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363. Going All In: How To Rise To Any Challenge & Let Your Confidence Shine With WNBA Player Sophie Cunningham · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: I think my mindset shifted when I stopped competing and
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  Speaker 1: being competitive and comparing myself to others, And now I
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  Speaker 1: just like compare myself to myself. I want to outdo me,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm my biggest competition. Like I don't care who
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  Speaker 1: you put in front of me. I know everything about myself.
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  Speaker 1: I know my good and I know my bad, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm my biggest competition.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, EMILYA Bodi.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to episode three hundred and sixty three
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  Speaker 3: of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where we talk to
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  Speaker 3: inspirational people about everything from their highest ties and.
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  Speaker 2: Toughest moments to essential tips on.
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  Speaker 3: How to live a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We
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  Speaker 3: all go through our fair share of hurdles. My goal
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  Speaker 3: through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate
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  Speaker 3: yours and move with intention so that you can stride
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  Speaker 3: towards her own big potential and of course, have some
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  Speaker 3: fun along the way. For today's episode, I am bringing
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  Speaker 3: you a rewind my July twenty twenty three conversation with
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  Speaker 3: the One, the Only Sophie Cunningham. Sophie's been making a
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  Speaker 3: lot of headlines lately and so I think it's about
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  Speaker 3: time that if you're.
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  Speaker 2: Not well acquainted with her, you learn a thing or two. Now.
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  Speaker 3: When we recorded this, she was playing basketball for the
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix Mercury. She has since been traded to the Indiana Fever.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about her upbringing on a farm and how
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  Speaker 3: that helped shape who she is today. She talks to
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  Speaker 3: me about her no nonsense attitude toward gameplay and the
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  Speaker 3: lessons that she learned playing alongside one of the best
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  Speaker 3: to ever do it, Diana Tarassi. As a Yukon grad myself,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a lot of DT pride and really dive
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  Speaker 3: in to her mindset, how she stays so confident, how
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  Speaker 3: she holds her ground when it might not be the
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  Speaker 3: popular opinion. It's really interesting to listen to this conversation
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  Speaker 3: now with everything that's going on in the w and
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  Speaker 3: especially with the Fever. Her defense of friend and teammate
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  Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark.
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  Speaker 2: It's epic. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Of note, we also talked about the Olympics in this episode,
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  Speaker 3: so if we didn't get to check that dream off
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  Speaker 3: her bucket list just yet, but something tells me there
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  Speaker 2: Today. I am sitting down with Sophie Cunningham.
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  Speaker 3: She is a pro WNBA player for the Phoenix Mercury.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing today, Sophie.
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  Speaker 1: So good. I'm so excited for this and to chat
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  Speaker 1: with you a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I am so excited for this too.
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  Speaker 3: You are a busy person by the nature of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that you typically play so many games every week,
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  Speaker 3: so I just want to like take a down step
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  Speaker 3: really quick and ask you, how are you doing really today?
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, I'm so happy you asked that, because
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  Speaker 1: I think when you get when you are in this
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  Speaker 1: school terms like hey, how are you oh good bye.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So it's just kind of a small talk.
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  Speaker 1: But to be honest, I'm good. Like it's hot here
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona. I was at the pool yesterday. My only
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  Speaker 1: downfalls I have a broken finger right now. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of it. But no, my family's coming down soon, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'm in a good spot.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy with the broken How does that impact your
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  Speaker 3: game and does that tweak you being able to get
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  Speaker 3: on the court?
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  Speaker 1: Not really, to be honest, because it's my off hand,
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  Speaker 1: and so if people watch me play, I have like
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  Speaker 1: a claw out there, like it looks awful and I
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  Speaker 1: should probably get my nails done because you know it's
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  Speaker 1: drawing attention. But whatever. But no, it's good. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the pressure of the ball sometimes hurts, but when you're
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  Speaker 1: in it and your agentalin's going, it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: It's all good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've watched your like your shooting style lately, and it
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  Speaker 3: is certainly a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. I let that thing fly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't sometimes I'm not said, you know, it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is, But as long as it goes in,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it safe to say that you love what you're
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  Speaker 2: doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yes, Like I just think, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: we're going through a heck of a year right now.
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  Speaker 1: We got a new head coach, we just got a
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  Speaker 1: new GM, we got new ownership last year with Matt
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  Speaker 1: Ishbia and he's absolutely amazing and the people he's brought
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  Speaker 1: in are really really good people. And I think we're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of in that transition year where it's a
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  Speaker 1: grind right now, and it's just one of those years
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  Speaker 1: that you kind of have to find the joy in it,
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  Speaker 1: find the beauty. It's definitely in a valley, but I
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  Speaker 1: think there's so much growth and so much beauty when
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  Speaker 1: when you're struggling, and so it's just kind of keeping
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  Speaker 1: that growth mindset, that positive mindset through these times. It's
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  Speaker 1: definitely testing our character. But for me, I don't look
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  Speaker 1: at failures as a negative thing. I think when you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of going through it is when you learn a
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  Speaker 1: lot about yourself and about the culture and environment that
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  Speaker 1: you're working in.
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  Speaker 3: You're on the right podcast, lady, So talk to me
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about where that mindset comes from for you.
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  Speaker 3: Have you always been the kind of person that's able
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  Speaker 3: to see the silver lining and the positives from a
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  Speaker 3: struggle or has this been a thought process or a
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  Speaker 3: mindset that has been acquired with time.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely been. Our family are very positive people who
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  Speaker 1: are actually farmers. I grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and
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  Speaker 1: so farming there's a lot of beauty in it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's hard work. Like I think everyone in their lives
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  Speaker 1: should go be a farmer for two days, two and
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  Speaker 1: a half days, and I think you'd have a different
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  Speaker 1: perspective on life just a little bit. But our family,
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  Speaker 1: we're all very competitive. We have a lot of positive people,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of positive male figures in our life, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of positive female figures in our life. And so
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  Speaker 1: me and my sister we got very blessed with our
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  Speaker 1: environment growing up, and so yeah, we always kind of
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  Speaker 1: saw the positive in things. But it's not always easy,
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  Speaker 1: and especially when you're really going through it, it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: Like before All Star Break, I was like what am
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  Speaker 1: I doing with my life? Like this is not fun.
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  Speaker 1: I was going through a rut. I couldn't throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball into the ocean. I swear to God, I couldn't,
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  Speaker 1: And I was just like this is awful, Like why
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  Speaker 1: did I work so hard for this? But for me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I have great faith in God, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that you know you're not going to stay down
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  Speaker 1: there and you're learning something through those things. And so
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  Speaker 1: for me, that's what keeps me going, That's what keeps
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  Speaker 1: me motivated, is because I'm learning something through these valleys
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  Speaker 1: and through these hard times. And me, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be a great leader. I want to be a great teammate.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be someone who's great in the community.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not always going to be on top. Not
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  Speaker 1: everything is always going to be rainbows and butterflies, And
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  Speaker 1: so I think that when you can really embrace those struggles,
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the story, and that the struggles what
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  Speaker 1: makes it even more beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, No, totally makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about this sentiment, what did I work so
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  Speaker 3: hard for for this? Why did I work so hard?
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  Speaker 3: And if it's going to be like this, talk to
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit about that work. When did you
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  Speaker 3: know that this was going to be the path that
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  Speaker 3: you would be pursuing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to be honest, I think from a very young age,
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to be a professional basketball player, and
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  Speaker 1: I found success at a really young age. You know,
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  Speaker 1: even at the age of five, I was playing soccer
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  Speaker 1: on a boys team and the boys parents were getting
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  Speaker 1: mad at me, and my parents were like, she's too aggressive,
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  Speaker 1: she's too physical, And my parents had to carry my
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  Speaker 1: birth certificate around and be like, no, she's actually the
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  Speaker 1: boy's age. You know, she's just a great athlete. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, give her some props a little. And so
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was better at school. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: took it more seriously, because when I put my mind
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  Speaker 1: to something, I can do it right. But my mind
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  Speaker 1: was always making it to the WNBA. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ups and downs there. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of moments in high school that were hard. You missed
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  Speaker 1: out on a ton of things. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff in college. There are people who were giving me
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  Speaker 1: threats to take my life and to take my parents' life.
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  Speaker 1: Like I really stirred the pot in college. Like I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I did, but I mean it's part
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  Speaker 1: of it, right. And then once I got here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think through the struggle. My first couple of years
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  Speaker 1: in the WNBA, I really didn't play much. I was
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  Speaker 1: Diana Tarossi's sub when she was hurt. I would go
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  Speaker 1: in when she needed a breathere, I went in, and
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  Speaker 1: I've never been someone to come off the bench, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was like a whole new territory for me
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  Speaker 1: because I've always been a starter through high school through college,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was something I had to learn. But
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  Speaker 1: through that process, I got in the gym every single
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  Speaker 1: day and I made sure I got one percent better,
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  Speaker 1: and so I stayed persistent. Even though I didn't like
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  Speaker 1: where I was at, I still had to put in
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  Speaker 1: the work because I knew that eventually it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: my hard work was going to show and it was
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  Speaker 1: going to pay off. And during this runt a couple
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  Speaker 1: or a month ago, I had to have that same
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  Speaker 1: mindset I had five years ago, because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what the heck is going on? Like I'm known as
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  Speaker 1: a shooter, and I seriously could even make a layup,
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  Speaker 1: like I have no idea what was going on. But
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  Speaker 1: I still got in every day and I just made
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  Speaker 1: sure that I was putting in the work because the
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  Speaker 1: ball doesn't lie. And I hated putting in the work,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes you have to still do it even when
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  Speaker 1: it's not fun.
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  Speaker 3: So much to double click on here first and foremost
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  Speaker 3: were people coming for you because of the way that
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  Speaker 3: you played in high.
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  Speaker 1: School that I was just feisty. I still am, but
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  Speaker 1: really was in college. I just didn't back down. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm the ultimate competitor and I'm someone who loves to compete.
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  Speaker 1: And when I'm out on the floor, like I smile
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  Speaker 1: and I laugh and like if you say something to me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming right back at you. Like I'm someone who
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  Speaker 1: has to have the last word. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. It's got me into a wool
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times, but that's what makes me me,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm sassy, I'm fisty, I'm gonna have my teams
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  Speaker 1: back and do whatever it takes to win. And so
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  Speaker 1: I'll never apologize for that.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I was reading an article on Britney Griner
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  Speaker 3: was talking about how she also has your back, right.
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  Speaker 3: I forget what game it was in, but someone had
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  Speaker 3: I think, like shoved you to the core and it
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  Speaker 3: was like all hands on deck, like we've got your.
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  Speaker 2: Back, just like you've got ours.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And that is such a fun environment to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of, and a culture to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of is when you know your whole team supports
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  Speaker 1: you and has you, then you can put your kind
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  Speaker 1: of neck on the line when something happens for them too.
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  Speaker 1: But when everyone has each other, it's a fun place
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  Speaker 1: to play in definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned you know, and thank you for your
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  Speaker 3: vulnerability here talking about being in these difficult moments. Talk
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  Speaker 3: me through where your mind goes when these challenges arise.
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  Speaker 3: Is it straight to this place where you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: like put in the work, I've got this whatever, or
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  Speaker 3: do you have some time where you actually feel your
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  Speaker 3: feelings as well?
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  Speaker 1: Start here we go, we're about to unpack this. So
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  Speaker 1: normally I'm a very much like go with the flow
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  Speaker 1: type person, Like I no matter what's going on, I
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  Speaker 1: want to have fun. I want to make sure people
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  Speaker 1: feel good. That's just who I am. But I just
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  Speaker 1: started working with a sports psychologist because honestly, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: everyone is good. Everyone are elite athletes. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: in the toughest league in the whole entire world, and
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  Speaker 1: so what are you doing to set yourself apart? And
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  Speaker 1: for me, that's my mental game. Like if I if
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  Speaker 1: my mental is on, I don't care who you put
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  Speaker 1: in front of me. I'm beating them, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. But that's part of the process of what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going through right now, is getting to that point.
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  Speaker 1: And so a couple of weeks ago, when I was
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  Speaker 1: in the rut, I called my sports like guy, poor Zach,
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  Speaker 1: you probably think I'm crazy. I've just started working with him,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I am in a rut, and
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to kill someone. Like I have
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  Speaker 1: cried so much. I am just frustrated, like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what is going on, and I don't I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a crier, and I normally see the positives, but like
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of days, like I was just like
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  Speaker 1: in my feelings and to me, like looking back, it's
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  Speaker 1: funny now, but I'm so glad that I let myself
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  Speaker 1: go there, because like I let myself feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: part of this journey and a part of being a
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  Speaker 1: professional athlete is you have a thousands of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people always watching your every single move. Like I can't
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere. It's a blessing. I can't go anywhere out
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  Speaker 1: here without someone being like, oh are you Sophie from
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix Mercury, and so like you always have to
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  Speaker 1: dot your eyes, cross your t's, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's a lot of pressure sometimes and so
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  Speaker 1: for me just to kind of stay home and feel
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  Speaker 1: my feelings right down in my journal and honestly pray
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  Speaker 1: and just get away from people was probably the best
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  Speaker 1: thing I did. And now I'm back, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I let myself feel, put it aside, and now here
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: You're rewarded with the fact that you are allowing yourself
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  Speaker 3: to go through all of those different emotions. Clearly working
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  Speaker 3: with this sports psychologist is certainly having an impact on you.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the first time that you've worked with a
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  Speaker 3: sports psychologist and what would you say are some of
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  Speaker 3: the best takeaways that you've had from your collaboration so far?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's not. We had a great sports psychologist
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  Speaker 1: in college, Scott and Morton. She was absolutely phenomenal and
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  Speaker 1: she helped me a lot through college. And I think
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  Speaker 1: what I've taken away from her and from Zach and
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  Speaker 1: Brett Ledbetter so far is like this, this is life.
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  Speaker 1: Like You're not always going to be on top of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain, You're not always going to be in the valley,
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  Speaker 1: So you can't allow yourself to get so high and
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  Speaker 1: get so low and it's okay to feel and the
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  Speaker 1: hard times are never going to last. The good times
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  Speaker 1: are never going to last. And so I think for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's just putting my best foot forward every day and
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  Speaker 1: if I can try to be better every single day,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that's going to look different. It's going to look
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  Speaker 1: different every single day. But if I am am trying
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  Speaker 1: to be better every single day, they eventually this long journey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get who I want to be. And
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  Speaker 1: you know that I have a lot of goals. But again,
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying this, but it's so true because I
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  Speaker 1: think people think that when you're a professional athlete that
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  Speaker 1: everything always goes your way and that you don't have
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  Speaker 1: hard days, you don't have hard months or hard years
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  Speaker 1: or hard seasons, and that's just not true at all.
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  Speaker 1: We're still human and this is still our job, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's job is not always fun, and so it's just
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  Speaker 1: part of the beauty. Quit your rest foot forward every
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  Speaker 1: single day and trying to get one percent better every day.
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  Speaker 2: One percent better every day.
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  Speaker 3: I love that he's touched on the fact that you
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of eyes on you. Those eyes, the
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  Speaker 3: number of eyes have been growing every year every season.
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  Speaker 2: Was there an adjustment period for that for you?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. I think I was like I've always wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be, honestly, like a singer, like a country music singer.
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  Speaker 1: Like I always wanted to be on stage singing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like having the crowd out in front of me. So
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  Speaker 1: I think I was like born to kind of entertain
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But with that it's hard, man, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't offend people who don't have an ego. And
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  Speaker 1: that's something that I've really held onto because when you
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  Speaker 1: have good games and you let all these people praise
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  Speaker 1: you and it makes you feel so good, Well, when
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  Speaker 1: you have a bad game, you're still gonna look these
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  Speaker 1: same people who are going to be, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of shitting on you a little bit, and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to let that take the heart too. So I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of block it out. I try to be a
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: positive influence with all my social media's. I just try
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: to bring light to people, bring a smile to people,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: and I try not to take it too seriously. But
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: then I think there are important topics like mental health
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: and kids and teenagers who are in sport that need
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: to hear things that are the truth, And so I
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: think the older I get, I want to kind of
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: take on that mentor role shift a little bit to
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: help people with their journey. But also like it's so fun.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Like I think mental health people are always like, oh,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: it's so tight and scary to talk about, but I
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: think it's honestly kind of really fun to talk about.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Well, then let's talk about it. Let's do it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: So what has your experience been when it comes to
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: taking care of your mental health?
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Would you say that you've always been able?
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I know I asked you before about upkeeping with this
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: positive mindset, but have you had experiences in your life
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: where getting to that place has been jalon for you?
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Sometimes in the middle of season when you don't when
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: you're traveling a lot and you can't get that balance
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: is sometimes when it kind of turns into a grind
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and you can't appreciate that you could do dribble orange
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: basketball for a living. And so I've always been someone,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I promise you. From a very very young age, I
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: think everyone's like, oh, she had to be a gym
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: rat if she made it to the league, or the
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: way she shoot, she has to be in the gym
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: six hours a day. And that's honestly the absolute opposite
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: thing I ever did. Like I when I went to
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: practice and I got in my extra shots, and when
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I'm in the gym, I'm in the zone and I'm
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: going one hundred and ten percent. No one is outworking me.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I promise you that. But then when practice is done,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going straight to the pool, I'm going to the lake,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere outdoors. I'm hanging with my friends, and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything with basketball. And I think that's
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: why I have found success is because I have that
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: healthy balance of I put in my work and I
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: go super super hard, and I feel good about what
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I did, and then I get to go lay out
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: at the pool tan and turn my brain off and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: just enjoy life. And so I do think it is
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: very important to kind of have that balance.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: So then, what does mentorship look like for you right
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: now when it comes to either speaking out about mental
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: health or other topic areas that you are enthusiastic about.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think just sharing as much as well. We're
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: traveling a time right now, so it looks a little
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: different than it does in the off season. But right
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: now I think it's just like kind of showing my
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: day to day, showing what I eat, showing what our
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: practices look like. I'm at the pool all the time,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: showing people like, hey, you know, I'm here, I'm chilling,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I'm getting my time in, my balance in and for me,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of people reach out and I
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: try to get back with them. In the off season,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: we host a Sophie Cunningham Classic back home in Columbia, Missouri,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and we make sure we talk with every team and
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: make them ask us questions like let us help mentor you,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: because it is hard being a teenage girl, especially when
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you're tall and you have bigger shoulders than the guys
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and you have bigger muscles and the guys like it's hard,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and sometimes it does take a mental kind of beaten
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: on you because you just you just don't feel girly
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: or you just feel bigger than everyone. But we're like, no, sister,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that is your superpower. And one day you were going
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to love your shoulders. You're gonna love how tall you are,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: so embracing and put your shoulders back.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Did you go through a period where you had difficulty
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: accepting yourself for what you had to offer?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Honestly, This is so funny because I'm six to one
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm like anywhere from one hundred and sixty five
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to one hundred and seventy two pounds, Like I do
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: not hide that, like I am a.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Big specific range.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like well that's like that's the brain Ti'm
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: always in. And I say one hundred and seventy two
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: because like that could be the highest. But I proudly
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: say that. But I am so blessed because I had
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: an aunt who was six', three my mom was five,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: eleven my grandma was five. Ten we have really tall
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: athletic women and we're not we're we're not, fatigue and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: so they're always, like you, know embrace, that like that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is your, Superpower like this is what's going to make
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you stand. Out AND i think from a very young
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and our father, FIGURES i also want we always kind
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: of are really hard on. Men but my dad is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the best girl dad THAT i have ever. Seen my
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: uncles are the best girl. Uncles my grandpa like everyone
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: really embraced us and like put us on this pedestal
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to like be, beautiful, strong tall, women and that's going
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to be your. Superpower that's what's going to make you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: stand out and become who you want to. Be and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: so for, Me i've just carried that message. ON i
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: tell young girls that all the, time AND i also
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: tell young boys that BECAUSE i think that they deal
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: with a lot of mental health issues that we don't
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: give them credit for or try to help them as.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Much and so for, ME i do want to help
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the young girls as much as, possible BUT i do
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: think it is important to help the young boys as
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: well who are in.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Sports, yeah being able to open up about this stuff
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: that they may not feel necessarily safe to.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Do so all of the, time talk to us.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: A little bit about what excites you right now with
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: the work that you're, doing both in and out side of.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Basketball all, right we'll start within. Basketball for, ME i
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: am twenty. Six it is my fifth year in the,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: league and what is so exciting for? Me And i'm
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: not a patient person and so it kind of sucks,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes but it's exciting right now that people don't reach
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: their best basketball until they're thirty two years old in the,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: league and so for, me Like i'm making big, STRIDES
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: i am staying here in the off season And i'm
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: getting a. Trainer i've worked on my, Diet i'm in
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the weight, room my conditioning. Level i'm doing SOME NBA
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: tv for The, suns and that's actually opened up my
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: perspective of basketball off the, court of watching film almost
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of exciting things on the. Court,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: hopefully you, KNOW i can be a part of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: three v Three olympics with THE usa, basketball SO i
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Know i'll get a shot at. That and so there's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of exciting things basketball. Wise but again it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: all nice and, shiny but you still have to put
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in the work and you have to get. There and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: so looking forward to, That i'd say off the, court, yeah,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: yeah everything looks, nice but it's the journey of getting
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: there and all the ups and, downs and But i'm
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: looking forward to. It and then off the, COURT i
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: have TWO au. Teams they're Called Team Sophie, cunningham and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that is like one of my biggest things THAT i
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: love is BECAUSE i get to talk to these, GIRLS
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: i get to help mentor you get to go to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: all these tournaments around the. Country, well let me, say
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: all these guys get to go to all these country
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: or all these tournaments around the, country and they get
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: all these gifts they get like, shoes they get, bags
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they get all this gear and all that type of,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: stuff and we just didn't like growing. UP i, know
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: like that was ten years ago for, me but we
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: just didn't get that. Stuff and So i'm An adidas.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Athlete i'm also A quest, athlete and NOW i get
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to kind of collab with these really two big companies
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and give it back to these girls who deserve, it
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and SO i get really excited about. That and THEN
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: i have The Sophie Cunningham, classic which is a all
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: girls tournament pretty, much and we get to throw a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: lot of cool people are. THERE espn is going to be.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Involved we get to talk to these, teams we get
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to help mentor these, girls and it's a very, interactive
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: hands on experience for these young. Athletes so it's super,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: exciting super, fun And i'm looking forward to it again this.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Year he touched on you, know women playing their best
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: basketball at age thirty two and. Older we've already Mentioned
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Diana trasi And Britney. Griner what is it like for
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: you to play on a team with these two incredible.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Humans, gosh there's just like not a lot of words
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to put into. It because they. Are diana is the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: goat of THE wnba of women's basketball in, general and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: so just to kind of get a little piece of
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: her mind and her mentorship has been. Unbelievable the way she,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: thinks like her And kobe are on the same. Level
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: AND i always try to tell people that because everyone Knows,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: kobe but she is the Woman, kobe and like they are,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: crazy but they are so freaking smart at the same.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Time and then you Have beg who's the best post
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: player in the whole, world and you, know last year
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was super tough for her, family for, her for, us
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and just to kind of have her back and see
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: her smile and being able to play with one of the,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: posts the best post players that ever go through women's,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: basketball has also been super. Fun but my relationships with
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: both of them are so so. DIFFERENT bg is more,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Chill she's more like. Me she has a balance of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: when she's done with, practice she's, done and then d you,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: know she's always. Thinking she's always thinking how we can get,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: better what she can do to grow her, game and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so just kind of having the balance of both of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: them have been fantastic.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: If you're comfortable talking about.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: It i'd be so interested to know from the inside looking,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: out like how just all OF i don't need to
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: go Into beg's. STORY i think everyone's familiar with it,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: now but now that you're in, season how that has
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: impacted your team as you're kind of moving forward.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Here it is actually kind of hilarious because we've had
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: her back for a, While like we see her every single,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: day but every time we play a new, team so
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: we have eleven teams that we go to their home,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: gym and every single time it's a new homecoming FOR
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: vg and so it's like hilarious because it's like eleven,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: times it's over and, over which it is so well,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Deserved like the w fans toually. Deserved they got behind,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: her they got behind, us but it's just like funny
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to us because we're, like, oh we haven't been, here
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: here we go. Again B and so she gets her,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: standing ovation she gets her, way her moment of, fame
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and it's just. Hilarious but to have her back and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: just to see the support that not only the w gave,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: us but THE nba men and women's soccer, leagues other,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: sports and then people who just aren't in sports has
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: been absolutely. Unbelievable AND i know that people have their
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: different views about, it AND i get both sides of,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: it BUT i think a lot of people only know
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: ten percent of the story and what really. Happened AND
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: i promise you that if they had a loved one
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: over there in that, situation that they would want them
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: home regardless. Too and SO i think it is a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: great way to just show grace and love and to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: kind of holds your leved ones closed because there's a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff that people just don't.
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  Speaker 3: Looking, in you can only make so many, assumptions, Right
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  Speaker 3: but until you get on that face to face level with,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: someone you never really know what's going on. Behind maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's the screen if you're looking On, instagram THE, tv
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  Speaker 3: if you're watching your game ON tv or whatever media
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  Speaker 3: and you're kind of taking a look. Through now you
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: talked about THE au Team Sophie cumming, hand The Sophie
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Cunningham classic CAN i just, like stop you for a
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: second when you say stuff like, that like does it shake?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You are you, Like, holy isn't it?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Insane, no because it is so like if people actually knew,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: me AND i promise, you my best friends are, like
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: if these kids just knew, you or like these fans
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: just knew, you they would think you were the biggest.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Work And i'm, LIKE i, know And i'm, LIKE i
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: don't try to hide, it LIKE i don't. Know and
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  Speaker 1: that's like one of the first THINGS i tell, people
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  Speaker 1: like when they are like, starstruck AND i that's weird,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: enough that's weird to. Say but when they Are i'm just,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: LIKE i promise, You i'm not that, Cool LIKE i,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: swear you're probably way cooler than. Me and SO i
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: just always just try to greet people with hugs make
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: them feel comfortable BECAUSE i didn't have A wnba player
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: who was given back to us when we were. Younger
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: LIKE i just think it's so cool being from The
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: midwest and being able to like go back and give
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: back and show kids that even if it's not, basketball
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to like dream big whatever is like setting your soul on,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: fire go for. It and that's my biggest thing for.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Him who did you look up to when you were growing?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Up and who would you say maybe some of your
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: biggest mentors are, now.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Okay that is a great. QUESTION i just have always
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: been a super competitive, kid and so like when people
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: are like who did you look up? TO i was
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: just so dang. STUBBORN i was like no, one because
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Like i'm going to be better than? Them i'm, like
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: why AM i like? That why AM i like? That
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: like be, nicer be? Better but IF i had to pick,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: One i'd pick me a. Ham LIKE i THOUGHT i
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: was going to be a soccer. Player my sister had
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to play dual sport basketball and college basketball
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and soccer in, college AND i actually did, Too AND
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: i always wish that we would have done, It LIKE
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: i always think that would have been so kind of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: badass of, this but it's too. Much SO i Think
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: mayaham was probably a mentor because she was just a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: badass woman and she PUT usa women's soccer on the,
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  Speaker 1: map like she was just like the. It you. Know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: NOW i think, MENTORSHIP i don't have one specific, person
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  Speaker 1: BUT i have a lot of people from from different,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Areas so LIKE i don't know if that made. Sense
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: SO i have like people for, SPORT i have people for.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: LIFE i have people for my, finances for my mental,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: health for my, diet for doing outdoorsy, stuff for doing
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: country stuff or doing city. Stuff LIKE i just like
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the more THAT i get, OLDER i just think it
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: is so important to not just choose one, thing like
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: kind of get your hand in everything that you're passionate,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: about like try to learn as much as. Possible AND
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: i think having a growth mindset in every little thing
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: just like helps you be a well rounded. Human SO
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: i don't know if that's the answer you're looking, for but.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind OF i mean What i'm What i'm hearing
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: you say in this is you went from this place
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: where you were Like i'm not going to look up to,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: anyone to now being someone who's so open to looking
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: up to others and having mentors and asking for. Advice
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: so would you say or can you articulate maybe like
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: a point where that changed for?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: You? YEAH i think in COLLEGE i was just like
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: super competitive and LIKE i just wanted TO i feel
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  Speaker 1: LIKE i just had so much to, Prove but like
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: for who for? What? Right LIKE, I, i, oh no
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: one anything like MY i think my mindset shifted WHEN
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: i stopped competing and being competitive and comparing myself to,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: others and NOW i just like compare myself to, myself
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: LIKE i want to outdo, me Like i'm my biggest,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Competition LIKE i don't care who you put in front of.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: ME i know everything about. MYSELF i know my good
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: AND i know my, bad And i'm my biggest. Competition
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and SO i think that's when my mind shifted is
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i stopped comparing myself to others AND i don't
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  Speaker 1: even know how to explain, it Like i'm my biggest.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Competition and SO i think the older That i'm, GETTING
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: i just want to learn from successful, people LIKE i
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: want to learn what they did to get where they're.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: AT i want to find true, happiness true, piece true,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: joy LIKE i want to genuinely give back and help
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: people be genuinely happy and. Successful AND i think that
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: when you're just stuck in your own, way you're never
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: going to get. There and so that's WHY i try
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to like learn and listen to as many people as
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: possible who are successful or WHERE i want to be
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: one day to see what they did and kind of
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: take multiple pieces from different people and kind of take
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: WHAT i want and make it.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Myself, yeah for, SURE i really resonate with.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: That so for someone who may be listening to this
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: that really struggles with falling into the comparison, trap as
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: we love to call, it do you have any advice for?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Them? MAN i have been around the most famous people
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you can, know people who have a lot of, money
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: people who might seem to have it, all and they
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: are some of the most unhappiest humans that you will ever.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Meet and it's sad BECAUSE i had a teammate who
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is a very well known teammate and me as a
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: rookie making forty thousand. Dollars she came up to me
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and she, goes how are you so happy and full of?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Life like What i'm, like give me your millions of
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: dollars And i'll be. Happy, like let's switch lives for a.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Second AND i just think that there are so many
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: things you can't put your your heart. Into two earthly.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: THINGS i think for, ME i rely a lot on my,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: faith and that's where my true joy and my my
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: identity truly comes from Is. God AND i think that
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: when you try to put your identity into, basketball into,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: money into, fame into being prettier or nicer or skinnier
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: than all these other girls or even, Guys you're always
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: gonna feel. Empty it's like chasing the. Wind and so for,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: ME i put my identity In christ AND i think
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: that's what really keeps me grounded and what makes me
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: be able to like truly be my Authentic haffy.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Self it's interesting for me That i'm going to ask
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: this question BECAUSE i don't have like a strong relationship
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: necessarily a strong religious, affiliation ALTHOUGH i was Raised. Jewish
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: so with being on the, road with kind of being
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: all over the place all the, time how do you
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: anchor yourself in that religion and what do you do
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: to kind of keep up with your?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Faith, Yeah AND i think that's a great point because
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't have. Religion BUT i think for,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: me it's like love conquers. All AND i think that
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: when you can like truly, love and when you say,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: love everyone's always, like oh like love other, People no love,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: yourself like love your. Flaws love what makes you unique
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and you different because other people will be looking at
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: you and wish they had. That and SO i think for,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: me you do travel all over the, place And i've
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: been here for two days And i'm about to leave
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: for six more, days, Right, so like in in season
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: is just. Crazy but for, ME i just try to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: get a. ROUTINE i take My bible with me. Everywhere
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: SOMETIMES i read, it SOMETIMES i. Don't BUT i think
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me is be a, light like
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: shine your light wherever you are and just try to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: be a positive influence BECAUSE i do think love and
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you can just love people where they're at and meet
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: them where they're, at then that kind of show that
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: helps them love themselves as. Well and so it's, hard
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: especially when when you are on this crazy schedule like we,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: are it is hard to kind of have a routine
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and find a community of people that might have the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: same beliefs as you or have the same morals as.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: You at the end of the, DAY i think when
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: you can just love, people that's the biggest.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Thing, yeah you, know when you said like when you
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: can get to a place where you just meet yourself
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: with where you're, at it rings to me or it
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: makes me think about you, know coming of age right
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: and getting to this point where it's so easy during
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: your teenage years, Too like we were talking about play
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: that comparison game and judge yourself so. Harshly do you
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: remember when you personally turn that corner and really just
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: embraced what it was that you had to offer instead
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: of judging.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Yourself oh, Gosh i'm laughing Because i'm such a late,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Blimmer LIKE i promise, You i'm still like trying to glow.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Up you know what the girls, says like glow up
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: still because oh my, God i'm funny sack Because i'm
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: still like kyd of like become the you, know the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: best version of. Yourself. Whatever BUT i think in high
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: school we just had a good group of boys and
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: girls that there wasn't a lot of. Comparison but you
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: do find yourself in those times of as an athlete
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and in high school when like you're going through the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: weird puberty, age like you you just look, weird, Right
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: like everyone goes through it and it's just like part of.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Life BUT i did find myself sometimes like, man LIKE
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: i WISH i was, Skinnier like why isn't my hair, longer?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Thicker like why why is her skin way clearer than?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Mine you know WHAT i? Mean like you do find
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: yourself going through those, things and it's, like wait a,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: second IF i was that petite or IF i was that,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Skinny i'd be get my butt kicked on the basketball,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: court LIKE i would not be WHO i was created to.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Be and SO i think for, me it's just finding
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the strength within yourself and really like coming to terms
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: and like enjoying who you are and like whatever makes
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: you weird or different from everyone, else like that's what's,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: cool that's what attracts people to. You and SO i
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: think just like embracing that and being confident and finding
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a really small good group of people to like love
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you and support you regardless is. Huge you're too.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Huge aside from the fact that you say you're still
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: in your glow up, era ALTHOUGH i would, say like
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: you are, glowing what else makes you?
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Unique instellar and different from everybody? Else?
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, MAN i don't know IF i would use all those,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: terms BUT i just don't try to fit in. Anymore
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: AND i think that's so important FOR i think young
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: guys to, hear BECAUSE i think young athletes in, general
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: male or, female you miss out on a lot of
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of. Stuff you miss out on prom you
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: missed out on school. Dances you don't maybe get to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: go hang out or go to the parties or or
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it out with all your
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: people because you have games OR i remember au, BALL
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: i wasn't home all. SUMMER i was home for three
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: days my junior year of. Summer so you missed out
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: on a. Bunch but with great things comes with great.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Sacrifice AND i think that that's something THAT i just
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: had to like hang my hat. On is Like i'm
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: putting in the work for something, greater AND i might
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: not see the benefits of it, now but in six,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: years When i'm THE wnba And i'm ON espn AND
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: i get to do these cool, Things i'll know that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it's worth. It and so for, me sometimes you have
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: to think big picture and then sometimes you have to
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: think small. Picture and SO i don't. KNOW i just
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: try not to fit. ANYMORE i think WHEN i laugh
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: at on the, COURT i smile a lot on the.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Court i'm feisty on the, court and sometimes that gets
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: me in, trouble but that's what makes me, me and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: that's why the fans gather around. Me that's WHY i
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: love the, fans because they're all a lot more like
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: than the.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Things so what would you say one of the most
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: difficult sacrifices you've had to make in your come up
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: In sport has been.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: A thousand thousand percent being away from my family and.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Friends LIKE i get to do really cool, things you,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: know you get to plan in all these cool, stadiums
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: you get to go to these cool, cities you get
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: invited to full, Events yet you don't get to ever
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: have your best friends coming along with. You you don't
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: get to have your parents come along with. You And
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: i'm someone WHO i got really blessed with a great
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: family and a really good group of, friends AND i
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: missed them like. Crazy and so IF i could move
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: all them out, here it would be a million times
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: better BECAUSE i just know that people would out here
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: In phoenix would fall in love with my family friends
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: just kind of how they fell in love with. Me
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: BUT i think just being away from home and missing
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: out on, weddings missing out on your close friends having,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: kids missing out on family, dinners friends hanging, out going
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: to the, lake like it is the small things and
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: big things that it kind of. Sucks but then, again
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you know you can't live this lifestyle, forever so you
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: have to embrace it and put your best bet forward.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: And put your best foot. Forward how often would you
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: say that you get back to where you grew.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Up as much as. Possible and so IF i have
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of days, Off i'm going back. Home and
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: SOMETIMES i WISH i would go To cabo and just hang.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Out BUT i know that going back home and see
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: my friends and family is going to fill my cup
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: up a lot more than you, know probably tequila on
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the beach.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Heard, Heard, YEAH i, mean speaking of killing up your.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Cup what else do you do to take care Of? Sophie,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: YEAH i.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Make SURE i, KNOW i really do live a very
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: like kind of simple, life like to fill my cup
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: up and to make Sure i'm in a good mental.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: ZONE i need to get to the. POOL i need
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: to get a, TAN i need to maybe go to
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the hair slan make sure my hair is a little,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: blonder because if you look, good you play. Good AND
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: i do need to get my nails. Done already showed you.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: That but outside of, THAT i think one of the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: other things that really makes me feel good is helping
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: out with The ronald McDonald, house helping out with The
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: boys And Girls, club like giving back The Children's hospital
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: is a, huge big thing THAT i love to. Do
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: and it's just like give to others that maybe things
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: that they won't be able to do when they're older
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: because of difficulties that they had to go through THAT
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: i never got to go through or had to go,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: THROUGH i should. Say and SO i think giving back
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: is really what helps my heart grow fonder and helps
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: me really enjoy Where i'm, at because sometimes it is
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: easy to, complain it's easy to kind of get caught
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: up in the. Grind it's easy to you, know kind
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: of like sometimes because you do get you do miss
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: out on so, much especially during the, summertime and you
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: get a lot of. Fomo it's, like what CAN i
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: do to help someone else feel? Good and then that's
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: kind of what helps me feel.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Good, Yeah and especially in a sport or so, often
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: like y'all are traveling all over the place and even
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: in the off season going, overseas so you, know it's
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: something that so many, athletes regardless of, sport are are
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: navigating all the.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Time, absolutely AND i think that's something a lot of
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: people don't, know IS wnba. Players we're here from you,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: know Early may until Mid october and then you're shipped off.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Overseas you're In, turkey used to Be, russia anywhere In
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: europe And, australia and you're there for solid seven. Months
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and so that's where we make our. Money that's where it's,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: crazy because THE wnba is like the most elite level,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: basketball but you get paid the, worst and so that's
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: why you have to go overseas in order to you,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: know kind of to make your.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Money how has that experience been for you traveling? Overseas,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: YEAH i.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Am the wrong person to ask those wildvan it is
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: what it. IS i think my rookie YEAR i went
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: over To australia absolutely, fantastic loved, it loved the. Culture
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: my sister actually came with. Me we had like the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: time of our. Lives and THEN covid. Happened and then
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: my third YEAR i went over To france how to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: love the. Girls how a good experience got, injured and
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: once you get injured over, there they don't want anything
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: to do with, yet and so my good experience turned
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: bad really. Quick and then after THAT i was like,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Done LIKE i just it just wasn't my. THING i don't,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: KNOW i just feel LIKE i wanted to. TRAIN i
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: wanted to be. Home my grandparents are getting, older you,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: know and they have a huge family, farm and SO
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: i wanted to help out there as much as. Possible
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and then last, year WHEN i just kind of hurt
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: my other, ELBOW i just decided to stay out here In,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: arizona AND i kind of got into broadcasting AND i
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: absolutely loved, it and So i'm going to probably be
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: doing that and training the off season from here on.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: OUT i love. THAT i love.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: That just for, context can you give us some examples
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: of things that you are doing on the.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Farm oh my.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Gosh, GIRL i should have brought you out there and
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: we could have done it. Firsthand but, okay so it
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: depends on the. Season so we have planting and harvesting,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: season and so planting, season like you're out in the
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: field until like six, am excuse, me six am until you,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: know probably around seven whenever it gets. Dark so not.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Bad but my first, year like legit farming farming was DURING,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: covid and like we just to go out there just
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: like for you, know gigs and whatnot and not like
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: really do. Anything, like, oh we were on the farm
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: helping our paullpall but DURING. Covid we were actually like,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: farming and we had to get up at like five
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: am and to not go to sleep until one. Am
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: and my grandpa is like seventy nine years old doing,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: this you, know since he was six years, Old And i'm,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: LIKE i don't, know he's way stronger than, me just
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: like he just has A i don't. Know farmers are
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: just smart because they have to know a little bit
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: about the, economy the, weather plant like all that type of.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Stuff AND i JUST i just didn't realize how hard it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Was AND i will never be a farmer.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Again just a little insight into what farming looks like
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: for THE wnbash well right, NOW i know we talked
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit about social media And instagram. Before you've
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: got something like one hundred and eighteen thousand followers On.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Instagram when they come to your, page they see A wnba,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: player they see An adidas. Athlete what you look in the?
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Mirror what is it that you see looking back at?
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: YOU i LOVE i love that. Question WHEN i look
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: at myself in the. Mirror i'm proud of Everything i've been,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: through But i'm not satisfied LIKE i want. TO i
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: just have so many goals THAT i haven't. Accomplished But
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: i'm also just so grateful and so happy with Where i'm.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: At and, then LIKE i, said it's not always, easy
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: and there's hard, days there's things that just don't go my.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: WAY i don't feel like it's, Fair but at the
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: end of the, Day i'm very, Blessed i'm very, grateful
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: And i'm just here to give. Back and SO i
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: hope when people come to my page they feel a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: sense of, happiness they feel like they belong. There WHEN
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: i look in the, MIRROR i see a lot of.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: GROWTH i see WHERE i want to. Be But i'm
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: content but not, satisfied and SO i don't. Know, Again
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  Speaker 1: i'm a hot. MESS i see a whole bunch of.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff content but not.
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  Speaker 3: Satisfied you, know that's the second time in our conversation
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  Speaker 3: today that you SAID i have a lot of. Goals
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  Speaker 3: do you care to. Elaborate i'll give you. One we
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  Speaker 3: don't have to give away all the.
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  Speaker 2: Secrets it's.
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  Speaker 1: Cool, No, No there's just been something in my gut
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  Speaker 1: ever SINCE i was a young girl THAT i want
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  Speaker 1: to be An, Olympian LIKE i just want to be An,
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  Speaker 1: Olympian and so that is a main goal of. MINE
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  Speaker 1: i don't care if it's three v. THREE i don't
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  Speaker 1: care if it's five on, Five LIKE i don't care
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  Speaker 1: what it. Is BUT i want a gold, medal and
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  Speaker 1: so that is a, goal and you best Believe i'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be working my tail off UNTIL i get.
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  Speaker 2: IT i love. THAT i love.
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  Speaker 3: That you, know it's one of those things that you
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  Speaker 3: put it into the universe and the universe conspires to
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  Speaker 3: work with you to get you to where you want to.
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  Speaker 2: Be SO i doubt.
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  Speaker 3: That's the first time you've said that out. Loud but
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  Speaker 3: now all of these people that are listening are going
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  Speaker 3: to help hold you accountable and they're going to want
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  Speaker 3: it for you as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay but IF i, don't then you guys can
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  Speaker 1: just meet me at the pool and we can hang.
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  Speaker 1: Out we can watch.
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  Speaker 2: It so we're going To.
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  Speaker 3: Arizona, yeah. PERFECT i already asked, you like what excites
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  Speaker 3: you right? Now but what else are you looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to in the immediate future besides working your tail off
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  Speaker 3: to get maybe To paris or who, Knows la twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Eight, MAN i think getting my feet a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Wet in the broadcasting, INDUSTRY i THINK i have a
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: great opportunity here with The. Suns they have a stacked
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  Speaker 1: roster this, year AND i think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of, fun a lot of hype around the
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  Speaker 1: valley out here In. ARIZONA i just, think get my
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  Speaker 1: feet wet in industries THAT i Think i'll want to
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  Speaker 1: do When i'm done playing, basketball which is another you,
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  Speaker 1: know fifty years, Right, LIKE i don't want to retire anytime,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: soon BUT i do think the broadcasting area is kind
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  Speaker 1: of WHERE i want to, go and so just trying
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to get better at. That it's a lot harder than it.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Looks and to be, HONEST i tried starting a podcast
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  Speaker 1: and that's hard, too like being flowy and getting your
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: questions on car and doing all, that like you do
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic, job and it's a lot harder than people
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  Speaker 1: think it.
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  Speaker 3: Is so so swee steps to, You, sis thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Well you AND i can jam about podcasting whenever you.
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  Speaker 3: Want we'll have to have a one on. One i'm
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  Speaker 3: here to, Help i'm here to mentor.
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  Speaker 2: You sophie there A.
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  Speaker 3: Galsi all, right, girl well right now you have an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to offer yourself a piece of.
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  Speaker 2: Advice let's go. Back you talked about that rut that
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: you were in not all that long. Ago you knowing
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  Speaker 2: what you.
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  Speaker 3: Know now you have an opportunity to offer yourself a
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: piece of.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Advice going through a period where you're just.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Not satisfied with the work that you're putting, out what
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  Speaker 3: do you tell yourself during that hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: Moment for, Me i'm just stubborn AND i don't have,
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  Speaker 1: patience and that's something THAT i KNOW i need to work,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: on like everyone knows. That but for, me even Though
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: i'm frustrated and, annoyed my piece of advice is still
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: put in the, work even if the work is. Ugly
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: even if you know you're in the gym and you're
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: not making your, shots at least you're in. There at
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: least you're like putting in the. WORK i do feel
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  Speaker 1: like that if you are the hardest worker and you
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  Speaker 1: genuinely want to get better and put in that. Work
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: it's not always, fun but you have, to then the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: ball won't lie and you're not gonna be stuck in
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: a rep. Forever AND i think that's the biggest advice
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  Speaker 1: that they gave me at the. Time they were like
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: my mentors were like laughing at me BECAUSE i knew
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: how frustrated and they're, like, girl this happens to. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: Like i'm, Like i'm gonna like stay like this for
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: like ever Because i'm just, drama you. Know and they're, like,
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  Speaker 1: no like this happens to. Everyone just keep putting in the,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: work like you're, Fine it's not gonna last. Forever AND
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: i think that's the biggest piece of advice is don't
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: get too.
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  Speaker 3: High don't get too, high don't get too. Low Sophie
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  Speaker 3: cunningha'm so happy that we were able to make this.
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  Speaker 3: HAPPEN a huge, SPONSOR a huge thank you to your
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  Speaker 3: sponsor At quest for connecting us for those of the,
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  Speaker 3: hurdlers that's WHAT i call my audience that don't follow
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  Speaker 3: along with you just. Yet how do they keep up with?
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: You how do they follow along with? You give us your?
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Details oh my, Gosh, well you can go to My,
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  Speaker 1: instagram you can go to my. TIP i promise you
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  Speaker 1: that people might Think i'm, feisty but we have a
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  Speaker 1: good time on the. Socials we are very. Authentic we
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  Speaker 1: want to, help we want to become friends over, there
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  Speaker 1: and so It's Sophie, Underscore Seahan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm over at Emily A badi and At Hurdle, podcast
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  Speaker 3: another hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: Conquered catch you guys next.
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  Speaker 3: Time