I had just spoken up and all I spoke up about was just, I was disappointed in being forced to take the vaccine to keep my job at Disney.

Yep.

But I did it. I still struggle with that. I did it because I had to keep my job.

At the time when I left and when I, you know, I guess spoke up, I was the longest tenured woman on SportsCenter, almost 17 years when I left.

I was making the most money. Like I was that person that they used for commercials and for whatever else.

Marketing, certainly, all those behind the scenes things. And so if I, who had great relationships with all the leadership, if they could do that to me, well then why wouldn't they do it to someone else?

And so I caution them, but I also say you have to make a decision in your life and be,

can you look in the mirror at the end of the day and be okay with being silenced?

When you have big moments where then there's things that happen, you know, afterward,

you realize a lot of who your friends are and who they are not.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hi, I'm Katie Miller.

Welcome to the Katie Miller Show. I'm joined here today by Sage Steele.

I'm so excited to have a conversation about her career, motherhood, and how she does what she does.

Thank you for having me. This is awesome.

So you have three kids?

Yes. Well, are they, at what point are they not like kids? They're, I consider my babies will always be my babies. Yeah, exactly. They're 23, 21, and 19.

And where are they now? So they are, oh gosh, my baby girl is starting her sophomore year

at Ole Miss, haughty toddy. My son is 21. He's starting his senior year at High Point University in North

Carolina. And then my oldest Quinn is in Nashville, graduated from High Point in May, and actually

has a job. So is it weird to be in the stands versus on the sidelines? Oh gosh. It's really

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