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Speaker 1: How do I help others around me believe that they

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Speaker 2: What's up, everyone, Emily A Badi Here. You are listening to.

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Speaker 3: Another episode of Hurdle, a podcast featuring the mindset, secrets,

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Speaker 3: and wellness, empowering you to live a healthier, happier, more

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Speaker 3: motivated life and of course, conquer your own hurdles. This week,

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Speaker 3: I am sitting down with Jordan Larsen. She's a woman

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Speaker 3: whose journey in sport is a masterclass in resilience, leadership,

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Speaker 3: and the power of continual evolution. She's a professional volleyball player,

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Speaker 3: a founding athlete for League One Volleyball, and the co

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Speaker 3: owner of Love Nebraska.

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Speaker 2: So much has happened since we first spoke for the show.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty one, and today dive into what it

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Speaker 3: takes to maintain elite performance over an impressive career that

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Speaker 3: spanned sixteen plus seasons. Jordan also talks to me about

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Speaker 3: beginner's mindset and opens up about the immense internal work

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Speaker 3: required to evolve from being a leader by action to

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Speaker 3: a vocal, empathetic captain, plus how she learned to separate

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Speaker 3: her self worth from her on court performance, especially through

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Speaker 3: a period of personal struggle. We also talk all things

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Speaker 3: League on Volleyball, and love Nebraska and what it truly

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Speaker 3: means to be a powerful woman in sports today. Jordan's

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Speaker 3: willingness to be open and honest about the emotional journey

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Speaker 3: of an athlete is truly what makes this conversation so compelling.

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Speaker 3: Her mindset true reblows my mind. You can tell she's

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Speaker 3: been in this for a long time and she knows

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Speaker 3: a thing or two about how to conquer hurdles, both.

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Speaker 2: On and off the court. Make sure you're following along

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Speaker 2: with Hurdle over on social It's that Hurdle podcast.

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Speaker 3: You can also check out iHeart Women's Sports over at

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Speaker 3: iHeart Women's Sports and me over at Emily A Body.

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Speaker 2: Listen to Hurdle with Emily Body.

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Speaker 3: I'm an iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get

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Speaker 2: And with that, let's get into it. Let's get to

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Speaker 2: hurdling today. I am sitting down with Jordan Larsen.

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Speaker 3: She's a pro volleyball player, a founding athlete for League

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Hurdle. How we doing good?

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Speaker 4: How are you doing? Excited to be back. It's so

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Speaker 4: good to see you.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be back.

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Speaker 3: I you're like one of my favorite people to keep

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Speaker 3: up with from like the hurdle sphere over the last

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Speaker 3: few years, and I've loved everything that's happened since we

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Speaker 3: on the show because so much has happened.

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Speaker 1: So much has happened. I was like trying to think

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Speaker 1: I don't even remember if.

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Speaker 3: Four Larsen Hurdle Podcast Google once you were episode one

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Speaker 3: seventy nine for Contact Jordan, we're currently almost eight hundred

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Speaker 3: episodes in and that was November. Oh my god, it's

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Speaker 3: November tenth, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 4: Stop it. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: That's great. Well, congratu first of all, eight hundred, that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: It's a wild time for hurdle. I know that you

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Speaker 3: Now we're part of the Iheartwoman's Sports podcast network, So

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Speaker 3: How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of balls rolling, which is always

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Speaker 3: And you know, you just posted the other day season sixteen.

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Speaker 1: It is too, And it's like how I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: know aspects that you want and that you're trying to

439
00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 1: build a culture around. So I think there's again there's

440
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,320
Speaker 1: more to it as well, but I feel like that

441
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,119
Speaker 1: has been like the coolest piece of it too, is

442
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 1: just really getting to know partners.

443
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 3: It's so cool they get to know partners to be

444
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,200
Speaker 3: able to build something that will have a lasting legacy

445
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,359
Speaker 3: not only in your state, but then of course the

446
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,280
Speaker 3: greater magnitude within women's sports. I would be remiss if

447
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 3: we didn't lay some groundwork for people that may not

448
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 3: be familiar with League one to explain not only what

449
00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 3: the league is, what it looks like, and perhaps after

450
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,160
Speaker 3: we do that, where it's going.

451
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,399
Speaker 1: League and bloball started about five years ago at the

452
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: club level, where we have been going around like purchasing

453
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 1: a number of clubs. I think now we're up to

454
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 1: eighty youth clubs and kind of just generating this youth

455
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 1: to pro model of and you can kind of, I guess,

456
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 1: compare it a little bit to Overseas professional volleyball. Right,

457
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 1: they don't have collegiate systems, so a lot of their

458
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,159
Speaker 1: clubs have a youth program attached to their pro and

459
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: that's kind of how they build up to being a pro.

460
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,400
Speaker 1: Where ours is a little bit different in the fact

461
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: that our youth, you know, twelve to eighteen, we have

462
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 1: club level and then people go on to college and

463
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: then we're building hopefully a sustainable model post college and

464
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: for athletes to come in and be able to do that.

465
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 1: Now there's two buckets, Love Club and Love Pro. Now

466
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 1: obviously Love Pro came on the scene the last two years,

467
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,120
Speaker 1: and we'll continue to grow and we're adding cities as

468
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: we go. We just added La last I think it

469
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: was a couple of months ago, and we just added

470
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 1: Minnesota team. So going to continue to hopefully expand cities

471
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 1: and expand markets. Volleyball is interesting of like where you know,

472
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: popularity is and I think also understanding where these clubs

473
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: and where we continue to grow education. But it's volleyball

474
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: is the most played youth sport at the moment. And

475
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 1: I think we'll continue to grow as the years go on.

476
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what we're looking at.

477
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Speaker 2: It's it's wild.

478
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Speaker 3: I was reading up on statistics about volleyball's popularity in

479
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Speaker 3: the United States, and I think I read a statistic

480
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 3: or something that was like three hundred thousand young women

481
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 3: play club volleyball in the United States co sign Yeah, something.

482
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Speaker 1: I guess I would say it could possibly be more.

483
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: I mean, just take for example, when I started playing club,

484
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 1: which was at twelve, which I'm almost forty now, so

485
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: it's a long time ago. I mean, I bet there

486
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: was five major clubs here in the metro, you know,

487
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: eastern part of Nebraska. And at the time, like of

488
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: those clubs, there was about two teams per age group,

489
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 1: so again a handful of you know, maybe from that's

490
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: from twelve to eighteen. Now it's like there's five, five

491
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 1: to six teams per age group, and then there's a

492
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 1: regional team, and then there's like a non regional team,

493
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: so there's travel teams and their home and now they're

494
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 1: also doing it in the middle of high school season.

495
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: So if you're not playing high school and you want

496
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: to play volleyball, like there's opportunities to play even during

497
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: and I'm my mind is like wait, what like and

498
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: they're sometimes having to turn kids away, and so it's

499
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: I mean here, it's like off the chart, So I

500
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: would be shocked if it's not even maybe more than that.

501
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 2: That's because Nebraska is a volleyball state.

502
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 4: We really are, We really are.

503
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: We do do differently here, but it has been really

504
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: it's been impressive. I think for even me coming back

505
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,479
Speaker 1: now and being in the community and just seeing how

506
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: much growth has happened is really beautiful.

507
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: So it's interesting to me.

508
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 3: Fun fact, this isn't about me, but I'm going to

509
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 3: tell you that I played volleyball in high school my

510
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 3: freshman year, and then I didn't make the JV team

511
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 3: in high school because I couldn't run a mile in

512
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 3: under ten minutes and so I got cut, which we

513
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 3: know is a really unfortunate part of that statistic that

514
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 3: young woman drop out of sport at double the rate

515
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 3: of young men. So hearing you talk about how now

516
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 3: there's so many different avenues for someone to get involved

517
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 3: in a sport like volleyball, it brings me hope and excitement,

518
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 3: and I think it's symbolic and indicative of where we're

519
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 3: going with our culture of encouraging young women to not

520
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 3: only get involved in sport, but really stay in sport.

521
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And I I'm sorry about that, by the way,

522
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: because it's like running fall I'm like running the mile

523
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 1: on the sport, it actually doesn't.

524
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,719
Speaker 3: Apply, you know, could not be farther away from like

525
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 3: something that I needed in the.

526
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 4: White lines exactly. Well.

527
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Speaker 1: And then it's also like now you run for a living.

528
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, right, I mean, I mean for fun,

529
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 1: but just that, yeah, exactly. So anyways, it's yeah, you're right,

530
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: And I just I think women just stepping into a

531
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: place that like we get to do it as a job.

532
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: You know. So many of my friends are having babies

533
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: and coming back and people are supporting that, like I

534
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: don't know if that existed before. And I just am

535
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: so excited to see the landscape change and like you said,

536
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: opportunities to continue to grow. And now it's like I

537
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: think to what I'm most excited about is that the

538
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: United States hasn't seen pro volleyball really besides the Olympics,

539
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: you know, and so there is a difference you know

540
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: between college ball and you know, pro and I hope

541
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: that with time and exposure, they're going to continue to

542
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: learn more about what the differences are.

543
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 2: And even indoor versus beach.

544
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 3: Right, It's like when we think about the Olympics.

545
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 2: If we go back to that.

546
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 3: So many people were dialed in on what was going

547
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 3: on in front of the Eiffel Tower in the Paris Games,

548
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 3: but there was so much more volleyball that was happening inside.

549
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, and I get it, Like, I mean, Eiffel Tower,

550
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: like the the beach court was pretty, it was gorgeous,

551
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: But no, it is there is a lot of, you know,

552
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: volleyball that was happening. But yeah, again, I think it's

553
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: just knowledge and exposure and I think that people are

554
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: getting behind it. So I'm confident that it's going to

555
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: continue to change. And but yeah.

556
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 3: I want to pivot a little bit and talk about

557
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 3: what was going on for you over the last couple

558
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 3: of years. I know that you've spoken out about how

559
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 3: you yourself as an athlete, experienced a bit of burnout

560
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 3: and even commented further to saying that you had been

561
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 3: having a tough time.

562
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: What was going on and how are we feeling now?

563
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think the last time we spoke, that

564
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: was you said, twenty twenty one. Yeah, So unfortunately I

565
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: had been going through another divorce and this one kind

566
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: of came out of left field a little bit.

567
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 4: I didn't.

568
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: I was really at a place where I was again

569
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: ready to retire and kind of give over the reins

570
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: of you know, I feel like as athletes, there's a

571
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: selfish layer, even though it's maybe non intentional. It's like, hey,

572
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: I have this goal and I'm trying to go and

573
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: but also trying to have a family and all these things.

574
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: And so I was really at a place where I'm

575
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: you know, willing to give up and ready to give

576
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: up my playing career and be a wife and a mom.

577
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that didn't work out, and so I was

578
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: kind of stuck at a place where I'm like, all right,

579
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: well what I had thought my life was going to be,

580
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: like we're starting over. And so then I I took

581
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: a contract in Italy and I was like, well, maybe

582
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: maybe I still want to play, you know, like it

583
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: was still like I we'll see. So I took the

584
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: contract and I was like, oh my gosh. First of all,

585
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: playing in Italy is amazing. And then I really found

586
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: that I still love it, you know. And then I

587
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: was like, well, it's the national team still on and

588
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: I talk to Karch and so then I was like,

589
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: all right, well maybe I'll try for Paris. You know,

590
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: who's to say, Like, I don't know how I'm gonna feel,

591
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: but we'll give it a shot. But I didn't want

592
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: to be half in, half out, So I was like,

593
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: if I'm committing, I'm going to commit. So went on

594
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: to train with the national team. But I also got

595
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: into coaching, So I came back to Nebraska trying to

596
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: just be around family, having support and kind of really

597
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: rebuilding myself because I had lost just a lot of

598
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: a lot of me. I think going through divorce of

599
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: any kind or breakup is hard on people, and I

600
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: was in a pretty rough place and I'm grateful for

601
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 1: the community here. And I kind of got into coaching

602
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: a little bit and then was still playing and kind

603
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: of got the best of both worlds. So yeah, I

604
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: really just started building myself up lots of therapy, and

605
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: I feel like today I'm in a place of just

606
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: loving myself and finding inner peace and learning that that

607
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: is actually the true happiness is where that's at, and

608
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. There's still hard days, but I

609
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: feel like in a really good place now.

610
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

611
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 3: I appreciate you for sharing that with me, And I

612
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: think that what I'm hearing you say really is that

613
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 3: sports showed up.

614
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 2: For you maybe when you needed it more than ever.

615
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,959
Speaker 3: This opportunity to step into this coaching role and really

616
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 3: embrace and continue to develop so many of the skills

617
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 3: that you've already exemplified are so strong for you when

618
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 3: you feel weak.

619
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: In other aspects of your life.

620
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 3: To be able to show up on the core work

621
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 3: with others and be that leader that was something that

622
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 3: could help fill your cup back up again.

623
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 4: Oh immensely.

624
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: And I am so grateful that the doors were still open,

625
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: opportunities were still there. And uh yeah, even the coaching piece,

626
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,239
Speaker 1: it was like seeing and teaching, you know, of just

627
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: and seeing girls excel and areas that you know you

628
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: had a small piece in, you know, seeing them light

629
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: up that they learned something new really gave me hope

630
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: and happiness. So I'm really grateful, And I but a

631
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: lot of work internally. I'm realizing I'm highly codependent, I really, yeah,

632
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: just learning a lot of things about myself that I

633
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: think it's important to do. It's in If any advice,

634
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: I would say being single for a long time, learn

635
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: about yourself really truly and find you and then you

636
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: can you know, be in a good relationship, healthy relationship,

637
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: all things.

638
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 3: So, yeah, we need to talk about your Eprey love

639
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: moment in Italy.

640
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: Though.

641
00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 3: Oh it was amazing, right, amazing and also well it

642
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 3: had to be challenging at times, right because solo travel. Yes,

643
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: you have the team, and but it's a different relationship

644
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 3: because you're traveling internationally to play. But I would imagine

645
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 3: it was a lot of both. It was I am

646
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 3: so grateful to be here. It feels so good to

647
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 3: be playing again. And whilst here I am sitting and

648
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: eating pasta by myself.

649
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: Oh, it was all those feelings all at once. And

650
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: you can imagine too, it's like two when you're also

651
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: in a marriage, you know, and you have your person,

652
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: and it's like you're used to checking in all the time,

653
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, and.

654
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 4: You lose that.

655
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: It's that was tough, you know, the silence of that,

656
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: the heaviness of that, and like you said, being alone

657
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: over there, it's like it really taught me to like

658
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: I really wanted to run often I was like, I

659
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: don't want to be here, but nothing else feels good.

660
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to be here, but like nothing

661
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: feels good.

662
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 4: You know.

663
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: It's just like I was searching for something when reality

664
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: it's all right here. It's just like piecing it all

665
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: back together. So, like you said, it was a mix

666
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: of all those things. But I've found wonderful community along

667
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: the way and it's been really great.

668
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: How do you cope with this coming inward of sorts?

669
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 3: Because I think this is something that's actually super relatable

670
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: and something that a lot of people struggle with, whether

671
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 3: it is you know, moving on from a relationship or

672
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 3: just really trying to get to this place where you

673
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 3: feel more comfortable with yourself.

674
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 2: Were there any strategies that you used.

675
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 3: Or tools that you needed, journaling, actually physically running, like

676
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: what helped you get better with being less codependent and

677
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 3: better with just being Jordan.

678
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question, and I'm still learning kind

679
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: of what that is for me. But I would say

680
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm a big proponent of therapy, Like I really believe it,

681
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: like having someone outside of your life, like have just

682
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: a place to like trauma dump, Like just dude, this

683
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: is what I'm feeling today like I don't know where

684
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: it's coming from.

685
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 4: I don't know why.

686
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: I think also learning about where your foundation is. You know,

687
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: I grew up in a divorce family. You know though,

688
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: all those things kind of have an impact on how

689
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: I perceive the world and how I perceive myself. And

690
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: then I also think, like I I'm big on routine,

691
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: like doing a lot of the same thing every day,

692
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: like waking up at the same time, whether that's journaling.

693
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm working on what that routine is for me. And

694
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: then also sitting, you know, half the time where this

695
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, like the instant any feeling of uncertainty comes,

696
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: it's like okay, let me just scroll, let me mindlessly scroll,

697
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: versus like how much are we actually just sitting in quiet?

698
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: And so I'm really working on when those moments of

699
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: quietness come and the heaviness comes, like what can I

700
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: do to just sit in it? Because oftentimes I just

701
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: want to do something to avoid it, so.

702
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 3: We're not the only one sitting in it is hard, right,

703
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 3: Like feeling your feelings is hard.

704
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard, But I learned that like actually it

705
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,959
Speaker 1: that it's okay to be on my own and that

706
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: I am enough on my own and of course I

707
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: want to be in a relationship and all the things.

708
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: And you know, also my relationship with volleyball, Like what

709
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: does that look like? Has that been an outlet? Is

710
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: out a safe outlet? Like that's not always going to

711
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: be there. So it's like all these internal conversations that

712
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: are happening. But yeah, finding just and I think sitting

713
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: in gratitude too, Like what are at the end of

714
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: the day, what I through things you're grateful for, Like

715
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: keeps you rooted in all things, because there's always something

716
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: or someone battling something worse than you, and who are

717
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: you to think that you're better than that?

718
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 3: So definitely, you know, you're never really alone in how

719
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,479
Speaker 3: you feel, like there's someone else out there that's feeling

720
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 3: the way that you're feeling. And it's just recognizing that

721
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 3: you don't have to sit alone in that feeling, recognizing

722
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 3: that there is just more out there.

723
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely so. And I'm like definition of hard. You know,

724
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: I think I've gone through a lot of hard things

725
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: in my life, but I would say these last couple

726
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: of years have been probably the hardest. And I can

727
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: say today, you know, they always say, like on the

728
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: other side of it is like beautiful, and I will

729
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: say that like it is and you can get there,

730
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: you know.

731
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, as you've been getting to be better, are sitting

732
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 3: with Jordan.

733
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: I usually say this for the end of the show.

734
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 3: But now when you look in the mirror, what is

735
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 3: it that you see looking back at you.

736
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that someone who likes to compete at

737
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: things right, just in general. But I think at the

738
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: base of all of it is that I want to

739
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 1: see the best in everyone, and I want to see

740
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: just accept people for where they are, regardless of what

741
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: they have coming into the situation or what they have

742
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: going on in their life. Like I just want to

743
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: meet them where they're at. And that again, even though

744
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: I have this hard exterior, like I feel deeply and

745
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: I care deeply, I think learning how to translate that

746
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: better as I get older is really important for me.

747
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: So important, I feel that, especially the older transition. I

748
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 3: feel as though every day that goes by, I'm like,

749
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 3: am I saying what I want to say?

750
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 2: Am I?

751
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 3: I mean this even goes back to your legacy comment, right,

752
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 3: It's like, how am I making people feel?

753
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 2: Because that's the most important piece of the puzzle totally.

754
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: And I think there's a balance between like people pleasing right,

755
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: because it's like, how do you like go about like, hey,

756
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to state the truth. The truth may be hard,

757
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: but like on the side of like it's coming from

758
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: a deep level of care and love, you know. But

759
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: then it's also I want to be your friend, you know,

760
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: so like can those two things exist?

761
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 4: You know?

762
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: So, but I am I'm really grateful for the journey,

763
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: and I think, like, yeah, just having more confidence in

764
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: who I am and that it's enough and that it's okay.

765
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 3: So how does it feel for you now to be

766
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 3: kind of transitioning into what will ultimately become this mentorship

767
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 3: coaching role. Are you feeling a little nostalgic for what

768
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 3: was or does this excite you a little bit more?

769
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it's a mix of both.

770
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: I really love working at Nebraska, and I don't know,

771
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: there's maybe still a door open there in the future,

772
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what that looks like. I would

773
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: love to be involved in some capacity, But yeah, I

774
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: just think the mentorship piece, it's like, Okay, I know

775
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: I was a different athlete, so I think that's where

776
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: it can be a little bit different as far as like, Okay,

777
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: this is what I did. Now how do I see

778
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: these athletes from where they are and then how can

779
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: we move the needle for them? So I just love

780
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: like thinking about how to problem solve that, Like that

781
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: is what I'm most excited for. And I think just

782
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: seeing the game from a different eye, you know, of

783
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: like how can you still like win or find success

784
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: based off of like where your position is. So I'm

785
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 1: really excited for it and kind of seeing what's next time?

786
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 3: What do you want them to have that maybe you

787
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 3: felt like was missing for you.

788
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: And I'll give you some context here.

789
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: So when I think about the work that I'm doing today,

790
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 3: I don't remember when I was younger and I was

791
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 3: dealing with my own health struggles to be able to

792
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 3: look at someone who I felt like understood when I

793
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 3: was going and throw I was a young woman in

794
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 3: a bigger body who didn't see women in bigger bodies

795
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 3: that were active the way that marketing was at that time,

796
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 3: it was awful, right, So now I get to step

797
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 3: into this role where I can be a resource for

798
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 3: so many people who maybe have felt at.

799
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: Some time in a similar way.

800
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 3: So now as you step into this mentorship and this

801
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 3: coaching role, what did you feel like was missing that

802
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 3: you now have an opportunity to bring to the table.

803
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

804
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: I think it's like the level of IQ, you know,

805
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: I think so much of maybe what people perceive, even

806
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: from a fans standpoint, it's like, oh, this girl can

807
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: jump high and hit hard and kill balls. Right to me,

808
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: there's so much more to the game than just being

809
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 1: able to kill a ball. There's a lot of little

810
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: plays that aren't on the stat sheet, that aren't seen.

811
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: How are you as a teammate, How are you supporting

812
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: one another? How are you creating trouble on the other

813
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: side of the net, even if it's not killing the ball.

814
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: I think there's all these little stats that like we

815
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: don't see, but to me, that adds up to a

816
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: lot lot more value over time. And I also think

817
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: the meaning of success right, like how do you want

818
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: it to feel at the end? I think that to

819
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: me matters more than you know a winner loss's And

820
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: also I think the risk of failure right Sometimes in

821
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: our gym we talk about failing fast, like the faster

822
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: you fail, the more you learn, and so like, how

823
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: is this like risk taking how much risk are you

824
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 1: taking in practice? Because the more risk you take, when

825
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: you get to game time, you're you're like, well, I've

826
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 1: done this a thousand times and I've created this risk

827
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: and now I know the exact result is what I

828
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: want to go. So I think there's a lot of

829
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: nuances that can kind of come with it. But I

830
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: would say those be the first two.

831
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 3: What do you think the fastest you've ever failed and

832
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 3: learned has been?

833
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say my first quad on the national

834
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: team twenty twelve. Like it was kind of like, hey,

835
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: we're going to teach you all these new skills, and

836
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what, Like I was, I'm just a

837
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: national championship, Like I just want like does that not enough?

838
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: You know, like on you know, I should know everything already,

839
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 1: And he was like, no, no, we're going to reteach

840
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: you everything and if you don't learn, like you're just

841
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: gonna self select out. And I'm like, Okay, well I

842
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: better learn and I better learn fast and I'm probably

843
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: gonna suck to start, And but I found that, like

844
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: I kind of succumbed to that as far as like

845
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: this isn't going to be pretty. But sometimes we get

846
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: worse before we get better. And I really bought into

847
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: that concept. So I'm really grateful for that time, those

848
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: first two years, and I think that was probably the

849
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: biggest I would say shift for me. That also allowed

850
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: my brain to like go there more when I was

851
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: learning a new skill along my career.

852
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: What do you say to the person that has really

853
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 3: not absorbed this concept of failure as opportunity because for

854
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 3: so many you can get so down and out, and

855
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 3: especially understandably when you've worked hard towards something and it

856
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 3: doesn't go your way, they can get so down and

857
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 3: out and then they're kind of down and out for

858
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 3: a bit. How you embrace perhaps maybe a little bit

859
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 3: more of that fail forward and at times a goldfish mindset?

860
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think exactly.

861
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: I think what you just said goldfish like how quickly

862
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: we talk about failure recovery, right, like how quickly can

863
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: you come out of the bottom right and not sitting

864
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: in it? And I think asking for help, asking for resources?

865
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: What do those resources look like for you? And maybe

866
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: that's even as a different direction, you know, maybe it's

867
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: not the path that you are on, Like how do

868
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: I try something else or something new? You know, sometimes

869
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: when they I don't know. When we're talking about skill development,

870
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: sometimes if you just change the environment that you're in

871
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: actually creates a different like style of learning or maybe

872
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: something that you weren't doing before. So but I think

873
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: you're right gold like being goldfish like, it's so true.

874
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: But I mean, I will say, even for me, like

875
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 1: as I transition into a different role in the coming years,

876
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: you know, it is scary. It's like, well, I've known

877
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: exactly how to execute cute a job for the last

878
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 1: thirty years basically, like, well, like what am I getting

879
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: to and have the grace that I'm probably not going

880
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: to have it figured out and I probably don't know everything.

881
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: You've played valibell for a long time. But coaching is different,

882
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: you know, And how do I want to be and

883
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: how do I want people to feel? That's going to

884
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: take time and I think not judging yourself also like

885
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: where you're at.

886
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, as you were saying, the being

887
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 3: willing to embrace those failures and sometimes understand that the

888
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 3: path isn't going to be the one that you envisioned.

889
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 3: It's hard not to then bring us back to that

890
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 3: conversation of you making that hard pivot after your divorce,

891
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 3: right and getting to this place where you had to

892
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 3: fully embrace this is how it is now, and it

893
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 3: was different five minutes ago, and it's going to be

894
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 3: different five minutes from now.

895
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: But all I can do is the best I can

896
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: in this situation.

897
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so true.

898
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: Well even for you, I'm sure like the marketing piece

899
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: now right, like as you're transitioning, like if you would

900
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 1: have probably just stayed in your lane, like you would

901
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: have never had these opportunities. And sometimes it's like maybe

902
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: we're just not looking in the right places, you know,

903
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,919
Speaker 1: maybe there's opportunities in other facets that you know you're

904
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: risking something else and maybe you still feel there, you know,

905
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: you don't know, but unless you're kind of and it

906
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: really just depends internally how you are, because there's some

907
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: days where I was like I can't get out of bed,

908
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: you know, like there is just the heaviness of the day,

909
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: everything that's going on, Like those things are real and

910
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: like you're almost paralyzed that you're just like nothing doesn't matter,

911
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, and it's I don't know, I think like

912
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: having community around you that can continue to encourage and

913
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: breathe light into you, I think is equally just as important.

914
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 3: It's so important, and also doing that audit of what's

915
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 3: important to you. I haven't talked about this much on

916
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 3: the show, but there's a lot of runners that listen

917
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 3: to the show. Understandably, I'm a runner as well. But

918
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 3: I had to make a conscious decision on what I

919
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 3: wanted to do and how I wanted to keep learning

920
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 3: and moving forward. I didn't want to just have conversation

921
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 3: with female runners. I love them, they're amazing, but I

922
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 3: wanted to grow and understand the mindset for women who

923
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 3: are the best to do what they do across sport,

924
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 3: across wellness. And that's why I'm entering into this new

925
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 3: chapter for the show, because.

926
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 2: I want to keep learning.

927
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 3: Just like you, you ask yourself at the beginning of

928
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: a new season, am I done learning yet? And when

929
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 3: you look around you and you see that there's still

930
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 3: opportunity to garner new inspiration and continue to be a

931
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 3: student of the sport, that's what keeps you coming back

932
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 3: for more.

933
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, And I think, yeah, you just keep expanding

934
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: on that and it's and it's beautiful to learn and

935
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: it's hard though. It's like man, but if you think

936
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,479
Speaker 1: you got it all figured out, then that's the wrong

937
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 1: for me. It's like the wrong place to be as well.

938
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: So and I think I just never I've always had

939
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: this general layer of curiosity, like just tell me what

940
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: it is, even for you, I'm like, let me ask

941
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: you all these questions.

942
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 4: I want to know, like why do you want to

943
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 4: do what you do? You know?

944
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: Like I love that you're curious, and I think, like,

945
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: in my we need more of it, you know. I

946
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: think it's we have so much access at our hands now,

947
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: which is great, you know, and I believe that we're

948
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: more educated, but yeah, I love that the curiosity piece too.

949
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 3: How do you think that your curiosity is working to

950
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 3: your advantage right now?

951
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: In this chapter?

952
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: I think just embracing changes, you know, like what it's

953
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: not going to feel great, you know, because it's different,

954
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: that's okay, and that doesn't mean it's wrong, and that

955
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: remain curious and keep asking questions, and that it's never

956
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: I am grateful. My mom was always like, hey, there's

957
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: no dumb questions, like just keep asking, you know. And

958
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: I think that there's something to be said about that,

959
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: and I feel like that has always remained true to me.

960
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: It's just like I'm going to ask you probably a

961
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: bajillion questions, but I'm probably going to get to the route,

962
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: you know eventually. You know.

963
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 3: So ninety nine point nine percent of the time, what

964
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 3: I have found is that if you have a question

965
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 3: and you're worrying that it's a dumb question, more often

966
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 3: than not, someone sitting next to you at that exact

967
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 3: moment probably has the exact same one totally totally.

968
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, if you're the person that just asks,

969
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: like cares, but yeah, I'm the same. I'm like, just

970
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: ask the question like it's okay, And the person that's

971
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 1: even the one that is being asked the question, you're like, oh,

972
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: I've totally why you would ask that, you know. So

973
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: it's more of us like having the internal battle ourselves

974
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: than actually what the perception of reality is.

975
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 3: What's your hope moving forward when we think about love.

976
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: Love in general, or love that I mean, whatever you

977
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: want to take, Where are we going with that?

978
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 4: No?

979
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: No, honestly, for League one, I just really hope that

980
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, that people continue to fall in love

981
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: with the sport, and that having access to a higher

982
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: level only brings more depth of love and expansion, and

983
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: that we can continue to elevate female in sport and

984
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: really giving them opportunities to see a life as a

985
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: professional athlete at home, you know, and that having a

986
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: baby and coming back is a possibility and you can

987
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: have both and do very well at them. And then

988
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: for love, for me, it's like loving myself and loving

989
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: where I'm at and just taking it a day at

990
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: a time.

991
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 3: I appreciate that you answered both sides of that question.

992
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 3: It wasn't even intentional. Candidly, I don't foresee a world

993
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 3: where League one doesn't continue to grow to rapid fanfare.

994
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 2: I believe right now.

995
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 3: With the culture that we're seeing within women in sport

996
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 3: and also with what we've seen with the WNBA. I mean,

997
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 3: we're finally looking at a CBA that's a minimum salary

998
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 3: of one point one million per player, like that's been

999
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: so long in the making. So the momentum is there,

1000
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 3: and that conversation wouldn't even be possible had it not

1001
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 3: been for that momentum.

1002
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And that I just got chills because it's

1003
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: like I don't know to think about, you know, I

1004
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: a lot of volleyball players that have committed you know,

1005
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: two cycles Olympics, you know, are still having to work right,

1006
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: and I think they want to work right. And so

1007
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: I think about most men that are in professional sports

1008
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: in the United States, like once they retire, like it's

1009
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: like they really don't have to work, Like they can

1010
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: be at home, they can do all these things. And

1011
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: so the fact is, like, now we have women that

1012
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: could be making that and like setting themselves up for

1013
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: a wonderful future that they can be home with their

1014
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: families and they get to choose what they want to

1015
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: do post retirement. And the freedom that comes with that

1016
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: is like just immense. And so I think that not

1017
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: only am I excited, like you said, to like continue

1018
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: to see the expansion, but just also the freedom, the

1019
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: financial freedom, the personal freedom that the love that you

1020
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: have for the sport can go somewhere and do something

1021
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: bigger than what we ever imagine.

1022
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: It's so true.

1023
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 3: Now you just said some people keeping up other jobs.

1024
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 3: What's the craziest job that you know someone has maintained

1025
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: while playing pro volleyball?

1026
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.

1027
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: You know, I've been lucky that I've been surrounded that

1028
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: people continue they can they can have just only that life.

1029
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,720
Speaker 1: But it's like post retirement, they have to do something.

1030
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: So I will say, though there are certain countries. You know,

1031
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: when I played in Puerto Rico, it was like we

1032
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: had to have a practice in the evening because everybody

1033
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: was working at nine to five, so it was only

1034
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: eight o'clock practice eight to ten. And it's not normal

1035
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: to just be a professional athletes. So I wouldn't say

1036
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: there's a crazy job that I've heard per se, but

1037
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: there are even now I have a teammate now she's

1038
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: working typically two jobs, you know, remotely that she's you know,

1039
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: still trying to she wants to buy a house, and

1040
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: it's just like, wait, what are we doing? What?

1041
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 2: You know, how does this work.

1042
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 3: It's many years ago I wrote this article on this

1043
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 3: female cycling team out of California, and I interviewed a

1044
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,280
Speaker 3: handful of the ladies and all of them had crazy

1045
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 3: cool jobs before they finally decided, Okay, I'm gonna go

1046
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 3: out on a whim and try to follow my passion. Right.

1047
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: Many of them.

1048
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 3: Were teachers or doctors or lawyers, and then they were like,

1049
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 3: life is too short not to at least give this

1050
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 3: a full try.

1051
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 2: And I just thought, that is so awesome.

1052
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 3: You're not talking to respectfully male pro cyclists who were

1053
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 3: former lawyers and doctors.

1054
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 2: They just went all in on that from the get go.

1055
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: I know it's so true, and I commend people that

1056
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: are able to do that, that are even in a

1057
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: profession for twenty plus years, and like, actually, I want

1058
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: to go back to school like that is like that

1059
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: is bravery at its finest. So it's yeah, cool.

1060
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 2: And it's finest.

1061
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 3: Okay, So before I let you go here, today, we

1062
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 3: are thinking about the next year of Love.

1063
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 2: It's something to look forward to.

1064
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 3: Now we have Love Nebraska, what will be changing for you?

1065
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 3: It's interesting for me this like dichotomy of being a

1066
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 3: player and a co owner. Is that weird at times

1067
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 3: for you?

1068
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:31,959
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1069
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: The first conversation we had a first team meeting, it

1070
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: was like one of my teammates like, so, can you

1071
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: fire me? And I was like no, Like, I mean,

1072
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: it's a real legit question, right, especially if you're not

1073
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: really maybe understanding the business side. But yeah, no, it's uh,

1074
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: it's fine. And I feel like we've kind of had

1075
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: that conversation of what that looks like. But luckily that

1076
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: the ownership piece and that they've just allowed me to

1077
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,959
Speaker 1: continue and embrace this year of playing and really enjoy

1078
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: the process as I go. So what I'm really just

1079
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: excited for. I love the girls that I feel like

1080
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: we created a great foundation last year and it feels

1081
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 1: very seamless as we come into season two now, and

1082
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: as we continue to ramp up and there's excitement for

1083
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: the for the season, I'm I don't know. I think

1084
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna look different, it's gonna feel different, And we

1085
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,479
Speaker 1: learned a lot first year, and I think it's gonna

1086
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: be even better this year.

1087
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 3: Biggest learning from year one.

1088
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 4: I think we just didn't know. You know.

1089
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Speaker 1: It's like we're we're creating these positions in a place

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00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: that we've never seen before, right, So almost this layer

1091
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: of expectation of like, oh, right, well, this is what

1092
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: it should look like and how it should be, and

1093
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: it's just like, but we really don't know, right And

1094
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: so now coming into year two, it's like, all right, now,

1095
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: I know exactly how I want this to look, how

1096
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: I wanted to feel. And last year it wasn't bad.

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00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: There was a little clunkiness, you know, of just you know,

1098
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: maybe travel or you know, scheduling or something like that.

1099
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: But I think it's you know, we're learning now. It's like,

1100
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: all right, we're hitting the ground run. And now we

1101
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: have a new facility that we're in, which is absolutely beautiful,

1102
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know, it feels so much more just

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00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: ready and wholesome this.

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00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: Year ready and wholesome.

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00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 3: You know, in order to do something different, you have

1106
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 3: to do things that are different, right, and so to

1107
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 3: create something from scratch is hard, regardless of what you're

1108
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 3: working on. But to do it with such momentum like

1109
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 3: we saw in year one, I can only imagine that

1110
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 3: really exciting and good things are ahead for you all. Now,

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00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 3: final question for you, Jordan. I really appreciate how you

1112
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 3: opened up today about what you've been going through over

1113
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 3: the last few years. I think that vulnerability is just

1114
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 3: so important for so many people listening.

1115
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 2: Knowing what you know, now, what.

1116
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,720
Speaker 3: Advice would you give yourself, Let's say, even like twenty

1117
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 3: twenty three, twenty twenty four, are going through that Hurtle moment.

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00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that there was moments where I was

1119
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: still trying to like run, you know, like I internally

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00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: was just like I want to feel good and like

1121
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: seeking in maybe places that I shouldn't have, you know,

1122
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: and whether that's you know, I don't know, putting myself

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00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: in positions that I just shouldn't have been in, you know.

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00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: And but like the feeling of depth of emotion that

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00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: I was feeling that I was just like, man, I

1126
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: don't know, something just not right. And so I think

1127
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: I would go back to tell myself that like, it's

1128
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: gonna hurt, but that doesn't mean that that's wrong, that

1129
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 1: like even in the pain and the hurt, like it's

1130
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: okay to sit in it, and that on the other

1131
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: side of like taking the time to heal internally, like

1132
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be worth it. So I think I'm kind

1133
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: of hitting that. I would say the last year or

1134
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 1: so of just this piece, I think I wish I

1135
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: would have done that maybe a little bit sooner. So

1136
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really grateful and never I probably never would

1137
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: have said that a couple of years ago, because it

1138
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: was it was hard, but it's been a really good

1139
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: journey of just finding who I am again.

1140
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Speaker 3: Hard but better for it again. Thank you so much

1141
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 3: for sharing so much with us today. I'm so excited

1142
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 3: that we were able to sit down again. It's been

1143
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 3: too long, Jordan. For those that aren't following along with

1144
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 3: you on social just yet give us the details.

1145
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can follow me on Instagram at gov

1146
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: ten zero seven. My nickname is the Governor And I

1147
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 1: think I'm on Twitter or sorry.

1148
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 4: X, what do you call it?

1149
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 2: You're like, what are we calling it? Thread?

1150
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 4: I know threads?

1151
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: Yeah whatever, Jordan Larson ten and then I do. I

1152
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: just got TikTok kind of Jordan Larson zero one on TikTok.

1153
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: I just posted my first TikTok, just trying to blend

1154
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: in with the the youth.

1155
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 4: You know.

1156
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 2: What was the TikTok?

1157
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 4: It was with me and Lexi Rodriguez.

1158
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: We did the I don't remember the song, but you know,

1159
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to trying to blend in.

1160
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's working.

1161
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: But and I still have Facebook for all those old

1162
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: people out there, still have Facebook.

1163
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 2: Over and see my page.

1164
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 3: I'm over at Emily and Vadi and at Hurdle Vodcast

1165
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 3: another Hurdle Conquered.

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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time