Pickleball Champion Shares Life Lessons

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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 .

Speaker 3 1:33

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 .

Speaker 3 2:29

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 .

Speaker 3 3:12

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 .

Speaker 3 4:17

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 .

Speaker 3 4:40

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 .

Speaker 3 6:44

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 .

Speaker 3 7:36

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 .

Speaker 1 7:47

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

Speaker 3 7:51

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 .

Speaker 3 8:15

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 .

Speaker 1 9:03

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

Speaker 3 9:09

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 .

Navigating Trans Visibility in Professional Pickleball

Speaker 1 9:45

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

Speaker 3 9:56

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 .

Speaker 3 10:37

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 .

Speaker 3 13:41

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 .

Speaker 3 14:16

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 .

Speaker 3 14:46

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 .

Speaker 1 15:28

Wow .

Speaker 3 15:29

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 .

Speaker 1 16:30

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 .

Speaker 3 16:49

It was a positive thing .

Speaker 1 16:50

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 .

Speaker 1 17:17

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 .

Speaker 2 17:54

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

Navigating Adversity With Integrity

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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 .

Speaker 3 18:50

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 .

Speaker 3 19:16

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 .

Speaker 3 19:38

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 .

Speaker 3 20:47

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 .

Speaker 3 21:00

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 .

Speaker 3 21:56

Cause I showed up .

Speaker 1 21:58

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 .

The Essence of Gender Differences

Speaker 3 25:59

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 .

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Speaker 3 35:37

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 .