Michael Easter

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.

That is the win.

I think winning for me has changed definitions so many times throughout my life and my career.

Everything from wrestling to fighting to winning in life.

And I realized the biggest wins in life are when...

you can show up and conquer and move through.

And it's not the trying to avoid the hard thing.

It is knowing that you can do the hard thing, knowing that you can get through the hard thing.

That is my goal.

That's my goal for my kids.

That's my goal for me is to never feel like I can't do something hard.

If I put my mind to it, I can do whatever the challenge is or I can get through whatever the challenge is, whether I planned for it or I didn't.

We can't plan for all of them.