Challenge Accepted is a new limited podcast series from Good Inside and Hot Wheels. Created for parents who want to raise resilient kids, this series explores the early experiences that shape who we become - and the mindset it takes to keep pushing forward. This is Episode 2 of 4.

Elana Meyers Taylor was supposed to be an Olympic softball player. She'd dreamed about it since she was nine, set records all through college, and then, at her Olympic tryout, had what she calls the worst trial of her life. She didn't make the team.

What came next was a sport she'd never touched: bobsled. She went on to five Olympics, medaling in every color but the one she wanted, until this past February, at 41 years old, on the very last run of her very last Olympics, she won gold. She's now the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympic history.

She talks to Dr. Becky about why that gold medal isn't really the point. The point is answering the question: am I good at getting good at things, or am I good at being a novice? Her answer, and the stories behind it, from a childhood spent trying everything and being decent at none of it, to seeing bobsledder Vonetta Flowers on TV and thinking "she looked like me," to what she's learned from raising two young sons who are each figuring out their own bodies on their own timeline.

Plus, the two-option philosophy she and her husband use to decide whether to try something hard: you either get a good story out of it, or you don't try at all.

Episode 1 of Challenge Accepted featured astronaut Kellie Gerardi. You can listen here.

Stay tuned for future episodes of Challenge Accepted, featuring New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart; and YouTuber, engineer, and inventor Mark Rober.

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Thank you to Hot Wheels for making this episode possible.

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