Ep 128: So You're Scared To Join the #SportsBraSquad
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Shedding your shirt along with your insecurities and working out in your sports bra is TERRIFYING! What if a complete stranger, your neighbor, or a loved one confirms the horrible things you say to yourself when you look in the mirror? WELL, here's something I want you to focus on, WHAT YOU SAY TO YOURSELF. Because even if someone looks at you and judges you (screw them), there will be women and girls who see you and think, "I want her confidence". We can't redefine what strength looks like unless we show up.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast. I don't know what that is. |
| 0:12.6 | Hi, everybody. My name's Kelly Roberts. And I know most of you are going to listen to this |
| 0:17.6 | sometime in the future. So the dates are going to be wonky, but as I'm |
| 0:21.9 | talking to you right now today, I am about a week away from global sports bra squad day, which is on |
| 0:30.9 | June 24th. So if you're listening to this in the future and you're like, June 24th is like a year away. |
| 0:37.2 | You know, don't worry about it. Sports Braw Squad Day is, you know, even though it's like June 24th is like a year away. You know, don't worry about it. |
| 0:38.1 | Sports Press Press Squad Day is, you know, even though it's on June 24th, |
| 0:42.7 | every day can be SportsRs Squad Day if you try hard enough. |
| 0:46.4 | No. |
| 0:46.8 | Today I want to talk about that first initial, |
| 0:51.0 | terrifying, like super, super scary step that is joining the sports bra squad. |
| 0:56.8 | Because honestly, the days leading into, like, the first time you join the sports bra squad, |
| 1:03.3 | or once you think about it and then, like, start ruminating over whether or not you'll ever |
| 1:08.1 | run in your sports bra, it can just make you even more anxious |
| 1:11.9 | because shedding your shirt and running or working out in your sports bra for the first time, |
| 1:16.7 | it's terrifying, like really, really, really terrifying. Growing up, I lived in a coastal town in San Diego, and I, myself, my family, my friends, we lived at the beach |
| 1:32.0 | from like after school beach sessions to spending the entire summer at the beach. It was really, |
| 1:39.3 | really hard for me because on the one hand, I love the ocean. Like the ocean is my favorite thing in the world. |
| 1:46.3 | Swimming and body surfing from dawn until dusk is my idea of the best day ever with like two or |
| 1:52.7 | three. Dumbull doubles. Intermixed. That is my idea of the best day ever. And on the other hand, I really struggled with being seen in a bikini |
| 2:05.1 | because I was bigger than my friends and I really, really thought I convinced myself that |
| 2:11.0 | everyone saw the way I saw myself when they saw me in a bikini and felt, you know, like, |
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