Is there anything that he did tell you that stuck with you? Like is there one single thing?

Um, I think just like both my parents really taught me to just believe in myself, and I like really believed in myself so hard, and I was such a...

I thought like if you, you could set, whatever you set your mind to, you can accomplish.

And I think just having that, such a stubborn mindset and believing that, like really helped me, and my parents really supported that, and kinda implemented that in me in the first place.

... what, and what brought you back?

I think it, pr- I was always very confident through, like, my whole swimming career, like, in club.

Probably, probably when it became harder was when, like, other...

When I started getting good enough to, like, see other people who are really good.