Adam Rippon | Olympic Figure Skater & Media Phenom

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  So olympic figure skater Adam Ripon won the world over, not only with a medal winning performance at the 2018 games, but also with his disarmingly honest and unfiltered and really funny on camera presence, both during the games and since then and while he retired from competitive skating immediately after.

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  Adam is really spending a lot of time now focusing on performing on different stages and screens and bringing joy to people in a lot of ways.

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  And what we'll discover is that that is actually a lot of what was underneath the skating world as well.

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  For him, Adam is now also focusing on being a voice in support of LGBTQ rights and advocating for the freedom to really be oneself, to step into your own identity in the world.

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  He has been named to the 2018 Time 100 list of most influential people honored by the human rights campaign, appeared everywhere from Ellen to Colbert and Kimmel, and recently released a great and really funny and moving and deeply personal memoir called beautiful on the outside.

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  Adam's journey has been anything but simple and easy.

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  And in today's conversation, we talk about his rough start in skating.

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  What transformed that a couple of years later into a passion that he would devote so much of his life to and the years long struggles that come with trying to be the best in the world at something.

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  We also explore how he stepped into and decided to share his sexual identity, how he grapples with perfection, with family and expectations, and eventually found a way to reclaim control over his life and in no small part, his happiness along the way.

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  So excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  I was thinking about books that I love, and I'm a sucker for, like, a great opening line.

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  So I'm thinking, you know, like, a tale of two cities.

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  It was the best of time, it was the worst of time.

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  And then I'm like, then I think of that.

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  The opening line of your book.

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  Yeah.

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  Which is.

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  Say it out loud.

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  Well, I said, like, the first time I ever went skating, I fucking hated it.

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