A memoir · Out now
Embrace
the hit
Eighty miles an hour, no brakes, and a coach telling me not to flinch. What a sport I had no business trying taught me about faith, adoption, and the runs you don't get to choose.
Bracing is what breaks you. Stay loose, and the track spits you out somewhere better than where you were aiming.
My first skeleton coach said it every single run, and it took a split chin and a broken toe before I understood he was not talking about the ice.
Chapter Three
The book
Ten years in the writing
Nine chapters on adoption, a divorce read as a math problem, a sport nobody recruited her for, a miscarriage two days before Christmas, and what held.
Read more →Speaking
Six talks, two kinds of rooms
Conferences and organizations, congregations and faith gatherings. Same person in either — the framing changes, the honesty doesn't.
Book Courtney →The journal
Letters from the track
Short pieces on the runs I didn't choose, what I'm learning, and where I'll be next. Once a month, no noise.
Start reading →Courtney Spencer
- National TV host, CBS Deals on CBS Mornings
- Former QVC program host — 1 of 24 from 17,000+ applicants
- Co-founder, MYX Fitness (acquired by Beachbody)
- News anchor and reporter, Waco, Texas
- USA Skeleton athlete · BA Journalism, Baylor
- BYU Education Week presenter