Get To Know Kealia Ohai

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

This season, we invited our credit readers to interview our storytellers. Today, you'll hear from Kealia Ohai who narrated the previous episode about Ashley Fiolek. If you haven't listened to last week's episode, now is a good time to go check it out! Kealia elaborates on her own experience overcoming physical limitations, advises on how to pursue your dreams regardless of naysayers, and expresses her passion for athletics on and off the field. [This episode originally aired April 2019.] About Kealia: Kealia Mae Ohai is an American soccer player. She captains the Houston Dash and has appeared with the United States women's national soccer team. Prior to her professional career, she was a member of the University of North Carolina’s 2012 NCAA championship-winning team and scored the single winning goal in the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Final. Credits: This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is produced by Elena Favilli, Joy Fowlkes, and Meg Murnane. Sound design and original theme music by Elettra Bargiacchi. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer. Special thanks to Clio McClure for coordinating our credit readers and interviewers.

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0:00.0	This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:10.0	Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:12.0	I'm Elizabeth Barton from Madonna Beach, California.
0:15.0	I'm 8 years old and I'm interviewing Kayia Ohai,
0:19.0	who is the narrator of last week's episode of Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls. If you haven't heard last week's episode of Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls.
0:23.0	If you haven't heard last week's episode,
0:25.0	now is a good time to go back and check it out.
0:28.0	Kealia, would you like to introduce yourself?
0:34.0	I'm Kalia Oh hi and I'm reading the Ashley Feel Lex story.
0:38.0	Like Ashley, you've overcome physical limitations.
0:42.0	Can you tell us more about that?
0:44.0	Yes, when I was young about eight years old I found out that I was partially blind in my
0:50.9	right eye and now it's completely blind and I grown up playing soccer and I
1:00.0	became a professional women's soccer player even with my blind eye, which it has had some limitations,
1:08.3	but I just look at it as a way to overcome something and just become even better.
1:15.0	What advice would you give to a young girl who wants to become a professional athlete?
1:20.0	I think that all young girls should remember that they can be whoever they want to be
1:25.3	and do whatever they want to do and there's always going to be people saying
1:29.9	that's not realistic you can't do, but you have to believe in yourself.
1:35.8	When I was young and I found out I was blind in my eye for a short time me and my family were wondering will she be able to play soccer anymore
1:46.1	will she be able to go to school and now I'm a professional soccer player so if you
1:52.1	just look at things as something to overcome,
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