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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well. I'm still stunned

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Speaker 1: at the news that Ash Party is retiring at the

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Speaker 1: age of twenty five. She won the Australian Open in

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Speaker 1: January is January February March, three months two months ago.

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Speaker 2: I look at Ash and she seems beyond her years.

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Speaker 2: She seems a lot older than twenty five.

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Speaker 1: And she just seems very wise. She seems to know herself.

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Speaker 1: She has retired or she didn't retire. She gave up

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Speaker 1: tennis once before, turned to cricket very very successfully, then

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Speaker 1: came back again in twenty nineteen where she won the

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Speaker 1: French Open. She's a very tenacious human. Here's how she

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Speaker 1: announced it yesterday.

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Speaker 3: There's no right way, there's no wrong way. It's just

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Speaker 3: my way. And this is perfect for me to share

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Speaker 3: it with you, to talk to you about it with

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Speaker 3: my team. I loved ones that I'll be retiring from tennis.

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Speaker 3: And it's the first time I've actually said it out loud.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's hard to but I'm so happy and

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Speaker 3: I'm so ready and i just know at the moment

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Speaker 3: in my heart for me as a person, this is right.

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Speaker 1: And she does seem to know herself well. When she

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Speaker 1: won the Australian Open, there was lots of talk about

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Speaker 1: Ben Crow, her mindset coach. He works with a number

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Speaker 1: of different athletes and organizations and he seems to have

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Speaker 1: helped her know that her worth isn't tied up in tennis. Actually,

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Speaker 1: here's what he said at the time.

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Speaker 4: Her goals and her dreams. And she's spoken publicly about

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Speaker 4: her goals and her dreams and she's put that out

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Speaker 4: in the universe and she's going after them as hard

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Speaker 4: as she can run. And that's just called living. But

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Speaker 4: there's no guarantees, there's no promises, there's no expectations that

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Speaker 4: she'll actually achieve those goals. And if you can create

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Speaker 4: that separation, it let's go of all that kind of

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Speaker 4: expectation and pressure that the rest of the world can focus.

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Speaker 4: That's really important for anyone to realize that, you know,

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Speaker 4: playing tennis, in her case, playing tennis is what she does,

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Speaker 4: but it's not who she is. It doesn't define the

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Speaker 4: depth of her and to find that self worth independent

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Speaker 4: of what you do, because if you have to do

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Speaker 4: do something or achieve something in order to be someone,

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Speaker 4: you'll never be content, you'll never be fulfilled, and you

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Speaker 4: certainly want to have unconditional love because it's conditional upon

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Speaker 4: having to do something and achieve something.

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Speaker 1: Wow, isn't interesting? And you know they say that success

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Speaker 1: isn't your money, it's not your job. It's waking up

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Speaker 1: in the morning and looking forward to the day. And

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Speaker 1: for her to maintain that and to be at the

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Speaker 1: top of her game would take a lot out of you,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't it. I mean, I feel very lucky that I

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Speaker 1: look forward to coming in here every day. I love

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Speaker 1: this job because this would be too hard to do

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Speaker 1: if you didn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, of course, of course. And I guess

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Speaker 2: with the ash party, you've got to defend that hill

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Speaker 2: some people, some people might say, well, have you retired

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Speaker 2: too early? Whether you could probably do keep going?

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Speaker 1: But then you know, she's just going out a winner,

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Speaker 1: isn't she, As you say, defending the hill. If you

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Speaker 1: don't have it in you and then you just watch

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Speaker 1: your he'll disappear. She, as I said, she's lucky. She

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Speaker 1: has a very strong sense of who she is. Wonder

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Speaker 1: how many people at that top level can separate themselves

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Speaker 1: from the accolades and from the success. I think she's

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Speaker 1: a hugely impressive person. I just absolutely wish her the best.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to when I get to a top

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Speaker 2: level and that I can.

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Speaker 1: When you've moved off the plateau, you've got to defend

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Speaker 1: a plateau.

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's