Why I Was Forced to Hide My Pregnancy

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Women are often forced to believe they have to choose between their career and motherhood and are told that they can’t have both. Allyson Felix, the most decorated female track and field olympian of all time, joins Call Her Daddy to share her story and explain that you CAN have both. Allyson opens up about the discrimination she faced as a woman in sports and how she used her voice to speak up and enact real change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy.
0:11.0	Allison Felix welcome to call her daddy. Thank you. So Daddy gang with
0:17.1	11 Olympic medals, Allison Felix is the most decorated track and field Olympian of
0:22.1	all time, but today we're here to talk
0:24.4	about equality and women's health. I listen to your TED Talk Allison and I want to talk
0:31.2	about the themes because it's so powerful and I think it's really important that especially a lot of young women hear this conversation.
0:39.4	So let's start from the beginning of Allison, can you describe one of the scariest moments in your track and field career?
0:48.0	Yeah, absolutely in the TED Talk and I talk about it often. One of the scariest moments in my career
0:55.9	being a morning that I was training at 4 a.m. before the sun came out,, it was still dark and I was doing this because I was hiding my pregnancy.
1:08.0	And it's really was such a difficult moment because I've always wanted to be a mother and you know obviously it's a time that should be celebrated and happy and so special and for me it was the opposite like it was isolating like I was literally
1:25.2	hiding the majority of the time and I was doing that because I was scared of what my sponsor
1:31.1	was going to say and so it was such a difficult time period when I think back about it.
1:37.6	Just everything that happened and came, but to me that was kind of like a time period where I was making a decision. I was waiting to see if I was going to get an offer on paper so that I could disclose my pregnancy and hopefully move forward with my career.
1:53.2	Can you explain to everyone listening why has getting pregnant in track and field
1:59.1	Ben called the Kiss of Death?
2:01.4	Absolutely so in track and field, our contracts are performance-based.
2:06.1	So basically you go to the Olympics, you go to World Championships, you get a medal, you get a
2:10.2	bonus.
2:11.5	But if you go and you don't, you get a reduction. And if you get a bonus. But if you go and you don't, you get a reduction.
2:14.2	And if you have a baby, there's nothing in place
2:16.6	to protect you from that.
2:17.9	So what had been happening in track and field
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