Hi, everybody. Welcome to the dream big podcast. I'm so glad you're with us. I hope it's been a great week for you. I know it's been a busy one here in San Diego is we're kind of getting into the fall. I bet it has been for you as well.

And if you've tracked what we've been doing over the last gosh three years or more now.

We bought a camp. It used to be called Oak Bridge. It was a young life camp for years and years and then we put in a vineyard and a question center and cattle and all kinds of stuff.

And one of the original people that were part of the brain trust that made this place possible was Stan Smith.

And if you remember like Stan is a tennis legend like this guy stands tall and always will. So I have him on the podcast. I just thought it'd be fun as we explore some of the things that he's been learning about life and faith and the origins of Oak Bridge and he built the first tennis court out there and the next and the next and the next. So Stan, welcome to the dream big podcast.

Thank you very much that that's an appropriate name that was sort of what kind of got me going way back. I grew up in Pasadena so not too far from where you are.

Yes. That I met my my wife at the little holy beach in tennis club for the first time.

Oh, you did. That's great. Tell me how long ago that was.

Well, that was a long time ago. She was going to bishops and was a school for girls.

I remember that place out to co ed school that it's not a boarding school, but she was boarding there and they had actually she was a good tennis player from New York and it was kind of like today's academies.

You know, there's a lot of good tennis players, a good tennis program. He was one of the better players in the country actually.

So she went to bishops and I was at USC or Pasadena that I went to USC, but the passing I went down. I was I guess I was in college by this time.

I took some lessons from the pro there at the holy beach tennis club and she was her team was working out there and she was taking lessons from the same pro.

And so she had broken her arm and she asked me to sign her cash. She was 15 years old. I was 19 years old.

And that was the that was a beginning of we're going to be married 49 years.

Come on. That's a good long run.

Did you say anything like on her cast like never change or we got her bright future.

This wishes to you. Good luck. Stan Smith, you know, and she kept it for a long time until it started smelling so bad.

So tell for the people that haven't been introduced to you or don't know you well, they know of you.

And they stand Smith and I've got some sporty looking tennis shoes that are rocking your name.

But tell us about a little bit about your career.

Well, I a lot of people don't know me. In fact, I wrote a book called Stance Miss. Some people think I'm a shoe.

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