May 12, 2022 • 34 mins
In this episode of the PlayBooked Podcast, Chloe touches on Lexi’s need to change her name prior to NIL legislation passing, her past brand deals as a model, her connection with her agent, and how she began her journey as an athlete-preneur on Instagram and TikTok.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following is a presentation of the College Athletes Network.
Hey everybody, this is Chloe Mitchell and you are listening
to the Playbooks podcast on the College Athletes Network. Please
subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode,
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and this can be easily done via the I Heart
Radio app. Now, you may be wondering what is the
Playbooks podcast. Well, we're in a time where collegiate athlete
preneurs can stake their claim on NIL territory. An athlete
preneur is simply an athlete and an entrepreneur, and NIL
stands for name, image and likeness. Athletes are now able
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to monetize off of their name, image and likeness without
losing eligibility. This is the age of the athlete preneur,
now enterprise in Colluded Athletes with entrepreneur goals and dreams
are coming out of the woodwork on campuses all across
the nation. And if I'm being completely honest, I was
one of the first ones to pave the way. In fact,
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I was the first one. I made a historic power
play and national headlines when I became the first collegiate
athlete to legally monetize my name, image and likeness After
pioneering the trail in a sense, I got to work
on building an app called Playbooked app to help student
athletes do the same but with ease. With all of
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that being said, this podcast is centered around guiding athletes
through the NIL territory and talking to big names across
the nation about how their nail journey is going. I
want a vice from them. I want stories. I want
the real nitty gritty about what life is like as
a real athlete preneur and coming from one myself, I
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know that the process is not easy, and I know
that I wished I had a podcast to listen to
that would give me all the information that I have
learned over the past few years as a collegiate volleyball
a player. I haven't always been a setter. I also
played soccer for a very very long time. In fact,
I wanted to play soccer in college and this led
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me to meeting Lexi Hill. Lexi Hill is a powerhouse.
Her name actually isn't Lexi, it's Alexis, and she plays
on the Princeton soccer team. She's a sophomore. She's a
center forward. Then she's an absolutely wonderful human being. She's
an athlete preneur herself, and in the podcast you were
about to listen to, we talked about all things body image,
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her nail journey, some of the struggles she's had mentally,
and how she's doing today and where her brand is
going to go. She's modeled for brands like Revolved, and
she's an absolutely amazing role model for young women were
playing soccer. Who who are even in the entrepreneurial space
on social media? So without further Ado, let's get into
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talking to LEXI tell me about what kind of started
your wants to play at the collegiate level. Um. Well,
when I was about seven years old I started playing.
I was a little bit later than everyone else when
it came to soccer, but we started. My parents started
me young, and um they asked me pretty quickly on
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about my second year of playing, do you want to
just do this for fun or do you want to
go somewhere with us? And um, that really dictated my
training schedules and where I was going to play. And
I made the decision that I wanted to do it
as far as I could, and for me, that was
looking at the collegiate level. So I was and I
just stuck to it and you just ended up getting
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recruited by Princeton. Did you reach out? How did that?
How did that work? The recruiting process has changed a
lot since I was recruited. Um, I know there's a
lot more deadlines and stricter restrictions on when athletes can
communicate with coaches and so forth. I think it's not
your junior year of high school. But for me, there
was not really any restrictions besides the fact that a
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coach and not directly call you, you have to them.
So I started my recruiting process in eighth grade. I
received my first offer from and from then on I
was just kind of all over the place touring. And
I originally actually came to Princeton my freshman year and
was not a fan of it. So yeah, I just
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was really focused. There was a time in my life
wh I was really focused on soccer and soccer only
and all I wanted to do is play pros involved
with national team camps, and that was just kind of
my main focus. And um, I just saw Princeton as
a place where, oh I'm not smart enough, or oh
I wouldn't succeed there, So I kind of just distanced
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myself from it and really wanted to go on the
West Coast. And then I came back my early sophomore year, um,
the summer before, and tour it again and fell in
love with it. And she was immediate, just this is
is my home. This is definitely And what do you
think changed? Um? I think my maturity levels. Honestly, I was.
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That's really the biggest flaw with the recruiting process, especially
when my year was doing it, is it was not
the best for a freshman or an eighth grader to
be looking at where they're going to be attending college.
I mean I didn't even study for school when I
was at age, so I was impression that it was
something I wouldn't be able to. It's a huge decision
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to make it that age, and I know, um that,
especially when I committed to it was like the beginning
of COVID and everything was terrible when it came to
touring and stuff. How has COVID impacted your past few seasons? Um, jeez.
So it hit me in my career my senior year,
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so tour my senior year apart, I didn't get a calm,
I didn't get a graduation etcetera. The summer going into
freshman year of college, we got an email Princeton was
not doing athletics, and then a week later so we
got the email that it was remote completely and it
was really heartbreaking. I was working really hard towards um
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playing my freshman year and I was really looking forward
to it. However, uh, I don't think it was honestly,
the worst thing that could have happened. I took a
lot of time to focus on other things, which was
really helpful. And I mean, my team was extremely successful
this year, even with not having a season like other
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schools did last year, so I think it was a
good thing. I saw that you guys went really far.
I was watching your highlights and are you Are you
left footed or you just got good? I'm not left
I think I'm convinced. I was born a lefty and
trained alrity, so really well, yes, I scored most of
my goals in my left. However, it's just all over
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the place. I don't know. I could center myself already,
but I jumped off my left like low key and
the dexterous. That's a good thing to be. So tell
me what you're studying and how that's been at an
Ivy League school I'm in. We call it SPIA. It's
the School of Public and International Affairs here at Princeton's
pretty well known. UM, it's more of a public policy
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sort of route. We are liberal arts school, so we
don't have the traditional like business premia law sort of thing.
So that's kind of my route to businesses through SPIA.
There's that, there's econ, there's a lot of different options
for that, but it's been it's been really good. I
mean I honestly came in the thought that it was
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going to be impossible. I would never have free time
and be drowning and work, and it's actually very manageable,
especially with sports, and I think that is I'll credit
soccer to being able to organize my time and I
actually have a significant amount of free time here and
it's going really well. Good for you. It's it's really
impressive that you're able to struggle that struggle soccer and
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also be an athlete preneur on the side. And I'm
really excited to get into that. But I am curious
what do you do with your free time outside of soccer? UM,
I work, Honestly, that's really all there is to do. Um,
me too girl the three time and I'm asleep. I
rust um. But now I I have been trying to
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start different things through my platforms. Um, I'm starting a
blog that's coming out shortly, and UM, I really focus
on what I need to get done, kind of organizing
my life, getting food and which is usually my weekends,
but owering and the basic Yes, I feel that on
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a whole other level, Um, what is your blog going
to be about? Really curious where I'm trying to focus
it in different ways. I'm honest kind of torn in
different directions. I recently my first post will actually be
about my aestetician and her um ascetic lounge that she
created from ground up, and she's incredible and I just
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really wanted to like pay back to her by highlighting
her company and what they do. But I'm really looking
at looking at new things, hotels, traveling, anything I'm really
passionate about. So it's not really too niche in the
sense that I have I think I'm picking, but it's
a bunch of different things. Lifestyle oriented. Everybody loves that. Um.
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When it comes to your soccer season and you, as
a young female athlete, what is something that you wish
that you would have known when you were a freshman. Um,
You're not always going to be where you need to be.
That's probably what I would say to myself. I got
really stressed out in the beginning of the season, just
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trying to balance too much and um, not really a
knowledge of what I can handle and what I can't,
and that led me to like having severe sleep issues
and um everything, but also just not being stressed. It's
something to have fun with. I mean, at least that's
something we do with our team. We're really close. We
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are just very relaxed with each other. And I think
everyone comes into college sports thinking I need to do this,
I need to do this, I need this, and kind
of just overwhelms you and you end up not performing
your best. But and that kind of hurt me in
the season. In the beginning of the season, I just
I don't know what happened. I wasn't there. And then
I just kind of breathed and I was like, you know,
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You're like I'm back and now and all the time,
and I'm a beast. Okay, well, awesome, We're going to
head into our first break. Everybody, you are listening to
the Playbook podcast. I am culling that you'll here with
Lexi Hill and this is the College Athletes Network. Yea,
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Hi everybody, we are back. I am Claie Mitchell and
we're on the Playbook podcast on the College Athletes Network.
Subscribe to the podcast. You don't miss a show. Okay, Lexie,
let's talk about you as an athlete preneurial. Let's talk
about your nail journey. How would you describe yourself and
your brand? Um? I actually just would say that I'm
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kind of getting to where I think I'm focusing what
I'm doing on. UM. I actually never really took advantage
of my social media until recently. I just kind of
did it for fun and it happened to grow. UM.
But I'm really interested in focusing lifestyle fashion. As ironic
it is, I am an athlete, but I'm very much
so a different person off the field and on the field. UM.
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But yeah, I have a really strong passion for traveling
and for clothing and more or less the lifestyle side
of things. So I've been really just focusing on that. Yeah.
I saw on your socials that you also modeled for
a while. Are you still doing that now? No, I
don't model anymore. I had some problems actually when I
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did model, when it came to sports and um, the
modeling industry. It was I honestly will take blame to
the agency I chose, but they just really we're trying
to get me to look a certain way that I
couldn't look while playing sports. I'm naturally just a very
like tall, lanky build, and they just they wanted me
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to be able to break at a hit with soccer.
But I've actually had some recent opportunities to come up
with much more anound agencies that are more into fitness
and more into how an athlete looks that I've actually considering,
so I might get back to do it. But No,
that's really interesting. You obviously have a lot of skill,
and I'm sure I was a female athlete myself. I mean,
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I mean, I'm five ten a hundred fifty pounds, like
we aren't the normal build of the smaller, tinier models,
and in the industry, I'm sure that impacts your body image.
Was that something you struggled with for a while or Yeah,
it was really hard for me when I was I
started modeling when I was fourteen, so I got into
it really young. I was a lot younger than most
of the people I was working with as well, um
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just because my high and nearly six foot, so they
threw me out there pretty quickly. And um it, I
never really had questioned my body or what I looked
like up until probably bottling, just because you walk into
a casting and the first thing I say to you is, oh,
you need to lose weight or oh you need to
tone up. They're pretty brutal, but in the sense it also,
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um it makes you a lot better with taking criticism
and um makes that a lot easier. You don't get
affected by as many things once you work in the industry,
and that goes for acting and all of those. So
it was it was hard for a good amount of time,
and then I kind of just came to the realization
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that I don't care so which helps a lot. And
I ended up booking a lot more when I had
that persona and kind of made my made my place instead.
I'm not doing this, so you put your foot down.
That's the beauty and growing up to and discovering who
you are as a woman and what you want to
stand for. And I I think that's incredible. I know
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especially younger girls who may be listening, or especially younger
girls that look up to you as a Princeton soccer
player and as just a beautiful girl on social media.
It's refreshing to see female athletes be like, this is
my body. I'm proud of it. I'm powerful and I
can live more weight than most of the guys that
I know. So deal with you know what I mean? Um,
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let's go back to your no journey as a college athlete.
Have your brand deals you know, been more frequent? Have
you been doing it as Alexei Hill the model? How
those two things converged? Tell me about that? So I
originally had to actually separate my names. Um, I created
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different names. That's why I go by Alexei Hill is
from all of everything to do with UM college sports.
So and your and your first name is Alexi this
and what was it Hilton in Hilton? So my name
is Alexis Hilton end. But nobody knows that about me
except for college Honestly, UM people are usually very shocked
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when I see my idea or anything, but UM, yeah,
I So I got contacted pretty quickly by our UM
sports department basically telling me when I was younger and
sophomore years and junior years of high school when I
was modeling that I needed to make sure my name
is not the same name that they have for their
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soccer roster, just because it was you was so strict
that if you're a model and you're using your name,
then it could potentially lead to like, oh, you're booking
because you're an athlete. Yeah. Yeah, And I happen to
do it be a fitness and swim model, so it
was a very easy way for them to target it
and say, oh, this is only because you're an athlete.
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So um, I ended up shortening my name to Lexi Hill,
and it kind of stuck. I went by that my
whole high school life that um and I still do honestly,
But UM, yeah, I know, it's been really great now
that everything has been opened up. I mean, I'm I've
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personally dealt with a lot of issues with an I
L just because I had done stuff before it came out.
So it was honestly a relief, Like I was able
to share my soccer life, which is really important to
me that I wasn't able to share on my social
media before. There was absolutely nothing allowed to say, like oh,
I play at the school, like, so I think that
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with the NL and also, I've been open to a
bunch of new opportunities that I didn't have before. I've
always worked with brands. I've always been a content creator. However,
now with athletes being able to be kind of pushed
into the mixed of everything, I now have both sides,
which is incredible, awesome, given me a lot of opportunities, right, yeah,
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that's incredible. UM. When it comes to working with brands,
have there been any that you've been like, Okay, I
worked with them and I'm never going to again. Or
have you navigated certain? Do you do you have an agent?
I don't. I am my own agent, but for you,
so am I I no longer have one. And it's
definitely a tricky process. But again, as an athlete entrepreneur,
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it's a very important skill to learn. So tell me,
I have there read any brands that you will never
work with again? You don't have to name them, but
tell me about that. Um, definitely, definitely there are definite brands. Um.
I because I managed myself and I chose to do
that just to learn how everything works. And I knew
if there were going to be times where I was like,
I really shouldn't have accepted that, or I really um,
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I went down a path of just accepting everything that
came my way, and I do get a very frequent
amount of request to work with brands. And I realized
in the past couple of months when I really started
um hounding down on my social media that I needed
to not do that because it just led to honestly,
may being taken advantage of for representing myself and not
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really knowing what I deserve due to my content and
my following. So that was a learning process. So there's
many so I won't work with just because they are
not willing to meet the level that I need them
to meet up right, and especially when you're representing yourself.
I found that too people are more apt to take
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advantage of you than you even think. Like I like
to believe that people are ultimate, really good. You know
that they're most people in the world are kind and
they want what's best for you. But in this social
media space, they they will jip you out of thousands
and thousands of dollars. How have you discovered your worth
and come up with your rates? UM? Well, I still
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fluctuate my rates. I am someone that looks at what
kind of company they are. If they're very commercialized, I
will usually request a higher conversation. If it's a really
small local business, I'll lower my rates significantly. So even
when I send out my media gets to companies, I
never put my rights on there because it takes me
researching them and seeing what they stand for, seeing what
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they're doing with their business before I put a rate
on it if I'm working with them. So um, but
I realized that I need to stop doing free things,
which is what I was doing for a while. Um.
I was just obsessed with the concept of I'm getting
so much free stuff but not worth it at all.
And that was when I just it just happened so
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randomly where a really large company like I've worked with Revolve,
I worked with Rammy Brook and um, when they just
send you an email out of nowhere and you see
a number and you're like, oh, wow, I've been doing
this for free and I can do this. So honestly,
just took that happening once for me and I'd be like,
I can't be doing this. That's a really, really, really
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good point. I feel like again now that athletes are
able to monetize the name, image and likeness. I was
even star struck by getting I had it right here
and our listeners can't see this, but I got like
this face oil in the R package and I'll never forget,
like looking up the price of it and it bears
and to me, I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't
believe it. Just got this for free. And then more
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things started to come, and more things started to come,
and that whole concept of getting things for free and
then putting it online because you're trying to be nice,
you really got to learn that, Like, these brands have
an insane marketing budget and they want to pay you
and they want to negotiate. So I'm really glad you
don't not skill and I love talking you. Obviously you've
been around the block and you know what you're doing.
We're gonna go into one more break everybody. I hope
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you're enjoying the podcast thus far. You are listening to
Playbook Podcast. I'm Cli Mitchell and this is the College
Athletes Network. Welcome back to the Playbook podcast on College
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Athletes Network. I'm Corei Mitchell, and I am here with
Lexie Hill and we are talking about her mil journey,
and now we're going to bring in how you are
doing right now, where you want to go, and where
you don't want to go. I'm in a very good
place right now when it comes to I specifically, I'm
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just consistently working to better my brand. It is a
long and to this process. It is really special sometimes,
but I've just been really focusing on that, seeing where
what direction I'm going in trying to improve my content,
which is kind of difficult when you're stuck in one
location like I am at school. I gotta find different buildings. Granted,
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this campus beautiful, but I definitely am trying to be
more creative with my content at new things, try and
do research on engagement and how it all works because
there's a lot of little data need to research before
you start really getting into it. It's not just as
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simple as posting and being like, oh, yeah, I got paid. No,
it's a little bit more effort um. But I'm really
trying to focus on my blog. That's a big one,
and I see a lot of opportunity with that in
helping me travel and do different things. So that's where
I'm trying to go. I'm trying not to fail at
my mission of going forward, probably what I would say,
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because it is a lot, and it's a lot on
top of a lot of other stuff I'm doing. So
do you find it hard to be a student athlete
and an entrepreneur at the same time or is it
something that you like? Um, I did it first, I
really did it first. I was poorly managing my time
and way past deadline. I mean, even in general, I
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am not the type of person that usually hits the
deadline right on the mark unless I have assigned contract
for it. That's not me, I just people. I usually
explicitly state like I am a busy person. There is
I get to it as soon as I can. But
then now further on, since I've started, it's a lot
more contract based, a lot more to the mark, which
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actually makes it a lot easier. Um, the more organized
the brand is with me, moorganized, I can be with
them because yeah, unless I'm getting at a specific time
and date number of thing, it kind of just goes
all over the place. So well, good for you, look
at you go. What would your advice be to athletes
that are just now getting into the mill space and
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maybe even are like you are modeling or fitness, UM oriented,
what would you say to them? Start reaching out to brands. Honestly,
it's the easiest process to get people to work with you.
It's not something difficult. It's pretty easy to sell yourself,
especially if you're already at the level you're at in life.
You've done pretty well and people notice that and recognize it,
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and UM, just send out emails. That's all it takes
to start, and then they'll start coming to you as
you build up. But definitely put the effort him. It's
not something that should be taken lightly. I know a
lot of people that don't take advantage of it, and
I find it crazy because there's a lot of opportunities
within a so much opportunity, and I'm really I'm really
excited that now it's being talked about more because I
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still talk to athletes nowadays that are at all different
levels and my level and AI A you know, D two,
D three, you D one. I just see time and
time again athletes asking the question, I have one thousand
to five thousand followers, right, I have following from my hometown.
How do I reach people outside my hometown and outside
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my school space? MM? Hmm um, it's honestly just as
easy as sending an email. It's like, as you do that,
you start working with other brands. They'll read post you
if they like your content, if you work hard on it,
that expands your reach different platforms like tech talk's really
really good at doing that. As cringing as it is
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to sometimes make those videos, it really helps. It does,
and a lot of people have become very successful from
posting a five second video of themselves doing nothing. So
I would definitely recommend looking into different spaces and just
not caring what other people think. I mean, I went
through a period of time where I was absolutely harassed
my Instagram from all my friends. Those ridiculous and um,
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I just I cared a lot about that, and I
d have slowed down on what I was doing. And um,
I think once I grew out of that and was like, hey,
like I'm making a lot of money doing this is
not making anything, but you're trying to make fun of
me for it pointless. So once you break out of that,
which I think a lot of people do have that
issue with, is like oh I look so dumb doing this,
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or oh nobody cares like people do cares actually, so
I think it's just breaking out of that shell that's
hiding you from doing it. It's really good advice. Well said,
let's finally go into in our last five minutes, let's
talk about your mental health as an athlete. How has
that been for you? Oh goodness, Um, I've been all
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over the place, especially well, this is my first year
on campus. I obviously it was in not the best
headspace when I was home all year for my freshman
year of college. It was really hard. Um, there are
a lot of ups and downs, just frustration and really
felt isolated from a lot of people just because all
my friends we're back at school and I was one
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of the few that weren't. Uh So it did benefit
in the sense of independence, and it grows you as
a person a lot having that time alone and away
from socializing. Because when you come on campus to any school,
especially on a team, you are instantly put into a
lot of different situations. You needed to start picking and
choosing what you can and can't attend that at that point. So, um,
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I don't know. I think when I first came in,
I was really anxious. I really struggled with adjusting to
being background people, honestly, and I think COVID had a
big on that. I was so used to being more
or less by myself or with very few people when
I was back at home up until just wow, there's
a lot of people again. Fitness tests very quickly into
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the season, and I was not doing well with any
of it. I was just all over the place. I
trained all season, all summer long, and still was just
not where I needed to be. UM, So I was
really anxious. I was having huge problems sleeping. I was
all over the place. We have these little things that
track our sleep, and it was it was me who
would be at the bottom of very Well, then it
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would be a congratulations if I got like four hours
of sleep. But I was just so all over the
place with everything, meeting new people, coming to a new place.
I didn't really get to make a lot of um
close relationships my freshman year with my class, and UM,
a lot of seven of the girls in my class
actually for my soccer team took a gap here, so
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I it was just three now in our class. The
whole sophomore class a lot smaller freshmen. We're all doing
their orientation things, and then sophomores are just kind of
like where do we belong? So there was a lot
of different factors and it was just leaving me all
over the place. But I think once I targeted soccer
as a place to like release that anxiety, it was
a lot easier to go through the day by day
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and get sleep. And you're getting more than four hours
I'm hoping now, um, I am, thank goodness, maybe a
nap if you're lucky. I don't even know how you function,
I'm honestly, if I've learned that, yeah, wow, well I'm
glad to hear that you're doing better. Um. When it
comes to moving forward and next season and you're going
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to be an overclassmen and I don't know if you're
going to be doing some more internships and you're at
an ivy League school, how do you feel about that?
Are you nervous? Are you excited? Where's your head space at? Um?
I think I initially, prior to the past few months,
I've had a lot of just growth in the past
few months, especially mentally and internally, and I think previously
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I probably would have been very nervous, like, oh my goodness,
life like this that's coming at me real quick start
paying bill soon and worrying about a lot of other
things that I worry about now, But I'm actually really
excited for it. I've been, I'm always been known as
a person that takes on probably way too much more
than I can handle. But I'm starting to see the
light in that and just focusing on little things and
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actually really develop thing in those and growing my skills,
and I'm it makes me a lot more passionate and
the desire to continue in those fields and keep pushing
are really there. I mean, I'm so excited for next
Our season we had the worst, like just the way
we ended it, it wasn't ended and so I think
all of us are really excited to get back out
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there and pick up from where we just were because
that was just not our way of ending our season. Right. Well, Lexie,
thank you so much. You have been an amazing first guest.
Oh my goodness, I was so nervous and you're just
the easiest person to talk to. You already have a
TikTok idea shameless plug of me as an n ai
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athlete going through my day, and then I'll edit you
as a Princeton athlete going through day. I think it'd
be really cool, but we can talk about that later.
Um My final question, and I'm gonna end each episode
with this question to each of the guests. I don't
know if you know this, but my whole brand on
TikTok and kind of how I collaborate with the bigger
name brands is through my d I Y sector I
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d by rooms and sheds and other things whatever. And
my whole spiel with Nil is just dy d y
your whole NIL thing and social media whatever. So my
question to you Lexi is if you could d I
or if you could have me d I Y anything
from a room to a car, or to an item
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to a dang soccer ball, what would it be? And
why doing your eyebrows? Doing your eyebrows? I would go
and going straight to it eyebrows. I get so frustrated
with my doing my eyebrows, and there are not enough
people that show how you should probably do them eyebrows.
That is such an awesome it's you just knew you
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like eyebrows. Please have you ever gott them threaded? I've
done everything and I'm never out aside with them. So
now they're just not being touched until there they're notice. Yeah,
that's why our hats like this, you can't see them. Okay, well, Lexie,
it has been so nice getting to know you. We're
going to go into the outro now, and if you
have anything else that you want to tell our listeners,
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please tell them your plugs. I'll make sure to put
all your user names and stuff. But if you want
to talk about anything for the last few minutes, just
go ahead. If not, we can be done. I would
just say to anyone, honestly, especially in the process of
n I L and being a college athlete, there are
a lot of setbacks. There are a lot of negative
things that are going to happen to you, But for
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every negative, there are multitudes of positives that come out
of it. So I would just say to really focus
on the better and the future goals rather than the
present moment of what's actually happening in that time. So
welcome back to the Playbook podcast. This is Clode Mitchell
and we're on the College Athletes Network. Now, now we've
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talked to Lexi Hill. I've had such an incredible time
learning about her experience, and I hope you guys have
felt this same. I love talking to each of the
athletes about d I Win, whether it's on this podcast,
whether it's in person, everybody has their own thing, and
like I mentioned earlier, d I Win or do it
yourself is kind of my thing. That's how I became
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big on TikTok, and that's what I do when it
comes to working with brands. Of course, I'm now a
college athlete and able to talk about that, and that's
a large part of my brand too. But d I
Wine is my thing, and I want you guys to
tune in every week and take notes on how me
and my guests inspire you to find your thing. I
hope you guys enjoyed this podcast. And next week we
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have an awesome guest. He plays football and I'm not
going to tell you where, and you're gonna lot. He's
been on a crazy Neil journey. He has been on
a lot of ups and downs, and he suffered some
pretty serious injuries, so it's going to be really interesting
to talk to him about his overall experiences. Okay, everybody,
As always, thank you for listening to the Playbook podcast
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The following is a presentation of the College Athletes Network.
Hey everybody, this is Chloe Mitchell and you are listening
to the Playbooks podcast on the College Athletes Network. Please
subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode,
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and this can be easily done via the I Heart
Radio app. Now, you may be wondering what is the
Playbooks podcast. Well, we're in a time where collegiate athlete
preneurs can stake their claim on NIL territory. An athlete
preneur is simply an athlete and an entrepreneur, and NIL
stands for name, image and likeness. Athletes are now able
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to monetize off of their name, image and likeness without
losing eligibility. This is the age of the athlete preneur,
now enterprise in Colluded Athletes with entrepreneur goals and dreams
are coming out of the woodwork on campuses all across
the nation. And if I'm being completely honest, I was
one of the first ones to pave the way. In fact,
(01:06):
I was the first one. I made a historic power
play and national headlines when I became the first collegiate
athlete to legally monetize my name, image and likeness After
pioneering the trail in a sense, I got to work
on building an app called Playbooked app to help student
athletes do the same but with ease. With all of
(01:27):
that being said, this podcast is centered around guiding athletes
through the NIL territory and talking to big names across
the nation about how their nail journey is going. I
want a vice from them. I want stories. I want
the real nitty gritty about what life is like as
a real athlete preneur and coming from one myself, I
(01:48):
know that the process is not easy, and I know
that I wished I had a podcast to listen to
that would give me all the information that I have
learned over the past few years as a collegiate volleyball
a player. I haven't always been a setter. I also
played soccer for a very very long time. In fact,
I wanted to play soccer in college and this led
(02:08):
me to meeting Lexi Hill. Lexi Hill is a powerhouse.
Her name actually isn't Lexi, it's Alexis, and she plays
on the Princeton soccer team. She's a sophomore. She's a
center forward. Then she's an absolutely wonderful human being. She's
an athlete preneur herself, and in the podcast you were
about to listen to, we talked about all things body image,
(02:30):
her nail journey, some of the struggles she's had mentally,
and how she's doing today and where her brand is
going to go. She's modeled for brands like Revolved, and
she's an absolutely amazing role model for young women were
playing soccer. Who who are even in the entrepreneurial space
on social media? So without further Ado, let's get into
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talking to LEXI tell me about what kind of started
your wants to play at the collegiate level. Um. Well,
when I was about seven years old I started playing.
I was a little bit later than everyone else when
it came to soccer, but we started. My parents started
me young, and um they asked me pretty quickly on
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about my second year of playing, do you want to
just do this for fun or do you want to
go somewhere with us? And um, that really dictated my
training schedules and where I was going to play. And
I made the decision that I wanted to do it
as far as I could, and for me, that was
looking at the collegiate level. So I was and I
just stuck to it and you just ended up getting
(03:38):
recruited by Princeton. Did you reach out? How did that?
How did that work? The recruiting process has changed a
lot since I was recruited. Um, I know there's a
lot more deadlines and stricter restrictions on when athletes can
communicate with coaches and so forth. I think it's not
your junior year of high school. But for me, there
was not really any restrictions besides the fact that a
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coach and not directly call you, you have to them.
So I started my recruiting process in eighth grade. I
received my first offer from and from then on I
was just kind of all over the place touring. And
I originally actually came to Princeton my freshman year and
was not a fan of it. So yeah, I just
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was really focused. There was a time in my life
wh I was really focused on soccer and soccer only
and all I wanted to do is play pros involved
with national team camps, and that was just kind of
my main focus. And um, I just saw Princeton as
a place where, oh I'm not smart enough, or oh
I wouldn't succeed there, So I kind of just distanced
(04:45):
myself from it and really wanted to go on the
West Coast. And then I came back my early sophomore year, um,
the summer before, and tour it again and fell in
love with it. And she was immediate, just this is
is my home. This is definitely And what do you
think changed? Um? I think my maturity levels. Honestly, I was.
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That's really the biggest flaw with the recruiting process, especially
when my year was doing it, is it was not
the best for a freshman or an eighth grader to
be looking at where they're going to be attending college.
I mean I didn't even study for school when I
was at age, so I was impression that it was
something I wouldn't be able to. It's a huge decision
(05:32):
to make it that age, and I know, um that,
especially when I committed to it was like the beginning
of COVID and everything was terrible when it came to
touring and stuff. How has COVID impacted your past few seasons? Um, jeez.
So it hit me in my career my senior year,
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so tour my senior year apart, I didn't get a calm,
I didn't get a graduation etcetera. The summer going into
freshman year of college, we got an email Princeton was
not doing athletics, and then a week later so we
got the email that it was remote completely and it
was really heartbreaking. I was working really hard towards um
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playing my freshman year and I was really looking forward
to it. However, uh, I don't think it was honestly,
the worst thing that could have happened. I took a
lot of time to focus on other things, which was
really helpful. And I mean, my team was extremely successful
this year, even with not having a season like other
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schools did last year, so I think it was a
good thing. I saw that you guys went really far.
I was watching your highlights and are you Are you
left footed or you just got good? I'm not left
I think I'm convinced. I was born a lefty and
trained alrity, so really well, yes, I scored most of
my goals in my left. However, it's just all over
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the place. I don't know. I could center myself already,
but I jumped off my left like low key and
the dexterous. That's a good thing to be. So tell
me what you're studying and how that's been at an
Ivy League school I'm in. We call it SPIA. It's
the School of Public and International Affairs here at Princeton's
pretty well known. UM, it's more of a public policy
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sort of route. We are liberal arts school, so we
don't have the traditional like business premia law sort of thing.
So that's kind of my route to businesses through SPIA.
There's that, there's econ, there's a lot of different options
for that, but it's been it's been really good. I
mean I honestly came in the thought that it was
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going to be impossible. I would never have free time
and be drowning and work, and it's actually very manageable,
especially with sports, and I think that is I'll credit
soccer to being able to organize my time and I
actually have a significant amount of free time here and
it's going really well. Good for you. It's it's really
impressive that you're able to struggle that struggle soccer and
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also be an athlete preneur on the side. And I'm
really excited to get into that. But I am curious
what do you do with your free time outside of soccer? UM,
I work, Honestly, that's really all there is to do. Um,
me too girl the three time and I'm asleep. I
rust um. But now I I have been trying to
(08:30):
start different things through my platforms. Um, I'm starting a
blog that's coming out shortly, and UM, I really focus
on what I need to get done, kind of organizing
my life, getting food and which is usually my weekends,
but owering and the basic Yes, I feel that on
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a whole other level, Um, what is your blog going
to be about? Really curious where I'm trying to focus
it in different ways. I'm honest kind of torn in
different directions. I recently my first post will actually be
about my aestetician and her um ascetic lounge that she
created from ground up, and she's incredible and I just
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really wanted to like pay back to her by highlighting
her company and what they do. But I'm really looking
at looking at new things, hotels, traveling, anything I'm really
passionate about. So it's not really too niche in the
sense that I have I think I'm picking, but it's
a bunch of different things. Lifestyle oriented. Everybody loves that. Um.
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When it comes to your soccer season and you, as
a young female athlete, what is something that you wish
that you would have known when you were a freshman. Um,
You're not always going to be where you need to be.
That's probably what I would say to myself. I got
really stressed out in the beginning of the season, just
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trying to balance too much and um, not really a
knowledge of what I can handle and what I can't,
and that led me to like having severe sleep issues
and um everything, but also just not being stressed. It's
something to have fun with. I mean, at least that's
something we do with our team. We're really close. We
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are just very relaxed with each other. And I think
everyone comes into college sports thinking I need to do this,
I need to do this, I need this, and kind
of just overwhelms you and you end up not performing
your best. But and that kind of hurt me in
the season. In the beginning of the season, I just
I don't know what happened. I wasn't there. And then
I just kind of breathed and I was like, you know,
(10:39):
You're like I'm back and now and all the time,
and I'm a beast. Okay, well, awesome, We're going to
head into our first break. Everybody, you are listening to
the Playbook podcast. I am culling that you'll here with
Lexi Hill and this is the College Athletes Network. Yea,
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Hi everybody, we are back. I am Claie Mitchell and
we're on the Playbook podcast on the College Athletes Network.
Subscribe to the podcast. You don't miss a show. Okay, Lexie,
let's talk about you as an athlete preneurial. Let's talk
about your nail journey. How would you describe yourself and
your brand? Um? I actually just would say that I'm
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kind of getting to where I think I'm focusing what
I'm doing on. UM. I actually never really took advantage
of my social media until recently. I just kind of
did it for fun and it happened to grow. UM.
But I'm really interested in focusing lifestyle fashion. As ironic
it is, I am an athlete, but I'm very much
so a different person off the field and on the field. UM.
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But yeah, I have a really strong passion for traveling
and for clothing and more or less the lifestyle side
of things. So I've been really just focusing on that. Yeah.
I saw on your socials that you also modeled for
a while. Are you still doing that now? No, I
don't model anymore. I had some problems actually when I
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did model, when it came to sports and um, the
modeling industry. It was I honestly will take blame to
the agency I chose, but they just really we're trying
to get me to look a certain way that I
couldn't look while playing sports. I'm naturally just a very
like tall, lanky build, and they just they wanted me
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to be able to break at a hit with soccer.
But I've actually had some recent opportunities to come up
with much more anound agencies that are more into fitness
and more into how an athlete looks that I've actually considering,
so I might get back to do it. But No,
that's really interesting. You obviously have a lot of skill,
and I'm sure I was a female athlete myself. I mean,
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I mean, I'm five ten a hundred fifty pounds, like
we aren't the normal build of the smaller, tinier models,
and in the industry, I'm sure that impacts your body image.
Was that something you struggled with for a while or Yeah,
it was really hard for me when I was I
started modeling when I was fourteen, so I got into
it really young. I was a lot younger than most
of the people I was working with as well, um
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just because my high and nearly six foot, so they
threw me out there pretty quickly. And um it, I
never really had questioned my body or what I looked
like up until probably bottling, just because you walk into
a casting and the first thing I say to you is, oh,
you need to lose weight or oh you need to
tone up. They're pretty brutal, but in the sense it also,
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um it makes you a lot better with taking criticism
and um makes that a lot easier. You don't get
affected by as many things once you work in the industry,
and that goes for acting and all of those. So
it was it was hard for a good amount of time,
and then I kind of just came to the realization
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that I don't care so which helps a lot. And
I ended up booking a lot more when I had
that persona and kind of made my made my place instead.
I'm not doing this, so you put your foot down.
That's the beauty and growing up to and discovering who
you are as a woman and what you want to
stand for. And I I think that's incredible. I know
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especially younger girls who may be listening, or especially younger
girls that look up to you as a Princeton soccer
player and as just a beautiful girl on social media.
It's refreshing to see female athletes be like, this is
my body. I'm proud of it. I'm powerful and I
can live more weight than most of the guys that
I know. So deal with you know what I mean? Um,
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let's go back to your no journey as a college athlete.
Have your brand deals you know, been more frequent? Have
you been doing it as Alexei Hill the model? How
those two things converged? Tell me about that? So I
originally had to actually separate my names. Um, I created
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different names. That's why I go by Alexei Hill is
from all of everything to do with UM college sports.
So and your and your first name is Alexi this
and what was it Hilton in Hilton? So my name
is Alexis Hilton end. But nobody knows that about me
except for college Honestly, UM people are usually very shocked
(15:41):
when I see my idea or anything, but UM, yeah,
I So I got contacted pretty quickly by our UM
sports department basically telling me when I was younger and
sophomore years and junior years of high school when I
was modeling that I needed to make sure my name
is not the same name that they have for their
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soccer roster, just because it was you was so strict
that if you're a model and you're using your name,
then it could potentially lead to like, oh, you're booking
because you're an athlete. Yeah. Yeah, And I happen to
do it be a fitness and swim model, so it
was a very easy way for them to target it
and say, oh, this is only because you're an athlete.
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So um, I ended up shortening my name to Lexi Hill,
and it kind of stuck. I went by that my
whole high school life that um and I still do honestly,
But UM, yeah, I know, it's been really great now
that everything has been opened up. I mean, I'm I've
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personally dealt with a lot of issues with an I
L just because I had done stuff before it came out.
So it was honestly a relief, Like I was able
to share my soccer life, which is really important to
me that I wasn't able to share on my social
media before. There was absolutely nothing allowed to say, like oh,
I play at the school, like, so I think that
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with the NL and also, I've been open to a
bunch of new opportunities that I didn't have before. I've
always worked with brands. I've always been a content creator. However,
now with athletes being able to be kind of pushed
into the mixed of everything, I now have both sides,
which is incredible, awesome, given me a lot of opportunities, right, yeah,
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that's incredible. UM. When it comes to working with brands,
have there been any that you've been like, Okay, I
worked with them and I'm never going to again. Or
have you navigated certain? Do you do you have an agent?
I don't. I am my own agent, but for you,
so am I I no longer have one. And it's
definitely a tricky process. But again, as an athlete entrepreneur,
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it's a very important skill to learn. So tell me,
I have there read any brands that you will never
work with again? You don't have to name them, but
tell me about that. Um, definitely, definitely there are definite brands. Um.
I because I managed myself and I chose to do
that just to learn how everything works. And I knew
if there were going to be times where I was like,
I really shouldn't have accepted that, or I really um,
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I went down a path of just accepting everything that
came my way, and I do get a very frequent
amount of request to work with brands. And I realized
in the past couple of months when I really started
um hounding down on my social media that I needed
to not do that because it just led to honestly,
may being taken advantage of for representing myself and not
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really knowing what I deserve due to my content and
my following. So that was a learning process. So there's
many so I won't work with just because they are
not willing to meet the level that I need them
to meet up right, and especially when you're representing yourself.
I found that too people are more apt to take
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advantage of you than you even think. Like I like
to believe that people are ultimate, really good. You know
that they're most people in the world are kind and
they want what's best for you. But in this social
media space, they they will jip you out of thousands
and thousands of dollars. How have you discovered your worth
and come up with your rates? UM? Well, I still
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fluctuate my rates. I am someone that looks at what
kind of company they are. If they're very commercialized, I
will usually request a higher conversation. If it's a really
small local business, I'll lower my rates significantly. So even
when I send out my media gets to companies, I
never put my rights on there because it takes me
researching them and seeing what they stand for, seeing what
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they're doing with their business before I put a rate
on it if I'm working with them. So um, but
I realized that I need to stop doing free things,
which is what I was doing for a while. Um.
I was just obsessed with the concept of I'm getting
so much free stuff but not worth it at all.
And that was when I just it just happened so
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randomly where a really large company like I've worked with Revolve,
I worked with Rammy Brook and um, when they just
send you an email out of nowhere and you see
a number and you're like, oh, wow, I've been doing
this for free and I can do this. So honestly,
just took that happening once for me and I'd be like,
I can't be doing this. That's a really, really, really
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good point. I feel like again now that athletes are
able to monetize the name, image and likeness. I was
even star struck by getting I had it right here
and our listeners can't see this, but I got like
this face oil in the R package and I'll never forget,
like looking up the price of it and it bears
and to me, I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't
believe it. Just got this for free. And then more
(20:43):
things started to come, and more things started to come,
and that whole concept of getting things for free and
then putting it online because you're trying to be nice,
you really got to learn that, Like, these brands have
an insane marketing budget and they want to pay you
and they want to negotiate. So I'm really glad you
don't not skill and I love talking you. Obviously you've
been around the block and you know what you're doing.
We're gonna go into one more break everybody. I hope
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you're enjoying the podcast thus far. You are listening to
Playbook Podcast. I'm Cli Mitchell and this is the College
Athletes Network. Welcome back to the Playbook podcast on College
(21:38):
Athletes Network. I'm Corei Mitchell, and I am here with
Lexie Hill and we are talking about her mil journey,
and now we're going to bring in how you are
doing right now, where you want to go, and where
you don't want to go. I'm in a very good
place right now when it comes to I specifically, I'm
(22:01):
just consistently working to better my brand. It is a
long and to this process. It is really special sometimes,
but I've just been really focusing on that, seeing where
what direction I'm going in trying to improve my content,
which is kind of difficult when you're stuck in one
location like I am at school. I gotta find different buildings. Granted,
(22:24):
this campus beautiful, but I definitely am trying to be
more creative with my content at new things, try and
do research on engagement and how it all works because
there's a lot of little data need to research before
you start really getting into it. It's not just as
(22:45):
simple as posting and being like, oh, yeah, I got paid. No,
it's a little bit more effort um. But I'm really
trying to focus on my blog. That's a big one,
and I see a lot of opportunity with that in
helping me travel and do different things. So that's where
I'm trying to go. I'm trying not to fail at
my mission of going forward, probably what I would say,
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because it is a lot, and it's a lot on
top of a lot of other stuff I'm doing. So
do you find it hard to be a student athlete
and an entrepreneur at the same time or is it
something that you like? Um, I did it first, I
really did it first. I was poorly managing my time
and way past deadline. I mean, even in general, I
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am not the type of person that usually hits the
deadline right on the mark unless I have assigned contract
for it. That's not me, I just people. I usually
explicitly state like I am a busy person. There is
I get to it as soon as I can. But
then now further on, since I've started, it's a lot
more contract based, a lot more to the mark, which
(23:48):
actually makes it a lot easier. Um, the more organized
the brand is with me, moorganized, I can be with
them because yeah, unless I'm getting at a specific time
and date number of thing, it kind of just goes
all over the place. So well, good for you, look
at you go. What would your advice be to athletes
that are just now getting into the mill space and
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maybe even are like you are modeling or fitness, UM oriented,
what would you say to them? Start reaching out to brands. Honestly,
it's the easiest process to get people to work with you.
It's not something difficult. It's pretty easy to sell yourself,
especially if you're already at the level you're at in life.
You've done pretty well and people notice that and recognize it,
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and UM, just send out emails. That's all it takes
to start, and then they'll start coming to you as
you build up. But definitely put the effort him. It's
not something that should be taken lightly. I know a
lot of people that don't take advantage of it, and
I find it crazy because there's a lot of opportunities
within a so much opportunity, and I'm really I'm really
excited that now it's being talked about more because I
(24:53):
still talk to athletes nowadays that are at all different
levels and my level and AI A you know, D two,
D three, you D one. I just see time and
time again athletes asking the question, I have one thousand
to five thousand followers, right, I have following from my hometown.
How do I reach people outside my hometown and outside
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my school space? MM? Hmm um, it's honestly just as
easy as sending an email. It's like, as you do that,
you start working with other brands. They'll read post you
if they like your content, if you work hard on it,
that expands your reach different platforms like tech talk's really
really good at doing that. As cringing as it is
(25:35):
to sometimes make those videos, it really helps. It does,
and a lot of people have become very successful from
posting a five second video of themselves doing nothing. So
I would definitely recommend looking into different spaces and just
not caring what other people think. I mean, I went
through a period of time where I was absolutely harassed
my Instagram from all my friends. Those ridiculous and um,
(25:57):
I just I cared a lot about that, and I
d have slowed down on what I was doing. And um,
I think once I grew out of that and was like, hey,
like I'm making a lot of money doing this is
not making anything, but you're trying to make fun of
me for it pointless. So once you break out of that,
which I think a lot of people do have that
issue with, is like oh I look so dumb doing this,
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or oh nobody cares like people do cares actually, so
I think it's just breaking out of that shell that's
hiding you from doing it. It's really good advice. Well said,
let's finally go into in our last five minutes, let's
talk about your mental health as an athlete. How has
that been for you? Oh goodness, Um, I've been all
(26:41):
over the place, especially well, this is my first year
on campus. I obviously it was in not the best
headspace when I was home all year for my freshman
year of college. It was really hard. Um, there are
a lot of ups and downs, just frustration and really
felt isolated from a lot of people just because all
my friends we're back at school and I was one
(27:01):
of the few that weren't. Uh So it did benefit
in the sense of independence, and it grows you as
a person a lot having that time alone and away
from socializing. Because when you come on campus to any school,
especially on a team, you are instantly put into a
lot of different situations. You needed to start picking and
choosing what you can and can't attend that at that point. So, um,
(27:24):
I don't know. I think when I first came in,
I was really anxious. I really struggled with adjusting to
being background people, honestly, and I think COVID had a
big on that. I was so used to being more
or less by myself or with very few people when
I was back at home up until just wow, there's
a lot of people again. Fitness tests very quickly into
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the season, and I was not doing well with any
of it. I was just all over the place. I
trained all season, all summer long, and still was just
not where I needed to be. UM, So I was
really anxious. I was having huge problems sleeping. I was
all over the place. We have these little things that
track our sleep, and it was it was me who
would be at the bottom of very Well, then it
(28:10):
would be a congratulations if I got like four hours
of sleep. But I was just so all over the
place with everything, meeting new people, coming to a new place.
I didn't really get to make a lot of um
close relationships my freshman year with my class, and UM,
a lot of seven of the girls in my class
actually for my soccer team took a gap here, so
(28:30):
I it was just three now in our class. The
whole sophomore class a lot smaller freshmen. We're all doing
their orientation things, and then sophomores are just kind of
like where do we belong? So there was a lot
of different factors and it was just leaving me all
over the place. But I think once I targeted soccer
as a place to like release that anxiety, it was
a lot easier to go through the day by day
(28:51):
and get sleep. And you're getting more than four hours
I'm hoping now, um, I am, thank goodness, maybe a
nap if you're lucky. I don't even know how you function,
I'm honestly, if I've learned that, yeah, wow, well I'm
glad to hear that you're doing better. Um. When it
comes to moving forward and next season and you're going
(29:16):
to be an overclassmen and I don't know if you're
going to be doing some more internships and you're at
an ivy League school, how do you feel about that?
Are you nervous? Are you excited? Where's your head space at? Um?
I think I initially, prior to the past few months,
I've had a lot of just growth in the past
few months, especially mentally and internally, and I think previously
(29:37):
I probably would have been very nervous, like, oh my goodness,
life like this that's coming at me real quick start
paying bill soon and worrying about a lot of other
things that I worry about now, But I'm actually really
excited for it. I've been, I'm always been known as
a person that takes on probably way too much more
than I can handle. But I'm starting to see the
light in that and just focusing on little things and
(29:59):
actually really develop thing in those and growing my skills,
and I'm it makes me a lot more passionate and
the desire to continue in those fields and keep pushing
are really there. I mean, I'm so excited for next
Our season we had the worst, like just the way
we ended it, it wasn't ended and so I think
all of us are really excited to get back out
(30:20):
there and pick up from where we just were because
that was just not our way of ending our season. Right. Well, Lexie,
thank you so much. You have been an amazing first guest.
Oh my goodness, I was so nervous and you're just
the easiest person to talk to. You already have a
TikTok idea shameless plug of me as an n ai
(30:41):
athlete going through my day, and then I'll edit you
as a Princeton athlete going through day. I think it'd
be really cool, but we can talk about that later.
Um My final question, and I'm gonna end each episode
with this question to each of the guests. I don't
know if you know this, but my whole brand on
TikTok and kind of how I collaborate with the bigger
name brands is through my d I Y sector I
(31:03):
d by rooms and sheds and other things whatever. And
my whole spiel with Nil is just dy d y
your whole NIL thing and social media whatever. So my
question to you Lexi is if you could d I
or if you could have me d I Y anything
from a room to a car, or to an item
(31:24):
to a dang soccer ball, what would it be? And
why doing your eyebrows? Doing your eyebrows? I would go
and going straight to it eyebrows. I get so frustrated
with my doing my eyebrows, and there are not enough
people that show how you should probably do them eyebrows.
That is such an awesome it's you just knew you
(31:49):
like eyebrows. Please have you ever gott them threaded? I've
done everything and I'm never out aside with them. So
now they're just not being touched until there they're notice. Yeah,
that's why our hats like this, you can't see them. Okay, well, Lexie,
it has been so nice getting to know you. We're
going to go into the outro now, and if you
have anything else that you want to tell our listeners,
(32:10):
please tell them your plugs. I'll make sure to put
all your user names and stuff. But if you want
to talk about anything for the last few minutes, just
go ahead. If not, we can be done. I would
just say to anyone, honestly, especially in the process of
n I L and being a college athlete, there are
a lot of setbacks. There are a lot of negative
things that are going to happen to you, But for
(32:31):
every negative, there are multitudes of positives that come out
of it. So I would just say to really focus
on the better and the future goals rather than the
present moment of what's actually happening in that time. So
welcome back to the Playbook podcast. This is Clode Mitchell
and we're on the College Athletes Network. Now, now we've
(32:52):
talked to Lexi Hill. I've had such an incredible time
learning about her experience, and I hope you guys have
felt this same. I love talking to each of the
athletes about d I Win, whether it's on this podcast,
whether it's in person, everybody has their own thing, and
like I mentioned earlier, d I Win or do it
yourself is kind of my thing. That's how I became
(33:14):
big on TikTok, and that's what I do when it
comes to working with brands. Of course, I'm now a
college athlete and able to talk about that, and that's
a large part of my brand too. But d I
Wine is my thing, and I want you guys to
tune in every week and take notes on how me
and my guests inspire you to find your thing. I
hope you guys enjoyed this podcast. And next week we
(33:34):
have an awesome guest. He plays football and I'm not
going to tell you where, and you're gonna lot. He's
been on a crazy Neil journey. He has been on
a lot of ups and downs, and he suffered some
pretty serious injuries, so it's going to be really interesting
to talk to him about his overall experiences. Okay, everybody,
As always, thank you for listening to the Playbook podcast
(33:55):
on the College Athletes Network. Please subscribe to you don't
miss an episode. I'm clude Mitchell and we'll talk soon.
Bye guys. This has been a presentation of the College
Athletes Network
Host
Chloe V. Mitchell
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