{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Unstoppable Babe Show","title":"I Refused to Believe it was Genetic","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":779,"description":"What This Episode Is About\n\nYou didn't inherit your limits, you inherited a story, and you can hand it back. In this first episode, Annette breaks down the exact moment her life changed (it wasn't slow, it was one decision) and the belief system she built afterward that turned \"bad knees\" into marathons, a half Iron Man, and a top-tier sponsored athlete career.\nKey Points\nLife doesn't change slowly! It changes in a moment of decision.\n Annette traces her own turning point back to a single session in instructor training, where she decided who she wanted to be before she had any proof she could become it. Once the decision was made, her life reorganized around it — not gradually, but immediately.\nBelief is chosen. It's never inherited.\n Growing up, Annette was told her family \"has bad knees,\" repeated so often it started to sound like fact. In college, she made a different choice: I have great knees. That single decision became the foundation for marathons, a half Iron Man, and the athletic career she has today. The lesson: beliefs aren't facts, they're just thoughts repeated enough times to feel true, and you get to choose which ones you keep.\nYou don't need permission. You need a decision.\n Annette unpacks how much energy goes into asking everyone else's opinion before acting. The shift happens when you stop outsourcing that permission and start deciding on your own terms. Life reorganizes around a decision, not around a poll.\nFaith first, then the result.\n Belief has to come BEFORE the proof shows up, not after. Waiting for evidence before you believe is doing it backwards, and it makes everything take longer and feel harder. Decide first. Let the evidence catch up.\nConfidence is built, not given.\n The \"receipts\" — the body, the business, the relationships — are the evidence of a belief you held before anyone else could see it. That kind of confidence can't be bought or complimented into existence. It's earned, one decided belief at a time.\nQuotable Lines...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OsfdQda7SnoVTZxB1NeBzMOm1Ym5NeDVeEYL5SZPPt8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZDZh/MGU3OWJkZGNjYjJh/YTljMTNiNTRmNzI5/MWM0NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}