The Sportz Lounge

Author: The Sportz Lounge

The Sportz Lounge brings you intimate conversations with athletes from different sports arenas. We dialogue about how they transitioned from the sports world to achieving the best life after playing college and professional sports. This podcast was created to talk about mental health and provide athletes with resources and different pathways following a career in sports. Join us as we celebrate the athletes living the good life after the game. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerry-williams46/support
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Basketball to Entrepreneurship
Episode 2
Friday, 17 February, 2023

This episode explores journey of mental health from being in a dark place to a happy place in life. Transitioning from sports to life after sports can be challenging. I had the opportunity to interview Jessica Ogunnorin. She's a top-notch serial entrepreneur from Dallas, TX. We talked about her journey from playing professional basketball to taking over the world with her multiple businesses. We discussed her trails, tribulations and mental health from playing basketball for multiple colleges and playing on 3 professional basketball teams. Jessica Ogunnorin went into details about her mental health from playing professional basketball to living her best life basketball. Name: Jessica Ogunnorin Title: CEO and founder Brands:1. JUST ELEVATE Activewear (Motivation Clothing Line) 2. MAADGA Sports and Wellsness (fitness, mental health, nutrition) Public Speaker for panels, podcast, speeches, book clubs/, Artist (Music, Spoken Word, Podcast) Location: Dallas, TX Sport: BasketballDivision: D1 High School: ACS Athens College: UC Riverside, Stony Brook University, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityYears played: 13, 6 college, 3 years of professional ball Accolades/Awards high school: MVP - 2010 Accolades/Awards college: MVP of the week, commissioner's honor roll, certificate of achievement (GPA 3.5 or higher), All Academic Team, All Defensive Team (America East Conference), All Championship Team (American East Conference), Dean's List (Stony Brook), Outstanding Tutor of the year award, chancellor's honors list, dean's list for UC Riverside, All academic - Big West Conference Team (UC Riverside), Female Student Athlete of the Year (ACS Athens) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerry-williams46/support