Venus Williams: Tennis Star and Entrepreneur

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

She’s widely regarded as one of the all-time greats in tennis. With her younger sister, Serena Williams in a best supporting role, she’s helped usher in a new era of power, athleticism and marketability to the women's professional circuit. Her duality as a successful athlete and entrepreneur can be measured by championships and sales figures, but she would tell you her greatest impact has been made through her activism for gender equality in professional sports. Venus Williams is one of the busiest people in sports business. She’s the CEO of her own athleisure company, Eleven by Venus Williams, and CEO of her commercial interior design business, VStarr Interiors (she’s also a minority owner in the Miami Dolphins). For her, it’s important to have life balance, where she’s committed to a plant-based diet, and loves to dance. Welcome to Suiting Up, where professional lacrosse player, operator and investor, Paul Rabil, talks to influencers within the world of sports to examine the modern duality of a professional athlete.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone Paul Rabel here with this next episode of Suiting Up. I'm especially
0:06.4	excited to talk with this athlete. She's won everything in tennis and many of us
0:11.1	have seen her do it on national TV.
0:13.0	She's also a best-selling author on the transferable skills from playing to managing in the workplace.
0:18.0	Makes her a perfect candidate for this show.
0:21.0	She spends half her day on the court and the other half in the office.
0:25.5	And she's a vegan or she calls it a chiggin. Venus Williams is up next at our studios here in
0:30.9	New York City. Hope you guys enjoy.
0:33.5	So as we put our headsets on here in studio,
0:37.0	we're in New York City.
0:38.6	And I am with seven-time Grand Slam champion,
0:43.0	4 time doubles Grand Slam champion.
0:46.0	I'm going to get all this right.
0:48.0	5 time Olympic medalist, 4 time gold.
0:51.0	What interests me and what I love about this is is CEO of two companies
0:55.4	V-star Interior and 11 by Venus Williams best-selling author, female activists, activist, I should say.
1:05.0	And so there's so much to go through.
1:10.6	But what I want to start with, because this is kind of the way I think and this is the way this show will go I think is a is a question which is more on the plain surface which is what is it like to regularly sit behind and return 120 mile
1:29.1	on a serve?
1:30.3	Well, thank you, thanks for having me here.
1:34.0	It's great to be in your presence, you're a...
1:37.0	Thank you.
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