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Speaker 1: It just came out, just came out, and she I

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Speaker 1: of this episode, which is called Fear is Not Your friend.

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Speaker 1: Fear It's not your friend. No, it's not. It's paralyzing.

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Speaker 1: Yes it is. Okay, So in two thousand eighteen, and

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Speaker 1: I think I got my my years straight. I'm not

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Speaker 1: really good with um dates. She was winning everything, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: She was beating the ship out of Coco, like she

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Speaker 1: brought Coco to tears. Um. That was the time I

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Speaker 1: think you remember that she allowed Coco. She wanted to

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Speaker 1: do the interview afterwards with her. It was very moving,

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Speaker 1: so they did. They did the post um match interview together,

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Speaker 1: which normally you don't do. She was on top of

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Speaker 1: her game. She won the Grand Slam. She was amazing.

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Speaker 1: Then she said the fact that she was trying to

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Speaker 1: get there was her motivation. So after she became number

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Speaker 1: so that messed with her head. Okay, so we can

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Speaker 1: all kind of understand that, right, And then the whole

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Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter things started happening and the world started changing,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we had George Floyd and Brianna Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and she was like so conflicted about what's going on

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Speaker 1: She was scared to give her opinion about how she

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Speaker 1: paralyzed her tennis game because she didn't feel like she

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Speaker 1: I was like, girl, get it together. I'm on episode

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Speaker 1: So she wiped the floor with Coco and eighteen and

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Speaker 1: Coco beat her in nineteen okay, okay, So then she realized,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I can't be scared to speak. I

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Speaker 1: You know what the people's names on it? Do you

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Speaker 1: all remember that? So she had seven of them laid

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Speaker 1: She was like, I have seven because there's seven rounds.

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Speaker 1: I was like, go now, you want me go on?

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Speaker 1: So then, um, long story short, she won and it

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Speaker 1: was all in that fear was paralyzing her. So let's

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Speaker 1: be clear, fear is not your friend. So then it

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Speaker 1: made me think of my daughter, Grace. I want you

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Speaker 1: all to know Grace is now employed. She's in the

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Speaker 1: she was like, I'm having a hard time believing that

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Speaker 1: one of your children. Yes, she was nervous and scared.

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Speaker 1: She was she that fear was like taking her over. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So then I said, get out my damn car, right,

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Speaker 1: jamal right, because people love mean season six and they

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Speaker 1: love me everybody everybody. Not everybody loves me to get

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Speaker 1: laugh at yourself because it's funny. And don't buy into fear,

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Speaker 1: Like let that thing go, breathe it out, take that

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Speaker 1: step and everything will work out. Um. So, yeah, fear

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Speaker 1: is not your friend. Don't let it be your friend. Right.

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