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Tamika Catchings Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest, She's just a Superstar. Currently serves as
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  Speaker 1: the Director of Player Programs and Franchise Development with Pacers
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  Speaker 1: Sports and Entertainment, an ambassador with the NBA and w
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  Speaker 1: n b A, and an sec ESPN Women's Basketball analysts.
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  Speaker 1: Please work on to money making this conversation the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the Premier t Bar and Cafe in Indianapolis, Tamika
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  Speaker 1: Catchings Demika dem I'd love that tc TC owned the
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  Speaker 1: premiere tea bar and Cafe in Indianapolis and it's awesome song.
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  Speaker 1: Now ould tell you my wife? I don't drink coffee
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  Speaker 1: or tea. My wife I think she's I think I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to someone say she's addicted to tea because if
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have it, she has bad days. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. She's like, she's I gotta get my tea.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get my tea. I gotta get my tea.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to So this interview is for my wife,
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  Speaker 1: but also because it's because she's a tea fan and
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  Speaker 1: she she she loves it. She has all these different flavors.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about your We're gonna talk about a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things, but I want to start off talking about
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  Speaker 1: your your place in Indianapolis, the premier tea uh bar
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  Speaker 1: and cafe in Indianapolis. Talk to me about that and
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  Speaker 1: how did you get involved with it? Well, uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: called Tease Me t a apostopheske Me Cafe. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I got to Indiana. I got drafted from them to
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Fever and got to Indiana for a few years.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I always would drink tea like that. What
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  Speaker 1: we grew up my family, we grew up to drinking
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  Speaker 1: tea and we had like little tea parties and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. And so when I got here, really couple
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  Speaker 1: of years in, somebody was like, oh, have you been
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  Speaker 1: in an amazing place you called tse me and you
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  Speaker 1: should go and check it out. And so literally it
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  Speaker 1: became my favorite place to go. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: biggest reason was because nobody in there really paid attention
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  Speaker 1: to basketball, and it was just a place where I
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  Speaker 1: could go in and chill. The vibe beyond Beyonce. Everything
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  Speaker 1: was super fly. And then you played in the w
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  Speaker 1: n B in for sixteen seasons, so you see you
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  Speaker 1: went there like the second season that you like. I
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  Speaker 1: think I started going to the shop probably in two
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  Speaker 1: thousands and four, my last year. Yeah. So so when
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  Speaker 1: did you take over ownership of it? I took over
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  Speaker 1: the year after I retired. Okay, cool. So so this
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  Speaker 1: is a new enterprise for you. It's a brand that
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  Speaker 1: you've lived and been a fan of and so which
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  Speaker 1: is what's really cool, Which means that you know what
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  Speaker 1: you're walking into because a lot of athletes, they are recommended.
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  Speaker 1: This is good, this will make you a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: But you knew this brand. You you're roughly fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: in on this brand when you bought it. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, honestly, the interesting thing about it is he
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  Speaker 1: was only open from eleven am to two thirty pm
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  Speaker 1: Tuesdays through Saturday. He was open from eleven eleven am
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  Speaker 1: to two thirty and so when I took over, one
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  Speaker 1: of the first things was, we need to expand the hours,
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  Speaker 1: like how do you make money from eleven am to
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  Speaker 1: two thirty? And then for probably the first couple of months,
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  Speaker 1: we literally would have nobody coming in the morning. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: would come from eleven am to two thirty because they
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  Speaker 1: it was like a mad like rush. But now, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I've had it for a little over what twenty months,
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  Speaker 1: exactly twenty months, I've had it, and it's awesome. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Now, what's all you're going there?
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  Speaker 1: What is the experience? What makes it premier? You know?
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I go go to places, say we got
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  Speaker 1: the greatest Hamburg of all time. Here, the best hot
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  Speaker 1: dog in this city, the best barbecue on the rack. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you at the premier t bar and cafe in Indianapolis?
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  Speaker 1: Why should I go there? Little Miss was only open
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  Speaker 1: for like three and a half hours a daytil you
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  Speaker 1: came along. I think the biggest thing is that ambiance. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you walk in their whole experience of Shina.
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  Speaker 1: Just great. You walk through the doors, you start like
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  Speaker 1: when you come in. Our staff is amazing. This is
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  Speaker 1: what y'all walking in with his wife who's who loves tea. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so walk us through the whole scenario. Welcome, Hello, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to Tease Me Cafe. Is this your first time? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we've been. We've come from Houston, Texas, and I heard
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  Speaker 1: about this place and my wife, she's a tea junkie. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you guys for coming so much, and we have.
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  Speaker 1: As you can see, we have a huge menu to
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  Speaker 1: you have over forty six flavors. Don't be intimidated. We
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  Speaker 1: will help you figure out which you like. But come
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  Speaker 1: on in, make yourself at home. In order at the counter.
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  Speaker 1: Any food in here? Any food? You have lots of food.
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  Speaker 1: So we serve breakfast and we serve lunch. We're open
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  Speaker 1: from seven am to five pm. Okay, I'm there Monday
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  Speaker 1: to Saturday. There, why she's drinking tea. I'll help me
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  Speaker 1: some food. Do you have desserts? Do you have dessert?
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  Speaker 1: We have? We do have dessert. Thank you for asking
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  Speaker 1: what what? What type of dessert? We have? Women cake,
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  Speaker 1: We have carrot cake. We have carrot carrot cake. I'm there.
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  Speaker 1: I love me some carrot cake. Give me a nice
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  Speaker 1: little slice of carrot cake while she drinks her tea. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how's this? How is how are the options brought to
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  Speaker 1: the table or do you have to go to the
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  Speaker 1: bar to make your selection? Because why I'm over to
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  Speaker 1: eat my carrot cake? Is she gonna leave me to
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  Speaker 1: go to the bar? Are they going to bring the
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  Speaker 1: options to the table. We're gonna bring the tea to
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  Speaker 1: you once you order at the counter, and you go
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  Speaker 1: sit down and just pick your own spot in the
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  Speaker 1: whole place. Sit down and enjoy the ambiance. Enjoy the music.
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  Speaker 1: We always play a nice flood jazz, so you will
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  Speaker 1: be right at home. Okay, So can I pick my
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  Speaker 1: songs or the just just on a loop in the
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  Speaker 1: loop loop loop music just being playing over and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just enjoying the ambiance of my wife, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: you know she she always, like she told old body
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  Speaker 1: changes when she drinking tea like she drinking wine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people they're like, I'll be telling it ain't that good,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't that good. But she's really is that good.
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  Speaker 1: So so with that being said, so I'm in there,
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  Speaker 1: so you have them in you let's let's let's backtrack,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I wanted to go through the experience
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  Speaker 1: because when people hear things called t or T bar,
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  Speaker 1: they think that's always there. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But you're telling me, look, ros Sean, you can get
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  Speaker 1: breakfast and there, launched dinner and there, your full service menu,
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  Speaker 1: desserts is in there. So one when they go to
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  Speaker 1: the website, if they if they're hungry coming there, correct, yeah, coming,
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  Speaker 1: they're hungry coming. They're not hungry coming there, just for tea,
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  Speaker 1: coming for dessert, come to hang out, come to study.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot of entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs that are
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  Speaker 1: just starting and so they're sitting in there. We got students,
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  Speaker 1: we got professional young, I mean, we got everything. So
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  Speaker 1: that means that means you got free WiFi in there.
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  Speaker 1: Then we got gotta I gotta work with your girl.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta get all your bonus
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  Speaker 1: points out. I mean, you're gonna get together here, and
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  Speaker 1: so you gotta you gotta come out front and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we all were serving food here, free WiFi. You come
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  Speaker 1: in here, hang out. See all those terms see and
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  Speaker 1: all this because once people here to worry free WiFi.
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  Speaker 1: They there because Stockbucks wins on free WiFi. I'll just
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  Speaker 1: let you know they win on everybody like free stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We get free samples here. And then you say you're
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  Speaker 1: not a tea drinker, but I will say when you come,
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  Speaker 1: you will have to not have to, but I think
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  Speaker 1: you will be convinced to get a tea because you
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  Speaker 1: will find something on our menu that you will like.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about to make a catch. It's okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: You know, ain't got no talent out there just to file,
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  Speaker 1: WA Okay now all right, I'm telling they got a
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  Speaker 1: talent now. But you know what I'm saying, there as
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  Speaker 1: some people out there, just like in the NBA, there's
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  Speaker 1: some of what they call players out there, just like
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  Speaker 1: in hockey, their job is just to you know, disrupt
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  Speaker 1: the talented player. So Tamika Catching is one of those
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  Speaker 1: talented players, and so sometimes out there they go you
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  Speaker 1: And he trying to throw off our game? Am I
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  Speaker 1: McDonald because see I'm from Houston, Texas. The greatest w
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  Speaker 1: NBA team of all time does not exist in the
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely a sad day when we let them go.
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  Speaker 1: The great thing is that we have the memories, we
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  Speaker 1: Maka Thompson who just was inducted into back as teacher Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: You had Cynthia Cooper. It was an amazing run of success.
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  Speaker 1: They launched the w n B A and I'm still
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of this boy. Let me, before we
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  Speaker 1: go to our next break, give me an assessment where
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  Speaker 1: is right now from a global perspective and from a
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  Speaker 1: here with some bird thirteen years in and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's Brittany from from a UK. We understood my basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just off the top of the dome to make
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  Speaker 1: up you Lloyd. Yeah, the whole squad, Natasha Howard's got
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  Speaker 1: six Man of the Year. I mean they had Brianna
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the league overall, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: are standing strong and um, you know, I think a
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  Speaker 1: will not not make it. Now we're here celebrating twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years in the w I know here in Indiana
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  Speaker 1: will be celebrating twenty years or twenty year anniversary next year.
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  Speaker 1: So super excited about that. But yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. You you look at the players that are
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  Speaker 1: playing now, and I mean the w K my freshman
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  Speaker 1: year in college. So it wasn't something that I aspired
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  Speaker 1: be from when I was in third grade. I really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make it to the w n B A
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  Speaker 1: but now you have players that have had that they
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  Speaker 1: started from the day that they were born, coming to
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  Speaker 1: the w game, being able to be a part of it,
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  Speaker 1: having a dream, having a goal, and now they're here.
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  Speaker 1: So I then when you look at it from that perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's really cool to hear a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: story from the players. So I watch you when out
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  Speaker 1: in third grade, It's like, Okay, that really makes me old,
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, they're here and that's all that matters,
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  Speaker 1: and so it really is a lot. I think when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the global aspect of the game, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our players are overseas right now playing and
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  Speaker 1: so are we having the competitions like the men the
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  Speaker 1: games overseas and doing all that taking our w NBA
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  Speaker 1: teams over she used to play, No, not yet, but
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  Speaker 1: we are having our players distributed throughout different teams. I
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  Speaker 1: played in China. We're gonna be right back with more
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  Speaker 1: money making conversations. I want to talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being an ambassador se ESPN Women's basketball analysts, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things she's doing outside of just being an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 1: ID Sean McDonald, you're back listening to money making conversations.
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  Speaker 1: My guest was on the phone, big fan. She's a
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  Speaker 1: champion to meet. I gotta I got my daughter. She's
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  Speaker 1: my only child as a daughter. So anytime I see
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  Speaker 1: an individual like my guests to make a catch and
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  Speaker 1: I I feel that it's important that she's a rollmark.
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  Speaker 1: Even though even though even though she doesn't know it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can put I can put her picture
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  Speaker 1: in front of my daughters and you could be her.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's the social media allows you to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Even more so, I feel that athletes are
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  Speaker 1: played even a bigger role I to make. I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you the question about but the role of
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  Speaker 1: the male athlete and the female athlete in sports, because
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  Speaker 1: I I have to believe that male athletes, they're they're athletic,
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  Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of money that they can make
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  Speaker 1: from depending on the sport that they choose from their
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  Speaker 1: skill set. That's not always the case for the female athlete.
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  Speaker 1: And so what drives you, Like you said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your goal when you started playing basketball in middle school
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  Speaker 1: in high school was not to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: the w NBA because it didn't exist. So what drives
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  Speaker 1: you when you're talking to young girls? Who are? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Title nine opened up so many opportunities for the female
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  Speaker 1: in uh, you know, collegiate sports. What what what what drives
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  Speaker 1: you when you speak to the young young women. I
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  Speaker 1: think the biggest thing is dreams do come true. And me,
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  Speaker 1: you talked about me not wanting to be in the
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  Speaker 1: w NBA, but my goal in seventh grade was to
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  Speaker 1: be in the n B A right and follow my
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  Speaker 1: dad footsteps and so really having the people around me
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  Speaker 1: that encouraged me and pushed me. But I think my
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  Speaker 1: inner motivation was really the thing. I will be successful
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  Speaker 1: and I will make it to the NBA. And that
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  Speaker 1: was just like nobody could tell me anything different until
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  Speaker 1: the w came and then you know, my goal shifted.
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  Speaker 1: But I really when I talked to young girls and
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  Speaker 1: even young boys now you know, I I talked about
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  Speaker 1: just the dedication and the commitment it takes to reaching
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  Speaker 1: your goal and really having a true belief that whatever
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  Speaker 1: you dream you can do it, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: work hard. I can't do it for you, you have
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  Speaker 1: to do it for yourself. Now, you wrote a book
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  Speaker 1: in our autobiographical book, your start, shouting through adversity to
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  Speaker 1: become a champion, sharing your story overcoming hearing loss, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: separation from family, high expectation, and the pain of physical injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Now I was joking earlier about all those files. What
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  Speaker 1: people don't understand is that you know when you run,
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  Speaker 1: when you're running up and down on the hard floor,
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  Speaker 1: but this is a harf jumping up and down on
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  Speaker 1: the hard floor. Your body talks back to you in
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  Speaker 1: many ways. Talk to us about, you know, sixteen years
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA and w n b A, what what
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  Speaker 1: what pushed you through the painful moments and what pushed
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  Speaker 1: you emotionally? What was your focus point to get you
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  Speaker 1: to play every year, to get to train every year,
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  Speaker 1: to overcome that injury that I guess what I want to?
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  Speaker 1: I want to. I want to I want to take
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  Speaker 1: that risk again to be able to experience the sport
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  Speaker 1: that I love. Talk to us about that when you
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  Speaker 1: love what you do, it's not really of its and
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  Speaker 1: I think that can apply not only to sports and basketball,
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  Speaker 1: but even now to life and not the things that
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  Speaker 1: I have going on. I genuinely love walking on waking
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  Speaker 1: up every day and going to whichever job, whichever role
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing. And I think that as a basketball player,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how many times I got hurt, it's just
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  Speaker 1: like you blust yourself off. You get through the rehab
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  Speaker 1: first injury to my ah L. Then I told my
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  Speaker 1: Achilles and told my MFL book my nose, the book
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  Speaker 1: of my fingers. I mean, it's you just keep going
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  Speaker 1: because of the love of what you do and the
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  Speaker 1: passion that you have for something. Okay, Achilles, a c
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  Speaker 1: L broke your nose, broke your finger, but you keep going.
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  Speaker 1: But you keep going because because because the Achilles, that's
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  Speaker 1: you know that that there's no guarantee you can never
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  Speaker 1: come back from that a c L. My daughter she
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: couldn't play tennis anymore because she tour, she's on professional
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: tour as a tennis player, and she tore her a
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  Speaker 1: c L. And she never returned to the sport. She's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you know, just just that rehabilitation just freaked her out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she was literally taken aback because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell her. Because people don't understand that there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pain that go that a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: know because athletes, you know, athletes really in some ways
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  Speaker 1: they make it if they if people really knew what
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  Speaker 1: an athlete had to do, especially when they got when
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  Speaker 1: when one is injured, they had appreciate and say, look,
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  Speaker 1: pay that person whatever they're do. Because to see my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: she she suffered weight loss when she had an A
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  Speaker 1: c L injury. I was afraid she never gained her
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  Speaker 1: way back. Um, you know the whole period. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about with a c L. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just just just just amazing amount of pain
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  Speaker 1: just comes to your knee out there. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: drugs you're taken. You can't ask that that pain and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you came back from that knowing and
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  Speaker 1: it would not say that because it can't happen again.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Like fences. Uh, Deshaun Watson, you know he has had
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: knee injuries on both his knees, left it right, So
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: there's no guarantees that it cannot happen again, but you
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  Speaker 1: hopefully in pray that it doesn't happen again. In your occase,
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  Speaker 1: you know you had the A c L, you had
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  Speaker 1: the achilles and then you had the broken nose. We
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  Speaker 1: know we can play through that. Just throw a mask
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  Speaker 1: on finger. We can deal with that. So because you
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  Speaker 1: will continue to play when you was able to continue
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  Speaker 1: to play with those injuries, but there was other two
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't. So talk to me about that process of
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  Speaker 1: getting through that, well, I think it's the mental aspect
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  Speaker 1: that you have to really focus on then. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember that was the first my A c L was
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  Speaker 1: my first real injury. My senior year in high school
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: or my senior in college. The w n B A draft.
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  Speaker 1: Literally it happened to me and Martin Luther King junior day,
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  Speaker 1: the w n B A drafted. Three months down the road.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way I can play, and this is something
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  Speaker 1: that I've dreamed about since I was in seventh grade.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine the thoughts go into your mind with that
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  Speaker 1: that itself, and then of course I got drafted by Indiana,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: came up here, and you know, more than anything for me,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it's just a mental like the mental drain that it
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: puts on't you because physically you're gonna go through rehab
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna do all of that and there's gonna
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: be time even throughout the process. I'm sure your daughter
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: felt there. You feel like you can do more and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the doctor is holding you back or whoever you're doing,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and they're saying, no, you're not ready, but you feel
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: like I can do it. And then when you try
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  Speaker 1: to do something, when they finally clue you and you're
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: trying to do something that you're so used to do
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  Speaker 1: it and you can't do it the way you're used to.
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  Speaker 1: You're in your mind you're already playing like I'm never
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  Speaker 1: gonna be as good as I was, I'm never gonna
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  Speaker 1: do this, I'm never gonna be able to do the
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  Speaker 1: things that I was able to do before, and really
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: having to push yourself through that mentality like that is
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the hardest thing. But when you get beyond that, then
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you start growing. You know, at the growth level that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you go through, Like when you get beyond that and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you come back and you're able to do some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that you're able to do before, and then
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: more you know, it's like you finally get to that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: go through that process, but it definitely makes you grow
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  Speaker 1: as a player. It makes you appreciate your sport more,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and then it just makes you an all around better
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: player and person. I think you now you're a basketball
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: analyst for SEC, which is the dominant I think the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: athletic conference and all who ya the great uh oh
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: my god. See you bring back so many memories because
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you know the Tennessee program. Of course, you know Yukon
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: is the dominant program now, but that Tennessee program. Wow, Yes,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the class that Pat brought to that program was amazing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sad that she's not here today, but but a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: tremendous fan, a tremendous leader, a tremendous a person who
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: again um turning her health. We're talking about the former
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: culture of the of the volunteers that uh team so quickly.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It really caught me by surprise because because you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: when you when you admire people like her, then you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: appreciate because she turned out wonderful women want to see
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the whole thing about when when people came through a program.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm saying that's that happened that you call it
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: wasn't a basketball which is skilled that the ladies that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you you as individuals you had, she shaped individuals beyond basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just me just seeing that. But am I
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: wrong and making an assessment about Yeah, that was way
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: more than basketball. And I mean, you just talked about
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all the things you don't even really talk about basketball
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: you just talked about the class that she had, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I think you know, I always say that when we
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: went to the when going to Tennessee, I mean, Pat
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  Speaker 1: always preach We're gonna be great on the basketball court,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be great in the classroom, We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: great in the community. But beyond all of that, I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: want you guys to be great people. Great lady giving
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  Speaker 1: to the society, you know, like give, give, give, And
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: when you watch the way that she lives her life,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: everything that she did, she gave, and that just even
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: for me. Now every day I go out and I
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: live and I'm able to do all the cool things.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I think about what can I give? How can I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: create impact to every single person that I come into
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: contact with? And you do and I've seen that sixteen
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: years of being in the NBA have been a leader,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: being a person who is now in the professional world.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: How was that transition, Like, you know, when you walked
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: away from the game that dominated you, that brought so
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: much love and some pain to your life, how did
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you make that transition? Let's talk about that for a minute. Yeah,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it's it's scary at first because you're so used to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: mean you talk a lot about just being regimented and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: being consistent, Like you got up a fourth fifteen. I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: sure you get up every day at four fifteen. How
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you live your life? And I can literally tell you
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: verbating my schedule for not just sixteen years of the pro,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: but even beyond before that with college and before that
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: with high school and junior, Like I had a schedule
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: for my whole life. And as soon as you retire,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, you wake up the next day and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, I'm gonna rest for a few days.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: But then after two or three days, you're to your
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: program to get up, get to the gym, get your
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: shots up, do your weight, through this, through that. And
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: so now I don't have that. And not only do
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I not have that, I don't have I don't know
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: what's gonna be next. And so I mean, at first,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: you go through that fear, oh my gosh, like am
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I show that I don't want to play anymore? But
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I kind of went through that for a little bit,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: not really that much because I was ready and my
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: body was ready. But after that it was just like, Okay,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: what am I good at? Like what kind of what
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: else can I do. And that's what's really cool about
• 24:31
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• 24:39
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