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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host, Doug Brunt. Today we're with Elizabeth Staple.

She's worked in media relations for the NFL for two franchises, the New York Giants

and the New England Patriots. So her career has taken her to three Super Bowls, and she was dealing

with all the incoming media hoopla at the time that Tom Brady and Bridget Moynihan broke up.

She was a great communicator in that role, and she's a great communicator in her new role as an author.

She's out with her debut novel, The Snap, which is a thriller with great humor. It also has

very smart commentary on what it's like to work inside a high stakes, high pressure office environment,

and also a juicy behind the scenes look at working in an NFL franchise. Elizabeth or Beth,

welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

It's great to have you. And we're doing a, so the audience knows it's kind of early in the morning, but we're having an old-fashioned and going for it.

So I will get started on making that. This is your cocktail, your go-to?

This is my go-to, and it comes from my football days because anytime I would go out with my football players, not quite as classy as an old fashion, but it would start with Jack Daniel shots and you had to keep up with the football players. Oh, my God. And you didn't have to have another drink for the rest of the night, but it had to start with a Jack Daniel shot. And then as I grew up a little bit, it evolved into whiskey drinking and then the old

fashion. So that's how I came to this being my drink. So once you sort of showed your medal

early on, you were- Exactly. You were good the rest of the night. You just had to do that at

this start. So is this, was this kind of a regular thing? Like people from the team would get out for

drinks? Only in, I'm sure we'll talk about. no, not with the NFL, but I did once in an NFL

Europe where we all lived together in a hotel when we were in Germany. And so that was a whole

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