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Hot Take: Interview with Bridget Pettis, veteran WNBA player and coach

Burn It All Down

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5729 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On July 20, 2020, Shireen interviewed former WNBA player and coach Bridget Pettis, who now dedicates her time to her non-profit, Project Roots AZ. They talk about the WNBA, former players coaching and owning teams, the importance of gardening, how to get started if you want to garden (and/or you have a black thumb like Shireen), and the importance of failing. Project Roots is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Phoenix, AZ. They focus on ways to educate the community about growing their own food through various educational programs. They support the homeless by feeding them from their local community gardens and mobile kitchen service, supplying hygiene items, clothing and shelter. Project Roots AZ offers seasonal produce bag delivery services in certain parts of the Phoenix area and can be found at the Farmers Market at Spaces of Opportunity. For more information about Project Roots AZ and to donate: https://www.projectrootsaz.org/ Music during the episode: "Sunspots" by Sound of Picture (www.soundofpicture.com/) For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast episode is brought to you by Coors Light. These days, everything is go, go, go.

0:06.1

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0:53.9

I'm just being who I am, and I hope to encourage people not to be like me, but to be who they are.

1:00.8

Hi, Flamethrowers, Shereen here.

1:03.5

I'm so excited to have Bridget Pettus on with us today.

1:08.2

Bridget Pettus is a legend, has three decades of experience in the WNBA as a player, coach,

1:14.5

and executive.

1:15.8

Her career began in 1997 when she was selected by the Phoenix Mercury as seventh overall pick

1:22.1

in the first WNBA elite draft.

1:24.7

She played in the WNBA for eight seasons with the Mercury and Indiana

1:28.4

fever before joining Phoenix coaching staff as an assistant in 2006 and helping them to two

1:35.1

championships, 2007, 2009. She served as the Mercury's director of basketball operations

1:41.0

from 2010 to 2013 before joining the LA Sparks as an assistant coach.

1:47.0

Then she spent three seasons with the Dallas Wings and most recently as an assistant coach

1:51.9

was to Chicago Sky.

1:54.9

She is the founder and executive director of Project Roots, which is a nonprofit aim to provide and educate the community

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