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“The stats and the link between sports as a child and success professionally are undeniable. There are stats like 94% of women in c suite roles played sports in high school or college. Obviously, a lot of incredibly important career skills you learned during sports, teamwork, resilience, leadership under pressure, all of these skills that are incredibly important for being successful in the workplace.”

“And if you really think about it, if this continues to move in the meteoric direction that it is, professional women's sports, it's not just about athletes getting paid more. It's about women in leadership. It's about executive ranks of sports. It's media. It's sponsorships. And then when you have women in leadership, studies show that that doesn't stay contained in terms of pay. Like, dare I say, is this a way that we can start to close the gender pay gap in a meaningful way?”

“The best metaphor I can think about is up until now, a lot of professional women's sports have not been shown on TV, and that is only because of a choice. Right? It would be like opening a restaurant, not telling anyone it existed, and then being like, oh, no one showed up. Like, this was a failed restaurant.”

“But then at the same time, the costs are up 46% since 2019 to 2025. The cost to put your kid in sports is up 46% faster than inflation. And so the challenge now is how do we reconcile the fact that you need access? And on average, families are spending $1,500 a year per kid per sport per primary sport.”

“Eileen Gu is a freestyle skier. She has competed in the past for The United States, but she has direct Chinese heritage. And so in this Olympics, she was competing for China, and a lot of people criticized that decision. There are Olympic athletes competing for The US that are making less than $15 a year. When you medal as an American, you make less than $30 a year, and then it's taxed.”

“Like, some of the growth as far as, like like, the salary cap, for example, for the average WNBA team before this year, before 2026, was 1,500,000. That's, like, how much the team can spend on salaries. It is now 7,000,000 in one year, and that's supposed to increase dramatically over the next several years of this agreement. That's just year one.”

“I think the women's soccer team just signed a four year media rights deal worth, like, 240,000,000, which is 40 times more than their previous contract. 40 times more. These are, like, huge numbers. Talk about an investment.”

“And then after I graduated, I graduated in 2009 and could not find a job. And I ended up getting a call from my old diving coach, and he said, hey. They're looking for division one NCAA and Olympic trial level divers for this aquatic show on a cruise ship, to which I immediately said, that's ridiculous. I have a business degree now. I'm a big deal. Like, I'm not gonna do that. And then two months later, when I couldn't find a job, I called him back and said, sure. I'll do whatever that is. And so I ended up working and living on a cruise ship for three years, and I did aerial acrobatics, high diving, kinda like Cirque. And I did that for three years. And, honestly, it changed my life because I was able to save a lot of money while working on the cruise ship because I didn't have any living expenses. And that's how I started to invest in real estate and the stock market.”