208|Panic to Profit: How Julia Hurley Built a Career Through Risk, Reinvention & Resilience

You mentioned something earlier that really caught my attention.

You talked about identity and their identity.

Can you say more about that? Yeah.

I mean, their identity from the time they were three years old, if they're playing travel ball, you know, peewee football, peewee baseball, whatever it is, they start at the age of three and that's all they do.

That's all they've ever done.

And I know that from the outside looking in, we think that they, that athletes get something the rest of us don't get.

I mean, they do get a lot of talent.

Not everybody's born with that.

That's for sure.

But they don't really get a lot of breaks.

So on our end, on the other side of everything, we're like, oh, well, they don't have to go to school.

They don't have to do this.

They don't have to do that.

Well, you know what? I don't have to get up every day, Monday through Sunday at 5 a.m.

and go work out and watch my body and what I put into it, what I output on it.

I don't have 150,000 people a day commenting on what I'm doing that day or how I look or whatever.

what I'm eating or breathing or sleeping in.

And I don't have to deal with that seven days a week for the rest of my life, right? So I sympathize with that.

I empathize with it more now that when I was elected official, I kind of got the same treatment.

So I was like, whoa, okay, okay.

The minute you're in the public eye, there is something that happens to the public where they think they can just do or say or act any certain way about you or for you or against you whatever it is without consequence and you're just supposed to take it and a normal person cannot handle that behavior aside from that all they do all day is that one thing that is their entire life it is 12 15 hours a day so When they leave that life, there is not much else they've ever done or learned or been around to spark interest in or understand.

So that's usually why they become athlete coaches or try to find something in the sports arena for themselves.

Now, in the era of NIL, where these kids are becoming millionaires by the age of 21, they have...

A bit of a different identity crisis, but an easier one, I guess you could say.

It's easier to cry in a porch than it is to cry outside in the rain.