Life is a Team Sport
Episodes
51 episodes
Finding Identity
We are back with our 50th episode and the beginning of Season 3. We are kicking off this season talking about the topic of Identity, where our identity comes from and some of the things that directly affect our identity.We start o...
Ep 49 I went Pro with Manya Puppione
Manya Puppione, formerly Makoski, grew up playing several sports. As the youngest sister with older brothers, Manya learned early how to stand up for herself and have that self-motivation to get better. When she reached high...
Ep 48 I went Pro with Paige Nielsen
Paige Nielsen is a professional soccer player, currently a member of the Washington Spirit, who just won the National Women's Soccer League. In today's episode, Paige starts at the very beginning and tells us what her journey through socc...
Ep 47 I went Pro with Shereesha Richards
Shereesha Richards grew up in Jamaica playing netball. It is a sport that is similar to basketball that is played 7 on 7. She got the opportunity to go to a basketball camp at the age of 16. After the camp, she was approached ...
Ep 46 I went Pro with Erinn Dooley
Erinn Dooley has been a part of the gymnastics community her entire life. She began as a toddler going to mommy & me classes and then started competing as a young girl. She progressed quickly through the levels and made it to le...
Ep 45 I went Pro with Ieshia Small
Ieshia Small grew up playing football with the boys and decided to play basketball in middle school and never looked back. She and her brother were adopted by her AAU coach after her mother passed away when she was in high school. &nb...
Ep 44 I went Pro
Becky & Patricia introduce the last theme for season 3 in this introductory episode.In this month's theme, I went Pro, we will be interviewing women who have made sports their career, some of them as athletes and others as coaches a...
Ep 43 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise with Michelle Garvin
Michelle Garvin is the Sports Psychologist for the Detroit Lions. She grew up playing a variety of sports including soccer, basketball, swimming, track, softball and volleyball. She calls herself a generalist instead of a specialist...
Ep 42 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise w/ Bailey Philbin
Bailey Philbin is currently a special education teacher and gymnastics coach. She talks to us today about the eating disorder that robbed her of much of her collegiate gymnastics career, how that impacted her for many years and what helpe...
Ep 41 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise with Lisa Mack
Lisa Mack owned her own business for over 20 years. It was a preschool that she started and just sold a few years ago. She talks about what it looked like to create a startup from scratch as a young woman, her inspiration for doing ...
Ep 40 - Healthy, Wealthy & Wise with Amy Park
Amy is a stay at home mom with two young boys. She is very passionate about helping other women discover how to be healthier and better versions of themselves. In our episode today, Amy shares about their journey to solving her son'...
Ep 39 - Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
All this month we will be talking about health as well as how God has blessed us and the wisdom we have learned. Today Becky & Patricia introduce the topic and talk about different aspects of health. We cover the importa...
Ep 38 - Once An Athlete with Sarah Adewunmi
Sarah Adewunmi grew up playing lots of different sports and specifically loved to play basketball. She is currently one of the chaplains for the Washington Mystics as well as the Washington Spirit. Along with being a chaplain, Sarah...
Ep 37 - Once An Athlete with Pam Hitchner
A recent study released by Earnst & Young found that 90% of female executive-level leaders had played sports at some point in their background. We decided to put that statistic to the test and find out about the sports background of s...
Ep 36 - Once An Athlete with Jolee Paden
A recent study released by Earnst & Young found that 90% of female executive-level leaders had played sports at some point in their background. We decided to put that statistic to the test and find out about the sports background of s...
Ep 35 - Once An Athlete with Tiffany Nesfield
A recent study released by Earnst & Young found that 90% of female executive-level leaders had played sports at some point in their background. We decided to put that statistic to the test and find out about the sports background of s...
Once An Athlete
In 2017 CNBC released a study done by Earnst & Young showing that 90% of female executive-level leaders had done sports somewhere in their background. We found this to be an astounding statistic and set out to interview some female le...
Make a Memorial
What are some significant monuments or memorials that you can think of? Why are they important?In Joshua 4 God tells Joshua and the Israelites to make a memorial. Let’s overview why this was significant at the moment.Back in Exodus, God sent Moses...
Calling all Extroverts
As an extrovert, Heidi Conley is high energy and extremely relational. She talks about how she connects with people easily and often gets invited into their story. As part of her job with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Heidi has the oppor...
Gifted Behind the Scenes
Lisa Davis loves being in the supporting role. Experience has taught her that she doesn't love being in the spotlight, but she does love empowering and supporting others. Having worked as a school psychologist and now working in a s...
Surviving to Thriving
Becky & Patricia talk about the importance of operating out of our gifts and figuring out what those are. Too often we get overwhelmed and frustrated and can't figure out why we are struggling so much. In order to use our gifts well, we need to ...
Coparenting through Divorce
Let’s face it, divorce is hard any way you slice it. With kids, it is important to not let them get caught in the crossfire. Today we talk to Juanita Pizer and she talks about the importance of setting aside her differences and working with her ex...
Sports for Girls in the 50’s
Becky's mom, Tammy Roberts, shares about being a majorette for football games in the 50's. Born in 1941, Tammy talks about the limited opportunities for girls to play sports. She also talks about being the mom of female athletes in the 80's and ...
Teamwork & Compassion
Sirena Alford shares how she grew up in Baltimore and was strongly influenced by her basketball coaches to embrace teamwork and compassion. She talks about how she gets to give back now through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and teach...
