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Speaker 1: All right, well we'll see hey, by the way it is, Uh yeah, that's that's what we're moving on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we have a guest, and.
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Speaker 1: How appropriate on national Women and Girls in Sports days. We have one of the best who is giving back and making sure that other young women have chances to go on this path as well and are well prepared for it.
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Speaker 2: Laura Oakman, Hi, Nashville's own Laura. I was so excited.
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Speaker 3: I was just told we're gonna round this up with Nashville.
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Speaker 2: That's right the way to minish yay, And.
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Speaker 3: I felt like like I got included into a family squabble.
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Speaker 2: Welcome in family, So happy to have you.
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Speaker 1: Will also be before we kind of talk about Galvin Ice and all that, you will be on the sidelines for the Westwood one broadcast.
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Speaker 2: What number super Bowl is this for you?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Covering it?
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Speaker 3: My first one was in nineteen ninety two, so it's been a minute, and then calling it.
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Speaker 2: It's my sixth.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 3: But can I say this, This is why I appreciate it so much. I thought in my twenties and my thirties, I was like, I would love to call the Super Bowl, and then figured it was just passed and I'm like, Okay, so I won't not be part of my career and I'm fine with that.
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Speaker 2: You know, I've had a wonderful career, and so.
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Speaker 3: I didn't call my first Super Bowl until I was fifty, and so to be able to be in this era, yeah, and to be able to be so appreciative of it, and also to know I belong in it and not be questioning and knowing that those butterflies pregame are because of the excitement of the moment. Not having all those voices in my head over all these years going do you belong here?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what you're talking about? Nobody walks you.
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Speaker 3: It was finally my voice that was like, oh, you've worked so hard for this.
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Speaker 2: So there's something really cool about.
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Speaker 3: Waiting a minute and then getting to do something when you're really ready.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 5: I think when you watch it, the game has changed for us, especially as a fan watching the game, but you being close to it field level watching the game, how much has it changed from when you've done your first.
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Speaker 2: One to this one? Tell me if like, here's what I'm going to.
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Speaker 3: Say, you can tell me. Okay, I feel like I don't feel like the game has. I don't feel like their communication has. I don't feel like all of that has felt the same. What I would say it's going. This is such an egocentric view of it. But what's changed is my knowledge of it, Knowing what to report on, Knowing what I'm not comfortable reporting on, Knowing that a hit isn't worth this, Knowing that if I see something and I'm like, is this indicative of this team or this person? Do I really want to say that someone's doing this if I don't know if that's who they normally are, and getting a camera.
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Speaker 2: So I think I've changed so much.
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Speaker 3: In terms of the stories I want to tell, in terms of the knowledge I have and reporting on it. But I don't think anything else has.
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Speaker 4: I love that, and I asked that with that view. And now the spectacle of you have you said that, the spectacle of it, the growth like you're seeing like it's no longer just our game.
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Speaker 5: When we talk about the United States.
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Speaker 4: This global Now, how long you think before we can jump over there and have a Super Bowl outside of the United States?
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Speaker 2: One year? I mean, we got to have one in Nashville first.
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Speaker 3: I think we all think we will, but I would kill it. But I think the answer more is one will be how long will they wait? Because we know it's going there?
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Speaker 2: Can I say? Can I bring us down?
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Speaker 3: So the biggest thing I have seen change and where I really saw it was we had with NFL and Fox, we had the Bears, And it was the week before Eberflus was let go and I was walking out of a tunnel Matt and getting the information and going to the sideline.
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Speaker 2: And the things that were being yelled right.
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Speaker 3: Over the tarnel and like, we both stopped because and that's never happened. We both were like, and I turned to see who it was, and we kept walking and we were both startled. Ever since gambling, yeah Kabi itame illegal, and watching the anger and the fury and how personal people are when they yell at guys, because now the investment of how it affects me, I've seen a big change in that of how players and coaches are being what people say, like that kills me seeing that part of it.
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Speaker 2: Huh, I never even thought about that. That's a great personal Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So this game specifically, Slay has said over and over he's like, oh, Cinderella's story is going to be over with the Patriot. I was like, which team. Yeah, I know that's a great point. I mean we see him Donald and all of that, so but you know he's like, oh, yeah, you know they had the easy schedule that all of this or whatever.
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Speaker 2: What is your take?
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Speaker 1: Just a big picture on this matchup that honestly, we kind of didn't really expect.
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Speaker 3: I know there's something cool about that there is, right and something like so of course for this year. But that's why this is fun to because it almost feels like every super Bowl there's the here's who it should be, and but here's the.
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Speaker 2: Like here's the Cinderella. There's the like fun story of it all. And I feel like it's both.
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Speaker 3: I feel like this is such a who knows game because like neither should be here, and so it just feels like this one is like I always say, the biggest thing I am on the field.
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Speaker 2: Is just reading the energy.
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Speaker 3: It's the energy reporter, it's the momentum, it's the vibe, and covering these two teams, they're both that team, and so like I love this because it's not the Chiefs. Every year, well we're like, well it should be the Chiefs, but let's find reasons why it won't be like there's something really nice about It's a good story either way, and like all of us, like, I just hope for a good game.
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Speaker 1: Laura Oakman is with us, one of our own in Nashville. How long have you been in Nashville now?
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Speaker 2: Ten years? Has it really been ten years? Oh my gosh, it feels like just yesterday.
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Speaker 4: Hey, you're a Nicevillia.
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Speaker 2: Yeah you count that. Wait to get to the ten years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know what everyone's like, how long have you been here?
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Speaker 2: Yes, been here a decade. That means I'm good, I'm golden one. I'm a Nashville person.
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Speaker 3: Start critiquing all the other transfer.
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Speaker 2: Yes, these new people come in can't drive you know the door, that's right. You think it's the new people that can't drive. You think it's Nashville people.
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Speaker 3: I've lived in the South a long time now, and it's a different drive.
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Speaker 5: Laura.
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Speaker 4: We just accepted you, and yeah, yeah, you haf The case is about to be under review.
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Speaker 2: If you keep it up, we'll do that. You're right right, that is different.
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Speaker 1: So we've got about a minute left, and I want to make sure that we hit on galvanized and what you've.
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Speaker 2: Done, and how important it is to you.
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Speaker 1: Why like fill people in that don't know Calvinie, and why it's so important to you.
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Speaker 3: My first Super Bowl nineteen ninety two, I was so woefully prepared. I was so in over my head. I didn't have a good group of people around me. I counted the women because I could, and my confidence was shot. I wasn't ready. And it's like my confidence wasn't shot for the week, it was shot, and it took me a long time to come back. So that's just bringing up the Super Bowl example. But I just I was in sports and a time where I got thrown in because I was one of the you know, starting to be one of the few women, and I got thrown in kind of quickly to things that I just wasn't ready for. And I started seeing that happen fifteen years ago, and I started seeing the numbers and like, awesome, like we can't count the women here, there's so many. But I was like I can't count them. But also they were getting thrown in so hard and so fast, and I was really worried about that, and so I just started saying, how can I help? And so I think my first boot camp started. It didn't have a name. It was just recruiting twenty women in a conference room in Tucson, Arizona, and going how can I help you?
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Speaker 2: Guys? Like, how can I help you? Be ready?
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Speaker 3: And fifteen years later, it's over five thousand women and we are all over the sports landscape. It's not just broadcasters were producers, were in media, but we're agents and we're coaches, and we're marketing and we're pr and we're all over and we can be as young as eighteen, but I have women in their fifties who are coming back for the dream, and so it's really everything I would have killed for. I don't know how your story was absolutely of just having mentors but also peers. I didn't have a friend going through it, and not because women are caddy, just because we had our heads down and so it was so hard. I wasn't thinking to look behind to go can I help, or ahead to go can you help me? And I wasn't looking this way to be like, are you having trouble?
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Speaker 4: I just was.
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Speaker 3: I was drowning, and so I know that I was having I was traveling with the Chicago Bull and the second three Pete and going to Super Bowls and living the best professional life. And I was depressed and I was lonely, and I had no one to talk to. And so Galvanized is all about confidence and all about sisterhood and all about making sure that it's just a kinder bit, you know, kinder for them than it was for us.
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Speaker 2: I hope, I hope yours was kinder than mine was.
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Speaker 1: But like I would have killed, there were moments, Yeah, there were moments. I was lucky because I had a female mentor that I interned with that took me under a wing and taught me it's the game change. You know, it's a game changer. It absolutely is, no doubt. Can I just say this real quick?
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Speaker 3: And we can't get enough of good men, Like sometimes when it's the Galvanized, like we do this and especially as a women in power, and everyone's always like like we're not going to talk to the men, and I'm like, we can't get enough good men.
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Speaker 2: Like that's days two in advance. For my saviors.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they carry me every day, They bring me up, They they championed me. They look at me like I'm their sister. They take care of me, like it's a great men in this business are awesome and.
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Speaker 3: We only sometimes we get asked about the bad ones, and it's like I can't stress it enough. Like the good men are the reason why we're able to keep moving forward is when we all get together. So thank you and National Girls and Women Day, which I usually don't celebrate it, I'm like, that's every day this day. I can't think the good men enough in our industry. So thank you guys for being a partner.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's losing his voice, so which means I'm in charge, which means we're already late to break.
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Speaker 2: That's that track, Studn't it a tracts? Laura? Thank you so much. Can't wait to listen to you.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you can listen to it on our station to Westwood one the broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Laure will be on the sidelines. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: Me. Yes, I will hopefully see you guys at home. Yeah, come visit us, Yes, visit up two than
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Speaker 2: Three Hotel on one O four five Zone
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll see hey, by the way it is, Uh yeah, that's that's what we're moving on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we have a guest, and.
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Speaker 1: How appropriate on national Women and Girls in Sports days. We have one of the best who is giving back and making sure that other young women have chances to go on this path as well and are well prepared for it.
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Speaker 2: Laura Oakman, Hi, Nashville's own Laura. I was so excited.
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Speaker 3: I was just told we're gonna round this up with Nashville.
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Speaker 2: That's right the way to minish yay, And.
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Speaker 3: I felt like like I got included into a family squabble.
00:00:42
Speaker 2: Welcome in family, So happy to have you.
00:00:47
Speaker 1: Will also be before we kind of talk about Galvin Ice and all that, you will be on the sidelines for the Westwood one broadcast.
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Speaker 2: What number super Bowl is this for you?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
00:00:57
Speaker 2: Covering it?
00:00:58
Speaker 3: My first one was in nineteen ninety two, so it's been a minute, and then calling it.
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Speaker 2: It's my sixth.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 3: But can I say this, This is why I appreciate it so much. I thought in my twenties and my thirties, I was like, I would love to call the Super Bowl, and then figured it was just passed and I'm like, Okay, so I won't not be part of my career and I'm fine with that.
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Speaker 2: You know, I've had a wonderful career, and so.
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Speaker 3: I didn't call my first Super Bowl until I was fifty, and so to be able to be in this era, yeah, and to be able to be so appreciative of it, and also to know I belong in it and not be questioning and knowing that those butterflies pregame are because of the excitement of the moment. Not having all those voices in my head over all these years going do you belong here?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what you're talking about? Nobody walks you.
00:01:45
Speaker 3: It was finally my voice that was like, oh, you've worked so hard for this.
00:01:49
Speaker 2: So there's something really cool about.
00:01:51
Speaker 3: Waiting a minute and then getting to do something when you're really ready.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 5: I think when you watch it, the game has changed for us, especially as a fan watching the game, but you being close to it field level watching the game, how much has it changed from when you've done your first.
00:02:07
Speaker 2: One to this one? Tell me if like, here's what I'm going to.
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Speaker 3: Say, you can tell me. Okay, I feel like I don't feel like the game has. I don't feel like their communication has. I don't feel like all of that has felt the same. What I would say it's going. This is such an egocentric view of it. But what's changed is my knowledge of it, Knowing what to report on, Knowing what I'm not comfortable reporting on, Knowing that a hit isn't worth this, Knowing that if I see something and I'm like, is this indicative of this team or this person? Do I really want to say that someone's doing this if I don't know if that's who they normally are, and getting a camera.
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Speaker 2: So I think I've changed so much.
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Speaker 3: In terms of the stories I want to tell, in terms of the knowledge I have and reporting on it. But I don't think anything else has.
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Speaker 4: I love that, and I asked that with that view. And now the spectacle of you have you said that, the spectacle of it, the growth like you're seeing like it's no longer just our game.
00:03:17
Speaker 5: When we talk about the United States.
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Speaker 4: This global Now, how long you think before we can jump over there and have a Super Bowl outside of the United States?
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Speaker 2: One year? I mean, we got to have one in Nashville first.
00:03:32
Speaker 3: I think we all think we will, but I would kill it. But I think the answer more is one will be how long will they wait? Because we know it's going there?
00:03:42
Speaker 2: Can I say? Can I bring us down?
00:03:44
Speaker 3: So the biggest thing I have seen change and where I really saw it was we had with NFL and Fox, we had the Bears, And it was the week before Eberflus was let go and I was walking out of a tunnel Matt and getting the information and going to the sideline.
00:04:03
Speaker 2: And the things that were being yelled right.
00:04:06
Speaker 3: Over the tarnel and like, we both stopped because and that's never happened. We both were like, and I turned to see who it was, and we kept walking and we were both startled. Ever since gambling, yeah Kabi itame illegal, and watching the anger and the fury and how personal people are when they yell at guys, because now the investment of how it affects me, I've seen a big change in that of how players and coaches are being what people say, like that kills me seeing that part of it.
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Speaker 2: Huh, I never even thought about that. That's a great personal Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So this game specifically, Slay has said over and over he's like, oh, Cinderella's story is going to be over with the Patriot. I was like, which team. Yeah, I know that's a great point. I mean we see him Donald and all of that, so but you know he's like, oh, yeah, you know they had the easy schedule that all of this or whatever.
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Speaker 2: What is your take?
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Speaker 1: Just a big picture on this matchup that honestly, we kind of didn't really expect.
00:05:05
Speaker 3: I know there's something cool about that there is, right and something like so of course for this year. But that's why this is fun to because it almost feels like every super Bowl there's the here's who it should be, and but here's the.
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Speaker 2: Like here's the Cinderella. There's the like fun story of it all. And I feel like it's both.
00:05:24
Speaker 3: I feel like this is such a who knows game because like neither should be here, and so it just feels like this one is like I always say, the biggest thing I am on the field.
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Speaker 2: Is just reading the energy.
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Speaker 3: It's the energy reporter, it's the momentum, it's the vibe, and covering these two teams, they're both that team, and so like I love this because it's not the Chiefs. Every year, well we're like, well it should be the Chiefs, but let's find reasons why it won't be like there's something really nice about It's a good story either way, and like all of us, like, I just hope for a good game.
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Speaker 1: Laura Oakman is with us, one of our own in Nashville. How long have you been in Nashville now?
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Speaker 2: Ten years? Has it really been ten years? Oh my gosh, it feels like just yesterday.
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Speaker 4: Hey, you're a Nicevillia.
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Speaker 2: Yeah you count that. Wait to get to the ten years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know what everyone's like, how long have you been here?
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Speaker 2: Yes, been here a decade. That means I'm good, I'm golden one. I'm a Nashville person.
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Speaker 3: Start critiquing all the other transfer.
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Speaker 2: Yes, these new people come in can't drive you know the door, that's right. You think it's the new people that can't drive. You think it's Nashville people.
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Speaker 3: I've lived in the South a long time now, and it's a different drive.
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Speaker 5: Laura.
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Speaker 4: We just accepted you, and yeah, yeah, you haf The case is about to be under review.
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Speaker 2: If you keep it up, we'll do that. You're right right, that is different.
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Speaker 1: So we've got about a minute left, and I want to make sure that we hit on galvanized and what you've.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: Done, and how important it is to you.
00:07:00
Speaker 1: Why like fill people in that don't know Calvinie, and why it's so important to you.
00:07:06
Speaker 3: My first Super Bowl nineteen ninety two, I was so woefully prepared. I was so in over my head. I didn't have a good group of people around me. I counted the women because I could, and my confidence was shot. I wasn't ready. And it's like my confidence wasn't shot for the week, it was shot, and it took me a long time to come back. So that's just bringing up the Super Bowl example. But I just I was in sports and a time where I got thrown in because I was one of the you know, starting to be one of the few women, and I got thrown in kind of quickly to things that I just wasn't ready for. And I started seeing that happen fifteen years ago, and I started seeing the numbers and like, awesome, like we can't count the women here, there's so many. But I was like I can't count them. But also they were getting thrown in so hard and so fast, and I was really worried about that, and so I just started saying, how can I help? And so I think my first boot camp started. It didn't have a name. It was just recruiting twenty women in a conference room in Tucson, Arizona, and going how can I help you?
00:08:08
Speaker 2: Guys? Like, how can I help you? Be ready?
00:08:11
Speaker 3: And fifteen years later, it's over five thousand women and we are all over the sports landscape. It's not just broadcasters were producers, were in media, but we're agents and we're coaches, and we're marketing and we're pr and we're all over and we can be as young as eighteen, but I have women in their fifties who are coming back for the dream, and so it's really everything I would have killed for. I don't know how your story was absolutely of just having mentors but also peers. I didn't have a friend going through it, and not because women are caddy, just because we had our heads down and so it was so hard. I wasn't thinking to look behind to go can I help, or ahead to go can you help me? And I wasn't looking this way to be like, are you having trouble?
00:08:53
Speaker 4: I just was.
00:08:54
Speaker 3: I was drowning, and so I know that I was having I was traveling with the Chicago Bull and the second three Pete and going to Super Bowls and living the best professional life. And I was depressed and I was lonely, and I had no one to talk to. And so Galvanized is all about confidence and all about sisterhood and all about making sure that it's just a kinder bit, you know, kinder for them than it was for us.
00:09:17
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope yours was kinder than mine was.
00:09:19
Speaker 1: But like I would have killed, there were moments, Yeah, there were moments. I was lucky because I had a female mentor that I interned with that took me under a wing and taught me it's the game change. You know, it's a game changer. It absolutely is, no doubt. Can I just say this real quick?
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Speaker 3: And we can't get enough of good men, Like sometimes when it's the Galvanized, like we do this and especially as a women in power, and everyone's always like like we're not going to talk to the men, and I'm like, we can't get enough good men.
00:09:46
Speaker 2: Like that's days two in advance. For my saviors.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: I mean, they carry me every day, They bring me up, They they championed me. They look at me like I'm their sister. They take care of me, like it's a great men in this business are awesome and.
00:10:02
Speaker 3: We only sometimes we get asked about the bad ones, and it's like I can't stress it enough. Like the good men are the reason why we're able to keep moving forward is when we all get together. So thank you and National Girls and Women Day, which I usually don't celebrate it, I'm like, that's every day this day. I can't think the good men enough in our industry. So thank you guys for being a partner.
00:10:24
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's losing his voice, so which means I'm in charge, which means we're already late to break.
00:10:29
Speaker 2: That's that track, Studn't it a tracts? Laura? Thank you so much. Can't wait to listen to you.
00:10:35
Speaker 1: By the way, you can listen to it on our station to Westwood one the broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Laure will be on the sidelines. Thank you so much.
00:10:41
Speaker 3: Me. Yes, I will hopefully see you guys at home. Yeah, come visit us, Yes, visit up two than
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Speaker 2: Three Hotel on one O four five Zone
