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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Mycel Green. I work media and external affairs for a talk with an electric cooperative and have done that for the last five years. I originally grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, attended North Central High School and had an amazing opportunity to run track throughout my years. My coach at the time, as I attended Arizona State University for college, I don't know a track and field scholarship. He later took a job at the University of Florida. And I followed him after I gave birth to my son to Gainesville. And I began training for the 1996 Olympic Games. Right before the Olympic Games, I actually had an injury. But I worked through it enough that I just was like not gonna allow it to hold me back. So I won the trials, I missed the finals, and then I was very grateful because I had the opportunity to actually run in the relay. And so we had some time off, I got some treatment. And I was able to compete with an amazing group of women and we won the 4x4 relay, which is amazing feat because at that time, all the countries competed at the Olympic Games. So we had everyone there. There was, we could say we actually beat the world at that point. The triumphs, the defeat, the injury, and the setbacks. That's a part of life. You learn how to navigate through those. You know that they're gonna come. And you know that you're not always gonna have a plan to work through it, but you know you can get through it. And so that is how I have been able to navigate through my career and my experiences in life and being able to share that with other people. My name is Michelle Green and I'm a media external affairs at Talk When Electric Cooperative. You're listening to voices that inspire.