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Alexi Pappas

Alexi Pappas

Olympic Athlete; Bestselling Author; Award-winning Filmmaker

Alexi Pappas shares deeply honest insight on befriending pain, recruiting mentors, budgeting willpower, and replacing can't with maybe.

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Alexi Pappas is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and Olympic athlete. Her bestselling book, Bravey, with a foreword by Maya Rudolph, has received critical acclaim for its unflinching and ebullient insights into mental health, mentorship, and high performance. Pappas has spoken at the Pentagon with US Army Resilience Directorate about mental health and goal-setting; she has also been a speaker for corporate clients like Bank of America and a fixture at CEO summits across the country. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Runner’s World, Women’s Running Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, and Outside, among others, and she has been profiled in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, New York Magazine, and Rolling Stone. As a filmmaker, Pappas co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the feature film Tracktown with Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley. Most recently, she co-wrote and starred alongside Nick Kroll in Olympic Dreams, the first non-documentary-style movie to ever be filmed at the Olympic Games. A Greek American, Pappas holds the Greek national record in the 10,000-meters and competed for Greece at the 2016 Olympic Games. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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The Fearlessness in being a Bravey: Chasing Dreams and Achieving Success

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I Made It to the Olympics. I Wasn't Ready for What Happened Next.

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Bravey CHASING DREAMS, BEFRIENDING PAIN, AND OTHER BIG IDEAS
Bravey CHASING DREAMS, BEFRIENDING PAIN, AND OTHER BIG IDEAS
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