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She's So Lucky

How to Win When People Underestimate You with Taylor Rooks

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#315: If you’ve ever felt underestimated, this episode is for you.

Taylor Rooks is one of the most respected sports journalists in the game — and not because she plays it safe. She's built her career on asking fearless questions, trusting her gut, and refusing to shrink herself to fit into anyone else's idea of who she should be.

In this conversation, Taylor and I talk about what it means to be a woman who takes up space and why the pressure to be palatable isn’t worth giving in to.

We talk about ambition, integrity, reinvention, and the deep self-trust it takes to keep showing up when you have a big vision for your life. Taylor doesn’t just bring her voice to the table — she brings her values. And you can feel it in everything she does.


We talk about:

  • How the experiences of women in sports mirror broader societal beliefs
  • Why it’s powerful not to respond to every critic
  • The art of asking better questions (in life and interviews)
  • Knowing your value, even when others want you to shrink
  • Building a career that reflects your values, not just your resume
  • How to trust yourself when the opinions of others become too loud


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:11.8

Welcome back to She's So Lucky.

0:13.7

My name is Les. I am your host, and the show is all about women who create their own luck.

0:19.0

And I am joined today by a very special guest, sports journalist, producer, nonprofit founder, Taylor Rooks. Taylor, welcome to the show. Well, thank you for having me. It's so nice to meet you. It's so nice to meet you. I know you're usually the one doing the interviewing. Yes, but I'm enjoying this, although I'm sure I will ask you 80 billion questions just because I'm curious about so many of the different things that you do, but I'm happy to be on this side. Thank you. Well, it's also fun when we can do a little back and forth. So ask away. Yeah. So I know this has to be a busy time for you. NFL season just started. NBA season is right around the corner. How are you doing? How are you feeling?

0:59.4

I'm good. I'm trying to be intentional with my time with the lead up to it.

1:07.1

Because covering two sports means my offseason is essentially only like July to August.

1:12.3

Really, it's just July and August. So I want to make sure that I take time for myself,

1:17.9

to be with my family, to be with my friends, and really go into the season grounded and set for a lot of fun work, but a lot of work. So just making sure that when I can get a break,

1:22.6

I actually take it as a break, which I'm working on, because I'm not great at doing that,

1:27.4

but I'm enjoying the

1:28.6

somewhat downtime before things get crazy.

1:31.3

For sure.

1:31.8

Isn't it interesting how taking a break and enjoying the downtime is harder than it sounds?

1:37.7

Oh, 100%.

1:38.6

Like being still is difficult for me.

1:41.3

And I don't say that as a good thing.

1:43.0

I think that it's really hard for me to be content. I think sometimes it's hard for me. And I don't say that as a good thing. I think that it's really hard for me to

1:45.3

be content. I think sometimes it's hard for me to feel like I have done everything that I'm

1:51.9

supposed to be doing or accomplish all the things that I want to accomplish. And then, you know,

1:56.7

your mind sort of tricks you into thinking that being still means that, you know, you're doing

2:01.0

something wrong. So constantly working on being proud of the things that I have done and not

2:08.0

making myself think that I need to be constantly moving in order to feel productive or or happy.

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