Find The Can-Do Attitude with Candace Parker

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this week’s episode of IMO, Michelle and Craig sit down with fellow Chicagoan and former WNBA star Candace Parker. They discuss why self-exploration is crucial in our careers, the challenges they’ve had in bringing up children in extraordinary circumstances, and Candace’s love story with her wife. Plus, a listener asks for help in finding a new career path.

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0:00.0	You said toys, that sparked my memory.
0:02.8	I remember in 2009, it was actually President Obama was thrown out the first pitch for the MLB All-Star Game.
0:13.5	So he was outside with Reggie Love practicing.
0:18.8	And my ex-husband and I brought Layla. She was probably seven weeks to the White
0:23.2	House. And, you know, we met him and we took pictures and things like that. And I'm standing there
0:29.9	and I'm like, oh my gosh, because I was nursing. I have to nurse. And so I kind of like talk to somebody on the side or whatever.
0:39.9	And President Obama was like, yeah, just go in there.
0:44.9	It's fine.
0:45.5	Like, we'll go out here and pitch and you.
0:47.2	Go ahead and nurse.
0:48.1	That's so him.
0:49.0	I nursed in the Oval Office.
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:51.9	Like in the Oval Office while they did pitching outside.
0:56.1	And it's like, we got a room in there.
0:57.5	Just go sit in there.
0:59.0	Sasha Malia, they were cool, you know, like, I understand.
1:01.8	Just go in there.
1:02.2	I understand motherhood.
1:03.4	It was, so I always tell Layla's claim to fame is that, yeah, she, she was nursed in the Oval Office.
1:10.6	Yeah. She was nursed in the Oval Office.
1:21.2	This episode of IMO is brought to you by Progressive Insurance.
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