Interview: Imani McGee-Stafford, WNBA player on Athletes and Mental Health

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Lindsay Gibbs interviews Imani McGee-Stafford, WNBA athlete and law-student, on mental health in sports and society. They discuss Simone Biles' recent leadership in prioritizing her mental health in the Olympics, their own journeys to actively maintaining mental health and how American sports culture still has a long way to go in ending the stigma around mental health. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. 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: https://www.bonfire.com/store/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	I'm
0:00.9	suck you up and I'm so
0:03.3	you out
0:04.4	and I'll play with your
0:06.1	babies to the screaming shout
0:08.2	oh yeah
0:09.1	for this week's
0:12.9	interview I am so thrilled
0:14.5	to be joined by
0:15.5	one of my favorite
0:16.1	people, Amani McGee
0:17.2	Stafford,
0:18.2	a WMBA player
0:19.6	who is taking a break
0:20.8	from WMBA playing to be in law school. Amani McGee Stafford, a WMBA player who is taking a break from WMBA playing to be in law school.
0:24.3	Amani, thank you so much for being here.
0:26.3	Thank you for having me, as always.
0:28.9	So I want to get a quick update just on how you're doing, how law school is going right now.
0:35.4	Are you done?
0:37.4	What's your status? Not even close. Jesus, this is
0:40.4	like a never-ending hall of torture. I didn't mean to start off that way. Oops. I've finished my first
0:49.0	year. I wasn't an accelerated program. I've since transferred to the regular program.
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