The Shine and The Shadows of an Olympic Journey - Christina Smith | TSPS #072

<p>I'm very excited. Our guest is Christina Smith. Christina is going to take us into the world of the Olympic athletes, the shine of the Olympics we're all familiar with. But there's another side to the Olympic journey. And we're going to be exploring both the shine and the shadows today. ~ Christina Smith is a female warrior who’s been to battle and has the scars to prove it! She knows what it’s like to be in the trenches of hopeless despair, injured, afraid and defeated, to ultimately emerge determined, enlightened and victorious. Christina is one of the world’s pioneers in women’s bobsleigh and Canada’s premier bobsleigh driver to compete at the inaugural Olympic Winter Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. A native Quebecer, she currently resides in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Formally retired from World Class sports, she is a two-time author, speaker, emotional intelligence coach/consultant. Christina Smith is also an avid world traveler having been to 50 countries so far. She excels in networking and connecting people in business and personal ventures. Christina is a big-picture creative thinker, positive change agent and lives from her core values of serving the greater good. She has spent her life cultivating a conscious mindset and has both intuitively and academically developed the critical soft skills of emotional intelligence. This is what has enabled her to create a bold, brave, self-directed life, rooted in persistence, risk taking and courage. Olympic and World Class achievements aside, Christina believes that we all have equal opportunity to elevate our self-awareness. Equal opportunity to identify what needs to change, acceptance of change, and then taking action and setting the intention to commit to change. Christina is a sought-after public speaker, and television and radio media personality who does not claim to have all the answers. She will shed light on opportunities that exist despite the circumstances in life and share with you how she has maneuvered the course of time. Christina is