What Happens in Vegas... (the Suzy Favor Hamilton story)

Hall of Shame

Rachel Bonnetta

Sports, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Rachel wants Rachna to talk about it! Like many people, Suzy Favor Hamilton spent much of her life grappling with mental illness. Unlike most people, Suzy ran track at three consecutive Olympics. Her disordered eating, anxiety, and bipolar disorder were only exacerbated by mistreatment at the hands of coaches and the stress of competitive running, but she suffered largely in silence. After her retirement from running, Suzy had two careers. One, like mental illness, society doesn’t like to talk about much...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Rachel Bonetta.
0:06.6	And I'm Rechana Frafon and this is Hall of Shame.
0:12.8	Hi Recha.
0:13.8	Hey girl.
0:14.8	What's going on?
0:15.8	How are you, Recha?
0:16.8	You know, I'm alright.
0:19.0	I feel like we're all always a little bit in a state of getting our bearings.
0:24.2	Yeah.
0:25.2	I feel like every time I ask somebody that question, their voice goes into that same
0:29.0	octave that you are just said, oh, okay.
0:35.6	Well today, Rechana, before I get into the story today, I want to get real with you.
0:40.8	We get personal on this podcast.
0:43.0	We do.
0:44.0	We're not afraid.
0:45.0	We've definitely, I think, safe to say, talked about our mental health.
0:49.0	For sure.
0:50.0	And how we both see therapists, but I think today is a good day to dive into that a little
0:55.1	further because today's story has a lot to do with mental illness and mental health.
0:59.0	And we're all feeling some things right now as we were just talking about.
1:02.7	So let's just dive into it.
1:04.6	And I want to have a little bit of a discussion beforehand before we get into the story today
	...

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