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Hi, I'm Shelly Maurer and I'm Cher Emrick. Welcome to Life.

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Lessons from Pickleball where we engage with pickleball players from around the world about life on and off the court.

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Thanks for joining us. Welcome everyone to Life. Lessons from Pickleball. We are so delighted to have with us Sarah Weiss as our guest today. Sarah, you are a two-time best-selling leadership education author, a high-performance success coach and an international motivational speaker.

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You are also a serial entrepreneur, a top leader in the network marketing industry and a sponsored amateur pickleball champion.

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You have had an amazing life journey, my friend, and I'd love for you to share some of your story with us, oh, my.

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Where do I begin? Yeah, I wear many hats. I've had a lot of different experiences in life. Coming from a low-income household, I kind of grew up with this like chip on my shoulder and I wanted to like break the chains and I wanted to do a bunch of big things. I had big dreams, as I guess many kids have, and I was very entrepreneurial. I was like the creative dreamer of my family. I had three younger sisters and my mom, who was a single mom for a good portion of my childhood. I felt very much like a protector of my family and I wanted to do a lot with this opportunity at life.

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I really always seen and I still to this day see life as such a gift, such a blessing, like I don't want to waste it. It's like every moment matters and I want to make the most of every single bit of it. So I've done a lot, I've experienced a lot. I've, you know, launched businesses at age 21. I bought my first house because I was working really hard landscaping. I just did whatever I could to kind of get ahead so I could make the most of each moment While also having some fun, being very social, had my party days, you know where I'd get goofy and silly and I just I've. I've really grown to a place where I appreciate what I have and I love where I'm going and I look back at everything that I've experienced and it's it's all added up to this cool cocktail of life. And it's so funny to me that I've landed in pickleball because that was the last place I thought I would go.

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I really really never expected to be into sports. It was never really my jam. You know all my friends I grew up in Canada so it was like hockey, hockey, hockey. Everyone played hockey, they all went to the rinks and they all did the hockey thing and that just never did it for me. But you know, I've been building businesses all my life, so I've gotten to this point where it's like I go, go, go, go go. And then it's like I don't really have this place to like, just let loose. So, like I used to go to the spa once a month I would go to this like outdoor spa and I would go into the hot tubs and the saunas and all that stuff, but I never had a place to like, I guess release a different type of energy.

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So how I found pickleball was a friend of mine took me to a court to teach me tennis. So we had been driving by this public court that he thought was a tennis court and he pulled me there and he's like this I don't, I don't think this is a tennis court, I don't know what it is. I mean it looks like a tennis court but I don't think it is. The net seems lower, the court seems smaller. I'm like I have no idea, just hit me the ball, see if I can hit it back. And I mean I wasn't super coordinated. I liked going to the gym and doing yoga, so I had a level of like I was in a good, in good shape, but I wasn't like strong or anything, and we're hitting the ball and he keeps saying I don't think this is a tennis court.

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I don't know what it is. So we did end up leaving. He scratched in his head and we went and did some research and we found out what it was. We found out at the time there was this like 14 year old girl phenom player, annalee Waters, obviously. So I looked at her and Ben Johns and we're like, okay, so this is like a thing you know, there's people doing this like on a professional level, like should we try it? And I tried it. We got some cheapo paddles and we just started hitting the ball and there was like something instant about it that I was just like what is this? This is really cool.

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And I'll tell you, actually, two months before that, I was burning out. I was running three different businesses that I was burning out. I was running three different businesses. I had created a very successful practice in life coaching, from relationships to business, to happiness. Some people hired me just to help them learn how to be happy, because they'd seen me go from rags to riches and be happy and I was building that up.

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I was also doing crypto mining. I was mining a bunch of crypto. I was doing network marketing and I was also doing crypto mining. I was mining a bunch of crypto, I was doing network marketing and I was also launching my own certification program for coaches who were learning some of the techniques that I used, and I was creating a very innovative platform with a new website in a way that people could come onto the site and they could pay a monthly membership and get access to a bunch of different coaches. So it was like a big undertaking and it was burning me the heck out. It was a lot. While my kids are running around in the background of zoom, I'm living on zoom and my kids are just living their lives behind me and I just that drove me nuts.

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So one day I'm watching Netflix and I think it was like I don't know one or two in the afternoon. So I sat down and I'm watching Netflix and 15 minutes in I'm getting this like anxiety. It's like I need to be productive, I need to go get more clients, I need to help my current clients. I can't be sitting down. How dare I? I?

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was like I'm 33 years old. What do you mean? How dare I relax? That's not right. I did not like that moment and I sat there. I was like what's wrong? You know, like I'm living in my purpose, I'm impacting people positively, my purpose is to serve and I'm doing it at a high level. I've got the money, all the money I need. Life should be good right now. Like I'm living in exactly what I've been trying to build, and I did.

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I had to do this like deep soul search, like what's missing. Why do I feel this way? And the big answer that just came rushing to me was fun. Where's the fun? Oh, where's the joy? Oh. So I now. I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual and I believe in my version of God and I see and speak to God in my way, and I don't tell people what their God needs to be, but I have my version of God and I see and speak to God in my way, and I don't tell people what their God needs to be, but I have my version. And I prayed to God. In that moment. I said send me some fun. Something's not working here. Help me, guide me. I don't know what I'm doing to get to this point where I can feel good about what I'm doing. Two months later, pickleball showed up and I knew. I knew I was like thank you.

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Thank you, I know this is it and, oddly enough, I shut down my businesses, not my life coaching. I kept some of my clients, but I stopped building it. I shut it all down Like wow, you know what I want? To have some fun now. So for three and a half years.

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I've been coaching remotely.

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So for three and a half years I've been coaching remotely, coaching on court. Most of my clients are now just pickleball coach clients, even if it's remote, and that's that's been my focus teaching pickleball, doing camps around North America, running around doing tournaments and still coaching. Yeah, it's, it's fun. So that's, that's a little short nugget of my story. There's many little things in between, but yeah, that's where I'm at now.

Speaker 1: 7:29

Wow, and so your coaching for happiness just has one answer get into pickleball.

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Now, yeah, it's very much more simple. Pick up a paddle, a stupid wooden paddle or a hard paddle and a stupid wiffle ball. Put those together, you're going to live your dreams.

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And now you're winning in tournaments. Yeah, what level are you? A duper?

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Yeah. So the duper score, that's like the big deal. What's everybody's duper score? I remember when I first started it was like I got to find out what level I am. What am I playing at? So I started at low 3.0 and was not great. Took me a little while, but I became obsessed. I hired all the coaches and I worked really, really hard. I recorded all my games, I watched all the pros and I had my certain.

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I don't come from sports, but I do come from mindset and I used a lot of my tools that I teach people and coach people to get good and I moved up pretty quickly. So at the point I'm at now, I am playing pro qualifying events and in Canada I'm playing open events, which is basically the best of the best in the area will get together and I pretty much always get a silver or gold medal in open events in Canada, here in the States doing depending on the event. So if it's like an APP or PPA, I'm still trying to get out of qualifiers. There is tons of talent, it's amazing. So I usually go one or two wins and then two losses and out, but you have to win more than two to get past qualifiers. So yeah, I would say, like my duper is a 4.74, but my actual rating is probably closer to 5.5.

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Wow. So isn't that pro? Isn't that the pro level? Yeah?

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So do you want to?

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go pro.

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Totally, totally, yeah, I mean of all the like. So I'm, I'm 36 years old, I have a nine and 11 year old daughter, and it just seems so weird for me at this point in my life to be like I want to go pro and pickleball. It makes me so happy, you know, and I don't want to let any like thoughts of I'm too old or I don't come from sports or whatever limiting, disadvantaged belief one could, you know, hold on to. I don't want anything to stop me from achieving something just super cool. I think it's so cool to be like a pickleball pro.

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Yes, indeed, you have shared that you're transgender. Is that interfering with your ability to be pro?

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Well, in ways yes and in ways no. Only because so it's such a multifaceted conversation to talk about. Because, um, for a long time, for most of my past three and a half years, uh, nobody knew that I had any different, different gender situation or past um. But at the 2022 us open, because I do podcasts and I've written books, like there's information out there I I just don't I'm not like screaming it from the rooftops because it's not really a defining factor about me you know there's like you said there's so many things about me that define who I am, and that label is not one of them.

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It's just a piece of my past. So, anyways, I don't scream it from the rooftops, but I do talk about it once in a while. So I guess this group on on twitter called icons women, which is an anti-trans group. They literally all they post is about anti-trans stuff.

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They they promote that they're pro women but it's really anti-trans. Anyways, they made a couple posts while I was at the 2022 us open uh, saying this male is playing in the female division and like made multiple posts and they went like kind of viral and it was, it was vile viral, like it was nasty nasty um, and I was with a couple friends and when I found it, found the post, and I just I broke down, I was, I was bawling.

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I was scared um, I was very hurt and mainly scared to go back to the, to the tournament again, and if anyone ever knows me or has ever met me at a tournament, I'm like a bubbly butterfly. I'm like hi everybody, like give me hugs, like I. I never experienced this kind of thing before. I never did tournaments and sporting stuff. So I'm like I'm in my mid thirties and I'm like this is so cool. Hi everybody, I just I want to meet everybody and hug everybody. I'm like I can't wait to play. Let's go play some games. It's just like. It's like a playground to me and I go to the.

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You know, I really wanted to go home. I didn't want to go back, but some friends of mine were like I could feel shivers, like I walked into the front entrance and I was looking down. I was just like walking, looking down. I didn't want to look up, so like I'm ready to cry. Oh, it was scary. Um, I didn't know if I would get accosted or if someone would. You know cause, again, nobody really knew at that point. But now, now it's out in the open what's going to happen. I had no idea. I was very scared of what possibly could have happened, but I went anyways and, um, I instantly ran into a friend of mine who looked at me and was like Whoa, what's going on? What's going on, cause? Like I wasn't like crying or anything, but I was like off. Um, she could instantly tell Cause again.

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I'm like ah, and I wasn't like that.

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She pulled me aside, asked me what was going on and she was like, oh my gosh, like whoa, just okay, be strong. And she was like she gave me this like pep talk and I kept moving forward and deeper and deeper into the U? S open and what happened was amazing. People will come up to me and they were like we saw what's going on. We just want to say we've got your back, don't you worry. You know we're watching out for you. Can I get a picture with you? And like a bunch of people wanted pictures with me and wanted to show me their support.

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Not one moment the rest of that week in that tournament did I experience anything negative. Not, not a shred of it. The only thing I would say is that my mixed doubles partner, who I had already played a tournament in with and had stayed at his place during a Florida tournament, he backed out of being my partner. He had no idea until then and he said I don't want to be a cheater, so I'm backing up. But he had already played with me and anyways, it was.

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It was weird, but many people stood up and said I will gladly play with you. So I instantly had a replacement and I played the event and it was amazing. I had uh, not only just like regular people and new friends come up to me, but I had companies, uh tell, reach out to me on facebook say, come meet me at the tournament. We're going to give you some free swag, we're going to give you some t-shirts, we're going to give you people were. They were giving me things to just show me support. Uh, I found um, the owner of pb 1965 meet, met with me and then connected me with um, um kyle yates.

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So I became friends with kyle yates over this and we had we've had many conversations and we've done done a couple things together, so it opened up a lot of doors. But then I had this like I went home and I was like, ok, so what am I going to do with this? You know, do I talk about this? Like, because I've almost avidly avoided letting that becomes a defining factor for me. So it's not something that I like promote a lot, but I get home and I'm like, ok, do I talk about this? Do I go live? I like promote a lot, but I get home and I'm like, okay, do I talk about this? Do I go live? Do I make some videos? And I go.

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You know what it's happening, so why not just go with it? And that's kind of how I live my life. And I did. I started to talk about it and it kicked up a lot of dirt, a lot of people who had opinions about it, about, you know, trans women in sports and stuff like that, and it was intense. I spent at least a good two months doing almost daily lives, kind of keeping people in the loop of what was happening, because there was a lot of progression in what happened. The owners of the US Open reached out to me. They ended up adjusting their policies because of the situation, basically to make things clear and inclusive, and they wanted my assistance on doing that.

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Wow.

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Yeah, the owners of the US Open were incredible. You know they're now friends of mine. I became good friends with Ken Herman, the owner of the APP. He's read my book. He's a big fan of mine. I'm a fan of his. He's super, super cool. So I've made some good friends.

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In high places, in all the mess and the noise of all the haters, if you want to call them, the people who have very nasty opinions about it, I've met so many incredible, incredible people that I'm beyond blessed and grateful for. So has it created issues becoming a pro? Yes and no? So has it created issues becoming a pro yes and no? Yes and no. I mean, I've got a lot of good following and people who look out for me respect me. But I also can only assume certain things. Like some people probably are worried about playing with me, I don't play very many women's doubles. It's, first of all, because it's hard to find a good women's doubles partner. But I think, if you add that on top of it, I don't know how many people are hesitant to team up with me. I can only guess.

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Well, considering the response you got at the U S open by all these people saying I'll do it, I'll be with you, I'll be your partner, the odds are you'll be good. I mean, it'll all well I'm. I'm delighted to hear that the US Open is wanting to be inclusive. When you said they changed their policies and all, I wondered what that meant. So I'm glad that it was toward progress.

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It was a positive thing.

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yeah, yeah it was a positive thing. Well, I really appreciate you sharing all that, and I know that a lot of hearts are being touched right now. I know that. Well, my bias is that the resistance is fear, and whenever fear is the thing that's in our minds or in our hearts, we're not usually making really good choices. So I love that the response that you got at the US Open from all the fans and everything else was also positive.

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They weren't afraid they get it. You're you, jeez. It's like, yeah, like you said, it's a non-issue, unless it's an issue for some people. But I appreciate you sharing your story because I know that it's touching a lot of hearts. I have a beloved family member who has had the same journey and he's amazing, and he's amazing, and he's amazing. So I love that you're sharing your story. Shelly, say something.

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Oh, I'm feeling really emotional too and I just am like think it's just now I'm going to start crying. Just the support you got was just incredible yeah.

Speaker 3: 18:04

I'm very grateful and you know I've always coached people on, you know, through their challenges and their adversity and their mountains to climb, saying that, you know they make you, that's what shapes you, that's what gives you strength, that's what teaches you, gives you wisdom. And you know, before that happening, I had been a very successful coach and no one had ever made it an issue because it wasn't sports. You know, it's business and it's coaching and there was no issue for anyone who did know, but many people didn't. But now that it's in in sports, now it's a big thing. And now I got put through this like you know, ringer, so to say, of you know adversity and people pushing back and calling me all the names in the book and including, you know, demon cheater.

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I mean just a whole litany of different things and it's like, okay, you know I coach people through this kind of stuff. Clearly, I'm being tested myself. How am I going to handle it? And I, you know how would I coach myself through this? And the big thing that I really wanted to hold onto was my integrity. I never wanted to lose sight of the fact that when someone has an opinion on me, it's their own.

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And that if they're, you know, projecting their pains, it doesn't make them a bad person. It doesn't make them a bad person. I have an opinion that I don't have, don't share, and to have patience and grace, and many people have been like I don't know why you have that kind of patience. It seems silly to me. I want to strangle them and I really I don't want to strangle them.

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I feel like a sadness when someone projects this pain and this anger towards me, saying some of the most hurtful things I could ever hear. My heart hurts for them, and I don't know how that sounds, but I truly am like. I wish you could feel the happiness and joy that I do.

Speaker 2: 19:59

Yeah, you know I mean what a life lesson this is, sarah, because think about you had a choice that day. You could have left and not gone back in there and look what you would have missed out on. It was amazing, it was amazing, it was amazing. So that is such a life lesson to not let other people's fear affect us.

Speaker 3: 20:25

Right to keep tuned to our own joy yeah yeah, and I mean the big thing, I think, is to always just show up. I mean, the fear is what stops us from showing up, and that's where the magic happens, is where you show up. And if I let that fear, because that's all it was, was it wasn't even real.

Speaker 1: 20:44

It's social media nonsense. You know this whole social media.

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It's like I could turn that into something and basically manifest it into something real, or I could just treat it as it was it was just noise that had like nothing to do with me.

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Yeah, and I showed up and it's so funny. You know, there was nothing negative, it was imaginary. That's what fear is it's imaginary, it's not even real. So this fear shows up and I had that choice Do I show up or do I let the fear scare me away? And I'm very, very glad because I was close. I was very close to letting it scare me away and I'm very, very glad because I was close. I was very close to letting it scare me away. You know, especially when safety is involved, that could be a very dangerous situation. And in Florida, where there's a lot of anti LGBTQ ideals and policies and bills and stuff that are passed, which is unbelievable, but it's another topic, but you know, I showed, I showed up.

Speaker 3: 21:44

Uh, and that's what I tell people to do Just show up. Don't let the fear stop you from showing up. You never know what's going to happen, and especially when you know there's people who care for you there.

Speaker 1: 21:53

And there were, there were more that showed up too.

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Cause I showed up.

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And you're showing up Wasn't even just for you. I mean, when you look back on it, you see how your showing up in that moment impacted so many people, even people who might not have even thought about whether this was an issue or anything else. And they just love you and they just support you and I just uh, that is very moving.

Speaker 3: 22:18

And it's not like that's anything I set out for quite the opposite. I really didn't want any kind of limelight or spotlight for that, but it's nice to know that, me saying, yeah, I'm going to do this and I'm going to talk about it, knowing full well there's going to be people who, you know, want to back out of being my partner. I knew that and I did it anyways, not looking for any attention, but to find out that because I did that, it positively impacted people. It made it all very worth it.

Speaker 1: 22:56

Yeah, and the fact that you were so well equipped, having been a coach, like you said, and kind of helping people through their own hard times. You had this wonderful ability to find your own way through it and obviously with the help and love of your community and support friends and family. Yeah, wow, very, very easy.

Speaker 3: 23:19

I mean when people get challenged in this way. It's not that it's something that's easy to do, but it is worth going through the mud, going through the stickiness, because it grows you and I hope, if anything, I just show people that it is worth it, that it can be done, that when you're faced with people who want to oppress you and kick you down, when you're faced with challenges that seem almost impossible to overcome, it is worth facing them. It's gonna be hard. I can promise you it will. It's not that it's gonna be easy or that you might get lucky and it might, I don't know, you get some kind of lucky break or something. It's typically gonna be a challenge.

Speaker 3: 23:58

You're gonna face all kinds of emotions. You're gonna feel hurt, you might get backstabbed, you might get sabotaged. I mean, all of these things can happen. But if you continue to move forward through it, god, you come out stronger on the other side. You come out smarter, wiser, stronger. You come out with people who respect you for doing the journey, people who appreciate you for showing that it's possible, and I promise you it is, especially if you reach out. Anyone who's watching, if you're facing something, I invite you to reach out to me. I'll tell you I got your back. I'll love you, no matter what.

Speaker 1: 24:32

Nice, in fact, I'm really glad you said that and we'll definitely give your website before we leave. But I also want to say and anybody who's feeling angry and upset with this conversation, I just invite you to look at what that emotion is really about, because what we're talking about is just human beings who are living their lives. And if you, I know that there are some people for whom their religion says, oh you're going to hell, I just hell. Let's think about whether that's really something to even consider, because if God is love, god is love, god is love, god is love. That's it. That's it. That's it, at least in my experience, and you're demonstrating love. So bless you, and I hope that maybe this touches some hearts of people who thought, oh, that was not so good. Now I'm more open to it and I see this as well. I would say it's time to get curious.

Speaker 3: 25:32

Get curious, ask questions. Having opinions is one thing, but help expand your opinion by asking questions.

Speaker 3: 25:42

Talk to someone who's going through these things that you have judgment on and find out what it's really like. I can tell you all kinds of things that would probably be news to you, like before I started transitioning with hormone replacement therapy, which was about 10 years ago now. Before that, I could do about 75 pushups. So here's let me make this very clear there is a difference between men and women when it comes to strength and ability. When you go through a hormone replacement therapy, the amount it impacts you is mind blowing. I'll tell you from experience I could do 75 pushups straight before.

Speaker 3: 26:19

10 years ago I I think it was about a year into hormone replacement therapy I could barely squeak out 10 and I still can barely do 10 pushups. And I go to the gym. I'm an athlete. It's a big difference. I actually gas out quicker than most of the cisgender women that I play against my counterparts. They can outlast me in almost like 99% of the time I'm gassing first and I do cardio regularly. I play pickleball almost every day. I have there's actually studies you can look up that there are disadvantages in many athletic areas that transgender women have compared to cisgender women. So the whole advantage thing do some research and you'll find out. It's not what you think, it is so.

Speaker 3: 27:07

I mean, and there's so much more to it. But that conversation it doesn't. It's not as productive when it's happening with me, because I'm not a scientist and I'm not a doctor. I'm someone who's done research and I've gone through and I can only give you what I've experienced and I can tell you I don't have the endurance and I don't have the strength or the speed that I used to have not even close. And I've been trying to, you know. So I've been playing for three and a half years and I've been at around a five, oh five, five for the past year and a half. I promise you I'm not dominating anybody. Nobody's getting dominated by.

Speaker 1: 27:44

Sarah Weiss, if that's what you're thinking not happening.

Speaker 3: 27:47

I have to work really, really hard, and it has more to do with my skills, my shot selection, my what do you call my soft game my resets, my ability to stay calm under pressure. Those things are what helped me get better, not strength or speed. I would say endurance would be nice, but I don't have that. I'm still working on it. But yeah, you know, it's interesting what you learn when you actually talk to someone who's going through it. So maybe ask some questions.

Speaker 1: 28:17

Ask some questions, be curious Be curious. So, in this whole life of being in a home that didn't have very much and then finding your way into all these businesses and having all the money you wanted, and then realizing there's no joy, and you found your joy. So in all this, what are some of the life lessons other than what we've already shared right now that either you've learned on the court, that you've taken into your life, or you learned in life and you use them on the court?

Speaker 3: 28:47

Oh, there's many. I consider myself a pickleball life coach at this point, because as a life coach, I would talk to people about their life. As a pickleball life coach, I talk about their pickleball game as it connects to life, and it really does. One of the first things that I'll tell someone is how you do one thing is how you do everything.

Speaker 1: 29:09

Oh, that's included on the court what's?

Speaker 3: 29:11

that mean.

Speaker 3: 29:12

Say more so if you are frustrated with playing with a weaker partner and you do the eye roll and the puffiness and you start to, you know, have this different attitude about you. If you do that on the court, you're doing that in life. Oh, and I was doing that. And I'm like who am I right now? Wow, and I, I had I taught this for many years. I was like, oh, okay, so where in my life am I doing this?

Speaker 3: 29:44

And I started to analyze you know, me with my clients, me with my family, me with my kids and I would notice little places where I was like I would get impatient and like treat them like well, they should be, have a higher standard. I had higher standards for how they should be behaving, be behaving and stuff. And it's like, oh, I'm doing that in life too. So I at that point so here's something you'll learn is, when you find out you have a habit, as soon as you know what's a habit, then it becomes a choice. A habit turns into a choice once you're aware of it.

Speaker 3: 30:22

I became aware of what I was doing and habit. I made a decision to change it, and you get to change it to whoever. So for me, I was like I want to be a cheerleader for people. I want to be an empower. I mean, that's what I talk about. So when I get on the court, I will constantly cheer people on, I don't care at their level, I don't care if I want to win or whatever and that changed in my whole life. So I started to do that and it was. It was reflected in how I was with my kids, how I was with my family, how I was with my friends, how I was with my clients.

Speaker 1: 30:53

Awesome, once you know. It's a habit, it's a choice. Yeah, that alone, oh my gosh, I love that Powerful. Yeah, so what? What are the names of your books? Before we say goodbye, I want to promote the books.

Speaker 3: 31:13

Sure, I mean my personal book. The first one I ever wrote was called not born this way, and the second one I coauthored it was 20 powerful women in network marketing. But I'm writing my second book, my second personal book, as we speak.

Speaker 1: 31:30

Huh, huh, and will it be ready?

Speaker 3: 31:34

I'm hoping by let's let's, I'm aiming for next summer, awesome, yeah, is it about pickleball? There's going to be much more so. In my first book there was no pickleball yet.

Speaker 3: 31:47

So yeah, there's going to be pickleball and I'm going to be talking a little bit about some of the stuff that I'm sharing with you my experiences, obviously, at the 2022 US Open, the lessons I've learned going from life coach to pickleball life coach and just kind of expanding on how things change in my mid-30s and shifting into going from business and going. I'm tired, I'm burnt and going. I want to do pickleball as a mom and traveling and all that stuff. So there's lots of good juicy stuff. My first book is extremely juicy.

Speaker 3: 32:19

I've lived a very crazy life lots of ups and downs, lots of we'll say craziness. Not everything I did as a kid was legal. So I've learned a lot of lessons from some of the mistakes that I've made and I've lived a spicy life from some of the mistakes that I've made and I've lived a spicy life and it's led me to a lot of awareness on what truly brings someone joy, comfort, freedom, happiness. And I'm at a place now where I feel those things, even amidst hard challenges, and I'm not going to say that I sit there like no big deal. No, I get hurt and I feel the emotions, but I accept them now, I don't resist them.

Speaker 3: 32:57

I'm not like afraid of how it feels to hurt, Like I used to be. I would like avoid pain. I don't want to feel this, I don't want to think about it. I don't want to feel anything to do with what's happening right now. So I'm just going to kind of turn a blind eye. No, now I'm like it hurts, it's okay. I'm not good right now, but it's okay. And then I, you know, I come out of it much sooner, much healthier and happier. So I get to talk about that now and the wisdom that I've taken. So I'm excited about it.

Speaker 1: 33:25

The book is going to be called you ready for this.

Speaker 3: 33:27

Yes, it's going to be called WTF is wrong with me me.

Speaker 1: 33:40

There you go. Love the title.

Speaker 3: 33:41

Oh, that's very cool, and so what's the? How can people find you and keep track of this book? Yeah, so, um, I literally just started writing it, so my Facebook people don't even know. Yet I'm about to post.

Speaker 3: 33:49

I was thinking about posting it today and I haven't yet, but yeah, I'm going to be posting it on Facebook. Facebook's my big platform. That's where most of my followers are, so you can find me, sarah Weiss. Um, I try to keep everything basically in my pro, my personal profile, so if you find me there, you can follow or friend me. Um, I talk about everything I'm up to. I'm also launching this new, uh, digital e-commerce platform thing. So I'm back in business, baby.

Speaker 3: 34:16

Yeah, something exciting fell on my lap and I'm like you know what? This is innovative and I like innovation. It's very creative. So I'm helping businesses get more visibility, make more sales online. It's an online world. Everyone's already shopping and doing Amazon and stuff like that, and this is a different way where a community gets to come together and is incentivized to drive traffic to business owners who sell digital and physical products. So that's very exciting. To anyone who would like to be involved in that, you can definitely reach out and always feel free to just chat with me. I like to chat with people, learn people's stories and backgrounds and offer any bits of wisdom, if I can.

Speaker 1: 34:57

So spell your name S-A-R-A, s-a-r-a.

Speaker 3: 35:02

Weiss is W-E-I-S-S.

Speaker 1: 35:05

Good, good. So we'll all be following your journey and can't wait for that book. Oh my gosh, sarah, this has been amazing. Thank you so much. You're so busy and it's so great that you took time out to talk with us and thank you for sharing your story, all of it, all the highs, the lows and the in-betweens and thank you for sharing your heart. That's the most important thing and you are just wide open hearted. I thank you for that.

Speaker 3: 35:35

It's an absolute honor. Thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to share ladies. Thank you.

Speaker 1: 35:41

Great and thank you all. Oh, I hope this has opened your hearts and may we walk in joy and love and kindness. Goodbye everybody.

Speaker 2: 35:58

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Speaker 1: 36:13

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Speaker 2: 36:25

Thanks, so much Hope to see you on the court.