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Speaker 1: This is kJ Live with Chris Johnson, and Chris is

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Speaker 1: having conversations with influencers in the sports world and entertainment industry.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Chris Johnson. You're now too dead to kJ Live.

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Speaker 1: Today's guest on the show is a long time sports

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Speaker 1: medical professional that has worked with the likes of the

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Speaker 1: w n B A, s l A Sparks, Floyd Mayweather's

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Speaker 1: t m T organization, and the U s A basketball

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Speaker 1: national team. Let's welcome in Courtney. Excuse me, Dr Courtney

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Speaker 1: Watson to the show. What's up, court I'm gonna call

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Speaker 1: you court right. What's up? He's do you think about

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Speaker 1: my l A Sparks. I'm not so sure you did.

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Speaker 1: I did. Once we play this back, you'll hear me

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Speaker 1: say in the beginning the w e n B A,

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Speaker 1: s l A Sparks where you were, where you won

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Speaker 1: a championship in two thousand and sixteen. Before we start

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Speaker 1: talking about that, I just need to know how are

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Speaker 1: you're doing. I know you've been on the road. Life

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Speaker 1: has been kind of hectic. Catch yourself on what's been

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Speaker 1: going on. We haven't. You haven't been on the show

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Speaker 1: in about a year, so you know, get us all

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Speaker 1: up to speed on what's been happening with Dr Cort.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm happy to be home back in

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Speaker 1: l A. I felt like maybe the last time I

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Speaker 1: was here could have been when I was talking to you. Uh,

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Speaker 1: come and go out of home. But it's not to

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Speaker 1: like l A, especially when you travel and work and

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Speaker 1: just you know, I'm just blessed, truly and thankful for

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Speaker 1: all the opportunities. But this year, I'm just like dedicating

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Speaker 1: more to myself and just leving myself and being proud

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Speaker 1: of myself and sharing for myself right now. Not to

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Speaker 1: be selfish by any matter, but sometimes you have to be,

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Speaker 1: because I think being living and working and training and

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Speaker 1: just being so all involved and just beings all passionate

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Speaker 1: about what I do, sometimes you can lose sight of

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Speaker 1: all your accomplishments and the blessings that are put you know,

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Speaker 1: bestowed on you. So I'm constantly reminded that by a

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Speaker 1: lot of mentors and my a lot of family members.

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Speaker 1: But I feel it now that I really should just

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Speaker 1: loving on myself a little bit more this year. So

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Speaker 1: that's what since I've seen you last. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 1: the work life balance. I mean it's you can't get

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Speaker 1: to consume with one or the other, especially in the

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Speaker 1: field that you were in in being one of the

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Speaker 1: very best in the world and what you do. No. Last,

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Speaker 1: you were at the Olympics with Team Nigeria right during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. Talk a little bit about the experience down

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Speaker 1: in Japan. I believe with Team Nigeria. Yeah, I want

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Speaker 1: to Tokyo for uh my first Olympics. Um, my parents.

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Speaker 1: It was fun, it was exciting, It was like a dream.

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Speaker 1: It was all the things I thought of that it

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Speaker 1: But I was the head athletics trainer with the Nigerian

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Speaker 1: national team and they were a great bunch of girls.

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Speaker 1: The coaching staff was wonderful and um this was the

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Speaker 1: doing what they could do. Um. I just did as

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Speaker 1: much as I could to help them feel good. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We were just brand new with each other. I did

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Speaker 1: Nica gu McKay and Schenea gu McKay and their little sister,

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Speaker 1: uh Erica. But they were really just wanting to go

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Speaker 1: play Neck and Shane, but their sister did. And it

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Speaker 1: was just a great opportunity for us to get out

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Speaker 1: there and just show what we could do from all

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Speaker 1: stages of sports and all, you know, every level, the

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Speaker 1: So it was an enjoyable moment for sure. Would you

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Speaker 1: describe Tokyo during the pandemic. I know, Japan and a

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Speaker 1: wearing masks and had adopted already kind of had a

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Speaker 1: that in Tokyo when you were there? It wasn't worse

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Speaker 1: weren't allowed to see other events, which was kind of

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Speaker 1: But you know, the experience within itself was still amazing.

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Speaker 1: We lived inside of the village and UM, you know

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Speaker 1: there was some things going around about, you know, our

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Speaker 1: But you know we made it with it. That bad

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Speaker 1: as it was being described in the media reports. UM,

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Speaker 1: Japan is very uh you know, they to me, they

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Speaker 1: that's what That's what I was able to do. But

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Speaker 1: So I wasn't that bad, now, did you? That was

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Speaker 1: just educating us on Instagram, your your Instagram, your story.

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Speaker 1: But I'll go through everyone because because no, because you

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Speaker 1: There was so many different you know, rules and protocols

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Speaker 1: medicine here. I like to call us the mecca of medicine.

432
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 1: A lot of my we know that, whether we're U

433
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: c l A, Cedar SINAI, you know, from from that perspective,

434
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 1: and then we get into the thick of things with

435
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: like all the other colleges and medical programs that we

436
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: have here. California has a huge um you know, range

437
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 1: of specialists, and so I feel like the development of

438
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: just evolution of life right and how everything is perceived

439
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: for us right now, I think that we are getting

440
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: to the point where the resources UM have are definitely

441
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: suitable to help athletes returning to play sooner than what

442
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: we're that would back when you know, we were playing

443
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: or you were playing. And yeah, because I was a

444
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: guy that I wish I had a quartz corner around

445
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: when I was coming up, although I did have a

446
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: decent athletic trainer and Tony Spino at U c l

447
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: A who really took care of me a lot. But

448
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: the advancements in technology really stand out. How quickly guys

449
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: are coming back from certain injuries. I remember, like, I

450
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: always be shocked and I see a dude coming back

451
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: on on the A c l in like seven months,

452
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: eight months now or or or or an achilles, you know,

453
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: and and just in just a time period that didn't

454
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: seem feasible. You know what I'm saying, court Like these

455
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: guys are and a lot of this too, is is

456
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: on the these guys and girls on the professional level.

457
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: There's more of a mindfulness about minutes. There's more of

458
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: a mindfulness about the longevity of the athlete than there

459
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: was back in the day, where it was more you

460
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: were a piece of meat. Nowadays, the athlete actually has,

461
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: you know, as a person with a brand. And you

462
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: know what, the athlete had started developing brands, they had

463
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: to stop treating them like ship. And that was just it, Like,

464
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: once we got a brand, bro, you gotta stop treating

465
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: me like oh no. And when I say ship, I

466
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: don't mean like athletes back in the day were treated

467
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: oh so bad. But we know the difference between the

468
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties in today, you know. Um, I guess

469
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: one of the other things I wanted to really kind

470
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: of dive into with you as the first athletic training,

471
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: female athletic trainer in the sport of boxing. My first

472
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: question about that was is how long did it take

473
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: you before you felt like you had fully earned the

474
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: trust of Floyd Mayweather as a trainer, as an as

475
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: a medical trainer. I've been involved in boxing for a

476
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: long time because of my family, know, my uncle, my dad,

477
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: my cousin's We've been around boxing since I was young,

478
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: So I, um, I loved it at a young age.

479
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: You know, sounds very passionate about the sport. I never

480
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: really saw myself working in boxing, um because I never

481
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: saw anyone that looks like me doing any of these

482
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: things that I was, you know, my profession. So when

483
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: I started realizing that where's the trainer, you know, where's

484
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: an athletic trainer, Where's the therapist? Where who's helping these guys?

485
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: And there was no one, you know, there was a

486
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: few that you would see here and there, but besides

487
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: the cut man, right really, but see the cut man,

488
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: And that's that's what I would always focus in on,

489
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:47,959
Speaker 1: you know. It was like the cut man and how

490
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: they managed and how they taped and wrapped and how

491
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: they you know, managed all that medical blood and stopped

492
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: it real fast. I was fascinated by that, and so

493
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: that to me was like, Okay, I want to do that.

494
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: I thought I wanted to be like a cut girl,

495
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: cut lady. You know. I never knew that I would

496
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: right now, I was. I was so excited about it.

497
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: Every single time there was a fight. Most of the time,

498
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: it was for us just to tune in and see

499
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: my uncle Sam, you know, like there he is. We

500
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: see him behind every boxer, you know, back in the

501
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: Sugarade watch. He was always there, and so we would

502
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: come to those same fights. We would be there, we

503
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: would watch. But I noticed for myself, I was always

504
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: watching the corner, you know, And so when I started

505
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: saying to myself, like, okay, who helps these guys afterwards?

506
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: You know, And over time it became something that I

507
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: never really saw. And so I was introduced to Floyd.

508
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: He wanted to ice his body a little bit better.

509
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: He wanted to take care of himself. A little bit better.

510
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: He was already about forty two forty three and oh,

511
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: and he said, I don't get hurt. He always was

512
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: very confident about saying that I don't get hurt. But yeah,

513
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: I can take a little bit care. I don't like

514
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: it as much as I could I should. Maybe it's

515
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: too cold, you know, find another way. And so my

516
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: experience with him at the beginning of it was, uh,

517
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: something that I felt like really impacted him and he

518
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: it really showed up when I took him to introduced

519
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: him in the cryo therapy chamber. And that was something

520
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: that I heard about from Kobe, from Caddus Parker at

521
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: the time. They were talking and I'm like, cryotherapy, what

522
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: is that? What is what is cryotherapy chamber? To praise

523
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: below zero? Uh? Two thousand, I don't know about eight

524
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: or nine or something. And so you introduced the champ

525
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: to crywd therapy. He does he initially does he like

526
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: is he because it's cold? That is cold? You gotta

527
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: get in there, no shirt? So I mean, how did

528
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: he you know, was he receptive at first or what? Well?

529
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: He is like the most focus determined person I've ever

530
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: met in my life, Like he is not playing when

531
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: it comes up kids like you look up that word.

532
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: He's there. So when he you know, I had to

533
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: explain to him, like, you don't get wet, because he

534
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: didn't like the ice baths thought of it. You know,

535
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: it's too cold. It's like, I want to get that cold.

536
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: I said, okay, well this prior therapy chamber, you don't

537
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: get wet. And he's like, how is that possible for

538
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: you to be that cold? So we met in Beverly Hills.

539
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: There was a cry on healthcare that I took him

540
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: to UM and UM. At the time, there's only about

541
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: three in the whole country, and Kobe had one. And

542
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: so that helped me understand like, if Kobe's level of

543
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, being able to understand that he can get

544
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: in this two or three times a day, UM, maybe

545
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: I can convince Floyd to do the same. That was

546
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: my thought process for introducing him to that. And it worked.

547
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: It worked, It worked. He uh got in the chamber

548
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: and uh he understood it. It was called. A couple

549
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: of the other members of the team got in as well,

550
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: and it's up to three minutes. I think they we're

551
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: gonna do two minutes. And they said Kobe Dust three.

552
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: Floyd does not play around when it comes to a

553
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: challenge free and they're like, um, you know, after to

554
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: studies show that it doesn't really work. For the third one,

555
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do three. He did three times, did three

556
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: times in the chamber. So that was funny but cool,

557
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, this guy is amazing. And so

558
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: after that experience, he looked at me and he was like,

559
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Like who are you? You know?

560
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: And uh? I told him I'm an athletic trainer, you know.

561
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: And He's like, Okay, what's that mean? Because the trainer

562
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: is the person who's in there trying to teach you

563
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: how And I was like, no, I'm not that. I

564
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not teaching you how to box it.

565
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: You got that all covered, I said. I'm just the

566
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: person who helps you make sure that you manage your health,

567
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: safety of your body, making sure that you take care

568
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: of your injuries if they happen, dealing with prevention and rehabilitation,

569
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: but most impartanly understanding recovery. And I feel like a

570
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: lot of these athletes missed that part. And so Floyd

571
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: was all about that recovery aspect. Uh, he trains hard,

572
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: so he had to recover hard. So we just started

573
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: working together. From then on. I would fly back and

574
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: forth from Vegas during my season, sometimes in the middle

575
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: of the night. He's a night owl. Now that's true,

576
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: right and so so so Court, I got you, I

577
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: got you here so you can confirm like this these

578
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: stories of of of the champs just crazy hours and

579
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: training kind of off kilter methods. That's all facts. Oh yeah, hey,

580
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: you guys see him. We would go out to a

581
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: little club some of the night and then I think

582
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: he was on TV show that he um popped his

583
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: trunk and pulled his workout shoes, put his shoes on,

584
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: and ran normal. Yeah we did that often. Wow. Yeah, yeah,

585
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: we would hang out. Would be twenty four hours, you know,

586
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: really worked twenty hours. One time I stayed up for

587
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: fifty two hours. Great, yeah, him, how did you stay up?

588
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: You don't drink coffee? I don't. I went into the

589
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: bat while I do now I do. Now. I went

590
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: into the bathroom a couple of times and look at

591
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: myself in the mirror and I'm like, you are here,

592
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, you better stay up? And this was it was.

593
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: It was It was like a little dream, you know.

594
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: It felt so good. But he was so focused and determined.

595
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: He had it all mapped out how he wanted to run,

596
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: work out, put his time in the gym. You know,

597
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: he's his own coach. He has a team, but he

598
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: is very self motivated, self driven. So those type of

599
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 1: things I'll start wearing on me. You know, I'm like,

600
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: if this guy can do it. I thought I was

601
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: so much older than Floyd. He has a little we

602
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: have an inside joke that, um, I thought that I

603
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: was older than him because he looks so young, right.

604
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: We we did some medical work before and the doctors

605
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: like him blood of an eighteen year old. And so

606
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: now he was walking around like I'm gonna make tea

607
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: your own body. But we have an inside joke that

608
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: I started knowing. Like as I was working on him,

609
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: we would listen to the same kind of music and

610
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: it would be like old school R and B. You know,

611
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: Joe to See and that, you know, Bobby Brown, that

612
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: was like our favorite. And I was He's singing and

613
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, hold do you He's like, oh do you

614
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: think I and I never really checked and he was

615
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm way older than you, and he

616
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: was like, no, you're not. So he used to call

617
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: me Auntie sometimes so that I was older than so.

618
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: Um A good times, you know. And he just is

619
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: a hard worker. And that's what still that hard. I mean.

620
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: I was already coming in as a hard work. I

621
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: think he recognized that, but I feel like it really

622
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,959
Speaker 1: took that focus to be able to do what we're

623
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: doing on this level. Then again, I went back and

624
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: I told you that before about bringing my team. I

625
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: had Dr Michel He uh, he worked with me with

626
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: the Sparks. I knew needed a little bit more around

627
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: rounded team, you know, and so I started bringing in

628
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: a few others. He had a massage therapist already. UM,

629
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: so we all just started finding our lanes and working

630
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: well together, and it just became it was all women

631
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: that was working with Floyd as well. Um, but it

632
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: was a massage therapist and myself and I kind of

633
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: just directed and organized everything and just helped him feel

634
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: the best he could. Um. But the moment that you said,

635
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 1: what was the moment that made him feel like he

636
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: can trust me? It was after the Hello fight Canello,

637
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: and I was still coming back and forth trying to

638
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: show my skills every now and then, and just you know,

639
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: I could for him and then leave out and go

640
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: work like I was not there, you know, and I

641
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: he fought Canelo, and Canelo kind of hit him with

642
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: a low shot in his upper quad areas quad was that,

643
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, he had a little contusion there, and so

644
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: he called us over in the middle of the night

645
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: after the fight. He thought he could kind of walk

646
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: it off, but it bothered him a little bit, and

647
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: he came and you know, that morning, we stayed up

648
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: and we worked on him by morning and then he

649
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: went to sleep. And then when he woke up that

650
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: next day, he walked down the stairs and he he's

651
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: I can hear him because I'm laying on the couch.

652
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: He walked down the stairs and he's like, hey, wait

653
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: a minute, I can move my leg. I'm not lipping,

654
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: you know. And he was realizing it himself, without anyone

655
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: around him or in front of us. But I feel

656
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: like that moment, he couldn't believe how much better he

657
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: got from the time that he was in the fight

658
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: till till after. And yeah, we became like his team

659
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: after that, you know. That's to me, that was that day,

660
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: that He was like, Okay, she knows what she's doing.

661
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: Let me continue to work and be around. A matter

662
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: of fact, let me invite her to the Maddie Pacquiao

663
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: Floit Mayweather fight, a century type of fighting. I was there.

664
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: He had his little corner in section close. Yeah, that's fun, Like,

665
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: come on, that's ridiculous. Wow, Court, But you've seen a

666
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. You've seen some You've been around some

667
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: high level athletes. And we didn't even mention the two

668
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen w NBA championship with Sparks Candis Parker, that experience.

669
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: Candice wanted championship with the with the Sky Huh she did? Yes?

670
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: How about that? How just just talk about that? Just

671
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: Candice leaving l A, going to Chicago and then winning

672
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: a championship? What did that mean for her legacy as

673
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: an all type great? Yeah, it's huge legacy. I mean,

674
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: she's a legend. You know. I love Candice. She she

675
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: I worked with her. It was her first year that

676
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: I came back to the l A Sparks, well, her

677
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: second year. My first year with the Sparks was Canvas

678
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: and second year, my first year with the Sparks was

679
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: also Lisa Leslie's final season. Yes, that's right, I forgot

680
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: about that. I'm at the same time with Delicia Melt

681
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: and Tina Thompson. That's crazy, that's crazy. He should find

682
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: a chair on Noel Quinn. We really, I mean Ebone Hoffman.

683
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: All those girls were like huge at the time, you know,

684
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: and yeah, we were all. I didn't know you. I

685
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: didn't know that. I did not know it was all

686
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: of them on one squat because look, I used to

687
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: hoop against Lisa and Tina when they were at s C.

688
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: They'd come up to U C. L A. And they,

689
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: you know, try to get in the runs. I don't

690
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: sometimes they played. Other times they play with us only

691
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: sometimes they get in with the pros. But when they

692
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: play against us, it was a thing where you had

693
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: to play real defense and you had the body, you

694
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: had to do things like. It wasn't like, you know,

695
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: because there was gonna bust you. Tina was gonna get

696
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: you buckets. If you're going, she go up and under you.

697
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: Her and Lisa was up and under in dudes to

698
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: death like that puffect move. So I know what time

699
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: it was with them, and I can't I can't imagine

700
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: how that that squad. When you have so many big

701
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: personalities on a squad like that, does it get a

702
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: little weird or its professionals, do you get weird? But

703
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: we figured out. I think it was like in me,

704
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: I was built for that, you know what I mean.

705
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to like brag on myself, but I

706
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,479
Speaker 1: was ready for Oh. And at the end of that year,

707
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: my first year, which is Lisa's last, and I got

708
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time with her, and she

709
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: looked at me on the very last day we had

710
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 1: a team meeting and she was like, you are good.

711
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: You are really good at what you do. And She's like,

712
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: you don't ever need to forget that. She said, you

713
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: need to keep doing what you're doing. Keep loving it.

714
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: She said, I see your passion in your drive. And

715
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: she was like, I'm not surprised that you're gonna be

716
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: great in your field, you know. She was like, so

717
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: just stay focused and do that. But you're good, Corey.

718
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: So for me, I never forgot that. That to me

719
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: is why I was able to be as successful in

720
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: the w n b A as I was because of

721
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: Lisa's words and Tina's words, Tina Thompson, her and I

722
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: worked together with the Houston Comments first, and then we

723
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: both came to l A. And she's like, yeah, I

724
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: want court I want I want to have courts my

725
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: athletic trainer. Yeah, I put my name on your resume too,

726
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: Like you you're good, You're gonna be really good. You

727
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: just gotta just you know. They were perfectionists to a degree,

728
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: and it thought in me. And I was younger than them,

729
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: so I just did the best I could. But I

730
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: feel like you gotta be built from it. I think

731
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: being from l A and going through all the times

732
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: that we did growing up and seeing and experiencing you

733
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: guys play like we watched all that. I played ball

734
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: in high school, so I knew a little bit. You know,

735
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: west Chester, west Chester, That's Chester. I don't know how

736
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: you didn't end up getting to go there. I refused

737
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: to go to west Chester UM because I just I

738
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: wasn't that type of dude. I know. I was light

739
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 1: skinned with the curly top, but I was built different.

740
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: I grew up off sixty and tenth half, so I

741
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: wasn't really a true light skin. Was one of those

742
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,240
Speaker 1: light skins from over there. I was a little different

743
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: than the west Chester skin through them doing the Saint

744
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: Bernards and Lindara. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't with that,

745
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: you know of me. I lived there, but I wasn't

746
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: with it. Why are you gonna be talking about all

747
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: that right now? I don't know. Just you know when

748
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: you said west Chester, so that a shotow I have?

749
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: You know, I left west Chester as an athlete, scholar athlete.

750
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: I went to Berkeley, but I came back to west Chester.

751
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: So I got double love for them, and we won

752
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: thirteen years in the rows. I got thirteen rings with

753
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: question dominance. Every year. We were number one in the country. Uh,

754
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: the boys, the men's team was number one in the

755
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,479
Speaker 1: country when I was. When you played Lebron, you guys

756
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: played Lebron. We did. We played Lebron his senior year,

757
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: and uh, it was a great experience to to to experience,

758
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: you know, to see that and to feel that in

759
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Cord, I tell you what if you were

760
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: deeply rooted into the fabric of this l a basketball

761
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: sports culture thing over the last probably five years or so,

762
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: like you are the person that's considered an influencer, a leader,

763
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: someone that we all look up to. Some of someone

764
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: that really inspires us all with her, with your ability,

765
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: You're you're just amazing, just the fact that you gave

766
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: so much to this our basketball community, your time, your

767
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: efforts for the sake of our health. Like people do

768
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: not understand the careers you've saved, the lot of the

769
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: careers you've you know, made longer short or whatever. When

770
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: when when Court Corner shows up at a summer league,

771
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 1: a drew league, a real run, wherever this pro league,

772
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: wherever it is that you are, that means that on

773
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: that day we have that place has medical attention. So

774
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: that's not something that's always happening. People aren't always paying

775
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: for that. So let's get it clear. So when when

776
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,760
Speaker 1: Court with your hey day, I mean you were literally

777
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: donating your time, your efforts, money and all that for us,

778
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: for athletes, for the greater good of the athlete. And

779
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: that's what makes you truly a special, special individual. That's

780
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: a rare one of a time. We're so proud of

781
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: you that you have earned your doctorate degree. And I

782
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to ask about that process and you know,

783
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: just you're a doctor, now, how does it feel. Yeah,

784
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: that's what I worked for. It took me twenty years,

785
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: I said, I want to be a doctor. I want

786
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: to be a doctor of athletic training. They came out

787
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: with a new doctorate program and it was meant for

788
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: me because sixteen, right when we were planning and winning

789
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: the championship with the Sparks, right when I had just

790
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: finished the Mayweather Pakia fight, I still hadn't declared that

791
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: I was gonna start my program. And I did and

792
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: I got accept it and I four years. It typically

793
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: takes about three or four years. I took one year

794
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: off to travel around the world with Floyd Mayweather, so

795
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: it was worth the time that I did take off.

796
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: And everybody is different, and I tried to playing that

797
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: to my interns and my mentees and students who are

798
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: wanting to, you know, watch my path and you know,

799
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: come before me that way. Everybody's path is different. So

800
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: for me, I took I got my master's degree. I

801
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: waited about five years after that, and then I entered

802
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: into the doctorate program and it was a great experience.

803
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: I got to do most of it online and then

804
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: the other part you would kind of come in and

805
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, meet with everyone and to see and feel

806
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: that level of athletic trainers who had enough respect for

807
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: our field to want to continue to the highest level

808
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: of education. You know, my grandmother wasn't playing around. She

809
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: was a part of me excelling in that. UM. Just

810
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: as a young age, I was almost like addicted to school,

811
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: you know, I was always around it. Even during the summertime.

812
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: I would go and just teach with my grandma and

813
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: help her UM and so it just was a part

814
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: of me. You know. So when I decided to roll

815
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: back in school, I knew I had to finish. It

816
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,959
Speaker 1: was a lot of challenges. You know, you just can't quit.

817
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: You just gotta know that there's light at the end.

818
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 1: And then while everyone was having a hard time managing

819
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: the pandemic and being on lockdown quarantined, I was quarantined

820
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: and finishing up all of my work and in September

821
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: I finished of that year. UM, I didn't get to graduate,

822
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: didn't have a typical year. You know, I felt bad

823
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: for all the other students who were going through distant

824
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: for that first time graduating, but you know, to finish

825
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: it and get my papers how I wanted. So I

826
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: wanted and it was it was fun. I enjoyed, uh

827
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: that experience in my life because I had to really

828
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: grind and I had to really focus and be disciplined.

829
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: You know, when I look back at some of my

830
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: memories and I remember, like even when I was working

831
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: with Mayweather for training camp, sometimes at it's two or

832
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning, and one time he walked

833
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: over to me in the club, like, why are you

834
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: on your phone all the time? Like that parter doing

835
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: my homework and reading articles in the club, you know,

836
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: And it's just that's my life. Like you told me earlier,

837
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: we had to live our life. I've never that I

838
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: would be in the club like trying to finish up

839
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: some work and then try to have fun too. It's

840
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: like you really have to manage yourself and believe in

841
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: yourself and know that you can finish, you know. So

842
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 1: I had an excellent experience because at my lowest point

843
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,479
Speaker 1: where I wanted to just let go and just say

844
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: this is not what I wanted to do, I had

845
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: such great people around me encouraging me. Great friends and

846
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: family members and other colleagues of mine that you know

847
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: played a role in that. So I feel like my

848
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: doctor is mine is also for the city of l

849
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: A and all the basketball, the high school levels and

850
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: the egg using the Drew leagues and everybody the rail runs.

851
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: All that was a part of what my doctorate was

852
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: really like about. You know, it was it was a

853
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: gift for us in the city because, um, I know

854
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: I put a lot of work in and do it,

855
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: but I also feel like I wouldn't have made it

856
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 1: without all you guys being a part of my life

857
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: and my family and um experience. I've worked on all

858
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: your at some point. I've helped an injury that our

859
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: an illness or something in and out of the hospital.

860
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: I've said a few people's lives and so those lives

861
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: that I've saved, they have still just impact me every

862
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: day to just keep striving to be the best that

863
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: I can and to give that and share that with

864
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: everyone with you guys as well. Fox Sports Radio has

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Speaker 1: to listen live. Well, I'll tell you what we appreciate

869
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: eat you. I personally thank you, uh just for the

870
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: person you are and and just for representing just such

871
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: a positive, just role model for kids, people of all

872
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: racist colors, ages to look up to. Like that's the

873
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: thing about it, um Man you just talked about And

874
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: I gotta let you go after this, and I want

875
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: to end on this beautiful note talking about your book

876
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:35,240
Speaker 1: that you are currently under us under construction you're writing it,

877
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: but it's talking about your journey as a young girl

878
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: from South Central like to be all the way up

879
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: to being considered a pioneer in sports medicine. Talk to

880
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: me about your book and what you the message you

881
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: want to convey and how you you know just what

882
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: you want to put in there. Well, Um, my grandmother

883
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: that she rest and cheez, she was very serious, like

884
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: I said about it. Education and and we used to

885
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: read and work and learn and study hard every day

886
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: and um, and then it became something that just was

887
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 1: a part of me and so UM as I grew

888
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: up throughout the riots in South Central, you know, that

889
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 1: was an experience for me. Um. And then leaving out

890
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: of the inner city or out the hood and going

891
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: to schools that provided that type of education that my

892
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: mother wanted me to have. Uh, that's how I ended

893
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: up at Westchester because I couldn't quite go to Manuel

894
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: arts every now and the inner city schools for me

895
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: were not kind of my my everybody in my hood

896
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: that said I was a little booge, like I was

897
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: too good to go to some of those schools, but okay,

898
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll go to Westchester. But the experience

899
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: that I had from that, you know, living an inner

900
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: city and working and trying to manage my life with

901
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters and my family, and then just

902
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: understanding the sports realm and then always having just the

903
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: energy and the focus of wanting to be something in

904
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: a professional setting as a doctor um being able to

905
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: accomplish that, I think it was huge. Gary Vady, who

906
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: is longtime Laker athletic trainer extraordinair legend. I remember my

907
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: first day on the job with the Sparks and I

908
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 1: walked into the Lakers training facility and I saw Jill

909
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: Jackson first, and then I saw Gary Vety and he's like,

910
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: who are you? What are you doing in here? And

911
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm an athlete trainer. I work for the Sparks. He's like,

912
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: you're too young to be a head trainer at the

913
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: Sparks and I was like, whoa, it's it's me. You know,

914
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: and so I got to just watch him every now

915
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: and then his energy, where he carried himself, and what

916
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: he stood for and his excellence that he put, you know,

917
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: out there, and I was just happy to be a

918
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: part of something and I wanted to share that. So

919
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: I created my internship program. I got as much experience

920
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: as I could. I did so many things that I

921
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: could to just keep transitioning of moving up. And then

922
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: the boxing world happened. So I said, you know, the

923
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: lives that I've saved was what really touched me. Jason McKinney,

924
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, he was injured and was tony could never

925
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: walk again, and now he's running around running camps and

926
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,479
Speaker 1: leagues and tournaments and of shorts and so um, I've

927
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: had a lot of experience that really touched me, a

928
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: lot of lives that I've really been able to manage.

929
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,720
Speaker 1: And so I said, I wanted to share that because

930
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: I want these young especially women professionals and athletic training.

931
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: You know now that we're breaking the glass ceilings that

932
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: term is, you know, but we're really doing big things

933
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: and pro sports and um, and we have a long

934
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: way to come. Title nine. We've been talking about that

935
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: I've done a few interviews for that UM, but just

936
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: being called a pioneer in sports medicine is like wow

937
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: to me, you know, thankful, I feel honored, UM. But

938
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: I want to share that experience and give back to

939
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: my community and give back to the young women in

940
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: in sports are just young women period, who don't know

941
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: what they want to do. I had no idea where

942
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: sports medicine even existed until I got to experience some

943
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: of these things in life in the inner city. That

944
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: helped me understand that you can be an athlete and

945
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: you can also be a doctor. You can do those

946
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: things and combine in so many different fields in arenas.

947
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: And so I feel like all of our generation and

948
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: the ones above us, and then now the ones that

949
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: are you know, below us, that need that guidance and

950
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: that that professional development, I feel like it's important to

951
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: share and to care and to help giving tips. I

952
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: was on a plane the other day and a young

953
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: lady walked up to me and she was like, I like,

954
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: when you talk about elevation, you elevate your feet, Like

955
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: that's cool. I talked my mom to do that and

956
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: her blood pressure went down, and I'm like, those are

957
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: the things that really keep me inspired to want to

958
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: keep sharing, and so I felt like, let me let

959
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: me box that all together. So Gary V came to

960
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: me not too long ago when I was in the

961
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: bubble season and he invited did me to be a

962
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: part of send me a message and he says, I'm

963
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: working on um you know, he's a girl dad and

964
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: at the time, you know him and Kobe, Kobe had

965
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: passed and he said, I'm really going to work my

966
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: next project on dedicating it to women in sports medicine,

967
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 1: and I want to reach out to the top twenty

968
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: five women in the world to have impacted us into

969
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: our country and have been a part of something bigger

970
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: than just themselves and want to share their story. And

971
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking like is he talking to me? And he

972
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 1: was talking to me. He said that I was top

973
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: women in sports medicine and he wanted me to share

974
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: my story and as an athletic trainer. So that is

975
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 1: what inspired me the most because I'm like, yeah, I

976
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: think back and I have to write different experiences. Whether

977
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: it was the USA team, we didn't get a chance

978
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: to talk about that too much, but I had my

979
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: experience with the USA national team, not just with the

980
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: USA three on three team, and and so I loved

981
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: it all, and I thought it was a great idea,

982
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: and I started really loving and enjoying writing different stories

983
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: and talking about my past and experience. It kind of

984
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,959
Speaker 1: taught me who I really am and I can share

985
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: with others. And I feel like that is what really

986
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: guided me to create this book that I'm putting together.

987
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's about to be good. You better

988
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: get the rights to the movie because once the book dropped,

989
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to make the movie. So you I know,

990
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: I know the Watson is gonna have it all locked up.

991
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: So I'm not even really tripping on that. But when

992
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: you do drop it, Court, I need you to come

993
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: back to the show. Come back, and we're gonna talk

994
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: about it. I'm gonna have read it. I want to

995
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: sign autograph copy, and I'm gonna break it down. Court.

996
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: It's been a great it's been a real conversation today.

997
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy

998
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: schedule to come by kJ Live. Thank you for having me.

999
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about drinking water. You know, I'm never

1000
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: gonna forget that. I guess I know. So so let

1001
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 1: me and we won't leave them with this note because

1002
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: I think that it's very important. As we head into

1003
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: the spring and summer, a lot of us are trying

1004
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: to work out a little more, trying to eat right,

1005
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 1: trying to eat salad now for the first time in

1006
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: like a year. Um, I want to get some tips,

1007
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: some nutritional tips, some health tips, some living tips, some

1008
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 1: you know, some tips on how I can maximize my

1009
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: existence on this planet on a daily basis. Yeah, I

1010
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm always drinking water. I was looking around

1011
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,720
Speaker 1: and see if you had some water somewhere around you.

1012
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: What is that? Okay? All right? Good for you? Learn anything?

1013
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: You know. I'm always gonna talk about water in any

1014
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: two or a conversation that I have half of your

1015
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: body and I'm representing censure right now because it's a good,

1016
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: clean water. But at the same time, half of your

1017
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: body weight and ounces is what everybody should drink daily.

1018
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: So if you weigh two hundred pounds, I'm not saying

1019
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: that right to the towns, but if you did, you

1020
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 1: take half of that, which is one crazy that's a

1021
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: lot of water. Court that's I'm to seventy five six

1022
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: five in it. Yeah, I'm like, that's a lot of

1023
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of water to drink. It is

1024
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: a lot of water. But if you manage it well,

1025
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: you should drink half of what you need by the

1026
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: first half of the day. Just get just get it in.

1027
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: So but all I gotta say about drinking water because

1028
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people say that, Okay, you can over

1029
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: drink water too, and that's not healthy for you. But

1030
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: you can under drinking and now you're dehydrated. So number

1031
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,280
Speaker 1: one sign of dehydration. It's like itchy ness. If you're itching,

1032
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,959
Speaker 1: that's not a good thing. I mean, your skin, which

1033
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: is the largest burgan in our body, needs more hydration

1034
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: our brain. If you drink more water, you can think straight,

1035
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: you can think more clear, you know what I mean.

1036
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: Like those are perks. Your skin starts to act cool

1037
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 1: if you drink water. A lot of compliments on my skin.

1038
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: I take pride in that. I'm very thankful for the

1039
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: compliments I get. I'm not saying I don't eat chips

1040
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: and all kind of extra little stuff to chips. I

1041
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: threw some chips a way today because Cort, what kind

1042
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: of chips you need? Real chips? I had a nice

1043
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: sandwich and I love Dorito's cheese. I'm not needing, not

1044
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: an extra, just give me the basics. And so that's

1045
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: who I am. You told me no chili birdie. But

1046
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: I just got home recently. I've been traveling for months.

1047
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm thankful to be back in l A. And so

1048
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: I got to drink more water and I started a

1049
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: little juice cleans to help me prepare for the spark

1050
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: season because I just want to have my energy together.

1051
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: I know, I overjoyed and enjoyed a whole bunch of

1052
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: fun times and good food while I was out of

1053
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: the country and just lemon and working. So I started

1054
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: a three day juice cleans and so that's where I'm

1055
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: at right now. That's why I threw the chips away,

1056
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: because I just want to get and feel get rid

1057
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: of some toxins. The toxins is what weighs you down,

1058
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, and it allows that brain talk to go away.

1059
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: I need that. I need my mentor on straight, and

1060
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: I need my skin cool, and I need my digestive

1061
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: system to act the best that it can, because that

1062
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: is like your other brain. It helps to manage so

1063
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: much with your organs and your immune system. And as

1064
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: we know what we've been facing in these last two

1065
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: or three years with this immune system, wearing your mask

1066
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: all the time, your body goes to like a little

1067
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: shock every now and then it can stay shocked, and

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00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: now you experience allergies and sciences issues, and you know,

1069
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: bloating and just bad digestives problems. Things are not moving.

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00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: Your blood has to circulate. So I like to focus

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00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: on blood circulation because that's what it helps manage so

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00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: much of what your body has to feel and give

1073
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: out each day with your energy level. So what could

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00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: I take to help that? Like thornberry, elderberry is dead,

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00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: berry is good. I really like oil over Reaguano. I

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00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: don't know if you've heard of that. Yeah, oil ever reaguane.

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00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: It's an herb. It's a liquid form. I like whole foods.

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00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: I get it from Hopeful. So that's your droplet. I

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00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: was wondering what the droplet was. I've seen you play droplets. Yeah,

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00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: I've seen that. I've seen that on your story. I

1081
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: was like, what's she doing over here? Man? It's spicy.

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00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: I love sharing that with my athletes and with people

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00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: who have experiences of like not sure what to do

1084
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: about managing things like scinuses and digestive issues. But it

1085
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: helps with your digestive track. But if you hold on

1086
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: to all the sugar and the salt and those things,

1087
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: your body doesn't have a way to get it out.

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00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: So we gotta push it through. And that is a

1089
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: great way to push things through. Is oil ever reagune

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00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: and tie inflammatory. If you're an athlete or just a

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01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: person who has it with any type of information issues

1092
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: in your body, you should just take in tumoric, whether

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01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: it's the real powder version or the tumeric root. Or

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01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: I had a latte. They're making latte's with tumeric in

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01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,919
Speaker 1: it and it tastes good. I had like three of them.

1096
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: I was I was killing the tumor, got up feeling great.

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01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: It makes you feel good and alive. So I'm always

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01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: gonna recommend that. And then another thing, like when we're

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Speaker 1: having signs issue. I always say signs issues because I

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01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 1: have them, but I definitely got to control them. And

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01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: um again, it's about the blood flow. Okay, everything, congestion, infection,

1102
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: everything is lacking blood flow, and water always helps. I

1103
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: like ginger, you know, Ginger helps to get that blood

1104
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: to act right and better in the powder or the root.

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01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 1: I up, I like the root. The powder is not bad,

1106
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: but I like the root. I'm gonna try to be

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01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: as rag as you can with the ginger, so ginger,

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01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: you know, boiling it and just kind of drinking at

1109
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: his tea. Um, it's a good thing. Okay, So know

1110
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: those Um what what type of supplement over the counter

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01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: can a guy that's in it's you know my age

1112
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: mid forties that you know is sort of high strung

1113
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: at times that I want to kind of be a

1114
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 1: little calmer in my day to day. What should I

1115
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: what should I be uh looking at when I go

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01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: to g n c um, Well, I'm more on the

1117
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: well onness side of like Ashwa Ganda. That's something to

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01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: look up. Like when I say things, I really like

1119
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: when people go and look at it, but like don't

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01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: don't ask me what it does, but they actually kind

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01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: of go and check out. I've actually ordered it before

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01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: under under your suggestion. I actually I tried it and

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01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: it had me feel it a little weird at first,

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01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 1: but then I I was pretty pretty good. I never

1125
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: re up, but I needed to. I take also panathonic acid.

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01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of that? Yeah? So I take

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01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,440
Speaker 1: that that is. Actually my grandmother showed me that when

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01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: I was about eleven years old, like, but we'll take

1129
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: you a couple of these. You calmed down. Here take these.

1130
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: So I took that my whole life because I would

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01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: just remember my grandmother, this is gonna calm me down,

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01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: so let me see acid. But but and then I

1133
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: take up. I was like, take, I take zinc. I

1134
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: love taking zinc. Also system Zinc is what helps you

1135
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: to keep your senses together. Remember how during the pandemic

1136
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: time you can lose your taste and smell. Zinc is

1137
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: what that come back. It helps to strength your immune system.

1138
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: But it definitely helps to balance out the taste smell.

1139
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: I know it does. Also take obviously, the vitamin C

1140
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: is great. Um. And then I take some stuff just

1141
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: you know, just for the weight lifting and the protein.

1142
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm trying to do it. I'm trying to

1143
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: be on point. Look, and when you get older, you

1144
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: gotta do more extreme things. You gotta do less eating,

1145
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:15,080
Speaker 1: more vitamins and like you say, more water, and that's

1146
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: got that's gotta be your thing. You gotta cut out

1147
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 1: some of the drinking, which sucks, but you know, in

1148
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: the long run and for the longevity. It will help.

1149
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: But it's tough when you live in l A and

1150
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: you got bars everywhere. Yeah, you know it's tough. That's

1151
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: why I'm like, I'm trying to stay as close to

1152
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: home as possible right now. I don't want to go out.

1153
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to smell food. I don't want to either.

1154
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: I especially can have a been home. I'm like really

1155
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: thinking about all the great spots that I can't wait

1156
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 1: to get to. But it's about discipline for me right now.

1157
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: So I'm like, just get your stuff together and do

1158
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: a little Jim's cleans and and really help your body

1159
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: start feeling better from the inside out so that we

1160
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: can give more. I just want to give more love,

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01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: more care, more about everybody. And I see that I'm

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01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: an asset, you know, I recognize that. Again, Remember at

1163
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: the beginning, I told you I'm trying to get more

1164
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: to myself. So I want to be able to give

1165
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: more out, but I gotta put more in. So I'm

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01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: just gonna focus on continuing to be the best person

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01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: that I can be get. The exercise in walking is cool.

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01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: People need to stop thinking that you that walking is

1169
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 1: not a form of exercise it is. You can just

1170
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: go walk for thirty minutes today and you'll be okay.

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01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: So I just encourage everyone who don't who you know

1172
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: finding a hard time to work out, to start somewhere.

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01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: Walking and jump as well. Yeah, exactly. Baby steps, walking

1174
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: and jumping rope are my favorite things to do because

1175
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: it's very therapeutic. Jumping rope helps every muscle in the body.

1176
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: I am sore today from jumping rope yesterday. Um, but

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01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm trying to take it easy because of the juice

1178
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: thing that I'm doing. But you know, just try something

1179
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 1: and try something, to learn something new and experience something

1180
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 1: that is gonna be for yourself out first. That's what

1181
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Absolutely, what's the real today. And I

1182
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: appreciate the tips. I appreciate you sharing your journey. It's

1183
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 1: in a little bit about your story. I'm looking forward

1184
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,919
Speaker 1: to the book and I hope that this podcast will

1185
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: enlightened people and give them sort of a window into

1186
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: who Dr Courtney Watson is. Thank you, Chris, time appreciate you.

1187
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: I love l A, I love this city, I love

1188
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 1: my people, and I love to provide opportunities. I hope

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Speaker 1: if you guys are looking to get into sports medicine.

1190
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: I have my Courts Corner l a sports medicine internship

1191
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: that is accepting applications right now. We're covering everything. I

1192
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: just got a call from the Drew League again. It's

1193
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 1: about twenty plus years that I've been giving back to

1194
01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: the Drew League so many different levels of sports. We're

1195
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: gonna hopefully continue our time with Kanye and Donta Sports. Um.

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01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 1: I really just want to start creating a little bit

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01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: more series on how to help manage athletes bodies with

1198
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: preventing injuries and learning how to recover better. So we're

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01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: gonna stay tuned to get some more access this summer

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01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: to get in some of these gems that have AU

1201
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 1: tournaments and just hold little sessions on stretching and hydration

1202
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: and taping yourself and managing you know, yourself as an athlete.

1203
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: It's so important to be able to take care of yourselves.

1204
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: I feel like if you learned a lot when you're younger,

1205
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: you might be able to come out a little bit better,

1206
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 1: being able to provide more um self love, you know

1207
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 1: what I mean. Getting why they're young, give them that foundation,

1208
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: teach them how to do it. Yes, So thank you

1209
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Speaker 1: for your time, looking forward to more absolutely ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Dr Courtney Watson