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Lisa Leslie Reveals What it Cost Her to be a Mom and an WNBA Star
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Skylar and Cassidy welcome basketball royalty: three-time MVP, four-time Olympic gold medalist, eight-time All-Star, and mom, Lisa Leslie.
Lisa discusses the pressure of being the face of the early WNBA while starting a family, her choice to bring her daughter on the road despite no support in place for working mothers, and how an emergency c-section did and did not impact her return.
She gets into:
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Feeling compelled to publicly apologize to fans for missing a season to give birth and recover
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Playing alongside other moms and the financial and logistical realities of traveling with children
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Mom guilt, postpartum, and what real player-mom support can actually do
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