Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It is I, Niyy Shobo. This is dedicated to a very particular type of person. All right? This is dedicated to the Mama's Boy athlete. This is no disrespect to mothers. You know, not all mothers are like this, but most mothers, I guess from a stereotypical sense,

we can say that mother's job is to nurture, right?

What do you know is going to happen when you call your mom on the phone and you tell her

about how hard things are or what happened after your game or how you got hurt?

You can expect comfort.

You can expect them to lighten the

blow for you. And then we all have the people in our lives. Sometimes it's the father. Sometimes it's

the mother as well. Sometimes it can be a friend. It could be a coach who has a tendency to tell you

something that you need to hear but doesn't always feel good, especially at the time that you're hearing it.

As a matter of fact, it can feel like when you're getting what you're getting from them,

that's exactly not the time to get it.

It's like, why would you tell me that right now?

You know, I got a message on my IG not too long ago and it's from somebody who was describing

the positive results that they seen as a result of listening to the podcast and listening to

what I told them to do.

And they mentioned, and I've gotten this from several people before, that for a period of time, they were actually upset with me, meaning they didn't

listen to me for a while. It was too much. The reality was too harsh. And I actually found

comfort in getting that message because that made me feel as though I was doing my job correctly.

Because that's what I feel my job is.

I struggle sometimes with feeling like I'm a jerk or a bad guy,

especially with those I love and are close to me,

because that's oftentimes when it's most difficult to be honest.

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