BE A BALLER -"Building a lifelong legacy"

Cierra Johnson NBC 4 News Anchor - Journey of Faith, Passion, Purpose, and Perseverance

• Coach Tim Brown, Uncommon Life

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Cierra Johnson of NBC 4 in Columbus, Ohio offers a candid glimpse into both her professional and personal journey. A Her story is one of passion, perseverance, and a deep-rooted connection to family and faith, all of which have shaped her impressive career over the years. Join us as we explore this enlightening conversation with Cierra, an anchor whose story is sure to inspire.

Picture this: a bustling newsroom, an accomplished reporter, and the grit required to thrive in the ever-changing world of journalism. Cierra  joins us to unravel what it's truly like behind the camera. From navigating the unpredictable demands of reporting without the glam squad, to sharing an intimate moment of her life—the picturesque proposal in Central Park.

Cierra's path wasn't always paved with ease; it began with lugging heavy equipment through the streets of Southeast Ohio during her college years at Ohio University.. Her experiences, enriched by mentorship from figures like Jerry Revish, prepared her for the challenges that awaited in cities such as San Francisco and Buffalo. The pull of home eventually led her back to central Ohio, where the familiar faces and places resonate with her sense of belonging. Her career, a testament to the blend of personal and professional growth, highlights the sustaining power of community and faith, grounding her in a field known for its relentless pace.

Beyond her work, Cierra's dedication to leaving a lasting legacy shines brightly. Her commitment to using her platform to uplift others and support meaningful causes underscores the importance of visibility and action in the community. Whether it’s supporting outreach initiatives or leading events, she emphasizes how our actions inspire and empower those around us. As Cierra reflects on her grandparents' wisdom and the joy of community involvement, she shares a heartfelt message about the positive impact we can make with intention and purpose. 

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Speaker 1:

You're dealing with people's worst day of their lives, so it's not all fluffy and there is no hair and makeup. I don't know where people get that from. There's no glam squad. Yeah, there's no glam squad. You dress yourself. Sometimes you're putting I mean, I'm so good at putting makeup on in a moving car, Not while I'm driving, obviously, but like in the passenger seat. I mean, it's hard, it's not what people think it is. You're going to a scene. You don't have a bathroom. Sometimes you don't have a lunch. I mean it's, you know, but I wouldn't be doing it for over 10 years if I didn't love it.

Speaker 3:

Welcome to Be A Baller podcast where we're building a lifelong legacy for our families, communities and the world. I'm your host, coach Tim Brown, and today I'm excited to introduce my guest, sierra Johnson. Sierra is an anchor and reporter with NBC4 in Columbus, ohio. Sierra is a proud Central Ohio native. Graduate of Hannah Lincoln High School and one of the great Bobcats at Ohio University. Graduate of EW Scripps School of Journalism. Today on the show, sierra will share her journey to building a lifelong legacy. Sierra, welcome to the show.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we're just so excited to have you in the studio today. Before we get started, I see something very nice on your finger there. It's pretty nice on that finger. Why, thank you, it looks good on there, you know, you know we got to first talk about your husband, matt, who's also on NBC. The word is, he did a big. He did a big for the proposal. This wasn't no prime proposal. No, how was that we?

Speaker 1:

went to New York. We were going to go to Europe at the end of the day, like the next day, and we went, had lunch with my sister and we walked around Central Park. And we just had lunch with my sister and we walked around Central Park and we just kind of kept walking and kept walking and it started sprinkling and I was ready to go home. But then he proposed, and then we celebrated in Brussels and Copenhagen for the Christmas markets. Christmas is my favorite holiday, so it was absolutely amazing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, he did it big. Yes, he did. He didn't play around. I know this. I know family is important to you. Can you talk about that special relationship that you have with your grandparents?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, my grandparents. I have one grandmother that's living and so she is 100. She will be 101 in December. So we still chat. Occasionally we talk on the phone. Memory is not the best, but when she's good she's good, and she drops knowledge. It kind of repeats, some days maybe four-minute loop, maybe five, but when she speaks she's encouraging. She will spout out a scripture that applies to the situation you were talking about. She'll say what happened when she was our age and then it kind of loops, but when she's good, she's good. My dad's parents, my grandma and grandpa, they were awesome, encouraging. If I had an idea, they were like well, we don't know how that works, but we are here for it so.

Speaker 1:

I had some great grandparents.

Speaker 3:

What were some of those like? You mentioned some of those things. What were some of those specific life lessons that you learned from your grandparents?

Speaker 1:

You mentioned some of those things. What were some of those specific life lessons that you learned from your grandparents Before I got?

Speaker 2:

into news.

Speaker 1:

I was really into science. So probably until about seventh grade I wanted to be a pediatrician or a neurosurgeon or something science related. We had a program. I went to Monroe Middle School in Columbus for middle school and they had a partnership with Bell Labs. So every Tuesday we were doing things with scientists and they were picking me up and after school and I would tell them what I was doing. And I don't think they understood, because I barely understood but, they were just encouraging.

Speaker 1:

They were like, yeah, we could see you being a doctor, we could see you being a surgeon or you know, whatever it was, it didn't matter what it was, they were encouraging. And they just said whatever you do, just don't give up. I mean, it didn't matter what it was.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, you know you mentioned, I'm sure there were strong women of faith and strong parents. Can you talk about your faith?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I grew up in the church, grew up at Mount Vernon AME, right down the street from Monroe, and then in high school started going to First Church of God and then it's kind of in college where I didn't have to go, there was no one telling me to go. So I didn't go, but it was when I started working that. I realized A I didn't get here by myself and B this is a very stressful job and you need to have something that grounds you, something to fall back on.

Speaker 1:

So I've lost count of how many times I've moved. I think it was at least five this time. But every time I moved I would try to find a church or a small group. Cincinnati I had an awesome small group. I went to Crossroads in Cincinnati. Buffalo I didn't necessarily find a small group, but I was bouncing around at some of the AME churches Buffalo coming back here, I was going back to First Church in San Francisco. It was COVID, so a lot of like live streaming. So it doesn't really matter where you are, as long as you're able to have some type of connection with something or some kind of a group.

Speaker 3:

It's been great. There's a story about this soapbox in your first grade classroom, Miss O'Brien you know, I knew, miss O'Brien in the class.

Speaker 1:

Wow, he does research Can, don't know how.

Speaker 3:

I knew Mrs O'Brien in the class. Yes, I'm like, wow, he does research. Can you talk?

Speaker 1:

about that experience. Yeah, so Mrs O'Brien, she is one of my favorite people. She was actually at my wedding and it just was it was just awesome Full circle moment.

Speaker 1:

So we had Newsy Tuesday, and so every Tuesday you would if you didn't have, if your parents didn't have a subscription, she would I don't know where bring out a dozen newspapers and you would read the article with your parents and you would cut it out and then you would explain it to the class. Well, that was my moment to shine. I would dress up on Tuesdays, I would practice in the mirror, I would get on the soapbox. Okay, thank you Sierra, it's been great.

Speaker 1:

I mean, that was, it was just like the highlight of my week and I don't I don't know why. I think it was just so kids could get over their fear of, you know, public speak. I never had one, but it was just awesome. I loved the newspaper, I love talking, I love just being up there and having people, you know, being forced to listen to me. Mrs O, we get lunch and we text all the time and I'm just so grateful that she even thought to do that with the first grade class. I mean really, really cool, and I think it kind of like just started all of it.

Speaker 3:

You know, you talked about how you want to be in the science, pediatrician or whatnot. What was that moment you decided you want to be a journalist.

Speaker 1:

There were a couple. It was algebra. That was not my jam, Math just did not make sense to me. But I think it was September 11th. I remember being in eighth grade and everyone getting picked up and for some reason we never watched anything on TV. I don't know why the teachers made that decision I mean, it doesn't really matter at this point but I just remember something was going on and I had no idea what and why it was such a big deal Like.

Speaker 1:

I remember seeing parents crying and, like you knew as a kid, it was a big deal, but I didn't know why. So when I got home all I did was watch, just the news.

Speaker 1:

I just sat there and watched, and then I would go to school and then come back and watch the news. I mean, my parents watched anyways. But from then on I just knew like these people have like all of the answers and it's just kind of a concept of like you know a little bit about everything. They knew what was happening at the zoo. They knew what was happening with September 11th. How do they know everything? And like people come to them for answers? And it was at that point I'm like well, it doesn't seem to require algebra, you get to talk. It kind of felt like the soapbox, I mean. And then from there I'm like I don't really know how I get to that point, but I want it to happen.

Speaker 3:

Wow, yeah, that's a great story. Yeah, you know, you went to high school and you're part of the Gahanna Lincoln High School award winning news team. Yeah, how did that experience help you prepare for?

Speaker 1:

college. The experience I can't even put into words how much it prepared me. So the September 11th happened. I was in eighth grade and I was in Columbus. So we moved after winter break for my eighth grade year. So I started Gehenna middle of eighth grade and then went to Gehenna for all of high school. So Gehenna, you have to have a speech class, which that was no problem for me, and then you apply to be in the intro to TV program. So I applied and I got it and then I did the full TV course. But it was a class, it was a whole class period. You go and you rotate between doing morning announcements. So every beginning of third period, right before Channel one came on, you were doing morning announcements. But then you had a half hour show every week on the public access channel.

Speaker 3:

We had a show. We had a show.

Speaker 1:

So we were going around the school with our big cameras and the VHS tapes and interviewing. We had student of the week. The robotics team was doing something. We didn't get too controversial I mean it had to be done within the third period, but we were editing. I could edit a news story before I could drive. We used tape to tape, which was no one uses that anymore, but it's what the photographers now used back in the 80s. So if I was in a pinch I could do that. We used Avid, which was computer based. I knew what a Vosat was before I even got to college. So I made a reel, like you do when you're interviewing for a news job, and I sent it to OU.

Speaker 3:

I don't.

Speaker 1:

I don't know if that was a requirement, I just felt like it was something I needed to do and it just it prepared me. I mean it. It taught me how to write. It taught me what, like nap pops were like. If you're, you know, doing a story on basketball, why not have the sound of the basketball dribbling? I mean, I was 16 kind of putting that together, so it just taught me that A this is something that's really cool and sometimes it gets you out of class. And B it also. It's really fun.

Speaker 1:

You get to talk to people. You get to talk to people you probably would never talk to.

Speaker 3:

Sounds like you had a good time.

Speaker 1:

A great time.

Speaker 3:

WGLH was my first station is what I say. You talk about. You know back in the day the word is you have a photographic memory. Where are you getting this from? I can't tell you my sources. It sounds like my dad.

Speaker 1:

I don't think it's technically photographic, but it's really good when there's like a disagreement. I can recall exactly where we were when something was said, um, and it also helps kind of connect the pieces. So say, there was, you know, a homicide in one part of town, um, and there's like a name of like maybe a suspect. For me, it, it, I'm like that name sounds really familiar. I think it's connected to something.

Speaker 1:

So, it's not technically photographic, but I will say I have a really good memory and in news it kind of helps. Right, Definitely.

Speaker 3:

You know the word is. You wanted to attend Ohio University School of Journalism and you jumped right on that your freshman year in high school.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

You know it's hard to get in that school.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean I was saying I didn't want to go too far, I didn't want it to be out of state because that sounds expensive, and I just wanted it to be a really great program. So my junior year they have a high school summer workshop and I think it's like maybe it's four days, I don't know. But my parents dropped me off and you essentially kind of do what your students the students here are doing, and you kind of observe and you put on like a newscast here are doing and you kind of observe and you put on like a newscast, or if you're print, you put on a newspaper, and it was at that moment it was like the perfect summer day.

Speaker 3:

Everyone was out walking and I'm like, yeah, this is it Now. Speaking about Ohio University, can you talk about that experience in the school and how that?

Speaker 1:

you know, propelled you to the next level. I know things are different now, but when I was there we were on the quarter system, so you had a chance to kind of move a lot more and do what you want to do. So I was in the school of journalism and I know my first J101, it was like the hardest class.

Speaker 1:

It was just hard. And then we had like a copy editing class. That was also hard. So there was a moment when I contemplated changing to retail and I took a retail class and I've kind of was just bored. I'm like, well, retail isn't just shopping. There's like a lot of like data entry and buying and it's not. It's not what I thought it was.

Speaker 1:

So then at that point I'm like, well, if I'm going to do this, I need to really get serious. So I didn't go like the gridiron route, which is super sports heavy. You have to actually really love sports and I don't. I went the Sayuri route. So Sayuri means voice I think it means voice in Swahili and it was a lot of the black kids in the broadcast program and so we had like a talk show so we would talk about some of the black professors and what Black Student Communication Caucus was doing and if Greek life had anything going on. So that was my way of kind of getting in. And then I realized, well, there's other people in the world other than us. So then I kind of dabbled in another sports-esque show, just so I can say I've done something other than just a talk show format. And that was great. But then for my junior and senior year you actually had to put on a newscast. So we put on Midday, which was the PBS affiliate for Southeast Ohio.

Speaker 1:

So I had no choice but to talk about sports and if there was like an incident on campus or Halloween or whatever it was but you rotate it between producer and then you were anchoring, and then you were reporter one day and you had, you know, deadlines and it was real life. I mean, the deadline obviously was like 24 hours, you had a whole day to work on it, but it it taught me that you have to really get it done wow, so you got a merit of experience.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you've got a chance to experience some of it. Which part did you really enjoy?

Speaker 1:

I liked a lot of it. I liked the reporting, but the cameras were so big they're not like the little I mean. I liked that part, but I'm dragging it up and down hills and it was like it was literally exhausting. But it set me up for my job in Buffalo because, I was doing that by myself and the cameras were heavy and you were dragging it in 20 degree weather. So I mean, everything happens for a reason, but at the time I'm like this is really not it.

Speaker 3:

You know we had the legendary Jerry Revis on the show. Can you talk about his impact on your career? I understand you did a summer program with him.

Speaker 1:

Oh gosh, I forgot about that. So I met Mr Revis initially. He says call me Jerry, I'm not doing that.

Speaker 2:

That's weird.

Speaker 1:

But I met him. I want to say it was my sophomore year of high school. So at the time there's the National Association of Black Journalists and then they have city chapters. Ours is the Columbus Association of Black Journalists. It is now just coming back. My coworker Carrie and I and some other folks are bringing it back. But backtrack to high school. It was really up and moving at the time and they had a high school journalism workshop. I think it was maybe four weekends in the spring and we met at Ohio State and he told us they taught us like what the style book was, like the Associated Press style book. We wrote articles, we did mock newscasts and as the weeks went on some of the kids kind of stopped coming. And I look around, I'm like, well, there's not many of us, but this is fun, I'm going to keep coming. And I'm like, well, there's not many of us, but this is fun, I'm going to keep coming. And he was so encouraging it was him and Mike.

Speaker 1:

Jackson and they were so encouraging and sometimes when I get excited I still talk a little quickly. But in high school it was like out of control, it was auctioneer speed and they both would just say you know, you have something great to say, just shut it down a little. So that was when I first met him and then fast forward.

Speaker 1:

I would email him occasionally in college and say, hey, I'm still really into this thing, any advice? And he'd give some advice. And then fast forward to my first time at NABJ, the national convention, I want to say. It was in San Diego. Channel 10 had a career fair booth and I walked up with my resume. I was not, obviously, prepared to have my first job be on air there, but he was like let's save this and let's stay in touch and then fast forward. I think I moved back home the first time in 2016, 17. And we were co-workers.

Speaker 1:

And he was so encouraging. I remember my first live shot and he said you did a good job. And I almost just wanted to like just start crying.

Speaker 3:

I was telling you to do a good job.

Speaker 1:

He was always just so encouraging, and then he was also really good with critiques. They were helpful. They were helpful critiques, so he's just awesome.

Speaker 3:

You know, you worked at K&N TV in San Francisco Stations of Buffalo, cincinnati. What brought you back to central Ohio?

Speaker 1:

The first time or the second time, second time, second time. I think at some point you just move around and you realize there's going to be.

Speaker 1:

No perfect city, no perfect situation. So Cincinnati, my job. I wasn't on air but I had a good time socially. I had church friends, I had friends in other organizations. Buffalo, the city was a little hard, it was a little segregated, the winters obviously just went on forever, but professionally, best time of my life. And then I came here. I grew at Channel 10, but I wasn't doing what I wanted to do, but I was home.

Speaker 1:

So, this final time after coming from San Francisco during COVID, I just wanted to be around family. I don't move for relationships. I think that's kind of like a crazy idea, but I'm like, well, if this doesn't work, my family's here, so I mean you know, but but it it did work and you know the end it actually did. But I just I want to. I want to feel at home and Columbus is home. I know the people I can give.

Speaker 1:

I was explaining to someone what city center was the other day or like the context of like the continent or like you, just there's things you get if you're from here and someone will ask like hey, is this part of like you know Linden or East, just being able to have perspective and know people and it just it hits a little different than being in a city where you really have no tie to Right. So between that professionally, and my family being here and Matt being here and his family being here, it just it makes sense.

Speaker 3:

I think the blessing is the Bible says this all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord, but the key for you is called according to his purpose.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 3:

And truly you've been called to a purpose, to his purpose.

Speaker 1:

And it all works out. It all works out it always works out.

Speaker 3:

You take a little bit here, a little bit there. When you put all that together you're like oh yeah, that's why I was in Buffalo. Yeah, in, in spite of all them long winters, you know that snow as far as in San Francisco. Seeing those experiences, they all kind of work together. You know, alphear, we talked a little bit about. Why don't you expound on this? Women in journalism you know, the impact and just the opportunities or lack of opportunities. Can you expound on that a little bit?

Speaker 1:

We were saying it's for women. Sometimes it's just tough. This is such a visual medium. And then combine that with Instagram and social media and everyone has something to say.

Speaker 1:

Sometimes it's really encouraging, like, oh, you did a great story about getting heat for that older family, who's you know? But then sometimes it's you're fat, or it's like I don't like what you had on, um, I don't, I, I don't think men get those messages. Sometimes they're just downright creepy. Some of the things my, my coworkers and friends at other stations have gotten, um, I've known people that have had restraining orders. Um, it's just, it's a weird, it's just a really weird space. You're simply doing a job. The things people say to us they wouldn't say to the teller at chase, um, and then it's also the pressure of do I, do, I do, I feel like I look good enough for this? Or you know if, if you have something going on, but then everyone is going to see it. It's just, it's, it's weird. There's not a lot of careers like this, where everyone feels so entitled to having opinion about what you're doing. It's, it's different, it's it's really different.

Speaker 3:

Well, the young people in the audience what if? What? How would you encourage them? How would you encourage them?

Speaker 1:

In this field. Yes, just stick with it. It's hard, it is a hard, hard job. It's mentally hard. I've seen countless dead bodies. I've seen limbs. I've seen people lose people minutes before I walk up. That is terrible and it kind of weighs on you. It's physical up. That is terrible and it kind of weighs on you. It's physical. This is the first, this is the second job where?

Speaker 1:

I'm not doing the camera myself. So in Buffalo I shot the story, I wrote it, I edited. I didn't ever do my own live shots, but I'm traipsing around doing things myself. That's exhausting. I would come home some days and just fall right asleep. It literally is physical between that and the hours. Mad is mornings. I was mornings in San Francisco, so there were some days I was waking up at one, 30 in the morning to drive to a wildfire an hour and a half away for a four o'clock live shot.

Speaker 1:

I mean it's it's a lot, but if you really want to do it, then it's possible and it's great. I mean, there's not many jobs where you could do a job and then, at the end of the day, see what you spent your shift doing, which is awesome, but it's not fluffy. You're not an Instagrammer, you're not an influencer. I mean you're dealing with you know legally, so you're dealing with people's worst day of their lives. Um, so it's not all fluffy and there is no hair and makeup. I don't know where people get that from yeah, there's no glam squad.

Speaker 1:

You dress yourself. Sometimes you're putting I mean I'm so good at putting makeup on in a moving car, not while I'm driving, obviously, but like in the passenger seat I mean it's, it's hard, it's not, it's not what people think it is, it's you're going to a scene. You don't have a bathroom, sometimes you don't have a lunch. I mean it's, you know, but I wouldn't be doing it for over 10 years if I didn't love it. I mean, I, I weirdly like it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, now the good side of that is the word is you are a fashionista. You love, love to travel.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I love clothes and fashion. You have to have a hobby. I worked retail since high school. I mean it started. You know every. I've worked at a good number of stores at Easton If they're around in 2007, I probably worked there and I just love traveling. The thing about news is you don't get a lot of time to do international. You have to kind of finagre your days.

Speaker 1:

But, when I get a chance to go, we did Copenhagen, brussels, me and my sister love she works at Google, so she has a lot of ties to the Bay Area, yeah, so we'll do like a Tahoe or a Napa or like a long weekend in Puerto Rico that's my jam, just anything just to kind of see how other people are doing things. Long weekend in Puerto Rico that's my jam, just anything just to kind of see how other people are doing things. Just something a little different Buffalo I spent a lot of time in Toronto, I think that's where kind of the I have my passport.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean.

Speaker 1:

I'm literally six minutes from the border, but it's just fun to get out of your bubble.

Speaker 3:

You mentioned your sister.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Can you talk about that relationship?

Speaker 1:

Yes, that is my best friend. We, we talk a lot, we talk multiple times a day. Uh, we're three and a half years apart. So I think when I was like high school college it was it was close but like far enough to like we were never in school together, which was probably the best idea ever. Um, but I think once she left she went to university kentucky, once she, and then, um, where did she? Uh, western kentucky once she, and then, um, where did she? Uh, western kentucky for grad school, post grad school, we got super close. Um, I bounce ideas off of her. Um, sometimes I'm the more logical one, sometimes she's more logical, but we both like, we're really good for planning a trip over text. Like you want to go to keeneland and you know, bet on ponies, sure, let's go. And then you know she flies in, she lives in New York, so I go to visit her all the time. Uh, she's just. She literally is my best friend, she is my absolute, she's just the coolest person yeah, you know you are very involved in the community.

Speaker 3:

Different organizations yeah, why is it so important for you to use your platform to help others?

Speaker 1:

I think first of all this sounds kind of weird but, selfishly, it helps me for a number of reasons. A, when you move around a lot, it's hard making friends. You don't want all of your friends to be your colleagues, I mean it's great, but you need to have friends outside of that. But then it also it gives you, it gives you a purpose and it helps someone else I love. I was, I'm, on the Wonderball committee, so even when I was in San Francisco I was hopping on Zooms, kind of like helping to plan that, and they raise money to do outreach programs for other groups.

Speaker 1:

For a long time I was in Junior League, which is a women's group, so every time I moved a city I would join that. And every city's mission is kind of different. So Cincinnati they were real big on raising money to build a dental clinic in one of the schools in Cincinnati. But then you go to a city like Buffalo and they're really big on like homeless outreach. So it's kind of cool seeing how every city, how their mission and their needs are different. It's just nice just to help people too. I mean you see every day at work the need and it's like, well, you can't help everyone on every story, so kind of find a couple of organizations that you're passionate about. I'm passionate about women, kids and Black journalists, so if there's something that involves that, then I just kind of jump in Wow, you know, this is a legacy podcast.

Speaker 3:

You know, when you think about that word, what does the word legacy mean to you?

Speaker 1:

This also may sound weird, but I didn't think about it for the longest time.

Speaker 1:

I think you're just so worried about getting to the next step and doing a good job in the moment. I think it really took COVID to be like wow, like kind of look back and just think I've come a long way. But then it also was like kind of looking at a Jerry or looking at a Yolanda or looking at an Angela or looking at a Colleen and saying, if they have that type of an impact on me indirectly, what am I doing for others? So it's about being in the community. Um, you know, you get asked to emcee a lot of stuff and sometimes you just want to say no, but if it involves speaking out of school, if it involves raising money for a cause and I will not say no.

Speaker 1:

Maybe I shouldn't say that now, but I mean you. You like we were. I was saying before we started you can't be what you don't see. So if that means me emceeing something, even after a long day of work, if it encourages somebody, maybe I should look at the news more. Maybe I should consider this as a career. Or maybe I should reach out in email or just for a little bit of advice, I mean any little bit I can do to help. Amen.

Speaker 3:

Well, you know this has been fun. This has been really fun. Can do to help?

Speaker 1:

Amen, Well you know this has been fun.

Speaker 3:

This has been really fun. I like to chat and I think your chatting is a blessing to others. You know, just hearing your story of encouragement to others that are thinking about, or just your enthusiasm for your job. You know, once a person's figured out what they want to be, you know how exciting it is you know, you find that thing and does become work.

Speaker 3:

You know and then also appreciate the impact that you're having. You know, using your impact to bless that's what legacy is all about Using our impact to bless others that we don't even know. Yeah, we have no idea who's going to be encouraged by this, but God knows. Yeah, that's why here. So I want to thank you for bringing joy to our studio today.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3:

Well, that's all the time we have for today's podcast of be a baller. I want to thank our special guest oh you, bobcat, always got to get For sharing her wisdom and experience with others. Thank you, sierra, for your motto of excellence for young ladies to inspire and chase their dreams. Thank you, sierra, for your motto of excellence for young ladies to inspire and chase their dreams. Hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did. Remember. Building a lifelong legacy is not just what we achieve in life, but also how we can use our gifts and talents to make a positive impact on the world around us. And, as always, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast so you can stay up to date on all the latest episodes. Our podcast guests are always willing to share wisdom and inspire others to build a legacy that lasts. Thanks, sierra.

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If you've enjoyed this episode, please share it with friends and family. The Be A Baller podcast is available on all major podcast platforms. This podcast was created by Coach Tim Brown and recorded and edited by the video production class of worthington christian high school. Be sure to come back next week as we continue to discuss on how to build a lifelong legacy. Until then, don't forget to be a baller.