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I just feel like every close door has led to another open one and maybe we don't realize it in the moment but once that next one opens we're like okay this is why and yeah I think we just have to like I said take it day by day and realize that if it didn't work out there's a reason why

Yeah, just like trusted in that I guess

Welcome to the real real where we go behind the highlight reel and go into the unfiltered.

I'm your host Natalie Barboo haven't had a guest on my podcast on my podcast in a really long time honestly.

I'm flatter that you thought of me is going to be exciting.

Yeah, no I thought of you because I was looking back at my old episodes and the one that I did with my sister about being like an

NFL girlfriend did really well because I think so many people are interested in what

is it like to date someone or be married to someone that has this lifestyle that

majority of the world doesn't relate to or like doesn't know the behind the scenes of and so I was like like, perfect, I'm going to have Marley on

and we're going to talk about being like an MBA wife.

Yeah, perfect.

So I'm really excited.

So tell the audience a little bit about how you and Drew met and what you were doing before for anyone that is interested in just like your story because I think a lot of times people think like we were talking about this before it's like I want to

marry someone that's an athlete you know and like that's the goal going before they

even meet a person but that definitely like was not the case with yeah you and

Drew yeah so we met at Evansville we both but that definitely was not the case with you and Drew.

Yeah, so we met at Evansville.

We both played basketball and we dated for a while.

And then he ended up transferring to Missou

and played two seasons there.

I graduated, so we did a year of distance,

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