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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode a thud Around

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Speaker 1: and find out. I'm here with my girl as Shanty.

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Speaker 1: Hey Shanty, Hey, how you doing girl? I'm great, so

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Speaker 1: excited to be back on the pod. How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm cold?

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Speaker 3: I'm cold because why would New York City have one

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Speaker 3: of the biggest snow storms ever since forever?

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Speaker 4: Why not did you go play in the snow? Play girl?

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Speaker 3: I was hiding.

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Speaker 4: Are you kiddy? You're so lam Let me say something?

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Speaker 4: Uh uh listen.

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Speaker 3: Even on my way here to record this, I got

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Speaker 3: stuck in my uber. No, I'm yo, I kid you not.

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Speaker 3: It was so bad that the people on the street

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Speaker 3: came to help us get out of the snow. I

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Speaker 3: was like, the community is surrounding me in ways that

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Speaker 3: I didn't expect.

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Speaker 4: It's actually really funny. It's insane. So, no, I didn't

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Speaker 4: play in the snow this go around. Mm hmmm, he

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Speaker 4: missed out.

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Speaker 3: Listen, how was it for you? Cause I know, like

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Speaker 3: your game changed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so we had our game move from Sunday to

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Speaker 1: Saturday because they're like, oh, we might not able to

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Speaker 1: get home. We don't be stuck in New Jersey and

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Speaker 1: we would have been stuck. There's no way the way

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Speaker 1: it was coming down yesterday, there's no way we would

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Speaker 1: have been able to make it home. So that was

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun to how like an

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Speaker 1: actual we had an off day. We could enjoy the snow.

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Speaker 1: I want to go shoot in the morning. And we

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Speaker 1: came back and it was just so winter wonderland. And

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Speaker 1: my Christmas tree is still up. So low Ki was

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Speaker 1: giving Christmas five girl, not the Christmas tree.

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Speaker 4: She was like, it feels like Christmas is coming.

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Speaker 3: Well, you had an extra white Christmas again, because that

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Speaker 3: snow was insane. Now, when I used to live closer,

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Speaker 3: when I used to live in Manhattan, I used to

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Speaker 3: go to Central Park and take like a little what

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Speaker 3: do you call those things that you like go down

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Speaker 3: the hill with what No, it's not a slip, but

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Speaker 3: it's like it's like a big I guess it kind

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Speaker 3: of is like a slub, but it's like a big

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Speaker 3: piece of piece of plastic and you sit on it

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Speaker 3: and you go down like the hill. But anyways, those

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Speaker 3: days are over. Now I go down the hill and

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Speaker 3: hurt something. Girl, be out of commission for life, so

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Speaker 3: lame listen, I'll beat that. I'll be healthy and lame.

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Speaker 4: Girl, you gonna be healthy and slid, you know, just

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Speaker 4: be responsible. I wouldn't. I wouldn't know because I don't

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Speaker 4: do that.

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Speaker 1: Never.

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Speaker 3: No, never, especially not during season.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: So you're in conference, You're like, you know, deeper in

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Speaker 3: conference play. Now, does it feel different than like preseason

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Speaker 3: or not preseason, early season, non conference play.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: I just I feel like when you hit this point

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Speaker 1: mid January, it's like when the grind starts to hit.

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Speaker 1: It's like your in conference, it's almost. Our schedule is

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Speaker 1: almost it's basically like off day either two practice or

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Speaker 1: game like it's it's so everything is back back to back,

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Speaker 1: no rest, You're just on the grind. So I feel

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Speaker 1: like this is the time where you start to get tired.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to fall into that, like you're just like

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I feel like that's been our goal.

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Speaker 1: We've been really trying to make sure we're still having

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Speaker 1: fun competing and getting better well as usual.

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Speaker 3: Super fun to watch and I'm excited for you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You guys are still undefeated. I know you're still taking it.

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Speaker 3: One day at a time, or one game at a.

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Speaker 4: Time, one practice at a time, it's same. How do

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Speaker 3: It can be a very long season, especially when it's

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Speaker 4: Oh you don't. I don't play about my recovery period.

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Speaker 4: I don't play about that.

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Speaker 1: So honestly, the game change was really nice so that

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Speaker 4: Had the game.

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Speaker 1: The lack of recovery we got definitely hit me. I'm old,

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Speaker 4: It hurts. And I didn't pa.

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Speaker 1: I didn't thinking we were gonna not go home, so

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Speaker 1: I would have brought more recovery stuff with me. But

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Speaker 1: I think making sure that, especially at this time, recovery

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Speaker 1: is such a priority. Like usually an off day it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: well let me go get my own shots in, let

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Speaker 1: like no that doesn't make any sense, Like I need

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Speaker 4: Have you on the sauna? Oh I love a good

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Speaker 4: sna session. Do you really? Yes?

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Speaker 3: What Listen next time I'm at Yukon, I'm coming for

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Speaker 3: the sauna in the cottage. Okay, Okay, I'm locked dude,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, I love a good sona. But look, good

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Speaker 3: luck to you and the rest of your season. You

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Speaker 3: keep staying locked in. I'm gonna be right there watching.

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Speaker 3: I'm sad I couldn't pull up to Jersey, but you know,

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Speaker 3: would exactly. I would be like everybody praying. But anyways,

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Speaker 4: We have a super exciting and social guest. Today. We

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Speaker 4: have Amy Ritt, who is the let's.

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Speaker 1: Go through her long list of accomplishments and boss ladness,

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Speaker 1: the founder and CEO of Madison Reed. She's a partner

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Speaker 1: at True Ventures, a board member of the Wild Salmon Center.

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Speaker 1: She got her MBA from the Warden School and her

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Speaker 1: biggest flags obviously not being a founder and CEO, but

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Speaker 1: she's a Yukon alum who is inducted to the Yukon

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Speaker 1: School of Business Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: Do you want and only Amy Aritt?

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Speaker 1: Today we have a super super special guys, the one

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Speaker 1: and only Amy Eric.

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Speaker 4: Yes, welcome Amy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited, thanks for joining us. Amy is a Yukon alum,

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Speaker 1: which I think is so amazing. Run do you I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know there was a Business school Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you could be in it one day.

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Speaker 1: Oh I could. I know that would be crazy to

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Speaker 1: have my name next year. It's just you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think the boss lady is in there. Definitely,

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Speaker 2: let's see it. You're gonna help me bring her out, no,

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Speaker 2: no question?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So Amy, how did you and as meet?

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Speaker 2: Well, first thing I want to say, I'm just really

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Speaker 2: honored to be on the show. So thank you for

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Speaker 2: that we have with Yukon, which is we have our

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, he's too sweet to me.

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Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't going to ask what your first impression was,

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Speaker 2: I saw the of course, the accolades that she gets

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Speaker 2: this year, Happy, thank you. And I also saw a

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Speaker 4: Well, said, Azy, what was your first impression.

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Speaker 1: I remember meeting you that first shoot, and I think

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Speaker 1: a little snobby, but like I don't know it strict, yeah,

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Speaker 1: very strict. But you were so fun. You were just

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Speaker 1: Day didn't feel long, yeah, but it definitely was like

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's gonna be a long day. But then you

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Speaker 4: Just kicked us off to a great start.

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Speaker 2: That's great, and we've been together. This is our second year,

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Speaker 2: so yes it is. This is our second year. And

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Speaker 2: then we'll follow it. We'll follow easy wherever she goes.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm honored.

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Speaker 2: How's that truck? Did you? Did you have to get

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Speaker 1: No, I parked the truck in the garage last night

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Speaker 1: because there was no chance. I don't own a shovel.

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Speaker 1: I don't own like a little scraper thing for the car.

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Speaker 1: There was no chance tell the people about the truck.

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Speaker 1: What is the truck? I have the coolest car on campus,

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Speaker 1: in the state of Connecticut and the country, probably the world.

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Speaker 2: I think it's in the world universe domination.

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Speaker 4: Seriously.

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Speaker 1: I have a Madison Reed wrapped Rivian that I'm driving

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Speaker 1: around and it honestly, I mean, it's pretty.

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Speaker 4: It's a great car. We will have to add a

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Speaker 4: picture of it.

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Speaker 2: We're so honored to have easy drive it around. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: And I get reports from people I know in Connectic

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Speaker 2: but on campus, I'll get like a text Asy just

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Speaker 2: drove by. I'm like, cool, hopefully going to I mean,

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Speaker 2: then I'll text her slow down. She's like, this is weird.

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Speaker 4: How did you know?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I want to ask some questions about Madison

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Speaker 1: Reid and kind of the start of that. What inspired

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Speaker 1: you to revolutionize at home hair color.

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Speaker 2: I was very concerned about the ingredients, and I'm a

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Speaker 2: who I am. And I started to research what was

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Speaker 5: Hundred now throughout the country and growing serious boss lady stuff.

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Speaker 2: And so, yeah, as is doing an internship with us

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're honored, and you know, as'll be working obviously remotely,

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Speaker 3: Right, that's beautiful And I like that because I got

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Speaker 2: You won't be you know, like I always talk about it,

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Speaker 2: Madison Reed, I want people to bring their full selves

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Speaker 2: and that means some days you're you know, not everything's perfect.

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Speaker 2: So it's good. It's it's it's worked out as a

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Speaker 2: good question to ask people.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Listen, if this podcasting stuff doesn't worry, you'll hire it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'd hire you both in a millisecond.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate that, and we got that on the record.

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, let's go back.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back.

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Speaker 2: Remind me like like five years you'll play it back

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Speaker 2: for me, like Amy.

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Speaker 3: about Madison Rey the logo being on the course and

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00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 3: you guys, you know, moving into nil deals, et cetera.

439
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 4: So why did you decide to work with the Huskies.

440
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 2: Well, first, I'm a Husky, and you know, there's something

441
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 2: about when you bleed blue, you bleed blue for life

442
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 2: and so that's no, I mean, I think there's And

443
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 2: then the next thing I'd say is I wanted to

444
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 2: it just so happened that I was partnering with the

445
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:06,439
Speaker 2: Goal Standard, right, like Geno CD Chris Dally. There's a

446
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 2: system and they pick certain women who have certain characteristics

447
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: with them to play in that system. And I think

448
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 2: the system is a very effective way to build camaraderie

449
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 2: and a sense of you know, sisterhood and so you know,

450
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 2: and the track record was pretty good, so I had

451
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 2: a pretty good read. And so let's talk about it

452
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 2: from a marketing standpoint. So one standpoint is a great

453
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 2: team to partner with. Second standpoint was you have to

454
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: evaluate whether the money you're spending to put the logo

455
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: on those courts is going to get TV time right,

456
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: and is going to get eyeballs and going to get

457
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 2: recognition and going to get people in the stand saying

458
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: what's that Madison Reid thing? And then you know, there's

459
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 2: a big, you know, led sign that goes on all

460
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 2: the time talking about, you know, buy the hair color writer.

461
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 2: That is hair color. And I love the fact that

462
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,239
Speaker 2: so many women come to the games. So we had

463
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 2: a really good chance that from a business perspective, it

464
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,479
Speaker 2: was going to pay off, which by the way, it

465
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 2: has paid off in multiples, and I can kind of

466
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 2: quote some things that have happened because of that. And

467
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 2: I wanted to I wanted to support Geno and CD

468
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 2: and the system and the school that mattered to me.

469
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 2: So it just worked for those things. But what I

470
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 2: also learned to Chante and Asy was, and this is

471
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,959
Speaker 2: just advice or anybody out there who has a business

472
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 2: thinking about this, you can't just do nil deals without

473
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 2: supporting the school because then you have misaligned goals. And

474
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: our goals are aligned now right. The school wants Madison

475
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: Read to win and ANIL players are benefiting from it.

476
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 2: So like everybody's winning from the strategic partnerships. Right, there's

477
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 2: no conflict at all. And I got to understand how

478
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: important that is, Like get the girls for a photoshoot?

479
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 2: Is time time when you're playing basketball is you don't

480
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 2: have a lot of it, And so we needed to

481
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 2: We needed to fit into that system and hopefully we've

482
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 2: been able to do that.

483
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: You have and I feel like you guys also go

484
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: that extra mile where you care about the deal the school,

485
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: do you care most importantly about us as people.

486
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 4: Yes, and yeah, I don't know.

487
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: I just I feel like that you guys really do

488
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: take care of us and go that extra mile to

489
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: make sure that we're taken care of, we're happy, and

490
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 1: you try to support us in any way you can,

491
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: and we feel that.

492
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 2: Thank you. It really makes me feel good to hear that,

493
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 2: because I've learned a lot in the last two years.

494
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 2: Like I knew nothing coming into this, and what I've

495
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 2: learned is when you're the brand, the sponsor, you have

496
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 2: to treat people well, and you have to be reasonable

497
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: about your asks and you have to think about their

498
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 2: well being because if you don't, then you're just wasting

499
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: your money. I mean, that's just honest and that I

500
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: think these are human rules relationships. They have to matter

501
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: more than just the compensation both ways.

502
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 4: That's really well said.

503
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 2: And I see some brands not doing that, and that

504
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 2: bums me out. It really bums me out because it

505
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 2: puts the athletes in a very tough position and I

506
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 2: don't think that's I think it's a partnership, and it

507
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 2: just bums me out because first of all, the athletes

508
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: deserve to get paid one come on, one hundred percent.

509
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: I mean I'm really I'm very upset about what's happening

510
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 2: in the WNBA right now, right like this is you

511
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 2: know this, like what are we talking about here? There's

512
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 2: no difference in gender. This is just sports. This is

513
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: people playing what they love and they deserve to be compensated.

514
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: And I mean, I know this is maybe unpopular because

515
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 2: probably we won't get her, but you know, I'm a

516
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: Valkyrie season ticket holder. It is help that purple. I mean,

517
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: they did need.

518
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 3: Right, and.

519
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 2: You know it's sold out for and I have Warrior

520
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 2: season tickets, so I go to both. There's no less

521
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 2: people watching the Valkyries than there are the Warriors. Trust me,

522
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 2: it is sold out every night. It is crazy in

523
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 2: that Chase Center, the support. So what is it that

524
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 2: makes it different about those women playing than the men.

525
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 2: It doesn't. So I just think that's one thing. And

526
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: I think as at college athletes, if brands don't get that,

527
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 2: they have to get that. And so it's not about

528
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: paying people that they what they deserve. It's about also

529
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: how you treat them right, how you understand their lives,

530
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: their time, commitments, what's important to them, you know, in

531
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 2: our case, and I'm happy to disclose this. You know

532
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: we are Our deals have been fifty percent compensation and

533
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 2: cash and fifty percent in equity in the company. So

534
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: as is of Madison, r let me asy is going

535
00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 2: to be my boss one day. How's that? Because what

536
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 2: I want is when this company gets to be worth

537
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 2: a ton of money, that's amazing. I want these athletes

538
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 2: to have something that they were part of that they

539
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 2: can build wealth.

540
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 4: That is amazing. Yeah, I got a creator's program.

541
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 3: Let's talk, no, And honestly, you guys are pioneering something

542
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 3: and I love how invested you are in like specifically

543
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 3: women's sports, because as you said, it's the product has

544
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 3: been there. The games are just as full as the

545
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 3: mail games. So I just I love it.

546
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who you see in the stands, it's awesome, right,

547
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 2: It's just not like women. It's you know, dads and

548
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 2: their daughters, and you know, it's just so wonderful. It's

549
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 2: the way the world should be, right And yet, you know, anyway,

550
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: we'll get we'll get through this. We'll we'll get to

551
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 2: the other side and we'll come on. We'll understand that

552
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 2: this creates great leaders, and we need great leaders in

553
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 2: the world.

554
00:28:58,520 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 4: We sure do.

555
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: I hope everyone is listen, taking notes from everything you're

556
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: saying right now.

557
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 4: For a fact or follow suit.

558
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

559
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: I mean again when people ask me, I mean, you know,

560
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: I hope this is okay to say for you, Like

561
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: the first year that we did this deal with you

562
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 2: as hadn't played the year before, right, I think that's true,

563
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 2: and so does I saw and I knew she was

564
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: going to come back with fire lit right like she's

565
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: playing like it's you know, it's it's crazy how well

566
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: you're playing and you deserve it.

567
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 4: Don't get me started.

568
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Like it's just the girl's playing out of

569
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 2: her mind. She's a beast, and you know, and I

570
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 2: knew it, and everybody people said to me, not in

571
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: a bad way, Well she didn't play last year. I'm like,

572
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 2: I don't care. She's coming back that she's got the

573
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: resilience that I'm talking about. She's got the resilience. That's

574
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: that's what the world's looking for. As somebody who says

575
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 2: this sucks, this is horrible, I'm either going to give

576
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: up or we're going to come back stronger. And life

577
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: people that win come back stronger every time because they

578
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: realize that it's just a lesson whatever you believe in spiritually,

579
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: you know, whatever that is, it's just what the universe

580
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 2: puts in front of you for a reason. And then

581
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 2: you rebuild and you rebuild, rebuild. So I knew that.

582
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 2: I had no doubt about that. And then you know,

583
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,959
Speaker 2: we go on and win the National Championship, right, and

584
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 2: now we're is it twenty and oh or nineteen and no,

585
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: I can't keep up.

586
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 4: I think we had twenty twenty one.

587
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 2: You see that. Yeah, I just watched you guys. You know,

588
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: I live in California, So Claire and I are like obsessed.

589
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: You know, we get our glass of wine and we play,

590
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: you know, and Claire will be like, look it easy,

591
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 2: like look at it. You know, every time you hit

592
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: a three point track. Asy knows Claire Claire knows nothing

593
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: about sports, which is hilarious, but she's like, boom, she says,

594
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: boom every time you get to a boom. I'm like,

595
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: and you know, like we just got it right. But

596
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the truth of it

597
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 2: is that I want A Z's life to be amazing

598
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: in the WNB and then whatever is that is beyond

599
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: I mean, look at her, I mean, she could be

600
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: a model, she can be an act, she can do

601
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 2: anything she wants, and that's what we need in the world.

602
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: More role models for kids.

603
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: Well, you're a great role model for me, so I know, well, feelings, mutual,

604
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: motivational speaker.

605
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 3: I mean, what can't you do, miss Amy?

606
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 4: It's nothing she can't do.

607
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure it doesn't appear that way while I'm

608
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: sitting here, but you know, I wish I had about

609
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 2: you know, if I had six more inches, it would

610
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: make my dreams control.

611
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 3: So I have a question, Amy, outside of a Z

612
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 3: do you have an all time favorite Yukon player.

613
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 2: Well, there's so many that I think are iconic. But

614
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 2: I'm going to go back back into the DT. I

615
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: think DT set a standard Diana Tarassi for those that

616
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 2: are listening that don't know that, just this there was

617
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: a standard and excellence, toughness, resilience, swag. There's nothing she

618
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 2: couldn't do, and she was focused on that. But there's like,

619
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: you know, let's go you know, like Maya More, I mean,

620
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: Rebecca Lobo, if you really want to go back, you

621
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 2: know to Dog's. You know, it just goes on and

622
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 2: on the list is insane, and you know, Page obviously,

623
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: but now we're going to add Asy to that list.

624
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: And you know, you've got to think about Sarah Strong.

625
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: I mean, this is like it's just it's it's it

626
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 2: looks completely effortless. It's kind of like this is an

627
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 2: unfair advantage, you know. And the combo of the two

628
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: of them is crazy. It's the two best players in

629
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 2: basketball together on the same court, playing off each other. Right.

630
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: So you know, you just go down the list of

631
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: the iconic women that have come through that program and

632
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 2: you know, it's extraordinary, and you know, Geno and CD

633
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: and all the tea the staff should feel very proud

634
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: of all everything they've built around the brand. It's a system.

635
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: What I hope at Madison Reid is to emulate a

636
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: system that people that come to work here have life

637
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 2: changing experiences that are good in the world, and they're

638
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 2: better people for it. If you can have that impact

639
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: in people's lives, then your life mattered, and lives need

640
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: to matter, right, you know, you have to have an

641
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: impact every day or why do it? And so you know,

642
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 2: if what we do is give a little bit, you know,

643
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 2: if we sprinkle a little pebble into a pond and

644
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: there's a ripple fact of goodness, and then people spread goodness,

645
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: and then people that spread goodness. That's how the world changes.

646
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: And we need it, man, we need it for sure.

647
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 4: We do. It's Claire still there. I just saw her

648
00:33:59,560 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 4: walk by.

649
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: She's taking London out. So should I tell the Claire

650
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: Asy story? Can I tell that?

651
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 4: Please? I wasn't sure. Can we hype Claria for a second?

652
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: Hype Clara Claire? Claire needs the hype. Claire's really the

653
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 2: brains behind the whole operation, trust me. So when Easy

654
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 2: was here, Claire as a as an artist, she's a painter,

655
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: and uh, she sells her paintings, and you know, she's

656
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: starting to she has no confidence in it, which like

657
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 2: if Azy and I were, it's like it's like nuts, right.

658
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 2: And so Madison and Asy are in the house because

659
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: we have this little outdoor space and they had been

660
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 2: outside and they came in the house and Acy's looking

661
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 2: around at all these paintings and so they have a

662
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: communization all of them. And so Asy's looking at this

663
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: one that's pink and you know, yeah, and looking at

664
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 2: this one and looking at this one, and Madison comes

665
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: out and whispers to Claire, there's one painting that Asy

666
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: really likes. She likes that pink one, and Claire says great.

667
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: And then we come back in the house when they

668
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: were leaving and hugging a kiss and says, you really

669
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 2: like that painting? Oh yeah, I like it. So she

670
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 2: left and she looked at me. She said, let's wrap

671
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 2: it up and send it to her. I'm on the podcast, Claire,

672
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: I'm telling them all about your painting. Claire. Hello, Claire saying,

673
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: hey Claire, it's her other host who's adorable and wearing purple.

674
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 2: She's so good, so good wearing purple. I mean, you

675
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 2: had me at your jacket man. And so so we

676
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 2: go to Katie and say, what's an address that we

677
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 2: can send Asy the painting? And Katie says, are you sure?

678
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 2: And we're like yeah. So we sent it to her

679
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 2: Irish papa.

680
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: Uh oh my goodness, and.

681
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: Katie took a video of her unwrapping it. Asy had

682
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 2: no idea. She's like, why are.

683
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 4: You show me?

684
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 2: You know, you know, our daughters blow you know what

685
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 2: to their moms. You know, that's just normal, Like what's

686
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 2: going on here? Then she opened it.

687
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: And it's my first real piece of art in my room.

688
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: I was like, it's too nice to be. I feel

689
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 1: like it's too nice for a college apartment.

690
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: You know, no way, it's adult and look what are

691
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,479
Speaker 2: you doing this year? It's giving you confidence and love,

692
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: it's giving you, it's emanating those vibes like, get you

693
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 2: what it is.

694
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 4: It's the first thing I see when I wake up.

695
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 4: My wa'st so heavy.

696
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 6: You know.

697
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm learning.

698
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 4: I'm learning from it and staying on top of that

699
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 4: lingo I am.

700
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 2: I'm trying. I have a lot of you know, I

701
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 2: got a lot of twenty somethings that worked for me.

702
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 2: They got to relate to me. They're like, hey, you're

703
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: a dinosaur, and I'm like, I talk to you l

704
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: that's right, You're gonna come with me. You're gonna I

705
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 2: got so bad that's crazy. Oh my goodness.

706
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 3: Okay, back to the basketball and business of things. Do

707
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 3: you see a similarity between basketball and business?

708
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think that basketball is you know, it's team

709
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 2: and and it's learning the strengths of your teammates and

710
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: then you know you're not going to throw the ball

711
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: to the right if that's not good for them to

712
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: get the ball on the right right, So it's that

713
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 2: having empathy. It's building a team, it's building camaraderie, and

714
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 2: it's doing it together. And I think when you run

715
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: a business, like the most important thing is to build

716
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 2: the team around you. And like, I know the things

717
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 2: now that I really suck at, and I suck at

718
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 2: a lot of things, and so I don't and so

719
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 2: you build This is this is the Actually if I

720
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 2: was given anyone advice listening about a business. The problem

721
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: with most businesses is a CEO or a founder doesn't

722
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: recognize where they're not strong, so that it's it's what

723
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 2: I call the ego gap. You try to convince yourself

724
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 2: you're graded everything, so then you don't put enough great

725
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 2: people around you. And if you don't put great people

726
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 2: around you, you can't scale a business. A lot of

727
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 2: people don't know this, but I'm happy to talk about it.

728
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: I have a coach. I have an executive coach that

729
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: I meet with once a week and I talk about

730
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: problems and concerns I have and places that I need

731
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 2: to develop in my own consciousness, raising and where I

732
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: make mistakes and trying to understand them and build more resilience.

733
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: And so I think it's very much like that, right,

734
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 2: because a lot of athletes have not just strengths coaches

735
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 2: or coaches to get them in physical strength, but you

736
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 2: should have mental coaches who are helping you think through

737
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: those challenges.

738
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 4: And my second thib.

739
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think it's like anything else once you

740
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 2: embrace your human All of us are human. We have

741
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 2: a genius inside of us, and we have places that

742
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 2: we're not as strong at. And life is, if I'm

743
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: going to give you advice, life as all about one thing.

744
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 2: Find that genius and don't do anything else. And because

745
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: it's all about your happiness. And once you find that

746
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 2: inside of you, that ignition point, then don't don't try

747
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: to be something you're not. Just be you. You is great.

748
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 2: You is perfect the way it is so you.

749
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 4: It's all you got.

750
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 2: You got it, you know, don't try to be what's

751
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,479
Speaker 2: that saying? Don't try to be anybody else they're already taken.

752
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

753
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 2: So, like when you find you and you just are,

754
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: don't blame yourself and love yourself and you're happy with

755
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 2: yourself and accept yourself. Life is all about finding that.

756
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 2: If you can find that, that's what I want for

757
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 2: my kid, That's what I want for Madison. I want

758
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 2: her to find to herself whatever that thing is and

759
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 2: then just do it and be a happy, productive person

760
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: in the world. So that's why I think business and

761
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 2: playing sports, playing playing basketball are very very similar.

762
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 4: I love that so much. I'm taking notes.

763
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: See what I see in Asy that's happening is she's

764
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 2: finding her. She's finding her, and that's why she's I mean,

765
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 2: she's so talented. But also I can see you blossoming

766
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 2: right like you're You're finding you, not what your parents want,

767
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 2: not what your friends want, not what your agent wants,

768
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: not what Amy wants you, what do you want? And

769
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: then stand in that space, Asy and eat.

770
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: That is exactly my goal right now, find myself and eat.

771
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: You couldn't have said it better, actually, cottage cheese, because

772
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: we have.

773
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 4: We talk about.

774
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 2: We talked about it's the perfect food.

775
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 5: It is.

776
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 2: Thank you, it's the perfect food. It's there's no it's

777
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: like not even question. You can't even question my right,

778
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 2: It's like the perfect food. You can eat it by itself,

779
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: you can add things to it. It's got great protein,

780
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 2: it's low in calories, like it's it's just magnificent. That's all.

781
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 3: It is.

782
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 2: Easy, I mean we were made for each other. I know.

783
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 2: She told me she's like, I love cot She was, Oh,

784
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: I know what. You were going back and making some

785
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 2: cookies with Cak after our photo shoot. Oh, I go,

786
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 2: what are you going to make cookies of? Because Claire

787
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 2: is also a chef. I'm super lucky and.

788
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 4: Claire is a great chef, a phenomenal chef.

789
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, And you won Claire's heart, not just at

790
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: the painting, but you ate every piece of the food.

791
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 2: That was all a trick. It was a track crazy.

792
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 2: It was like whoa good wow, where's that going? Man?

793
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: And so you told me that you were going home

794
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 2: to make cookies with Cak, And I go, what kind

795
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 2: of cookies? You go? I don't know, something with cottage cheese.

796
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 2: And I thought, oh my god, I go cot I

797
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 2: love cottage cheese. And then we were off. We were

798
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 2: off were you don't like it? Ashante? I think?

799
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 4: I think I haven't tried I haven't tried it. Yes,

800
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 4: I have never tried cottage.

801
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonnat like I get I'm getting your text number

802
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna start. You know, did you try it?

803
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 4: Recommendations?

804
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: Ezy? Do you have her address? We got to send

805
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: her some kindage.

806
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it actually right now, and I'm gon

807
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 3: FaceTime you to try it. I said I would, so

808
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 3: I got you. So what's your go to cottage?

809
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 4: She's meal?

810
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 2: Oh, I have so many of them, it's crazy. Uh,

811
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: for lunch a lot. I have that. If you haven't

812
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: bought good, that's the best kind. That's called good. And

813
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: I have that with poached eggs.

814
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 3: You get you eggs. Okay, azy, I would ask this question,

815
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 3: but I feel like it's all of it.

816
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 4: But go ahead. What's your go to cottage? Cheese?

817
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: Anything? Everything? I feel like you have been making a

818
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: lot of bulls recently. Like put it in the bottom

819
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: of the bowl. That's the bottom.

820
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 4: I'll mix it.

821
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, some quene waw, some spinach or mixed greens, and

822
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: then whatever, chicken, salmon, some other veggies and catta sheets.

823
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 4: Mix it up and it's perfect.

824
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: Okay. Put Claire puts tomato, sauce and meatballs on it.

825
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 4: Yump.

826
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah's insane good. It sounds like a perfect dinner, right help. Okay,

827
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: So now it's time for what's the fud of the week.

828
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: What's the fud of the week. It's something that just

829
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: made you go, what the fud? It can be good, bad, crazy, silly,

830
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: whatever you want, as long as it made you go,

831
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:43,959
Speaker 1: what the fudd?

832
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 4: I want? Yeah, wants to start, and you're gonna start.

833
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: Start. So I was in a restaurant the other day

834
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 2: having dinner with a bunch of friends and the server

835
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 2: was like from a different planet, and basically there were

836
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 2: five of us, and so we were six of us,

837
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: six of us. So we were trying to put a

838
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: chair at the end of the table and this guy

839
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 2: was not having it, and we know the manager of

840
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: the restaurant who came over and was trying to tell

841
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 2: the server that it was perfectly fine, and the servers like,

842
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 2: this is my station and they just have like a

843
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: huge thing and like we're all like the patrons like

844
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: looking at it. And so she won it let us

845
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 2: put the chair there. And then he was not in

846
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 2: a good mood. He was like given throwing us attitude

847
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 2: shade the whole time, the whole time. So it was

848
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 2: it was kind of crazy, and I was like, the

849
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 2: big bubble, What the fud, That's what I thought?

850
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 4: That is over that that's crazy that it got so

851
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 4: worked up over there.

852
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: He was hus carving his space, man his space in

853
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 2: the room. I know, just wasn't a good look.

854
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 4: What the fud?

855
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 2: What the fud is?

856
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 4: He e a what the fud? For us?

857
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: My with the fud is the snowstorm that we just

858
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: had facts that was it was crazy. I love the

859
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: snow though, so it was beautiful and we went outside

860
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: we had to play in it, which was such just

861
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: like a what's the word I'm looking for? It was

862
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: like a whole some moment being out there with your teammates,

863
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: just clearly playing the snow, wrestling the snow, throwing snowballs

864
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: at each other.

865
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:15,959
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun.

866
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 3: I think that's pretty good. I think, my what the

867
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 3: Fun's sad? Though, And I don't want to to end

868
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 3: on no, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Tell us life's made of all sorts of things.

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Speaker 4: My what the fud is?

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Speaker 3: Kobe passed six years ago today, but it will be

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Speaker 4: That's my what the fud?

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Speaker 4: I cannot believe it's been six years.

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Speaker 3: It's like you blink and it's been six years, like

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Speaker 3: time's moving super fast, and I just remember exactly where

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Speaker 3: And uh, I don't know the spirit of Kobe came

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Speaker 3: year too, so they sure did. That's my what the

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Speaker 3: fud of the week maybe thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: You are welcome so much. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Amy, thank you so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Honor and being someone that I look up to and

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Speaker 1: aspire to be just half the person you are means

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Speaker 2: Love you, Azy and a shot say I didn't know

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