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Speaker 1: In sports, being wide open means you're ready to seize

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Speaker 1: the moment a chance to make a game changing impact.

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Speaker 1: In life, it's about embracing vulnerability, showing up with honesty,

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Speaker 1: and finding the courage to face challenges head on.

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Speaker 2: I was like frantic, and he's like, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: ask you something and like, are you gay? And for

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, I said yes.

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Speaker 1: We've all had moments that cracked us wide open times

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Speaker 1: when life tested us, broke us down and made us

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Speaker 1: question what's next. But it's in those moments that we

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Speaker 1: discover what we're really made of.

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Speaker 3: It was a moment that should have broken me, but

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Speaker 3: just because of how I was raised and my bolishness

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Speaker 3: and arrogance to want to be great heartened me. It

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Speaker 3: gave me a platform to be so singularly focused on greatness.

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Speaker 1: I've been there, I've felt the weight of tough times,

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Speaker 1: but every setback has taught me some thing. Resilience. It's

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Speaker 1: what fuels us to rise stronger and more determined than ever.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ashlyn Harris, two time Women's World Cup champion and

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Speaker 1: former goalkeeper of the US women's national soccer team. In

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Speaker 1: my new podcast, wide Open, I'll sit with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment,

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Speaker 1: and politics to explore their toughest moments and the incredible

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Speaker 1: comebacks that followed.

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Speaker 4: I think the beauty of being queer is you get

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Speaker 4: to unpack the parts of yourself that are genuinely you

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Speaker 4: and the parts of yourself that are conforming to some

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Speaker 4: idea of what you were supposed to be.

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Speaker 5: I had nothing but the money that I had on me,

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Speaker 5: and in my anger, I got my children up out

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Speaker 5: of the ba and I just drove in the middle

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Speaker 5: of the night from Mississippi back to Kentucky. I'm a

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Speaker 5: truth teller, yeah, and and I had to tell the truth.

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Speaker 1: It's time for honest conversations, unforgettable stories, and a front

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Speaker 1: row seat to the moments that changed everything. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Wide Open. Wide Open with Ashland Harris is an iHeart

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Speaker 1: women's sports production. Listen to Wide Open with Ashland Harris

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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts starting January twenty seventh,