Ragga Ragnars (Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir) is a 2x Olympic swimmer and actress from Iceland. You might recognise her from the hit television show, Vikings.

Brett & Raggna talk about swimming in Iceland, manifesting goals, using the discipline she learned from swimming in her acting, and how to swing a sword.

Iceland has the world's best swimming curriculum. One third of their physical education classes are swimming. All Icelanders know how to swim extremely well and therefore have almost no drownings year after year.

00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Ragga Raggnar
00:15 Midnight Sun
01:55 Parents
04:00 Actress in Vikings + Olympic Swimmer
05:45 Swimming in Iceland
06:55 Growing up swimming
11:37 Swimming in college?
14:10 For the love of swimming
16:15 Manifesting realistic goals
19:00 Sprinting
20:55 Dara Torres
22:55 Athens or Beijing?
25:00 Usain Bolt
27:00 Social media
28:38 Acting questions
30:15 Discipline from Swimming
36:30 Learning how to swing a sword
39:25 Vikings role
41:50 Audition pressure
45:00 Levels of actors
46:24 Anthony Hopkins
50:00 Death of Gunnhild
52:27 Fame in Iceland?
54:15 Move to America?
59:00 Top tier
01:00:30 Not craving fame

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