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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone? Welcome to Playmakers.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Haley Elwood, and today we are wrapping

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Speaker 2: up our very special Women's History Month series with our

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Speaker 2: special guest, Amy Staley.

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Speaker 1: Amy's one of the.

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Speaker 2: Newest members of the Chargers family. She is the wife

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Speaker 2: to new Chargers head coach Brandon Staley. But she's heart

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Speaker 2: to share a bit more about her family as well

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Speaker 2: as how sports has.

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Speaker 1: Impacted her life.

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Speaker 2: She's a former athlete and you'll learn.

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Speaker 1: That about her.

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Speaker 2: So now let's get to it and let's welcome in

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Speaker 2: Amy Staley. Amy, Welcome to Playmakers.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming on.

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Speaker 1: Hi, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited. Look, I've talked to Brandon, I'm now

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Speaker 2: talking to you. We're getting the whole Stay family in

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Speaker 2: here with the Chargers. Maybe grant Man is next.

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Speaker 1: He's got about three five I don't know ten words.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: It's like Mama, Binky.

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Speaker 3: Dad, dad, football, football, So it's exciting. I mean, he

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Speaker 3: might not have a lot to contribute, but I'm sure

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Speaker 3: to be excited too.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he would look welcome to the Chargers family.

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Speaker 2: I should start out by saying that what does it

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Speaker 2: mean to now be part of this organization.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's incredibly humbling.

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Speaker 3: It's such a huge honor, and you know, it's just

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Speaker 3: such a exciting franchise to be a part of. And

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Speaker 3: we're so excited, you know, as we're getting into the

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Speaker 3: Spanis family and the Telescos and we just know it's

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Speaker 3: rich in tradition and there's so many wonderful people here,

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Speaker 3: so it feels incredible. And then to be in the

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Speaker 3: city of la is kind of surreal because we fell

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Speaker 3: in love with La when we moved here a year ago,

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Speaker 3: so the fact that we get to continue representing the

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Speaker 3: city is pretty pretty powerful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I know you've made some

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Speaker 2: moves in your career with Brandon, but this one's got

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Speaker 2: to be pretty good, right, because you're not going that far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this one should be more of a layup than

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Speaker 1: the rest.

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Speaker 3: But nonetheless, every move presents its challenges, and you know,

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Speaker 3: it certainly takes a lot out of you, but we're

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Speaker 3: excited for a much closer move.

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Speaker 1: We're excited for that as well.

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Speaker 2: So look, in terms of you and Brandon, when did

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Speaker 2: you kind of realize, oh, football is kind of a

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Speaker 2: big deal here with the state family.

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Speaker 3: Well, pretty early, pretty early on, you know, we started

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Speaker 3: dating and I get to know his family, and you

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Speaker 3: go home for the holidays for the first time, and

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Speaker 3: you know, sports are on.

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Speaker 1: It's all they're talking about.

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Speaker 2: It.

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Speaker 3: It's the games that they've been a part of in

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Speaker 3: the past, and you have to get looped in pretty

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Speaker 3: quick because there's a lot of stories. Yeah, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I knew early on it was everything to him, and

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Speaker 3: that's something I love about him, seeing just kind of

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Speaker 2: How has sports impacted your own life?

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Speaker 3: Well, significantly. You know, I started playing sports really early on.

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Speaker 3: So I think my mom was a pe teacher. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: so in the summers, it was like, Okay, how many

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Speaker 3: you have trying all these different sports? And you played

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Speaker 1: And by the time I get to sixth grade, I

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Speaker 3: And you know, I did the club world, and you know,

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Speaker 3: volleyball became my life from sixth grade all the way

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Speaker 2: Was your mom ever your pe teacher?

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Speaker 1: No? No, she taught the school next like town over. OK.

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Speaker 3: So every once in a while if there was ever

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Speaker 1: But thankfully she was never my own pe teacher. Probably

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Speaker 2: I think with any athlete, you learn so much obviously

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Speaker 2: were some maybe lessons or experiences that plain sports taught you?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, we had a whole podcast for that, you know.

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Speaker 3: I think I just was really I had my eyes

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Speaker 3: just seeing that kind of diversity in people and intellect

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Speaker 1: Of other different types of people. So that's probably what

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Speaker 3: Mind first, but I also just think like sports was

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Speaker 2: So well, in speaking to college, catching up with you

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Speaker 2: just offline about this, you told me you earned a

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Speaker 2: full ride scholarship based off volleyball. What did earning that

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Speaker 1: It was such a huge deal.

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Speaker 3: You know, when you spend your whole life and you

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Speaker 3: lot of things that like a lot of my classmates did,

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Speaker 3: you just you give everything to the sports. So to

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Speaker 3: It was three weekends out of every month, for seven

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Speaker 3: And the financial commitment they made to put me through

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Speaker 1: I think it just was a big deal for all

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I mean

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Speaker 2: I come from a dance background. My sister also grew

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Speaker 2: go back to like the constant competitions every weekend, driving

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Speaker 2: is special, like to your point when you can sort

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and then it's like earning that full ride

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Speaker 2: So totally so as a former college athlete, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Man, if I could go back and do it all again,

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Speaker 3: and what did I learn? I just think, you know,

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Speaker 3: when it comes down to being like a college athlete,

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Speaker 3: it's give every single thing you have to the game

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Speaker 3: for yourself but for others, I think great things come

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Speaker 3: so you know, I think if you just give everything

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Speaker 3: just you can walk away feeling good about what you

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Speaker 2: I think you can because one other thing that you

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Speaker 2: told me you got your masters in reading instruction at

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Speaker 2: John Carroll. What did you really love about teaching? Why

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Speaker 3: I remember when I entered college, I like said I

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Speaker 3: was like, why would I do like business, Like that's

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Speaker 1: This is what I want to do. And so teaching was. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I knew pretty much three weeks into college when

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Speaker 3: what I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: So was it second grade? Is that what you taught?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 3: What I taught first grade? I taught fourth grade, and

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Speaker 3: I taught them in seven different schools in like six

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Speaker 3: remember every single face that I taught, every student, and

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Speaker 3: I get such joy when I'll have like a random

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Speaker 3: like an old parent who I'm friends with on Facebook

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Speaker 3: feel like, wow, you know, it's just such an honor

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Speaker 3: to be a part of, you know, these individual students'

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Speaker 1: But it's it just was so wonderful and I miss

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Speaker 3: Teaching, but I love everything that I was able to

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Speaker 3: be a part of while.

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Speaker 1: I was teaching, so so amy.

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Speaker 2: Out of all the sort of different grades and years

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Speaker 2: that you taught, do you have a favorite one?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love all of them for different reasons.

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Speaker 3: I loved all of those students for different reasons.

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Speaker 3: I always felt like one year just wasn't enough. I always,

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Speaker 2: And then lastly, Amy, look, welcomes you in, But just

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Speaker 1: I would say probably the people. I mean, hands down

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Speaker 3: all of our decisions we'd make was you know, the people,

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Speaker 3: I mean a true, true honor is to be able

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Speaker 3: to pick your own coaching staff, you know, and who

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Speaker 1: And so we're really excited about all the people here.

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Speaker 1: And then I mean, it does not hurt. It does

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Speaker 2: Well, we're so excited to have you. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for coming on sharing a little bit about your

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Speaker 1: Thanks Amy, you're welcome. Thanks for having me, Haley