Beyond the Dream Job: Finding Purpose in Your Next Chapter

I think it's interesting in hearing this part of your journey and your story.

A woman who is entering into an incredibly male-dominated space,

as you know,

who is paving the way for others behind her to come through and to enter the space as well.

And there's still so much that needs to happen for women in all sports organizations, in my opinion.

But it's interesting that you are doing the work.

You're doing the hard work.

You've moved your life to Detroit.

You're doing all these things.

And then you end up meeting women and having these conversations with women at a shelter.

Was there like a certain conversation or something that happened in those actions with you that maybe shifted a little bit of your perspective on the ways in which women can show up in the world beyond sports?

Oh, for sure.

I mean, the conversations with the women were eye-opening in the sense that, you know, learning the reasons behind why they were living in shelters.

Their house burned down, literally.

They didn't have insurance, and they had nowhere else to go.

Once I, you know, started talking to them, and we got to know each other, and then with all these situations... how quickly the system grabs you.

Some of these women like had degrees, like they were incredible.

And I was like, wow, our society has in many ways just been so judgmental and have overlooked everything.

these women that is 1000% unfair and unjust.

And so it was like, part of that was, how can I like help tell their story? How can I help them get out of their situation? So there were quite a few stories like that.

The second part of, How can we think of ways that we can get back beyond sports? They get asked this a lot.

And I feel like we also feel so compelled to help others.

It's just like an innate...

But sometimes we do that at the sacrifice of our own selves.

Now I'm encouraging women to...