0:00

Yeah, we're the Washington football team.

0:04

That is right. We are the Washington

0:06

football team. We are number one in the

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NFC East, and we are so wow. Brought

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to you by Fresh Fine Wine. I'm

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Jude Kenny, and joining me are my co host Stephanie.

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To joke in Antonine Samuels, that

0:18

was coach rom Ribera answering the question that's

0:20

been asked off season. Who are we? What is our

0:22

identity? And he answered it very clearly. We are

0:24

the Washington football team. How are you? We

0:26

have an excite coming up today. We're

0:28

gonna discuss not number one, not number two,

0:30

non number three, but number four w

0:33

in a row for the Washington football team. Yeah,

0:35

and it's so exciting. Right, So, a four

0:37

game winning streak has not been done since twenty

0:40

sixteen. Plus coming up later, you're

0:42

definitely gonna want to listen to our wild

0:45

spotlight. We are going to be talking to Anita

0:47

at DeShawn Jon. She is a true

0:50

wow woman in every sense of the word. She

0:52

trains marines headed to the Middle

0:54

East on terrorism and she also runs

0:57

three wellness and anti aging practices

0:59

in DC. We joked about it,

1:02

but I never thought we would actually say

1:04

terrorism and botox in the same

1:06

soon. It's absolutely amazing interview. I'm

1:08

an amazing wine. You can't put her in a box.

1:10

That's not happening. She's

1:14

a rock star. Definitely hanging around for that. But

1:16

let's talk about this win the Washington football

1:18

team earned. I say that. I say that with

1:20

my chess. We earned that twenty

1:22

three to fifteen win over the forty nine ers.

1:24

Let's get right into it. Obviously, the while

1:26

was the defense. It was our defense,

1:29

and our standouts from the game were a Chase

1:31

Young, Mantes Sweat, and Cameron Curl.

1:34

And what's cool about what Chase is

1:36

Before the game, he's the team hype

1:39

man in the huddle after warmups, in

1:41

between plays. You can see him yelling

1:43

to fire up his teammates, going up and down

1:45

the sidelines when he's not playing. So

1:48

his demeanor and talent mixed together

1:50

is just fantastic. Yeah,

1:52

and results right, y'all know that I'm the data girl.

1:55

I can't help it, but literally the results

1:57

speak for themselves. Six tackles, a set,

1:59

two passes down defended, one

2:02

force fumble and two fumble recoveries,

2:04

and a touchdown. Like

2:06

seriously chases the first rookie

2:08

in NFL history and third overall to achieve

2:11

last game's accomplishment since nineteen and

2:13

ninety nine. That was my first year as

2:16

the first Lady of football. Back then, we were called

2:18

the redskin X That's how long ago. It was. So

2:20

just super excited. As you all can

2:22

probably hear in our voices, we are really hype.

2:24

We are just so excited for these

2:26

wins, for what we're seeing on that field.

2:30

And what's really exciting is we're talking about

2:32

rookies other than Sweat, but Cam

2:35

Curl is a seventh round pick. I mean,

2:37

these guys are playmakers

2:40

and they are good. And what I love about it most

2:43

is watching the press conference after

2:45

the interviews after the game and just seeing the chemistry

2:47

and the camaraderie. I mean, the guys are in the background

2:50

of every interview hypen up their man. I mean

2:52

you can really feel the team in the family, and

2:54

it's just fun to watch, Like it's been a long time. I've been

2:56

doing for six years. It's been

2:59

a long time since it's it's been fun to watch

3:02

Washington football and I feel it like this

3:04

team is special and it is different. And

3:06

what I also love seeing is our Washington

3:08

football team at social media. After

3:11

the game, I literally

3:13

just go to the Washington Football feed and

3:15

just keep refreshing it because

3:18

it is so fun to troll the other teams

3:20

because they hand it to them. The Sack

3:22

Brothers post with Sweat

3:25

and Chase young A playoffs Stepbrothers

3:28

Ship's Creek is one of my favorite shows of all time, so

3:30

I was constantly posting that.

3:32

I just you know, I love to see it. It's fun to be a part of

3:34

this franchise right now. But let's

3:36

look ahead. We have a huge game coming up, obviously

3:39

against the Seahawks. I'm hoping to make a number five

3:41

in a row against Russell Wilson. So what do

3:43

we gotta do. It's gonna be a big one. We

3:45

gotta do with the Giants did but better. We

3:48

need to make offensive touchdowns

3:51

in addition to our defensive ones.

3:53

As you know, we won from our defense side, so

3:55

we need to play strong on both sides. And

3:57

my positive thought that you were just talking about

3:59

are these young players we're showing

4:02

we are Washington football because

4:04

we're stepping up, whether it's a position

4:07

that there's an injury, you know, running back

4:09

or quarterback or one man like Terry

4:12

or Chase Young, our triple double

4:14

covered, there's another new formidable

4:16

player that is stepping up and doing

4:19

what they need to do. It's that there's no

4:21

I in team. We are Washington Football,

4:24

right and we are You're absolutely right. I feel like

4:26

we are playing together as a unit and for

4:29

one another. On our rally that we

4:31

had, Stephanie, I know you remember this, but on one of

4:33

our fans mentioned the fact that we're

4:35

just not out there playing football, and we're not just out there

4:37

playing against the other team. We are literally

4:39

playing for one another as a team,

4:41

as a unit. Coach Rivera said it

4:44

like we earned this, we earned

4:46

being number one, and we just have to make sure that

4:48

we continue doing the things that we've done to

4:50

get to where we are right now. So that's what we have to do

4:52

and I'm confident that it will happen. And

4:57

Ron Rivera said it as well. I'm coach said

4:59

we are that no man left behind mentality.

5:02

You know, when we see like in this game

5:04

last week, obviously when the offense was struggling,

5:07

our defense stepped up. So that is that is the mentality

5:09

of this team. Is It's like when someone is struggling, you help

5:11

them. But for this game against Russell Wilson,

5:14

we haven't seen a dynamic quarterback in a little bit, so

5:16

we're gonna need to have a complete

5:18

game in order to continue the streak.

5:21

So it's gonna be a fun one to watch. But the fun thing about

5:24

this is we control our destiny. It is in our hands

5:26

right now, and we can do it one game at a time. As

5:28

you mentioned here in the while, we'd like to give you access to the Washington

5:31

football team check out with Jeremy Sprinkle would

5:33

be doing if he wasn't playing football. Hey, y'all,

5:35

this is Amber while member

5:37

from Tedda Niga, Tennessee. I

5:40

was just want that, as Jeremy Sprinkle,

5:44

what would you be doing if you had not

5:46

been drafted in twenty seventeen

5:49

and we're playing pro football? What would

5:51

your career be if I wasn't playing

5:53

in NFL. Oh, I've

5:55

always wanted to be an actor for some reason. I know,

5:58

I think maybe I'd be like,

6:02

that'll be job, but I'll probably just be a

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7:31

Welcome to well Spotlight. Joining us is Anita

7:34

Abdishahyan, whoa got

7:36

It co founder and practice director

7:38

of Devon Wellness. Anita co found

7:40

at Javon and Washington, DC in October of

7:42

twenty eighteen and has led Javon's expansion

7:44

to three stunning Yes, I've

7:46

been to all three of them locations.

7:49

She also works has worked twelve

7:51

years with an Apartment of Defense training marines

7:53

deploying to the Middle East. Anita is a

7:55

member of WILL and supports the wild community through

7:57

her company as well. Javon Wellness is

8:00

also sponsored the First Ladies of Football for two

8:02

seasons. Anita, Welcome to the WILL. Thank

8:05

you, Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. I'm

8:09

thrilled to have you on here. You know, I'm a huge fan of

8:11

yours. You're such a mentor to a

8:14

lot of the First Ladies, and I'm sure a lot of women in

8:16

the area. But let's just kick

8:18

it off from the top. You have such a cool background.

8:20

Let's talk about your journey and how you ended

8:22

up where you are today. Okay,

8:24

sure, Well I was actually born in Iran.

8:27

I was raised I know a lot of people think it's funny I

8:29

was raised in Oklahoma, so there's like

8:31

a Persian cowgirl connection over here.

8:34

But I was raised in Oklahoma, and you know, I really

8:37

had the typical immigrants,

8:39

you know story. You know, my family didn't really come

8:41

with much. I was really mentored

8:44

by my own father. He really had

8:46

a dream, you know, to build the American dreams.

8:48

I really grew up with two completely

8:50

different backgrounds. I was raised in Oklahoma, but

8:52

I also went back to Iran pretty frequently,

8:55

and so I was between two completely different

8:57

cultures. And I think that kind of helped my ability

9:00

to be able to understand two sides of you

9:02

know, different stories. And so I took

9:05

that with me, especially whenever I

9:07

finally got into my DoD career

9:09

and training marines and whatnot. I always thought

9:11

that my personal background was really my biggest

9:13

strength, mainly because

9:15

you know, if I'm teaching marines on what life

9:18

was like on the other side, I felt like I

9:20

really had a pretty good advantage with my own personal

9:22

story. Yeah,

9:25

so talk a little bit about that though, so

9:28

DoD training of Marines deploying

9:31

to the Middle East. I definitely understand

9:33

the connection. I definitely can see how

9:35

and why you would be a perfect fit for that role.

9:38

But how did you even get into that role? Well,

9:40

so I knew in college I always wanted to

9:42

get into something security related. I

9:44

have a bachelor's in two master's degrees that

9:46

are pretty much focused on the Middle East

9:48

and the security environment, tearism

9:51

focused as well. And I

9:53

felt like there was always like this, you know,

9:55

this energy in me that kind of wanted

9:58

to get into something that was a little you

10:00

know, courageous. My parents

10:02

kind of thought that it was weird for you know, you

10:04

know, I'm a Persian, so they kind of have a

10:07

certain stereotype of what type of business

10:09

women get into. UM, but I

10:11

actually loved, you know, getting in the dirt. I

10:13

found out that there were some opportunities. I started

10:15

writing papers, I started trying

10:18

to publish a little bit about my knowledge of the

10:20

region. UM. I've worked in actually a

10:22

few different areas of THEDD, but of

10:24

course my last more recent

10:26

experience has been with the Marine Corps, and

10:29

you know, I always like that getting

10:31

in the dirt experience. And

10:33

so I will say this my former

10:36

experience professionally being with you

10:38

know, literally like nine percent

10:40

men, and then you know, jumping into something

10:43

like more metspah related being with only women.

10:45

It has been like two completely different worlds for

10:47

me. But I have to say that a lot of times

10:49

I do miss, you know, getting into

10:52

that, and um, I actually really embraced

10:54

it. I enjoyed it. I loved what I did.

10:56

I knew that I was kind of a unique person in

10:58

that environment, and I think that people really respected

11:01

the information that they got. That's

11:03

awesome. So how did you then take

11:06

this, I mean, such a great experience

11:08

with training, you know, marine Corps,

11:10

how did you then make that leap of faith to

11:13

go and open a business when you didn't

11:15

have business experience previously? Yeah,

11:18

I had no business experience. The only business

11:20

experience I had was watching my dad,

11:23

and Persians tend to run their business

11:25

is kind of crazy. So I don't know if that was like the best

11:27

example, because we tend to obsess over a lot

11:29

of things. But I had

11:31

no experience at all. My brother, who's a

11:33

physician, would call him doctor A.

11:36

He actually, you know, wanted to

11:38

start something that was a little bit different. He's a pain management

11:41

doctor. But I

11:43

knew that I was always, you know, into

11:46

receiving esthetic treatments, and

11:48

so we started this idea

11:51

in our business, Javan Wellness, really

11:53

from both a patient and a medical

11:56

provider's perspective. When

11:58

my brother came to me with this, yeah,

12:00

I immediately grabbed it and said, I want

12:02

to be a part of this because I'm such a

12:04

good recipient. I've been doing

12:06

laser hair removal. Like I'm Persian, so we get

12:08

hairy. I've been doing laser hair removal

12:11

since I was like fifteen. I'm

12:13

thirty six now, and you know, all the things

12:15

that I've done. I really tried to bring

12:17

my own experience of that into this practice

12:20

and really see it from a patient's perspective.

12:23

I think that helps a lot, especially because

12:25

you know in Oklahoma, you know, I'm a woman

12:27

of color too, and a lot of

12:30

the things, the treatments that I received, they really

12:32

weren't from me. Like I had my skin burned,

12:34

I had a number of issues because you know,

12:36

things were just not catered to my skin type.

12:38

So I said, you know, when I open a business,

12:40

I want to make sure that if it's for esthetic

12:42

treatments, that really anybody can get

12:45

treated. And so what I

12:47

actually did to prepare myself

12:49

to get into the business role, people think I'm crazy,

12:51

but I really studied the crap out a Wall

12:53

Street journal. I studied the crap

12:56

out of Forbes magazine. I knew I wasn't going

12:58

to be the medical provider of the clinicians in

13:00

any way, so the best thing that I could do

13:02

was be good at business. I

13:04

really wanted to learn how to treat staff.

13:06

I started reading all these different pointers

13:08

about, you know, the dudes and don'ts of being

13:11

a business owner and managing people. And

13:13

I'll be the you know, I'll tell you I'm not perfect,

13:16

that I am still learning every single

13:18

day. I make mistakes every

13:20

single day. In fact, I had a staff meeting last

13:22

week where I actually told them, Hey, these

13:24

were my mistakes that I made, and this is how

13:26

we're going to improve going forward. So

13:29

even though I did all the things that I

13:31

thought were right in studying and preparing,

13:34

I also accepted the fact that it wasn't

13:36

going to be perfect. And I think that's pretty

13:38

important. I

13:40

love that you said that. I think we talked about in here

13:42

all the time. But it's very important as

13:44

leaders to be vulnerable and to show

13:46

that you are human and you will make mistakes.

13:49

I think that's how I'm especially reliant to the watching

13:51

football team. That's especially how coach Ron Rivera

13:53

has really gotten this team to where they are this season

13:56

is owning those things and being transparent. Since

13:59

you studied so much, I want to ask you

14:01

have any advice for women that may

14:03

have interests in opening their own business or

14:06

just balancing relationships and family in general.

14:10

Yeah. Actually, and I have my

14:12

own advice, and I'll tell you other people have had

14:14

their advice and I've listened to their advice

14:17

and it didn't exactly work for me. So

14:20

one thing that I will say is that if you have a vision

14:22

for something, and it doesn't matter if you are just so

14:24

motivated by you know, you

14:27

want to be an esthetician or you're motivated

14:29

by making jewelry or whatever it is.

14:31

If you have a vision, there's going to be people discouraging

14:34

you from your vision. Like that's that's just flat

14:36

out something that's going to happen. Don't

14:39

let that you know, stop you from what you want

14:41

to do. If if you're the type of person who

14:43

will stay up all night like I did to

14:46

achieve a goal, I think that that says a lot

14:48

and you're going to be going places. The

14:50

advice that I received that I wasn't really

14:53

happy about because there's always this question

14:55

about how do you balance as a woman. You

14:57

know, we're expected to do a lot. I

14:59

mean, we've got a bunch of different responsibilities.

15:02

Especially you know, I don't have children yet, but if

15:04

you have children, there's a bunch of responsibilities

15:06

that come with that too. So can you

15:08

be the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the

15:10

perfect business owner, the perfect have

15:12

the perfect body, have the perfect face, all

15:14

this other stuff right? And everyone

15:17

that I spoke to kept giving me the mentality

15:20

of those things can all be achieved. And

15:22

you know, the reality of the situation is that

15:24

it's okay if that doesn't happen.

15:27

I've been hearing too much about people

15:30

saying you can do it all. Wake up

15:32

and get in front of the mirror and tell yourself

15:34

you're going to do everything today. Well,

15:37

the reality is that, first of all, I don't have

15:39

time to look in the mirror and talk to myself. Secondly,

15:42

I wake up and I look at

15:44

my list and I say, these are the things

15:46

that I have time to do today, and

15:49

there are a lot of things that I am not going

15:51

to get to. It is not realistic

15:53

to think that you can just be wonder

15:56

woman every day. It's okay if

15:58

you missed your workout, It's okay

16:00

if you you know, didn't get to make

16:02

dinner for your husband. There are

16:04

some things that you're going to have to sacrifice,

16:07

especially if you're going to be a business owner.

16:09

And in my case, you know, I always

16:11

wanted to grow my business, you know, move up,

16:13

do a lot more, and make sure that my business

16:15

was constantly growing. And if

16:18

you're constantly thinking about the future

16:20

and how to adapt and move forward, you're

16:22

not going to have time to do everything. And that's okay,

16:25

It's totally fine. We're all human. I

16:28

really do get upset sometimes whenever

16:30

I see the whole you know, giving

16:32

women unrealistic expectations,

16:35

because what if you don't do everything on your list

16:37

that day, what if you didn't get to the gym. You

16:39

can't beat yourself up about that. Those

16:42

things are to be expected if you're going to be successful

16:44

on one thing, you may have to sacrifice

16:46

a little bit and something else, and

16:49

having a good partner along the way is also

16:51

not a bad thing. My husband

16:54

is a saint. I think that I feel bad

16:56

for him a lot. I come home late from work.

16:58

I have When you have that, it's kind of like

17:00

you have babies and you constantly

17:03

have to deal with not only the professional

17:05

stuff that comes with having staff, but

17:07

also your staff as personal issues too that

17:09

you really have to, you know, kind of walk with

17:11

them a little bit on and be understanding to them.

17:14

I will say that, you know, I'm one of those believers

17:16

who thinks that, you know, men and women are different.

17:19

The way we think is very different. I

17:21

mean, I know that that gets into a political discussion,

17:23

but this is just my personal opinion. I think

17:25

we are different. I think that we get emotionally

17:28

attached. I think that we

17:30

process things and overanalyze. I'm

17:32

sure a lot of people can relate to that. But

17:35

what I will say is that

17:37

that's actually our advantage. The fact

17:39

that we do, you know, get emotional

17:41

about stuff. We can relate to our

17:43

staff better. We can be better managers.

17:46

We're very nitpicky about a lot of things.

17:49

If you've seen any of my locations, I've

17:51

designed every single one of them from top

17:53

to bottom. If I were to give my brother

17:55

the responsibility of designing this clinic,

17:58

it would look totally different. It

18:00

would look so dry. So I think that women

18:02

just have a way. You know,

18:05

emotions are good. Over analyzing things

18:07

are good. That's not to say that you know, there's no men

18:09

who do that, but I do think

18:11

that sometimes we do have some unique traits that may

18:13

work to our advantage as being businesswomen.

18:15

What you said about just giving yourself grace right,

18:18

because you know, I have mine to do lists

18:20

right here front and back. The

18:22

things are not checked off, there's

18:24

list to them like this, and

18:27

I get stressed out of me out I slipping,

18:30

but it's stresses And I think it's wonderful for you

18:33

to point out the fact that you have to give yourself grace.

18:35

And so we talk a lot on you know, our

18:37

show about you know, just picking two or three

18:39

things that you want to accomplish

18:42

that day. And so I love that you said that,

18:44

but kind of to take that step further, I know

18:46

one thing that sometimes we have trouble doing is

18:48

taking care of ourselves. So we're so busy

18:51

feeling everyone else's cups that we forget about

18:53

self care. We forget about going to wellness

18:56

and getting you know, just settling into ourselves

18:58

and treating ourselves. So why is that so

19:01

important for us as women to

19:03

do, to just take a time out for us,

19:06

you know, And that also goes back to the question

19:08

of what are you willing to sacrifice? Tough That's a question

19:11

I asked myself every morning. What are you willing to sacrifice

19:13

today? I would hope, And you know, I'm

19:15

guilty of this too. I may say some things,

19:17

but you know, I'm guilty of making mistakes. But

19:20

hopefully the things that you sacrifice were not the

19:22

things that you know help you take care of yourself,

19:24

because if you can't be mentally

19:27

physically there, then you're not going to

19:29

get to all those other things. You know. Sometimes I

19:31

realize that I've picked the wrong things on my to

19:34

do list to do and it's really

19:36

paralyzed my ability to do everything

19:38

else in life. And you really

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19:42

know, you feel good, whether

19:45

that's calling your mom and having a conversation

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with her, like my mom is on my to do list, every

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single day. I don't always get to it, but I always

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need to call my mom, my dad,

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to my family, checking

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in on people, and you'd be surprised

19:58

how much you know, just talking to someone

20:00

is also a part of self care. For

20:03

too long, I would say, the first year of me owning

20:05

a business, I did

20:08

everything so solo, and I kept everything

20:10

to myself. I had my stresses, and I

20:12

you know, I went to the gym pretty frequently.

20:14

I consider myself to be an avid gym goer.

20:17

But you know, you have to We're

20:19

human. You have to have interactions with people

20:21

that are not just business based, and

20:24

so it really is important for

20:26

you to take care of yourself mentally and

20:29

also physically too. Like I said,

20:31

try to pick the right things on your to do list. You won't

20:33

get to everything, but at the end of the day,

20:35

the next morning, the sun is still going to come up.

20:37

You have time to do something. So pick

20:40

one self care item on that list, right,

20:43

Yeah, Yeah, for me, it's always

20:45

botox. Job.

20:51

The other day about just the ironic

20:53

nature of like Marines terrorism

20:56

and say botox in the same sentence,

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like how does that even happened? But it

21:00

happens with Anita listen.

21:04

The funnier thing that happens is having a

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botox conversation with marines.

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You'd be surprised how many of them get interested. How

21:11

that Anita

21:14

Ritually, our time is somehow coming to an end. But

21:16

before we let you go, we always ask to

21:19

our two questions on our show to our guests, and we want to

21:21

get to them so quickly. UM, can

21:23

you tell us what advice would you tell your

21:25

younger self if you had the chance. That's

21:28

a tough one. UM, I would

21:31

say, quit, you know, quit over

21:34

analyzing a lot of things. I know I said that

21:36

that was an advantage, but sometimes there's an

21:38

extreme to that. Do

21:41

do you I know that sounds super cliche,

21:43

but if you want to do something and other

21:46

people are swaying you, and you're constantly analyzing,

21:48

well what do they mean by that? You know? You know you

21:50

always want to think about other people's opinions,

21:53

Like I'm super guilty of that. I am

21:55

constantly thinking about what other people think

21:57

of me and what other people think about my

21:59

business. And I if I just have the confidence

22:02

in knowing that I know what I'm doing and

22:04

I've I've built something pretty nice and I

22:06

have success in it. If

22:09

I just you know, keep my confidence going, I

22:11

think that's pretty important. Sometimes we just

22:13

let other people's opinions sway as too much,

22:16

And like the the example that

22:18

I gave with a woman telling me you can do

22:20

it all, and every time I didn't do it, I would stress

22:22

out about it. So I think that you

22:24

know, you just kind of understanding your own process

22:26

is really important to

22:29

keep those blinders on and staying post

22:31

on it. Our

22:33

last thing is how do you motivate yourself daily? Is

22:35

there a ritual or something that you do. For me, it's waking

22:37

up and chucking coffee, say, anything

22:39

that you do offee is definitely

22:42

important. I

22:44

think that just kind of reaffirming what your

22:47

goals are is pretty important. That sounds

22:49

super cliche, and I'm not like one of these people

22:51

that is just trying to throw something for you know, women

22:53

to latch on some sort of a saying, but

22:56

it is important for you to kind of have your

22:58

goal in mind and if things

23:00

don't work out that day, sometimes you have to

23:02

have a really crappy day and those

23:04

things are to be expected for you

23:06

to get to the end result. If I know

23:08

that I'm opening another location, I know

23:11

that I'm going to have a lot of stress and headache

23:13

and people that I just probably don't want to deal

23:15

with for the next three or four or five

23:17

days, maybe even weeks until I

23:19

get to that point. So just kind of keep your goal in

23:21

mind and reaffirm those goals.

23:24

Such a good point, right, like having those

23:26

goals in the forefront of your mind and then the

23:28

why behind those goals, because then when

23:30

you have a not so great day, you're

23:33

like grounded in your why. Well, I'm doing this

23:35

for my family, I'm doing this to live a more fulfilled

23:37

life. I'm doing this for X y Z. And

23:40

that makes you know the bad days not seem so bad

23:42

because it's going to all be worth it when you eventually

23:44

get to that why. So perfect perfect advice

23:47

Anita for LT You go, you

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plug where we can follow you, where our listeners

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can see Javon. Yeah. Absolutely.

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You can follow my Instagram

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so I will be calling you. That's

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one thing on your to do list that you should not

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of the Washington Football Teamybody

27:00

take that away from you. You have earned it, bro,

27:02

But you've put up for everything that we've had to deal with. You've

27:05

earned the right to be the first place. Then

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who you are? Okay? Tell

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I have chills just listening to it again.

27:49

Um My, my, there's there's parts

27:52

of it that I had just like written down. I just

27:54

I just keep you living in my head. But my favorite thing that

27:56

he said is act like it. You

27:58

know, you're professionals, You've earned this us. Act

28:00

like it. Something that I

28:03

tell my cheerleaders and I just tell myself daily

28:05

is pressure is a privilege. So whenever I

28:07

get overwhelmed that I'm stressed out, like I've

28:10

earned the right to feel this way and I

28:12

have to now act upon that. And I love that coach

28:15

is chanting that to them, like, don't let anyone

28:17

say you're irrelevant. You were irrelevant, you were here, your

28:19

professionals, you're number one. Now let's act

28:21

like it. Yeah, that speech

28:23

is fantastic. I have to say. There was a

28:26

quote to be as a saying the best team has

28:28

a great sense of family. The best

28:30

family has a great sense of culture, and

28:33

within that culture is tremendous

28:35

character. And we touched on this in the

28:38

beginning about how this

28:40

change. You know, the players are coming

28:42

together, No I in team. When we

28:44

would go on tours with some of our Super Bowl

28:46

greats, that's what they would say, Ricky Sanders,

28:49

Mikenolmes, Reggie Branch, they

28:51

would say we were a team. It wasn't just one

28:53

player. We weren't you know, it wasn't the

28:55

individual And I feel like we're

28:57

coming back to that, which is so

28:59

amazing. And I can't wait for these

29:01

Super Bowl players to be super proud

29:04

of us, Like we're proud of our team right now for

29:07

sure, and that's the thing. And I feel like it's

29:09

you know, obviously within the team, but then that expands

29:12

out to the fans and to

29:14

the community, like because everyone is

29:16

excited about what we're seeing, we're excited

29:18

about what we're hearing, like having the inside

29:20

into that locker room and being able to hear what

29:22

Coach Rivera says to pump up the team then pumps

29:25

us up, and he keeps it real, like,

29:27

you know, hey, we're number one. No

29:29

one really wants to play us. We are the

29:31

team that people want to avoid. But don't let

29:33

it go to your head. Right, what have you done for

29:35

me lately? Is what you're saying, Janet.

29:39

You still have to stay professional and you still have to

29:41

stay focused. Right. We aren't this win, but we

29:43

have to do more work. And so that's

29:45

just how we should live every single day

29:47

of our life. Yes, let's pat ourselves on the back

29:49

for our accomplishments. But at the end of the day,

29:51

we have to keep it going because a

29:54

win is not guaranteed the next time, and so I just I

29:56

love it. I think it's good for you know, obviously

29:58

the team because it's working well, but it's good

30:00

for us to absolutely.

30:03

I mean I wake up just jazz for the

30:05

week and not just because we're winning. I mean, that's great, but

30:07

it's just like hearing coach Ron Rivera

30:10

say these things seen Chase Young FaceTime

30:12

and his mom after that victory. I mean, I'm just like

30:15

proud. I'm just I'm living in it. I'm just living

30:17

for it. I'm living in it. I also loved

30:19

of somebody else I wanted to comment on. It's

30:21

Chase Young commenting on Kobe Bryant

30:24

and this mom of mentality. You know, he thinks

30:26

to himself, Yeah, I'm proud of this, but like

30:28

what else, I needed to keep going. I put my head down and keep

30:31

working because I'm not satisfied. You know, that's just one

30:33

win and one milestone on the

30:35

path to what else I'm trying to accomplish,

30:38

and that is what we need to see. There are I

30:40

mean, there are some standout players. I mean, look at Terry

30:42

McLaurin. He hit a thousand yard

30:44

milestone in that game, and it's

30:46

just big, impactful things that are happening

30:48

with young players. But you're not that

30:50

we're not getting swept up in those little moments. But it's this whole,

30:53

full, well rounded team

30:55

that we're seeing and it's just all coming together. It's exactly

30:57

what coach Ron Riverasa was going to happen, and we're

31:00

seeing it right now. And I'm a believer,

31:04

Yes, me too, and it's so exciting. I mean, I can't

31:06

wait obviously for the next game in the next game after

31:09

that to see where this takes us. But it also just

31:11

gives us so much excitement and optimism for next

31:13

season as well. Like I know, we're still in this season and

31:15

we want to do our best now, but I mean,

31:17

I just have a very true

31:19

optimistic outlook, not a I'm

31:22

a diehard Burgundy and Gold fan trying to be

31:24

positive outlook because that's how I've been, yes,

31:29

but it's in my soul, like

31:31

excited about you know, what's to come. So

31:33

it's it's wonderful. It's a great feeling and it's wonderful

31:35

to be able to brag on your team.

31:39

I mean I wear my beanie proud. I like I

31:41

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31:43

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31:45

wearing that and wearing the mask and we're in the shirt. I'm

31:47

one of those people that are wearing more than one piece, which

31:49

we're not supposed to do apparently, but I'm wearing

31:51

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32:09

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32:11

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