![]() ![]() ![]() And, she's taking on a new domain: investing. Now 25, Johnson East is still conquering her fears. She took home a gold medal for the balance beam, and three silver medals in other events. "In some strange way, once I knew the gold was out of reach, I was free to go out there and just be me, the natural competitor who nonetheless had stuck with gymnastics since age three for the pure joy of the sport," she writes. The first gym coach she had told her mother that her daughter had no talent in gymnastics. Shawn started practicing gymnastics in a small town in Iowa. ![]() ![]() She swallowed her fear of failure, faced the audience and finished the event. Winning Balance by Shawn Johnson, Nancy French - Ebook Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only 11.99/month after trial. In Winning Balance, Shawn Johnson has written about her successes and failures in her life of competing in the Olympics. Although she wanted to give up, she thought of advice her long-time coach Liang Chow gave repeatedly during training: "Finish what you start." I couldn't understand how I could have worked my entire life for something only to see it come down to this."īut there was still one final routine to perform, the floor exercise. "My head began to spin with disbelief, because in that instant my dream died," the former gymnast and current judge on CNBC's " Adventure Capitalists," now Shawn Johnson East, writes in her book, " Winning Balance." "I stood there feeling more hurt than I'd ever felt in my life. ![]()
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