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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Today on the podcast we chat with former NWSL Kealia Watt. We chat with Kealia about the challenging decision to retire and finding her purpose after leaving the game. Kealia tells us about how becoming a mom is the best thing to ever happen to her. We have a heartfelt discussion on the challenges of parenting while balancing professional commitments, emphasizing the importance of cherishing special moments with loved ones.
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0:00.0 | Soccer, and those you know we got some problems, |
0:04.0 | a no, we don't know where we're talking out to solve them. |
0:06.0 | We may laugh, we might learn, we might be. |
0:08.0 | Your games with some peace. So how are you enjoying retirement? It's been really good. It's been a wild retirement for me. So my last game with the Red Stars I tore my |
0:26.8 | ECL. So I was rehabbing back from that. It was my second time, Terry Kn tearing it which is such a difficult thing and so I had |
0:36.5 | rehab for about four months and then I got pregnant. |
0:39.8 | So I kind of just quietly retired after that and I took some time. |
0:46.3 | J.J was still in season when I had my son. |
0:49.7 | So it was such a wild transition in time because there was like so much changing and it really was when he retired that his his |
0:59.1 | final season that I like felt I had actually retired and we we started to travel a bit we we |
1:06.2 | started our investment with Burnley which has been so much fun and then it was like |
1:12.3 | this a couple months ago that I was like okay I think I want to like get back in it a little bit and that's when I started with Amazon but |
1:21.3 | retirement is hard like it's I feel like any professional athlete that retires goes through |
1:26.1 | something similar where you just you don't you don't know who you are for a little bit. |
1:32.3 | You know you're so used to you know they say don't don't define yourself by what you do but in sports it's it's nearly impossible not to because it's it's everything you are and that was difficult for me. |
1:45.0 | I was going to say that it's like it doesn't matter how many times they say like |
1:51.1 | know who you are off the field, no who you are off the field, |
1:52.5 | know who you are off the field. |
1:53.6 | You're taking a thing that operated a majority of your day every day. |
1:58.9 | And then even the days when you weren't playing, |
2:00.5 | you were thinking about playing, |
2:02.1 | or when the next time you were |
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