Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

I'm your host, Chris Renee Hazel, and this is the Keep It Posit Sweeties Show.

Hey, kids family.

I am so excited about this episode because I have my dear friend Melissa Proctor with me.

Melissa is the CMO of the Atlanta Hawks, and she is the co-founder of Pravita Health here

in Atlanta, Georgia. Guys, we have known each other for a few years, but it feels like forever.

Kids family, please give a very warm, sweetie welcome to Melissa Proctor. Melissa, finally,

we got you here. Thank you so much. I know you are busy this time of year or all the time you're a mother and a business woman. So I don't think there's every moment where you're not busy. So thank you. First of all, thank you so much for having me as a fan of the show and the fact that I've seen so many episodes. I am honored to finally be here.

Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate your support.

You came to my first live show. You let me know that you watched the episodes. So I appreciate it.

Thank you. Yes. So we met like three years ago, which feels like an eternity. I, we're both like,

it was way more than that. I think it was about three years ago doing the BMW Uncourt series, and immediately

we hit it off. Like, we were locked in from that day on. And what I love about you is that you've

always been a dreamer like me. From a very young age, you had all these big dreams that

probably seems so outlandish to people who heard it. Yeah.

Right?

You wanted to be the first female NBA coach,

but you became the first female ball girl for the Miami Heat.

Now, a little backstory.

I read that you, at the age of 15,

you wrote letters and you called the Miami Heat every single day.

Tell me about that. I harass them. So when I was 15, my mom who was a registered nurse, you know, born and raised and believed, knew nothing of American sports. I said, she said, I told her I wanted a job. Yeah. She said, okay, Mel, if you want a job, get a job, and whatever you're going to do for the rest of your life. No clue at 15 what I was going to do. I was an artist. I was always drawing and painting. But I knew that I loved watching basketball. One of my cousins introduced me to the game, but I would watch it like a soap opera on TV for the storylines. Whenever I watched, I never saw women. So this is before there were female referees or assistant coaches or anything. Yeah.

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