Hey everybody, Emily Abadi, coming to you from my Los Angeles hotel room.

This is the last thing that I'm doing, getting this five minute Friday squared away before

heading the airport to come back to Brooklyn, New York, after a while, what an unbelievable

few days I came out to Los Angeles to be a part of Nike's future 50 for her summit.

I will call it a really unbelievable gathering of inspirational woman members of the media

athletes, executives, entrepreneurs talking about the past 50 years of the company and

the future 50 where we're going and how we can each play.

I would say an integral part of that journey that we each have the opportunity to be a role

model for someone else.

I was surrounded by, oh my goodness, just unbelievable humans from Joan Benoit Samuelson and

Lisa Leslie to Chloe Kim.

We had an unbelievable meditation led by a woman named Rebecca Price got to finally connect

with Tune Day IRL.

I mean, seriously, I was just so in awe of my surroundings.

A huge thank you to Nike for including me in this event and today's five minute Friday

surprise to no one is a reflection that I had from this week of programming specifically.

It was something that Lisa Leslie said in a session on Wednesday and it was along the

lines of if you want to be a part of the play, then you have to be willing to lace up your

shoes.

This idea that if you don't put yourself out there, then you'll never know.

If you want to be a change maker, if you want to be someone that is going to make a difference,

then you have to be willing to step outside of your comfort zone and put yourself out there.

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