The Making of an Iron Woman Champion | Tiarnee Massie on Elite Sport, Resilience & Self Belief

Now, from what we've heard from you, you are an extremely dedicated, disciplined, resilient person.

Can you talk to us, you know, obviously we've been talking about your career as a professional athlete.

And, you know, obviously that's in surf lifesaving.

Can you talk to us about some of maybe the other skills, not like the physical ones that you apply beyond life? your professional career, but maybe that you've developed through surf lifesaving.

Yeah, absolutely.

Obviously, I think resilience is the biggest one.

And that, like I said, has come from sport, but also from work.

But I think it's just so important to be resilient because things in life are just always going to happen and it's going to happen at the worst time and it's going to feel unfair and it's going to be like, why me? And I think it's so important to not be a victim in this world and to just get up and get on with it.

And that has been instilled in me from my family.

Yeah.

they're go-getters they're hard workers and they're constantly you know that they're never going to feel sorry for themselves so we just get on with the job so I think that's you know the number one thing that is just so important on top of obviously being a hard worker and surf and sport instills that

yeah

but I'm not sure if you guys have heard but do you know Eileen Gook She's a free skier.

Anyway, she had this video that was going around.

It went TikTok viral.

And basically she was saying that sport is so profound for young athletes because it is evidence over affirmation.

Yeah.

You, it literally proves to you that you, if you say you're going to do something, you can go and do it.

And you can be as prepared as you want to be and you can do everything right, but it's not always going to go the way that you want it.

But it literally proves to you that you can deal with pressure, that you can work hard.

You can, you know, if you say you're going to do something, you're going to do it.

Like, you know, when you wake up and you say, stay that little bit extra to go training you know when you have slept in yeah and you haven't put in the work that you needed to you know when you've just held back a little bit on in that session and oh i'm just going to take it a little bit easier today sport proves to you exactly who you are and I think that is so important and she literally said it perfectly and I think that it really instills confidence in young athletes because it literally is evidence over affirmation.

I love that that's

such a profound thing to think about that yeah sport shows you who you truly are like down to the core yeah because yeah if you don't show up you don't perform

No, exactly.