Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
What does it take to build confidence that lasts long after the final buzzer? This week, Kirsten sits down with former WNBA player **Chantelle Anderson** to explore the powerful connection between…
Chantelle AndersonGuestKirsten JonesHostAnd that's exactly who, when I thought of having you on, is exactly who we want to talk to, right? Which is You know, we'd all love the magic eight ball to be able to go back and rewrite some of these things.
And that's part of the parenting journey, too, is understanding and get those calls all the time of my kid got cut or they're on the twos team or the coach is a jerk to them and we want to try to fix it for them.
But what advice would you have to parents who maybe their kids going through something similar to what you went through, whether it's could be eating related, could be coaching related, could be not making the right team.
Maybe they're in that place where you were or you weren't yet in love with the sport.
Because I think in sports specifically, we can get very results focused and we can forget about the process.
And while results are necessary, if you get the process down, you will get the results.
And you may not get the results in the court or on the field that you want to get the results, but the results will come.
And I think teaching young athletes that from a very young age to think, to understand that you wanna go out and you wanna do your best and you're building who you are as a person.
Like I said, I use the lessons I learned in sports every single day and whatever else I do.
And while I didn't have Lisa Leslie's type success on the basketball court, I, I struggled with a lot of injuries as I went on in my career and because I was injured, but I was good with people and I was good in the community and I really loved giving back.
My team put me in the office and was like, okay, you're going to create a season ticket plan for our Spurs season ticket holders to become Silver Star season ticket holders.
And that's exactly who, when I thought of having you on, is exactly who we want to talk to, right? Which is You know, we'd all love the magic eight ball to be able to go back and rewrite some of these things.
And that's part of the parenting journey, too, is understanding and get those calls all the time of my kid got cut or they're on the twos team or the coach is a jerk to them and we want to try to fix it for them.
But what advice would you have to parents who maybe their kids going through something similar to what you went through, whether it's could be eating related, could be coaching related, could be not making the right team.
Maybe they're in that place where you were or you weren't yet in love with the sport.
Because I think in sports specifically, we can get very results focused and we can forget about the process.
And while results are necessary, if you get the process down, you will get the results.
And you may not get the results in the court or on the field that you want to get the results, but the results will come.
And I think teaching young athletes that from a very young age to think, to understand that you wanna go out and you wanna do your best and you're building who you are as a person.
Like I said, I use the lessons I learned in sports every single day and whatever else I do.
And while I didn't have Lisa Leslie's type success on the basketball court, I, I struggled with a lot of injuries as I went on in my career and because I was injured, but I was good with people and I was good in the community and I really loved giving back.
My team put me in the office and was like, okay, you're going to create a season ticket plan for our Spurs season ticket holders to become Silver Star season ticket holders.
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