Hey I'm Veronica Dagger and this is the Wall Street Journal Secrets of Wealthy Women,

where women share how they tackle career, money, and the world.

Today we're talking to Terry Jackson, the executive director of the Women's National Basketball

Players Association.

That's the union that represents professional women basketball players in the W NBA.

Basketball is personal for Terry.

Her husband, Jaren Jackson, Sr. played in the NBA for 13 seasons and their son

Sharon Jackson Jr. is in his second season as a power forward for the

Memphis Grizzlies. Terry is known for her slam dunks when it comes to negotiating contracts for the female players,

but recently she's had a switch from offense to defense as the league deals with the financial fallout from the coronavirus shutdowns.

She's here to tell us how she's managing her players union amid this very difficult time

in sports and how to stay on your negotiation game in this tough environment. Terry welcome to secrets.

to secrets.

Hi Veronica, thank you.

Thank you so much.

That was a tremendous introduction and just thank you for inviting me to

to this podcast and to the conversation because the ability to to talk about my work

and talk about the players and highlight them is what it's all about.

So thank you.

Oh, it's our pleasure.

We're thrilled to have you.

Terry, you're a lawyer by training.

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