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Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm Ama Mia podcast.

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Speaker 2: There was this big thing going around saying it was

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Speaker 2: a four hundred percent pay increase, which, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 2: it's a pay increase, and I'm so incredibly blessed to

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Speaker 2: be joining the team when that happened, Like I would

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Speaker 2: not be able to you know, I didn't have a

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Speaker 2: visa for a bit, so I couldn't get a job,

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Speaker 2: and you know, have extra money coming in, so I

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Speaker 2: But it's still not realistically enough for what we do

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Speaker 2: as athletes.

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Speaker 3: Today. On No Filter, and I don't mind telling.

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Speaker 4: You this is a great one, we get to go

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Speaker 4: behind the scenes of one of the most recognizable and

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Speaker 4: mythologized institutions in American pop culture, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

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Speaker 4: They are synonymous with glamour, discipline, and perfection, but in

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Speaker 4: recent years there's been a renewed fascination with what the

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Speaker 4: role actually demands and what it's.

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Speaker 3: Really like behind the uniform.

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Speaker 4: And my guest today is Faith Ward, an Australian New

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Speaker 4: Zealand dancer who unexpectedly found herself auditioning for and ultimately

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Speaker 4: joining the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders after receiving a very nonchalant

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Speaker 4: DM on Instagram. It's an amazing story and in this

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Speaker 4: conversation we talk about how she ended up on that path,

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Speaker 4: what the audition and selection process is really like, the

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Speaker 4: realities of the job versus the public fantasy, and what

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Speaker 4: it means to step inside such a powerful global institution,

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Speaker 4: especially at a moment when the world is paying closer

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Speaker 4: attention than ever. This is faith Ward, faith Ward, welcome

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Speaker 4: to no filter.

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Speaker 1: So excited to be here.

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Speaker 4: Well, I am also so excited to have you because,

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Speaker 4: in the realm of what is possible in this world,

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Speaker 4: I did not ever think that an Australian New Zealand

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Speaker 4: girl would ever be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. I just

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Speaker 4: didn't think that it would be possible.

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Speaker 1: Neither did I. I'm with you on that one.

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Speaker 2: Literally, I have to pinch myself every day that I'm

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Speaker 2: in this position because it just is insane. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: did not think they would ever even it's called America's Americans,

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Speaker 2: So why do I want a half Auzzy, half New

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Speaker 2: I'm honestly so honored to be representing both countries.

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Speaker 1: So I hope I'm doing them proud.

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, So, I, like many came to appreciate the

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Speaker 4: work of the cheerleaders through the show America Sweethearts, and

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Speaker 4: it's such an extraordinary collision of worlds, do you know

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Speaker 4: what I mean? Like your athletes, you're you're also expected

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Speaker 4: to and it's demanded of you that you uphold certain

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Speaker 4: attributes that are seen as you know, being possessed by

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Speaker 4: America's Sweethearts, which is charm and grace and sass and

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Speaker 4: But the great underneath is the hard work and the excellence.

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Speaker 4: How did this come on your radar? Because you were,

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Speaker 4: like you said, at the bottom of the world.

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Speaker 2: You're exactly right all of the above as to what

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Speaker 2: many different categories that you're filling into one role. But

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Speaker 2: I had a dream from a young age about making

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Speaker 3: So, and so you're impers at this.

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Speaker 2: That's where I reside, but originally from Wellington, New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: So that is why I consider myself half and half.

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Speaker 4: It's caused a little all right, faith, you know what

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Speaker 4: you are for our purposes, your Russell Crow, you Russell

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Speaker 1: I love that that reference. I'll enjoy that, so let's

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Speaker 2: But no, for me, the journey basically came about from

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Speaker 3: And what sort of dance was that at this point?

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Speaker 2: This was all like lyrical jazz, contemporary, acro. I've been

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Speaker 1: Worth it in the end.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, basically grew up doing dance competitions, flew over

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Speaker 1: So I followed a few of the girls on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: So back when I was sixteen, I followed her on

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Speaker 1: What is this girl doing? This?

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Speaker 2: Her name is Sophie right, Yes, she's incredible, She's a

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Speaker 3: So you were sixteen, so this must have been six.

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Speaker 2: I'm twenty two now, sixteen years ago, six years ago, insane.

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Speaker 2: So found out about it through that and then obviously

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Speaker 1: But when the show came out on.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it and I loved it, but in my intuition,

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Speaker 2: I was content, but I wasn't fully like this is

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Speaker 1: So I was like, there's something else out there for me,

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Speaker 2: And I'm like to my roommate, we need to sit

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Speaker 3: To be right.

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Speaker 4: You were just watching it in almost the abstract sense

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Speaker 2: My vision war like it was didn't even make it

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Speaker 2: I was still auditioning for a million other things. I

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Speaker 2: was like, I'm not one hundred percents out of this

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Speaker 2: cruise ship life. So I went to Paris. I was

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Speaker 2: additioning for a cabaret called Mulan Rouge.

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Speaker 4: Have you heard of it, right, which is also I

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god, yeah, yeah, wow, there you go.

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Speaker 2: for that? They offered me a contract in April, and

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, when your guts like, oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: I kid you not.

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Speaker 2: I get home that night, I opened my Instagram direct

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Speaker 2: messages up and there is a message from the DCC recruiter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can say so sorry.

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Speaker 3: I know, Kellen Gudy.

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Speaker 4: Trouble understanding you because you're a quick talker, right, I

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Speaker 4: digest this moment. So I didn't know that was a

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Speaker 2: Nope, It just happened that I was in Paris doing

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Speaker 1: She had found me.

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Speaker 2: Through social media and just saw me posting all my

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Speaker 2: At the same time, it was like a sign that

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Speaker 1: I'm like what that was like my sign?

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Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, wait, maybe this they're looking

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Speaker 3: Like what did the message say?

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Speaker 2: It was the most nonchalant message I've ever read in

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they'll put this in the show. It's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: It's that she's just like, hey, you should apply for

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Speaker 1: Her name is Shelley. She's incredible. I would not be

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Speaker 1: sitting here without Shelley.

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Speaker 2: She has helped me throughout my whole journey visas, all

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Speaker 2: the stuff that you don't think about that goes into applying.

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Speaker 4: Just yeah, okay, so you get the message, You've someone's.

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Speaker 3: Hit you up in your DM.

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Speaker 4: The best DM slide and ever and so then then

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Speaker 2: Okay, So once I got the DM, basically she was like,

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Speaker 2: just going to send you the link to apply and

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Speaker 2: let you know that if you do make the steps

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Speaker 2: going forward for the online auditions, we will help you

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Speaker 2: get a visa to come to finals. I was like, okay, girl,

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Speaker 2: I was absolutely So basically did all the online submissions.

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Speaker 1: So it started with a video round submission proline a.

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Speaker 4: Video of you dancing or they want to see you

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Speaker 4: how you present or both.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so basically they just want to see like you

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Speaker 4: And I thought, you know what, and you'd never the

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Speaker 1: That involves the kicks, right, Okay, but.

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Speaker 2: Your girl didn't know about the thing that you have

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Speaker 2: I mean, they try to tell you that, like I've

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Speaker 1: In Dallas tea Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then at sink di Inn, I was, wow, this

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Speaker 2: I could see the dream, like it was almost like

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Speaker 4: But so then you fly to Texas to do the

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they flew about, they didn't fly. We'd fly

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Speaker 4: Is this the first year, Faith that they've opened the

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Speaker 1: Her name is Janelle and she is incredible. So she

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Speaker 3: Because she's Aussie. Her name's Janelle, do you know.

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Speaker 2: So no, she really helped me, just keeping me like

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Speaker 2: Finals, So finals was probably the most crazy day of

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Speaker 2: This is when you do your dance. This is where

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Speaker 1: It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: I feel like at this rate, I didn't know anyone,

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, faith, if you haven't

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Speaker 2: It's what you're gonna do is I'm just performing for

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Speaker 2: my all today and even if I don't make this team,

438
00:19:02,079 --> 00:19:04,079
Speaker 2: I can walk away knowing that I put my best

439
00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:04,519
Speaker 2: foot forward.

440
00:19:04,879 --> 00:19:05,799
Speaker 1: That was a nice feeling.

441
00:19:05,999 --> 00:19:08,439
Speaker 3: How much charm are you getting in between?

442
00:19:09,839 --> 00:19:13,759
Speaker 4: Obviously it's this is a very intense part of the process.

443
00:19:13,759 --> 00:19:15,159
Speaker 4: I mean it's all intense, isn't it?

444
00:19:15,239 --> 00:19:15,799
Speaker 1: Absolutely?

445
00:19:16,039 --> 00:19:20,279
Speaker 3: But who are you talking to back home? Who are

446
00:19:20,279 --> 00:19:21,599
Speaker 3: you going your mum?

447
00:19:22,399 --> 00:19:24,439
Speaker 1: What Faith updates? Right?

448
00:19:24,559 --> 00:19:25,599
Speaker 3: And what are you saying?

449
00:19:25,639 --> 00:19:25,719
Speaker 2: Like?

450
00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:28,839
Speaker 4: How's that first conversation when you like, I've I've made it,

451
00:19:29,159 --> 00:19:31,719
Speaker 4: you know, through the finals, I've made it onto the field.

452
00:19:31,599 --> 00:19:34,039
Speaker 2: It was insane. I was just like, Mum, we don't

453
00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:36,559
Speaker 2: know yet. She's just like, Faith, tell me I need updates?

454
00:19:36,599 --> 00:19:37,039
Speaker 1: What's going on?

455
00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:38,799
Speaker 2: Imagine your daughter being on the other side of the

456
00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:40,879
Speaker 2: world auditioning for this team and then not really knowing

457
00:19:40,919 --> 00:19:42,479
Speaker 2: what's going on because obviously we didn't have our phones

458
00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:42,759
Speaker 2: on us.

459
00:19:42,839 --> 00:19:45,079
Speaker 1: We're like on the field auditioning.

460
00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:46,599
Speaker 2: Fighting for our lives, and then we come back to

461
00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:48,199
Speaker 2: the locker room and they make us wait for another

462
00:19:48,239 --> 00:19:50,399
Speaker 2: hour before they bring us back out onto the field

463
00:19:50,439 --> 00:19:50,959
Speaker 2: to announce.

464
00:19:51,199 --> 00:19:54,319
Speaker 1: Then going to she hadn't even made the team yet.

465
00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:57,519
Speaker 2: This is just finals day in itself. The audition process

466
00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:00,159
Speaker 2: is like no other and I think every dancer athlete

467
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,759
Speaker 2: needs to experience a finals day on its own because

468
00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:05,519
Speaker 2: it is a different breed of sport, Like you are

469
00:20:05,599 --> 00:20:08,599
Speaker 2: literally still fighting to then make the audition round of

470
00:20:08,639 --> 00:20:12,039
Speaker 2: six weeks of training camp, like it's insane, So mum,

471
00:20:12,079 --> 00:20:14,359
Speaker 2: obviously it was just like asking for updates the whole time.

472
00:20:14,399 --> 00:20:15,679
Speaker 2: And then once I came back out, I was like,

473
00:20:15,679 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 2: we gotta wait another forty five minutes.

474
00:20:17,519 --> 00:20:18,799
Speaker 1: They then called us back to the field.

475
00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:21,639
Speaker 2: Poor mom's like waiting by the phone consciously. And then

476
00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:23,959
Speaker 2: I came back in and I said, look, mom, I

477
00:20:24,079 --> 00:20:25,079
Speaker 2: made it to training camp.

478
00:20:25,199 --> 00:20:27,919
Speaker 1: And that was the most surround moment of my life.

479
00:20:27,959 --> 00:20:30,519
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they called me out last as well,

480
00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:33,319
Speaker 2: which was insane. So I kid, you know, I'm sitting

481
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,479
Speaker 2: there and I'm like, all right, got a book Kantas

482
00:20:35,479 --> 00:20:36,319
Speaker 2: flight home tomorrow.

483
00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:37,919
Speaker 1: I'm going home. Like that is that?

484
00:20:38,159 --> 00:20:39,959
Speaker 2: And then they were like and the last person that's

485
00:20:39,999 --> 00:20:42,919
Speaker 2: making it to training camp is and the camera comes

486
00:20:42,999 --> 00:20:47,079
Speaker 2: running up the stairs and it's on my face face

487
00:20:47,199 --> 00:20:49,799
Speaker 2: and I was like, nah, this is insane. I remember

488
00:20:49,839 --> 00:20:50,999
Speaker 2: like literally getting teary.

489
00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:55,079
Speaker 4: How many girls were not chosen? How many girls when

490
00:20:55,079 --> 00:20:57,559
Speaker 4: you were the last name were left standing?

491
00:20:57,759 --> 00:20:59,039
Speaker 1: This is actually a good question.

492
00:20:59,719 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, forty six made it to training camp,

493
00:21:03,199 --> 00:21:06,079
Speaker 2: and obviously only a team six, so out of the

494
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 2: eighty girls that were all sitting there, there was a

495
00:21:08,159 --> 00:21:10,799
Speaker 2: fair few that were missed out on their dreams, which

496
00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:13,439
Speaker 2: also is really hard to watch because you're with these

497
00:21:13,439 --> 00:21:15,479
Speaker 2: girls the whole day and you know, training to them

498
00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:17,439
Speaker 2: and it's just as much their dream as it is yours,

499
00:21:17,439 --> 00:21:19,919
Speaker 2: and then watching its succeed in them not it's just

500
00:21:19,959 --> 00:21:23,199
Speaker 2: like heartbreaking. So that was really hard, but it gets

501
00:21:23,239 --> 00:21:26,119
Speaker 2: harder throughout training camp because you are now in training

502
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,159
Speaker 2: camp and you're living in a hotel with these girls,

503
00:21:28,759 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 2: bonding over the fact that you're fighting for your dream job,

504
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,839
Speaker 2: and then you go into training camp practice every night

505
00:21:34,879 --> 00:21:37,199
Speaker 2: and your friends are getting caught and sent home. You

506
00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:39,839
Speaker 2: almost get that feeling of like it's like imposter syndrums

507
00:21:39,879 --> 00:21:42,279
Speaker 2: at the word where you're just like, oh my god,

508
00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:44,199
Speaker 2: why am I like still here?

509
00:21:44,279 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 1: Yeah?

510
00:21:44,519 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 2: Right?

511
00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:46,759
Speaker 3: Or survivor guilt yes.

512
00:21:46,679 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's the word. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's incredible.

513
00:21:53,599 --> 00:21:59,199
Speaker 4: After the break, Faith explains how her controversial Ponytail came

514
00:21:59,239 --> 00:22:05,839
Speaker 4: to be. We haven't seen your sea is yeah, and

515
00:22:05,919 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 4: I gather your series that's I think is coming out

516
00:22:08,919 --> 00:22:10,599
Speaker 4: in the middle of twenty twenty six.

517
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,919
Speaker 2: It sure is very soon, So June, you can watch

518
00:22:13,959 --> 00:22:15,799
Speaker 2: me in season three of America's Sweethearts.

519
00:22:15,879 --> 00:22:21,199
Speaker 4: Yes, and apparently you are quite the focus of this series.

520
00:22:21,599 --> 00:22:24,039
Speaker 3: Well, don't worry. I don't know.

521
00:22:24,239 --> 00:22:24,919
Speaker 1: I don't know where you.

522
00:22:25,159 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 3: Stuff from, but I love it.

523
00:22:27,479 --> 00:22:29,479
Speaker 2: I feel like there's a lot of talk as to you, obviously,

524
00:22:29,559 --> 00:22:32,799
Speaker 2: the Ponytail being Australia New Zealand. I'm just like, at

525
00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:35,039
Speaker 2: the end of the day, they film a lot of stuff,

526
00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 2: you only really see two percent of what actually happens,

527
00:22:38,159 --> 00:22:39,839
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like there's so much more

528
00:22:39,839 --> 00:22:41,279
Speaker 2: that goes on behind closed doors.

529
00:22:41,639 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: But it is really cool to like see the show,

530
00:22:43,399 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 1: I guess.

531
00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't seen myself on the show yet

532
00:22:45,839 --> 00:22:48,039
Speaker 2: and get to like reflect on my season as a rookie.

533
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,039
Speaker 2: So I'm really looking forward to seeing that with my

534
00:22:50,159 --> 00:22:51,039
Speaker 2: rookie sisters.

535
00:22:51,039 --> 00:22:53,679
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny that you mentioned the Ponytail. I mean,

536
00:22:53,679 --> 00:22:58,039
Speaker 4: there's two things. Is that in a free out Lovely

537
00:22:58,079 --> 00:23:01,799
Speaker 4: producer was talking to me before earlier about the cheerleader effect,

538
00:23:01,919 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 4: which is basically the sum of the hole is greater

539
00:23:04,919 --> 00:23:07,159
Speaker 4: than the sum of the parts, and the sum of

540
00:23:07,199 --> 00:23:10,599
Speaker 4: the parts is magnificent. All of you women individually are

541
00:23:11,479 --> 00:23:14,799
Speaker 4: stunning and accomplished, but when you put all of you

542
00:23:14,959 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 4: together then you get kind of another level of the spectacle.

543
00:23:20,239 --> 00:23:23,959
Speaker 4: But within that, the eye is always drawn to difference.

544
00:23:25,319 --> 00:23:29,199
Speaker 4: And you had it double fold, one because you were

545
00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 4: Australian and secondly because of what you mentioned. And this

546
00:23:34,759 --> 00:23:37,559
Speaker 4: is I'm going to utter the most insane sentence ever,

547
00:23:38,839 --> 00:23:44,839
Speaker 4: the controversial ponytail, that that's even a thing, And tell

548
00:23:44,879 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 4: me how that came about?

549
00:23:46,319 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 3: And did that emerge from through training camp?

550
00:23:50,439 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: It sure did. So I went into the mindset with that.

551
00:23:53,279 --> 00:23:54,239
Speaker 1: I knew I was different.

552
00:23:54,279 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: I knew that I hated wearing my hair out when

553
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,039
Speaker 2: I was dancing. I was always a ponytail girl growing up.

554
00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:01,759
Speaker 2: So then going into training camp, I'd already taken my

555
00:24:01,799 --> 00:24:04,199
Speaker 2: headshot photos like that I'd sent through for other jobs,

556
00:24:04,239 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 2: and I knowing that I was going to apply for DCC,

557
00:24:06,519 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 2: that I was just going to send through the same

558
00:24:07,719 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 2: headshot right and that my hair wasn't out. But I

559
00:24:09,399 --> 00:24:10,759
Speaker 2: was like, you know what, they can still see my face.

560
00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:13,239
Speaker 2: It's fine, hair up whatever. So I had my hair

561
00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 2: up and a slick potytail on my headshot that they

562
00:24:15,199 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 2: look at every single day when you're in training camp. Right,

563
00:24:18,199 --> 00:24:19,839
Speaker 2: So Judy and Kelly sit in a chair in front

564
00:24:19,879 --> 00:24:21,999
Speaker 2: of you while you're in the studio dancing, and they

565
00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:24,799
Speaker 2: have a like a page with all your head all

566
00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 2: the rookies headshots that are trying as made the team.

567
00:24:27,159 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 2: So they had my headshots sitting right in front of

568
00:24:28,919 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 2: them with my hair tied up, and I'm standing in

569
00:24:30,959 --> 00:24:33,199
Speaker 2: front of them with my hair out, and I just

570
00:24:33,239 --> 00:24:35,599
Speaker 2: remember one of the days we just learned Thunderstruck, and

571
00:24:35,639 --> 00:24:37,999
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do Thunderstruck.

572
00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:38,519
Speaker 1: With my hair out.

573
00:24:38,599 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 2: And in the DCC slang, there's like this thing called haerography, right,

574
00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 2: So learning the.

575
00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 1: D style, yes, you know it's click exactly right. That's

576
00:24:48,959 --> 00:24:49,479
Speaker 1: so good.

577
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,039
Speaker 2: So learning to do the style itself was already a

578
00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:55,039
Speaker 2: lot for me because I hadn't trained in it at all.

579
00:24:55,599 --> 00:24:57,759
Speaker 2: And then as well, trying to add the hairography, I

580
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:01,039
Speaker 2: was like struggling. I looked like a drowned rat who

581
00:25:01,319 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 2: was sweating and drowning in a Pool's the going for

582
00:25:05,879 --> 00:25:08,479
Speaker 2: I don't think no? And I was looking across to

583
00:25:08,519 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 2: all the reefs and all the beautiful girls. I was

584
00:25:10,239 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 2: just like they look like Victoria's Secret bombshells right now.

585
00:25:13,159 --> 00:25:14,799
Speaker 2: And I'm a bit of a head sweater, like when

586
00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:17,239
Speaker 2: I sweat, the sweat is coming from her head.

587
00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:20,519
Speaker 1: So it was just wet, flat hair that just did

588
00:25:20,599 --> 00:25:21,759
Speaker 1: not look good on me.

589
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,479
Speaker 2: So remember Kelly was looking at the paper and then

590
00:25:24,479 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 2: she looked up at me and she just goes, can

591
00:25:26,959 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 2: you put your hair in it? Can you tie it up?

592
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 2: I just looked and I was so excited. I was

593
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,079
Speaker 2: over the moon because when you are going through the

594
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,599
Speaker 2: training camp journey, there's a procedure called makeovers.

595
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,839
Speaker 1: Right where they make you up and they put you

596
00:25:38,879 --> 00:25:41,599
Speaker 1: in your signature look. And Kelly brought it up.

597
00:25:41,639 --> 00:25:44,279
Speaker 2: Then when I was sitting in the chair, she was like, oh,

598
00:25:44,719 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 2: I do really like your headshot that you submitted with

599
00:25:46,679 --> 00:25:49,559
Speaker 2: your hair up. And I said, wait, what you like?

600
00:25:49,639 --> 00:25:51,999
Speaker 2: That's not a thing in dcc lant. It's the iconic

601
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,319
Speaker 2: bouncy blowout. Why would you want my hair up? And

602
00:25:55,319 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 2: then she kind of just walked off and I was ah,

603
00:25:57,479 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 2: And the makeover finished and my hair was out, so

604
00:25:59,399 --> 00:26:01,599
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, that's maybe not happening. And then

605
00:26:01,639 --> 00:26:03,519
Speaker 2: it was training camp where she saw me sweating with

606
00:26:03,559 --> 00:26:05,079
Speaker 2: my hair out, and she was like, Okay, this girl

607
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 2: is not serving bouncy blowout.

608
00:26:07,479 --> 00:26:09,839
Speaker 1: And so so yeah, I wouldn't put it up.

609
00:26:10,199 --> 00:26:15,239
Speaker 4: So is this the first time that a DCC's had

610
00:26:15,279 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 4: a ponytail.

611
00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:19,039
Speaker 2: No, there has actually been a lot of other hairstyles

612
00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:22,079
Speaker 2: throughout the decades. But on the Netflix show, yes, that's

613
00:26:22,079 --> 00:26:24,959
Speaker 2: why it's caused so much controversy, right, and not really

614
00:26:24,999 --> 00:26:26,759
Speaker 2: in the recent years. It was more back in like

615
00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:30,319
Speaker 2: the sixties and the seventies and the eighties through the nineties,

616
00:26:30,399 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 2: and then obviously the choreographer duty.

617
00:26:32,639 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: She had pigtails. Oh so that's been very iconic.

618
00:26:35,679 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 4: Wow, But in this incarnation, yes, it was unheard of it.

619
00:26:40,399 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 4: And then what's the you know, because you're still competing

620
00:26:44,399 --> 00:26:47,839
Speaker 4: against each other at this point, even though there is

621
00:26:47,879 --> 00:26:51,479
Speaker 4: the sisterhood of course, but you know, your antenna are

622
00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:55,039
Speaker 4: really attuned to any difference or who's getting told what

623
00:26:55,199 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 4: or who's getting this.

624
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 2: And you can't fall into the trap of doing that.

625
00:26:59,399 --> 00:27:00,319
Speaker 2: That's the hardest bit.

626
00:27:00,679 --> 00:27:03,319
Speaker 1: The whole thing with training camp. It's all a mind game.

627
00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:05,599
Speaker 2: It's literally a game in your mind and you just

628
00:27:05,639 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 2: have to beat it because if you don't you're not

629
00:27:07,479 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 2: going to make the team.

630
00:27:08,639 --> 00:27:11,279
Speaker 1: So every day I would just walk in going, don't listen.

631
00:27:11,479 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 2: Obviously, take on board their corrections and stuff, but don't

632
00:27:14,239 --> 00:27:16,719
Speaker 2: let it affect you because at the end of the day, yes,

633
00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:19,319
Speaker 2: they can come off quite strict, but they're giving you

634
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,519
Speaker 2: feedback because they see potential in you and they want

635
00:27:21,519 --> 00:27:23,079
Speaker 2: you to make this team just as much as you

636
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 2: want it. So, yeah, I was getting drilled quite a bit,

637
00:27:25,479 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 2: and you'll probably see that in season three. I was

638
00:27:27,679 --> 00:27:31,599
Speaker 2: a little bit, let's just say, not experience with the

639
00:27:31,679 --> 00:27:32,839
Speaker 2: yes ma'am's.

640
00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, ma'am's got me good.

641
00:27:36,959 --> 00:27:40,239
Speaker 3: Do you get pulled up on not yes mammy? Or

642
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:41,519
Speaker 3: do you just read the room?

643
00:27:42,199 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: I think I just read the room.

644
00:27:43,439 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 2: I remember there was one time and the camera, one

645
00:27:45,199 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 2: of the Netflix cameras was covering me and they were

646
00:27:47,399 --> 00:27:49,519
Speaker 2: going down the line and training camp giving feedback to

647
00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:52,079
Speaker 2: each of the girls, and Judy and Kelly couldn't see

648
00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 2: me quite properly, so they were like, oh, Faith, we

649
00:27:54,639 --> 00:27:56,599
Speaker 2: can't give you any feedback right now because we couldn't

650
00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:57,199
Speaker 2: see you because the.

651
00:27:57,199 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: Camera was covering you.

652
00:27:58,719 --> 00:28:01,039
Speaker 2: In my brain, I knew I looked terrible, so I

653
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 2: Remember I just looked at them and this is like

654
00:28:02,999 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 2: one of our first days, and I just said, oh,

655
00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:08,319
Speaker 2: it's probably a good thing, and the whole room just

656
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,519
Speaker 2: went dead silent. I wanted to crawl the door, like

657
00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:14,999
Speaker 2: nobody laughed. No one laughed, no one laugh no one

658
00:28:14,999 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 2: got it. The girls will laugh back in the changer

659
00:28:16,679 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 2: with me later, like Faith, you're hilarious. But they were

660
00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:20,999
Speaker 2: just like, you just need to say yes, ma'am.

661
00:28:21,039 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, ah, well this is a

662
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 4: very interesting. Once again, that's a cultural thing. We're not

663
00:28:26,919 --> 00:28:28,999
Speaker 4: a yes ma'am society.

664
00:28:28,959 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 2: Exactly, And like I guess they got that, and I

665
00:28:30,999 --> 00:28:32,519
Speaker 2: think they also appreciated that.

666
00:28:32,719 --> 00:28:33,799
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, wait, this.

667
00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:36,239
Speaker 2: Skill's kind of different. She's not just sitting here going

668
00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:37,719
Speaker 2: yes ma'am. And I think they were kind of like,

669
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:40,559
Speaker 2: you know what, let's let's let's give her a chance

670
00:28:40,599 --> 00:28:42,879
Speaker 2: and let's let's hear her out. So I made sure

671
00:28:42,879 --> 00:28:44,559
Speaker 2: I came back the next lesson and they went home

672
00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:46,679
Speaker 2: with all the upper veterans and I was standing in

673
00:28:46,719 --> 00:28:48,199
Speaker 2: the mirror next to them and making sure I looked

674
00:28:48,239 --> 00:28:50,199
Speaker 2: exactly same as them, trying to get the style and

675
00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:52,159
Speaker 2: improve so I could go back and prove to them

676
00:28:52,159 --> 00:28:55,079
Speaker 2: that I did have what it takes to make this team.

677
00:28:55,199 --> 00:28:57,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.

678
00:28:57,399 --> 00:29:02,279
Speaker 4: You tell them so when you got anointed as the

679
00:29:02,279 --> 00:29:05,399
Speaker 4: person who could have their hair in a ponytail? Yes,

680
00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:09,799
Speaker 4: how was that ripple effect through the other women?

681
00:29:10,719 --> 00:29:12,439
Speaker 2: It was a little crazy, I'm not going to lie.

682
00:29:12,439 --> 00:29:14,399
Speaker 2: I think they were all just as shocked as I was.

683
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:17,319
Speaker 2: I think they were like, oh, like, you just tied

684
00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:18,919
Speaker 2: your hair up because you're hard at practice. And I

685
00:29:18,959 --> 00:29:21,279
Speaker 2: was like, no, no, no, because the day that Kelly told

686
00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:22,759
Speaker 2: me to tie my hair up, it was a rookie

687
00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,919
Speaker 2: only practice, and these are like the scariest practices ever.

688
00:29:26,119 --> 00:29:28,399
Speaker 2: You know that day that someone is going to be

689
00:29:28,479 --> 00:29:30,519
Speaker 2: going home, because why would they just have the rookies

690
00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 2: in the.

691
00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:31,599
Speaker 1: Room, you know what I mean.

692
00:29:32,119 --> 00:29:34,119
Speaker 2: So they normally make cuts on these days, so that's

693
00:29:34,159 --> 00:29:36,559
Speaker 2: why the veterans aren't around. So it's only like, let's

694
00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:38,559
Speaker 2: just say how many training came candidates were. There was

695
00:29:38,599 --> 00:29:41,479
Speaker 2: like fourteen of us in the room. So then the

696
00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:43,239
Speaker 2: vets come back in the next day. And I kept

697
00:29:43,239 --> 00:29:44,639
Speaker 2: my hair tied up because I was like, Kelly told

698
00:29:44,679 --> 00:29:45,599
Speaker 2: me to tie it up yesterday.

699
00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:47,519
Speaker 1: I'm going to come back in with it today.

700
00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:49,439
Speaker 2: Tied up because we had a group practice and I

701
00:29:49,439 --> 00:29:52,159
Speaker 2: remember all the girls were coming up to me being like, oh,

702
00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:53,919
Speaker 2: you just tying your hair up because you're hard, or

703
00:29:53,919 --> 00:29:55,079
Speaker 2: like what's wrong?

704
00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:55,919
Speaker 1: Why is your hair up?

705
00:29:56,119 --> 00:29:58,079
Speaker 2: I said no, no, no, Kelly told me to and they

706
00:29:58,079 --> 00:30:00,919
Speaker 2: said what, like Kelly told you to tie your hair up?

707
00:30:00,959 --> 00:30:03,199
Speaker 2: And I was like yes, like what sid didn't I

708
00:30:03,239 --> 00:30:05,239
Speaker 2: didn't get the hype. I was like, it's so crazy

709
00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:07,479
Speaker 2: about it, like yeah, I've got my hair up, and

710
00:30:07,479 --> 00:30:10,559
Speaker 2: they're like, faith, that's unheard of, like it hasn't happened

711
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:11,079
Speaker 2: in years.

712
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:13,559
Speaker 1: And I was just like, Okay, this is a big deal.

713
00:30:13,679 --> 00:30:16,119
Speaker 2: Like obviously, I was very honored and I was very

714
00:30:16,119 --> 00:30:19,239
Speaker 2: happy because I felt more myself. Yes, and both the

715
00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:21,079
Speaker 2: directors and the chreogopher said that as well. That would

716
00:30:21,159 --> 00:30:23,759
Speaker 2: Kelly and Judy were just like, you're dancing more like

717
00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 2: you look like you're enjoying dance again, Like I just

718
00:30:25,999 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 2: felt stressed.

719
00:30:26,999 --> 00:30:27,679
Speaker 1: My hair was.

720
00:30:27,639 --> 00:30:31,199
Speaker 2: Covering my face. It wasn't my personality. I'm a very

721
00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:34,039
Speaker 2: bubbly one hundred miles an hour, as you said, and

722
00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:37,839
Speaker 2: most people know person so having my hair of my face,

723
00:30:37,879 --> 00:30:39,919
Speaker 2: I can just show my personality bit more and it's

724
00:30:40,439 --> 00:30:41,679
Speaker 2: more diverse and just me.

725
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 1: So it felt right.

726
00:30:43,919 --> 00:30:47,039
Speaker 4: Do you think that you're prepared because now these are

727
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:51,519
Speaker 4: twofold process it's that is going to be your life,

728
00:30:51,959 --> 00:30:56,399
Speaker 4: which is you're a DCC, you're dancing for.

729
00:30:56,359 --> 00:30:58,639
Speaker 3: The Dallas Cowboys, you're cheerleading for them.

730
00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:05,879
Speaker 4: But there's also the Netflix show, so there's going to

731
00:31:05,919 --> 00:31:09,559
Speaker 4: be like a double serve of fame.

732
00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:16,679
Speaker 2: Quite literally, yes, And I already feel like as it is,

733
00:31:16,919 --> 00:31:20,199
Speaker 2: it's been more than I ever could imagined. I didn't

734
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:24,319
Speaker 2: really truly realize how incredibly strong the fan base is.

735
00:31:24,359 --> 00:31:27,119
Speaker 1: Like obviously I knew it was a big deal, but like.

736
00:31:27,199 --> 00:31:29,879
Speaker 2: Just being like my life has done a three sixty

737
00:31:29,959 --> 00:31:32,679
Speaker 2: for the better, of course, but I just didn't realize

738
00:31:32,719 --> 00:31:36,039
Speaker 2: how like it's it's also kind of scary sometimes, you

739
00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:38,919
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like we're getting escorted by security

740
00:31:38,919 --> 00:31:43,159
Speaker 2: everywhere because we get stalkers. Like it's that's at times

741
00:31:43,199 --> 00:31:45,119
Speaker 2: where you go, oh my goodness, this is scary. But

742
00:31:45,159 --> 00:31:47,439
Speaker 2: then there's the other times we have the incredible fans

743
00:31:47,439 --> 00:31:49,399
Speaker 2: that are like, I drove this far to meet you,

744
00:31:49,439 --> 00:31:51,039
Speaker 2: and then you see the look on their face when

745
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:52,399
Speaker 2: they see you out on the field and you're like,

746
00:31:52,439 --> 00:31:54,119
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is why I do this job again,

747
00:31:54,159 --> 00:31:54,759
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

748
00:31:54,919 --> 00:31:55,879
Speaker 3: Like, well, it does.

749
00:31:56,039 --> 00:32:01,799
Speaker 4: Draw the obsessive in some regards, and what safeguards.

750
00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:03,519
Speaker 3: Do they have for you or what training do they

751
00:32:03,519 --> 00:32:04,879
Speaker 3: give you about that.

752
00:32:05,399 --> 00:32:07,399
Speaker 2: We get a lot of training obviously with like how

753
00:32:07,399 --> 00:32:10,119
Speaker 2: to stay safe and media and social media as well,

754
00:32:10,159 --> 00:32:12,679
Speaker 2: because you know, not posting where you are at the

755
00:32:12,719 --> 00:32:14,999
Speaker 2: exact time, because you get people rocking up and it

756
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:17,479
Speaker 2: can be kind of terrifying. We had a girl on

757
00:32:17,479 --> 00:32:19,599
Speaker 2: my team get an air tag on her car, which

758
00:32:19,679 --> 00:32:23,079
Speaker 2: was absolutely terrifying, and they knew where she lived and oh,

759
00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:25,159
Speaker 2: it's got goosebump saying it literally makes me feel sick.

760
00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:27,239
Speaker 2: So yeah, they've obviously briefed us on all that, and

761
00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:28,439
Speaker 2: we have top security.

762
00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:30,519
Speaker 1: So that's really nice. Being back in Australia.

763
00:32:30,519 --> 00:32:32,519
Speaker 2: I think I remind myself how lucky I am to

764
00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:34,399
Speaker 2: call this place home because I instantly just feel so

765
00:32:34,479 --> 00:32:37,319
Speaker 2: much safer, which sounds really bad because America is a

766
00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:39,439
Speaker 2: great place to live in all, but we just we

767
00:32:39,479 --> 00:32:41,159
Speaker 2: have it really good. And ods you don't realize that

768
00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:43,359
Speaker 2: until you know you go away and there's this normal

769
00:32:43,399 --> 00:32:45,559
Speaker 2: thing called amber alerts with your phone since you were

770
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:47,759
Speaker 2: a text message in America when there's been a child

771
00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:48,919
Speaker 2: abduction and you're.

772
00:32:48,759 --> 00:32:51,559
Speaker 1: Just like, wait, what that happens here? Like obviously it

773
00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:53,279
Speaker 1: happens in Australia to we just don't hear about it

774
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:55,079
Speaker 1: as regularly as it does happen in the States.

775
00:32:55,199 --> 00:32:59,319
Speaker 4: Well, it's a huge population, and exactly that something makes

776
00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:03,079
Speaker 4: a difference. Yes, and in some areas, I mean it's

777
00:33:03,199 --> 00:33:08,839
Speaker 4: increasingly apparent these a high level of dysfunction and dissatisfaction

778
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:10,679
Speaker 4: within that society.

779
00:33:10,999 --> 00:33:12,439
Speaker 3: But you are in.

780
00:33:12,319 --> 00:33:20,439
Speaker 4: The bubble of this other world, and how much of the.

781
00:33:20,319 --> 00:33:22,519
Speaker 3: Outside world enters that bubble?

782
00:33:22,639 --> 00:33:26,439
Speaker 4: Like in my experience with dancers in the past, I

783
00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:27,759
Speaker 4: did dancing with the Stars.

784
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:29,399
Speaker 3: Don't look it up.

785
00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:33,079
Speaker 1: Terrible terror Why did I know they're terrible? But I'm

786
00:33:33,079 --> 00:33:34,159
Speaker 1: going to give you up straight after this.

787
00:33:36,399 --> 00:33:40,079
Speaker 4: I've spent a lot of time with dancers and and

788
00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:45,359
Speaker 4: I really grew to love them because they are in

789
00:33:45,399 --> 00:33:47,719
Speaker 4: a world where people are increasingly spending a lot of

790
00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:51,039
Speaker 4: time in their heads, not to their benefits. You said

791
00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:56,399
Speaker 4: that dancers live in their bodies, so there's a different

792
00:33:56,479 --> 00:33:58,119
Speaker 4: a real different energy about them.

793
00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:00,439
Speaker 3: Although obviously a lot of the women.

794
00:34:00,479 --> 00:34:03,479
Speaker 4: As we've seen from the series, there's a lot going

795
00:34:03,479 --> 00:34:04,759
Speaker 4: on in their heads as well.

796
00:34:04,999 --> 00:34:07,199
Speaker 2: There is, and I completely see why there is a

797
00:34:07,199 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: lot now at the time, I've been watching the show going,

798
00:34:08,839 --> 00:34:11,159
Speaker 2: oh my god, like chill leog's on that deep. But

799
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,199
Speaker 2: when you're in that situation and you are literally fighting

800
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: for your life and you are sitting in front of

801
00:34:16,799 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 2: these two women who do it in color, are incredible,

802
00:34:18,879 --> 00:34:20,599
Speaker 2: Like I love them both so much, have so much

803
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:21,519
Speaker 2: respect for both of them.

804
00:34:21,439 --> 00:34:23,039
Speaker 1: But it can be a little bit intimidating. I'm not

805
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:25,479
Speaker 1: gonna lie, like I'm like, of course, that's kind of scary.

806
00:34:26,959 --> 00:34:30,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's like uneasy lies the head that wears

807
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:34,679
Speaker 4: the crown. They have to make really difficult decisions and

808
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:41,119
Speaker 4: they have to see enough in you to decide if

809
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 4: you can grow into what they want you to grow into.

810
00:34:43,959 --> 00:34:45,559
Speaker 2: And they have an eye for it, let me tell

811
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 2: you that much, because like they can just see it

812
00:34:47,839 --> 00:34:50,159
Speaker 2: whether or not you have it or you don't. And like,

813
00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:51,639
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you don't want to

814
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: be on this team if you aren't mentally ready to

815
00:34:53,759 --> 00:34:55,039
Speaker 2: be on this team, because you're not going to make

816
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:57,079
Speaker 2: it through the season training camp. Yeah, that's hard and all,

817
00:34:57,119 --> 00:34:59,199
Speaker 2: but they get into the season where you're training every

818
00:34:59,199 --> 00:35:02,479
Speaker 2: single day to do games for hours where I literally

819
00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 2: wore my aura ring to a game once and it

820
00:35:04,839 --> 00:35:08,199
Speaker 2: said I was burning four thy five hundred calories. That

821
00:35:08,319 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 2: is not a normal amount of galleries to burn doing

822
00:35:10,319 --> 00:35:13,079
Speaker 2: a workout. So that's a lot of calories to be burning.

823
00:35:13,199 --> 00:35:16,199
Speaker 2: So imagine that is just your game day, right, plus

824
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,959
Speaker 2: you were built up with the whole week of rehearsing

825
00:35:17,999 --> 00:35:21,559
Speaker 2: for that game. Your body, your mind, everything is so exhausted.

826
00:35:21,639 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 2: So you have to be able to handle like a champ,

827
00:35:24,399 --> 00:35:27,159
Speaker 2: you know, like it can't just be Oh, I'm feeling,

828
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,199
Speaker 2: you know, kind of sick today.

829
00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:29,119
Speaker 1: I can't make it the game.

830
00:35:29,319 --> 00:35:31,519
Speaker 2: I had influenza A on our last game, and there

831
00:35:31,559 --> 00:35:32,679
Speaker 2: I was doing Thundershruck.

832
00:35:34,479 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 3: How was it a bluff?

833
00:35:36,439 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: It was so rough.

834
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:41,119
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.

835
00:35:41,519 --> 00:35:44,639
Speaker 4: After the break, Faith reveals the pranks she played on

836
00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 4: her mom when she found out she was officially a

837
00:35:47,799 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.

838
00:35:49,959 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 3: Poor mom. I mean, there's a couple of things about you.

839
00:35:55,839 --> 00:35:59,679
Speaker 4: One that you know, Miss Faith, that's that's like a

840
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,119
Speaker 4: talisman you carry around with you every time you say

841
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:06,559
Speaker 4: your name, and that thunderstruck ac DC in Australian band.

842
00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:10,599
Speaker 4: It's like there were little there were little Easter eggs

843
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:13,079
Speaker 4: along the way for you saying you're doing the right.

844
00:36:12,919 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: Thing, exactly right.

845
00:36:14,439 --> 00:36:16,999
Speaker 2: It just felt so perfect when I saw them bring

846
00:36:16,999 --> 00:36:18,999
Speaker 2: down the rack of uniforms and I just remember like

847
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,159
Speaker 2: falling to the ground, being like I just made it

848
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,959
Speaker 2: through that experience, Like what and I've got I did it.

849
00:36:24,999 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 2: I remember facetiming Mom and I like pranked her. I

850
00:36:27,279 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 2: was so mean and I said, Mom, that's it, I

851
00:36:29,399 --> 00:36:31,039
Speaker 2: didn't make the team. And then I just saw her

852
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:32,639
Speaker 2: face and she was just like it's okay. And then

853
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,479
Speaker 2: I put the uniform up and she just likely fell

854
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:38,039
Speaker 2: to the ground and she was just like all the

855
00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:42,119
Speaker 2: years of driving you to cheer dance, ACRO everything has

856
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 2: paid off. All the money she spent. She's the most

857
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:45,999
Speaker 2: hard working woman I've ever met in my life. And

858
00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 2: she was a single mom And what does she do, Mum,

859
00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:49,559
Speaker 2: what does she do?

860
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's just.

861
00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 2: A full time mama, one of five sisters. So yeah,

862
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,999
Speaker 2: she's incredible. She had us three girls separated from my

863
00:36:56,079 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 2: dad and then literally was hustling for me to stay

864
00:36:58,759 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 2: into dancing because obviously dancing.

865
00:37:01,359 --> 00:37:02,999
Speaker 3: And that's a lot of money as well.

866
00:37:03,199 --> 00:37:05,639
Speaker 2: Not at all, so that women, she works like two

867
00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 2: different jobs.

868
00:37:06,359 --> 00:37:09,999
Speaker 3: She was like to pay for lessons and coss kept.

869
00:37:09,839 --> 00:37:12,039
Speaker 2: Me in private school, kept me in dancing, gave me

870
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 2: extra private lessons, was still doing tumbling classes, was doing

871
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: everything and above, Like, my mom is seriously the best

872
00:37:18,279 --> 00:37:20,079
Speaker 2: and I would not be sitting here right now if

873
00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:22,119
Speaker 2: it wasn't for that woman. Like she's insane and we're

874
00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:26,119
Speaker 2: best friends. So it's great. She must miss you, Yeah

875
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:26,639
Speaker 2: she does.

876
00:37:26,679 --> 00:37:28,679
Speaker 1: She's like, where are you going now? She's like, I

877
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: want you home. You're only home for a month. You

878
00:37:30,999 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: need to be home. I'm like, yes, mom, I'll be

879
00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: back soon. But she comes to visit.

880
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:39,639
Speaker 4: When your season kicks off, Yes, will she come? Is

881
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 4: it a possibility she can come or family?

882
00:37:41,959 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 2: She did come, so she came to meet the team,

883
00:37:43,799 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 2: which was incredible.

884
00:37:44,799 --> 00:37:47,999
Speaker 1: So you'll see her in season three probably. She's hilarious.

885
00:37:47,999 --> 00:37:49,599
Speaker 2: She was helping me, like trying to put my ponytowel

886
00:37:49,639 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 2: in and stuff, and we're just both running around like

887
00:37:51,879 --> 00:37:53,519
Speaker 2: crazy women, not knowing what's going on.

888
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:55,039
Speaker 1: And that was incredible.

889
00:37:55,079 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 2: So then hopefully next season I'll get to have my

890
00:37:57,319 --> 00:37:59,199
Speaker 2: little sisters come and the rest of my family come

891
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,999
Speaker 2: to watch me. So, yeah, you know you were talking

892
00:38:02,999 --> 00:38:10,679
Speaker 2: about your colau or output during the game. The energy expended, Yes,

893
00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:14,599
Speaker 2: and that, of course is has got to be a

894
00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 2: massive underlying part of what it takes to be able

895
00:38:20,919 --> 00:38:25,639
Speaker 2: to continue in this discipline is weight. You get fitted

896
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 2: for your is this right? You get fitted for your costumes,

897
00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 2: your outfit.

898
00:38:31,159 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: Once you get fitted form and.

899
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: Those measurements don't change, and they.

900
00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: Do not change.

901
00:38:35,919 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 2: But you know what the crazy thing is For me,

902
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 2: I actually found I eat a lot of food, like

903
00:38:40,479 --> 00:38:41,639
Speaker 2: you're seeing the shamoys, Like.

904
00:38:41,639 --> 00:38:42,679
Speaker 3: Can we go get in an out burger?

905
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:43,479
Speaker 1: Can we just shape shack?

906
00:38:43,559 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: Like I'm a food eat I need my food to

907
00:38:46,279 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 2: get through the game. Like if I don't have a

908
00:38:47,879 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: big car bload meal before the game, I'm going to

909
00:38:50,359 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 2: pass out. I'm not going to make it through because

910
00:38:51,879 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 2: your body needs it, Like you're literally burning that much.

911
00:38:55,079 --> 00:38:56,959
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense to not eat so you can

912
00:38:56,999 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 2: fit better in your uniform, you know what I mean?

913
00:38:58,839 --> 00:39:00,959
Speaker 2: Like you need to feel your body. So for me,

914
00:39:01,559 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 2: I was actually struggling with losing weight so quickly because

915
00:39:03,959 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 2: of how many color is I was burning like I

916
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: would find like I was like, I've dropped on the

917
00:39:08,279 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 2: belt size, Like what you just have to add more

918
00:39:10,359 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 2: holes into the belt size.

919
00:39:11,519 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: To make it tighter, right, But that's insane to me

920
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: because I was eating so much. There was never a

921
00:39:15,799 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: time that I wasn't eating.

922
00:39:16,879 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 2: I was always passed before the game and then I'd

923
00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:20,639
Speaker 2: have a snack in between the game.

924
00:39:21,319 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: After the game, I was eating wingstop.

925
00:39:24,919 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 3: Right. But it's interesting because metabolically everyone's different and.

926
00:39:29,359 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: We all know and that's what you learn.

927
00:39:31,079 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And I mean we all remember Victoria, yes,

928
00:39:36,199 --> 00:39:41,039
Speaker 4: and the struggle of Victoria awful, which was yeah, so awful.

929
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 2: And I just I can imagine how she would have felt.

930
00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:45,999
Speaker 2: I actually haven't met Victoria yet personally, but I've heard

931
00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 2: amazing things and I look forward hopefully crossing paths with her.

932
00:39:48,279 --> 00:39:49,519
Speaker 3: Did you make it into the rocket?

933
00:39:49,559 --> 00:39:51,519
Speaker 1: I think she's still training. She looks like she's killing

934
00:39:51,559 --> 00:39:53,079
Speaker 1: it though, so I'm really happy for her.

935
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 2: Like she has the work ethit and the determination to

936
00:39:55,799 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 2: make it as a rocket, So I really hope she

937
00:39:57,399 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 2: gets there. I know she's training for it, so I'm

938
00:39:59,479 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 2: sure she will. But I know that she struggled a

939
00:40:01,799 --> 00:40:04,199
Speaker 2: bit and that was obviously really hard to watch. But

940
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 2: then being in the environment and knowing what it's like

941
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:09,599
Speaker 2: to be in there, understand how she would have felt.

942
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 2: And that's really hard as a woman and a female

943
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,639
Speaker 2: growing up as a dancer, constantly looking at yourself in

944
00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 2: the mirror, like you're literally never not in front of

945
00:40:17,879 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 2: a mirror, and that effect on yourself as it is

946
00:40:20,879 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 2: as a woman and a young girl growing up as

947
00:40:22,799 --> 00:40:25,159
Speaker 2: a lot. So then getting into you know, your dream

948
00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 2: job and getting you've got one uniform, that's it could

949
00:40:27,799 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 2: be hard, you know, on your brain to know that

950
00:40:29,999 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 2: you have to like maintain the figure that you've been

951
00:40:32,399 --> 00:40:34,599
Speaker 2: hired as. But I feel like we're really lucky that

952
00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 2: obviously we're in twenty twenty six now and there's never

953
00:40:37,759 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 2: any crazy comments maybe to your face about your weight.

954
00:40:42,519 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe relieve something.

955
00:40:44,999 --> 00:40:50,199
Speaker 4: But there is the coded I mean, and it's through necessity.

956
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,559
Speaker 4: We understand why it has to be like that, even though,

957
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:56,119
Speaker 4: like you said, it's twenty twenty six and we bribe

958
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 4: rightly at judgment of a woman's body, yes, but the

959
00:41:00,959 --> 00:41:04,119
Speaker 4: idea is is a uniformity to your shape.

960
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:08,479
Speaker 2: I feel like not so much this day and age now,

961
00:41:08,559 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 2: I really think that Kelly has looked back on that,

962
00:41:11,319 --> 00:41:13,999
Speaker 2: and I feel like she has reflected and knows that

963
00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 2: now it's important to have all different shapes and sizes,

964
00:41:17,279 --> 00:41:19,159
Speaker 2: Like there's a girl that's five to two on the

965
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 2: team and I'm five to eight, so we have all.

966
00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:22,639
Speaker 1: Different hights, you know what I mean.

967
00:41:22,679 --> 00:41:25,079
Speaker 2: So I feel like these days they're really trying to

968
00:41:25,759 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 2: get leave that in the past, and I really hope

969
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,159
Speaker 2: that they stick to that because it needs to go, like,

970
00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 2: come on, let's be real.

971
00:41:31,999 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 4: Well it's also in many ways, you've come in at

972
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,479
Speaker 4: the perfect time as well, because the money issue was

973
00:41:38,519 --> 00:41:43,559
Speaker 4: already sorted because well maybe.

974
00:41:43,279 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 2: Not the greatest, but look, I'm so blessed that has

975
00:41:45,959 --> 00:41:48,159
Speaker 2: gone up. Yeah, there was this big thing going around

976
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 2: saying it was a four hundred percent pay increase, which

977
00:41:50,479 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, it's a pay increase, and I'm

978
00:41:52,439 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 2: so incredibly blessed to be joining the team when that happened,

979
00:41:55,399 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 2: Like I would not be able to you know, I

980
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: didn't have a visa for a bit, so I couldn't

981
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,119
Speaker 2: get a job, and you know, have extra money coming in,

982
00:42:01,159 --> 00:42:02,679
Speaker 2: so I would not be surviving if we didn't have

983
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: that pay increase, but it's still not realistically enough for

984
00:42:06,359 --> 00:42:07,999
Speaker 2: what we do as athletes.

985
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 4: And then when you're doing events, because there's an increasing

986
00:42:11,399 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 4: appetite for the DCC to be at you know, launches

987
00:42:14,959 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 4: and events and you know, like commercial opportunities do you

988
00:42:20,399 --> 00:42:21,519
Speaker 4: get paid separately for?

989
00:42:21,919 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: And that is the other really good thing.

990
00:42:23,439 --> 00:42:26,119
Speaker 2: Obviously, now with the show and everything and the popularity

991
00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 2: of DCC, it's incredible as it should be. We're now

992
00:42:28,879 --> 00:42:31,119
Speaker 2: getting books on a lot of appearances and meeting greets

993
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:33,679
Speaker 2: and standard posers, and that is really cool. Obviously they

994
00:42:33,679 --> 00:42:35,559
Speaker 2: don't tend to go for two long machs. You'll probably

995
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 2: be there for like two hours, but still it's going

996
00:42:37,799 --> 00:42:40,079
Speaker 2: to help cover your rent. You know, nothing's cheap these days,

997
00:42:40,159 --> 00:42:43,519
Speaker 2: especially in America, like your grocery shop, your car, everything,

998
00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 2: your apartment.

999
00:42:44,959 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: Nothing's cheap.

1000
00:42:45,759 --> 00:42:48,199
Speaker 2: So you definitely, I personally would not be able to

1001
00:42:48,199 --> 00:42:51,159
Speaker 2: survive still off the pay. Absolutely not, Like I'm still

1002
00:42:51,159 --> 00:42:52,119
Speaker 2: paying for my rent.

1003
00:42:52,399 --> 00:42:55,199
Speaker 4: And most of the yeah, most of the women have

1004
00:42:55,519 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 4: another job, absolutely, if not more than one.

1005
00:42:58,519 --> 00:42:59,679
Speaker 3: And so what do you do?

1006
00:42:59,799 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 2: So I full time create social media content for a living,

1007
00:43:02,359 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 2: which I'm incredibly grateful for, and obviously with my dancing

1008
00:43:05,759 --> 00:43:07,199
Speaker 2: and all my you know, stuff that I've achieved over

1009
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: the year. I love posting and sharing that and just

1010
00:43:09,519 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 2: sharing behind the scenes in my life. I also on

1011
00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 2: Qualified and Makeup, so I love doing makeup. I lived

1012
00:43:14,839 --> 00:43:17,479
Speaker 2: a very normal life growing up. I worked at Sephora,

1013
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,959
Speaker 2: had a very normal life, worked hard for my money,

1014
00:43:20,199 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 2: bought my own car outright.

1015
00:43:21,799 --> 00:43:23,679
Speaker 1: You know, didn't get it all on a silver platter.

1016
00:43:23,759 --> 00:43:25,119
Speaker 2: So I know what it's like to work hard and

1017
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 2: have to earn your money, but then getting put in

1018
00:43:26,879 --> 00:43:29,559
Speaker 2: a position with social media to earn it from doing

1019
00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: what I love is the most rewarding and cool feeling ever.

1020
00:43:32,519 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 4: But also the time, you know, time is the ultimate commodity,

1021
00:43:36,799 --> 00:43:39,519
Speaker 4: and you need the time to perfect.

1022
00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:41,479
Speaker 3: Your routines.

1023
00:43:41,599 --> 00:43:42,999
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do it, you.

1024
00:43:42,959 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 4: Know, self care because there's a lot of maintenance required

1025
00:43:47,519 --> 00:43:48,079
Speaker 4: as well.

1026
00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:53,199
Speaker 3: You women are increasingly a part of a.

1027
00:43:53,439 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 1: Huge part of it.

1028
00:43:54,679 --> 00:43:59,519
Speaker 4: Sure, and there's still a movement too, and I don't

1029
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:02,559
Speaker 4: want to compromise you obviously that on the when you're

1030
00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:05,479
Speaker 4: on the CUSP with something amazing sweet, but even I

1031
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,439
Speaker 4: was moved to tweet about it when I found out

1032
00:44:07,479 --> 00:44:09,679
Speaker 4: that you weren't getting paid that's really sweet.

1033
00:44:09,759 --> 00:44:10,479
Speaker 3: The girls we're getting.

1034
00:44:10,559 --> 00:44:11,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, the girls fought.

1035
00:44:11,759 --> 00:44:14,639
Speaker 2: More hard and they fought long, and I'm so incredibly

1036
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 2: honored to be friends with them and that I got

1037
00:44:17,879 --> 00:44:20,479
Speaker 2: to experience the pay increase. Like for example, Jada, she

1038
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 2: fought so hard as well, but didn't even audition to

1039
00:44:23,399 --> 00:44:25,119
Speaker 2: make the team the next year, and she did that

1040
00:44:25,479 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 2: out of just love and joy and the others knowing

1041
00:44:27,919 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 2: that she was going to come in and make an

1042
00:44:29,359 --> 00:44:31,199
Speaker 2: impact and she left with an impact too, So that

1043
00:44:31,319 --> 00:44:31,999
Speaker 2: was really cool.

1044
00:44:33,039 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 4: And is that non gooing thing that there's still like

1045
00:44:35,359 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 4: this low level or maybe medium level agitation for your

1046
00:44:39,919 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 4: pay to be reflective of your contribution.

1047
00:44:41,919 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think look like they're definitely still is room

1048
00:44:44,359 --> 00:44:46,599
Speaker 2: for improvement, but we'll take what we can get right now.

1049
00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 2: And it's been an improvement, So I think we're all

1050
00:44:48,439 --> 00:44:52,079
Speaker 2: just super grateful that they're finally they've seen that we are.

1051
00:44:52,399 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 2: You know, that we deserve more and they've given that.

1052
00:44:54,839 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 2: So we'll leave it at that for now and see

1053
00:44:57,919 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 2: how it goes in the next couple of years. But

1054
00:44:59,759 --> 00:45:01,959
Speaker 2: for now, I'm just honestly, I'm not going to lie.

1055
00:45:02,159 --> 00:45:04,199
Speaker 2: This sounds really bad to say, but like I would

1056
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 2: have still have done it if the pain increase didn't happen.

1057
00:45:06,559 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: Because I just like, and they know that, and that's

1058
00:45:09,399 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: the hard thing. They know that, Like, I'm.

1059
00:45:11,679 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 2: Not gonna lie. I don't even know about the pay

1060
00:45:12,919 --> 00:45:14,679
Speaker 2: increase when I was re auditioning because I only came

1061
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 2: out once I had made the team, right, So I

1062
00:45:17,279 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 2: was just in the mindset like, oh cool, but that's

1063
00:45:18,839 --> 00:45:20,999
Speaker 2: a bonus, right, But I knew that I'd have to

1064
00:45:20,999 --> 00:45:23,479
Speaker 2: have another job on the side to make that happen.

1065
00:45:23,479 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: Otherwise it was gonna happen. So when the pain prest came,

1066
00:45:25,399 --> 00:45:28,119
Speaker 2: it was just like, Okay, amazing bonus. But I know

1067
00:45:28,359 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 2: now after completing a full season that what we do

1068
00:45:31,279 --> 00:45:32,519
Speaker 2: still deserves more than that.

1069
00:45:33,759 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 4: Yes, And this happens to feminized industries partly if.

1070
00:45:38,599 --> 00:45:40,119
Speaker 3: You look at like childcare or whatever.

1071
00:45:40,159 --> 00:45:44,999
Speaker 4: It happens because we're motivated by the caring side of ourselves,

1072
00:45:44,999 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 4: do you know what I mean. So we're exploited in

1073
00:45:46,879 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 4: that sense and for you, and similarly in showbies because

1074
00:45:50,839 --> 00:45:52,679
Speaker 4: we always know there are people who would do our

1075
00:45:52,759 --> 00:45:55,599
Speaker 4: jobs for nothing, and they know that, Chaz.

1076
00:45:55,639 --> 00:45:57,959
Speaker 2: And it's so hard because you know what goes into

1077
00:45:57,999 --> 00:46:00,199
Speaker 2: this job is not normal, Like, it is not normal

1078
00:46:00,279 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 2: what we do. And we're literally athletes. Were not just

1079
00:46:02,839 --> 00:46:04,119
Speaker 2: dances or cheerly.

1080
00:46:05,479 --> 00:46:07,999
Speaker 1: We are athletes. And what goes into this job is

1081
00:46:08,079 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: like no other so.

1082
00:46:09,799 --> 00:46:11,959
Speaker 3: And you're value adding athletes.

1083
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:14,999
Speaker 1: It is just Yeah, it's incredible.

1084
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 4: What I'm always intrigued about, faith is I mean, the

1085
00:46:19,959 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 4: point of the game is the mean is the game right,

1086
00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 4: The point of the game is going, and you're a

1087
00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:34,079
Speaker 4: magnificent introduction and adornment to that whole sense of occasion

1088
00:46:34,119 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 4: that happens.

1089
00:46:35,679 --> 00:46:39,639
Speaker 3: But you are not allowed to meet the football players to.

1090
00:46:39,559 --> 00:46:42,519
Speaker 1: Fratenize, yes, to frighten us.

1091
00:46:42,639 --> 00:46:47,039
Speaker 4: I believe it because that's like basically like putting a

1092
00:46:47,039 --> 00:46:49,479
Speaker 4: bowl of cheeto, cheese and bacon balls in front of

1093
00:46:49,479 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 4: me and saying, do not touch. Not for me those players,

1094
00:46:54,279 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 4: for the players, the players with you women, that's funny,

1095
00:46:59,439 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 4: like how do they how do they keep your part?

1096
00:47:01,999 --> 00:47:03,999
Speaker 1: Well, they don't really keep us apart.

1097
00:47:03,999 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 2: I mean we're pretty close on the field, you know,

1098
00:47:05,839 --> 00:47:07,959
Speaker 2: like Hi Hawaii, the usual generic whatever.

1099
00:47:08,159 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: But we all know how hard we work to get

1100
00:47:10,279 --> 00:47:12,999
Speaker 1: to this position that it wouldn't be worth it, you

1101
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: know what I.

1102
00:47:13,359 --> 00:47:15,119
Speaker 3: Mean, But it must have been.

1103
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,639
Speaker 4: It's like Romeo and us as as soon as you

1104
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 4: tell people that they're not allowed to have, you know,

1105
00:47:21,279 --> 00:47:24,199
Speaker 4: I get you. Her heart wants what it wants. There

1106
00:47:24,279 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 4: must have been breaches in the past where where we're

1107
00:47:29,439 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 4: a player and a cheerleader have found each.

1108
00:47:32,959 --> 00:47:35,159
Speaker 2: I mean, not that I know of my team these

1109
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,159
Speaker 2: days at all, but I have remember. I do remember

1110
00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:39,439
Speaker 2: watching the CMT, the show where it was called making

1111
00:47:39,479 --> 00:47:41,919
Speaker 2: the Team and here are your scandals on that that

1112
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 2: it would happen, but you just got fired instantly, like

1113
00:47:44,479 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 2: the girl would.

1114
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: Just not.

1115
00:47:46,839 --> 00:47:49,119
Speaker 2: Girl would get from sand, Like it was just like no,

1116
00:47:49,159 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 2: that that's in your contract. It's not allowed. Like if

1117
00:47:51,879 --> 00:47:53,199
Speaker 2: you're gonna do that, you're going to lose your job.

1118
00:47:53,279 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 2: So now I think we all just know that it's

1119
00:47:54,879 --> 00:47:56,679
Speaker 2: just a no go, Like it's not even a conversation

1120
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:57,559
Speaker 2: of topic, like you.

1121
00:47:57,559 --> 00:48:00,599
Speaker 1: Just wouldn't even bother, like I worked so hard to

1122
00:48:00,639 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: get to the spot.

1123
00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 2: I have an incredible boyfriend back home that I'm doing

1124
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,559
Speaker 2: long distance with that I don't speak about a lot.

1125
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 2: But that's because that's the one part of my life

1126
00:48:09,319 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 2: that I like to keep private into myself that the

1127
00:48:11,319 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 2: outside world isn't so much in on. And I don't

1128
00:48:14,319 --> 00:48:15,519
Speaker 2: need to be on you know what I mean, Like

1129
00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 2: that's my one thing and like it's great having that.

1130
00:48:18,999 --> 00:48:21,679
Speaker 1: So even if I was the instance, it is hard.

1131
00:48:21,799 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, long distance is hard, Like it's not made for

1132
00:48:24,319 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 2: the week, especially with a sixteen hour time difference, Like

1133
00:48:26,839 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 2: it's it's not easy.

1134
00:48:28,279 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: But if you love each other enough, you'll make it work.

1135
00:48:30,359 --> 00:48:32,679
Speaker 2: And what it's meant to be will be I always say,

1136
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 2: and you know he'll come to visit when he can,

1137
00:48:34,279 --> 00:48:35,999
Speaker 2: and I'll be home when I can, And.

1138
00:48:36,399 --> 00:48:37,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that.

1139
00:48:38,599 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 4: If you think futuristically, because you know that you've got

1140
00:48:42,639 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 4: maximum five years as a veterans, what what?

1141
00:48:48,359 --> 00:48:49,679
Speaker 3: And it's probably.

1142
00:48:49,279 --> 00:48:52,679
Speaker 4: Too soon, but I guess you're used to always thinking

1143
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 4: about the next. It's part of your training. What have

1144
00:48:56,959 --> 00:49:00,039
Speaker 4: you thought about? What plans have you put in place

1145
00:49:00,119 --> 00:49:00,639
Speaker 4: for your.

1146
00:49:00,599 --> 00:49:04,439
Speaker 3: Next so that you don't suddenly have your world?

1147
00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:07,919
Speaker 2: I actually hate this question so much because I'm so bad.

1148
00:49:07,959 --> 00:49:10,479
Speaker 2: I'm such a live in the moment girl who doesn't

1149
00:49:10,559 --> 00:49:11,519
Speaker 2: know what she's doing.

1150
00:49:11,439 --> 00:49:12,679
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, let alone in a year.

1151
00:49:13,279 --> 00:49:15,599
Speaker 2: But I also think I love it because it's like, wait,

1152
00:49:15,639 --> 00:49:18,199
Speaker 2: you should have more goals, Like it doesn't just stop here,

1153
00:49:18,359 --> 00:49:20,599
Speaker 2: you know what? I mean like I'm always like I

1154
00:49:20,799 --> 00:49:22,919
Speaker 2: reach a goal and then I'm like, wait, what else

1155
00:49:22,999 --> 00:49:25,119
Speaker 2: is there is there more for me? Like That's how

1156
00:49:25,159 --> 00:49:27,119
Speaker 2: my brain kind of works. It's kind of bad but

1157
00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 2: also fun.

1158
00:49:28,039 --> 00:49:29,519
Speaker 1: So my plan is.

1159
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 2: Basically to still go with the flow and to see

1160
00:49:31,279 --> 00:49:33,479
Speaker 2: where the wind takes me. I don't have any set

1161
00:49:33,479 --> 00:49:35,199
Speaker 2: plan for like I want to do three season, I

1162
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 2: want to do five, I want to do twelve. Like

1163
00:49:36,959 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 2: it's literally just like if I get to doing three

1164
00:49:38,879 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 2: seasons and go I'm over it. I'm over it, Like

1165
00:49:40,799 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 2: that's that. If I get to doing two seasons that

1166
00:49:43,319 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 2: I'm done, then that's that's fine.

1167
00:49:44,799 --> 00:49:45,959
Speaker 1: Or if I want to do the full five, we'll

1168
00:49:45,959 --> 00:49:46,599
Speaker 1: do the full five.

1169
00:49:46,679 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 2: But for me right now, I'm so happy and I

1170
00:49:48,879 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 2: recently just announced that I will be coming back to

1171
00:49:50,879 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 2: audition for a second season.

1172
00:49:52,399 --> 00:49:58,559
Speaker 1: So oh, I'm very excited as a.

1173
00:50:00,439 --> 00:50:04,559
Speaker 4: As a someone who straddles these two worlds, as.

1174
00:50:04,639 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 3: In your role as Russell quick stop at.

1175
00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:12,959
Speaker 4: My new name, What do you think is an essential

1176
00:50:14,599 --> 00:50:21,599
Speaker 4: Australasian quality that you have that that stands out in contrast?

1177
00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel to the Americans, I feel like us.

1178
00:50:24,199 --> 00:50:27,599
Speaker 2: Aussie's we're hard working we're driven, but we're also laid

1179
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 2: back and easy going, and I feel like that's one

1180
00:50:29,399 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 2: of our best trades. Like we're just chill, you know

1181
00:50:31,399 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like we don't take everything so seriously,

1182
00:50:34,279 --> 00:50:37,039
Speaker 2: but we also work hard and we know what we

1183
00:50:37,319 --> 00:50:38,999
Speaker 2: go after, what we want. So I feel like that

1184
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:42,679
Speaker 2: definitely stands out to them, and like maybe the bubbly

1185
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,199
Speaker 2: crazy one hundred miles in our personality because we just

1186
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:46,959
Speaker 2: you know, we don't get things on a silver plate.

1187
00:50:47,039 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 2: We have to like travel or work hard to get

1188
00:50:49,319 --> 00:50:50,999
Speaker 2: to where we want to be. So I feel like

1189
00:50:51,039 --> 00:50:53,519
Speaker 2: they see that drive and that work ethic from me,

1190
00:50:53,599 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 2: and like that's definitely an Aussie trade.

1191
00:50:55,959 --> 00:50:58,559
Speaker 1: So I feel like I show that as well.

1192
00:50:58,879 --> 00:51:02,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, and coupled with what they look for, the charm

1193
00:51:02,199 --> 00:51:05,639
Speaker 4: of a girl next door, you know, And who knew the.

1194
00:51:05,559 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 3: Girl next door would come from the bottom of the world.

1195
00:51:08,319 --> 00:51:08,959
Speaker 4: Who knew?

1196
00:51:09,319 --> 00:51:12,439
Speaker 2: I didn't know either, but somehow made it happen and

1197
00:51:12,479 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 2: it's been the biggest blessing of my life.

1198
00:51:15,959 --> 00:51:20,199
Speaker 4: Faith Would, I cannot wait to see you in the series.

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00:51:20,639 --> 00:51:21,999
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much.

1200
00:51:22,519 --> 00:51:25,599
Speaker 4: We're very thrilled And can I know that I can

1201
00:51:25,639 --> 00:51:28,439
Speaker 4: say this on behalf of our listeners like we're so

1202
00:51:28,599 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 4: thrilled to have.

1203
00:51:29,279 --> 00:51:33,199
Speaker 3: A dog in the hunt. I mean, that's an odd.

1204
00:51:33,039 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 4: Expression to you, but I get it.

1205
00:51:35,839 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 2: But yeah, I really hope I'm wrapping my Aussie and

1206
00:51:39,399 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 2: Kiwi's proud because that's all I want to do, and

1207
00:51:41,959 --> 00:51:44,199
Speaker 2: you know, leave an impact and now I hope I

1208
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 2: inspire many others to go after their dreams because you

1209
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 2: know what, you can dream it, you can do it.

1210
00:51:50,119 --> 00:51:52,199
Speaker 4: I want to ask you one final question actually, and

1211
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,399
Speaker 4: it's like you know where you were talking about. By

1212
00:51:55,479 --> 00:51:57,519
Speaker 4: nature of your work, it's looking in the mirror all

1213
00:51:57,559 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 4: the time and it always has to be judgment, refinement, improvement.

1214
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: Of course, how do you.

1215
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:10,559
Speaker 3: Retain a good channel for that?

1216
00:52:11,479 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 4: Do you teach yourself or get to the point where

1217
00:52:15,439 --> 00:52:20,079
Speaker 4: you look at yourself and judge yourself not personally, if

1218
00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:23,559
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, but actually judge just on

1219
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 4: the matrix.

1220
00:52:24,799 --> 00:52:25,959
Speaker 1: This is a good question.

1221
00:52:26,079 --> 00:52:29,119
Speaker 2: I feel like you really just have to train yourself

1222
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,999
Speaker 2: into keeping a really good mindset, even if you don't

1223
00:52:31,999 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 2: really believe it yourself. You got to tell yourself to

1224
00:52:33,839 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 2: believe it, you know what I mean, Like you having

1225
00:52:35,799 --> 00:52:37,039
Speaker 2: a bad day, you're gotta leave it at the door

1226
00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:38,599
Speaker 2: and come in and just leave whatever it was there,

1227
00:52:38,639 --> 00:52:40,199
Speaker 2: because you don't want to bring other people down, you

1228
00:52:40,199 --> 00:52:41,959
Speaker 2: know what I mean. And as you said, look in

1229
00:52:41,959 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 2: the mirror, and if you feel crappy, it's just like

1230
00:52:43,879 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 2: you got to remind you step you.

1231
00:52:44,919 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: Know, I am beautiful.

1232
00:52:45,759 --> 00:52:48,639
Speaker 2: You've got to tell yourself those things because it's all,

1233
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,159
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, a mindset game. And

1234
00:52:50,199 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 2: if you're telling your mind, oh, I look like this,

1235
00:52:51,799 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 2: I feel like this. Yeah, you've got to feel like that.

1236
00:52:54,199 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 2: You're telling yourself that. You got to remind you kind

1237
00:52:57,439 --> 00:52:59,039
Speaker 2: to yourself, you know what I mean. And I feel

1238
00:52:59,039 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 2: like if you're not, it's going to show. And you're dancing,

1239
00:53:01,479 --> 00:53:05,159
Speaker 2: it's gonna show on everything you do. So manifestation, you mindset,

1240
00:53:05,279 --> 00:53:06,999
Speaker 2: keep it clear, keep it good, keep it healthy, and

1241
00:53:06,999 --> 00:53:08,479
Speaker 2: you're gonna it's gonna show results.

1242
00:53:10,599 --> 00:53:14,039
Speaker 4: Okay, So following on from that, what was your lowest moment,

1243
00:53:14,119 --> 00:53:17,479
Speaker 4: because we know that you're so happy at that moment,

1244
00:53:17,519 --> 00:53:18,999
Speaker 4: but within that there must have.

1245
00:53:19,039 --> 00:53:22,959
Speaker 2: Been absolutely there's been so many highs and lows. I mean,

1246
00:53:22,999 --> 00:53:25,079
Speaker 2: trying to move my whole life across the world while

1247
00:53:25,439 --> 00:53:27,519
Speaker 2: training and learning all these dances and then trying to

1248
00:53:27,559 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 2: move into an apartment, getting a visa, of getting a car,

1249
00:53:30,679 --> 00:53:33,519
Speaker 2: or I've had multiple mental breakdowns and I'm I'm not

1250
00:53:33,519 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 2: sure if you guys have seen many of those in

1251
00:53:34,799 --> 00:53:37,119
Speaker 2: the show, but there was a few times, even with

1252
00:53:37,159 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 2: this ponytail situation, trying to get the hair to stay

1253
00:53:40,359 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 2: in while doing Thunderstruck, I would literally have multiple cries

1254
00:53:43,879 --> 00:53:45,999
Speaker 2: when I got home because like, imagine I'm that girl

1255
00:53:45,999 --> 00:53:48,079
Speaker 2: that it's left on the field, a little blonde ponytail,

1256
00:53:48,599 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 2: it falls out. I would run that fast back to

1257
00:53:51,279 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 2: Australia that you would need. The amount of mountain downs

1258
00:53:55,399 --> 00:53:59,039
Speaker 2: over the hairstyle, the living situations, the there was so

1259
00:53:59,079 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 2: many mountain downs I couldn't even count. But there's been

1260
00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 2: a few loads as much as they come across like

1261
00:54:03,279 --> 00:54:03,959
Speaker 2: a happy.

1262
00:54:03,679 --> 00:54:04,479
Speaker 1: Person, you know.

1263
00:54:04,559 --> 00:54:06,119
Speaker 2: So of course we're going to show you all the

1264
00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 2: highlights of our life. That's what Instagram and social media

1265
00:54:08,319 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 2: are for. But deep down there has been a lot

1266
00:54:10,839 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 2: of you know, a lot of moments. But friends and

1267
00:54:13,759 --> 00:54:15,919
Speaker 2: family and your teammates what gets you through that and

1268
00:54:15,959 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 2: just reminding.

1269
00:54:16,559 --> 00:54:18,559
Speaker 1: Yourself that you've earned your spot.

1270
00:54:18,319 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: To be here, and it's a privilege to have this

1271
00:54:20,839 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 2: experience and it comes with all those highs and lows

1272
00:54:23,399 --> 00:54:24,079
Speaker 2: you know, just got to.

1273
00:54:24,319 --> 00:54:25,959
Speaker 1: It's the way you navigate yourself out of it.

1274
00:54:27,999 --> 00:54:32,039
Speaker 4: Faith Ward, your trajectory is as high as your kicks.

1275
00:54:32,439 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 1: Oh, I need to see your kick now.

1276
00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:39,119
Speaker 3: I know you don't. Yes, I know you don't.

1277
00:54:39,479 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 4: But I'm a very committed and appreciative enjoyer of your

1278
00:54:45,319 --> 00:54:46,559
Speaker 4: work and what's to come.

1279
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 3: And it's been such a joy to meet you.

1280
00:54:49,279 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: You were the sweet as it was so lovely chatting

1281
00:54:51,359 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: with you.

1282
00:54:55,799 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 4: Faith Ward is part of one of the most watched

1283
00:54:58,439 --> 00:55:02,679
Speaker 4: and talked about cheerleading organizations in the world, and this

1284
00:55:02,799 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 4: conversation offered a rare lak at what's actually like to

1285
00:55:06,359 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 4: be inside it, and not just inside it, but to

1286
00:55:10,439 --> 00:55:13,639
Speaker 4: be inside it as an outsider. Because, of course, Faith

1287
00:55:13,759 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 4: is not American. If you're curious about the next chapter

1288
00:55:17,999 --> 00:55:21,999
Speaker 4: of that world, Faith will appear in the upcoming season

1289
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 4: of America's Sweethearts, adding a whole new layer of visibility

1290
00:55:26,679 --> 00:55:30,439
Speaker 4: to an already highly scrutinized role, and of course a

1291
00:55:30,479 --> 00:55:34,679
Speaker 4: delicious another layer for us watching in Australia.

1292
00:55:34,839 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening to No Filter.

1293
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:40,559
Speaker 4: The executive producer of No Filter is Breed Player with

1294
00:55:40,679 --> 00:55:45,599
Speaker 4: additional production by Coco Levine. Audio production is by Jacob

1295
00:55:45,599 --> 00:55:49,679
Speaker 4: Brown and video editing is by Josh Green. This episode

1296
00:55:49,759 --> 00:55:52,639
Speaker 4: was recorded at Session in Progress Studios.

1297
00:55:52,399 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 3: And I am your host, Kate Lanebrook. I'll see you

1298
00:55:55,399 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 3: next Monday. Mumma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of the

1299
00:56:01,799 --> 00:56:04,439
Speaker 3: land and waters that this podcast is recorded on.