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Saysh One Shoes · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, did you know
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  the story behind safe one shoes? Well, let's ask our American mama.
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  Mama, Mama, she said in twenty because now our American mama, Terry
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  Nettaville, this is a story out that it started this a couple of years
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  ago because they had the twenty twenty World Olympics where were actually held in twenty
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  twenty one because of the COVID thing, but I guess the Summer Olympics.
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  But there's a track and field sprinter, Alison Felix. She was sponsored by
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  Nike UM but that deal kind of went south because she got pregnant, right,
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  and Nike was like, well, you're gonna take a seventy percent pay
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  cut because you're pregnant and told her to know her place and just run.
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  Yeah, that's she kind of back a little bit your place. Yeah,
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  So in her contract and goes with Nike. She was trying to get it
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  to where other track athletes who were pregnant wouldn't have to go through to what
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  she was going through, and Nike was like no, right, So she
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  started her own shoot company, Go Girl, Yes she did, and this
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  is somebody who has eleven medals. She surpassed Carl Lewis if you remember he
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  on Oh yeah, and then she was had the most track and field medals
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  by any American and American history. That's amazing. I mean, to have
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  more medals than Carlos. This is what's so sad because if you remember,
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  I think a lot of people boycotted the Olympics because we were so frustrated with
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  this administration and what they did. A lot of people did not watch the
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  Olympics like we have had, like we've done in the past, was just
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  ridiculous. When I read this story about her, and I know it's pretty
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  old, but I hadn't heard about her right, and I thought, gosh,
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  Alison Felix would would have been a household name had this Olympics landed or
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  anytime other before or after. Well, and America had the patriotism we had
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  during the Reagan era. Absolutely, if we had the patriotism we had during
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  the Reagan era today, she would be a national huge she would she would
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  be on the cover of the Wheaty's Box. Oh yeah. But what she
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  did, and I love this because this shows you how empowered she ended up
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  having to have a C section. Her daughter came early. I think her
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  daughter's like two, and so she said, um, you know what,
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  during this downtime, I'm going to do something for women. I think she
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  was. I think it was probably brewing. You know when a woman is
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  told by anybody, especially men, ye know your place, Yeah, just
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  run know your place. We're gonna cut your pay, We're gonna be the
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  boss of you. We're gonna tell you what you can and cannot do.
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  The especially when it comes to pregnancy. Oh my gosh, there's something.
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  There's um a switch that's flipped inside of us, and it's like, oh
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  no, you didn't just do that. So what she did was she started
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  her own company, right, She had investors come in and her brother was
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  one of the leading forces, which I love because here's this male in her
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  life supporting her, supporting her and empowering her to do this. And they
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  have made bank. Because what I did, she wore these shoes in the
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  Olympic. Yes, she wore her own brand of shoes in the Olympics.
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  I mean, if that is not a perfect way to promote your shoe and
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  your product, what an American story to right? Right? You see a
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  need, you feel the need. It's a beautiful story. But I don't
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  understand why this isn't everywhere? Yeah, why are we kind of it's slowly
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  it's like a grassroots thing that's being passed through Facebook, you know, through
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  email, people like did you know about this? Right? I am shocked
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  that this is not on every news station because here you have this woman who
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  has the more metals, has the most medals in American history, more than
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  Carl Lewis. She was told shamed basically when she got pregnant by Nike and
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  she said, I'm gonna do one better. Hold my beer. I'm about
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  to make my own company. That's gonna go, And that probably is what
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  it was. She competed with Nike, and Nike probably owns a lot of
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  these stations, a lot of interesting places. Because Time covered this, The
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  New York Times covered this, there were there were stories of her in some
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  of the big media, but it still hasn't gotten the play that you would
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  think it would have, and maybe it was it got shut down by Nick.
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  What's also what's about this is Nike actually changed their policies about pregnancy to
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  match more what she was asking them to do before she left Nike when Nike
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  told her to go pound sand and she said no, no, I'm gonna
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  go build my own shoe company. Then Nike went, Okay, I guess
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  we'll do what you said we should do. Yes, Why did it take
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  that? I think maybe they saw that she could do something special. And
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  I hope that she does. I hope she goes against them and I hope
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  she takes them for everything. And I mean, but when they have Colin
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  Kaepernick, Yes, and Nike had this ad with Colin Kaepernick, be willing
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  to risk everything, right right? Beat stand up for something, to be
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  willing to risk everything? Did they mean no, it's just a tagline for
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  them? Did they mean Alison feel Oh? No that I don't trust a
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  lot of these companies. There's a lot of it that I didn't know until
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  this came out. I didn't realize that Nike makes shoes for men and then
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  what they do for the women. There's a tagline they have inside the biz
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  where they say shrink it and pinket. So basically, these shoes are not
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  built for a woman's foot most of the time. So what she did and
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  her company is it contours to a woman's foot. It's supposed to do that.
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  I guess our feet are different. Yes, there's different difference, right,
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  And so I love her story. I love she is an inspiration.
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  I hope that by the end of all of this that her name is an
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  American household name and everybody knows her. Um. I just harald people like
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  her, that they take their pain, they turn it into a purpose,
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  and here she is. If you'd like to ask our American Mama question,
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