Ep. 01: Champion This Podcast: Inspiring Change through Sports and Entertainment

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, welcome to Champion This Podcast with Brianna Salvadori Duic and Chelsea Poppins. We are fired up to be here today. Let's go! It's been a long time in the making that we wanted

[00:00:15] to launch this podcast together and we couldn't be more excited to be here today. So for those of you wondering what is Champion This? Champion This is essentially a show where we're going to bring on champions of change

[00:00:26] across the sports and entertainment industry using their platform to make the world a better place. I'm so really our heart behind this is to be able to showcase the stories of those athletes

[00:00:47] again using their platform and unlocking their potential as a means to not only inspire Chelsea and I but hopefully inspire the listeners as well. During the podcast, we'll dive into the personal why of these champions.

[00:00:59] What's the driving force behind their actions and then understand kind of what are some lessons learned that we can also apply to our own lives in embracing our platform again to spread that love and light.

[00:01:09] Because we have a short time here on this earth and so what we do matters and we want to drive that impact. Yeah, exactly. So what kind of started this idea of doing this podcast with Brianna is, I mean, we obviously played not obviously.

[00:01:25] We played basketball together a long time ago and so that's now. That's how we know each other and we got to talking about just reconnecting around sport and

[00:01:33] Breeze in the sports industry. I'm not quite in that industry as far as sport goes but we were just talking about the cool thing about NIL and even just creators in general using their platform for good

[00:01:46] positive impact across the board whether that's in the US or abroad and we just we found out that we had a lot of really cool friends out there who were doing really cool things

[00:01:56] And we want to create a space. We want to create a space for them to story tell and to share their stories share their background share their why and share their heart.

[00:02:05] But we also wanted to like inspire everybody because we felt inspired through the people that we know and just the conversations that we were having were like, Let's go like we're getting fired up. We were getting aimed. Yeah, 100 100. Yeah, so super super excited to be here.

[00:02:22] I can share that with everyone just to kick us off. I would love to hype up my girl. Chels for those of you that don't know. Chels is a boss in every way. As Chelsea said her and I met in Switzerland when we were both playing Pro basketball

[00:02:38] She used to come over and sleep on my pullout couch. She was one of the only pro players. I was a car. No, she wasn't homeless but she would mop through to my city. Lose on and we became really close and just immediately saw her heart

[00:02:53] And those so beautiful and uplifting and encouraging and full of light and again, she really embodies what it means to be a purpose of an athlete.

[00:03:01] But yeah, a little more about Chels. She's a former WMBA pro, pro, whooper in Europe as well. She played for seven plus years overseas. She's the chief operating officer at a marketing firm.

[00:03:14] She also was the founder of C. K. P. athletics and Chels is a bucket on the court. We just played a three on three tournament with her in our girl Hannah Oflin

[00:03:25] MBA all star weekend and we won and I just was feeding Chelsea get that game winner, baby. Let's go buckets all around. She's the bucket. We still got it. We still got it though with these old knees.

[00:03:38] But no, but for real Chelsea. I'm so honored to get to call us to show with you. You really do exemplify. Yeah, just being a light in your community and an inspiration to all so yeah, couldn't be more pumped to host with you.

[00:03:51] Thank you. Well, it's going to be hard to follow that. Well, we have Bree here. She's also of course a former former pro whooper. She's a fellow bucket United nation alumni. She's a sports strategist who bus advisor and impact driven athlete.

[00:04:13] And so I mean, Bree was a lot at the heart behind this because it's what she's doing for a living is focusing on like that impact in the positive impact of sport.

[00:04:22] And she's just an all round badass and I think little to call her my friend and she's been such a light to me and everyone that she encounters and I'm really excited to be partnering with this podcast with her and see where this goes. Oh, thanks, Jels.

[00:04:35] Very sweet. Yeah, same here. Let's go. So let's kick this off Bree by you telling a little bit about your background of how you started playing basketball and what the sport means to you. Yeah, for sure. So sports.

[00:04:53] Have meant so much to me like many of our listeners here for you, Chelsea as well. But for me in particular, I started playing basketball when I was in the fifth grade. So 10 years old. I was completely trash when I first started playing.

[00:05:08] But it was wild because I was kind of a little bit of an awkward kid. I had a harder time connecting with other kids.

[00:05:14] My own personal story. I unfortunately lost my birth mother to a car accident when I was quite young when I was about almost three and I think as a result, I just kind of clamped up a little bit had a little bit of a harder time connecting with other kids.

[00:05:30] Just in my shell kind of and basketball was this incredible tool to really help me connect with other kids to find confidence in myself to have fun. Even though I first again, I was completely trash like least athletic. No, no, so bad. Last comment on the freaking suicide.

[00:05:47] I'm like struggle in there.

[00:05:50] But then I really found my, I found my, my safe space and I found my community. I found my friends and then I started getting good because my dad went all in he's like, yes, we will go to all the clinics and all the camps and you will play on five basketball teams including a boys basketball team.

[00:06:08] He was about it. Doven had first and, and I was about it and it helped me to really again find that confidence in myself. I went from being a kind of an average.

[00:06:19] Students to like getting straight days, I was like, you know, eventually like went on to be on the take on some leadership roles in high school for our student body government head of commissioner of athletics, you know, all those different things and I think my.

[00:06:37] The confidence that I gained through sports have helped me to be successful in my life and probably over index on like sports metaphors that work where my. My colleagues and my friends are like, all right, come down.

[00:06:50] Like you can tell just a dog exactly exactly. So yeah, basketball's meant so much to me. Also, I have the chance to play in college at UC Davis for Jennifer Gross Joe, to a motto.

[00:07:02] Matt Clem and Desi Beta truly the best coaching squad in the NCAA. That's my hot take, but I'm sticking with it.

[00:07:10] And then went on to play professionally in Switzerland, which is where we met and throughout all those experiences and other opportunities to play around the globe in Togo in China.

[00:07:23] Around Paris all around Europe, I've really just seen the beauty of sports again as a connector to break down those cultural barriers allow us to build those bridges with people that are different than our themselves.

[00:07:35] And again, spread that live in light so that's kind of why my own personal why which is sports as a tool for good is so deeply and great into like the essence and the DNA of who I am kind of goes back to my own story.

[00:07:49] Yeah, so that was long-winded off-top. No, that was good. That was good. I agree with you as far as like such a huge connector sport. I've seen for me growing up like I grew up on a farm shooting hoops in the hay mound. I'm a super country.

[00:08:07] I also also say I was garbage but I was an unemployment. I was most called an orthodox in the nicest way. I love an orthodox. Wait, what were you like when you were first playing what do you mean an orthodox? I was a hard worker.

[00:08:25] I think that's the best way to get out of the country. Yeah, I was a really hard worker. I would work out work everybody on the court. I might have been the best but I was definitely going to work every single person out there.

[00:08:38] And I give credit to me growing up on a farm and kind of the mentality that is instilled growing up on a farm, Rainer's line you got to get it done and if you commit to something, if you commit to something you do it 100%.

[00:08:53] You don't quit midseason. If you pick a sport, you're doing it all season. If you get banned, you're going to do it. You benefit the best. Floop player out there looks hurt. Percussion. Let's go.

[00:09:08] And so that was really cool growing up in my small town of farm mentality and honestly our high school was I should say garbage. We weren't very good. Our AU was absolutely killer and we had a lot of great teammates.

[00:09:23] That was where I actually was spotted for college, where people were able to see my talent in a elevated space with good athletes and talent. And it gave me that opportunity to go to Iowa State and play for Coach family.

[00:09:37] One of the best coaches and coaching staff, my personal opinion. I love that. How did great experience there? And then I went into play, it's for Seattle Storm. I got drafted in second round to Seattle Storm.

[00:09:51] I got cut from Dream camp last day and then I got brought on to San Antonio stars for a remainder of their season. And from there, I went over to play overseas for seven different countries and I met you and I met a lot of really great people

[00:10:06] and had a lot of tremendous experiences that I never would have if I would have stayed in my small town and stayed in Iowa in my comfort zone. And so like you, I got to experience the way sports affects people and the way it connects people.

[00:10:24] And it just is a shared space. It's like a safe space, wouldn't no matter where you go. It covers languages. Even if you and I are in Switzerland and people are speaking French yelling French at us. I'll yell yell it. Push it fast. Push don't cool.

[00:10:42] We get to decide even if we know exactly what they're saying because you know the game of basketball, we can ignore what they're saying. It's really that yes. It's just really special to be a part of basketball.

[00:10:58] Even now that I am older and retired and my bones are dusty and stop. Your bones are not dusty. You're a bucket, like I said, you literally dropped like 20 of our 25 points this week to it's the go. Yeah, with my swollen knees for the next week. It happens.

[00:11:18] Yeah, but for me with the C.K.P athletics and I'm sure with you, I'm sure like being involved with kids and seeing teaching it is learning basketball twice. And so when you teach it to kids, you get to see how it's for elevates their confidence

[00:11:35] and that makes them feel good. And a lot of the kids I train are actually looking to be D1 players. They're just looking to learn traits and for me to care for them as more than just an athlete, but as a coach then. And 100.

[00:11:51] Yeah, a lot of kids like we're awkward when we're growing up. We remember when we were in a school high school elementary, not like these Gen Zs today. Yeah. They look great these days. Yeah. Take talks. We'll awkward ginger when I was my age.

[00:12:07] But like they just want the confidence to dream of the ball or to shoot. To be at a like a baseline level of not being embarrassed. 100 per layer of personal things. So I think it's really special to see both sides nowadays.

[00:12:23] Yeah, I love that, Charles, because I think especially in the America and US culture we can get so focused on like elite sport. And if you're not getting a college scholarship or if you're not going to play pro like why do it?

[00:12:36] What's you know, and I think parents can get really, really intense around it. But just participating in sports and getting to be a part of that like crew and build your confidence and just have fun. And like it's it's so beautiful and so powerful.

[00:12:52] So I love I love what you're doing with C. K. P. athletics and getting to kind of share that light and that love with those kids. And I'm sure you have some really cool stories of transformation or like, and maybe that's something, you know,

[00:13:05] I don't know if you'd love to shoot right. I would be curious to hear even just through some of your experiences with sports or C. K. P. athletics like what's one.

[00:13:15] Is there one story that comes to mind of like transformation or impact that you've seen in the lives of one of the kids that you've trained or I don't know maybe one of your teammates playing overseas. Be curious to hear about that.

[00:13:27] Yeah, as far as stories go, I remember one kid. So I train both girls and boys. And so one kid that I was training he was a lot shorter than the kids who's age.

[00:13:39] And I remember him kind of, it's a coming into training and with his head down and kind of half-assing it. And I remember having a conversation with him about how he didn't think that he was ever going to play at a collegiate level or pro level or anything.

[00:13:58] And because he was short and I remember telling him, I'm like, do you see all these athletes out there who are short but they're just outworking everybody else out there?

[00:14:08] And I had kind of a pep talk where I was telling him that he is capable of doing whatever he sets his mind to. That there are athletes who are like undersized and doing it. And so he's fully capable of doing it.

[00:14:21] And the change, the light switch in his mind changed from that day forward and his parents even told me that he was just more eager,

[00:14:30] more eager to learn, more coachable, his work ethic was there. He was just dialed in and he is much more passionate about this sport after that.

[00:14:38] And I mean, I haven't seen him for a long time but even if he doesn't go on to play pro ball or play at the collegiate level.

[00:14:48] I think just understanding that you're capable of doing whatever you put your mind to as long as you're willing to put the work in. Yeah, yeah, I think that's really special.

[00:14:58] Yeah, that's so cool, Chelsea. I love that and I love the, yeah, your, your hard to be able, your encouragement those words in that moment like the ripple effect that I could have in his life, you know, could be massive and it's so cool to kind of see that switch in his heart too.

[00:15:14] I love it. Imagine imagine if people didn't pour into us at that age or didn't tell us that we were capable of doing those kind of things.

[00:15:21] Yeah, I wonder if you have anybody that like poured into your life going up that changed besides your dad because obviously he was pouring absolutely. It was raining. It was a flowering. It was a flowering. It was a flowering.

[00:15:39] No, of course my dad, he sacrificed so much for me popping around to all the different clinics in the camps and like we would drive out.

[00:15:48] So I grew up in Orange County and we would drive to Riverside like far into Riverside three times a week for my club practice which would take like two hours on the way out because of the traffic.

[00:15:59] And an hour on the way back, that's just you know that was his vibes. That's what he did and then my my mom so my birth month passed away but the Lord gave me another mom.

[00:16:10] I was a very happy and easy and beautiful and lovely and she also just been such a champion of me in so many ways and I think she really inspires me in many ways and really supported my my basketball journey in my career but also just.

[00:16:26] Like the way that she shows up in life and like the light that she brings and all those things I think have been really inspiring to me.

[00:16:34] But yeah, I've also had the most incredible coaches like I said coach Jen Gross had coach at UC Davis at Joe Termoto. They're married with two kids which we love that whole family.

[00:16:47] Matt Cleman does a beta the entire UC Davis basketball coaching staff has really just also poured into me and then had amazing high school coaches as well so I've been really, really fortunate to get to learn from the best and I think that's helped me to a standard as well of like what it means to be a great leader and what it means to.

[00:17:09] Yeah, just recognizing that there's so much. We as humans the light and the love that we put out is contagious and you're either I really think it's pretty black and white you're either up curd encouraging or uplifting spreading that love or like.

[00:17:26] I don't know I just I feel like not. Or you're not exactly. So been super fortunate to get to yeah be a part of that it's been very good.

[00:17:37] Chelsea I also want to talk so I want to switch gears a little bit something our listeners might not know about you is that you also do color commentary or color analyst for ESPN for the Iowa State Cyclones.

[00:17:50] So would love to hear like a little bit more about that experience. Also some thoughts on the state of women's basketball and also what this means for your women and girls more largely and for our society the elevation of women's sports.

[00:18:03] Yeah, so I got kind of stumbled into ESPN commentary. I got I think I got recommended by Lindsay Finley and I think she was she was trying to get out of it so she recommended me and I initially didn't want to.

[00:18:18] I was scared to do it. I was scared of getting canceled on live television. I was scared of speaking events and and so one of the the morals and the values that I live by which is kind of a pain for me is I'm going to lean into things that make me uncomfortable because I'm probably I'm always seeking growth.

[00:18:38] And so I started doing it. I remember my first game. I was sitting there shaking mid game because everything so fast pace and I was just trying to keep up.

[00:18:50] Yeah, I'm trying not to get canceled or say anything that we're not supposed to say in I mean I wasn't good at the beginning. I remember I remember being like I don't think this was really good and then I also.

[00:19:06] Remember a game where I actually felt really good about doing it and it was a felt natural and the the flow is really well. And I remember the exhilaration post game where I was like, I crushed that.

[00:19:20] And it's great and in that kind of continues to drive me into my fears and the places that I feel uncomfortable and it's really cool to see women in this space to see a lot more people that I played way they're played against doing color analyst work now.

[00:19:38] And it's just really cool the elevation of women in sport but also just women in general on these types of platforms. So obviously NAL is helping to like Caitlin Clark doing great job in women sports and a bunch of different athlete change angel Reese people they're able to make money they're able to make money author name it likeness.

[00:19:59] Women's sport is almost more popular than men's sports these days and it's really cool to see coming from where you and I used to play back in the Bay and social media was not really even a thing we barely got TV time.

[00:20:13] It's just like equal pay equal amount of like ESPN time TV time all of it. I think our platform is changing so dramatically so fast and yeah, I just think it's it's just really special and really cool to see.

[00:20:28] Yeah 100% yeah I'm with you and even even just I mean this stat is kind of depressing but women sports coverage making up 4% of all sports media that was the stat I think five years ago.

[00:20:42] Now it's increased to 15% according to a recent study by Wasserman if you take into account like digital digital media as well but we still you know despite this like amazing increase in viewership there still is that you know that kind of disconnect and inequality that continues to be at play but I'm so excited like you said because I think the the excitement that interest like all of the things like women sports are on the rise and people we recognize that fandom is increasing year over

[00:21:12] year viewership all the things so pump to see where we continue going here and I love the support that celebrities and other professional athletes are giving like WMBA collegiate sport UC

[00:21:26] UC a bunch of celebrities going to watch Katelyn Clark at the University of Iowa and there are so courts that oh yeah how cool would that have been back in our day to see them on the sidelines.

[00:21:40] I'm sure it's just really cool to see people supporting and people rallying behind us and women and women who are trying to just play our sport and the same coverage for sure exactly you've been doing a lot with sports sport has taken you all all across the globe and I want to hear a bit more about UNESCO and some of the work that you've done with them but also the work that you've been you did with a 17 sport it'd be interesting to hear.

[00:22:09] Yeah totally so I so for me to read when I did a little bit after I was done playing basketball in Switzerland I kind of had this moment of.

[00:22:20] Okay I could keep hoping had four knee surgeries or how do I channel and take this excitement for sports as a catalyst for good into my like next play quote on quote my career after.

[00:22:33] I think I'm going to be on the court after basketball and so it was actually beautiful being in Los Angeles and because at that time Los Angeles where the International Olympics had quartered Geneva with all the massive non profits and NGOs like the United Nations Office of Geneva UNHCR Red Cross there was just a 30 minute trade right away so it's.

[00:22:52] A beautiful place to be when thinking about life after sports international Olympics in Los Angeles and so basically after that season I came back to the US. I had knee surgery did some work with the MBA players association but I always knew that I wanted to.

[00:23:10] So get my masters overseas and get experience abroad so actually went to Sialspo in Paris. Got a master's in international development love my school shout out Sialspo we had a great student body there 120 nationalities represented in 2000 students Emmanuel Maccome president of France is an alumni.

[00:23:31] We got a good jacqueline Kennedy's and a love no one's heard of it in America but it's great great spot.

[00:23:37] But during that time I really was focused on okay how can I tailor this degree to look at the power of sports in solving global challenges like poverty or gender equity or climate change.

[00:23:49] So that actually took me to a role at UNESCO which is the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization and I was working on two different things one of them was.

[00:23:59] Sports diplomacy as a way to help attain the United Nations Sustainable Development goals so basically the UN put it rolls off the top just so simple to say.

[00:24:12] Basically to keep it really really simple I was looking at the role of sports to make the world a better place in light of these different goals which were again about eradicating poverty education for all et cetera.

[00:24:23] And I also did some work on a gender equity and education program with the G7 was in Togo which is a small West African country as well as in Paris France and.

[00:24:35] Really really cool experience absolutely loved working in the UN system also will say being young in this system.

[00:24:43] Your you know you know not afforded quite as much like responsibility is a little bit slow moving sometimes even though there's great working done so I decided to pivot to sports industry.

[00:24:53] Worked at Neilson Sports as a strategy consultant really unlike the business of sports but always had it in my head this idea of sports and impact so. Was trying to launch some projects around research looking at the ROI of sport and impact.

[00:25:08] And what that could do for brands embracing a purpose driven sponsorship approach or a purpose driven strategy. And then took a role with 17 sports where I was there for three years I was the head of strategy.

[00:25:22] Working with different clients like the international and the committee and the data and the NFL.

[00:25:28] Adidas Adidas you F a really helping them the sports industry to break in bracelets platform as a catalyst for good so again whether that's a data working on their gender equity breaking barriers program.

[00:25:44] Among other kind of subject areas was really really great experience and really cool to see the sports industry and bracelets role as a change agent because this the sports industry has the resources the influence that athletes.

[00:25:57] And it's a platform to drive that positive change so it's been really cool to kind of be a mover and check your in that space and honor to work with great colleagues along my journey at UNESCO Neilson 17 sport.

[00:26:09] Yeah, so I'm on to my next play still TBD to be determined but really excited to continue to work on my why which is against sports as a tool for impact so. Thanks for nothing but opportunity there yeah, I'm going to do huge things I love it.

[00:26:28] Thank you. Yeah, so like you've had the opportunity to go to all these different countries with through sport as a catalyst. But do you have any stories that you could share around how sports has been making the world a better place. That's a great thing.

[00:26:46] What you've seen and the through what you've been doing with those organizations even if it's in the past will probably. Yeah, yeah definitely there are so many stories of positive change through sports I think.

[00:26:59] One one nonprofit all highlight because I'm on the board for it and it was like I love this crew let me just plug my friends really quick because I love this group.

[00:27:08] And one of the one of the organizations that I really love is a group called the hoop bus which tells the night we're together with the hoop bus just recently and be all star weekend.

[00:27:17] But the hoop bus is an incredible nonprofit so on the board for which is spreading love through basketball and really the hoop bus is literally a school bus with two basketball courts on the front in the back of the bus, which will go around to different.

[00:27:34] Events, different schools, different community organizations show up put on kids clinics bring this beautiful moment with a community where we're sharing that love through basketball.

[00:27:44] And really serves to amplify existing community organizations and nonprofits so bringing the hype and the joy the love of this one day event through the bus to then be a catalyst for resources that are being kind of injected into these different nonprofits so.

[00:28:00] Really really beautiful organization and the power and the magic of the bus is wild you know you show up at MBA all star weekend put on a in 2023 we put on an event with.

[00:28:14] Paul George Clippers Rockstar Gatorade and the hoop bus at a school where we renovated a court at community center had a kids clinic kids tournament had a dunk contest where Paul George was one of the judges.

[00:28:28] And just to see like the excitement and the joy on the faces of these kids it was really really wild and just so beautiful and you know that sometimes that that's just one day that's one moment but that might be the catalyst to be like I'm going to go now play basketball.

[00:28:43] I'm going to jump into this sport it's those kinds of moments that can kind of inspire us and we'll have our will have. Nico Ansem who's the founder and CEO of the hoop bus on for one of our episodes which were really excited to bring on.

[00:28:58] Yeah, but yeah so I think it's exciting stuff lots of stories are there any others that come to mind to you, Chelsea mentioned the story of one of your one of your players.

[00:29:11] From the KPF, but anything else from playing abroad that really sticks out to you or just more largely. I mean going back to the NBA all star weekend I think that was the first time at a long time that I've.

[00:29:23] Because I got when I retired I stepped away from sports especially the sports industry because I needed to redefine really able myself and figure out what direction that I wanted to run and I needed to figure out that I was more than just an athlete so I stepped away.

[00:29:37] And then recently I've been I mean I so I've always had CKP athletics so I've always been having that sports bucket but on a smaller scale of things and recently you and I went to the NBA all star weekend and it was it was such a cool experience because I've never been around.

[00:29:55] And I've been looking at many people who are looking to connect looking to help each other with very like pure and pure intentions it was just a good time and everyone was just.

[00:30:07] Ready to elevate each other and whatever we are doing and whatever space for in and that sport could do that and create that platform and create that slate that place and those opportunities is just mind blowing and it's not that's just one example.

[00:30:24] I have had an opportunity to talk to kids lately and back in my hometown and also across other schools in Iowa and just the fact that you can go.

[00:30:34] I talking to kids just to hyper up early like she's like leading assemblies with like 2000 students on the crowd to inspire them so. When you say assemblies and brings me back to school days yes.

[00:30:47] So most recently I talked to some elementary kids and for read a million minutes and so I got to talk about the importance of reading and how it can take you on adventures long before you ever able to go on adventures.

[00:31:02] And I'm going to talk about that for me as a pro athlete and just to be able to go in and tell the kids that were once exactly where I was sitting.

[00:31:11] That they can do whatever they set their mind to they can be big they can dream whatever dream they want to do as long as they're willing to work hard at it and it doesn't have to be sports it doesn't have to be doesn't have to be sports it can be being an artist it could be being an astrologist of veterinarian whatever you want to do as long as you're willing to work for it.

[00:31:30] And so that was like a way that I was able to use my platform and get back into it after I had already retired when I thought my my athlete and my sports career was done.

[00:31:43] But there's it's like God telling me that there's more juice in yeah you can go in and you can come full circle and you can go back to these schools and tell these kids that they're capable of doing more than just not that's like now that it's bad to stay in your hometown but to expand your perspective.

[00:31:58] To go and do uncomfortable things that are going to help you grow in the long run as a person as an athlete as pretty much a well rounded individual and that's just a way that I think the world. On a smaller scale makes the world a better place.

[00:32:17] You don't always see those things happening but you see you see the people that are in the limelight using their platforms whether that's for good or for bad, but you don't always see like the small impacts that we are able to make every single day.

[00:32:25] I love that I love that so beautiful so true such a good word. I think that's a great segue with love to you know this our podcast is about bringing on those athletes and entertainers across the industry using their platform for good.

[00:32:42] So my question for you, Chelsea's what role do you think that athletes and influencers entertainers can play in this space and what's their responsibility. What yeah give me some insights on that.

[00:32:52] I think everybody's platforms have changed tremendously in the last five years with social media and anybody can have a platform whether they're a digital creator, they're an entertainer, whether they're an athlete. And to me if people are not using their platform for good then they're wasting their platform.

[00:33:18] They're in the limelight and if they're just totaling their font thumbs and existing on that on that stage I think they're wasting their potential.

[00:33:27] And I just personally just don't understand anybody who wouldn't be wanting to do something good with their platform because giving giving back helps fuel me helping people help feel me and so I wouldn't understand it but I think it's just creates a lot of opportunity for anybody no matter whatever arena their championing.

[00:33:48] Yeah, but it's just I don't know it's really cool to see how everything is developing and there's so much opportunity and space for each and every every person that's a part of it. Mm-hmm.

[00:34:00] Love it yep and I think there's something to about like when when we're tapped into our own personal purpose and really understanding okay God what do you have for my life what is what is my plan in my purpose like the giving back is a natural outpouring of that and so yeah I agree with you in terms of life.

[00:34:17] You in terms of like athletes leveraging their platform or people in entertainment who have worked hard for that position. But also in the same respect like now what do you do with that how do you give back inspire the next generation and spark those around you.

[00:34:33] I think that's massive that's huge we have a responsibility to kind of play that role so yeah super fired up to get to bring those guests on. I think it inspires us. Tells a night and then also hopefully to inspire everyone listening as well.

[00:34:48] Yeah, just great only good things ahead. Yes, so we're super excited to get this rolling excited to have our introductory podcast going.

[00:34:58] Yes, and if you like this podcast like share follow we love feedback so just whatever whatever thoughts you have whatever recommendations if you want to be a guest on the podcast reach out. But big things coming. Yeah, let's go big things coming.