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In sports, being wide open means

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you're ready to seize the moment a

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chance to make a game changing impact.

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In life, it's about embracing

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vulnerability, showing up with honesty,

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and finding the courage to face challenges

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head on.

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I was like frantic, and he's

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like, I'm going to ask you something

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and like, are you gay? And for whatever

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reason, I said yes.

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We've all had moments that cracked us wide

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open times when life tested

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us, broke us down and

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made us question what's next. But

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it's in those moments that we discover

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what we're really made of.

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It was a moment that should have broken

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me, but just because of how I was raised and

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my bolishness and arrogance to want to be great heartened

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me. It gave me a platform to be so

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singularly focused on greatness.

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I've been there, I've felt the weight

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of tough times, but every

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setback has taught me some thing. Resilience.

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It's what fuels us to rise stronger

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and more determined than ever. I'm

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Ashlyn Harris, two time Women's World

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Cup champion and former goalkeeper

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of the US women's national soccer team.

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In my new podcast, wide Open,

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I'll sit with trailblazers from sports,

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music, fashion, entertainment, and

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politics to explore their toughest

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moments and the incredible comebacks

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that followed.

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I think the beauty of being queer is

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you get to unpack the parts of yourself that

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are genuinely you and the parts of yourself

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that are conforming to some idea of what you

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were supposed to be.

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I had nothing but the money

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that I had on me, and in my anger,

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I got my children up out of the ba

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and I just drove in the middle of the night from

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Mississippi back to Kentucky.

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I'm a truth teller, yeah, and

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and I had to tell the truth.

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It's time for honest conversations,

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unforgettable stories, and a

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front row seat to the moments that changed

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everything. Welcome to Wide

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Open. Wide Open

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with Ashland Harris is an iHeart women's

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sports production. Listen to

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Wide Open with Ashland Harris on

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the iHeartRadio app, Apple

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podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.