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274. Against the Odds: Diana Flores On Playing a Man's Game & Flag Football As An Olympic Sport · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: No matter how lonely you feel, sometimes you will never
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Speaker 1: be alone. There will always be an amazing person in
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Speaker 1: your life willing to give you a hand.
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Speaker 2: What's going on, everyone, Emily Evadi Here. You are listening
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Speaker 2: to episode two hundred and seventy four of Hurdle, a
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Speaker 2: wellness focused podcast where I connect with everyone from your
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Speaker 2: favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their
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Speaker 2: highest highs, toughest moments, and everything in between. We all
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Speaker 2: go through hurdles in life, and my goal through these
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Speaker 2: discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and
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Speaker 2: move with intention so that you can stride towards your
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Speaker 2: own big potential and of course have some fun along
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Speaker 2: the way. For today's episode, I am chatting with Deanna Flores.
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Speaker 2: She is the captain and quarterback of the Mexican national
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Speaker 2: flag football team, a World flag football champion, and the
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Speaker 2: newest addition to the global ambassador roster at Under Armour.
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Speaker 3: I have been wanting to sit.
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Speaker 2: Down with Deanna since last Super Bowl when I caught
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Speaker 2: one of her story, as did hundreds of thousands of others,
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Speaker 2: thanks to a viral NFL commercial featuring her putting the
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Speaker 2: moves on a whole bunch of celebrities, showcasing not only
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Speaker 2: her unbelievable talent and athleticism, but also her sports. For
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Speaker 2: those of you that are unaware of flag football is
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Speaker 2: actually really big in a lot of countries that are
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Speaker 2: in the United States, and now as of twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: it is coming to the Olympics.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 2: The first time it's going to be a sport in
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Speaker 2: the Olympics is in twenty twenty eight in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: And to say that Diana is.
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Speaker 2: Excited about that, while that would be a major understatement,
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Speaker 2: after becoming familiar with Yanna's story, I knew I had
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Speaker 2: to get her on the show, and today she gives
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Speaker 2: it to us all soup to nuts. She talks about
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Speaker 2: getting involved in sport at a young age, skipping things
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Speaker 2: like dance class and gymnastics to favor picking up a football.
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Speaker 2: She gives us the rundown on the difficulties that came
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Speaker 2: hand in hand with choosing a male dominated sport and
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Speaker 2: playing on a woman's team where she was the youngest
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Speaker 2: person on the roster. Now getting the opportunity to know
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Speaker 2: Dianna through this conversation, it is no surprise to me
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Speaker 2: that not only did she thrive despite her age, but
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Speaker 2: then she became the quarterback and to this day taking
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Speaker 2: that passion for sport and using it to help ignite
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Speaker 2: a flame within other young women, knowing that sometimes in
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Speaker 2: order to be her, you have to see her in
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Speaker 2: Deanna while she's stepping up to the challenge. A huge
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Speaker 3: Today.
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Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Deanna Flores. She is a
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Speaker 2: Mexican flag football player. How are we doing today, Dianna.
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Speaker 1: I am so happy to be here with you today,
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Speaker 1: so thanks for daking invite.
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Speaker 3: I am good.
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Speaker 1: How are you?
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Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good.
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Speaker 2: You said that you were a practice before and it
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Speaker 2: was a little bit chilly, which isn't necessarily what I
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Speaker 2: think about when I think about Mexico.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know everybody thinks that it's always super
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Speaker 1: shiny and warm here, but no, today was freezing in
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Speaker 1: the morning. I trained from six am in the morning
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Speaker 1: to nine am, so yeah, it's got a little hard
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Speaker 1: at that time of the day.
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Speaker 2: Someone hears you say that you train from six to
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Speaker 2: nine that insinuates that you're a morning person. Would you
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Speaker 2: say that, they'd be right.
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Speaker 1: I think that I'm used now to be a morning person.
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Speaker 1: But if it was up to me, I love.
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Speaker 3: To sleep, I mean much rather stay in bed.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm so excited that we're able to sit down
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Speaker 2: here today and chat a little bit. I became familiar
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Speaker 2: with your story like so many last year when you
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Speaker 2: made headlines and hit our TV screens during the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit about how life has
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Speaker 2: changed for you since gaining a little bit of momentum
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Speaker 2: about a year ago.
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Speaker 1: Well, this year has been a dream totally from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: After winning the gold medal last year, everything started to
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Speaker 1: change so so fast than the Super Bowl commercial. It
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Speaker 1: was an amazing moment, not only to me. I have
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Speaker 1: to say I never imagine something as big as that
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Speaker 1: could happen one day to a Mexican girl who fell
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Speaker 1: in love with every American sport in Mexico City. It
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Speaker 1: was a big step forward for flat football. It was
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Speaker 1: shown at the biggest station in the world. But also
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Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to remind the world how the
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Speaker 1: power of sport can keep empowering, women can break any
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Speaker 1: kind of barriers, cultural warriors, gender warriors, and at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, sending a message of unity and
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Speaker 1: love through sport has been the biggest blessing to me.
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Speaker 1: So exciting times and I just feel so blessed to
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Speaker 1: be part of this momentum and this movement of change.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, dive into talking a little bit about that
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Speaker 2: momentum and the movement in a little bit, but I
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Speaker 2: do want to start us off by asking the question
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Speaker 2: that I'm sure you get all of the time, why
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Speaker 2: flag football?
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Speaker 3: What drew you to flag football in the first place?
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Speaker 1: Why flag football? Well? I started playing eighteen years ago
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Speaker 1: when I was an eight years old in Mexico City,
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Speaker 1: and the reason I started was my dad. My dad
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Speaker 1: used to play tackle football when he was in high
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Speaker 1: school in a little bit in college, so he was
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Speaker 1: the one that introduced me to this amazing world. He
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Speaker 1: took me from ballet and gymnastics and dancing to this
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Speaker 1: new sport and I totally fell in love with it
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Speaker 1: since the first time. I think it was I know,
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Speaker 1: the magic of the team work, senergy. It is a
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Speaker 1: sport that has been challenging me during all these years
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Speaker 1: to always pursue the best version of myself, but also
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Speaker 1: challenging me to go and to do things I never
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Speaker 1: think I was capable of.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It just gave me the opportunity to feel like me.
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Speaker 1: They're real me on the field.
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Speaker 2: That's really beautiful the way that you talk about team.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember your first introductions to team and what
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Speaker 2: that relationship did for you.
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Speaker 1: My first introduction, well, when I started, it was a
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Speaker 1: different time than now. Flaffoball was not a well known sport,
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Speaker 1: so we didn't have a lot of opportunities to practice it.
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Speaker 1: I started at the age of eight, but playing with
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Speaker 1: girls that were sixteen or seventeen years old because we
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Speaker 1: didn't have jud categories or girls teams or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: so that was the way I could practice the sports.
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Speaker 1: So I became being the youngest girl on the team,
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Speaker 1: and it was challenging. I feel so blessed and happy
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Speaker 1: to have not only my mom and my dad my
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Speaker 1: family that supported me, but also a coach that trusted
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Speaker 1: me since the very first time. I think he saw
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Speaker 1: just something on me. I don't know if it was
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Speaker 1: just determination or passion or joy for the game, but
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Speaker 1: everybody on the team really trusted on my capabilities, even
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Speaker 1: if I was the youngest, even if it was harder
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Speaker 1: some way for me to compete against the older girls.
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Speaker 1: And I think that trust in that really from others
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Speaker 1: just helped me to step forward for myself to prove others,
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Speaker 1: but prove myself that I was capable to do anything
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Speaker 1: I wanted. So that's how I started, and at the
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Speaker 1: age of eight, a very age, at the age of ten, sorry,
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Speaker 1: I became a quarterback and that's when my journey, my journey,
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Speaker 1: and my compromise with this sport really started.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even imagine what it's got to be
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Speaker 2: like being six to eight years younger than everyone you're
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Speaker 2: playing with. Aside from maybe your stature, would you say
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Speaker 2: that there were other difficulties about being the youngest person
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Speaker 2: on the field.
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Speaker 1: I think that helped me to grow in a mental
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Speaker 1: part faster than if I were in a different situation.
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Speaker 1: It was to learn to be disciplined since a very
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Speaker 1: young age, because I knew that the only way I
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Speaker 1: could earn a spot on the field by was by
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Speaker 1: being the best doing something. So I had to find
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Speaker 1: my strengths instead of focusing on my on the things
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Speaker 1: that I didn't have or the things that were harder
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Speaker 1: for me to fight with you fight like with the
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Speaker 1: other girls. Those lessons, I would say had helped me
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Speaker 1: during all my career and had shaped me to who
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Speaker 1: I am today. So I think for me it was
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Speaker 1: the lessons of discipline, resilience, to have determination, and mentality.
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Speaker 3: Mental toughness. For sure.
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Speaker 2: Would you say that today you're the kind of person
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Speaker 2: that's hard on yourself.
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Speaker 1: I have to say that's something I'm working on. I
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Speaker 1: feel that as an athlete, you always focus so much
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Speaker 1: on being as much perfect as you can be because
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Speaker 1: that's the only way you can keep improving, because you
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Speaker 1: have to keep moving all the time. So yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: for sure, that's something I'm working on. I'm working on
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Speaker 1: being more empathic with myself, which I've improved a lot
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Speaker 1: during all these years. I'm working on knowing that we're
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Speaker 1: all humans and that we all we all have mistakes
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Speaker 1: and that it is okay, and that important thing is
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Speaker 1: just to how you react to those mistakes and what
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Speaker 1: you do after them. So yeah, I think it is
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Speaker 1: a whole process, and I am proud to to see
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Speaker 1: how much I have improved.
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Speaker 2: I was listening to you talk about coming up and
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Speaker 2: being the youngest and having to be disciplined and work
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Speaker 2: extra hard, and I can't help but think that a
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Speaker 2: younger version of yourself, when you were going through the
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Speaker 2: motions of trying to prove yourself, especially then transitioning to
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Speaker 2: this quarterbackslot. Probably really could have used the wisdom and
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Speaker 2: the advice that you just dropped on having compassion for yourself.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, since I started, as just said, with the jungles,
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Speaker 1: then being the younger again at the national team years
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Speaker 1: later at the age of sixteen, it was tough because
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Speaker 1: I remember I always had this feeling of proving others,
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Speaker 1: proving others that I was capable of proving others that
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Speaker 1: I belonged to this sport that I've heard during all
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Speaker 1: my life, No, it is a sport for boys. You
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Speaker 1: are too young, you're too small, You're going to get
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Speaker 1: anywhere through this sport, all those knows, so very long
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Speaker 1: part in my life was about proving others. But then
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Speaker 1: after years and experiences, I have realized that it is
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Speaker 1: not about proving others. It is about proving yourself. It
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Speaker 1: is about finding your why. Why do you do what
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Speaker 1: you're doing right now? What's your reason?
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Speaker 3: Why?
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Speaker 1: Is it because you love the game? Is it because
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Speaker 1: you love representing your game? Is it because your teammates?
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Speaker 3: Your why?
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Speaker 1: And that just helps you to overcome all the obstacles
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Speaker 1: in life and helps you also to find the best
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Speaker 1: version of yourselves. It is about proving only yourself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Really showing up for yourself and knowing your
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Speaker 2: why is what's going to help you keep going during
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Speaker 2: those hard times. I know a big part of your
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Speaker 2: why is not only your teammates, but your family. Talk
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Speaker 2: to me a little bit about your family's role in
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Speaker 2: supporting you as you've come up in sport.
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Speaker 1: My family, my family is my everything. They have been
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Speaker 1: the ones that have supported me and trusted me since
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Speaker 1: the very very first time. I can say that they
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Speaker 1: are the ones that have been pushing me forward, even
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Speaker 1: on my lowest I remember seeing my mom, my brother,
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Speaker 1: my sister at every practice since I was little, even
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Speaker 1: my dad after he got out the job, practicing for
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Speaker 1: a half an hour more after training, teaching me how
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Speaker 1: to throw the football. All those little little things that
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Speaker 1: have shaped me. I'm so grateful with them, and today
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Speaker 1: they are, as you said, another reason for me, another
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Speaker 1: why for me, another extra motivation to just keep growing,
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Speaker 1: keep finding and shaping the best version of myself.
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Speaker 2: So when did you know that you were going to
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Speaker 2: put your focus solely on your sport.
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Speaker 1: It was a long journey and there are many reasons why.
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Speaker 1: One of the biggest is the lack of opportunities as
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Speaker 1: a female in the sport, especially in the world of
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Speaker 1: football flat football. When I started playing this sport, I
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Speaker 1: already told you there were not a lot of teams.
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Speaker 1: We didn't have a lot of opportunities even to grow,
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Speaker 1: not only as an athlete playing the game, but also
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Speaker 1: as a professionist student. There were not a lot of opportunities.
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Speaker 1: I feel so lucky and blessed that years later I
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Speaker 1: got to be one of the first female flat football
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Speaker 1: athletes to earn a full scholarship by my college, to
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Speaker 1: keep pursuing my dream as an athlete, but also to
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Speaker 1: have a professional career. And I could say there was
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Speaker 1: not a specific time that I decided I'm going to
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Speaker 1: put everything on this because it has always been. Nothing
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Speaker 1: was secure and still isn't. I just feel blessed to
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Speaker 1: be happy until now, to keep doing what I do,
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Speaker 1: to keep being part of the national team for the
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Speaker 1: past ten years, to be able to finish my professional career,
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Speaker 1: to be able to be starting my masters, and to
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Speaker 1: be am bessador for the NFL, and if right now
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Speaker 1: helping to grow the game not only on the field,
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Speaker 1: but outside the field, So there was not a specific
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Speaker 1: moment in time, but just situations pretty much.
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Speaker 3: Life that have.
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Speaker 1: Given me the many opportunities to keep giving back and
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Speaker 1: it is only passion. I am so proud and happy
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Speaker 1: to see where we are today in terms of the
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Speaker 1: growth of the sport, in terms of how many girls
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Speaker 1: now are playing flag football. Flavvoball is now an Olympic
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Speaker 1: sport for twenty twenty eight. That's the biggest to dream ever,
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Speaker 1: not only for me but for all the flaffoorable community
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Speaker 1: in the world. But I keep also dreaming big and
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Speaker 1: looking forward for all the opportunities that are yet waiting
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Speaker 1: to be open for the next generations so they one
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Speaker 1: day can pick this sport.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love your excitement over flag football becoming an
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Speaker 2: Olympic sport. Where were you last October when they made
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Speaker 2: this announcement, Oh, I was.
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Speaker 1: I was in Indianapolis actually for work. I traveled for
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Speaker 1: work there and I remember they had this meeting in Mumbai,
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Speaker 1: I think it was, but in Indianapolis it was like
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Speaker 1: three am in the morning when they were voting. So
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Speaker 1: I turned my laptop on and I was watching all
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Speaker 1: the session online. I waited until four thirty am in
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Speaker 1: the morning, just excited to hear it like officially flock
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Speaker 1: will be coming an Olympic sport.
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Speaker 3: And it was.
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Speaker 1: Because it was such a special moment because we have
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Speaker 1: worked on this for so long. I mean all the
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Speaker 1: people that was involved in this. Of course all the
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Speaker 1: players worldwide that keep doing this sport as great and
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Speaker 1: amazing as it is, but also the NFL I have
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Speaker 1: we have been working on this for more than a
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Speaker 1: year now, going on meetings and a lot of things.
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Speaker 3: So to hear it.
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Speaker 1: By first time being officially on the Olympic calendar, it
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Speaker 1: was just amazing.
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Speaker 3: What did that work look like?
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Speaker 2: You talk about, you know, being diligently involved in this
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Speaker 2: product us, What did it look like, that build up
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Speaker 2: and that effort for you.
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Speaker 1: First of all, growing the game, growing the game by
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Speaker 1: bringing awareness not only in my country but in the
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Speaker 1: States and worldwide. Then I got to be part of
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Speaker 1: this process with the IOC and the Olympic Committee of
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Speaker 1: LA to kind of talk about the sport and see
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Speaker 1: how flaffable would look like in LA twenty eight. So
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Speaker 1: it was a lot of that and that's why I
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Speaker 1: say that when you get to see all the people
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Speaker 1: involved in this to make it possible to all the
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Speaker 1: people that trusted and yeah, trusted in this sport and
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Speaker 1: the future that it holds. It just made me feel
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Speaker 1: super blessed and grateful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally understandable and such an amazing accomplishment, so exciting
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Speaker 2: and clearly bringing that awareness to the sport. A huge
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Speaker 2: part of that was that commercial during such a major
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Speaker 2: moment here in America. Talk to me a little bit
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Speaker 2: about that process and how it felt for you when
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Speaker 2: you got that first initial reach.
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Speaker 3: Out like hey, we have this thing that we're thinking. Wow.
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Speaker 1: So one day, Okay, I've been ambassador for the NFL
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Speaker 1: for the past year, now, year and a half something
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Speaker 1: like that, so I was kind of close with them.
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Speaker 1: But one day in December last year, I received a
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Speaker 1: call from from Tim alis So and he was like, Hi, Tiana,
19:42
Speaker 1: how are you? And I was like, okay, Hi, how
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Speaker 1: are you? So? Here's Tim Elis and I want to
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Speaker 1: chalk with you. We are planning about the super Bowl
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Speaker 1: commercial for this year, and we wrote this story about you.
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Speaker 3: And we were.
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Speaker 1: Wondering if you would like to be part of the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl commercial. What can you imagine receiving one call
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Speaker 1: one day, I was at home and I was like,
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Speaker 1: is this really this is something trying to make a
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Speaker 1: joke with me or stuff like that. Of course I
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Speaker 1: say yes, like just yes, right the second after and
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Speaker 1: then I started to chalk with Marisa Solis, who was
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Speaker 1: another who was this who had like a big role
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Speaker 1: planning all of this. He has also Latino roots. So
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Speaker 1: it was super special because we know, we knew the
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Speaker 1: importance of showing the culture in that in dark commercial,
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Speaker 1: and we knew all the people involved. We knew that
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Speaker 1: the message behind that spot was super powerful. It was
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Speaker 1: a message of women empowerment, as I said, of unity
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Speaker 1: of breaking vary. So it was a very very special
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Speaker 1: moment to be part of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I cannot even I mean, I've had emails come
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Speaker 2: through that kind of knock me off my seat and
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Speaker 2: are exciting, But an email like that, that's not one
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Speaker 2: you get every day. I know, Oh my gosh, so
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Speaker 2: so special. So I know that a huge part of
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Speaker 2: the campaign and also the work that you do is
21:27
Speaker 2: this concept of striving for more, right, looking for more,
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Speaker 2: seeking equality and also educating others on your culture. What
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Speaker 2: does the concept of strive for more really mean to you?
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Speaker 1: Well, For me, I always think that everything we do
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Speaker 1: has a bigger impact than for yourself. Whenever you're doing
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Speaker 1: what you're doing because you're passionate about it, has a
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Speaker 1: bigger impact to the people around you. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that I've been lucky enough to find my passion, I
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Speaker 1: know that there are probably a lot of people out there,
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Speaker 1: a lot of women that haven't find their passions, either
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Speaker 1: because they are on that journey or because they think
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Speaker 1: they are not allowed to live their dreams, you know,
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Speaker 1: because because of society, because of the rules that we
22:36
Speaker 1: kind of have yet that have to be broken, or
22:40
Speaker 1: because they haven't seen somebody they can feel related with
22:46
Speaker 1: that keeps that light of dream burning inside their hearts.
22:50
Speaker 1: So for me, that's.
22:56
Speaker 3: My why.
22:56
Speaker 1: Also, I've been lucky enough to have amazing people through
23:00
Speaker 1: my journey that have pushing me to achieve all my goals,
23:05
Speaker 1: to achieve my dreams. But during all my life, I
23:09
Speaker 1: never had someone to look up that looked like me,
23:13
Speaker 1: someone that I feel related with. I grew up watching
23:17
Speaker 1: the NFL, I grew up learning from this amazing NFL players,
23:21
Speaker 1: NFL allegiance, but I always felt that I didn't belong.
23:26
Speaker 1: I almost felt like an intruder to this world. So
23:31
Speaker 1: right now, to be able to be somehow that person
23:37
Speaker 1: others can feel related with, that seed of inspiration or
23:43
Speaker 1: motivation for them just makes me feel super blessed because
23:50
Speaker 1: this supports changed my life. And I never dreamed about this,
23:54
Speaker 1: and not because I didn't want it to, but I
23:57
Speaker 1: never thought it was possible. So right now I just think, wow,
24:03
Speaker 1: like where are all of the next generations are gonna get?
24:09
Speaker 1: Knowing that this is possible, that this already happened. So
24:14
Speaker 1: that's that's the most important thing to me.
24:17
Speaker 2: Your excitement is contagious, s Tianna. And it also beckons
24:22
Speaker 2: the question just because you can make it look easy,
24:27
Speaker 2: which you do effortlessly, talk about the joy that you
24:30
Speaker 2: have being a role model for other people, being this
24:34
Speaker 2: source of inspiration. Just because you make it look easy
24:38
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that it doesn't come without challenge. So as
24:42
Speaker 2: a follow up, my question for you is is there
24:46
Speaker 2: difficulty that comes with being the first here?
24:50
Speaker 3: Well?
24:50
Speaker 1: Yes, I feel that Since I started my journey years ago,
24:55
Speaker 1: I learned the power of no. No, this is sport
25:02
Speaker 1: is not for you. No you're too young, No you're
25:05
Speaker 1: too small, No you're not going to handle the pressure
25:09
Speaker 1: no no, no, no no, but to embrace that power
25:16
Speaker 1: of no have helped me to how can I say it,
25:22
Speaker 1: like upgrade my power of will. So I feel that
25:26
Speaker 1: that has helped me to overcome all of these challenges
25:30
Speaker 1: in life. But not only that, As I said, I've
25:34
Speaker 1: been lucky enough to connect with amazing people coming from
25:40
Speaker 1: of course my family, my first coach, but also my
25:43
Speaker 1: team at Team Mexico. We created something super special last
25:49
Speaker 1: year winning the gold medal, and after that amazing people
25:53
Speaker 1: at the NFL at i F and now under Armoor
25:58
Speaker 1: that had helped me to pop all this dreams and
26:02
Speaker 1: some how pave the way not only to me, but
26:07
Speaker 1: for the next generations of women Earth and the women
26:10
Speaker 1: that are already building their careers or building their dreams.
26:14
Speaker 1: So yes, it has been challenging, but also what kind
26:20
Speaker 1: of I can tell you what I've learned is that
26:22
Speaker 1: no matter how lonely you feel sometimes, you will never
26:26
Speaker 1: be alone. There will always be an amazing person in
26:29
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28:08
Speaker 2: I love the concept of the power of no and
28:10
Speaker 2: owning your no, especially because oftentimes when we own our
28:14
Speaker 2: know and say no maybe the things that don't feel
28:17
Speaker 2: right for us, it opens up all of these other doors.
28:19
Speaker 2: It opens us up to be in alignment to pursue
28:23
Speaker 2: the opportunities that really excite us. I'm sure, since not
28:28
Speaker 2: only winning that gold medal, but then of course, as
28:31
Speaker 2: we spoke about this Super Bowl commercial, there have been
28:34
Speaker 2: many inquiries that have come your way, opportunities to collaborate,
28:40
Speaker 2: interview requests, I mean, the list goes on, right.
28:42
Speaker 3: So how have you been.
28:44
Speaker 2: Able to stay true to what's right for you with
28:47
Speaker 2: this influx of attention over the past year.
28:51
Speaker 1: Well, I think first staying true to myself, to my dreams,
28:56
Speaker 1: and as I said, and I'm going to repay it,
28:58
Speaker 1: to stay true to my why why I do what
29:01
Speaker 1: I do, and to be aware also that all the
29:05
Speaker 1: actions we have, everything that I do is for something,
29:10
Speaker 1: for a purpose bigger than me. You know, being at
29:13
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl commercial it has a biggert purpose. It
29:16
Speaker 1: is not only about being in the that spotlight. To
29:20
Speaker 1: be offensive coordinator at the Pro Bowl games, showcasing flat
29:24
Speaker 1: football at the biggest station till now, it had a bigger.
29:28
Speaker 3: Purpose, you know.
29:30
Speaker 1: So it's just it just made me feel blessed to
29:34
Speaker 1: be able to be part of those moments where I
29:38
Speaker 1: know that I have something valuable to give, either it
29:41
Speaker 1: is my experience or my passion or the love that
29:46
Speaker 1: I have for the sport to create something way bigger
29:51
Speaker 1: later on, To be the first flat football athlete to
29:54
Speaker 1: have items at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, again,
29:58
Speaker 1: it is for a bigger purpose. It was breaking or
30:02
Speaker 1: opening that door for the next women that are going
30:05
Speaker 1: to have their jerseys later on the upcoming years at
30:11
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So I think staying
30:14
Speaker 1: true to myself and knowing that there's a bigger purpose
30:18
Speaker 1: that to all the people I connect with, they also
30:23
Speaker 1: know this. I mean, either where it is my team's mac,
30:27
Speaker 1: my teammates in Mexico, or all the allias that I
30:31
Speaker 1: have got during this journey, we all connect with the
30:36
Speaker 1: reason why and for me that just create and make
30:42
Speaker 1: possible impossible. And that's the way we're able to create
30:45
Speaker 1: magic in different fields.
30:47
Speaker 3: Create magic in different fields.
30:49
Speaker 2: And what an amazing opportunity to be that coordinator for
30:53
Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl.
30:53
Speaker 3: How was that experience for you?
30:56
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Imagine I got to be offensive coordinator
31:00
Speaker 1: for the AFC and Peyton Manning was the head coach.
31:04
Speaker 1: I know ray Lewis was the defensive coordinator. And I
31:08
Speaker 1: have to tell you that I've admired Peyon Manning since
31:12
Speaker 1: I was little. I remember I used to watch NFL
31:16
Speaker 1: games with my dad, watching him playing and trying to learn,
31:20
Speaker 1: you know, from him and everything. I remember even when
31:24
Speaker 1: I was fourteen. One time, I want to or ther
31:29
Speaker 1: Lance to the Super Bowl twenty twelve to play the
31:33
Speaker 1: National FA Football Championships. And you know, there's this they
31:36
Speaker 1: call it Super Bowl experience, like an expo with NFL
31:40
Speaker 1: players and things like that. So I was there with
31:42
Speaker 1: my family and suddenly I started to listen like people
31:47
Speaker 1: saying like Peedi Manning is here, Pedaman is here. He
31:49
Speaker 1: was there for a press conference or something like that.
31:52
Speaker 3: So I started.
31:53
Speaker 1: Running with my dad through all the expol like just
31:57
Speaker 1: round that, let's go, starting to find him. And when
32:00
Speaker 1: I finally found him, he was living like literally he
32:03
Speaker 1: was like waving at the people. I remember just staying
32:06
Speaker 1: there shouting his name, like Peida trying just to have,
32:12
Speaker 1: you know, like a look from him, and I couldn't.
32:14
Speaker 1: I remember at that moment I started crying. My dad
32:17
Speaker 1: told me, like, don't worry. Maybe on the future you're
32:21
Speaker 1: gonna have the opportunity to meet him. So I'm telling
32:24
Speaker 1: you this is sorry because now you have like context
32:27
Speaker 1: on how amazing it was to know that I was
32:31
Speaker 1: not only I didn't have only the opportunity to meet him,
32:35
Speaker 1: but to work with him, and he was super opened
32:39
Speaker 1: to hear my ideas and to learn how I felt
32:45
Speaker 1: this sport and how I learned and how I looked
32:50
Speaker 1: at the sport of flag and we created something amazing together.
32:54
Speaker 1: It was just an amazing and amazing time. Also to
32:58
Speaker 1: be able to connect with all this amazing guys, the
33:01
Speaker 1: NFL players, They were super professional, they were super excited
33:05
Speaker 1: also to play flat football by first time, and I
33:07
Speaker 1: think that's what made that moment so magical, so cool.
33:12
Speaker 2: I'm going to pivot a little bit, and I want
33:14
Speaker 2: to talk about where we were heading before, about young
33:18
Speaker 2: women in sport and girls in sport. I'm going to
33:22
Speaker 2: read you a statistic forty three percent of girls who
33:25
Speaker 2: once considered themselves sporty drop out of sport after primary school.
33:31
Speaker 2: When I read that for you, how does that make
33:33
Speaker 2: you feel sad?
33:37
Speaker 3: Sad?
33:37
Speaker 1: Because I know, yes it is. It is a reality,
33:41
Speaker 1: and somehow I've been through that also growing with my
33:47
Speaker 1: teammates when I was little, and then right now knowing
33:51
Speaker 1: that I am the only one that still plays flag,
33:56
Speaker 1: not almost none of the.
34:00
Speaker 3: Players that I grew up with.
34:03
Speaker 1: Kept playing the sport because again, we didn't have the opportunities.
34:08
Speaker 1: That's why I said, I feel super lucky and blessed
34:11
Speaker 1: to be able to to reach or to find those
34:17
Speaker 1: opportunities that have helped me to be where I am today.
34:21
Speaker 1: But I think it is something super sad because it
34:23
Speaker 1: is not because of lack of talent. It is not
34:26
Speaker 1: of lack because of lack of passion or compromise. It
34:33
Speaker 1: is because the lack of opportunities. On one hand, it
34:39
Speaker 1: makes me feel sad, but on the other the fact
34:43
Speaker 1: that this is something we are talking about more and more,
34:50
Speaker 1: this is a topic that we all are putting on
34:52
Speaker 1: the table more and more. I think it is somehow
34:56
Speaker 1: helping to create one awareness in second opportunities, to let
35:04
Speaker 1: people know that yes, we have lots of thing to change,
35:09
Speaker 1: but we can all start from ourselves in supporting women's
35:13
Speaker 1: in sport to know that we have a bright future
35:16
Speaker 1: no matter what sport it is, we have a bright future,
35:18
Speaker 1: and we have showed up in the recent years like
35:22
Speaker 1: breaking records of assistance and all these amazing things. So
35:27
Speaker 1: I am excited to think that this is only to
35:30
Speaker 1: start for a brighter future for women's in sports.
35:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really exciting, especially you know, coming off of
35:38
Speaker 2: the heels of the US Women's National League Soccer championship
35:42
Speaker 2: game was one of the most attended games in recent history.
35:46
Speaker 2: Just so special to see women finally getting the attention
35:49
Speaker 2: they deserve. But that attention has arguably been around for
35:54
Speaker 2: a while. It's really like the dollars behind women in
35:57
Speaker 2: sport that can be such a barrier, at least for
36:00
Speaker 2: professional sports.
36:01
Speaker 3: Right.
36:02
Speaker 2: I know that the statistic I sided was talking about
36:04
Speaker 2: young women in sports, So it is so special that
36:08
Speaker 2: so many young women now they are getting the opportunity
36:12
Speaker 2: to turn on the TV and see women that not
36:16
Speaker 2: only represent their interests, but in many cases look like them.
36:20
Speaker 2: You talk so eloquently about so many of your role
36:23
Speaker 2: models from an young age being men in the National
36:27
Speaker 2: Football League right, a very different example than the one
36:30
Speaker 2: that you are setting today. When you are reached out
36:35
Speaker 2: to by young girls, whether it be over social media
36:39
Speaker 2: or email or when you're out and about, how does
36:41
Speaker 2: it feel for you for these people to tell you
36:44
Speaker 2: that you're inspiring them to show up and show out.
36:48
Speaker 1: It is the biggest blessing for me, as I said,
36:53
Speaker 1: only to be able to be part of this, of
36:57
Speaker 1: this movement of change that we are all doing for
37:00
Speaker 1: were women's in sport, and I feel super blessed to
37:05
Speaker 1: to connect with with people, as I said, that have
37:10
Speaker 1: this mindset. Also back in August, I joined the onunder
37:14
Speaker 1: Our More team as global ambassador. That was something, as
37:19
Speaker 1: I said, I never I never imagined could be possible
37:24
Speaker 1: for me. And the reason of this partnership it it
37:28
Speaker 1: didn't only started because of the rush of the Super
37:31
Speaker 1: Bowl or the gold medal or anything. It was because
37:37
Speaker 1: they knew also the importance of representation, the new importance
37:42
Speaker 1: of opening opportunities, of giving the platform, of giving a
37:45
Speaker 1: boys and that's I feel that that's where we all
37:49
Speaker 1: have to start. I mean, if you open more opportunities
37:53
Speaker 1: and you give the platform to the to the athletes
37:58
Speaker 1: that are now having the in their respective sports. Then
38:03
Speaker 1: you're gonna start building from their down, you know. Then
38:07
Speaker 1: you're gonna build awareness, You're gonna build interest, You're gonna
38:11
Speaker 1: give them an opportunity to make a living from the
38:15
Speaker 1: sport they love. Then you're gonna bring more opportunities for
38:18
Speaker 1: women to have scholarships to pursue not only their dreams
38:22
Speaker 1: on the field, but also as professionists. Then you're gonna
38:25
Speaker 1: build opportunities for women seeing high school to find their passions.
38:32
Speaker 1: And it goes like that. So I just feel super grateful,
38:36
Speaker 1: as I said, to be part of this movement and
38:39
Speaker 1: super excited to to see what steal is yet to come.
38:44
Speaker 2: How does it make you feel when you read the
38:46
Speaker 2: criticisms over flag football? I know that I was even
38:49
Speaker 2: scrolling through your page before we hopped on this recording,
38:54
Speaker 2: and they're coming to you and they're telling you right
38:58
Speaker 2: where you are exactly how they feel about flag football,
39:01
Speaker 2: not just as a sport, but it also making the Olympics.
39:04
Speaker 1: You know, my thoughts are wait until you see it,
39:09
Speaker 1: you love it. I mean, I know that's that comes
39:13
Speaker 1: from the lack of knowledge about the game. It is
39:17
Speaker 1: because they haven't been close to it. They haven't seen
39:19
Speaker 1: it at the biggest stages. They haven't seen it at
39:22
Speaker 1: the screens, And I think it is kind of a
39:26
Speaker 1: normal thing to expect when a sport is started. It's
39:31
Speaker 1: been like the first time it is it is starting
39:34
Speaker 1: just getting to get into these major platforms. So for me,
39:42
Speaker 1: it is only a matter of time, a matter of
39:45
Speaker 1: more people having the opportunity to connect with the sport
39:49
Speaker 1: and see how fun it is to play, how fun
39:52
Speaker 1: it is to watch, and and that it is even
39:56
Speaker 1: if it is very similar to football, because I know
39:59
Speaker 1: that's a most of the times people do, it is
40:04
Speaker 1: a totally different sport. If I had to describe it, yes,
40:08
Speaker 1: it has the best of football, but in a more
40:11
Speaker 1: condensed style. It is faster, It is about agility, it
40:16
Speaker 1: is about creativity. And then the best thing for me
40:23
Speaker 1: it is that it is such an inclusive sport. No
40:26
Speaker 1: matter who you are, no matter where you're from, no
40:29
Speaker 1: matter your strengths or your qualities, you will find and
40:34
Speaker 1: spot inflavotable. So I feel that allows more people to
40:39
Speaker 1: feel related with flappable athletes because then you have a
40:44
Speaker 1: bigger spectrum of athletes in there. So for me, it's
40:51
Speaker 1: just a matter of time. I'm super excited for the
40:53
Speaker 1: people for the world to see the greatness of this sport.
40:56
Speaker 2: I love your optimism and like your approach to that.
40:59
Speaker 2: It's not like screw them, it's like just wait and see.
41:02
Speaker 2: So you're so kind to them, and I really appreciate that.
41:06
Speaker 2: I think it says a lot about who you are
41:08
Speaker 2: and your approach to life as a whole. With that said,
41:13
Speaker 2: there have been more eyes on you specifically over the
41:17
Speaker 2: last year as you've taken on this role of really
41:19
Speaker 2: being an ambassador for your sport and speaking of the
41:23
Speaker 2: great things of flag football and of course encouraging women
41:27
Speaker 2: to take on sports. With that said, what's been the
41:32
Speaker 2: most difficult part of the past year for you?
41:38
Speaker 1: The most difficult part personally to find a balance between everything,
41:44
Speaker 1: a balance between spending time with my family and with
41:50
Speaker 1: my loved ones, with my friends, and also keep working
41:56
Speaker 1: on my career as an athlete representing my country, because
41:59
Speaker 1: you know, as an athlete, this never stops. You have
42:02
Speaker 1: to always keep working and improving. And on the other hand,
42:09
Speaker 1: to be this ambassador or make this job as ambassador
42:13
Speaker 1: the best I can, trying to bring awareness to different
42:18
Speaker 1: parts in the world, about the sport being everywhere and
42:22
Speaker 1: just jumping from one country to the other during these
42:26
Speaker 1: past months. I mean, it has been super exciting and amazing,
42:30
Speaker 1: but sometimes you need to to find this balance between everything.
42:36
Speaker 1: What has make that easier, as I said, is to
42:40
Speaker 1: find the correct people around me, whether it is as
42:44
Speaker 1: I said, my family and my team at SMACK, my
42:48
Speaker 1: teammates on drum routine, the alias at Cabo now we
42:54
Speaker 1: have a partnership with them that are focused on bringing
42:57
Speaker 1: awareness of wellness. You know, all these people, all these
43:04
Speaker 1: entities have their purposes that's somehow aligned with the process
43:09
Speaker 1: I'm living right now. So it makes it easier to
43:15
Speaker 1: also make the right decisions for that bigger why And
43:20
Speaker 1: that's why I feel most grateful for because somehow the
43:27
Speaker 1: objectives of the people I've met aligned with mine and
43:32
Speaker 1: it is just a matter of making the right connections.
43:36
Speaker 2: Surrounding yourself with the right people is a huge key
43:39
Speaker 2: for you when it comes to finding balance and maintaining balance.
43:43
Speaker 2: When someone goes to your Instagram page, they see a
43:48
Speaker 2: very happy athletic flag football player, someone that is so
43:52
Speaker 2: proud of not only being a warrior in her sport,
43:55
Speaker 2: but paving the way for young women everywhere.
43:58
Speaker 3: When you look in the mirror, Deanna, what do you see.
44:04
Speaker 1: Hm hmm, I see. I see a passionate woman that
44:13
Speaker 1: is on her personal journey to build her best version
44:19
Speaker 1: as an athlete, as a woman, as a professionist, and
44:24
Speaker 1: that has the dream of bringing this set of motivation,
44:31
Speaker 1: bringing the seed of or planting. I can say more
44:36
Speaker 1: dreams in other in other little girls in the future,
44:40
Speaker 1: female leaders, and I just I just see a woman
44:46
Speaker 1: that is compromised to this mission, that feels grateful to
44:50
Speaker 1: have amazing surrounded by amazing people.
44:54
Speaker 3: You mentioned your masters before. What are you studying.
44:59
Speaker 1: Right now now? I'm studying innovation for enterprise development.
45:04
Speaker 2: Casual just like throw that on your tab. What do
45:10
Speaker 2: you see yourself doing with that?
45:12
Speaker 1: To be honest, one of my biggest dreams I have
45:15
Speaker 1: to say is someday helping to make a professional flavoroable
45:23
Speaker 1: Bleak come true so that women that me can make
45:27
Speaker 1: a living while playing the sport. We love to keep
45:32
Speaker 1: breaking barriers and just bringing down this big gap between
45:38
Speaker 1: males and women's in sport. So that's a dream to
45:42
Speaker 1: me that I hope to accomplish in the next upcoming years.
45:48
Speaker 1: So I hope that everything that I'm doing right now
45:52
Speaker 1: as an athlete, as an ambassador now talking about my masters,
45:56
Speaker 1: I know that all these little little pieces are gonna
46:00
Speaker 1: together at some point, at the right moment. So I'm
46:05
Speaker 1: just looking forward for it, and in the meantime just
46:10
Speaker 1: ask in life, just making sure I get ready for
46:15
Speaker 1: when the next opportunity is knock the door, and to
46:18
Speaker 1: be able to keep giving back and create something bigger
46:22
Speaker 1: with the people around me.
46:24
Speaker 2: I think you're doing a really great job of it
46:27
Speaker 2: right now. You have an opportunity, Dianna, to tell yourself
46:31
Speaker 2: a younger version of yourself, give her a piece of advice,
46:34
Speaker 2: knowing what you know now, thinking about the journey that
46:38
Speaker 2: you've been on.
46:39
Speaker 3: What do you tell your younger self.
46:43
Speaker 1: To my younger self?
46:44
Speaker 3: How you tell her?
46:49
Speaker 1: Do never forget that you're powerful, that you're strong, and
46:56
Speaker 1: you're capable to do anything you want, yeh. Do not
47:01
Speaker 1: listen to the people around you that wants to bring
47:05
Speaker 1: you down. Do not listen to all those nos. Do
47:10
Speaker 1: never let the world make you doubt of yourself, because
47:18
Speaker 1: you're powerful and that power lives in your self confidence.
47:24
Speaker 1: Just keep working hard, keep feeling passionate about what you do,
47:31
Speaker 1: because I promise that life is going to become even
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Speaker 1: bigger and brighter than what we ever imagine.
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Speaker 2: Before I let you go, I've got to ask you
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Speaker 2: for someone that feels as though life is getting them down,
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Speaker 2: that people are telling them a lot of know they
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Speaker 2: are struggling to find that light. What advice do you
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Speaker 2: offer them to maybe get their chin up a little bit?
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Speaker 1: What advice I could give them?
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Speaker 3: First?
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Speaker 1: Listen, Listen to your heart, Listen to what makes you
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Speaker 1: feel excited, to what makes you feel happy. That's the answer,
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Speaker 1: no matter what it is. Stay true to yourself, stay
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Speaker 1: true to that purpose. And I promise you that whenever
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Speaker 1: you're feeling that you don't know the way, whenever you're
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Speaker 1: feeling that you're not going anywhere, just trust on that.
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Speaker 3: Trust on that.
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Speaker 1: Dream you have, and sooner or later you will find
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Speaker 1: you will find the answer. It comes in different ways.
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Speaker 1: You just have to keep positive. You just have to
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Speaker 1: make sure you keep your mind open so you can
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Speaker 1: see those opportunities or those were the people that is
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Speaker 1: in your life to help you to achieve those goals.
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Speaker 1: Never doubt on yourself and dream big, because dreams come true.
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Speaker 2: I love that idea of keeping your mind open right
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Speaker 2: because there will be moments that it feels hard and
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Speaker 2: that you quote unquote fail. But if you keep your
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Speaker 2: mind open, then you're allowing whatever happens.
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Speaker 3: For you to come in.
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Speaker 2: You're allowing yourself to show up and to dream big
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Speaker 2: and to try new things and know that whatever happens next.
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Speaker 3: It's all going to be okay.
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Speaker 2: Dianna, I'm so happy that we're able to find the
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Speaker 2: time to make this happen. Tell the hurdlers if they
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Speaker 2: don't follow you just yet, how do they follow along
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Speaker 2: with you?
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Speaker 3: How do they keep up with you?
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Speaker 1: We can stay connected through Instagram, unlike Deanna Flores thirty
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Speaker 1: three floors without the oh TikTok the same the same
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Speaker 1: user name. I'm looking forward to see either.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 2: I'm over at Malia Boddy and at Hurdle Podcast another
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Speaker 2: Hurdle conquered.
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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time,