Michael Easter

There's so many opportunities and so many directions that life can take us, but it's not until I think that we

sometimes find the buckets that don't work for us through failure and success.

And then we fill the buckets that are meaningful in our life.

And then we're like, okay, that's good.

That one's full.

I can move on.

I wanted to pursue this other bucket.

And I think for me, I left the sport with a bucket half full.

So I knew I wanted to come back and I wanted to figure it out.

And I wanted to feel what it felt like to work not in spite of anymore.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

What do you feel like the message is for women in particular?

I feel like you're an interesting case because in high school, you're like, I'm doing that thing where it's only dudes.

And you follow this career path that is somewhat untraditional and learned a lot along the way.

It's like kind of what's the message you would give?

Oh, I would honestly just say, maybe this sounds cliche, but I really mean it is like, do the hard things, take the risk.

Because you are going to assume more failures, but it's all for the greater good.

It's all for finding out what you're really made of.

And that is the best feeling.