Welcome back to Hashtag RealPod. I'm your host Victoria Garrick and this episode is so

amazing and also low-key super hilarious. I mean I'm not going to say we're super funny

but you can let me know afterwards. My guest is Elise Lauji. She currently works at one

of Fox Sports's hit TV shows where I met her during my summer internship last year.

She's an absolute boss lady dominating it in a pretty male dominant environment. We immediately

hit it off and I also learned there was a lot more that we had in common than just our

love of sports. Elise was a competitive dancer all through her childhood training alongside

ballerinas who went on to be in the New York City Ballet. But immediately following high

school Elise landed a coveted spot on one of the top NBA dance teams as a Cavalier girl.

Now despite achieving her dream of being on that squad, she endured an extremely toxic

environment that really shook the way she viewed her body and self-worth. Now Elise has

never spoken publicly about her battle with body image and mental health so I am extremely

honored that she chose to do that with us and our community here at Hashtag RealPod.

This is so special. So thank you to Elise for being so brave and confident to share this

all with us and may her courage inspire the next role and I know that she will continue

to have the powerful impact that she has had on me. I'm very excited to present Elise

Laoji.

Okay, we've already had such a great conversation. I'm just hoping we can save some of these

nuggets for the actual podcast. No more eight all the chicken nuggets. But I'm so happy

that you're here and I think what's really special about this is I met you when I was an

intern at Fox. So little baby. Oh my gosh literally my saving grace last summer. I miss

you so much. Oh no, it was so fun and you were just so nice and normal and like helped me

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