Empowering Stories of Female Champions: Inspiring Women in Sports

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Now listen, I'm always telling people my stories

00:05 from over the years and people always say,

00:06 Morancy, you need to write a book.

00:08 And I've started, but it's not easy, right?

00:12 And it's like, oh, well, what do you do this?

00:13 Do you do that?

00:14 - Yeah.

00:15 - You've accomplished so many things in your life,

00:16 but you love challenges.

00:18 How challenging was actually putting

00:20 all your stories together?

00:21 - You have no idea.

00:22 So first of all, I have 19 different ladies in this book.

00:25 So the one chapter is about my journey

00:27 and then the rest are about Billie Jean King, Layla Ali,

00:30 Danica Patrick, all the first--

00:31 - Different inspirations to you

00:33 and different women that inspired you.

00:35 - Mary Lou Retton, Men on Réum, you know what I mean?

00:38 So all the first, and it was really tough

00:41 because I had to first book them

00:42 and you know everyone's schedule.

00:43 Then I had to interview them and do a Zoom.

00:45 Then I had to break that down and transcribe that,

00:47 then write the chapters, then do edits.

00:50 It was, let's just say,

00:51 when you're finally gonna write a book, you'll see,

00:53 it's kind of a, it's a lot.

00:55 - How amazing was it to speak?

00:57 And you've been around great people for years, right?

01:01 You know, working with the Laker Organization

01:03 and you know, the San Francisco 49ers.

01:05 But what was it like meeting all these individual champions,

01:09 these women that are the same but different, right?

01:12 They're also, what was the common theme?

01:14 I guess the fire and the passion?

01:16 - Yes, but also it was the sacrifices that some, you know,

01:19 were saying, "I sacrificed so much.

01:21 "I didn't spend time with my family enough.

01:23 "I didn't have a family.

01:24 "I don't have, I missed my high school prom."

01:27 You know what I mean?

01:28 Like little things that maybe we don't--

01:29 - That is common.

01:30 I can't imagine life was easy in Romania.

01:32 - Yeah, right. - And you know what?

01:33 - Right. - The perfect 10, actually,

01:35 in Montreal, with the Montreal Four.

01:36 - Yes, exactly.

01:37 And so for me, it was like, oh my gosh,

01:39 we all have that common, you know, interest and sacrifice.

01:42 Like me, like I didn't have, you know,

01:43 I ended up never getting married and not having kids yet

01:45 because I've always been married to my career.

01:47 And I'm like, wow, these ladies are the same thing.

01:49 And also having to have perfection, Gabe,

01:51 if that makes sense.

01:52 When you're a female, under this like microscope,

01:54 not making any mistakes 'cause everything else

01:56 is more glorified when you're a woman.

01:58 All those different things like resonated.

02:00 Like we all kind of deal with that.

02:01 And there was a lot of tears in some of these interviews.

02:04 Like Danica Patrick started crying

02:05 when she was talking about her father.

02:06 And like things that, you know,

02:07 Danica's pretty like stoic.

02:09 - Yeah. - You know, and she was,

02:10 she's crying, and I was like, wow.

02:11 And Leila Ali's saying, "Hey, thank you so much

02:13 "for talking about my story,

02:15 "not that my dad was a legend."

02:18 Do you know what I mean?

02:18 So it was pretty neat to encompass all these ladies

02:21 into one book.

02:22 Some of them have their own books,

02:24 but this was like one book that like young ladies

02:26 can read about and say, oh wow,

02:27 there's a space for me in sports.

02:29 Whether it's, you know, on the field,

02:30 on the ice, in the front office,

02:32 whatever it may be, there's a space for me.

02:34 - You've done a lot, you've accomplished a lot,

02:36 but is this something that you're most proud of?

02:37 Because I have to imagine it is.

02:39 - Yeah, it absolutely is.

02:40 Just because it took a while.

02:41 There was a lot of publishers

02:42 that didn't wanna buy into it.

02:43 They're like, oh, that's great,

02:44 but no, they wanted a little more train wreck-y,

02:47 something with a little more like a tell-all.

02:49 - Gossip or, yeah. - They wanted me

02:50 to do a tell-all.

02:51 They said, oh, will you do a tell-all

02:52 when you're with the Cowboys and the Niners and the Lakers?

02:55 And I'm like, no, I would never do that.

02:55 - That's not what it's about, yeah.

02:57 - Right, and so it kinda took a while,

02:59 and then finally Roman and Littlefield were like,

03:01 no, we love this.

03:02 And it's been pretty awesome,

03:03 because right away I've been getting really good reception.

03:05 Mothers, young women, direct message to me saying,

03:08 oh my gosh, my daughter is so elated

03:10 that now she knows I can read this

03:11 and know that there's not just a dream,

03:13 but they actually can make it.

03:15 (upbeat music)

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