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Glennon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

And lacrosse. And volleyball, but all at the rec league. So that's a very distinct.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

And lacrosse. And volleyball, but all at the rec league. So that's a very distinct.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

Right. And so she comes from that perspective. She has already noticed some kind of murky ickiness that comes out. Abby has been slightly involved in sports. So I hear. Throughout her life. I don't know if you know about her, but she has been excellent at the sports. Yes. She has that reputation. Yes. Medals and things such as this. So she comes from an amazingly unique perspective on this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

Right. And so she comes from that perspective. She has already noticed some kind of murky ickiness that comes out. Abby has been slightly involved in sports. So I hear. Throughout her life. I don't know if you know about her, but she has been excellent at the sports. Yes. She has that reputation. Yes. Medals and things such as this. So she comes from an amazingly unique perspective on this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

Right. And so she comes from that perspective. She has already noticed some kind of murky ickiness that comes out. Abby has been slightly involved in sports. So I hear. Throughout her life. I don't know if you know about her, but she has been excellent at the sports. Yes. She has that reputation. Yes. Medals and things such as this. So she comes from an amazingly unique perspective on this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

I am a mom, Abby is also this, but of a child who has just committed to a D1 soccer school. So we have been through and experienced the whirlpool that is what I've heard many people call the sports industrial complex. Okay. And so what Abby and I have talked about every single day for the last years of this is something is very wrong. Something is very wrong from

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

I am a mom, Abby is also this, but of a child who has just committed to a D1 soccer school. So we have been through and experienced the whirlpool that is what I've heard many people call the sports industrial complex. Okay. And so what Abby and I have talked about every single day for the last years of this is something is very wrong. Something is very wrong from

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

I am a mom, Abby is also this, but of a child who has just committed to a D1 soccer school. So we have been through and experienced the whirlpool that is what I've heard many people call the sports industrial complex. Okay. And so what Abby and I have talked about every single day for the last years of this is something is very wrong. Something is very wrong from

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

the nervousness of the kids on the field, to the cutthroatness, to the parents freaking out on the sidelines, to the old boys clubs of the running the club systems, to the pay to play, the amount of time, the amount of money, just something is very wrong.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

the nervousness of the kids on the field, to the cutthroatness, to the parents freaking out on the sidelines, to the old boys clubs of the running the club systems, to the pay to play, the amount of time, the amount of money, just something is very wrong.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

the nervousness of the kids on the field, to the cutthroatness, to the parents freaking out on the sidelines, to the old boys clubs of the running the club systems, to the pay to play, the amount of time, the amount of money, just something is very wrong.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

And I just want to start off the conversation by saying, we're going to talk about a system and we're going to talk about behaviors and we're going to talk about all of that. And I'm going to judge the shit out of it. And what I want... the pod squad to know right off the bat is I am also in it and of it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

And I just want to start off the conversation by saying, we're going to talk about a system and we're going to talk about behaviors and we're going to talk about all of that. And I'm going to judge the shit out of it. And what I want... the pod squad to know right off the bat is I am also in it and of it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

And I just want to start off the conversation by saying, we're going to talk about a system and we're going to talk about behaviors and we're going to talk about all of that. And I'm going to judge the shit out of it. And what I want... the pod squad to know right off the bat is I am also in it and of it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

If you enter the whirlpool of this place, you are in it and you can resist and you can be upset. But when I talk about the parents' behavior on the sideline, they are losing it, but I got it in me. I turn into something else. I'm wise enough at this point to mostly control it and keep it inside me. So I don't end up on Instagram. So I get it. That is the perspective that we are all coming from.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

If you enter the whirlpool of this place, you are in it and you can resist and you can be upset. But when I talk about the parents' behavior on the sideline, they are losing it, but I got it in me. I turn into something else. I'm wise enough at this point to mostly control it and keep it inside me. So I don't end up on Instagram. So I get it. That is the perspective that we are all coming from.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

If you enter the whirlpool of this place, you are in it and you can resist and you can be upset. But when I talk about the parents' behavior on the sideline, they are losing it, but I got it in me. I turn into something else. I'm wise enough at this point to mostly control it and keep it inside me. So I don't end up on Instagram. So I get it. That is the perspective that we are all coming from.

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

Can you tell Linda what you were so amazed by that she said that shifted our paradigm right away?

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

Can you tell Linda what you were so amazed by that she said that shifted our paradigm right away?

We Can Do Hard Things
Let Kids Play: Fixing Youth Sports with Linda Flanagan

Can you tell Linda what you were so amazed by that she said that shifted our paradigm right away?