I'm happy to be here today. I hope you are having a great day. Man, we have had some really great episodes in the last few weeks. I'm having the best time. It is so fun.

I love talking about sports. I have not started my sports podcast yet, but you know it's in my heart. It is so in my heart. Especially after talking to Brad Lomonick a couple of weeks ago, if you haven't heard that episode you need to back up and grab that one and listen.

I am feeling the sports podcast coming. I just want to. That way you guys don't always have to hear me talk about sports if you don't want to. But I am excited about that idea.

So all the more reason that I was excited that this week's interview is with an athlete, a friend of mine who we grew up in the same town. Her name is Mo Isem. She's an incredible author speaker, a New York Times best selling author, which is just an incredible honor and so so fun for her.

And for all of us who are on her team, all of us who are cheering for it was just an incredible story of how that came about. But she's also really well known for being a goalkeeper for LSU for Louisiana State University and then trying out for their football team as the kicker as the only female to play on the football team.

So it's a very interesting story. Her book is called wreck my life. I'm not going to tell you how it ends, but you should totally get it. And I got to sit down with her. She's in Atlanta. I'm here in Nashville. So we connected. And it was really great to get to hear her. She and I have kind of walked this path together for a couple of years. So I was so excited to get to chat with Mo, new wife, new mom, new author, just so many great things new member of the New York Times best selling author club.

And it was just an amazing season for her and an incredibly good soccer player. Listen, I've watched the videos. I've heard her talk about it. She's known as around our city and around a lot of places as an incredible soccer player. So that makes me like her all the more. Also, she was on the Ellen show.

She had to Google that. I'll put the link in, but she was on the Ellen show for being a female who tried out for a SEC football team. So you should Google it. I'll link to it. But so enjoy this conversation with New York Times best selling author of the book wreck my life. Mo isome.

Hi, Mo. Welcome to that sounds fine. Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. I have been long awaiting the day to join this podcast. Well, I love this podcast. Oh, you're kind. It's a very, it's one of my very favorite things. I say it a lot, but I totally love it because one of the things I love most in this life is introducing my friends to my friends.

Like I love doing that in real life. I love doing that on Twitter. I love doing it. And so the podcast is like this virtual way that I can actually introduce my real life friends to a bunch of my friends who like to listen. So it's very, very fun to me because we're real.

I grew up in the same hometown. Yes, we did same church growing up for a little bit there. Everything. Yeah. And I feel like now I don't meet anyone in ministry or just in my hometown.

It's not like, oh, my goodness, you should know a woman named Annie Downs. You're like, she's my friend. We are already. I follow her life and try to imitate everything she's doing.

No, I know I love that part because we literally grew up going to high schools that were next door to each other. And and then. So to kind of back us up a little bit. Have you always wanted to be a writer because your book just came out wreck my life just came out in August.

Yes. But did you always want to be a writer? Is that always been part of the dream? You know, writing was one of those things that I just loved to do.

Whether it was poetry, whether it was songwriting, just getting the words and sort of that creativity and thought out of my head and onto paper.

I love since I was very young. I even, I will hold Heidi my mom to this. I wrote a piece in my seventh grade art class that got a 100 and a special note on it from the teacher.

Because we were writing about the piece of art we saw. And I brought it home to my mom so proud to show her because I loved writing so much. And she made me go back into the teacher.

And she told the teacher that clearly I had cheated because I couldn't write something that great.

No, and she made the teacher say where I was sitting, show me, you know, where she was sitting, and she have cheated off of anything. She used me of cheating.

What? What? What was the best grade in the class? I was at Simpson.

Yeah. My teacher vouched for me so hard. And so my mom learned, okay, maybe you do love to write. But I don't think I ever thought it could be like a career.

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