S7 EP12: An Inspiration Says Farewell
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Serena Williams has announced her retirement. As a top athlete, she’s long been an inspiration to female athletes everywhere, including Rachael and Kelsea. In today’s episode, they’ll be talking about and working through their feelings about Serena Williams’s life, career, and decision to retire. Listen in to hear them talk about the backlash to women in competitive sports, particularly tennis, the example set by Serena Williams, and the value of sacrifice.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Serena’s announcement about retirement
- The backlash to women playing tennis
- The example set by Serena Williams
- How Serena changed the game by existing in her own body
- Whether or not women can really do it all
- The disruption for women who have children
- The value of sacrifice
- How Serena spoke about retirement
- Serena’s decision as a gift to women and what women can learn from it
- Understanding that seasons change and recognizing and owning the season you’re in
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Her journey to retirement was really, I think, so relatable because she faced one of the hardest things that I think every single woman comes up against at some point in their life and has to make a decision on. |
| 0:20.1 | And it is because, you know, biologically, we are the continuers of the race. |
| 0:26.6 | So this is so different than being a male athlete. |
| 0:34.9 | The big question is this. |
| 0:38.8 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:47.5 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:54.6 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating |
| 1:01.0 | well a part of your life. |
| 1:03.9 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:08.0 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. Hey guys and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | Hey guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives Podcast. I'm Kelsey and I'm Rachel. |
| 1:17.6 | We have a new recording thing and it gives us this countdown and I started counting us down and all I could think of was when I was on Ultimate Tag, they'd be like, five, four, |
| 1:29.1 | and then it'd be like, Dodge Tag. |
| 1:31.2 | I was just thinking of your episode on Ultimate Tag. |
| 1:36.9 | I don't know why I was thinking of it. |
| 1:40.4 | Oh, you know what I think it was? |
| 1:42.5 | So, like, Rory's coming to, like, the age of TAG at school. |
| 1:47.2 | And I noticed that, like, he's kind of a little bit on the nervous side. |
| 1:53.4 | And, like, he, like, gets very anxious and, like, doesn't like tag |
| 1:58.7 | because it, like, gives him a lot of anxiety and I was all I could |
| 2:03.6 | think about was like at first I was like that's so weird what kind of kid doesn't like tag and then I was |
| 2:07.9 | like oh I remember Kelsey saying that those people coming to tag her was the scariest thing |
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