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Balanced Black Girl

How to Thrive Under Pressure with Sloane Stephens

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

#287: In this episode, I sit down with professional tennis player and founder of Doc & Glo, Sloane Stephens, to discuss the mental and physical toll of constantly being “on,” both on the court and in the public eye.

Sloane shares how she navigates high-pressure moments, sets boundaries with social media, and applies the lessons learned from her athletic career like resilience, energy management, and knowing when to pivot.

We also talk about…

  • Sloane’s journey from athlete to founder of the self-care brand, Doc & Glo
  • Why setting boundaries with social media is crucial
  • How to practice mental toughness and handle pressure, criticism, and high-stakes competition
  • Balancing performance with personal well-being as an athlete
  • How egg freezing can empower women to take control of their personal and professional future
  • Reclaiming your identity and life beyond sport

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:20.2

Hello and welcome to the podcast. Thanks. I'm so happy to be here. I'm happy to be here. We've been talking

0:24.6

about this for a while. Finally. And now it's finally here. Yes. So you travel a lot. So it was like,

0:30.3

it was very hectic trying to get here. But I'm here. We made it. You're here. Yeah. Nice.

0:34.2

Yeah. You celebrated a birthday recently. Yeah. You did. Happy belated. Thank you. You turned 32. I actually really loved your Instagram caption on your post that said, too cute to be 32. Which, I mean, you are and will be gorgeous at any age. Oh, thank you. And the caption was really funny. Because I do feel like we reach certain ages where it's like, oh, this sounds serious.

0:55.8

No, 32 is like real.

0:56.4

Yeah.

0:57.1

Yeah.

1:01.9

And so I feel like every age is real, but this 32 is like, it's getting up there.

1:06.6

There's a lot more decision making at 32, I feel like, than even 30.

1:13.4

Like 30 was just, okay, I'm 30, but now 32 is like, okay, now we're like cruising in in there.

1:17.7

It does feel different to be 30 versus to feel like you're in your 30s.

1:18.2

Yes.

1:19.9

Those are two different things.

1:21.2

Now I'm in my 30s.

1:23.1

But I don't, I mean, I don't feel like it.

1:23.4

Yeah.

1:25.7

As a person, I don't feel like it.

1:29.4

But my age, obviously, I feel like it. So I don't know.

1:38.7

Like, it's just, I don't know. I think like the expectations of like being 32 and like your friends, like getting married or having kids or whatever it is.

1:44.8

Like obviously I travel, I'm still playing. So it's like my life looks a lot different than a lot of other people's. And like,

1:49.0

I feel like everyone's journey is different, but it's like a weird like thing when you like see people on Instagram. You see like all of these things happening around you. And I'm like, oh, okay, well,

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