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Why Isn’t Winning Enough?

When achievement doesn't make you feel the way you expected.

Nicole Roundy explores the intersection of achievement, self-worth, and personal identity. What happens when the life we’ve worked so hard to build no longer fits the person we’ve become?

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Episode guide

In this episode

  • ·The relationship between achievement, self-worth, and belonging
  • ·Surviving cancer and becoming a professional athlete
  • ·The identity built around being the person who can overcome anything
  • ·Why winning can still leave you feeling like you are not enough

Episode notes

The younger version of me thought that if I worked hard enough, achieved enough, and proved myself enough, that I started believing that being accomplish enough would help me feel like I belonged.

The funny thing is, I did accomplished, well, all the things.

I survived cancer. I became an amputee. I learned to snowboard when people told me amputees couldn’t snowboard. I became a professional athlete. I won 24 World Cup medals. I earned a master’s degree. I built a career outside of sports.

And somehow, winning still didn’t make me feel like enough.

In the first episode of Look Who It Is we introduce achievement, self-worth, belonging, and the identity I build around being the person who can overcome anything.

What happens when the life we’ve worked so hard to build no longer fits the person we’ve become?

That’s where we’re starting.

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