Siri Lindley told her story to producer Caro Ronaldo for an episode of The Daily Rally podcast. It has been edited for length and clarity.
The gun goes off, and I am just being dunked under the water, kicked in the face, yelled and screamed at. Everybody was so angry that this girl that doesn’t know how to swim is in the fastest lane.
I am in Santa Ynez, California. I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.
I am a high performance coach, a keynote speaker for Tony Robbins around the world for his Unleashed Power Within and Date with Destiny events. I also speak around the country for Kepler Speakers. I’m an author and I am co-founder of two nonprofits rescuing horses from slaughter.
When I was 23 years old, I had just come out to my dad as gay. He was horrified and basically cut me out of his life, and it was devastating. He was my best friend. He was my greatest source of love.
I had graduated a couple years earlier from Brown University. I was a field hockey, ice hockey, and lacrosse player. I was just devastated, and I felt so desperate to prove to myself that even though I was gay, that I could achieve something…
