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Ep. 63 - Staying True to Yourself with Paige Anastasi · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Grace LaCrosse, alongside Ashley Pearson, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a super fun episode today. We meet with Paige Anastasi.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about her journey to Clemson, social media and
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  Speaker 1: authenticity behind that, and a lot of other fun little
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  Speaker 1: nuggets in there. So let's go Beyond the Paw. How
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  Speaker 1: are you, Ashley?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Grace. How are you today? I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 2: It's chilly outside.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: We're finally hopefully getting through a fake fall. Not really,
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  Speaker 2: but that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: End of October. It's finally starting to feel like fall.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we might have had one of the
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  Speaker 2: hottest summers, at least since I moved here six years ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's been the hottest summer since then. What I fear
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  Speaker 2: is going to happen is that it's been so hot
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to miss the middle good part.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just going to skip to being freezing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves are gone. Everything is just cold. So fingers crossed not.
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  Speaker 2: It's about 70 today, so that should be good. But anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That should be good. Honestly, though, now that I'm losing
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  Speaker 1: my tan, I'm fine with it being chilly and I have.
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  Speaker 2: To wear pants.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, let me put on pants because these legs
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  Speaker 1: need to be covered up.
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  Speaker 2: That's so funny and so real. Thank you for sharing.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome. Okay, but you were in Chicago recently.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Was it cold in Chicago? How was that? Tell me
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  Speaker 2: all about it.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually the perfect weather in Chicago, which is rare.
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  Speaker 3: Very.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like people don't say that often.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But so I.
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  Speaker 1: Went to Chicago for the Women Leaders in Sports National Convention.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you did.
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  Speaker 1: And that was beautiful. business casual dressy ish so it
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  Speaker 1: was nice that the weather was was good for us
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  Speaker 1: because I could wear short sleeves and pants and be comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Right yeah what was that like trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what to wear to a professional conference because you've done
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that is professional development and you
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  Speaker 2: are also trendy and stylish and all the things so
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  Speaker 2: how did you figure out what you were gonna wear.
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  Speaker 1: Um I brought a ton of different options. Ended up
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  Speaker 1: going shopping and buying completely new outfits anyways. Anthropologie is
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  Speaker 1: my best friend.
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  Speaker 4: It's my favorite store.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody who knows me knows that when they think of Grace,
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  Speaker 1: they think of Anthropologie. So my mom and I went
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  Speaker 1: there and we tried on a bunch of stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: then also Aritzia is another one. And Chicago has a
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  Speaker 1: new Aritzia that's like three stories. It's incredible. So went there,
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  Speaker 1: checked it out. Got a couple cute tops. I have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of spring, summery type things. And so I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to skew a little bit more fall with my
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  Speaker 1: color choices. So I did like an olive green. I
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  Speaker 1: had this nice white sweater that I got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of the mindset. And Chicago is home.
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  Speaker 2: Chicago is home.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to see my family. My mom came
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  Speaker 1: down to Chicago on Tuesday of the conference and we
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  Speaker 1: went to dinner. She stayed with me. So that was lovely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Was there anything or anyone, because conferences are fun too, oftentimes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: the content's good, but you really also go to network
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  Speaker 2: and to meet people. So tell me about that. I
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  Speaker 2: know a group of student athletes from the ACC went,
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  Speaker 2: so you had that group as well, but then did
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  Speaker 2: you meet anyone or learn anything that has just really
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  Speaker 2: stuck out to you or resonated with you since leaving
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  Speaker 2: and kind of reflecting on your experience?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: A ton of stuff. It was very cool meeting the
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  Speaker 1: other student athletes from the ACC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Even though they do different sports than I do. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: there was one gymnast there, and that was awesome meeting her.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. We're going to compete against you this year.
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  Speaker 4: See you out there. See you then.
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  Speaker 1: No, but a lot of us have similar experiences just
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  Speaker 1: by being student athletes. And I posted my media day
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  Speaker 1: photos maybe– one or two days after the conference and
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  Speaker 1: they were all commenting.
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  Speaker 2: On my post.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this is so sweet. So that was
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  Speaker 1: really cool. There was a lot of stuff that I
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  Speaker 1: took away from the conference. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: really good keynote speakers, panels that I listened to. I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the biggest things that stuck out to
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  Speaker 1: me was this one panel and the quote was that
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of how it was worded, that
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  Speaker 1: it's not about what's happening to you, it's about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening for you. And I think that's multifaceted in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, right? It's one, it touches on this
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  Speaker 1: idea of the victim mindset that a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: we as humans tend to have of, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was dealt these bad cards. And you kind of sometimes
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  Speaker 1: sit in this space of, why did that happen to me? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: poor me. Oh, shoot, this happened to me. And the
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  Speaker 1: longer that you sit in that space of, shoot, this
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  Speaker 1: sucks for me, the longer you delay your ability to
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  Speaker 1: make the choice to get out of it and to
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  Speaker 1: take kind of responsibility, maybe not for the situation you're in,
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  Speaker 1: but for how you respond and how you react to it.
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  Speaker 1: So that was one thing. And then the other piece
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  Speaker 1: of that was that perspective shift of how can I
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  Speaker 1: look at the glass as half full rather than half empty?
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  Speaker 1: And that's something that we've talked about on this podcast before. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool to see then leaders, people who are
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  Speaker 1: very successful, take those lessons and apply it and share
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  Speaker 1: it with a larger group.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I like how you pointed that out,
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  Speaker 2: because I think sometimes when you're an early career, you're
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  Speaker 2: starting to look at, you know, beyond college, what am
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  Speaker 2: I going to do? What does this look like for me?
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  Speaker 2: And I think sometimes we look to people in positions
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  Speaker 2: or in corporations who have these high level positions and
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  Speaker 2: these roles. And there's obviously a place for respect for
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  Speaker 2: those people and the work that they've put in to
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  Speaker 2: get to those spaces. But kind of what you just shared,
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  Speaker 2: when you get to hear them speak about the imperfections
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  Speaker 2: of it, the challenges of it, you realize that people
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  Speaker 2: are just human beings. And we experience these similar challenges
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  Speaker 2: all throughout life, but in different ways, even at that
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  Speaker 2: high level, people don't always get it right. And I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes that's reassuring when you are a young professional,
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  Speaker 2: or you're starting to think about what you want to do,
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  Speaker 2: realizing that everyone's path looks different and that's okay. And
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  Speaker 2: that's how it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you get to learn from your own journey and
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  Speaker 2: from those challenges on your own and take with you
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  Speaker 2: what you learn. And that perspective shift can be very hard.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's, I think it can be easy to
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  Speaker 2: fall into a victim mentality, but the way you phrased it,
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  Speaker 2: I like, because I think you said, um, not taking
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  Speaker 2: responsibility for, for the situation you're in, but taking responsibility
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  Speaker 2: for how you handle it or react to it. And
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes people, that's what will keep them in
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  Speaker 2: a victim mindset is, I didn't do this to myself.
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  Speaker 2: I got put in this situation. Well, at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, at some point, the only way it's
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  Speaker 2: going to change is if you decide to change it.
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  Speaker 2: And regardless of what happened or who did what to
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  Speaker 2: you or what put you in that situation, At the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, it is your responsibility to get
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  Speaker 2: yourself out of it. And that might be tough, but
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  Speaker 2: that's just what it is. No one else can come
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  Speaker 2: and do it for you. And I think that mindset
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  Speaker 2: is so huge and it's a huge shift to try
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  Speaker 2: and get there. But when you hear high level people
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  Speaker 2: talking about those things, it humanizes the experience and makes
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  Speaker 2: you realize I can do that. You all do that.
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  Speaker 2: I can do that too. And so I think it
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  Speaker 2: sounds like you learned a lot from it, which is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And what I immediately thought of as you were kind
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  Speaker 1: of speaking there was this power of the word and, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like this can be tough and I can choose to
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  Speaker 1: move forward. This can suck. and I can make the
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  Speaker 1: best of it. Our guest today actually had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that, right? This is tough and I can make
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  Speaker 1: the choice to put myself first and people can be
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  Speaker 1: saying these things about me and I can continue living
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  Speaker 1: my life anyways.
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  Speaker 2: To be who I am. Yes, absolutely. And I'm so
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  Speaker 2: excited too. This conversation with her is so fun. She's
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  Speaker 2: so authentic. And so I'm excited to have Paige on.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Paige Anastasi, one of my teammates.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Paige is a senior who began
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  Speaker 1: her career at UCLA before transferring to Clemson. During her
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  Speaker 1: time at UCLA, she was a part of the 2025
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship and NCAA runner-up teams, earned academic All-Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten honors, and in 2024 finished fourth on vault at
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  Speaker 1: the Pac-12 Championships. She continues to make an impact here
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  Speaker 1: at Clemson, helping our team win an ACC championship in 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Paige.
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  Speaker 3: Yay! Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited, too. We're excited to have you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you two are matching today.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Giving teammates.
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  Speaker 1: Unplanned, but we're on the same wavelength. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you walked in the room. I'm like, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go. You're like, I didn't get the memo.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't want to tell me either.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of the inverse, I guess. Yeah. We somehow are
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  Speaker 2: always in the similar skew.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: What's the word I'm looking for? What?
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  Speaker 3: Palette. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I like that word. Yeah. I've never heard that before, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're learning today already this morning.
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  Speaker 1: This always happens right in the beginning of the episode.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, hmm. This is so fun. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are going to get started the way we
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  Speaker 2: always do with the two-word check-in.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. The two-word check-in, there.
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  Speaker 2: Really are no rules. The only rule is that it
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  Speaker 2: has to be at least two words. You can share
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  Speaker 2: more about why you chose those two words or you
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  Speaker 2: can literally just say the two words. But kind of
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  Speaker 2: just a pulse check on how you're feeling, how you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: and how you're showing up today. So whoever wants to
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  Speaker 2: go first.
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  Speaker 1: You want to start us off, Paige? Of course I do.
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  Speaker 3: First, I want to say grateful. Every day that I
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  Speaker 3: start my day with a grateful attitude, it's a better
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  Speaker 3: day and excited. I've never done a podcast before. This
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  Speaker 3: is my first podcast ever. And it's funny because I
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  Speaker 3: was nervous and I talked to a camera all day long.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I vlog.
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  Speaker 4: Literally.
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  Speaker 3: This is like nothing new to me, but it's also
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  Speaker 3: something new to me. Cause I'm like live and being
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  Speaker 3: put on the spot.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I get that. It's different.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited for the opportunity. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so grateful and excited. Grateful and excited.
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  Speaker 1: What about you, Grace? I'm excited as well, of course,
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  Speaker 1: to have Paige on, but we're getting our ACC rings
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  Speaker 1: this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yay!
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited for that. My parents are coming in town.
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  Speaker 1: My brother, too. So just a lot of stuff happening.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm feeling... A little chilly.
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely a little crisp in the air.
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  Speaker 4: It was a cold morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's so fair. Okay, those are awesome. I think I'm feeling,
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  Speaker 2: I feel cozy. I think because it's cold outside, I've
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  Speaker 2: just been bundling up lately. Candles and warm lights and
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  Speaker 2: all that good stuff. So I feel cozy. And then
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  Speaker 2: I also feel, I feel steady. I feel like this
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  Speaker 2: time of the year, you really... You have to hit
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  Speaker 2: a flow state or you're behind. So maybe flow state
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  Speaker 2: would have helped.
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  Speaker 4: Flow state is a great one.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, cozy and steady. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yay.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. Thanks, Ashley, for running that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so now from our two-word check-in, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get into some rapid-fire questions, and I'm really excited for
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  Speaker 1: these ones to ask you. So let's just hop right
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  Speaker 1: into it. First thing you do in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: First thing I do, make my bed. Every single morning
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  Speaker 3: I make my bed and I feel like it sets
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  Speaker 3: me up for a good day.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great answer. Favorite trip you've ever taken?
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  Speaker 3: I love to travel and I just had a great
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  Speaker 3: summer of traveling. I went to Aruba with my best friends.
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  Speaker 3: That was so much fun. And I've been to Aruba before,
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  Speaker 3: but it was a great experience. Aruba, maybe in the
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  Speaker 3: top three. Okay. My favorite trip?
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Especially if you like to travel and you
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  Speaker 2: can do it.
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  Speaker 3: I love to explore new places.
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  Speaker 2: Aruba's a good answer.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just say Aruba.
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  Speaker 1: Stick with Aruba. I mean, you can't go wrong.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Go-to coffee order?
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  Speaker 3: I like the taste of coffee. So I like to
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  Speaker 3: keep it simple with either just honey in it or
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  Speaker 3: I like to do like a salted type of coffee
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  Speaker 3: so it like It's not too sweet and overpowering, but
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  Speaker 3: like I really taste the coffee in almond milk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has like a good balance.
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  Speaker 3: Like something simple, but when I go to a cafe,
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  Speaker 3: I'll order something different. Like I went to a cafe
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  Speaker 3: the other day and I ordered this rose caramon. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's, I don't know how to say that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always afraid to order the floral stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I liked it a lot. And I liked
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  Speaker 3: a lavender coffee that I tried one time. Which is
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  Speaker 3: very niche. Like, not a lot of people like that.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people like a milkshake for a coffee.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like that. That's so.
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  Speaker 1: We have a teammate who literally is like, I want
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  Speaker 1: salted caramel. Actually, eight pumps extra of salted caramel. It's
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  Speaker 1: literally just half salted caramel and a venti.
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  Speaker 3: Her Starbucks cup is like, you're reading an essay.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like. there coffee just something simple something simple
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  Speaker 1: yeah i love that you're calling it a cafe yeah
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  Speaker 1: i don't know i'm gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Start doing that instead of a coffee shop i'm going
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  Speaker 2: to a coffee shop it sounds a bit more french
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  Speaker 2: yeah i kind of love that okay a cafe okay
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  Speaker 2: biggest hot take.
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  Speaker 3: Biggest hot take You're going to hate me for saying that. Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Where is this going?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like the park sweatshirts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I knew this.
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  Speaker 3: And the mock necks.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a big fan. And maybe because I'm surrounded
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  Speaker 3: by it so much in the South, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: get a lot for that. Because whenever I say it,
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  Speaker 3: people will turn their heads and be like, what? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. It's not my style. I feel like turtlenecks
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  Speaker 3: were a thing before mock necks were. So now every
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  Speaker 3: time I wear a turtleneck, people are like, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 3: you're wearing a mock neck. No, a turtleneck was definitely
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  Speaker 3: a thing before the mock neck.
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  Speaker 2: When it's cold outside, we need to cover our neck.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like a sweater instead of.
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  Speaker 2: And you did that today.
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  Speaker 3: A mock neck.
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  Speaker 1: I respect your opinion, Paige.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Though I don't agree. She does not. Okay, what's one
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  Speaker 1: hill you're willing to die on? Well, I'm willing to.
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  Speaker 1: You're really putting me on the spot here.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: She's digging deep. She said, let's get started.
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  Speaker 1: I hit Paige with some tough rabbit prayers.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it.
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  Speaker 3: You know when you think of something on the spot
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, later in the day, you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I wish I said that instead. I was thinking about
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  Speaker 3: it before I came here. I'm like, I hope I
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  Speaker 3: don't have something else to say before I leave.
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  Speaker 2: You can add it in the comments when you think
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  Speaker 2: about it later.
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  Speaker 4: It boosts our engagement.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I actually meant to say this.
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  Speaker 3: Can you give me an example before I say something?
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  Speaker 3: I need like an inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Ronan talked about cereal. His hill
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  Speaker 1: was going to be how great cereal was.
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  Speaker 2: I might say ketchup is the absolute best dipping sauce.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what anyone else has to say. That
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: could also be a hot take. That could also be
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: a hill to dive.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: It's a double whammy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Anything. Something you're very passionate about. Gets you worked up.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I feel like late night work is better than early
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: morning work.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: I feel like I can grind out a lot. at nighttime,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: especially when I'm under pressure, but waking up early in
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: the morning and trying to get something done, my brain
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: does not function the way it does at nighttime. Okay. Yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: And it's kind of crazy for me to say, because
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I've been going to bed at 10 PM every single
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: night because I'm literally an old lady now for having
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: to wake up so early.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Um, but like when I have like a deadline and
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I need to like get something done, I can stay
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: up until three in the morning and grind it out
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: and make sure it's good rather than waking up early. Yeah.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I'm an early bird, but I'm, I'm at the same
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: place where I'm going to bed at 10 PM. Like,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and it's getting to the point where eight o'clock hits
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the clock and I'm like, I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: got two hours left.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: In bed by nine scrolling literally till 9 30 phone
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: down you need that 30 minute doom scroll before bed.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I need to just completely disassociate.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That's literally that's the hill i'll die on you need
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: that yeah yeah i'm sorry i don't care about all
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: these the the light isn't good for you it messes
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: up your circadian rhythm i'm fine yeah i think i
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: had this realization recently where i was like My brain
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: is stimulated all the time.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Even if I'm not talking to someone, I have music on.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I have a TV show on. I have music in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: my office. And a couple weeks ago, I just stood
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: there and I was like, you can just stand here
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: in silence. You don't have to have stuff going all
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the time. It's like you can feel the frequency in
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: your brain. I'm like, take a seat. I do not
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: need all this stuff on. But I also will doom
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: scroll 30 minutes before I go to sleep. And I'm like, well,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like this is a little off switch on
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: my brain.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I can't sit with my own thoughts sometimes. So they
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: just be going everywhere. It's like overwhelming. So something has
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to be on. There's, there's sometimes when it's like a
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: really bad day and you know, it's a bad day
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: when I don't have music on in the car and
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just sitting there with my own thoughts, driving like
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: after a bad practice. And I'm like thinking about everything
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: in the universe that happened that day. So. that's when
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: it's a really bad day when I'm really thinking with
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: my thoughts. Cause I don't do that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And it's, it gets to the point too, where you're
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: driving and you don't even realize that there's nothing.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You're like, do I even have any thoughts right now?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Like, how did I get from point A to point B?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Like you black out while you're driving and it's like,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: it's kind of scary.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it is.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: The brain is weird.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: It is so weird.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: So shifting from rapid fire to just some general questions now,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: So you transferred from UCLA to Clemson. I can imagine
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that that decision and that journey was pretty difficult. Can
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you talk about it a little bit?
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I actually haven't really talked about it live, I
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: guess you could say. I feel like for me, the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: biggest thing was my own happiness and finding the love
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: for the sport again. I wasn't doing the gymnastics that
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I wanted to do in a way that I wanted
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to do it in a way. I wasn't enjoying the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: process as much as I wanted to. I was just
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: always focused on the outcome and the end goal for myself.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: When I was at my previous school and I really
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: tried to find those like little moments of joy and
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I just kept missing it. So it came to a
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: point where I was sacrificing my well-being for a sport
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: that like at the end of the day it's not
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: for forever so I was like I really need to
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: sit down make a pros and cons list my mom
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: always taught me to do that make a pros and
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: cons list of what would the transfer portal look like
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and it came out to okay I'm I'm doing it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Like I had thought about it for a while in
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: my sophomore year because I just wasn't happy. And I
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: sat down at the end of the year, I talked
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: to the coaches and I like, we were all on
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: great terms. Like having that hard conversation was not easy
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: by any means, but I knew I needed to have
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the hard conversation and they were supportive of my decision.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: And we still are on great terms. Like I, respect
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: everything about my previous school I still keep up with
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: my teammates from my previous school and it was just
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: for myself that's a decision that I had to make
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: for myself and my parents were also not on board
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: with me doing it either which is crazy for me
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: to say because there was a lot that I was
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: sacrificing for the unknown so stepping into the unknown was
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: definitely scary for everybody around me but I was willing
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: to do it and if I was willing to do
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: it I was going to do it So I entered
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: the portal and that was like the craziest experience of
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: my life because I didn't know if I was going
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: to do gymnastics again after that because I spent how
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: many years trying to get recruited to where I was
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: at and that wasn't my dream at the end of
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the day. So entering the portal was scary but trusting
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: the process and continuing to grind through it and work
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: hard and go into the gym when I couldn't go
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: into the gym. At my previous school, I had to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: like drive off campus because it was getting construction done.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: So I knew when I had a goal, I was
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: going to accomplish it no matter what. That was my,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: that was my end goal. I was going, I was
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: going to do it. There was nothing going to change
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: my mind. And I was going into the gym unmotivated
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and some of the offers that I got were not
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: what I wanted either. And I was just going to
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: continue to reach out to all the schools that I could.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I was continuing to have the conversations that I could
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: just so I could get to where I wanted to
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: be at. And I told one of my teammates before
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I entered the portal, I was like, I want to
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: end up at Clemson. Like, I really think that this
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: is my dream school and I can see myself thriving there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: And did I think it was going to happen? No,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: but I was like, why not give it a shot? Like, again,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I only have four years of doing college gymnastics. Well
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: now five, but, um, and I was like, I feel
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: like I want to go there. Like that's, that's the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: goal that I want to reach. And when the coaches
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: shifted and everything was going on, like that was a
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: longer process. So not only was I in the portal,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: like waiting for something to happen, but I also was
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: experiencing the coaching change and like, getting contacted like way
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: later than the normal experience because the coaching shift played
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: a part in that. So sitting patient with it and
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: trying to trust the plan was the hardest part because
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I have the least amount of patience in the world.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So I was finally at the end of it. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: was still in school because they were on the quarter system.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I was taking finals while also balancing phone calls while
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: also– like, setting up visits everywhere, and everything was, like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: finally clicking. I had a visit to Minnesota, and then
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I had a visit to Clemson, and then I had
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a visit to Cal. And I took all three visits,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: and I knew after I went to Clemson that it
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: was the place that I wanted to be. There was
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: no doubt about it, but I still gave every school
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: an opportunity and a shot to experience what I wanted
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: to experience. And... Yeah, I was on the plane ride
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: back from my third official visit, and I was talking
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: to my mom, and I was like, this is where
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I want to be. Like, I know this is where
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I'm going to end up, and this is where I
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: see myself thriving. And she was like, I mean, how
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: could you not? Like, the resources here are incredible. The
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: people here are incredible. Take an opportunity where you think
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: is going to be the best for yourself. And I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: prayed about it, and... I committed and it was honestly
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: the best day because I didn't think that I was
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: going to get the opportunity to do gymnastics again. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I wanted to do gymnastics this time the right way
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: and focus on my happiness instead of the outcome of
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: a situation that who knows what could happen with it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: So I went into the portal again for my well-being
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and for focusing on Where can I be the happiest?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, that was here.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: And ever since, it's been the best decision of my life.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And I know our team is very grateful that you
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: chose Clemson. You're a huge part of our team. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: think that there was a lot to be said in
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that story. The main thing that stuck out to me
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: was this idea of when you know that something's not
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: right for you, as scary as it can be and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: as difficult as that choice might be sometimes, It's okay
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to take that leap and take the step of saying,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I need to make a change. I need to put
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: myself first. I need to figure out something, whether it
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: might be transferring schools, getting myself out of the situation entirely,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. It's okay because it's what's best
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for me. And so you spoke about that very eloquently.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: So thank you for sharing that. I didn't know that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: your parents were not entirely supportive of your decision. I mean,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: for parents during their recruitment process, it's hard because you're
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: watching your kids go off to college. I mean, that's difficult.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And then you're from Boston. You were all the way
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: over in California. The moving logistics, I can imagine, would
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: be difficult for them. Not that they weren't. going to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: support your decision either way. But was there anybody else
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in the process that you felt was in your corner
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and that it made a huge difference in that decision?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Honestly, my old teammates were super supportive. So I sent
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: a text message the day that I entered the portal
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: into our group me. And I had a couple of
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: them come up to my apartment and we all cried together.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: And then I also had a bunch of text messages
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: from people who were in the portal that like transferred
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to UCLA that were like, I'm here for you. Like
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I found my dream school. I hope that you do too.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So like I had teammates in my corner, whether I
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: was going to be on their team in the future
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: or not. And that was great for me because I
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: had people that I could go and talk to and
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: honestly crying with them was like this really like needed
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: moment for me to like feel what I needed to feel.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: But then I was like, okay, like I cried it out.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Now I need to focus on my future and what
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I need to do. It was like, I had this
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: moment of like, I can be sad and sit with
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: my feelings and continue to dwell on this. Or I
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: could move on, work towards my goals and then keep
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: it pushing basically. Like I needed to have that moment
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: to be able to like figure out what I wanted.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: So especially in grace kind of touched on this too,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: but It takes a lot of bravery. When I think
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of the transfer portal, just as someone who has not
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: ever been in it or will never, you know, have
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: that experience, obviously. But it kind of is this it
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: almost feels like this mythical universe where it's like, all right,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: we click a button pages in it. Now I'm like, oh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: she's out there floating in the portal. You like it's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: this weird thing. I feel that way just kind of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: from watching kind of from the side. But back to
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: your point earlier, when you don't know the outcome.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: And then still making that really tough decision, that's hard
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: That takes a lot of courage. Because like you mentioned,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: you spend most of your life training to do this.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: And then you get there. It's not exactly what you're
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: needing it to be.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: So you're making the decision, regardless of the outcome and
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: where I go, what's on the other side will be
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: better for me.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: And that takes a lot of self-awareness and a lot
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: of bravery.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And so... I think.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Building on that, I just had belief in myself. Whether
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: nobody else had belief in me, I had belief in myself.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: And I knew that I could do whatever I put
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: my mind to. I was going to accomplish it regardless
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: of what other people were going to say. So the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: belief was the biggest motivator for me.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and it carried you and you're here. Okay.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: So you talked about the portal, but then talk about
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: what it was like when you, you're like, all right,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I'm coming to Clemson and you got here. You're starting over.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: You're in a brand new place. So you have to rebuild.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: What was that experience like?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was great. It literally was everything that
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I ever prayed for. I got here in the summer.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I was trying to get here as fast as possible
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: because my training was so inconsistent with where I was at.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Training at your club gym is never easy. Driving there, motivation-wise.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: The equipment is not as nice.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: It was a lot.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: And then plus the fact that I was training at
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: my old school until June because I was taking finals
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: and I had to stay there. Like I really just
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: wanted to get on campus. I wanted to get into
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: the gym. I wanted to train as much as possible
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: before we started preseason because I wanted to be prepared.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: So coming in, I had the best experience with meeting people.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Like it was just a.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Whole new world.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: The people here were amazing. so welcoming and like considerate.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: And like, I could go to the grocery store and
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: have a 20 minute conversation with literally the checkout.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's just like nothing that I've ever experienced before.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm from a big city and then I
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: also moved into another big city and everything is so
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: fast paced. And like, it's like everyone, everyone has a
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: goal and a motive to get somewhere. Whereas like here,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: it's like, you can take a breath, You can go
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: to the grocery store and you can have a 20
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: minute conversation with some random lady that you've never met
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: and create a connection that is going to last you
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: a lifetime probably because that's just South Carolina. That's just Clemson,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: you know? So coming here, it was like this weight
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: had been lifted off my shoulders and I could finally breathe.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Going into the gym, I could like experience everything that
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I ever wanted to experience when I was doing gymnastics.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: establishing new connections with teammates. I love meeting people. Like
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I generally love the connection of getting to know somebody.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: And like, I got to do that with 20 new people.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Like that was the best experience meeting new coaches. It
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: was just this like fresh start that I needed and
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: everything that I ever wanted.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's awesome. That makes me happy for you.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I can relate to the, the people come here. The,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the pace of life is just slower and people are
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: so authentic and genuine just on campus or in town.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh, this is you. You mean this, you,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: you care about how I'm doing and you want to
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: have a whole conversation about it in the, on the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: milk aisle.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And you know, so one of our team kind of
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: mottos is you belong here.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And I feel like Clemson as a town embodies that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: as well as, as well as our team does, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: feel like. And, um, you were also coming into a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: time in which a lot of us were kind of
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: rebuilding our idea of gymnastics and our love for the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: sport of gymnastics. And so to have you being yourself,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: being the light that you are, meeting you and being
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: able to practice with you and all of us together
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: kind of go along on that journey, that was really special.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: So kind of shifting gears a little bit, You're big
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: on the social media, NIL side of things. You talked
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: about in the beginning speaking to a camera all day,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: which is literally true. I mean, I'm looking left. Paige
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: has her camera like this.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: It's my sidekick.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: One of the things that I have always respected you
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: for and loved about your content is that it's so authentic.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: It's so you. I mean, the same page that I'm
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: seeing online is the same page that I'm getting in person.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And I think that in the world that we live in,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: that's rare nowadays, right? Is people are just showing their highlights.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: People are just showing the things that they want people
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: to see, this curated life that they've created. And you
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: do a really good job at bringing that. the good stuff,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: but also bringing the real raw things. Can you talk
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: about that a little bit and your mindset when it
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: comes to creating content for social media?
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  Speaker 3: For sure. I feel like, thank you for saying that
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  Speaker 3: because that has always been my goal is to be
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: authentic and to be the same person that I am
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: online as I am in person. So When I'm creating content,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm going to film the bad day
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: when I have a bad day. And I'm also going
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: to film the best day when I have the best day.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: So when I'm creating content, I will always be taking
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: a video of something. I'll always have these gears running
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: in my mind of like, what can I make into
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: a video out of this situation in a respectful way?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: And if I just always have my camera on me,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I always have my phone, like my vlog camera, there's
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: something that can be made into a video in a memory.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: And that's the main reason why I create content is
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: so I can look back on it and like realize
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the journey that I've been on and also like create
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: it into this 20 minute video that I can look
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: back on. Maybe I'll even show my kids one day,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So it's like when I'm
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: creating content, I don't, when I'm scrolling, I don't, I
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: don't love the non-authentic side of it. And there's always
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: going to be this highlight reel of what you're seeing
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: online and I even see it in my younger siblings
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: as well they're like oh I want this and like
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: this girl has this and it's like but that's just
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: what you're seeing in this five minute video just because
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: they have 10 new workout sets doesn't mean that you
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: need 10 new workout sets like I'm trying to create
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: like this situation where you don't, you don't always need something.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Like you can just be content with where you're at
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: in life and not like on this motive of always
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: finding something that somebody else has just to feel like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: a sense of what, like worth, right.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Like not always needing more.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Right. So like, I see that a lot in my
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: youngest sister for like the way that she scrolls online,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: like it's different from the way that I scrolled online
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: because different generations and things like that. So like the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: more I'm inspiring younger generations from almost what it's becoming
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: is what I want to accomplish. And especially in the
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: athlete world, like with the mindset of like being a
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: student athlete, it's not always a hundred percent amazing and
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: everything that you've ever dreamed of, but also like, you
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: can get through it in a different way, even if
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: you're not having the best day. So when I'm filming something,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: if I can just inspire that one person to get
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: through a bad day, the same, if I can just
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: inspire that one person to get through a bad day,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: it makes me feel accomplished at the end of the day,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: not just posting the video. Like when somebody comes up
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: to me in a competition and is like, your video
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: got me through, Because the way you talked about mindset
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: and how you went through an injury and things like that,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: that makes me feel accomplished. Not like, oh, how many
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: likes and how much revenue can I get on this
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: one video? The more I'm inspiring younger generations to continue
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to work towards something and to not be caught up
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: in the superficial aspect of content and things like that,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: that's where I feel like I play a big role
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: in it. Yeah. Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Do you think so? Kind of a twofold question, I guess.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: After talking about that, it kind of in what you
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: want people to take from your content. Is that one?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: When did you start doing this? I think you just
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: said you have a vlog camera. So you're very serious.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: You're locked in YouTube channel.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: OK, shout out.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Let's go. When did you start doing that? And then
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: do you think that your approach to the content you're
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: creating is different now than what it was when you
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: started or as you've grown and changed and learned about life?
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Has that changed at all?
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I started my sophomore year of high school
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: and like I begged my parents to get me a
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: computer and a camera. Okay. And one of my, one
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: of my friends at my gym actually had this slime
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: channel and she was like making all this content based
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: off of slime. And I was like, what can I
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: do with my life? That's completely niche to what nobody
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: else is doing. So the first video I ever posted
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: was the day in the life of a level 10 gymnast.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: And that got 500,000 views. And the first time that
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I ever like posted. Yeah. And I sat there for
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: three weeks, like editing this video, like hours on end.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Like I was trying to make it the most funny,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: the most different that anybody has ever seen. And I
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: was like hooked. I was like experimenting with all these
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: new things like I had never edited a video before
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I was spending hours on end a day trying to
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: edit this video and I posted it and I was
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: like okay now what and I just sat there and
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: it like took off immediately and then I never did
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: anything with it I just sat there and was like
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: okay I made a video like good job that was
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: fun that's good right yeah and then like my friend
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: who like made the slime channel she was like okay
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: so now that you have this like this going views
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: are racking up. You should like continue to post. So
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: I was like, that took me three weeks to edit.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Like you don't understand how long that took me. I
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good for the next two months. Like
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: just give me a second. So I wasn't consistent with
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: it in the beginning and I wish I was, but
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I also was, I didn't know what I was doing.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, I had no idea what I was doing.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: So like going into it, my junior year, I was like, okay,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: I'm going to continue to like try to film things,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: especially level 10 gymnast content was really, really popping off.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: And that's when I was like, okay, I'm only going
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: to be a junior and senior in high school for
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: two more years. I'm only going to be a level
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: 10 gymnast for two more years. And that's when I
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: really started to like pick up the camera and try
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: to edit as much as possible. And that was looking
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: like posting one time a month. And that's all I
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: could do because again, schoolwork and all of that, I
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: was bouncing. So I was getting more consistent with it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: And then I got into my freshman year of college
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: and people were recognizing me for my videos. And I
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: was like, how do you know who I am? Like
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: somebody would come up to me on campus and be like,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I love your YouTube videos. Like they
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: inspired me to do this today. And I was like,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: do you know who I am? Like, like that was
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: so shocking to me when, like I ever, when I
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: got my first recognition for my YouTube videos and I
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: was like, no, this is my motivation. Like I need
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: to sit down. I need to work on this and
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: I'm going to edit my videos every single week and
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: post once a week. So my freshman year is when
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: I got really consistent with posting once a week. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I would stay up until like three in the morning
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: editing my video to be able to post on the Sunday,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: every single Sunday at the same time. And then it
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: got a lot with preseason and that's when like things
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: got a little bit wonky. And my agent actually like
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: asked me like, what do you think about getting an
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: editor and having somebody edit your videos? And I was like,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: nobody's going to want to sit down and edit my videos. Like,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: trust me, I don't even want to edit my videos.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I hate hearing my own voice sometimes and editing my
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: own videos. So I reached out on this, like, this
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: group me through UCLA and somebody actually reached out to
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: me and they're like, hey, like I do, I do
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: editing for my own channel, but I hate editing my
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: own videos. I use the same editing software that you do.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: And I just want to get experience with editing videos
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: and things like that. So I grabbed coffee with her
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: and we sat down and we were like, knew everything
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: about this editing software. And she, she was just someone
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: that I instantly clicked with and I had never met
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: anybody that knew how to edit. Like it was just
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: like a niche thing. So I sat down with her
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: and now she continues to edit my videos to this day.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: That's going to ask.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So she continues to edit my videos to this day.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: It's been four years. Yeah.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Four years.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: And then I actually just got another, another editor six
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: months ago. Okay. And so now I have two people
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: helping me with my videos and they've literally been my
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: saving grace with keeping my YouTube channel up and running.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Like I would not have time to be able to
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: sit down and edit a video for hours and hours.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: And I'm creating content on multiple different social media platforms.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: So the long form content on YouTube is what takes
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: me the longest. And I now just edit for TikTok
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: and Instagram and all of that. So they literally keep
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: my channel up and running and I thank them every
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: single day. And we've created a relationship beyond just them
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: editing my videos. I'll grab coffee with them when I'm
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: in LA. I like to send them gifts once in
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: a while because like, they truly are just the best.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Like we'll talk once in a while, like, They really
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: do help me in so many different ways. And once
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I found out how I edit, my niche for editing,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: and what sets me apart from everybody else, that really
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: helped my channel skyrocket into something that is not what
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: you see every day.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: So you mentioned you share content on multiple social media platforms.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite type of content to share or.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Whether that be a specific channel or maybe day in
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the life. What's your favorite thing to create?
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: I love doing a day in the life, although sometimes
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I literally forget that I'm filming a day in the life.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: There's a whole five-hour gap in my day.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Or there was one day that I was filming a
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: day in the life and I was like... filmed the
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: beginning of the day. And then I had a mental
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: breakdown during class because I was just like super overwhelmed.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: And like, I just had a bad day, like a
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: bad practice. And then I went to class and they
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: were like, oh, you have a test tomorrow. I was like,
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I actually didn't hear about this test until like literally today.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: So that's great. I just started crying. And then I
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: was like, went to the bathroom and I was like, actually,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: let me just whip out my phone and start filming
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: myself crying. And then I made a video out of, oh,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: so I was going to film a day in the life,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: but I actually started crying during class. You're not going
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: to get a day in the life anymore. So like,
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: There's like things like that where it's like a moment
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: that I'm like so glad that I got a video,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: though in the moment I'm like, why am I pulling
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: out my camera filming myself like crying right now? But
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: like that, that did super well because it's, it's relatable.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: It's like real.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: It's what's a student athlete's life is. You're not always
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: going to have a great day. You're not always going
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: to have a productive day. You're not always going to
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: be happy all the time. So the days that I'm
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: having the worst day ever is the days that is
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the content that does the best. Yeah. because so it's
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: relatable it's real it's normal.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Like and people are they want that looking they're looking
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: for that yeah i do always have that thought where
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: someone is i'm like scrolling through something and someone's like
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: breaking down in front of the camera like oh they
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: did they did decide just now to pull up the
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: camera and record.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: But why am i watching but why am.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I like dang wow i'm empathizing with you think like
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: thank you you know what i mean because it's real
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: and like this is not everything else you're scrolling through
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: and seeing. Yeah.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: And you actually said this earlier too, uh, just kind
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: of briefly. Um, and in this conversation reminded me of
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: it was this idea of making the best of situations
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and sometimes pulling out a camera and taking a video
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: of it and saying, you know what, I'm going to
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: make a really good content out of this. That is
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: your way of making the best of, of not so
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: great situations or days that didn't seem to go so well. Um,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: and we always need that. We do.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Well, and back to what you said earlier about what
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: you want people to think about when they're viewing your
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: content or engaging with it, that it's real, that it's authentic,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: that you can be relatable. You've shown up on my
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: For You page the last, like, couple weeks the internet
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: probably knew we were gonna do this and so I
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: didn't realize it was you at one point though were
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: you in New York over the summer yes I was
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: okay and it was like where to eat and you're
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: like one thing about me I'm gonna eat or you're
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Was like literally yesterday okay oh then it showed up
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: last night and I was like.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah like I can't do it hungry because I can't yes.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: But I'm like reading the words I'm like yeah like
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: that's me and then I'm like that's Paige I'm.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Like oh okay yeah so like I like to recycle
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: old videos too like I can make one video into 10,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: if I really wanted to, so that I could make
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: content to last me for a week. So like when
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I don't have a day of like recording something and
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I didn't get content from that day, I like sit
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: down and I'm like, what can I do with previous
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: videos that I have to be able to post something
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: that day? Cause the more consistent you are, the more
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: you post, the better you're going to do. So like,
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: that's what I always try to do is be consistent
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: with it and try to make something out of a situation,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: even if I don't have it, you know? Yeah.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Now shifting a little bit into the NIL space, you've
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: gotten pretty big on the NIL. Do you feel like
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: NIL has changed the way that you view maybe your
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: future career?
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. I feel like I never looked into
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: being an agent before and now I'm super interested in
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: what that career path could look like because I love
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: the NIL space.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I love.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: What it does to people and what it can do
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: to somebody's future career. So my agent has been super
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: helpful and I feel like he's inspired me a lot
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: to go into that space. And that's something that I
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: never even considered before NIL was a thing. So definitely,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: I definitely would consider that for my future career. Yeah.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: That's exciting.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I think that NIL.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: People have different opinions of it, for sure, and what
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: it's doing to the landscape of college sports. But then
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: to see things like what you do with NIL. And
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're very good at working with brands
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: that are very authentic to you, which kind of goes
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: along with what we said about creating authentic content, choosing
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: brands that align with your values. Walk me through that
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: process a little bit of when you get a. a
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: brand that reaches out to you, how do you decide
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: whether or not this is a good brand for me
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: to work with?
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, like, before NIL was a thing, I've always...
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: And now that it's still a thing, I always am
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: focused on, like, my personal brand and what I'm doing
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: with my personal brand rather than the brands that want
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: to come and work with me. Like, I honestly... don't
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: really focus on the brands that want to come and
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: work with me. Cause the more that I do for
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: my own personal brand and the more that I'm focusing
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: on what I'm doing with my content, sure. The more
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: brands are going to come in and want to work
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: with me. So it's like, I don't really focus on
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: who is like coming in and out. It's like, what
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: am I doing? That's going to set me apart from
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: why a brand would reach out to me and why
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: a brand would want to work with me. Not like, oh,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I want to work with this brand because they're doing
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: this and this. Like, sure, that would be great. But
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: a lot of the times, like, you do reach out
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: to them and it doesn't really work out. It's like,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: what brands are going to come and reach out to you?
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: So what am I doing for a brand to want
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: to reach out to me in the first place? Yeah.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: That's almost like an internal view versus an external view.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Or in the same way with gymnastics, process-oriented versus outcome-oriented.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Kind of connecting the dots there.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's interesting. If you're... like your personal brand
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: with anyone, even for someone who's not in the NIL
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: space or isn't blogging and capturing your life. But when
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: you focus on your values and who you are and
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: what's important to you and that brand, ideally, I think
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: what it does is probably creates alignment. As you get
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: more clear with what that is and what you're putting
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: out to the world, that probably creates more alignment with
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: who reaches out to you because they know, okay, when
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: we reach out to Paige, we already know what Paige
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: is about. So if it's not in alignment with what
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: we're doing, You know, if you're clear about who you are,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: but that's how things are in life too. As you
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: grow and you know what's important to you, that helps
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: you navigate relationships and what's important to you and how
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: you make decisions and navigate difficult situations. So I imagine
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: that that is helpful.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: In talking about your personal brand and kind of who
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: you are as a person, do you feel like there
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: are things that people might misunderstand about you? And what
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: might that be?
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. I mean... Even like posting in general,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I feel like there's always these things associated with posting.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: Like a lot of the times it's like, oh, you
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: think that you deserve that or like you're rude. Like
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: posting in general and I feel like being in the
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: light of social media comes with a lot of negativity
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: because there are some things that like people will say
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: and do online that like really puts you into this
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: bubble of how you're perceived. But like, again, I'm, I'm
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: only focused on what I'm putting out there for the
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: greater good and not like feeding into whatever people want
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: to say. Like you're always going to get hate no
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: matter what, like I'll post a video and there always
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: be one hate comment. And either I can focus on
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: that one hate comment and have that fuel me, or
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: I can focus on all the good comments that I
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: get and being like, oh, I love your videos. Thank
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: you for posting today. This really made my day. Things
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: like that. When I posted what I eat in a day,
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: people are like, thank you for teaching me how to
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: feel for my sport instead of focusing on trying to
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: lose weight or my physique or things like that. And
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: then there's always that one comment that's like, you're eating
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: too much. You shouldn't eat that. And it's like, if
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: I focus on this, then my content is just going
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: to spiral down into this negative Negative space that I
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: don't want it to so why am I focused on?
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: What one person has to say when at the end
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: of the day it could be jealousy It could be
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of different things that they're personally battling with
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: when I can be focusing on the light and the
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: good the good aspects of what people have to say
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: about it, so the negativity is always going to come
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: but the more I Gear away from what other people
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: are saying and I honestly use it as fuel it's
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: like the more I want to post.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Has your mindset always been like that? Or was there
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: ever a moment in which you felt like there was
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: a shift between caring what other people thought and not
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: caring what other people thought?
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like my freshman and sophomore year, Twitter
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: was a very big thing for the gymnastics space, I
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: guess you could say. So I never had Twitter going
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: into my college career.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: The school that I was at, Twitter, is very much
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: all over that school particularly. So when I was competing there,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: it was like I found myself scrolling on Twitter a
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: lot and seeing what people had to say about me.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: And it was only ever about like more so my
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: gymnastics wise and like things like that, not really about
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: who I was as a person. And I was like, OK,
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: but I'm here on this amazing team and I'm doing
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: everything that I can do. Why am I focused on
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: what so many negative people have to say about me
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: who have zero idea what it took to get here?
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: And then that's when I like, it really shifted when
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: I got here. It was like, I deleted Twitter. I
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: stopped following along with what everybody had to say and
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: all the negative things that everybody had to say on
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: that app, especially. And it was like, I'm creating a
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: personal brand that I want to create and I want
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: to do X, Y, and Z with this personal brand.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: You guys are literally getting me nowhere. You literally are
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: getting me nowhere. I'm focused on a negative, such a
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: negative platform when I don't need it on my phone.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: And that really helped me shift out of that area when, sure,
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: when I transferred, yeah. But also like when I just
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: got rid of the app, I was like, what, what
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: is this doing for me? Like generally, what is this
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: doing for me? Because people are always going to pick
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: you apart no matter what you do, no matter who
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: you are. Like, there's always going to be something to say.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: So it was like, why do I care? Like literally,
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: why do I care? Like I'm having such a great
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: time doing what I'm doing. I'm literally the happiest I've
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: ever been. I'm going to move on. And I deleted that,
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: but I got rid of it. And it's been great
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: for my mental clarity because I mean, they weren't benefiting
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: me in any, any sort of way. And that's when
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: it was negatively, negatively impacting me instead of fueling me.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: And that's when I, when I got here and I,
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Don't scroll on it anymore. And I'm seeing the hate comments.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: That's what's fueling me because it's like it brings me
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: back to that space where it's like either I can
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: let it impact me and like stop me from posting
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: and doing all these things. But I'm not going to. Yeah.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: So I think there's a twofold in that one knowing
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: what is not good for you and getting rid of it.
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: That, again, coming full circle there, Paige. You have a
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: personal brand. It's seen in everything that you do, as
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: you did with Twitter. And then also sometimes reminding yourself
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: they haven't experienced what I've experienced. They don't know me
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: to the full extent that I know myself. I have
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: known myself since from day one since I was born
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: to now. And nobody has the same experiences, values. as
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: you do, and reminding yourself that, okay, if I'm content
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: with what I'm doing because I know myself to the fullest,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: then that's all that matters. And that's enough.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Well, and I think, too, when you're someone who creates
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: so much content, there's inherent risk in that. When you're
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: putting yourself out there every day for other people to
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: see and view your life, that's vulnerable. That can feel... scary.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: And then when, for other people, I think we kind
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: of mentioned it before, but it's like, this person is
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: being brave and courageous and choosing to put themselves out
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: there for people to invite them into their life and
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: see that. And sometimes I think people probably project or
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: I'll see comments. I'm like, I just, you all need
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: to get a hobby.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Like what is the point?
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Anybody?
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I just, I always appreciate when
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: people like you, willingly and openly invite people into your
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: life like that. I feel like I know more about
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: you probably because of your content than I would other people.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: You made that decision to invite people in in that way.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: And I think that that is courageous and so fun too.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: It's funny actually because my friends who follow along with
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: my content, they know everything about my life because I'm
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: posting it. So they're like, oh, you did this, this
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: and this. And I'm like, I had no idea what
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: you did this week. Like, how do you know that?
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: And it's like, well, actually, they just like watched all
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: my videos. So they would know all these things. Like
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: when I'm catching up with my friends, like I'm just
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: sitting there listening to everything going on. Because, like, they're just, like,
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: they already know. They're scrolling up my TikTok and, like, seeing, like,
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: what I did that entire day. So that's funny that
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: you say that.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Well, and your editors probably know everything about your life.
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh, yeah. They live in L.A., right? They
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: know even more than what. But you're probably like.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Well, here's literally everything I've done.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Like, the amount of times I've pulled out my camera
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: and I've just, like, all of a sudden like started crying.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm so sorry that I'm crying. And like,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: I'm like talking to my editor through the camera. I'm like,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: you've probably seen me cry more times than anybody else
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: has ever seen me cry. I'm so sorry, but thank
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: you so much for doing this thing and cutting out
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: all the filler words and all of these things. Like,
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: I really appreciate it.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: So we've talked a lot about your journey and just
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: different things. Reflecting back on this past year, what is
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: something that you are incredibly proud of yourself for?
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So when I first got here, everything was all great.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: And then I got my concussion literally like two weeks
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: into preseason. And with the inconsistent training of all of
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: summertime and then I was like finally getting like my
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: mojo back, I guess you could say. And I was
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: finally feeling good and I got my concussion. I thought
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: it was only going to last a week because all
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: my previous concussions I've ever gotten, it lasted literally a week.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: And then I was out for so long that I
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: literally could not see the light at the end of
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: the tunnel. Like every single time that I would try
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: to come back, It was called, like, Ground Zero, and
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: then you would have to, like, work your way up.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: I got put on Ground Zero the minute that I
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: started flipping around again. And it was, like, it was
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: just so frustrating because I was, like, I'm finally in
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: this new space. I'm finally happy. I'm finally finding the
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: love for my sport again. And then, like, it's like
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: you get it taken away from you. So it's, like,
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: how– I was trying to understand, like, why it happened
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: to me instead of focusing on, like, it happened to me,
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: move on.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: And let it go.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: So I was out for like seven weeks and that
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: was like so hard because I couldn't even go into
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: the gym without like getting a headache. So I had
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: to skip out on practices, team activities. The only thing
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: I could do was literally wake up, go to school
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: and then go back to my apartment with the amount
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: of pain that I was in, I did like do
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: vestibular ocular therapy because my inner ear was so off balance.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: Like I couldn't even like stand up like without like
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: basically falling over because my system was just all out
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: of whack. So that PT went great. I was finally
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: back and I feel like overcoming that challenge after everything
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: that I had already been through in the portal and
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: all of that, was one of my greatest accomplishments because
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't think, again, that I was going to be
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: able to compete last year with everything that I had
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: already gone through. So competing again was great. Just being
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: able to do it again as well. Like, my goal
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day wasn't even to compete
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: because I was out for seven weeks. I literally couldn't
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: even do gymnastics. Coming back was so, so hard because
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: I had lost all my strength because I couldn't even
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: do anything. And... getting over that hump, doing gymnastics again,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: competing again was really just a testament to like my
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: strength and character. Yeah.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: And then she was the anchor of our vault lineup.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you were.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I think it was, I was reading your stats earlier,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: maybe seven or eight times you were the anchor for
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: our vault lineup. And so she became a staple for
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: us after, after the concussion and after everything. And that's,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: that's truly incredible.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah. How would you, okay, so you, I
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: want to hear a little bit about your team and
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: like your, just the connection I think you all have,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: but even since you two are teammates, what are, when
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: you think about your teammates and the relationships that you
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: have and how you show up, all the things we've
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: talked about, your brand, what do you think two words
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: are that your team would use to describe you? And
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: then I want you to weigh in and let me
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: know if you agree or if you would do different ones. Okay.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: Humor is one of them. I mean, I love to
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: create funny scenario out of like a serious one because
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: the more humor that I have in a situation the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: more I can get through it especially a tough one
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: so like I just be I just say whatever's on
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: my mind I don't want to say outgoing because like
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: that's just a regularly used word but like I am
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: super outgoing and like enthusiastic like the more upbeat and
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: happy and dancing around and giggly and smiley I am
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: in the gym I The better practice that I have. Yeah.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, those two words probably or three. I said three,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: but I would fully agree with those. I think the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: word that came to mind for me was like fiery. OK,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like the exact right word
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: that I'm thinking of, but it's this light that you
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: bring to every everything that you do. I mean, she's
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: always landing, you know, her bar dismount, her vault, and
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: the tongue is sticking out of the mouth.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: Shimmying.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: 90%.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: She doesn't shimmy.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: She's doing like this thing.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: That's my new one.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: The guitar.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen a death drop in there.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I think the other day I said to somebody, I
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: was like, why does Paige sometimes remind me of Vector?
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: from Despinckle Me and it's that clip of him dancing
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: where he's like, oh yeah. Like that to me is
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Paige in a nutshell.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: I actually need a celebration for this year so.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Maybe it'll be that one.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Because recently it's been the guitar.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: I like the guitar too.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: A new celebration every year. That's kind of fun.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: The cellies have become pretty big in gymnastics.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: They really have and I do love it. I just
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: love the energy in your sport too. I think it's
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: very unique compared to a lot of different sports and
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: so I love that part of it too. I'm like,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: I'll scream. Let's go.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Sometimes after meets I lose my voice.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Makes sense.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: For sure. The morning after a meet day is like
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: you were hit by a bus.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine. Literally.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: Because you didn't get good sleep. Your body isn't recovered
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: and then you wake up after screaming for what? Four hours?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: But plus the warm up like We're screaming the entire
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: warm-up process. Like, your voice is gone. You literally have
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: to be a shell the rest of the day in
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: order to conserve your energy for the rest of the week. Yep.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: That's so fair.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Well, and the adrenaline, too, is always at a max.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: And so when you're coming down from it the next day, it's.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. That's an emotional feeling to come off of, too.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Like, okay, I was at this high, and now I'm like,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: I've got to sit down for a second. Yeah.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: What color... is your life right now?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Pink.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: I love the color pink. I love bright pink, light pink, pastel.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: I love any pink. I think it's bright, enthusiastic, bubbly,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: everything about the color pink. When I put the color
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: pink on, I have a good day.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: It's weird.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: I feel more smiley. It brings out my future. I
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: don't know. I just... I just like how it makes
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: me feel. And when we're wearing a pink tank in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: practice as well, like, it's just a good day. And
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: who doesn't like the color pink?
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: If people say they don't, they're lying.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I agree.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I wore my pink sweatshirt for the last episode.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you did.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: And I said that I felt pizzazzed.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Pizzazzed.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my word.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: I remember.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Hearing that. When you wear new clothing and it, like,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: makes you feel a different type of way, that's how
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: I feel about the color pink.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: Like just a new woman that day.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's so funny. That's so real. Some people will
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: buy new clothes and not wear them for a very
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: long time.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: I don't understand that.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: The minute that I buy something new, it's on my body.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: The next day.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: I don't even care what it's for. It might not
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: even fit the occasion. I'm going to make it work.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: I'm going to find a way. Yes.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: It's so funny to me.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: Because you look forward to wearing it. Like I look
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: forward to wearing it in the morning and it's like
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have a great day because I got
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: this new matching set. And it's like, yeah, 100%.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Especially a matching set.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, especially.
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  Speaker 1: When it's the whole outfit.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, I'm untouchable. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're untouchable.
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  Speaker 2: You're walking through the hallways and.
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  Speaker 3: You feel like there's a light shining off of you.
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  Speaker 2: That's so valid and so real.
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  Speaker 1: I am the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, beyond your favorite color or pink, if tomorrow you
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  Speaker 2: were given your calendar and it was entirely blank and
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  Speaker 2: There was no gymnastics. There was no class. You could
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: literally fill your day with whatever Paige wanted the day
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: to be. What would your day look like?
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy because the more busy and productive day that
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: I have, I feel like the better day that I have.
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  Speaker 3: Like if I don't have a million things on my plate,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: I feel like unaccomplished in a way. So I feel
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  Speaker 3: like a blank calendar, I would just fill it with
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: a bunch of things to do. Knowing myself.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What would those be? What do you enjoy doing?
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, I would.
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  Speaker 3: Could I travel somewhere?
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  Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want. It's your day.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: I would totally travel somewhere. Okay. And just explore something new.
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  Speaker 3: I really want to go abroad and like go to
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: Greece or like go to Italy and explore all of
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: these different places. So I would travel, eat all the
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: food in the world, grab a coffee. I can't go
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: without caffeine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: And just explore where I'm at, create content, sit down
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: at a cafe, coffee shop.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Cafe. Edit a video.
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  Speaker 3: I think that eases my mind. Like, yes, it fills
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: my day with things to do, but I love to
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: do it. Like, I love to sit down and just
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: do it, and I can bang it out, especially short-form content.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: I can bang it out in, like, 30 minutes. So
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: I'll fill my day with that.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: I also.
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  Speaker 3: I love wake surfing. So I have a lake house
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: in New Hampshire. And my family and I will go
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: down there on the weekends in the summer and we'll
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: wake surf on the boat, tube, all these things. I
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: love to get thrown off a tube. And as crazy
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: as that sounds, like when my dad is steering it, like...
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Throw me off. I want you to get me off
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: the tube. And if you can't accomplish that, then you failed.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: You did bad.
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  Speaker 2: The next morning, that's when you feel like you've been
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: hit by a bus.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: That is so true. I'm like, hello?
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: My hands are sore.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh. What was that from?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: Maybe not now because of the concussion. I really should
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: probably take it easy with that aspect of it. So
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: tanning on the boat would be great as well. I
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: love to do things for self-care as well. Would go
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: get a facial, maybe a massage. I love a good massage.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: And my nails. I don't love to get my nails done, actually.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Let's take that off because it's so time consuming.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: The process is not.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: It's the process.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit like.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Like you sit there for, I like sit there and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: every single minute I'm looking at the clock, I'm like, okay,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: when is this going to be done? And then a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: lot of the times I don't like how they turn out.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, sorry.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: And that's a whole other thing.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Besides the point.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: It's hard being a girl.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Right. Right. I would go get dinner with my friends.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: I love good quality time with my friends, family, and
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: the night. Well, dinner, of course, would be sushi because
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: my favorite food ever is sushi.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: A rainbow roll, 100%.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Every single restaurant that I've ever been to has been
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: a rainbow roll, no matter what.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: I love this.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: And then I would end the night with, Do you
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: guys know what Go Greek is?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. It's this place in L.A. So I
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: guess I would have to go all the way from,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: what would Greece have?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: You'd go from Greece.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: They probably have, so there's this one spot, it's called Mika.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mika.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. I want to try it.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I would go there. Aruba actually had it.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: Do they actually?
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, but the line was literally out the door. I
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: never got it. Yeah.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: You have it in Miami, too.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: So I could actually.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: I could, yeah. I could actually get.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: All in a day?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I could actually get the fro-yo in Greece. I
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: don't have to go all the way back to L.A. Yeah.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: I would stay in Greece and get mica. Yeah. Frozen yogurt. Okay.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: And I actually hate movies, so I would not sit
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: down and watch a movie at the end of the
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: day or a show.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: A dance party.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: I would throw on some music and dance with all
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: my friends.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: Karaoke. What song are you playing, Paige?
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: Till you can't.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: We were in Charleston and we were driving around and
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: we had the windows down. Till you can't is blasted
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: full volume in my car.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: Paige is in the.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Back seat, head out the window screaming to the people
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: of Charleston the song.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: What an honor for them. I love you, Charleston.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: I'm like, thank you, Charleston. See you next week. Like
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: I'm in a concert. I mean, yeah. I loved dance
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: and Although I don't know the names, I'm surprised I
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: even remember that name, actually. The names to any song
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: that I play or the artist to any song that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: I ever play, I would still put on a random
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: playlist and have a good time.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a really great day.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: Jam-packed.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: You said it, and I'm going to fill it. Oh,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: but fine.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: So many joy-filled things.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: We covered every basis.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: You really did.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, Paige. So now, thank you so much for coming
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: on the podcast.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to end this how we end every episode
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: with one final question. Who are you beyond the pole?
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: I am a friend. I am someone that people can
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: go to in any situation. I feel like I pride
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: myself on being someone that someone can talk to at
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, whether it be a hard
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: day or a good day. And I feel like I'm
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: a light for a lot of people that need it,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: especially younger generations. I hope that I am supporting them
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: and helping them wherever it need be And continuing to
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: help them push to achieve their goals.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: I love that. That was awesome.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: I would have to agree with everything that you just said.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. thanks Paige it was so fun oh thank you
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: That was less nerve-wracking than I thought it was gonna
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: be good I was sweating in the beginning but I'm
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: good now oh.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: She's good she said don't you worry she's like I'm
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: gonna come back next time no for real I could
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: talk all day long we're gonna start seeing Paige with
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: a mic and a little podcast on our channel.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: That's your next form of content oh yeah podcast I
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: could see it yeah I feel like.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: I would just talk for so long that everybody would
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: just shut me off.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: That's when you really lean on your editor.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: They would have to mute it.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Shout out Trey.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: He's my editor.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: Thank you.