, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:28.0	Hello.
1:29.0	We're excited to have you and this is your first podcast so congratulations.
1:33.6	Yeah I'm excited. You know you're an athlete you started as a Paralympic cross-country
1:38.8	skier which is pretty bad-ass. How did you find cross-country skiing? Yeah, so actually my mom used to be the US
1:45.3	by Athon coach. So I've been skiing. I was originally adopted from China when I was
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