363. Going All In: How To Rise To Any Challenge & Let Your Confidence Shine With WNBA Player Sophie Cunningham
Hurdle
Emily Abbate
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Look up "powerhouse" in the dictionary, and you may just find Sophie Cunningham's photo there. Bringing back this REWIND from July 2023 to celebrate the strong season that we're seeing from Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham. The WNBA guard has been a force since she first stepped onto the court at a young age, and she's got some big goals on her radar. In this week's episode, she talks about growing up on a farm, how she came to embrace mentors in life, and the excitement she has over dipping her toes into broadcasting.
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| 0:00.0 | I think my mindset shifted when I stopped competing and being competitive and comparing myself to others. |
| 0:07.1 | And now I just like compare myself to myself. |
| 0:09.4 | I want to outdo me. |
| 0:11.0 | Like I'm my biggest competition. |
| 0:12.6 | Like I don't care who you put in front of me. |
| 0:14.5 | I know everything about myself. |
| 0:15.9 | I know my good and I know my bad. |
| 0:17.7 | And I'm my biggest competition. |
| 0:33.3 | Yeah. I know my bad and I'm my biggest competition. Hey, hey, Emily Abadi here. |
| 0:35.4 | You are listening to episode 363 of hurdle. A wellness focus podcast where I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest, highs and toughest moments to essential tips on how to live, a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go through our fair share of hurdles. My goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move |
| 0:57.4 | with intention so that you can stride towards your own big potential. |
| 1:00.9 | And of course, have some fun along the way. |
| 1:05.8 | For today's episode, I am bringing you a rewind my July 23 conversation with the one, the only Sophie |
| 1:14.3 | Cunningham. Sofi's been making a lot of headlines lately. And so I think it's about time |
| 1:18.8 | that if you're not well acquainted with her, you learn a thing or two. Now, when we recorded |
| 1:23.7 | this, she was playing basketball for the Phoenix Mercury. She has since been traded |
| 1:29.0 | to the Indiana fever. We talk about her upbringing on a farm and how that helped shape who she is |
| 1:36.4 | today. She talks to me about her no nonsense attitude toward gameplay and the lessons that she |
| 1:42.9 | learned playing alongside one of the best to |
| 1:45.7 | ever do it. Diana Tarasi as a Yukon grad myself. I've got a lot of D.T. Pride and really dive |
| 1:53.2 | in to her mindset, how she stays so confident, how she holds her ground when it might not be |
| 2:00.7 | the popular opinion. It's really |
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