X Games Skier Athena Brownson Survived Lyme Disease & 27 Surgeries

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About Athena Brownson:

Athena Brownson is a former professional skier and X Games athlete from Breckenridge, Colorado. After more than a decade in elite skiing, multiple major injuries, 27 surgeries, and a long battle with Lyme disease, Athena reinvented herself as a real estate entrepreneur, developer, speaker, and advocate for chronic illness awareness.

Topics Covered:

Athena Brownson’s story

X Games skiing and professional athletics

Growing up in Breckenridge, Colorado

Becoming a professional skier at 15

Skiing 300 days a year around the world

Extreme sports, fear, discipline, and visualization

100-foot jumps, 1080s, backflips, and big mountain skiing

Nine ACL tears and 27 surgeries

Why Athena had to walk away from skiing

Chronic Lyme disease and invisible illness

Fatigue, joint pain, neurological symptoms, and recovery

How Lyme disease changed her life

Real estate, development, and entrepreneurship

Building homes in Denver, Colorado

Reinvention after pain and illness

Resilience, mindset, faith, hope, and healing

About Ross Mandell:

Ross Mandell is a former Wall Street professional, entrepreneur, author, and capital formation expert. On Going Public with Ross Mandell, Ross interviews athletes, entrepreneurs, investors, doctors, creators, and high performers about success, failure, reinvention, money, health, business, and what it takes to rebuild after adversity.

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⏱️ Chapters

00:00 — Athena Brownson: X Games Skier, Pain, Pressure and Reinvention

06:08 — Ski Sponsors, Prize Money and Competing Around the World

10:02 — Visualization, 1080 Tricks and the Athlete Mindset

15:18 — Colorado Roots, Adrenaline Addiction and Family Influence

20:03 — Why Skiing Was the Best Business School for Athena Brownson

24:16 — Walking Away From Pro Skiing Before Knee Replacements

30:14 — Chronic Lyme Disease, Autoimmune Issues and Years of Treatment

34:17 — Building a Survival Toolkit and Refusing to Quit

40:38 — $300K Out of Pocket and Why Insurance Won’t Cover Lyme Treatment

47:35 — Denver Real Estate, Development and Building Luxury Homes

56:08 — The Doctor Who Helped Save Athena Brownson’s Life

1:02:03 — Athena Brownson’s Five-Year Vision for Health, Love and Success

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