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246. Jenna Bandy, Multi-Sport Content Creator · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 2: What is going on? Everyone? Emily A body here.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to episode two forty six in season
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  Speaker 3: thirteen of Hurdle, a wellness focus podcast where I connect
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  Speaker 3: with everyone from your favorite athletes to top experts and
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  Speaker 3: industry CEOs about their highest highs, toughest moments, and everything
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  Speaker 3: in between. We all go through hurdles in life, and
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  Speaker 3: my goal through these discussions is to empower you to
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  Speaker 3: better navigate yours and move with intention so that you
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  Speaker 3: can stride towards your own big potential and of course
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  Speaker 3: have some.
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  Speaker 2: Fun along the way.
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  Speaker 3: Season thirteen like what, oh my god, it feels so
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  Speaker 3: awesome and crazy and so many emotions saying that, but
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  Speaker 3: I am mostly out of all of them, elated to
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  Speaker 3: be here behind the mic, back with the hurdlers, bringing
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  Speaker 3: you some good content. I'm kicking things off this season
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  Speaker 3: with the One, the Only, Jenna Bandy. She's a multi
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  Speaker 3: sport athlete, a content creator, a former basketball player and
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  Speaker 3: honestly an.
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  Speaker 2: All around jem of a human.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited to start this season off with her
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  Speaker 3: talking about what it was like to make a major
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  Speaker 3: pivot once envisioning herself playing in the WNBA, now a
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  Speaker 3: content creator, as I said with millions of followers across YouTube, TikTok,
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  Speaker 3: and Instagram. For today's episode, Jenna talks to me about
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  Speaker 3: how it felt for her to make a drastic change
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  Speaker 3: to dive in wholeheartedly to content creation during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 3: leaving her job as a basketball coach and shaking the
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  Speaker 3: stigmas she felt surrounded the occupation of creating content to
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  Speaker 3: do what she loves, to pursue her passion and in
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  Speaker 3: the process empower so many women everywhere to be fearless
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  Speaker 3: and as she says, the mission of her brand game
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  Speaker 3: change her heer to challenge the norm and change the game.
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  Speaker 3: Jenna talks candidly about some of the double standards that
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  Speaker 3: exist when watching and critiquing male versus female athletes. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: Jenna also offers up some really helpful advice for anyone
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  Speaker 3: who may be stuck in that negative self talk loop.
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  Speaker 3: Moving on from difficult moments and reaching out toward your
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  Speaker 3: big potential again. Loved kicking off season thirteen with this
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  Speaker 3: conversation with Jenna. A huge thank you to her for
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  Speaker 3: her time, and of course thank you to all of
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  Speaker 3: you the hurdlers for making it all possible, for being
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  Speaker 3: my wife, for sharing the show with your friends and
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  Speaker 3: your family, and of course on social media for reviewing
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  Speaker 3: Last, but not least, make sure you're following along on
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  Speaker 3: social over at Hurdle podcast and I am over at
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  Speaker 3: Emily Abadi. And with that, let's get to it. Let's
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  Speaker 3: get to hurdling.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 3: I am sitting down with Jenna Bandy. She's a multi
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  Speaker 3: sport content creator former basketball player.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing today, I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I'm amped to have you, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: amped to have you for a myriad of reasons. But
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  Speaker 3: you are on a mission to empower females to be fearless,
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  Speaker 3: challenge the norm, and change the game. That's like a
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  Speaker 3: big statement, Jenna.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean and I mean it. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a big statement for a reason. I you know, I
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  Speaker 1: have a brand called game Changer, and it's her at
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  Speaker 1: the end, emphasis of the female. And yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: feel a big part of my success is because I
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  Speaker 1: have been fearless and I've been authentic, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: afraid to challenge the norm and change the game.
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  Speaker 2: Not afraid to challenge the norm and change the game.
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  Speaker 3: And the game these days looks a lot different than
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  Speaker 3: maybe you envisioned like it would look, god ten fifteen
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  Speaker 3: years ago, right.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, back when I was a little kid, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've dreamed of being in the WNBA, and since then
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  Speaker 1: life has been life in you know, I do something
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  Speaker 1: now that is very unconventional, but if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: I am technically a professional athlete now. So I dreamed
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  Speaker 1: of being a WNBA player, a professional athlete, but now
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  Speaker 1: in an unconventional way, I am just that. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I played. I played high school softball and basketball. I
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  Speaker 1: was really good at both, but I loved basketball more.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up tearing my ACL before my senior year
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  Speaker 1: in high school, so like that was just very discouraging
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know what was going to happen for me.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up on my d one said cea later,
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  Speaker 1: and I ended up going to Division two. My third
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  Speaker 1: year in college, I ended up tearing my other aco.
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  Speaker 1: So when you talk about hurdles, you know, those two
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  Speaker 1: things were very challenging for me. But I knew that
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  Speaker 1: if I could overcome this, I can overcome anything mentally,
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  Speaker 1: not only just physically, but mentally. And then I thought
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do the whole sideline sports reporting thing
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't think maybe physically my body could endure
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  Speaker 1: playing overseas or even the WNBA. So I just kind
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  Speaker 1: of changed my pathway. And during the whole interview process
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  Speaker 1: of sideline sports reporting and getting in that industry, I
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  Speaker 1: was approached with coaching from a guy that I knew
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  Speaker 1: from twenty four Fitness. We played basketball the time in
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  Speaker 1: my hometown, and he's like, hey, I just took over
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  Speaker 1: the girls program at a local high school and I
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  Speaker 1: need to fill my staff. And I'm like, I've never
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  Speaker 1: coached before, but I tried it, fell in love with it,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought the rest of my life that's what
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  Speaker 1: I would be. A teacher and a high school coach.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up getting my own varsity head coaching job,
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  Speaker 1: and during that time, I had a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a following, so I had one foot in with the
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  Speaker 1: influencer thing, but I didn't really like the term and
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  Speaker 1: the stigma that came with being an influencer. So if
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  Speaker 1: anyone asked me, what do I do? So, I'm a coach,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a first ye head coach. But then it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: until the pandemic hit that I had to get out
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  Speaker 1: of my teaching credential program. I had to stop coaching,
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  Speaker 1: and I still had to pay the bills, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember the day that I told mom and Dad, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a teacher or a coach.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be a YouTuber. I'm gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: content creator. And that was very weird and hard for
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  Speaker 1: them to hear, and they didn't understand it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I kind of had a bet on myself and
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  Speaker 1: I was able to see other people be successful in
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  Speaker 1: this world and it gave me the hope and the
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  Speaker 1: confidence that I could do this as well. So that's
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  Speaker 1: really it wasn't until the pandemic really twenty twenty that
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  Speaker 1: I put both my feet into this realm of content creation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean there's so much to unpack here,
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  Speaker 3: first and foremost. Having gone through so many hurdles up
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  Speaker 3: until this point, do you remember where your mindset was
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  Speaker 3: at the first hurdle, that first ACL tair in high school?
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  Speaker 2: How did that feel for you?
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  Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old, and I was very discouraged.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I was doing everything I thought was right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was preparing, I was playing pick up
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  Speaker 1: with guys. I was I was pushing the envelope, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think what I did was I overdid it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and I was I was playing pick
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  Speaker 1: up against guys at Pepperdine University, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of a little freak accident. I just landed wrong
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't really hurt that bad. I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: think twice of it. I was like, oh, a little tweak,
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  Speaker 1: but uh sure enough, you know, I got it checked
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  Speaker 1: and there it goes. I tore my ACL and my
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  Speaker 1: dream of going D one. Everyone said see you later,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like it's a liability. You can't give a
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  Speaker 1: scholarship to someone who has a torn ACL. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: play my senior year, and I remember being just like
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  Speaker 1: sitting around watching all the girls play the season that
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  Speaker 1: I was going to play and it was. It was hard,
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  Speaker 1: and as a sixteen year old, I didn't understand. I
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  Speaker 1: was you know, I thought it was unfair why me?
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  Speaker 1: But like physically it kind of made sense because I
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  Speaker 1: was just a little twig. I wasn't doing any type
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  Speaker 1: of white weightlifting or preventative you know, pliometrics or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. So it physically it made sense why I
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  Speaker 1: tore my ACL, you know it did. But mentally, and
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  Speaker 1: like universally, it's like, why is this happen to me?
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  Speaker 1: Right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, And that's so understandable.
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  Speaker 3: Right You're in this place where you're giving your absolute
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  Speaker 3: all to something and then your body just breaks, and
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  Speaker 3: you're of this mindset like this.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't suppost happened to me exactly? Oh man?
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  Speaker 3: So you do go on though to play for Kelsey
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  Speaker 3: and then eventually tear the other one. So where's the
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  Speaker 3: head at the second ACL tear?
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  Speaker 1: So that one was probably the most discouraging because I felt,
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  Speaker 1: after tearing my first one, Okay, well, I gotta build
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  Speaker 1: up my muscle. I gotta I gotta really pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to my body. And I felt the most strong I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been when I tore my second one, and uh
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  Speaker 1: and that, like I said, that was more mentally frustrating
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  Speaker 1: for me. I felt like it was the time where
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  Speaker 1: I finally started to really get a lot more playing
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  Speaker 1: time that I felt I deserve, and I was really
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  Speaker 1: getting in a great rhythm and it was in a
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  Speaker 1: game and I just I planted my foot to pass
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  Speaker 1: and my leg just gave out, and that one it
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  Speaker 1: hurt tremendously, screaming, crying, and I knew it. I knew,
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  Speaker 1: I knew I tore it, and it was it was
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  Speaker 1: the opposite one. So now I had both torn aco.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like people used to call me Jenna Badney
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  Speaker 1: changed the N and the D, which is actually pretty funny.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, like shut up, but that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh my god, my heart for you.
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  Speaker 3: And it's interesting that you said I just wanted to
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  Speaker 3: ble click on this. I was finally starting to get
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  Speaker 3: more playing time than I deserved.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you feel that way?
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  Speaker 1: Because so I went. I went to cal State Monterey
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  Speaker 1: Bay my freshman year. I was just fresh off my
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  Speaker 1: knee surgery. You know, I was playing with the Big
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  Speaker 1: Race and I was inconsistent. I'd have nights where my
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  Speaker 1: knee felt good, and then I had nights where my
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  Speaker 1: knee felt and it just felt hell heavy. And the
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  Speaker 1: confidence it was in and out. I didn't feel back
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  Speaker 1: to who I was. Not that I ever felt that
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  Speaker 1: I'd be back to the same person, but like I
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  Speaker 1: just it was in and out. My games were back
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  Speaker 1: to back Friday Saturday night, so Fridays thenight feel good.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's A didn't Sophomore a year, there was someone else
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  Speaker 1: in my position, so I kind of had to play
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  Speaker 1: outside of my position just to get playing time. Junior year,
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  Speaker 1: back into my shooting guard position, I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: the six man off the bench, and I was really
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  Speaker 1: like showing what I can do. Didn't have a sleeve,
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any type of brace on. Just felt fully
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  Speaker 1: equipped mentally, physically, everything, and then boom.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to garnering confidence in the moments where
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  Speaker 3: you really want to show up but feel like that
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  Speaker 3: inner voice is wavering a little bit, what advice would
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  Speaker 3: you offer to other women who can find themselves in
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  Speaker 3: a similar situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you have to put things in perspective,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you have to reflect and really think about
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  Speaker 1: this could be a lot worse. I could be I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be out of school, I could be somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: not less fortunate, you know. So of course, like it's
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  Speaker 1: debilitating in a way, But what you have to do
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  Speaker 1: is you have to continue to push through. And instead
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  Speaker 1: of thinking, oh, I have to make up for all
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  Speaker 1: this lost time, you have to chop it down into
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  Speaker 1: what is the next right thing for me? So I
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  Speaker 1: really broke it down into oh, I have six months
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  Speaker 1: of recovery at least. Instead of doing that, I broke
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  Speaker 1: it down into, okay, today, what is the next right
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  Speaker 1: thing that I could do? What's the next right choice?
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  Speaker 1: So just little by little making those choices, those right choices,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe they're different for you than they are for me,
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  Speaker 1: But over time those habits, it turns into confidence. Like
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  Speaker 1: seeing the ball go through the net feeds that confident.
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  Speaker 1: So I would say, if you're in that mindset of
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  Speaker 1: oh what this is unfair? Why is this happening to me?
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  Speaker 1: How do I make up for all this lost time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where to go. Just focus on making
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  Speaker 1: the next right choice, doing the next right thing for you,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you it feeds that confident.
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  Speaker 3: It feeds the confidence. All the little steps end up
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  Speaker 3: still making you, giving you that forward progress. Having such
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  Speaker 3: a massive following both across TikTok and YouTube. You talked
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  Speaker 3: about really making this pivot for yourself about three years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and that is both a little bit of time and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time. Talk to me about how it
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  Speaker 3: feels now with the progress that you've made over the
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  Speaker 3: past three years in this career that you've chosen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean, like I said, when influencer was
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  Speaker 1: being thrown around, I feel the stigma behind it. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like it. I didn't take pride in it. So
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  Speaker 1: I had my foot in it and then I had
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  Speaker 1: my other foot out of it. I was a teacher
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  Speaker 1: and a coach, and I thought that was something that
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  Speaker 1: I could take pride in and really stand firmly on.
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  Speaker 1: So the term influencer, I didn't like it. However, I
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  Speaker 1: did do some content. I had a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a following. I would be a substitute teacher and these
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  Speaker 1: kids would be like Jenna Bandy twenty one. I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's miss Bandy or it's coach, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a little bit weird and I think
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  Speaker 1: what it was for me was I started to surround
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  Speaker 1: myself with other content creators who've been doing this a
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  Speaker 1: lot longer than me. And this guy I pay homage
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  Speaker 1: to him, Josh Horton. He had seventeen Guinness World records
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  Speaker 1: when I met him, and he just moved into my
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  Speaker 1: hometown in Thousand Oaks and we had a mutual friend
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, hey, I would love to have
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  Speaker 1: you on my channel. We do a lot of basketball stuff,
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  Speaker 1: trick shots, sporting challenges like yeah, sure I will. And
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun and soon you see
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  Speaker 1: his followers is subscribe. I start talking about when Jenna
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a channel. We love Jenna, bring Jenna back
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  Speaker 1: Gone and he's like, Jennah, you really need to do this.
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  Speaker 1: People love you. You have a thing, you have it
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  Speaker 1: and I was like God influencer YouTuber kind of lame
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  Speaker 1: right and shortly after that like he we all got
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  Speaker 1: Guinness World records. He saw I made a throw. I
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  Speaker 1: made a football throw into the basket and we were
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  Speaker 1: doing a video for his channel and he was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Jenna, that might be a gninnifoild record
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  Speaker 1: because already has it in his mind. To think that way,
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  Speaker 1: like this could be ananifold record. Let's look it up.
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  Speaker 1: No one has set this Gennithral record for farthest football
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  Speaker 1: throw into a target by a female. So he had
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  Speaker 1: the plug with the Guinness World Record adjudicators, the officiators,
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  Speaker 1: and we all rented out some space a certain day
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  Speaker 1: and time, and we all had Guinness World records to
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  Speaker 1: set and we all achieved them. And when I got that,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's a cool little flex. So I
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  Speaker 1: put it on my Instagram, my YouTube and it was
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  Speaker 1: really cool and I was like, okay, like this is
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  Speaker 1: actually kind of something I could do. And then it
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't until I got the opportunity in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one by House of Highlights to come on their showdown.
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  Speaker 1: They were having a showdown challenge of Knockout Basketball and
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, two balls, you're in a line. If
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  Speaker 1: you make it before the person in front of you
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  Speaker 1: makes it, they're out. You know, like that game, the
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  Speaker 1: Playground game. And I played that all my life, and
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  Speaker 1: they gave us the opportunity. I was the only girl,
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  Speaker 1: and I was one of eight people, and I was
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  Speaker 1: amongst other big YouTubers. I felt like why am I here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm an odd ball. I'm just a little
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  Speaker 1: baby in this journey of being an influencer, right, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make the most of it. And I freaking won.
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  Speaker 1: I beat all the guys. I had all my lives left.
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  Speaker 1: We all had three lives. You could bump the ball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had the most like uh sperience basketball wise, but
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  Speaker 1: it was from the free throw line and you had
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  Speaker 1: three lives and you could bump the ball. And we
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  Speaker 1: had ample amount of time to prepare, and I prepared
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  Speaker 1: and I made eighteen out of twenty shots. So even
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  Speaker 1: when I missed, you couldn't really bump my ball. I
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  Speaker 1: got it quick and I put it back up and
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  Speaker 1: I'm and I won one hundred K. I'm getting tons
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  Speaker 1: of followers that night. I'm like, this is for me.
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  Speaker 1: I have to capitalize on this platform. I would be
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  Speaker 1: stupid to do it. To not do it. I am young. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I could always go back to coaching. I can always
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  Speaker 1: go back to teaching. I'm doing I'm doubling down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I love like the excitement that builds in
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  Speaker 3: your voice as you tell that story, and you like
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  Speaker 3: reflect back on that because What a beautiful opportunity that
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  Speaker 3: it was right, like this really fun moment for you
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  Speaker 3: to be like, actually, I really like doing this, enabling you.
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  Speaker 2: To then care a lot less about whatever the stigma
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: was that you associated with the an influencer being a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: content creator.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Exactly because people thought it was kind of a gimmick.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: If you hear a woman say I'm an influencer, the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: stigma automatically is, oh, she's probably showing off her body,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: kind of being like gimmicky or cheap, and like, that
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: wasn't me at all. I'm a tomboy like at heart.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I grew up with a big brother that never let
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: me win in anything, talking trash to me, you know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: So when I finally did win, I earned that. So
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: that has given me that competitive edge, and I've that's
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: just who I am. I'm very authentic to being a tomboy.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: So I enjoyed this beating up on my guys. That
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: second nature to me.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Can we go back to the Guinness World Record for
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: a moment though, Yeah, for that they have to come right, yes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: And adjudicator, Yeah, we had we had the measuring tape.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: It was ninety feet, so thirty yards had to throw
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: with an NFL sized and I couldn't bank it in.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: It had to go straight in and take a mind
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Like I could throw an NFL fall probably forty forty
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: five yards, maybe fifty, but it was ten feet up
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in the air. So it's also like you really got
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to get under it, you know. And let me tell you,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: everyone else got their gonna throw out world records before me.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, I can't be the only one leaving
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: this gym without again as world record. Heck no, you
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, are we all gonna go
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to dinner and celebrate, But I'm the only one that
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: really is being a little like upset. You know, I can't.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I can't be the one. I can't be the bad egg.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: You can't do it. Well, you didn't have to worry
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: about that because you succeeded. Yeah, you know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: And again going back to just like your charisma and
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: your level of energy, I would imagine that you you
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: garner that excitement you're all in, but at the end
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: of the day, like you're putting out content for everyone
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: to see, So are you able to hold onto that
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: excitement when other people start having an opinion on what
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: it is that you're doing oh man.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I mean that's also something that comes apart of like
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: being so public and on social media, you know, comments,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you know, they say, don't read the comments. I read them.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I do not all of them, you know.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And there will be troths, there will be haters, and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you know the saying if if you have haters, that
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: means you're doing something right, you know. And kind of
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: all my life, I have had people jealous or or
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: just feel like they're slided and should be in the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: position that I'm in or you know. And the thing
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: is is like you just carry on. You can't please everybody.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes when you do well or not well, like there's
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: always going to be an opinion. So I think the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: excitement is still alive inside me, and I try to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: stay humble, but at the same time, I'll talk my talk,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you know, and I think it's deserving because that worked hard.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I prepared like I was in the gym. I went
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to my old school that I coached that I still
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: had the keys there, you know, and I got on
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the shooting gun, the shooting machine, and I was shooting
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: free throw after free throw, and I was even thinking
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: about things like, okay, well if someone's in front of me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm actually not going to be right at the free
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: throw line. I'm going to be about a foot and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a half two feet back. So I practiced not just
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: from the freeth line. I practiced from two feedback. I
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: practiced to the right of them. I practiced to the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: left of them. I'm preparing for all things, and they're
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: calling me a try hard or oh she she doesn't
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: deserve to be there because she she's played college ball.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: But I prepared. You could have prepared too. It's first
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the free throw.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Line, yeah, you know, and that's and that's only like
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: one of these, let's say opportunities, right because you've had
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: so many now at this point, that was just kind
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: of one of the let's call it the first or
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: the catapulting moments. And yes, as you can haue you on,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: you talked about, you know, preparing for that one in
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: terms of training. But what does quote unquote training look
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: like for you these days?
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah? So you know what, like right now, I don't
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: really go and play pick up basketball anymore like I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: used to. If I'm gonna play basketball, I'm it's mainly
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: for an event or I'm turning that camera on and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: it's it's very rarely ever where I'm just playing for
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fun anymore, because I am doing stuff very often. I
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: love playing pickleball. I so like that's in my my
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: weekly schedule, Like I'll go and I'll play pickleball. I
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: wait train, i will get shots up, I'll get content,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you know, for basketball. But hardly ever really playing fives
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: just for fun. I always got something going on football,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you know. And so I'm just a lot of it
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: has to do with recovery and and making I'm sure
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that my body's feeling good because I'm thirty years old
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: now and I feel like, oh I got to keep
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: up with these young guns, you know, and and it's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a matter of staying young, staying healthy so I could
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: continue to do this.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I probably should have had that mindset at thirty. Honestly
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: now I'm like, I'm only I've only got a few
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: years on you. But like if I at thirty was like, man,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: really gotta protect these bones, then maybe I wouldn't be
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: hobbling around like I already am.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: The multivitamin, the you know, everything, you got it, the creams, everything.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: It's all it's all in the rotation, don know, don't worry.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: So okay, But going back though to kind of picking
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: this up during the pandemic, bring us into what Jenna
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Bandy is doing like top and twenty twenty right before
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: everything shuts down?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Wow, what I was doing before that? I was trying
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to really figure out what do I see the rest
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of my life as? And I really felt passionate about
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: coaching and about teaching. I saw my summers off and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: enjoying that with my with my future husband and family
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and kids. You know, I saw that it was very
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: rewarding to teach and coach and to see that light
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: bulb turn on, you know, but it is a grind.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And I was. I was a head coach at twenty
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: four years old, and you know, I look younger than
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I am, so and I felt like any disagreement to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: playing time or just my coaching concepts, it was an
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: attack and a threat to my job security. It was
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: very hard in the in the areas I was coaching.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I was coaching at Calabasas High School, Calabasas right, A
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: lot of big name people there, you know, privileged, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I was trying to teach them things like hard work
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and accountability and hey, you might not be going to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: college to play basket but you are going to be
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: in college and living on your own, and mom and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: dad won't be there to hold your hand all the time.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So accountability communication talking to someone an adult that's older
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: than you about something that you might have an issue
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: about that you can't always have mom and dad, So
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it's very tough. I felt like I was being attacked
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and I just for things that are so I had
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: such great intentions for and I'm like, you know what,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I might be too young right now and look a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: certain way right now to be fully respected in this field.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So I was like, maybe I got to go to college.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: So I was right before the pandemic, I was a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: junior college assistant coach, and that really fit way better
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: for me. I didn't have to target on my back
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: as the head coach. I was an assistant. So I
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: was like, I kind of could be the kids homies,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you know, and I could I could be there and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and not have all the responsibility that I had as
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a head coach managing scheduling all of it. You know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it fit me better. But like I said, like the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: pandemic hit, I had this opportunity and I doubled down
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: on it, and it kind of was like, Okay, well,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'll do it. I didn't really think anything would come
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: of it. And six months later, six months later, they
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: invite me to another one, another showdown for one hundred k,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and I was one of twelve people. I was one
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of two girls. So it was ten guys and two
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: girls and I was one of the girls. And it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: was for one hundred k. Is for go karting, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I took. I took a page out of my book
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: from the other one. I'm like, what did I do
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to win this one? Well, I prepared, So what did
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I do for this one? I went to the actual
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: go karting site. I went two weekends in a row.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: My sister lived thirty minutes away. It was an anaheum.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: My sister lived thirty minutes away. And I practiced Friday
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday. And then the week went by, and then
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: again I practiced Friday Saturday Sunday. I raced four races
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a day, so four times six, I raced twenty four races.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I got to learn the go kart, I got to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: learn the trap, and I asked questions. So then when
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I go to the actual event, I had the fastest
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: lap time of everybody, so I got the first grid
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: spot and then I defended my line and I freaking
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: won again. I won another one hundred k against all
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the guys, and here I go. I won two hundred
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: k and one year. I'm like, guys, can you give
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: me the check in the following year? Like taxes man?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: But the thing is is that I prepared and they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: still called me out as a tryhard or someone who
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: got a coach. Just give me the credit that I deserve.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I prepared.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: When you started getting more and more of a following,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: did you recognize that you have this opportunity, through this
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: new line of work to inspire the next generation of women.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, and that's exactly like what the main thing has
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: always been. You know, we're called influencers. However, what is
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the direct influence. I might have an indirect influence. I'm impressive,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I look cute. You know I can do some pretty
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: cool stuff, right, But what am I directly influencing? So
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I always knew that I wanted to come out with
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a brand, and a lot of influencers have their brand
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: named after themselves, and I've been told I should do
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the bandy brand. It kind of seems like a no brainer, right,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: But I was like, I don't want it to be
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: about me, Like, who's really gonna wear Dranda Bandy on there?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I wanted to be something
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that they can embody themselves. So that's why I came
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: up a game changer and it's her at the end,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: like I said, because that's something that even dads can
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: wear because they have daughters that they support, or even
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: if you're not a dad but you're a man. I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: actually was blown away by the support that I got
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: by by men because they're like, well, it's a female
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: empowerment brand. Of course I'm going to support it because
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if they would wear something that says
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: her on it. But I got a lot of sport
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, this is reinforcing everything.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Or you started game change her.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Did you feel like the influence that you had that
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you were starting to cultivate was in line with what
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: you wanted to create.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, Like I definitely had a lot of like girls
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: dming me, messaging me and telling telling me how much
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: like I inspire them, and and you know, but I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have the numbers show like I have an overwhelming amount
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of a male following compared to female following. And I
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: think it also goes from like girls aren't always all
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that supportive of other girls. It's a certain thing you
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: know that goes on, Oh, am, I am I really
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: going to support her? Am I just jealous of her?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's it's tough, but I will recall there was a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: moment I was in New York and I had a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: whole activation with this brand, and and I was strangers
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: at west Worth in the cage. It was like one
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: of the most like famous street ball courts, and I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: was playing one on one. If you beat me, you
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: get to win tickets to Madison Square Garden for the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: for the college games and for the Knicks versus Bucks game.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Like this is huge, right, And I know I look deceiving,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and that's part of it, Like I look like I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: could be you know, I'm blonde hair, you know. But
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: then I'm bawling up right. So a bunch of guys
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: came to play me. And there was this little girl
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that came and her name was Sophia, and she was
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: only five years old and she came up to me
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: with her dad, and I was like, Hi, what's your name.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: She's like, I'm Sophia, and I was like, I'm Jen.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I know who you are. I watched all your videos
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and she was the only girl that was there all
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: day watching me. Had her ball with her and I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: let her play and we played. But since that day
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: she's been the wallpaper on the back of my phone. Still.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: If I wasn't doing this voice, and I'm not, I'll
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: show you right now. But little Sophia, she made me
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: realize that I have a bigger voice than I thought
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I did. And that was in that was in twenty
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: twenty one, I believe, and it really made me realize
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I got to put on for the women, and I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: got to have a brand that is for the women.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You know, not about me, but it's for the women.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: It's for girls in sports and to show women you
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: could do both. You can look cute and you could ball,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you know, and you could be fearless and be true
• 31:34
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was scrolling through your page before we
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  Speaker 3: got on this, and it never surprises me, but always
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  Speaker 3: annoys me.
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  Speaker 2: And I go to like any video of.
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  Speaker 3: A female athlete and there are, without a doubt, men
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  Speaker 3: in the comments commenting about her appearance.
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  Speaker 2: How do you navigate that with what you do?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You see, this is the thing social media. It's
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: still about entertainment. And I understand that, Like there's a
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  Speaker 1: few things that you should achieve when you're on social media.
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  Speaker 1: It should be inspiring, educational, or informative. And I know
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that I have a certain look and I could just
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  Speaker 1: be all about my look. I'm tasteful with it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll show my assets, but I'm also showing my talent.
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  Speaker 1: I am still a very feminine girl, and I do
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: look a certain way, but I am very talented and
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  Speaker 1: sporty and athletic.
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  Speaker 2: And athletic and athletic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I love that story that you
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: shared also about Sofia, because I think that it brings
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  Speaker 3: to inspire the next generation of athletes. When you reflect
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: on the women that motivated you to lace up from
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: the get go, who comes to mind?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I just I have to say my mom. And
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily from an athletic standpoint, it's more of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: just just her character and her just grit. I would say,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you know, my mom is Italian from New Jersey, smoker,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: has the rasp and her voice deep, like came to
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: every single one of my games. It's the same with
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: my dad. But you heard my mom and you knew
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that was my mom because she's the only blonde, I'm
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the only bond on the court, you know, like, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: she just I just say, she just inspired me to
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: be independent and strong and to be authentic to who
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I am, you know, and just stand firm in what
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: you believe in and what you want to do. So
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: my mom and I would say my big brother, like
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I said, he never let me win in anything. I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: have a twin brother as well. But my twin brother,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: my parents say that I saw all the athleticism in
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the womb because Jace is not coordinated whatsoever. My twin brother,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he's a Spanish teacher and just very yeah, very passionate
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: about that. But I I'm athletic and jet My big
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: bro just would you know, like I said, he beat
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: up on me and and he he was in the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: MLB Major League Baseball player, professional baseball player for years
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: he retired now and you know, just the tunnel vision
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and his his focus. I always looked up.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: To, Oh my god, I can like hear your mom's
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: voice in the back of my head now, Like being
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: that standout on the side of the court. To be
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: able to reflect and be like, yo, my mom was it.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: That's like such an awesome thing.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I mean, of course, there's there's
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: women that I've looked up to, Like I definitely looked
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: up to Jenny Finch and softball, like I love, I
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: felt like I kind of looked like her, you know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I had her glove and softball Lisa Leslie being the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: first woman a dunk. And then also I have to
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: say the movie Love in basketball, like I remember particularly
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the movie Monica, you know, she she made a basket
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and kind of looked down at her defender like kind
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: of talking trash. And she was like, why do I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: get in trouble for talking trash? Because because I'm a female.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: But if a guy does it, he gets a pat
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: on the back, you know. And it's kind of very
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: relevant to today and what's going on today with Angel
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Reifs and Caitlin Clark, and even for me being a creator.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: As a content creator, I was just in this league
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: two on two Creator League for fifty k, and I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: was talking my talk we're entertainers as well. So I'm
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: shooting it and I'm going like this, and I'm I'm
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: saying you're too little. And I feel like a lot
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: of the time I have been criticized because I'm a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: female doing it or because I'm white and doing it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I even had someone in my comments because we won.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I won another fifty k and in my thing, I'm
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: showing that I'm doing this stuff. And I said in
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: my caption, I said, do you think females should be
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: criticized for talking trash or celebrating just because we're females.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: And I remember one comment in particular, they said, no,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: but just be more lady like. What does that even mean?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Be more lady like about it?
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that stuff bothers me so much. It
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: bothers me so much. So tell us then, now that
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: you know you're three years into creating this content, where
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: do you see yourself going from here?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: For a little bit, at the beginning of this year,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I remember having like my yearly meeting with my manager Alex,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and it kind of came to me in a sense
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: where I felt I've been looking at content creation, being
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a social media influencer as a stepping stone into my
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: more adult job, into my more conventional job, which is
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: maybe being a sideline sports reporter or sports host. And
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I did get my feet wet in that at the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: end of the year last year August through about middle
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: of February of this year, and I was learning things.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I was on set in a studio, reading from a prompter,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: having to memorize things, and it was a really great
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: learning experience. It is a muscle that I had the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: flex that I wasn't used to and through that I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I actually don't enjoy this
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: as much as I thought I would. And I'm really
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: glad I got that experience because it made me realize,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: like being a content creator, it's not a stepping stone.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to double down on what I'm
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: doing now. So right now, I used to edit all
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: of my stuff, long form, short form everything. Now I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: don't edit my long form videos. I have a videographer.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: So now when you say, like, well, what's next for you,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: it's more just doubling down on what I'm already doing,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: getting a videographer, getting an editor, maybe having multiple I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: do have multiple, continuing to just bring people on my team,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: and continuing what's the next what's the next video idea,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: What's the next thing I could do to level up?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: You know, like I've been on America, It's got talent.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I've done performances at the Clippers NBA basketball game to
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: try to beat my Guinness World Record. Like if I
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: could beat my Guinness World Record, you know, just leveling up,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and that's really where it is. I'm just doubling down
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: on what I'm already doing. That's what's next for me,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and I feel like eventually there will be some type
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: of hybrid maybe of content creator and like maybe the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: conventional world of being a sports hoster, or so maybe
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: I create my own show. Maybe even right now it's
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: doubling down even more on my brand, Game Changer, collabing
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: with the WNBA, collabing with cool big brands.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: And when you say all of this, the possibility is
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: exciting and it's contagious. And I really love that realization
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: that you had going through that experience of doing more
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: of the conventional reporting that you thought maybe that you
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: would want to do when you were a bit younger,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: and having that takeaway that's like, you know what, I'm
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: glad I did it, but it's not it doesn't feel
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: like it's for me. I think oftentimes we have a
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: hard time letting go of the thing that we were
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: so convinced was meant to be our path.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you feel that way?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Yes? And I would. I would be told, oh, you
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: look like Aaron Andrews. You could totally do what she does,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: And that kind of gave me the idea to do
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: communications and major in that in college. I didn't really know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: but I kind of had people telling me that's what
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you should do. And I'm like, yeah, I could do that,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I know sports, And so, like you said, experiencing it
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: living it, I realized it's really not something that I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: loved as much as I do with my content creation.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is really empowering to say, hey, I'm
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: going to stand on my own two feet and make
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: my own thing and then the rest, you know, it's
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: up to possibility.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And if you think about it, like where you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: thought your life was gonna go years ago, it's definitely
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: probably not where it is. And I just that's been
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: my life. It's I've had freak accidents, I've had things
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: that I just get opportunities for and I capitalize on them.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm just going to continue to stay true to
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: living each day and making the next right thing, doing
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: the next right thing for me.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Now you travel a lot. I'm with you
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: on that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Talk to me a little bit about how Jenna takes
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: care of Jenna when she is constantly on the move.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I gotta get my coffee, that's for sure.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: The only thing that I do for self care is Cathine.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: You know, you know, it's still it's true to what
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: I do. Even when I am home. I call my
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: mom every day, talk to my mama. Gotta get gotta
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: get that energy in.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Me, you know.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: And it's it's really helpful to just stay on schedule.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: I feel a really bad feeling in my gut when
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I'm late to things. I don't like that, you know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: So just just making sure that I'm being considerate of others.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: And and you know, I have this this tushy cushy
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: that I have that with me when I travel, and
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I sit on it in the planes because I have
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: this little issue with my pariformis if I sit for
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: too long, I am in pain. I'm in absolute pain,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and especially if I'm active, and then I have to
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: be on that plane. Oh my god. So that's one
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: thing like I gotta grab my tushy.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Cushiy unexpected components of the self care routine.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And then another must have is when I'm traveling, I
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: gotta bring my speaker with me. I gotta have my
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: music going on when I'm getting dressed, when I'm when
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just in the hotel chillin. So those are like
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: my tushy cushy and my speaker and my coffee and
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: mama Bear.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: I love that your self care involves aspects that some
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: individuals may not think to be proactive about. For instance,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: calling your mom because you know that her energy fills
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: up your cop thinking about how you can take care
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: of your body in situations that maybe other people wouldn't
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: think about. Some others may be like, oh fuck, I'm
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: gonna be stuck on this plane for twelve hours, right,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: But you're like, no, how can I make the best
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: of this situation? And that's just a testament to the
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: mindset that you have garnered, overcoming things that maybe didn't
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: go your way leading up to this point. You have
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: learned to truly do the best you can with what
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: you have. How does that make you feel when I
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: say that to you.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Wow, I mean it makes me feel pretty special, and
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: it makes me feel like I have done what I
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: can and because I know people would die to be
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: in the position that I am. I remember for a
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: little bit I was like, gosh, YouTube is just I
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: don't really want to do YouTube anymore. I'm getting enough
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: brand deals for short form content with TikTok and Instagram.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I just want to do that. It's not as much work.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I could easily edit it on my phone, but I
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: had like two hundred thousand on YouTube and I just
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: was letting it sit there. So it's like, no anyone
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: would kill the hab my platform. So I've been capitalizing.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I've been making sure that I'm posting every day on
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: YouTube shorts and I'm posting a long form every week,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you know. So I just sometimes, you know, I do
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: need to get a little bit of a kick in
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the butt in the reminder, you know, like like if
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I'm getting irritated with a brand and I have a
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: deliverable that I have to meet and they come back
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: with feedback and I'm like, crap, I gotta to edit
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: more or I have to redo this voiceover or whatever.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I have to remind myself, Jenna, chill, stop being so spoiled,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: because it's like you get to make videos for you
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: get to be a tomboy for a living. Already be
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a tomboy if you weren't doing this now you're just
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: getting paid for it. So I have to remind myself
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: just like like you are blessed, Yeah you are. My
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: cup is overflowing, like you said, just being grounded with
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: those calls with Mama Bear and remembering where I came
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: from and how I was raised and those morals.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: For sure, for sure. Now for you, what would you say?
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Is probably one of the things that people don't talk
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: about as much when it comes to creating content or
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: perhaps being this public of a person.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Ooh, I think people think it's easy to do. I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: think people but it. But it's it's deaf, it's difficult.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I got into it when I was surrounded by other creators,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, we're just holding each other's phones,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: we're holding each other's cameras. I'm able to learn from
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: other people. If you're just getting into this on your
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: own right now, I it would be pretty difficult to
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: figure out where to start, you know. And so I
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: have branded myself as a multi sport athlete. Some people
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: haven't branded themselves as multi anything. Maybe they just have
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: one niche and it's like, okay, well, how do you
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: continue to entertain in that same niche without doing the
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: same thing as you've already done. How do you make
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: it different? How do you advance it? Maybe you add
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: something a progression to it. It's it's it's tough. I
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: like I said it. Luckily I've multi brand multi sport,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: so I could do a football video, and you do
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: basketball video and pickleball or whatever. But it's difficult to
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: stay with the trends, to stay new, to stay fresh,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: because you get you get burnt out. It's real, like Creator,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: burnout is real. And it's like, I know Snapchat wants
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: me to post like fifty times a day, and I
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: just don't want to share all my life like that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: So it's it gets to be a little bit, it
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: could be could be a lot. So I think people
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: don't understand, Oh, Creator, are you just showing your life?
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: That's easy? It's not that easy.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Can we talk about that for a bet?
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Though?
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: What do you do when you're burnt out?
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: It's it's tough. I mean, I know that this is
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: the life I chose, right, so you have to just
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: reflect and assess things and make sure, like like you said,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: you're taking care of yourself. There's a reason why you're
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: burnt out. You you skipped on the priorities of taking
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: care of yourself before something. So it's planning, it's preparing.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I've been trying to do a better job of scheduling
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: massages and really taking some time to go spend with
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: my family, you know, see my little niece, And so
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's when I'm burnt out. It's about
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: moderation and getting back to what like just being a
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: normal person is, you know. Yeah, And I think it's
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: okay to not share your whole life on social media,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: just showing like showing a glimpse of like it's still
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: a job. I could represent myself in this way. But
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I really am this
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: authentic tomboy girl. But you don't see you don't see
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: who I'm going on a date with. I love that.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: And you know what, I think, it's like, your perception
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: is your reality. Right, So as a creator, you have
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: the opportunity to provide a picture of what your life
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: is like, knowing what makes you feel comfortable to share.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: And now the problem that goes hand in hand with that,
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: as you've already articulated, is that people are going to
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: have something to say about it whether or not you
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: share it, right.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And sometimes you know, you have to post
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: content even if you're having a bad day. You and
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: like that, I know is tough for a lot of people,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: especially if they're going through mental health problems or just whatever.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: And you kind of have to put up a facade sometimes,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: but it's part of your job, so it is it
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: can get kind of like it could get kind of
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: tough in that sense, it's for sure.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, have you had to deal with that yourself?
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like dealing with heartbreak, breakups whatever. You know.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: It's I know that it's great for your algorithm to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: have at least four stories a day in post twice
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: a week, but maybe I'm not feeling like and sometimes
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: like let's say, let's say I'm just a creator is
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: over doing the same thing that they want and they
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: want to expand they want to start to multibrand stuff.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes if you post something that is off your niche,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: off of your like routine of posts, you're going to
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: take that hit of views and you just kind of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: have to you have to put up when you have
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: to deal with it, and you have to like you
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: have to stand strong and what you're doing and like,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: you know what I deserve. I'm still a human, so
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I can have my off days. You know. It's just
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit unfortunate that the world sees it all.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's also interesting as well.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, for an example, if someone who has
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: been creating content for some time, is also a new mom,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: and they start to share some of their journey with motherhood.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Without fail, there's always going to be people that come
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: in and say, like, well, I didn't follow you because
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: you were a mom, then unfollow me, get out.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Why are you commenting that stuff? Just don't even comment,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: just don't follow me.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Then, yeah, I'll never forget that.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Tunday told me once, she said when we sat down
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: the last time that when she had become a Peloton instructor,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: she was struggling with this fact that like all of
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: the you know, public feedback, unsolicited whatnot. And one of
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: her friends said to her, would you ever go to
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: someone else's Instagram and leave a nasty comment? And Tunday
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: was like no, And she was like, so why are
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: you gonna let that person.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Who has some nasty stuff to say to you impact you?
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Interesting, that's a great way to look at it.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: You would never do that for someone else. So like,
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: you can't take that person seriously.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't take it personally. You know, it's a
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: certain type of person that's doing that type of stuff,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: and usually it means that they got stuff going on
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: on their own.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not you, it's them. All right, all right,
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: we're winding down here. Tell me, Jenna, what excites you
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Getting facetimes from my sister and her little daughter. She's
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: the cutest little nugget in a world.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: How old is she?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: She's only two years old, and she just brightens up
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: She just gives me so much joy. And I get
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  Speaker 1: this year pretty often, so that gives me excitement. I
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: do have to say pickleball. I love pickleball. I think
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  Speaker 1: it is the best sport in America. I think it's
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: the best combination of power, faness iq athleticism. Like I
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: just love it. And people think it's oh just for
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: old people or it's not really cool. Try it and
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you'll get addicted. You'll get the bug.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: I have only played it once, and I definitely, like,
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  Speaker 3: had no concept for what the rules.
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  Speaker 2: Were or anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of rules.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have lot of fun.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: Right now, Jenna, you have an opportunity to offer yourself
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  Speaker 3: a piece of advice. After that second acl tear that
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: big hurdle moment, knowing what you know, now, what do
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: you tell yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I would tell myself. I would tell myself. You know,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: everyone has failures in life, and sometimes like everyone who's
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: doubting you, even your own doubts, that like not to
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  Speaker 1: listen to them, because there's a lot of times that
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I don't. I wasn't speaking positively to myself, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we all do that. So I would tell myself
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: to get out of the ret quicker, you know, I
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: would tell myself to speak life to myself and not death. Jenna,
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  Speaker 1: you got this, you know, don't talk neglie about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Would I would say, do that and I and I
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: eventually did, but it took some people that I had
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: to surround myself around to get back to that positive space.
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  Speaker 1: But just to give myself a little bit more grace
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  Speaker 1: and to speak positive to myself because I think manifestation
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  Speaker 1: is real and and you attract what you want and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: by saying and talking to yourself, it's a big thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, positively.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: When you're in a rut personally, like when you're on
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: the go or whatever and you're you're finding yourself kind
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: of dipping into that negative self talk space, what do
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: you do to get out of it?
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: There's like this quote that I really love and it's
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: was it a was it a bad was it a
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: bad day, or was it a bad five minutes that
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: you milked all day? So I think everyone has the
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: right to get mad, to be angry for a little bit,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: but like, don't let that take over your whole day.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Give it a minute or two, five minutes, and then
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  Speaker 1: let's go. We're overcoming, we're talking positively. It's time to
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  Speaker 1: move forward. Next play mentality Right, what matters the most
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: isn't what already happened, it's what's going to happen next.
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  Speaker 3: I love that, Jenna Bandy. I'm so happy that we
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: were able to make this happen. How do the hurdlers
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• 56:24
  Speaker 3: us your info.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: You can follow me at Jenna Bandy twenty one, on
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• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Bandy Love It, I'm Over, at Hurdle Podcast and at
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  Speaker 3: Emily a Body Another Hurdle Conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.