Behind all great successes are a series of great failures, and former NFL player Andrew East and Olympian Shawn Johnson are no strangers to that. Although known across the media as easy going, warm, and well-liked, Shawn and Andrew have come face to face with their own array of crippling setbacks in their careers, giving them no option but to turn defeat into reinvention. Facilitated by Animal Capital’s Marshall Sandman, these two former athletes will provide an inspiring look into the power of resilience in their darker days, how they worked to come back from their defeats, and what they learned when they were able to step up to the plate, reinvented.
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