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Self-Helpless

When Your Dream Job Ends with Sam Fischer

Self-Helpless

Cloud10

Alternative Health, Science, Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, Delanie Fischer is joined by her cousin and professional softball player, Sam Fischer. Sam shares how she feels about leaving her dream job, what she's considering for her next career move, the biggest challenges, blessings, and sacrifices she's experienced, and what's aided her longevity over 10+ years as a professional athlete. Failure, starting over, grief, recognition, and identity are just a few things covered during this discussion - if you're amidst a life or career transition, this episode is packed with takeaways for you. Plus: + How Sam is approaching her last season + The #1 value she ascribes to her success + How she crafted a plan for starting over For exclusive rewards and to influence content for the show, join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/selfhelpless Delanie: https://www.delaniefischer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm no good I taking good advice and I'm self-careless so don't tell me twice that lately

0:10.3

I've been so stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said

0:18.3

maybe I'm self-helpless maybe I'm self-help. helpless. Maybe we're self helpless.

0:25.0

Maybe I'm self helpless.

0:27.0

Maybe I'm self helpless.

0:31.0

Maybe we are all self-helpless.

0:38.0

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the self-helpless

0:41.0

podcast. I'm Delaney Fisher, and today I'm chatting with my cousin who happens to be a

0:46.4

professional softball player Sam Fisher is here today. Fun fact our dads are actually

0:51.6

identical twins so we like to call ourselves sister

0:54.8

cousins since you know we basically have the same dad anyway Sam was a member of

1:00.4

team USA from 2012 to 2015 and Team USA Women's Elite Team in 2016.

1:07.0

She also led Team USA to gold medals at the 2015 World Cup of Softball

1:12.0

and Japan Cup events was a member of the gold

1:15.5

medal winning team at the 2014 World Cup of Softball and help Team USA claim

1:20.7

the silver medal at the ISF World Championship.

1:24.3

Sam also played two seasons with the Akron Racers before signing with Scrapyard Fast Pitch in 2018,

1:30.8

and she also played two years in the Japanese Professional League for the Tota Medics.

1:35.5

And in college Sam was the first All-American selection and program history

1:40.4

and was the first player in LMU softball history to earn all PCSE first team honors four times and she was a two time

1:50.4

PCSC Coastal Division Player of the Year for the Lions and closed her career as the

1:55.4

Lions all-time leader in home runs, RBIs, bases, batting average, slugging percentage,

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