Maria Sharapova

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Maria Sharapova is a 5x Grand Slam-winning former professional tennis player, investor, and entrepreneur. Maria joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how her priorities changed after retiring from tennis, her experience as a child moving to the US from Russia, and where her strong work ethic came from. Maria and Dax talk about how isolating success can be, what it takes to be critical of yourself, and how they both approach conflict in their relationships. Maria explains how much pressure there is on individual athletes to perform at a high level, why she wants to be a voice for female empowerment, and her superstitions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by the Duchess of Duluth.
0:08.8	Hello there. Where you'll soon be, you'll be gracing Duluth with your royal presence. Are you watching the new
0:15.6	crown by the way? Not yet. Yeah. I need to get on it. You know what's fun is I
0:20.4	watch that with Lincoln. Oh so fun. And I'm so into the fact that
0:24.4	at 10 she likes it so. Yeah because it's it's slow. It's slow and historical and
0:29.6	everyone's old on it and she loves it. It's so exciting. Today's guest is Maria Sharapova.
0:35.0	She is a five-time grand slam winning former professional tennis player,
0:41.0	an investor and an entrepreneur, and she has a book entitled
0:45.4	Unstoppable my life so far. She's a beast. Mm-hmm. It's so cool. Like it's fun when we have athletes on yeah because we just
0:55.8	pale in comparison to them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's just start with the fact she arrived and were the same size
1:02.4	Yeah, and I was like oh damn because Well let's just start with the fact she arrived and were the same size.
1:02.8	Yeah. And I was like, oh damn, because one of my questions was going to be or was, and I did ask,
1:08.0	like the showdowns was Sereno when she's a 17 year old.
1:12.4	Yeah. That must be so intimidating. That's what I think the whole. when she's a 17 year old.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	That must be so intimidating.
1:14.2	That's what I think the whole time.
1:15.4	And then I meet her in person.
1:16.4	I'm like, I doubt she's intimidated by much.
1:18.9	Yeah.
1:19.6	You know?
1:20.6	Power house.
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