WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:13.283 --> 00:00:17.183 Sam Acho: Welcome back to the Sam Macho Podcast featuring Cliff Marshall. 00:00:17.183 --> 00:00:21.473 And today we have a very, very, very special guest. 00:00:21.473 --> 00:00:24.173 And I know I wanna do this introduction, but Cliff, you 00:00:24.173 --> 00:00:25.373 usually introduce our guest. 00:00:25.373 --> 00:00:28.163 So I'd love for you to introduce our special guest for today. 00:00:28.883 --> 00:00:29.843 Clif Marshall: Yes, Sam. 00:00:29.843 --> 00:00:33.263 Today on the podcast we're talking with Bailey Wheat. 00:00:33.893 --> 00:00:37.463 Bailey is driven by passion to help athletes thrive. 00:00:38.423 --> 00:00:42.323 She currently serves as the regeneration coordinator at Sports 00:00:42.323 --> 00:00:47.603 Academy in Dallas, Texas, where she helps athletes through their recovery 00:00:47.693 --> 00:00:49.793 and restorative exercise journey. 00:00:50.303 --> 00:00:53.303 In addition, she is an athlete herself. 00:00:54.003 --> 00:00:58.653 For the last 14 years, she has participated in roller derby and we are 00:00:58.653 --> 00:01:00.813 definitely excited to talk about that. 00:01:01.353 --> 00:01:05.553 But Bailey, more than anything else, welcome to the Sam Macho Podcast and 00:01:05.553 --> 00:01:10.233 it's special because you are the first female guest that we've had on the show. 00:01:10.533 --> 00:01:11.763 So welcome Bailey. 00:01:11.763 --> 00:01:12.663 Yes. 00:01:13.868 --> 00:01:14.708 Sam Acho: We're so hyped. 00:01:15.468 --> 00:01:17.388 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, so thank you so much for having me. 00:01:17.388 --> 00:01:20.118 I'm so excited and I feel a great honor to. 00:01:20.993 --> 00:01:24.533 Um, share my story a little bit and, you know, I love Sam. 00:01:24.533 --> 00:01:27.683 We've had some really wonderful conversations and so I know that this 00:01:27.683 --> 00:01:28.913 is gonna be, it's gonna be a great day. 00:01:28.913 --> 00:01:30.233 It's gonna be a good conversation. 00:01:30.713 --> 00:01:33.503 Sam Acho: Yes, and I, I know I don't love doing intros, but Bailey, I had, I had to 00:01:33.503 --> 00:01:35.273 make a call before we started the podcast. 00:01:35.338 --> 00:01:35.538 I had 00:01:35.603 --> 00:01:35.633 Bayleigh Wheat: Uh. 00:01:35.873 --> 00:01:38.693 Sam Acho: I had to call Vmac, you know, VMAC helps run Sports Academy. 00:01:38.693 --> 00:01:39.713 And I said, Hey, gimme some juice. 00:01:39.713 --> 00:01:41.333 Not just on, on Bailey. 00:01:41.693 --> 00:01:42.623 Also on Sports Academy. 00:01:42.623 --> 00:01:43.823 I'll give a little bit of background. 00:01:43.823 --> 00:01:45.233 So I live in Dallas, Texas. 00:01:45.413 --> 00:01:47.693 Bailey, you work at this facility called Sports Academy. 00:01:47.693 --> 00:01:51.203 And, and I want to get a a little specific for the people who are are listening. 00:01:51.563 --> 00:01:55.373 So Sports Academy, they train NFL athletes, NHL Athletes, 00:01:55.373 --> 00:01:56.783 Dallas Cowboys, cheerleaders. 00:01:56.783 --> 00:02:00.803 They train, uh, MLB athletes, you name it, they can train, uh, everyday athletes. 00:02:00.803 --> 00:02:01.613 You name it, they do it. 00:02:01.613 --> 00:02:05.003 But I'm gonna get specific, 'cause the NFL draft just happened, this last draft. 00:02:05.153 --> 00:02:07.373 You all trained five first round picks. 00:02:07.763 --> 00:02:08.033 Uh. 00:02:08.843 --> 00:02:12.083 NFL there's 44 total NFL combine guys that y'all train. 00:02:12.083 --> 00:02:16.073 Even the off season, uh, and I, I'm, correct me if my numbers are wrong, but I 00:02:16.073 --> 00:02:21.863 heard 131 players from January to July in the off season, that's like seven to 8%. 00:02:22.163 --> 00:02:24.203 Seven or 8% of the NFL was training. 00:02:25.733 --> 00:02:26.273 Bayleigh Wheat: Yep. 00:02:26.558 --> 00:02:28.358 Sam Acho: We talked about that, also talked about the, you know, 00:02:28.358 --> 00:02:29.678 the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. 00:02:29.678 --> 00:02:33.128 You talk about some of the, uh, the, the work that you do, even with, 00:02:33.158 --> 00:02:37.088 uh, everyday athletes, not just pro athletes, but everyday athletes and 00:02:37.238 --> 00:02:38.978 you are the regeneration coordinator. 00:02:38.978 --> 00:02:42.278 So when it comes to the modalities, when it comes to getting players bodies, right, 00:02:42.638 --> 00:02:45.158 their minds, right, that is what you do. 00:02:45.158 --> 00:02:50.318 And so my question is, how did you get into this field of working with some 00:02:50.318 --> 00:02:51.938 of the best athletes in the world? 00:02:52.658 --> 00:02:53.723 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, so. 00:02:54.098 --> 00:02:55.028 It's been quite a journey. 00:02:55.028 --> 00:02:59.588 Honestly, I never would have guessed that this was where I would be at 00:02:59.588 --> 00:03:02.618 at this point in time, but I'm, I'm happy to be here and I'm, I'm 00:03:02.618 --> 00:03:03.968 happy for the journey that I'm on. 00:03:04.478 --> 00:03:06.878 Um, I originally, I just liked sports. 00:03:07.178 --> 00:03:09.278 I liked coaching, I liked movement. 00:03:09.278 --> 00:03:12.128 And so when I went into college, I originally started out 00:03:12.128 --> 00:03:13.328 actually in a junior college. 00:03:13.688 --> 00:03:14.798 Um, so pretty simple. 00:03:14.798 --> 00:03:16.748 Just wanted to get the basics out of the way. 00:03:16.838 --> 00:03:23.528 I didn't have much, uh, guidance on kind of approaching the college. 00:03:24.758 --> 00:03:26.678 Experience as a whole, right? 00:03:26.678 --> 00:03:29.348 And so it was something that I was really kind of learning on my own. 00:03:29.408 --> 00:03:33.098 And by the time I got to choosing something a little bit more in 00:03:33.098 --> 00:03:36.218 depth, I was like, kinesiology, the study of human movement. 00:03:36.218 --> 00:03:38.018 Like, I love to move. 00:03:38.048 --> 00:03:39.518 Why wouldn't I wanna study that? 00:03:39.518 --> 00:03:42.368 And so I, I dove, um, deep into that. 00:03:42.488 --> 00:03:42.938 Um. 00:03:43.268 --> 00:03:48.938 Track in that field and was, uh, studying kinesiology, pre-PT originally. 00:03:48.938 --> 00:03:51.278 So I was gonna go to PT school. 00:03:51.578 --> 00:03:56.498 Um, but then I actually did my internship with Sports Academy my final semester 00:03:56.498 --> 00:04:01.538 of college, and that's where I really got exposed to just how vast that 00:04:01.538 --> 00:04:03.218 the performance industry really is. 00:04:03.818 --> 00:04:06.338 And I wanted to go to massage school. 00:04:08.468 --> 00:04:08.708 Hold on. 00:04:08.708 --> 00:04:10.298 I'm gonna adjust my headphone. 00:04:10.303 --> 00:04:10.523 Sam Acho: Yes, 00:04:13.538 --> 00:04:14.138 yes, we got you. 00:04:14.843 --> 00:04:15.383 Bayleigh Wheat: Okay, perfect. 00:04:15.383 --> 00:04:19.223 I'm gonna just set that, uh, that last bit back a bit from when I, uh, from school. 00:04:19.583 --> 00:04:20.183 Sam Acho: Yes. 00:04:20.393 --> 00:04:23.993 Bayleigh Wheat: so my final semester at college, I did, uh, my internship with 00:04:23.993 --> 00:04:28.043 Sports Academy as a performance coach intern, and that's where I really got 00:04:28.043 --> 00:04:32.903 exposed to just how vast the performance industry is in terms of physical therapy, 00:04:32.933 --> 00:04:37.553 performance coaches, skills coaches, body work specialists, recovery specialists, 00:04:37.553 --> 00:04:38.633 and all those kinds of things. 00:04:38.933 --> 00:04:39.413 And so. 00:04:39.753 --> 00:04:44.853 Truly that exposure there is what led me into the journey and Sports Academy 00:04:44.883 --> 00:04:49.623 gave me that platform to be able to do that and the, the parameters to be able 00:04:49.623 --> 00:04:53.343 to meet all of these wonderful athletes across all these different fields. 00:04:53.343 --> 00:04:56.103 And so it's really just like history. 00:04:56.103 --> 00:04:57.693 I feel like I somehow just ended up here. 00:04:58.618 --> 00:05:00.718 Sam Acho: But, but you say that, but you work with the, 00:05:00.808 --> 00:05:02.128 some of the best in the world. 00:05:02.278 --> 00:05:03.628 What is, what is the data? 00:05:03.628 --> 00:05:06.148 And I, I, I know that, 'cause I, I showed up, you know, I showed up to Sports 00:05:06.148 --> 00:05:09.508 Academy, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm retired, I'm not playing anymore, but I'm over here 00:05:09.508 --> 00:05:12.478 trying to train with these guys and run with these guys and lift with these guys. 00:05:12.478 --> 00:05:14.578 These are like, you know, some of the highest paid best players. 00:05:14.708 --> 00:05:17.768 I try to keep up, but also then I would meet you. 00:05:17.768 --> 00:05:20.948 I remember it was a Thursday and it's just like unbelievable 00:05:22.358 --> 00:05:25.898 regeneration like you think athlete, you think, okay, they lift, they run. 00:05:26.138 --> 00:05:27.968 But with you with something different, you have these like, I 00:05:27.968 --> 00:05:29.258 dunno what these long poles are. 00:05:29.258 --> 00:05:30.818 You're trying to like do wanna do all these stretching? 00:05:30.998 --> 00:05:32.048 We're on our toes, we're spread. 00:05:32.048 --> 00:05:36.428 Like what does the day to day look like for you specifically working 00:05:36.698 --> 00:05:37.748 with some of these athletes. 00:05:38.213 --> 00:05:41.033 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, so as that regeneration coordinator, I really 00:05:41.033 --> 00:05:46.193 oversee kind of three big areas, and that's gonna be our recovery. 00:05:46.193 --> 00:05:51.083 So making sure that on the passive side, things like Asana or compression 00:05:51.083 --> 00:05:54.953 booth, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, that we're really optimizing those modalities 00:05:54.953 --> 00:05:56.033 within the performance programs. 00:05:57.068 --> 00:05:59.858 That second part is, like you were saying, those resource sessions. 00:05:59.858 --> 00:06:03.578 So those corrective exercise and mobility sessions that really focus 00:06:03.578 --> 00:06:09.128 on optimizing movement efficiency, um, in those joints and in those tissues 00:06:09.128 --> 00:06:12.758 that these guys are kind of constantly training really difficultly, right? 00:06:12.758 --> 00:06:18.278 So when they train, you know, a max speed day, instead of coming in and 00:06:18.278 --> 00:06:21.428 training more hips and more glutes, where they're gonna just kind of 00:06:21.428 --> 00:06:23.528 continue to beat themselves down, we. 00:06:24.023 --> 00:06:27.413 Take one day off and we say, Hey, we're gonna actually stretch these areas 00:06:27.473 --> 00:06:31.793 and we're gonna do some soft tissue on the areas that need to be released. 00:06:31.793 --> 00:06:35.303 And then we're gonna try to optimize that range of motion in those joints. 00:06:35.303 --> 00:06:37.583 So that's a lot of times where we use the stick mobility. 00:06:37.673 --> 00:06:41.813 Those are those kind of long orange sticks that we can use for, for leverage and 00:06:41.933 --> 00:06:45.623 stability to kind of put these athletes in positions that they wouldn't really 00:06:45.623 --> 00:06:50.453 otherwise be in, in a training program or in their, their football program. 00:06:50.898 --> 00:06:51.378 Sam Acho: Hmm. 00:06:52.133 --> 00:06:56.483 Bayleigh Wheat: So I would say that plus just overseeing and coordinating what 00:06:56.483 --> 00:07:01.043 does their performance program look like and how are they feeling right after they 00:07:01.043 --> 00:07:04.253 come in for a long, you know, training week, how are they feeling at the end of 00:07:04.253 --> 00:07:05.543 the week or towards the end of the week? 00:07:05.543 --> 00:07:08.933 And then how are we adjusting their program for the following week? 00:07:10.013 --> 00:07:10.463 Clif Marshall: Wow. 00:07:10.463 --> 00:07:11.213 I love that. 00:07:11.213 --> 00:07:11.603 Bailey. 00:07:11.603 --> 00:07:14.303 You know, my philosophy is you gotta train hard. 00:07:14.963 --> 00:07:16.223 you have to recover hard. 00:07:16.223 --> 00:07:19.793 And it sounds like that's exactly what you're doing at Sports Academy. 00:07:20.243 --> 00:07:25.463 Uh, one of the things that I thought was really cool um, I was on the 00:07:25.463 --> 00:07:28.943 Sports Academy Instagram page, I think, and I saw that you got to 00:07:28.943 --> 00:07:34.373 actually travel to Indianapolis and you were a part of the NFL combine. 00:07:35.063 --> 00:07:38.813 can you talk about that experience and how you kind of prepped the players before? 00:07:38.813 --> 00:07:40.793 You know, they run the 40 yard dash and everything. 00:07:41.048 --> 00:07:41.738 Bayleigh Wheat: Of course. 00:07:41.738 --> 00:07:44.108 Yeah, so it's a, it's been an awesome experience getting to be 00:07:44.108 --> 00:07:45.398 a part of the Combine program. 00:07:45.398 --> 00:07:49.418 This year was my fourth combine program my third year getting to 00:07:49.418 --> 00:07:55.778 go to Indy, so leading up to them, the athletes going to the combine. 00:07:56.288 --> 00:08:02.288 Really our goal is to have a bit of a education piece to these athletes. 00:08:02.288 --> 00:08:05.168 A lot of these guys coming out of college programs have never. 00:08:06.008 --> 00:08:10.178 Had training like this or been put through sessions where they're stretching 00:08:10.178 --> 00:08:13.388 and then activating and creating range, and doing all of those things. 00:08:13.388 --> 00:08:17.618 So for those eight to 12 weeks that we have those guys, it's a really 00:08:17.618 --> 00:08:20.678 awesome time to really just instill in them how important it is for 00:08:20.678 --> 00:08:22.088 them to take care of their body. 00:08:22.268 --> 00:08:25.358 Because ultimately we don't wanna just prepare 'em for the combine. 00:08:25.418 --> 00:08:28.898 We wanna prepare them for the next five, 10, however many years that 00:08:28.898 --> 00:08:30.158 they're gonna be playing in the league. 00:08:30.803 --> 00:08:35.303 So I would say during the, the eight weeks of the program, it's a little 00:08:35.303 --> 00:08:38.843 bit of that and educating them as well as taking them through, um, 00:08:38.843 --> 00:08:40.493 these programs and these movements. 00:08:40.733 --> 00:08:44.213 But then when it comes to actually being at the combine, um, it's a 00:08:44.213 --> 00:08:46.193 little bit more hands-on approach. 00:08:46.283 --> 00:08:51.413 So once the guys drop in, we have a full protocol from the day that they drop in. 00:08:51.683 --> 00:08:54.413 We have a speed prep day, we have a power prep day. 00:08:54.413 --> 00:08:57.028 We have all of these different preps based on what they're going to do. 00:08:57.713 --> 00:08:59.963 Kind of in the following day to get their bodies ready. 00:08:59.963 --> 00:09:03.053 Very similar to what we do in that eight week program. 00:09:03.323 --> 00:09:06.113 Um, but then as well, these guys are going to combine and 00:09:06.113 --> 00:09:07.403 they're sitting around, right? 00:09:07.403 --> 00:09:10.313 They're doing their interviews, they're doing medical, they're waiting around. 00:09:10.343 --> 00:09:13.763 And a lot of times, like that's not what their body is used to doing, right? 00:09:13.763 --> 00:09:14.903 They just got off an airplane. 00:09:14.903 --> 00:09:18.593 And so the body work side of things is where that comes into play. 00:09:18.593 --> 00:09:23.153 So once these guys get done, whether it's at five or I've had guys 00:09:23.153 --> 00:09:26.003 come in, um, as late as, you know. 00:09:26.813 --> 00:09:28.403 10, 11, 12 o'clock at night. 00:09:28.733 --> 00:09:31.643 Um, after their sessions, they've done their interviews and just an 00:09:31.643 --> 00:09:35.453 opportunity to kind of calm their nervous system down a little bit. 00:09:35.453 --> 00:09:40.163 Any of those areas that are tight or kind of sore, achy, we're able to 00:09:40.163 --> 00:09:43.913 then address those things so that when they do go to do their performance, 00:09:43.913 --> 00:09:47.423 their 40 yard, they're able to perform and do what they need to do. 00:09:48.363 --> 00:09:48.443 Sam Acho: Hmm. 00:09:49.318 --> 00:09:49.828 Clif Marshall: Wow. 00:09:50.368 --> 00:09:51.178 Go ahead, Sam. 00:09:52.253 --> 00:09:53.843 No, I, I just gotta share. 00:09:53.843 --> 00:09:54.773 It's pretty cool. 00:09:54.773 --> 00:09:59.153 I just, I'm just remembering from 2011, know, uh, I was 00:09:59.153 --> 00:10:01.043 with Sam at the NFL combine. 00:10:01.043 --> 00:10:03.443 I was blessed to train him for, for that event. 00:10:04.223 --> 00:10:08.213 the night before, uh, as you said, I remember Sam coming to my room 00:10:08.213 --> 00:10:10.973 and there's a lot of nervous. 00:10:11.813 --> 00:10:13.673 Feelings, there's a lot of anxiety. 00:10:13.673 --> 00:10:17.453 But to have him in the room and just, uh, talking with him and 00:10:17.453 --> 00:10:20.633 praying with him, and then we kind of walked through every drill together. 00:10:21.113 --> 00:10:25.973 Um, then the following day, watching him go out and dominate the combine 00:10:25.973 --> 00:10:27.563 and breaking all time record there. 00:10:27.743 --> 00:10:32.513 I remember watching it on tv just remember the thrill that I had. 00:10:32.513 --> 00:10:34.913 It was almost as if I was out there running with him. 00:10:35.168 --> 00:10:35.388 Bayleigh Wheat: Yep. 00:10:35.603 --> 00:10:36.743 Clif Marshall: I'm anxious to know. 00:10:36.743 --> 00:10:40.673 Do you experience similar feelings, like when your athletes have success like that? 00:10:40.673 --> 00:10:40.733 I. 00:10:41.108 --> 00:10:42.488 Bayleigh Wheat: Oh, 100%. 00:10:42.548 --> 00:10:47.498 I'll tell you right now, from this year, probably our most notable, um, 00:10:47.498 --> 00:10:53.228 reaction, and I wish I would've got it on camera, was Armand bu So when he, 00:10:53.258 --> 00:10:58.088 uh, ran his 40, he is noted as the guy who was essentially screaming down the 00:10:58.088 --> 00:10:59.948 40 yard dash the whole way through. 00:11:00.338 --> 00:11:02.138 And when he did that. 00:11:02.628 --> 00:11:05.118 Everyone in the room was absolutely stunned. 00:11:05.118 --> 00:11:09.738 And I think also being an athlete myself, just feeling those nerves and that tension 00:11:09.738 --> 00:11:14.328 kind of build up leading up to them actually hitting that, that performance, 00:11:14.358 --> 00:11:16.398 it, it is absolutely exhilarating. 00:11:16.428 --> 00:11:21.918 And so it's really exciting to see these guys overcome those feelings and, and do 00:11:21.918 --> 00:11:23.508 what they ultimately just know how to do. 00:11:24.818 --> 00:11:25.568 Sam Acho: No, that's so good. 00:11:25.568 --> 00:11:27.608 And even Cliff was talking about it, Bailey, it didn't 00:11:27.608 --> 00:11:28.658 hit me till he talked about it. 00:11:28.658 --> 00:11:29.948 Now I'm thinking about you talking about it. 00:11:29.948 --> 00:11:32.768 When I was training for the NFL combine, I mean, there are these 00:11:32.768 --> 00:11:38.108 nerves, like it's, it's, eight weeks or eight to 10 weeks, like so focused, 00:11:38.318 --> 00:11:42.488 so dialed in for one day for to 00:11:42.578 --> 00:11:43.088 Bayleigh Wheat: One moment. 00:11:43.478 --> 00:11:44.828 Sam Acho: you're gonna peak at the right time. 00:11:45.323 --> 00:11:47.633 And like, it's hard. 00:11:47.633 --> 00:11:50.273 I remember, I remember with when I was training with Cliff, so he 00:11:50.273 --> 00:11:51.863 did my off season combine training. 00:11:51.863 --> 00:11:55.043 It's at Ignition and the facility that he started, the founder of it. 00:11:55.043 --> 00:12:00.953 And, and I remember idea of, he told me, he said, Hey Sam, when 00:12:00.953 --> 00:12:04.673 you go and when you run your 40, uh, I want you to like, to pray. 00:12:04.673 --> 00:12:06.563 Like, you know, you gotta wait in your stance for like two seconds. 00:12:06.803 --> 00:12:09.233 He says, in those two seconds, pray that he, I said, pray. 00:12:09.233 --> 00:12:09.623 He said, yeah. 00:12:09.623 --> 00:12:12.203 I said, pray that God will give you the strength and the courage 00:12:12.653 --> 00:12:14.333 to run your fastest times ever. 00:12:15.368 --> 00:12:19.268 That like goes to this idea of, man, it takes courage to perform at the highest 00:12:19.268 --> 00:12:24.158 level on the biggest stage potentially of your life, at least for at, at 00:12:24.158 --> 00:12:25.478 that moment, for that opportunity. 00:12:26.288 --> 00:12:31.448 You talked about seeing Armand Armand get his, his pretty much 00:12:31.448 --> 00:12:32.858 record setting performance. 00:12:33.638 --> 00:12:37.898 What were your emotions like leading up to watching him perform? 00:12:39.188 --> 00:12:41.903 Bayleigh Wheat: Man, I would just, I would just stay up with rack. 00:12:41.903 --> 00:12:44.993 Let's just say that like totally just like, um. 00:12:45.368 --> 00:12:47.918 Wrecked excited, right? 00:12:47.918 --> 00:12:52.808 Obviously there's a bit of those, you know, is it gonna go well? 00:12:52.808 --> 00:12:55.598 You know, on my side of things, I'm always just hoping don't pull a hammy. 00:12:55.658 --> 00:12:56.018 Right? 00:12:56.018 --> 00:13:00.278 Especially when as long as you don't do that, I'm happy, you know, um, 00:13:00.308 --> 00:13:03.398 performances, you know, prs are great, but at the same time, I just want you 00:13:03.398 --> 00:13:04.808 to be healthy at the end of the day. 00:13:04.838 --> 00:13:08.828 And so I think that there's a little bit more of those feelings 00:13:08.828 --> 00:13:12.098 tuned in and hoping, like, did we do everything right in our program? 00:13:12.098 --> 00:13:12.368 Right? 00:13:12.368 --> 00:13:13.808 Did we prep them in the right way? 00:13:13.868 --> 00:13:14.378 Did we. 00:13:14.738 --> 00:13:16.478 Did we loosen the right tissues? 00:13:16.478 --> 00:13:16.868 Right? 00:13:16.868 --> 00:13:23.408 Did we, uh, take them through that, um, that regression period or that taper 00:13:23.408 --> 00:13:25.538 phase in the program at the right time? 00:13:25.688 --> 00:13:26.078 Right? 00:13:26.078 --> 00:13:28.118 And so that's something that's constantly evolving. 00:13:28.118 --> 00:13:32.648 I think year after year, even what we did last year has changed and 00:13:32.648 --> 00:13:34.328 evolved what we did this year, right? 00:13:34.328 --> 00:13:36.818 And so I think each year we're almost a step closer and a step 00:13:36.818 --> 00:13:38.168 closer to giving these athletes. 00:13:38.993 --> 00:13:42.713 The exact formula of what they need to be able to go out there and perform. 00:13:42.713 --> 00:13:45.718 And like you said, peak at the, at the right time when they need to. 00:13:47.388 --> 00:13:50.358 Clif Marshall: Yeah, Bailey, you know, it's also, uh, pretty cool 00:13:50.358 --> 00:13:53.628 that you get to be a part of the NFL draft experience, right? 00:13:53.628 --> 00:13:57.798 You're at the combine, you're with these players, you're watching them perform, 00:13:58.158 --> 00:14:03.258 and then you have to wait about a month, um, until the NFL draft rolls around. 00:14:03.258 --> 00:14:05.778 And, and, um, can you just talk a little bit about. 00:14:06.473 --> 00:14:10.973 draft experience, and I know that was just this past week and kinda, the, the 00:14:10.973 --> 00:14:15.083 feeling that you get when you see one of your clients being drafted on national tv. 00:14:15.608 --> 00:14:17.828 Bayleigh Wheat: Man, it's just so absolutely wonderful. 00:14:17.888 --> 00:14:23.228 You know, like these guys train sometimes their whole life for this moment. 00:14:23.348 --> 00:14:23.828 Right. 00:14:24.068 --> 00:14:28.383 And there's always, I think, moments of of doubt, right? 00:14:28.683 --> 00:14:28.903 In. 00:14:30.068 --> 00:14:33.398 Everyone's kind of journey, maybe some more than others, right? 00:14:33.398 --> 00:14:35.768 It could look a little bit different for each athlete. 00:14:36.068 --> 00:14:41.138 And so I think as somebody who has a very close and intimate touchpoint with these 00:14:41.138 --> 00:14:44.138 athletes, it's critical that we can. 00:14:45.293 --> 00:14:47.453 Kind of remain steadfast for them, right? 00:14:47.453 --> 00:14:50.363 And be somewhere that when they do have these doubts, we can kind of 00:14:50.363 --> 00:14:54.233 help to settle them and, and give them the confidence that they need 00:14:54.473 --> 00:14:57.623 without over boosting an ego, right? 00:14:57.623 --> 00:14:59.843 So it's all about kind of maintaining that balance. 00:14:59.843 --> 00:15:00.323 But then of course. 00:15:00.893 --> 00:15:05.273 Being able to celebrate the wins of, you know, of being drafted and 00:15:05.273 --> 00:15:09.413 maybe being drafted, you know, higher or being signed, you know, lower 00:15:09.413 --> 00:15:10.643 than what you think your pick was. 00:15:10.643 --> 00:15:13.913 Like, no matter what it is, it's a, it's a win ultimately because it's 00:15:13.913 --> 00:15:15.923 that next step in their journey. 00:15:15.983 --> 00:15:20.153 And so, you know, it's, it's a lot of feelings and a lot of of joy 00:15:20.213 --> 00:15:25.133 really getting to see these guys earn what they've worked so hard for. 00:15:25.223 --> 00:15:25.523 Right. 00:15:25.523 --> 00:15:27.773 And it's a, it's an honor to be a part of that journey, I think all. 00:15:28.863 --> 00:15:33.728 Sam Acho: And Bailey, you talk about the experience of those athletes, 00:15:34.418 --> 00:15:38.948 of the ups and the downs, the joy, the doubt, you are an athlete 00:15:38.948 --> 00:15:41.318 yourself, an elite athlete at that. 00:15:43.208 --> 00:15:45.128 What was your experience like? 00:15:46.133 --> 00:15:47.303 Into roller derby. 00:15:47.303 --> 00:15:49.948 I wanna get into that journey, uh, a bit. 00:15:50.458 --> 00:15:52.193 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, we can switch it up a little bit. 00:15:52.193 --> 00:15:55.283 So my journey into roller derby is quiet. 00:15:56.198 --> 00:15:56.888 Peculiar. 00:15:56.888 --> 00:15:57.098 Right. 00:15:57.098 --> 00:15:59.258 It's definitely not your everyday sport. 00:15:59.348 --> 00:16:03.188 You know, when I tell people that I'm a roller derby athlete, I usually get 00:16:03.188 --> 00:16:05.888 the initial response of, oh, you roller skating and you like punch people. 00:16:06.758 --> 00:16:07.928 Not quite right. 00:16:08.078 --> 00:16:10.778 You know, so, or I've seen that on, you know, tv. 00:16:10.838 --> 00:16:12.728 It's probably not like you've seen it on tv. 00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:13.118 Right. 00:16:13.178 --> 00:16:17.678 Um, but I actually got into it, um, just growing up at the roller skating rink. 00:16:18.098 --> 00:16:23.018 So my family, uh, my mom and dad had gone to a little skate party with some of their 00:16:23.018 --> 00:16:28.058 friends and my dad went and saw that he could bring the family to a skate night. 00:16:28.058 --> 00:16:31.238 They had a bargain night on during the week where you could come in 00:16:31.238 --> 00:16:34.148 and skate for a couple of bucks, a person plus your skate rental. 00:16:34.148 --> 00:16:39.038 And my dad's like, why would we not bring a family of four and to have a couple 00:16:39.038 --> 00:16:41.228 hours of entertainment for just 10 bucks? 00:16:41.318 --> 00:16:41.618 Right? 00:16:41.618 --> 00:16:43.838 We can go spin in circles and, and have a good time. 00:16:43.838 --> 00:16:44.618 And it was all good. 00:16:45.413 --> 00:16:48.023 So I actually started out as a figure skater. 00:16:48.563 --> 00:16:52.523 We started taking skating lessons there at inter skate roller rink, 00:16:52.523 --> 00:16:56.393 and once you get to the end of their lessons, it kind of transitions into 00:16:56.453 --> 00:16:58.853 a figure skating group or class. 00:16:59.273 --> 00:17:03.083 And so I actually did that for about a year and a half, two years. 00:17:03.473 --> 00:17:06.473 And once it got to the point where we started doing performances 00:17:06.473 --> 00:17:10.133 and whatnot, I was a little bit more of a tomboy back then. 00:17:10.193 --> 00:17:12.593 And so they would pop out these, um. 00:17:14.018 --> 00:17:15.998 Dresses, these figure skating dresses. 00:17:15.998 --> 00:17:18.518 And I was like, oh, there's no way I, I wanna wear that. 00:17:18.578 --> 00:17:20.018 It's just not really my style. 00:17:20.078 --> 00:17:22.718 And so it wasn't long after that that I just started going to the rink. 00:17:22.718 --> 00:17:23.828 It was a bit of a rink rat. 00:17:23.828 --> 00:17:26.558 I just enjoyed going and spending the weekends there. 00:17:26.828 --> 00:17:30.698 You know, like most young kids, I feel like back in the day used to. 00:17:30.698 --> 00:17:31.058 Right. 00:17:31.058 --> 00:17:34.508 I, I hear people, you know, uh, the next generation, they're like, we 00:17:34.508 --> 00:17:35.978 spent all the time at the skating rink. 00:17:36.038 --> 00:17:36.428 Right? 00:17:36.488 --> 00:17:37.358 And so it was. 00:17:37.688 --> 00:17:42.398 A little bit less popular, I feel like in the early two thousands for people to be 00:17:42.398 --> 00:17:44.108 spending that time at the rink like that. 00:17:44.378 --> 00:17:44.858 Um. 00:17:45.233 --> 00:17:46.073 But I loved it. 00:17:46.133 --> 00:17:51.023 And when roller derby kind of spread throughout VFW, so there was the 00:17:51.023 --> 00:17:56.723 original league, Dallas Derby Devils was one of the original 13 leagues, um, 00:17:56.723 --> 00:18:00.833 in the W-F-T-D-A, which is the Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Association. 00:18:01.343 --> 00:18:03.413 Um, we also had two other leagues pop up. 00:18:03.413 --> 00:18:05.093 One is in and one in Plano. 00:18:05.123 --> 00:18:07.823 And as those leagues started popping up, a lot of these girls. 00:18:08.528 --> 00:18:11.798 That were getting into the sport, just needed more time on skates, ultimately. 00:18:12.068 --> 00:18:12.398 Right. 00:18:12.398 --> 00:18:16.268 And so they would come to the skating rink where I had been spending years 00:18:16.268 --> 00:18:20.678 already, you know, just going and playing around and skating, having a good time. 00:18:21.218 --> 00:18:24.488 They would come and see me and I was quite tall, kind of lanky. 00:18:24.668 --> 00:18:25.268 Lanky then. 00:18:25.718 --> 00:18:28.688 Um, but they approached me and they were like, wow, you're such a good skater. 00:18:28.748 --> 00:18:30.218 You should definitely get into roller derby. 00:18:30.458 --> 00:18:33.038 And I was like, okay, yeah, this, this sounds like a good idea. 00:18:33.038 --> 00:18:34.118 Sounds like something I would like. 00:18:34.118 --> 00:18:35.018 I'm liking the vibes. 00:18:35.408 --> 00:18:36.158 What do I gotta do? 00:18:36.638 --> 00:18:37.568 Well, you gotta be 18. 00:18:38.573 --> 00:18:42.053 And I was like, well you guys have like five years. 00:18:42.083 --> 00:18:45.743 'cause I was only about 12 or 13 years old at that time, so I was still pretty young. 00:18:46.193 --> 00:18:49.343 But I was like, if you guys come up with a junior league, call me. 00:18:49.613 --> 00:18:50.393 I'll come through. 00:18:50.453 --> 00:18:50.813 Right. 00:18:50.813 --> 00:18:55.433 And it wasn't probably about six months later, I had somebody that approached me 00:18:55.433 --> 00:18:57.203 was like, Hey, we started a junior league. 00:18:57.818 --> 00:18:59.138 We're getting started next week. 00:18:59.138 --> 00:19:00.758 You know, you should come out to our first practice. 00:19:00.848 --> 00:19:05.198 And so that's ultimately how I became one of the founding members of one of 00:19:05.198 --> 00:19:07.478 the first junior leagues in the DFW area. 00:19:07.778 --> 00:19:12.998 Uh, the Rolling Rebellion, which I continued to play for, uh, throughout 00:19:12.998 --> 00:19:14.168 the rest of my junior career. 00:19:14.168 --> 00:19:16.058 So I was about 13 years old, so I was 18. 00:19:16.058 --> 00:19:18.848 So I spent about five, five years playing for the league. 00:19:19.328 --> 00:19:21.188 Um, and we. 00:19:21.548 --> 00:19:24.008 Traveled and played internationally or nationally. 00:19:24.098 --> 00:19:27.998 Um, so it was a very, very cool and fun experience kind of getting into it. 00:19:28.813 --> 00:19:29.263 Sam Acho: I gotta follow. 00:19:29.263 --> 00:19:29.773 Up real quick. 00:19:29.773 --> 00:19:30.073 Hold on. 00:19:30.073 --> 00:19:33.793 So like, what, what, so you say roller derby people say, I've seen now that what, 00:19:33.793 --> 00:19:35.803 what, what does roller derby look like? 00:19:35.803 --> 00:19:38.563 Describe to us what a, what a, what a game is or tournament. 00:19:39.068 --> 00:19:39.668 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, sure. 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:40.988 So we call our games bouts. 00:19:41.078 --> 00:19:43.153 The roller derby bout is typically what they call them. 00:19:43.653 --> 00:19:45.668 Um, played against two teams. 00:19:46.208 --> 00:19:49.178 Uh, you have about 15 people, or you can have up to 15 00:19:49.178 --> 00:19:50.828 people on a roster, both sides. 00:19:51.548 --> 00:19:56.708 On the track or on a particular play, you can have five people from each team. 00:19:56.708 --> 00:20:00.818 On the track of those five people, you've got four people who are 00:20:00.818 --> 00:20:02.498 offensive and defensive blockers. 00:20:02.888 --> 00:20:04.478 They make up what is the pack? 00:20:04.943 --> 00:20:10.043 Um, their goal is to kind of stay together and play offensively and defensively based 00:20:10.043 --> 00:20:11.963 on the person who is scoring the points. 00:20:12.023 --> 00:20:15.083 So that fifth person on the track is called the Jamer. 00:20:15.353 --> 00:20:17.513 They are the person who scores the points. 00:20:17.513 --> 00:20:21.713 So for every person on the other team that the Jamer passes, uh, 00:20:21.713 --> 00:20:22.673 you score a point for your team. 00:20:23.663 --> 00:20:26.423 So when you're playing, essentially your goal is to get your 00:20:26.423 --> 00:20:28.193 jamer through the pack, right? 00:20:28.193 --> 00:20:31.913 While keeping the other jamer within the pack or not letting them pass you. 00:20:32.273 --> 00:20:36.803 And so there's a lot of moving parts when it comes to how many players are playing 00:20:36.803 --> 00:20:40.313 offense, how many are playing defense, when are you kind of doing those things? 00:20:40.343 --> 00:20:43.703 And the game is broken down into two 30 minute halves. 00:20:44.243 --> 00:20:49.763 Um, and those halves are broken down into plays that can last up to two minutes. 00:20:50.648 --> 00:20:52.898 And so then at the end of the game, whoever scores the 00:20:52.898 --> 00:20:54.488 most amount of points wins. 00:20:54.938 --> 00:20:56.948 Um, these can be, you know, 00:21:00.458 --> 00:21:06.338 upwards of 300 points sometimes, depending on, you know, how, um, well, a team 00:21:06.338 --> 00:21:08.198 is skating or maybe even the mashup. 00:21:08.288 --> 00:21:11.588 You can see two really, really high level teams that are both really good. 00:21:12.158 --> 00:21:15.308 But maybe they're both doing poor defensively, so they both 00:21:15.308 --> 00:21:17.618 score a lot of points and it's a high scoring game, right? 00:21:17.618 --> 00:21:21.128 You can have the opposite happen as well, where they're both doing well defensively, 00:21:21.338 --> 00:21:24.698 the jammers aren't able to get through and it can be a very low scoring game as well. 00:21:26.853 --> 00:21:29.643 Clif Marshall: Bailey, I have to ask you, as the regeneration 00:21:29.643 --> 00:21:31.533 coordinator at Sports Academy, 00:21:32.048 --> 00:21:33.248 Bayleigh Wheat: Say that one more time for me. 00:21:33.513 --> 00:21:35.973 Clif Marshall: I said I have to ask you, as the regeneration 00:21:35.973 --> 00:21:37.713 coordinator at Sports Academy. 00:21:38.588 --> 00:21:40.388 We're talking about your roller derby here. 00:21:40.388 --> 00:21:44.678 What muscles are most often injured or what's the overuse 00:21:44.678 --> 00:21:46.028 injury with roller derby? 00:21:46.688 --> 00:21:47.078 Bayleigh Wheat: Hmm. 00:21:47.138 --> 00:21:52.148 Overuse injury is probably gonna be a bit like, probably hip flexors, 00:21:52.148 --> 00:21:55.538 maybe glute, maybe low back a lot of times in terms of overuse. 00:21:55.538 --> 00:22:01.088 But I would say, and uh, I would say for the, um, an injury that's very 00:22:01.088 --> 00:22:06.428 common is, is gonna be an ACL injury and as well as, um, like ankle. 00:22:06.863 --> 00:22:08.573 Breaks or sprains as well. 00:22:09.173 --> 00:22:14.663 So, but I think acls specifically because of the position that our 00:22:14.663 --> 00:22:17.663 body's in when we're playing, we're in a lot of flexed positions. 00:22:17.663 --> 00:22:21.923 And so I think that there are some compensations that happen there, uh, that 00:22:21.923 --> 00:22:27.863 end up causing a bit of maybe knee valgus as well as women, um, in general have a 00:22:27.863 --> 00:22:30.563 higher risk of non-contact ACL injuries. 00:22:30.593 --> 00:22:35.303 And so I think that that's why we see that injury in particular a little bit more. 00:22:35.598 --> 00:22:37.818 Than we do any other injury, truthfully. 00:22:38.453 --> 00:22:38.783 Sam Acho: Hmm. 00:22:39.593 --> 00:22:44.963 So you're, we're talking Bailey about your time in roller derby, 00:22:45.303 --> 00:22:45.593 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah. 00:22:45.653 --> 00:22:49.283 Sam Acho: also some of the connections when it comes to your time training. 00:22:49.718 --> 00:22:50.648 Other athletes. 00:22:51.128 --> 00:22:54.758 We were talking a couple weeks ago and you had mentioned how, or it came 00:22:54.758 --> 00:22:57.218 to me, I dunno if you mentioned it or I just was asking and probing, 00:22:57.518 --> 00:23:01.478 but people in the roller derby world are coming to you for advice. 00:23:01.478 --> 00:23:03.938 I was talking to someone else who trained at Sports Academy. 00:23:03.938 --> 00:23:06.668 They were like, no, she's the goat of roller derby. 00:23:06.668 --> 00:23:09.068 Like, she's like, people say, she said she's her 00:23:09.413 --> 00:23:09.833 Bayleigh Wheat: Yes. 00:23:09.848 --> 00:23:10.328 Sam Acho: derby. 00:23:10.898 --> 00:23:12.758 What does, what does it feel like? 00:23:13.493 --> 00:23:17.273 To be, obviously NFL is established, but what does it feel like to be in this 00:23:17.273 --> 00:23:21.773 derby world and have people look to you for whether it's advice or wisdom, or to 00:23:21.803 --> 00:23:24.173 somewhat be, uh, this, this, this light. 00:23:24.773 --> 00:23:27.593 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, I'd say it's a combination of feelings, like in some 00:23:27.593 --> 00:23:29.513 ways it can wear on you a bit, right? 00:23:29.513 --> 00:23:32.423 It can be a little bit overwhelming at times. 00:23:32.873 --> 00:23:33.263 Right? 00:23:33.263 --> 00:23:38.483 But at the same time, it also brings a lot of joy to know that the. 00:23:39.083 --> 00:23:44.333 Wisdom and experiences that I've had in my professional field have been able to 00:23:44.423 --> 00:23:48.683 benefit not only myself, but athletes all over in the roller derby field. 00:23:48.953 --> 00:23:49.343 Right? 00:23:49.388 --> 00:23:49.608 And. 00:23:50.633 --> 00:23:56.813 Really be able to push the needles towards legitimizing roller derby as a sport so 00:23:56.813 --> 00:23:58.433 that it is a little bit more well known. 00:23:58.583 --> 00:23:59.033 Right? 00:23:59.183 --> 00:23:59.423 Right. 00:23:59.423 --> 00:24:02.003 Now when a lot of people hear roller derby, they think 00:24:02.393 --> 00:24:03.743 Saturday morning wrestling. 00:24:03.893 --> 00:24:04.283 Right? 00:24:04.463 --> 00:24:07.673 They don't think a legitimate, a legitimate sport that should be 00:24:07.763 --> 00:24:10.583 broadcast somewhere like ESPN, right? 00:24:10.853 --> 00:24:14.783 And so doing and taking certain steps towards. 00:24:15.323 --> 00:24:20.483 Legitimizing the sport, whether it be using your real legal name 00:24:20.543 --> 00:24:23.933 rather than a derby name or Right. 00:24:24.143 --> 00:24:27.953 Bringing approaches to training and programming that allow the roller derby 00:24:27.953 --> 00:24:30.023 athlete to truly perform like an athlete. 00:24:30.473 --> 00:24:30.893 Right? 00:24:31.763 --> 00:24:32.243 So. 00:24:33.348 --> 00:24:35.283 Sam Acho: I, I know Cliff got a question, but you brought up, okay. 00:24:35.283 --> 00:24:37.023 What, do you have a, what's your derby name? 00:24:37.023 --> 00:24:38.403 They, or, or do you want my real name? 00:24:38.403 --> 00:24:39.388 What's the, you know what I mean? 00:24:40.143 --> 00:24:41.433 the, what's the derby name? 00:24:41.433 --> 00:24:41.703 What's the 00:24:41.858 --> 00:24:45.488 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, so my roller derby name, I picked this when I was 00:24:45.488 --> 00:24:48.338 like 13 years old, so it's baby girl. 00:24:49.058 --> 00:24:52.478 So I kind of picked it off of a couple of different things. 00:24:52.478 --> 00:24:55.988 One, I was the first girl born into my family, and so I 00:24:55.988 --> 00:24:57.428 thought it was kind of cool. 00:24:57.428 --> 00:25:00.248 I was always called everyone's baby, baby girl, right? 00:25:00.248 --> 00:25:03.128 I was mom, dad, aunts, grandma, that kind of stuff. 00:25:03.128 --> 00:25:05.678 So I'd kind of gotten used to hearing that right? 00:25:06.248 --> 00:25:07.088 As a nickname. 00:25:07.088 --> 00:25:11.588 And so then in Derby we wanted to have something that was kind of spunky, 00:25:11.858 --> 00:25:13.208 you know, a little bit more like that. 00:25:13.208 --> 00:25:16.148 And for whatever reason, that's kind of what ended up sticking with me. 00:25:16.178 --> 00:25:20.768 But when I turned 18 and I started playing with the women, um, and it was 00:25:20.768 --> 00:25:25.628 the first time that the roller derby, uh, sport as a whole had been on the docket. 00:25:25.808 --> 00:25:28.808 I wanna say it was the 2016 Olympics. 00:25:28.808 --> 00:25:32.588 It was on the docket to potentially, or uh, to bid for. 00:25:33.098 --> 00:25:34.388 Becoming an Olympic sport. 00:25:35.018 --> 00:25:39.698 And one of the things that kept it from being chosen as that, you know, the next 00:25:39.698 --> 00:25:45.278 sport up in the Olympics was some of those things like derby names, right? 00:25:45.308 --> 00:25:49.148 Mine is a little bit more innocent, but some are not quite so, and it 00:25:49.148 --> 00:25:52.208 wasn't something that was really family friendly and ultimately. 00:25:52.583 --> 00:25:56.273 You know, conducive probably to some of the values that 00:25:56.273 --> 00:25:57.863 the, you know, Olympics hold. 00:25:58.133 --> 00:25:58.493 Right? 00:25:58.493 --> 00:26:01.433 And so that's when I started saying, okay, I'm just gonna skate 00:26:01.433 --> 00:26:03.053 under, you know, Bailey Wheat. 00:26:03.293 --> 00:26:08.753 And, you know, now most of my teammates call me Bay for short, um, on the track. 00:26:08.753 --> 00:26:12.233 But, um, yeah, so that's the story of the Derby Day. 00:26:15.153 --> 00:26:15.813 Clif Marshall: Bailey 00:26:15.818 --> 00:26:17.348 Sam Acho: you baby girl, I shouldn't be freaked out. 00:26:17.348 --> 00:26:18.323 I should say, okay, that's her. 00:26:18.338 --> 00:26:19.748 That's, they know her from somewhere else. 00:26:22.413 --> 00:26:25.408 Clif Marshall: Bailey, who has had the greatest influence on your life? 00:26:26.888 --> 00:26:28.568 Bayleigh Wheat: Hmm, that's a good one. 00:26:28.568 --> 00:26:29.558 That's a great question. 00:26:29.978 --> 00:26:32.408 I'm probably gonna say my grandmother, 00:26:33.118 --> 00:26:33.198 Clif Marshall: Hmm. 00:26:33.278 --> 00:26:33.908 Bayleigh Wheat: truthfully. 00:26:34.028 --> 00:26:41.198 Uh, her steadfastness I think in life and her faithfulness to the 00:26:41.198 --> 00:26:44.903 Lord and just how she has always been who she is since the day. 00:26:45.368 --> 00:26:47.048 Um, I was born truthfully. 00:26:47.498 --> 00:26:51.398 Um, I can't think of anybody else who has always. 00:26:52.208 --> 00:26:54.308 Maintain that stability, right? 00:26:54.308 --> 00:26:56.588 Not only in their life but for their family members. 00:26:56.798 --> 00:27:01.988 And so, such a high respect for, for her as a woman and 00:27:01.988 --> 00:27:03.098 you know, as my grandmother. 00:27:03.128 --> 00:27:05.108 So I would have to say her. 00:27:07.428 --> 00:27:10.998 Clif Marshall: What, um, as you reflect on your career, uh, as an 00:27:10.998 --> 00:27:14.898 athlete and also where you're at now, you know, at Sports Academy as 00:27:14.898 --> 00:27:21.918 a regeneration coordinator, um, what would you tell yourself at 18 years old? 00:27:23.168 --> 00:27:23.973 Bayleigh Wheat: This is a good one too. 00:27:24.773 --> 00:27:24.893 Clif Marshall: I. 00:27:25.628 --> 00:27:26.858 Bayleigh Wheat: These are reflective questions. 00:27:27.638 --> 00:27:32.768 If I could tell myself anything at 18 years old, it would be to put away any 00:27:32.768 --> 00:27:35.678 self doubt and to just dive all in. 00:27:35.978 --> 00:27:39.878 And don't be afraid of making mistakes, because I think, at least 00:27:39.878 --> 00:27:45.368 for myself, as kind of a very type a perfectionist driven person, sometimes 00:27:45.368 --> 00:27:47.738 the thought of failure can keep. 00:27:48.878 --> 00:27:52.058 From that opportunity to really succeed, right? 00:27:52.448 --> 00:27:56.163 So it's like when I, when I think of those moments where, okay, I, 00:27:56.168 --> 00:28:00.338 I might fail at this and I didn't do it, I failed anyways, right? 00:28:00.338 --> 00:28:03.578 So I didn't even open that door for opportunity to succeed. 00:28:04.028 --> 00:28:07.508 And so to set any of that aside, and don't be afraid of making mistakes, 00:28:07.508 --> 00:28:10.478 don't be afraid of, you know, potentially making a fooler yourself or 00:28:10.478 --> 00:28:14.348 stepping outside of your comfort zone because otherwise you're not, you're 00:28:14.348 --> 00:28:15.428 just gonna stay in the same space. 00:28:16.418 --> 00:28:19.328 That's not what anybody wants to do ultimately, or I would hope not. 00:28:20.178 --> 00:28:20.468 Sam Acho: Yeah. 00:28:21.228 --> 00:28:21.428 baby. 00:28:21.688 --> 00:28:24.263 Uh, I Girl Bailey. 00:28:24.743 --> 00:28:27.353 Oh, uh, Bailey. 00:28:28.088 --> 00:28:31.778 You're talking about not being afraid to make mistakes, but you actually 00:28:32.048 --> 00:28:37.118 took a pretty big risk not too long ago in getting back into roller derby. 00:28:39.248 --> 00:28:40.088 What happened? 00:28:40.118 --> 00:28:40.748 Why, what? 00:28:40.748 --> 00:28:43.238 Like, I want to hear like what, what happened for you to get out 00:28:43.238 --> 00:28:44.378 and then what made you get back in? 00:28:44.813 --> 00:28:45.443 Bayleigh Wheat: Sure. 00:28:45.683 --> 00:28:49.043 Um, so I was a junior in college. 00:28:49.103 --> 00:28:54.353 Um, had been skating, working, going to school essentially, um, and had been 00:28:54.353 --> 00:28:56.063 doing that right since I was a teenager. 00:28:56.573 --> 00:28:58.973 So I was pretty used to that flow and it was great. 00:28:59.003 --> 00:29:03.443 Um, I had some different gate sponsorships and was traveling, doing, 00:29:03.893 --> 00:29:07.493 um, offsite boot camps for roller derby teams and stuff like that, so it 00:29:07.493 --> 00:29:08.993 was a really good opportunity there. 00:29:09.203 --> 00:29:12.473 But as I was in school and nearing my graduation point, I realized 00:29:12.473 --> 00:29:15.803 that I really had not figured out what I wanted to do with my life. 00:29:16.258 --> 00:29:20.068 In terms of, uh, a financial standpoint, what was I gonna do, um, to take 00:29:20.068 --> 00:29:23.818 care of myself And roller derby at that point in time, was not shaping 00:29:23.818 --> 00:29:27.028 out to be something that was gonna be the end all, be all for that. 00:29:27.298 --> 00:29:30.448 And so I had ended up taking a step away from my sport. 00:29:30.448 --> 00:29:32.518 I think that was late 2019. 00:29:32.518 --> 00:29:36.538 After our season ended, I just said, Hey, I'm gonna take a couple of months off. 00:29:36.538 --> 00:29:38.218 We have tryouts in January. 00:29:38.218 --> 00:29:40.468 If I think I need to come back, I'll come back. 00:29:41.258 --> 00:29:45.038 January rolled around and there was just something in my heart that 00:29:45.038 --> 00:29:46.868 said, it's just, it's not time yet. 00:29:46.868 --> 00:29:49.268 You don't need to, um, get back into it. 00:29:49.568 --> 00:29:53.318 And so I didn't, I, and it was difficult at that time to 00:29:53.408 --> 00:29:55.418 forego going to those tryouts. 00:29:55.418 --> 00:29:59.468 Like at that point in time, you wouldn't have missed me being at a Derby event. 00:29:59.498 --> 00:29:59.858 Right. 00:29:59.888 --> 00:30:03.188 So stepping away from that really gave that separation 00:30:03.188 --> 00:30:06.218 of my, myself from my sport. 00:30:06.878 --> 00:30:09.458 And, uh, not long after that, a couple weeks. 00:30:10.133 --> 00:30:14.453 Covid ended up happening, and so everything shut down anyways, so 2020 00:30:14.873 --> 00:30:20.693 through early 2021, not much happening in the derby scene, but once things kind 00:30:20.693 --> 00:30:26.393 of started popping back up early 2021, I started going to these scrimmages 00:30:26.393 --> 00:30:30.113 and some pickup games and just kind of dropping into some practices and whatnot. 00:30:30.113 --> 00:30:34.043 But I really hadn't committed to a league or to a team or anything like that. 00:30:34.388 --> 00:30:38.318 And it wasn't a couple of months after that, and only really a couple of handful 00:30:38.318 --> 00:30:43.508 of times being back on skates in that setting that I was at a pickup game. 00:30:43.508 --> 00:30:45.788 It was a going away game for one of my good friends who was 00:30:45.788 --> 00:30:49.808 moving from Texas to California, just a scrimmage co-ed scrimmage. 00:30:49.808 --> 00:30:53.708 And I went in for a hit on somebody, um, that ultimately 00:30:53.708 --> 00:30:55.418 ended up leading to me tear my ACL. 00:30:56.018 --> 00:30:59.378 And so it was May, 2021 that I, I did that. 00:31:00.713 --> 00:31:04.943 Really kind of took me, I would say, out of that ecosystem and away from 00:31:04.943 --> 00:31:06.563 my sport for that period of time. 00:31:06.683 --> 00:31:11.903 Um, 'cause after that, after spending 25 years of my life fully healthy 00:31:11.903 --> 00:31:15.593 and able to do all of the things, it was really difficult to then have 00:31:15.593 --> 00:31:20.693 this, you know, short term disability that, that kept me from being able 00:31:20.693 --> 00:31:24.173 to do the things that I've been so used to doing for the last 25 years. 00:31:24.203 --> 00:31:27.353 And it was really a mental challenge to. 00:31:27.938 --> 00:31:34.028 Know that that was gonna be only a short term, you know, situation and experience. 00:31:34.028 --> 00:31:34.328 Right. 00:31:34.328 --> 00:31:37.928 But in the moment it can seem very daunting and overwhelming in the terms 00:31:37.928 --> 00:31:43.118 of, am I ever gonna see a, a light of day that's different than the days that I was 00:31:43.268 --> 00:31:44.918 experiencing during that season of life? 00:31:47.318 --> 00:31:47.738 Um, yeah. 00:31:47.738 --> 00:31:49.418 So I get into it, huh? 00:31:49.448 --> 00:31:49.808 Sorry. 00:31:51.308 --> 00:31:52.028 Sam Acho: No good. 00:31:52.028 --> 00:31:52.748 It's all good. 00:31:53.483 --> 00:31:53.693 Clif Marshall: no. 00:31:53.693 --> 00:31:57.563 I just wanted to ask you, you know, dealing with the ACL injury, how has that 00:31:57.563 --> 00:32:01.253 made you a better coach or a regeneration coordinator at Sports Academy? 00:32:01.718 --> 00:32:09.278 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, I think experiencing that injury, um, really gives me the own 00:32:09.278 --> 00:32:13.988 personal experience of what it's like to deal with setbacks, to deal with injuries, 00:32:13.988 --> 00:32:19.448 to deal with not being able to, you know, um, experience and approach life the way 00:32:19.448 --> 00:32:23.288 that we sometimes want to be able to, whether that's physically or otherwise. 00:32:23.948 --> 00:32:29.318 And so being able to relate to my athletes and to relate to people who everybody 00:32:29.378 --> 00:32:33.608 experiences setbacks in some ways, and being able to approach those and let 00:32:33.608 --> 00:32:41.438 people know that it, sometimes it is, it is a short term, uh, setback, right? 00:32:41.438 --> 00:32:44.138 Some people obviously experience certain things in life that they 00:32:44.138 --> 00:32:48.668 carry with them for the rest of their days, but ultimately it's their. 00:32:49.388 --> 00:32:53.978 Mental wellbeing, um, their attitude, if you will, that they have control 00:32:53.978 --> 00:32:58.898 over, and it can really shape their outlook on whatever that situation 00:32:58.898 --> 00:33:00.968 might be that they're experiencing. 00:33:01.448 --> 00:33:01.688 Right? 00:33:01.688 --> 00:33:02.438 And that it's okay. 00:33:02.438 --> 00:33:04.178 This is, this is part of real life. 00:33:04.358 --> 00:33:09.248 And I think that that experience in my own self allows that connection 00:33:09.308 --> 00:33:15.578 to happen and be kind of a, uh, oh, I totally lost the word, but it 00:33:15.578 --> 00:33:16.838 allows that connection to happen. 00:33:17.738 --> 00:33:17.958 Sam Acho: Mm. 00:33:18.678 --> 00:33:23.608 Just kind of continue on that path, like makes Bay Bay. 00:33:24.593 --> 00:33:25.073 Bayleigh Wheat: Hmm. 00:33:27.323 --> 00:33:35.453 I think just being real, being, um, in the moment, looking for those real 00:33:35.483 --> 00:33:41.033 and genuine connections as well, I think makes me, me ultimately right 00:33:41.258 --> 00:33:41.378 Sam Acho: Hmm. 00:33:41.453 --> 00:33:43.553 Bayleigh Wheat: I'm connected with myself, when I'm connected 00:33:43.553 --> 00:33:45.233 with other people in those. 00:33:46.088 --> 00:33:50.198 Moments, whether they're really good or they're, you know, 00:33:50.498 --> 00:33:52.058 more of a poor situation. 00:33:52.688 --> 00:33:57.428 Being able to have that true connection with those people, that's, 00:33:57.488 --> 00:34:01.868 that's what makes me, me, because if I were anybody else, right, it 00:34:01.868 --> 00:34:03.218 would not, it wouldn't be the same. 00:34:03.878 --> 00:34:04.328 Right. 00:34:06.173 --> 00:34:06.323 Sam Acho: Yeah. 00:34:06.443 --> 00:34:07.223 That's so good. 00:34:07.493 --> 00:34:09.503 Um, I wanna go back real quick. 00:34:11.603 --> 00:34:16.223 Cliff asked a really good question about who's had the biggest influence and, and 00:34:16.223 --> 00:34:20.333 you, you paused and you said your grandma, 00:34:20.783 --> 00:34:21.173 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah. 00:34:24.778 --> 00:34:25.793 Sam Acho: what was she like? 00:34:27.113 --> 00:34:30.113 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, she is still around and she's an absolute spitfire. 00:34:30.923 --> 00:34:31.343 Sam Acho: hmm. 00:34:31.763 --> 00:34:36.983 Bayleigh Wheat: She is, um, in her eighties and she runs a private school 00:34:37.013 --> 00:34:38.813 actually out in Big Spring, Texas. 00:34:39.383 --> 00:34:42.653 Um, Mar off of Baptist Academy has for. 00:34:43.568 --> 00:34:44.798 As long as I've known her. 00:34:45.938 --> 00:34:54.158 Um, and she is, she is probably the best example of like the 00:34:54.158 --> 00:34:59.438 ultimate lord servant, truly right. 00:34:59.468 --> 00:35:02.678 And just living her life in such a way that truly spreads 00:35:03.038 --> 00:35:04.688 his life and his love, right? 00:35:04.688 --> 00:35:06.188 And he, she's able to do that. 00:35:06.713 --> 00:35:10.763 Right through, um, her school, that is her ministry, right? 00:35:10.763 --> 00:35:16.223 But then even in just every interaction that I watch with her, she's always 00:35:16.223 --> 00:35:18.383 got that, that in mind, right? 00:35:18.383 --> 00:35:24.023 Which is how can she share the light of Jesus and share his word and share that 00:35:24.023 --> 00:35:26.483 redemption to everyone that she meets? 00:35:27.293 --> 00:35:31.673 And I think that that is probably one of the most admirable attributes of her. 00:35:32.648 --> 00:35:33.698 It's always been that way. 00:35:33.908 --> 00:35:35.558 It's never not been that way. 00:35:35.618 --> 00:35:37.238 Like that's a crazy thing to think about. 00:35:37.238 --> 00:35:39.968 Like we think about people who are, are Christians and people 00:35:39.968 --> 00:35:43.898 who are, you know, um, you know, pastors, this, that, whatever. 00:35:43.958 --> 00:35:51.098 You know, and not always do you meet people who are reflective of what they 00:35:51.098 --> 00:35:53.528 say that they are right within that truth. 00:35:53.798 --> 00:35:58.028 And this is somebody who I can't ever even think of a moment 00:35:58.028 --> 00:35:59.768 where she was anything less than. 00:36:01.823 --> 00:36:05.303 And that to me is absolutely outstanding, 00:36:06.008 --> 00:36:06.428 Sam Acho: mm. 00:36:07.688 --> 00:36:10.778 Clif Marshall: Bailey, really cool to hear you say that she's a servant 00:36:11.303 --> 00:36:11.813 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah. 00:36:12.998 --> 00:36:15.668 Clif Marshall: that is a generational blessing because I 00:36:15.668 --> 00:36:18.668 see you as being a servant as well. 00:36:19.508 --> 00:36:22.118 working at Sports Academy as a coach or. 00:36:22.508 --> 00:36:27.998 Regeneration coordinator, you are serving athletes every single day. 00:36:28.358 --> 00:36:31.838 So can you talk a little bit about that mindset of how you go into working 00:36:31.838 --> 00:36:35.468 with these athletes and, and how, just like your grandma was a servant, 00:36:35.468 --> 00:36:36.848 you're being a servant as well. 00:36:37.478 --> 00:36:38.888 Bayleigh Wheat: Yeah, 100%. 00:36:38.888 --> 00:36:43.868 I think every day, and in each interaction that we have, it's, it's kind of our due 00:36:44.588 --> 00:36:49.358 duty to live the truth that we wanna see. 00:36:49.718 --> 00:36:50.168 Right. 00:36:50.168 --> 00:36:54.728 And so I think being that servant and having that servant mindset, whether 00:36:54.728 --> 00:37:03.188 it is your highest paid NFL athlete or it is your, you know, John Doe that 00:37:03.548 --> 00:37:06.848 you know is working in construction and simply wants to get better, right? 00:37:06.878 --> 00:37:10.598 How do we approach every person that we make contact with the 00:37:10.598 --> 00:37:12.938 exact same way and ultimately help. 00:37:14.363 --> 00:37:18.443 Not make them better, but to help give them the tools and the guidance 00:37:18.593 --> 00:37:22.223 that they can then take that journey on their self and to be kind of a 00:37:22.223 --> 00:37:25.823 support system for them so that they can get to where they wanna be and 00:37:25.823 --> 00:37:27.293 ultimately they earn it on their own. 00:37:27.443 --> 00:37:27.683 Right? 00:37:27.683 --> 00:37:28.553 I don't do anything. 00:37:28.553 --> 00:37:31.883 I have so many times that clients are like, oh yeah, I'm just this way. 00:37:31.883 --> 00:37:33.623 Like this is, this is body by day. 00:37:34.223 --> 00:37:36.203 And I'm like, no, I didn't do this. 00:37:36.203 --> 00:37:37.373 I didn't do the work. 00:37:37.373 --> 00:37:41.633 I wasn't running the sprints or, or doing the stretches, or whatever the case is. 00:37:41.633 --> 00:37:42.923 I just showed you how to do it. 00:37:43.268 --> 00:37:50.558 And so, you know, I think having, having that mindset is, uh, it crucial 00:37:50.558 --> 00:37:53.828 to being able to approach any of these athletes in any of these moments, 00:37:53.828 --> 00:37:58.838 no matter what situation or state of physical capacity that they might be in. 00:37:58.898 --> 00:38:04.148 If they are looking to enhance their human performance, then. 00:38:05.258 --> 00:38:08.258 In front of me is right exactly where you wanna be, because that's what I'm 00:38:08.258 --> 00:38:12.368 gonna help you achieve is whatever your most optimal capacity is within 00:38:12.368 --> 00:38:14.468 your, within that physical capacity. 00:38:15.863 --> 00:38:17.153 Sam Acho: And you do that, you do that. 00:38:17.158 --> 00:38:21.383 I, I, I'm not, you know, I don't want to go too deep, but, uh, I mean, not too 00:38:21.383 --> 00:38:27.413 long ago, last week, I was watching you train a 69-year-old woman named Nancy 00:38:28.748 --> 00:38:29.288 Bayleigh Wheat: Yes. 00:38:29.758 --> 00:38:32.243 Sam Acho: and tell, tell me about Nancy. 00:38:33.053 --> 00:38:35.063 Bayleigh Wheat: I absolutely love Nancy. 00:38:35.213 --> 00:38:37.313 She is an absolute sunshine. 00:38:37.373 --> 00:38:40.523 Anyone who meets her would say the exact same thing. 00:38:40.523 --> 00:38:43.523 There's never a day where the sun is not shining with her. 00:38:43.883 --> 00:38:46.043 Um, but she is an absolute. 00:38:46.928 --> 00:38:49.268 Beast of a woman, beast of an athlete. 00:38:49.268 --> 00:38:52.928 You know, I could not imagine running sprints the way she 00:38:52.928 --> 00:38:54.968 does at almost 70 years old. 00:38:54.998 --> 00:38:57.038 I think it's absolutely crazy. 00:38:57.518 --> 00:39:01.238 Um, I always tell people I don't train her, I just keep her reed in, right? 00:39:01.268 --> 00:39:05.138 So she is somebody who has really earned. 00:39:05.858 --> 00:39:10.388 Her phase in life right now, which is she has built two multimillion 00:39:10.388 --> 00:39:12.338 dollar companies, right. 00:39:12.338 --> 00:39:17.078 That she has sold off and she's, you know, now able to experience 00:39:17.078 --> 00:39:18.638 life off of her investments. 00:39:18.848 --> 00:39:19.298 Right. 00:39:19.628 --> 00:39:23.468 And she does have some physical limitations. 00:39:23.678 --> 00:39:27.158 Um, I'll say she has a pacemaker, right. 00:39:27.158 --> 00:39:28.598 Which can. 00:39:29.123 --> 00:39:31.493 Change the way that we have to approach training just a little 00:39:31.493 --> 00:39:35.333 bit because it makes it so that her heart rate can only go so fast. 00:39:35.333 --> 00:39:37.673 I wanna say it's like 140 beats per minute. 00:39:37.943 --> 00:39:41.753 So we're not able to go over that, and we're also not able to maintain 00:39:42.293 --> 00:39:46.523 that heart rate level for long periods of time without her needing rest. 00:39:46.523 --> 00:39:52.583 And so there's certain training, uh, things that we have to kind of consider 00:39:52.853 --> 00:39:57.053 when it comes to doing her workouts as well as she also deals with a bit 00:39:57.053 --> 00:39:58.433 or has been diagnosed with vertigo. 00:39:59.138 --> 00:40:03.068 So when it comes to kind of double vision and feeling dizzy, like those 00:40:03.068 --> 00:40:07.598 are things that are all, um, we, we have to keep a close eye on because it 00:40:07.598 --> 00:40:12.998 can go south really fast if we, if we don't stay cognizant of those things. 00:40:13.508 --> 00:40:18.068 Um, but otherwise, every day that she walks into the facility, when she walks 00:40:18.068 --> 00:40:19.958 in for training, she's always happy. 00:40:20.318 --> 00:40:22.538 It doesn't matter if it's a good day, a bad day, she's 00:40:22.538 --> 00:40:23.738 feeling good, she's feeling bad. 00:40:23.738 --> 00:40:25.268 She's always excited to be there. 00:40:25.268 --> 00:40:27.488 She's always smiling and excited to see everyone. 00:40:27.488 --> 00:40:27.818 And so. 00:40:28.433 --> 00:40:31.008 That you can't help but be happy when you're around. 00:40:31.008 --> 00:40:31.448 Miss Nancy. 00:40:32.623 --> 00:40:32.703 Sam Acho: Hmm. 00:40:33.578 --> 00:40:34.058 so good. 00:40:34.058 --> 00:40:38.378 Well, well, I know we're coming to a close, uh, but before we close, I have 00:40:38.378 --> 00:40:42.548 a question and then Cliff's got some cliff notes, uh, that he wants to add. 00:40:42.638 --> 00:40:45.488 Uh, my question and ask this to every guest, 00:40:48.398 --> 00:40:52.148 now I'm asking you this specifically because seen. 00:40:52.553 --> 00:40:55.283 People get the highest contracts in the world. 00:40:56.483 --> 00:41:00.023 You've seen people go down the opposite path. 00:41:02.063 --> 00:41:04.673 How do you win without losing it all? 00:41:05.258 --> 00:41:05.768 Bayleigh Wheat: Hmm. 00:41:06.758 --> 00:41:12.968 I think the way that you continue to win no matter what, even if you're losing, is 00:41:12.968 --> 00:41:15.728 to ultimately have a winner's attitude. 00:41:17.018 --> 00:41:21.248 You're the only thing in life that you can control is your attitude. 00:41:21.968 --> 00:41:23.318 We can't control the weather. 00:41:23.753 --> 00:41:27.113 We can't control how people respond to us, right? 00:41:27.593 --> 00:41:30.383 But we can control our attitude. 00:41:30.893 --> 00:41:34.463 I would say too, we can't always control our response because sometimes 00:41:34.463 --> 00:41:39.833 I think our responses to certain things may, um, come from a little bit of 00:41:39.833 --> 00:41:41.423 a neurological programming, right? 00:41:41.423 --> 00:41:45.083 If we always respond to a certain stimulus in a certain way, whether 00:41:45.083 --> 00:41:49.073 it be good or bad, our bodies kind of become used to responding in that way. 00:41:49.403 --> 00:41:51.748 But then after that response, time happens. 00:41:52.493 --> 00:41:54.473 What is your attitude about that response? 00:41:54.953 --> 00:41:57.263 Is it a winner's mentality or is it a loser's mentality? 00:41:57.563 --> 00:42:00.833 And a lot of times with people with that choose that loser's mentality either 00:42:00.833 --> 00:42:08.453 perpetuate the cycles that they're in or they, they kind of stay stagnant, right? 00:42:08.633 --> 00:42:12.473 Whereas the winner's mentality, even when they find themselves in 00:42:12.473 --> 00:42:16.823 that place of loss, in that place of maybe stagnant, no movement, 00:42:17.633 --> 00:42:18.893 they're always gonna find a light. 00:42:18.893 --> 00:42:20.333 They're gonna find that next step. 00:42:20.738 --> 00:42:25.148 They're going to initiate that journey, right, to continue 00:42:25.148 --> 00:42:26.318 staying on the winner's path. 00:42:26.318 --> 00:42:31.238 And I think truthfully, it is a constant battle and choice that you 00:42:31.238 --> 00:42:34.868 have to make as an individual, whether or not you're gonna be the winner's 00:42:34.868 --> 00:42:36.848 mentality or that loser's mentality. 00:42:37.463 --> 00:42:37.683 Sam Acho: Mm. 00:42:38.618 --> 00:42:38.828 And I 00:42:39.033 --> 00:42:39.543 Clif Marshall: That's, 00:42:39.548 --> 00:42:40.148 Sam Acho: I I 00:42:40.293 --> 00:42:40.938 Clif Marshall: uh, go ahead. 00:42:41.048 --> 00:42:41.678 Sam Acho: Sorry, cliff. 00:42:42.038 --> 00:42:42.458 Clif Marshall: Go ahead. 00:42:42.518 --> 00:42:42.788 Sam Acho: one more. 00:42:42.818 --> 00:42:43.208 Okay. 00:42:43.478 --> 00:42:44.468 Actually, no, I'm a cliff. 00:42:44.468 --> 00:42:46.988 You ask and I got, I got one more little follow up at the end. 00:42:47.018 --> 00:42:47.168 My 00:42:47.283 --> 00:42:47.763 Clif Marshall: Alright. 00:42:49.593 --> 00:42:52.538 Sam and Bailey, let me get my cliff note in today. 00:42:52.653 --> 00:42:58.623 My cliff note today is from Pastor Billy Grant and he says a coach 00:42:58.623 --> 00:43:01.293 will impact more people in one year. 00:43:02.078 --> 00:43:04.778 Then most people will in a lifetime. 00:43:05.858 --> 00:43:10.208 And Bailey, what I respect about you is you're impacting so many people 00:43:10.208 --> 00:43:12.098 in your job at the Sports Academy. 00:43:12.128 --> 00:43:15.368 You talked about first round picks. 00:43:15.548 --> 00:43:19.593 I know you're even impacting NBA players who are coming out there to train for 00:43:19.593 --> 00:43:24.428 the NBA combine then the 69-year-old Nancy that we're talking about. 00:43:25.148 --> 00:43:26.978 just wanna know, um. 00:43:27.683 --> 00:43:33.983 As you're talking about the impact, uh, what brings you the ultimate fulfillment 00:43:33.983 --> 00:43:36.923 when you're working with either a client or a professional athlete? 00:43:37.863 --> 00:43:37.983 Bayleigh Wheat: Hmm. 00:43:39.843 --> 00:43:43.718 That fulfillment, I think comes from seeing their wins. 00:43:44.678 --> 00:43:49.538 So whether it's a combine athlete who wants to run a particular time at the 00:43:49.538 --> 00:43:57.608 40 and then they beat that time, or it's a Miss Nancy who is just excited 00:43:57.608 --> 00:44:01.148 to come to the session and run, right? 00:44:01.448 --> 00:44:02.918 Whatever that win is. 00:44:03.278 --> 00:44:04.898 I've even had clients who, um. 00:44:06.143 --> 00:44:09.353 Have come to me and said, you know, this is the first time I've ever gone 00:44:09.353 --> 00:44:13.373 to the park and been able to chase my grandson around, or this was the 00:44:13.373 --> 00:44:17.723 first time that I was able to put on a pair of pants without sitting down. 00:44:17.843 --> 00:44:22.103 Like I think any of those life achievements, whatever, big or small, 00:44:22.793 --> 00:44:29.333 that, that's the ultimate fulfillment is knowing that I was able to help push 00:44:29.333 --> 00:44:32.423 them to achieve what they ultimately. 00:44:33.113 --> 00:44:36.263 Probably already had in the tank, but they just needed someone to 00:44:36.263 --> 00:44:38.063 nudge them in that right direction. 00:44:42.043 --> 00:44:42.343 Sam Acho: All right. 00:44:42.668 --> 00:44:43.358 I know I lied. 00:44:43.358 --> 00:44:46.568 My last one, Bailey, uh, why do you skate? 00:44:47.423 --> 00:44:50.603 Bayleigh Wheat: Oh, I skate because it brings me joy. 00:44:50.933 --> 00:44:56.213 'cause I absolutely love it when I am on my roller skates That is, I 00:44:56.213 --> 00:44:59.123 think, the ultimate version of Bay. 00:45:00.083 --> 00:45:01.943 Like there is no denying. 00:45:03.278 --> 00:45:07.148 Me, whether I'm at a skate session and I'm dancing around the skate 00:45:07.148 --> 00:45:12.458 floor or I'm on the roller derby track and, um, you know, taking people out. 00:45:12.488 --> 00:45:18.218 I think no matter what, it's, it's the most fluid and adaptable version of me 00:45:18.218 --> 00:45:20.678 that I get to do both and have, you know. 00:45:21.343 --> 00:45:25.853 the dance side, which is a little bit more, you know, artistic, right? 00:45:26.033 --> 00:45:29.273 And then I have this roller derby side, which is more of that athletic 00:45:29.273 --> 00:45:35.543 piece and kind of that athletic, um, finesse, right, to being an athlete. 00:45:35.723 --> 00:45:38.963 And so, um, I do it because it brings me joy. 00:45:39.838 --> 00:45:40.228 Sam Acho: Mm. 00:45:40.648 --> 00:45:41.308 That's so good. 00:45:41.308 --> 00:45:41.518 Yes. 00:45:41.518 --> 00:45:45.268 Every time we talk, every time we talk, we start talking about skating. 00:45:45.268 --> 00:45:46.258 You just light up. 00:45:46.628 --> 00:45:47.438 You light up. 00:45:47.528 --> 00:45:51.518 And for me this time has been a joy just hearing some of your, your story, but 00:45:51.518 --> 00:45:56.858 also just hearing Cliff who's been in this training world for almost three decades, 00:45:57.188 --> 00:46:00.188 see you and just speak that life into you. 00:46:00.188 --> 00:46:02.708 Like I get so excited 'cause it's like, man, this is real. 00:46:02.708 --> 00:46:04.328 Like y'all just met virtually. 00:46:04.808 --> 00:46:06.458 But it's like, man, there's something about you. 00:46:06.458 --> 00:46:07.238 You're a servant. 00:46:08.048 --> 00:46:08.858 something about you. 00:46:08.858 --> 00:46:10.448 You are impacting people's lives. 00:46:10.748 --> 00:46:13.178 You're not worried about if they're the number one overall 00:46:13.178 --> 00:46:16.268 pick or if they're a 69-year-old who, who wants to as a pacemaker. 00:46:17.138 --> 00:46:18.818 you're just making people better. 00:46:19.178 --> 00:46:23.888 And that's one thing I saw in you Bailey that just made me want to get to know you 00:46:23.888 --> 00:46:28.538 more, is, okay, who is this person that is literally laying down their pride? 00:46:29.708 --> 00:46:32.678 Like you, you just competed against a team in, in, uh, from Mexico City 00:46:32.978 --> 00:46:34.268 and apparently y'all dominated, right? 00:46:34.598 --> 00:46:35.258 I apparent y'all one. 00:46:35.258 --> 00:46:35.618 You know what I mean? 00:46:35.618 --> 00:46:39.998 So like, and you're the captain your team, co-captain of your team, yet you 00:46:39.998 --> 00:46:42.398 spend so much of your time serving people. 00:46:42.758 --> 00:46:45.038 And so that servant's attitude, I think you got a lot of 00:46:45.038 --> 00:46:46.118 that from your grandmother. 00:46:46.133 --> 00:46:48.503 And Bailey, keep on serving. 00:46:48.773 --> 00:46:50.063 Keep on serving. 00:46:50.093 --> 00:46:51.203 'cause you're making a huge impact. 00:46:51.728 --> 00:46:52.088 Bayleigh Wheat: Yes. 00:46:52.088 --> 00:46:53.348 Thank you Sam so much. 00:46:53.678 --> 00:46:54.458 I appreciate it. 00:46:54.728 --> 00:46:57.613 It's been an absolute honor and blessing to, uh, to have this time 00:46:57.613 --> 00:46:58.933 here with both of you, so thank you. 00:46:59.753 --> 00:47:00.833 Sam Acho: Uh, thank you. 00:47:00.833 --> 00:47:05.513 And thank y'all for joining the Sam Macho podcast featuring Cliff Marshall, AKA 00:47:05.513 --> 00:47:09.443 Cliff notes, and joining Bailey Wheat hearing about her story and her journey. 00:47:09.773 --> 00:47:11.123 We can't wait to hear from you soon. 00:47:11.123 --> 00:47:12.353 Go to sam macho.com 00:47:12.353 --> 00:47:14.183 to listen to this podcast and so many more. 00:47:14.513 --> 00:47:15.113 We'll see you soon.