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The Real Reel

Reel Talk: Becoming a Pro Tennis Player with Chanelle Van Nguyen

The Real Reel

Natalie Barbu

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Episode 238: This week, Nat’s back in Charlotte for a long-awaited girls trip to show her Miami besties around her hometown. Between their busy itinerary, she’s sitting down (for a second time, gotta love technical difficulties!) with her dear friend Chanelle Van Nguyen to chat about the ins and outs of their whirlwind friendship and her journey as a pro tennis player. They first dive into the hilarious way they met and how incredibly different they are from one another in the best ways. Chanelle then opens up about her upbringing and the early days of her tennis career, from the strict training and homeschooling to eventually joining UCLA's tennis team. She touches on the costs of going pro, both financially and personally, and where her tennis career stands today. Finally, Chanelle shares some sage advice for aspiring young athletes, emphasizing the importance of balance and the exciting book she is working on! It's a hilarious and inspiring convo you won't want to miss. Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Chanelle on Instagram & TikTok! Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: Honeylove - Get 20% OFF @honeylove by going to honeylove.com/REALREEL Lume - Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code REALREEL at lumepodcast.com! #lumepod Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/realreel OUAI - Get on your OUAI to save for the holiday. Go to theouai.com for 15% off sitewide and enter promo code REALREEL. Factor - Head to factormeals.com/realreel50 and use code realreel50 to get 50% off. Quince - Go to Quince.com/realreel for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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visit pets at home.com forward slash all for pets. To verify visit pets at home.com forward slash all for pets. If I wasn't bending my legs enough for like a forehand or shot, I wasn't getting low enough,

0:47.8

he would make me walk, this is so bad, he would make me walk on my knees from the baseline to the net.

0:53.7

So I would do that or he heard that I would be scared of the dark.

0:57.4

So he made me run around in Miami. There's like this place called Cr Park, and it's this big tennis center where the Miami open used to be, and they would turn off the lights and he'd make me run in the dark.

1:10.0

Welcome to the reel, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of entrepreneurs,

1:16.5

content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

1:20.5

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.

1:23.4

Hi, Chinnell, thanks to calling on my podcast.

1:28.6

Thanks for finally having me.

1:30.0

Okay, so we recorded this podcast two days ago and the audio footage completely messed up, so I have this new podcast equipment, which is a lot easier to travel with. It's a lot easier to like record with guests. Like I like doing more casual episodes and just like sitting on a couch. Yeah, I don't know, it just feels better, but I didn't realize that this Zoom pack that I record with it has batteries so I thought that I didn't need to charge it

1:57.8

But apparently I need to charge it even though it also had batteries so I didn't realize that it died and then the audio footage was awful and we want to bring good

2:06.4

content to you so we have to record yeah but the episode was so good so I'm really excited We are in North Carolina right now. We're on a girls trip in Charlotte. So I'm from Charlotte. I wanted to bring everyone here because one, it's a pretty cheap trip for all of us like yeah we're staying at my

2:25.6

sister's house we're going to my family's place like I have a car here so it's nice

2:31.4

coming here and like none of them have I mean you've been here before but not like I didn't get to explore around I was here for like a tennis tournament but now it's like it worked out that we all could be here together and take time off of work and yeah yeah and also it's hard enough to get seven girls to hang out on a weekend in Miami like all at the same time so the fact that we could like plan an actual trip is crazy.

2:54.5

And I'm trying to get like more content with my friends just because I feel like I've such

2:58.8

a good group of friends in Miami and that's like the number one question that I get asked is like how do you make

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