July 2, 2025 • 46 mins
Sports creator Jenna Bandy swings by the Par-Tee to dish on her hilarious golf cart race against Ja Rule, reveals how she navigates being successful on social media, and what led to the founding of her female empowerment brand Game ChangeHER. Plus, Jenna gives the play-by-play on her epic face-off with Steph Curry after becoming a Guinness World Records holder!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jenna. We did this fun thing.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We were like about done filming, and somehow we got
into this place where now Jah Rule and Jenna are
racing and I had then the go mark was when
I hit the shot, and then they were to race
to the green.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
However, Jenna was legitimately going to physically drive the.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Golf cart onto the green if we did not actually
physically stop her.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Not because I'm just so competitive, but because I don't
know the rules of golf.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ye, I don't know that you can't drive the golf cart.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And yes, so now you know. Now we know not
to drive on the green. We had to protect the green.
The wheels would definitely ruin it. But in hindsight, you
still won.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The race being Jah quit, jock quit.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What is going on, y'all? Welcome back to the party. Now,
this next guest I'm very excited for because she's probably
one of the most talented all around human beings that
I know, especially when it comes to sports and just athleticism.
But before I get into it, you already know the drill.
I'd like to share a little story about myself or
some words of wisdom for y'all to get to know
(01:10):
me better. And today we're going to talk about how
I grew my platform. So I actually get this question
quite often in the DMS of how I became a
golf influencer, how I grew my following, how I became
a personality in all these things, I didn't wake up
with a platform to be able to use my voice
and all the things that I believe in. I began
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ten years ago, twenty fifteen, essentially when I came out
of college and I turned professional simultaneously. I started to
use social media at first just as a means to
expose my golf game and hope so that if just
one person saw my swing, or saw my scores, or
saw my ability, then maybe I can find one sponsor
that can really help me take on my professional golf career.
(01:54):
Because my parents didn't have the means, but they were
in full emotional support and it was up to me
to make it happen, and so I did, and social
media was one of those ways. Then it came to
a point where social media took over and I was
starting to get more gigs and it outweighed the professional
golf and I started to get injured and blah blah
blah and it was time for me to walk away
from pro golf, and I took on social media more
(02:16):
and took it seriously. That being said, I feel like
a lot of success in people trying to create platforms
come because they actually don't plan for it to happen.
A lot of times it's because of something that happened
out of passion, and then it turned into something real,
because when you work on something that you're passionate about,
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you can talk about it endlessly day after day after day.
And that is golf for me. And then come to realize,
now it's become a job, and so now what I
do and what I love are one and the same. Really,
there is no secret. It just comes with consistency. I
have just been consistent and I've posted quite literally for
ten years, three to five or seven days a week
(02:58):
every week for ten years. There's been the occasional I'm
gonna take a week off, but really, because I love
what I do and I naturally like to share and
I'm a more open person. That's how often I've shared,
and that's just on Instagram. Then then came TikTok. I
jumped on the bandwagon of TikTok. Actually quite early. It
was twenty eighteen, It was very new, and I was
one of the first, if not the first female golfers
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on the app, which is why I've garnered the million
of followers that I have. I'm a short form girly,
but if I could change one thing, I would have
switched my platform from Instagram to YouTube, because there is
a lot more value in YouTube, especially ten years ago.
Long form content can easily funnel down into shorter form content,
versus if you're a short form person, you have to
(03:43):
completely create new content for your long form and followers,
for some reason, does not stick in reverse. YouTubers can
get followers transferred onto their shorter platforms, but people who
are bigger on short form platforms, it's found to be
a lot harder to gain subscribers or more followers on
longer form platforms. So, besides consistency, I think the most
(04:06):
important part is also finding your niche. When you find
your niche, especially one that you're passionate about and you
can talk about NonStop, and you own that niche, you
can then conquer the next pillars beside it that you
want to achieve, and then from there you get to
grow outwardly. As opposed to Oh, I'm gonna grow my
platform and be like a lifestyle person. Well honeing, you're
(04:29):
up against the world. But for me, it was like, oh,
I'm a female golfer and I started, you know, social
media during a time when there wasn't much.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I stood out.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Of course, I had to go and move with the
ebbs and flows of social media because what was popular
back then and what worked back then doesn't stick now.
So for me, I found it as an opportunity to expand.
So over time, I thought, now, let me show off
that I was a broadcast journalist. Let me show off
my interviewing skills, let me show off me hosting, let
me show off me speaking, Let me show off my
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instru because I'm a certified instructor. Let me show off
being a trainer because I was a Fitbit trainer for
so many years, you name it. But I had to
own my niche first before I branched out. And now
I get to talk about women's sports. Now I get
to be an advocate for the LGBTQ plus community. Now
I'm an advocate for the AAPI community. But it all
began because I had one home base. I had one
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foundation first, before I built all these different pillars. I
think conquering your niche will really not be a shortcut,
but will be your fastest way to success as opposed
to taking on such a large niche. And then, as
I already touched on, you have to be okay with change.
Back then, it was just fun trick shots and short
entertaining clips. And then when TikTok came, it was a
(05:43):
bunch of fun dances, which was great for me because
I used to be a dancer, so that was a fun,
quick moment for me. But now what really sticks is
brand storytelling, the behind the scenes, the days in the life,
you know, the raw, raw emotions. So you have to
be okay with sharing things of that nature. But yeah,
I didn't wake up with a platform. Can you still
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do it during this day?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? Absolutely. You gotta be consistent, you.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Gotta find your niche, you gotta love it and be
passionate about it, and you gotta just roll with the
punches of social media.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But I promise you it's gonna be worth it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And so, without further ado, I'd like to introduce my
next guest, because she's someone who conquers social media like
a beast, and she's so talented. I'm really excited because
she's actually one of the top sports creators in the US.
She earned her chops playing D two basketball in college,
and though she didn't pursue professional sports, she went on
to hold a Guinness World Record for the farthest behind
the back basketball shop. She's also an avid golf player,
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which is basically how I met. In fact, we're both
a part of the People's League, which is a new
creator league in golf that airs on YouTube. In addition
to all of this, she also started an amazing nonprofit
called Game Change Her, which empowers and supports the growth
of next generation of women leaders and athletes. We talk
all about how she was inspired to start creating sports content,
and how she even got into golf, and what it
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means for her to help other women reach their goals.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So, without further ado, Jenna Bandy, Welcome to the par t.
I know the party. Yeah, very excited to have you.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I feel like every time we've been able to hang
out or get together, like it's just always a good time.
Like you're always just such good vibes, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Just aligned both we get each other. Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You're good energy. We're kind of in the same we're
in the same world.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We are, we really are. So we're gonna get into it.
So we have a fun game.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, So we're gonna we're gonna play two truths in
a lie and this is about you. So you're gonna
tell everybody which one is a lie? Okay, okay, right, Okay,
here's the first three. All right, you're a twin. Your
dad trained Tom Cruise to bartend for the movie Cocktail.
You once hit a half court shot during an NBA
halftime show.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Which one's a lie?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The last one is a lie?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's right, So you haven't hit a half court shot
during an NBA halftime show. No, okay, and Zoe, big deal.
Your dad just trained Tom Cruise. That's actually it's actually crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Like my dad has insane coordination and he he like
trained and would compete in Olympic competitions for flair barton.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
He invented the sport.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
My dad is known as the grandfather of flair bar Like, yeah,
he's flipping all the stuff. And for that movie Cocktail,
Tom Cruise had a scene where he had to do
all that.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
My dad trained him.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That is what a what a while heads really like,
I appreciate that I am not an old head, but
I very much appreciate that. I've done a few ads
where I was attempting to do things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay, not that easy. I broke something. It's hard.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's not easy. Okay, to truth and a lie. You
once raced job rule in a golf cart. You cannot
stand pick a ball.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You hold a Guinness World record. Which one's a lie?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
None of them are alive.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Oh no, second, one second. You love a ball, I'm
addicted to You're really You're really good at it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So y'all she loves pickle ball, and yes he has
race jaw role in a golf cart.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I was there. You did the shotguns start, but I did.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I was the you know, fast and the furious girl
like the flags. I was that Asian girl golf ball start.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I had to start.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's right, we did that, Okay, but now we're actually
going to get into it. So I know, I know
all about Jenna Bandy and you're come up because we
spent some time together. But we got to start from
the very very tough with those of you who don't
know Jenna. She's like one of the most talented human
beings that I have ever met when it comes to sports,
especially like she picks up a club, she picks up
any kind of ball, whether you kick it, whether you
throw it, she can do it. If she's never done
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it before and you told her to do it on
the spot, she can probably do it. Cricket can probably
do it. And so like, where did this even begin?
You just like love sports growing up?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Or Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I have three other siblings and I have a twin brother,
but my older brother is the one I really pay
homage to when it comes to sports and my competitive spirit.
He's only two years older than me. He played Major
League baseball, and growing up he just never let me win,
would talk trash to me, and and when I couldn't
do things, he would teach me.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Took me under his wing and taught me how to
do things no way.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, every sport football, basketball, baseball, and I loved it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So from there, you ended up taking basketball more seriously
than amongst the sports.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You know, it was kind of a debate for me.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I loved softball and basketball, and I was great at both,
and I was getting recruited for both, but I just
liked basketball more so.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I chose to play that in college.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That's crazy and so so you literally had scholarships in
both sports and then you chose basketball.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And then what school did you play for?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I went to cal State Monterey Bay Division two of
Northern California.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then what was your experience like playing collegiate basketball?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Man, I think everyone can attest to this. College is
really where like you find out who you are. Truly,
you're tested a lot before college. My senior year, I
tore my ACL and that was a tough experience because
I was in Terray County's finest. I'm from here, I'm
from LA Yeah, and I was to go to a
small D one and that's what I wanted to do.
But then I tore my a CL went Division two.
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I ended up tearing my other ACL my third year.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And in college in college, yes, and so to on
both my acls. Mom and dad were kind of like, Johnny,
you should probably start thinking about other things in basketball
in your career after college because I really wanted to
play pro. That was the dream growing up, was to
play professional sports, and I wanted it to be basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And so then after your basketball career and not turning
on pro you were still able to parlay it into
what you do now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Honestly, I didn't get right into content creation right after
college as a coach. For five years, I coached girls'
basketball and saw the rest of my life as a
teacher and a coach. I was just I posted some
clips I'm playing in this rec league and they went viral,
but I never.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Took it seriously. Honestly, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, Okay, we're going to get into the content creation,
but I want to learn a little bit more about
you and your family at any point, whether it was
your brother or your family, did you ever you know,
growing up as an elie athlete, a lot of crazy
athlete stories are their families put a lot of pressure
on them. Did you ever experience that or was that
always just like a fun competitive dynamic.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
No, you know, I'm so thankful that my parents never
pressed me to, you know, get reps in like practice.
It was just something that me and my brother did
all the time. And I would see some of my
teammates and friends with their parents like that, and I
could see why they fell out of love for their sport,
and that just wasn't the case for me. I'm so
happy that that wasn't the issue. You know, so I
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heard that.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, I know that your big brother actually says
that you are the best athlete in the family.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Wow, okay, well what do you agree?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
It's crazy? Jet Jet is my bigger brother. And to
my face, he will never say that, Tisha, he will never.
He will call me like you're a bomb, Like you're
my little sister. You're a Jet Bandy's sister. Yeah, that's
what I was known by in high school.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But like in the article in the paper, when news
people are asking him who's the better athlete, he would
say his little sister Jenna. And maybe one day he'll
tell me that to my face, I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And so now you're playing a bunch of different sports.
At what point did you ever swing a golf club?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You know what I want to say, just like at
top golf. Okay, yeah, that makes sense because I grew
up playing softball. I have a swing like I understand,
like loading and getting my hips through. And then honestly,
I'm a very visual learner. Just watch someone. I don't
know what if I was doing it right, but I
I know I could smack it and I said, think
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till this day, I'm not doing it completely.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right, like how many years ago you think?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Honestly recently, like in the last years, I've never played
a full round of golf until.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Until the league, yes, okay, which we will get into. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So I have been around golf obviously in my whole life,
and golf is just not a sport that you pick
up and naturally just like pound the ball.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's not anyone's nature.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
There's not really anyone that I could say that it's
picked up the club in their first couple go rounds
and like.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Can hit it like one fifty to two hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And I remember when I saw your video at a
top golf event that we were both at PGA two K.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They had a big event and I saw your swinging out.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I was like, what the fuck? I was like the
what just happened? And I think I was just so
taken back because you crushed that. And so it's just
been from top golfing and.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Then seriously and just someone being like, hey, to trust
try this with your elbow or your leg, and I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah,
I'm very coachable, very I could catch on the things
very quickly. But I will say golf, out of all sports,
is the toughest. I do athlete my way through a
lot of first sports that I try, and golf has
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been the hardest. Right now, if I picked up a club,
I don't know if I could hit ten in a
row solid on the.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Door like that. Okay, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I will say that the one thing about golf compared
to other sports is that it really does take a
lot of time. You can crush a few, especially when
you're newer into the game, but it's really about like
how often can you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And that takes time.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And so now that you're more involved with golf, like
I've been seeing a lot of my gigs, which has
been so exciting. I love seeing outside people from golf
come into it because that means it's growing. What has
been your most favorite part about learning of golf and
your least favorite about learning about golf?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh? My most favorite part, I would say just the
fact that, like trying something new for me, it's fun
to kind of be a freshman in something again, you
know what I mean. And I'm just super open to
everyone's insight. It is a little bit information overload, but
like Yes. What I think is so exciting is seeing
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people like you, Tisha and Troy and all these other
professionals and seeing how you guys could literally place the ball.
I'm just trying to smack it straight, and You're like, oh,
I could fade it, i could hook it at it.
I'm gonna put a little more loft on it, And
I'm like, Wow, the finesse is incredible, and like I
could do that with a basketball or a football. But
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it's just honestly amazing to see.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That you have had a taste of, like kind of
being competitive in golf. Do you feel that competitive edge
in all the sports you do, even in golf or
is it just like, Nah, golf is for fun, basketball
is for serious.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
No, I definitely feel that competitive edge.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Like being that I'm the least experience in the people's league,
it kind of pisses me off. I'm not used to
being like kind of that below average person anywhere, to
be honest, especially performance wise. So I am determined to
get better. Like I've made the time this week where
I'm going to the driving range. I want to be
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able to hang yeah people when I just come I
know I'm not going to be elite, right, but I
want to be able to hang.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, I mean right now on way.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So then would you say that among sports, golf is
the most difficult mentally or do you feel like it's
just as challenging in other sports?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Right now, it is the most difficult for me because
it's something like I said, I can't just athlete my
way through. Sure, I definitely have to put more time
into it. However, I think baseball or softball is a
little bit more of a challenge because you have to
stay positive through the failures. For instance, baseball or softball,
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you can fail seven times out of ten and that
is successful because that means you went three for ten
and that's a batting average of three hundred, right, Whereas
in basketball, if I go three for ten.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
That's really bad.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So okay, god Yeah, So in baseball you're failing more
times than you're succeeding, so you have to.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Kind of get used to that, got it.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Baseball is so hard you think about it, ninety mile
an hour fastball coming your way and you have to
read it and place it whatever. So you're failing more
times than you're succeeding. Just for instance, like I remember
dealing with my brother during the time he was in
the bigs, and like he just never wanted to talk
about baseball. It's so mentally taxing to you know, and
when you get in a slump, like it's the hardest
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thing to come out of because you're already in your head,
you're already failing more tight like you know.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So that's interesting. I mean, so in golf, it's actually
very similar. I've never I don't know anything about baseball
spoken with that degree. I just watch it. I eat
a hot dog, it looks dope. I want to dress
cute in my outfit. But like in golf, just like that,
like you face many more failures than you do success.
Even if you're let's say, if a pro hits it
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majority of the time in the fairway on the green,
they're making their putts to them because they're such high
level players, it can still be a fail if it
wasn't hit solid and in the middle of the fairway.
Do you get what I'm saying, Like, there are different
ways to rate your wins and losses. You can hit
it solid and then be out of bounds. That doesn't
mean anything just because I hit the center of the
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club base. But I hit out of balance. That's a
loss for me, now, Okay. And then when you think
of the way golf is, there's only one winner. You
got about one hundred and forty people in the field.
You are losing week in and week out, right, because
if you're not first or last in some people's mindset,
right yeah, in golf, well if you're fifthy, that's pretty good,
like you know, you're getting paid. And so it's really
interesting how you speak about the baseball mindset, because in
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golf it really is a lot of failure. And when
you think about it, it's four and a half hours
of around, right, wow, So for that long you better
stay positive, especially if you had like a shot that
like really fuck things up, say like just throw your
rhythm off, you hit it into the water, hit into
the water again. You can be so rattled, you can
be so scared to set up and hit again. You're
trying to avoid all the waters. Now you're thinking of
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don't do this, don't do this versus what you want
to execute, and you can psych yourself out. So I
feel like that's pretty similar to that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You know, just what you just kind of made me
realize too, is that this is an individual sport that
I haven't played individual sports. I have my teammates to
lift me up, to feed off of you.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, and wow, I still.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Think I'm in my little baby steps, you know, my
little baby era of learning golf. Like, once I get better,
I feel like I will start to get more of
that pain for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean, I don't want you to have pain. It
pleas oh byell me.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, So now we're going to talk about the People's League. So,
for those of you who don't know, the People's League
is actually the first creator league that was created for golf,
and it's based on YouTube. Me and Jenna are within
the league. I'm the host of the league, but I
actually think I want to play.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
When I jump in, I'm happy to jump wherever they
need me. Oh my god, yeah, I'm so happy. And
so Jenna, talk to me about the People's League. How
did you get involved?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What made you want to join? Especially being so new
in your golf career.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I pride myself from branding myself as that multi sport
creator and so yeah, I have posted some golf content
and I got hit up by the People's League. And
it's kind of cool because like, I'm not the typical
golf creator my fans who are more football, basketball, baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But also I think it's a smart move.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Honestly, I'm People's lead to bring me in there, even
though I'm not the best golfer. I'm going to bring
that publicity and the entertainment. And you know, for the
first event, I was hurt, My knee was hurt, and
all I could do was.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Chip yeah right, oh wait, we had tih we got
her chip right.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Also say People's League.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I think it's so smart, and I think they really
created an event where it was intimate. It wasn't just
come in, do your deliverable whatever and get out. Yeah,
we had a dinner, we spent the night. We really
got the chance to get to know each other, and
I really appreciated that. It was a different experience than
I was than I've ever had before with a brand.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How long have you been doing social media now?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So I say I've been two feet in since twenty
twenty one. Before that, I was just kind of flirting
with it, testing the waters, didn't take it seriously, had
no pride in it. I was a coach, I was
coach Denna, coach Bandy, I saw the rest of my
life as a varsity head coach and teaching pe or
whatever I wanted to teach.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, I thought it was pee at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah yeah, Like was it a few viral videos that
really like made you put two feet in? Like at
what point were you like, Okay, no, Like this is
the thing, this is a job.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I want to do this.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So since I graduated college in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Okay, same year, Wow, twenty fifteen. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I haven't really met many people who graduated
saying shown a rage.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
We're still twenty five, y'all, don't play games.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I had one foot in with content creation, didn't take
it seriously. I was learning from a guy named Josh
Horton who was doing YouTube for years making money just
spot a home by my parents home based off of
his YouTube revenue alone. And he's like, hey, I would
love to have you a girl on my channel. We
do a bunch of sports stuff. I'm like, I could
do stuff when I'm not coaching. So I just learned
(22:50):
from him how to do an intro, how to post it,
you know, like but little a.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Trick shot guy.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, okay, okay, you guys, phenomenal crazy twenty two Guinness
World Records, right, so Jesus, which is crazy. Yeah, Okay,
So he kind of like took me under his wing. Okay,
answer to any and every question. And I was just
like I said, I'm a very visual learner. And I
started a YouTube in twenty nineteen, but I was still
(23:16):
coaching and during that time, I will segue a little
bit into the Guinness World Record.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
On his channel. We're playing horse but with the football
into the basketball hoop. He was juggling doing all this
crazy stuff, and I was like, let me just go deep.
I sunk it from deep, like from the grass, not
even on the court. I was on the grass and
I sunk it. And him having twenty two Guinness World Records,
He's like, Jenna, that might be a record. We look
it up. No girl has set the record. So that's
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not just oh, now you have a Guinness Wild Record.
You have to do it in front of a Guinness
World Record adjudicator or a drudge.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
So he had the hookup me, Josh and two other creators.
We had records to set. We had a day we
rented a gym and we had the adjudicator there. He
measured it all out. It was ninety feet with the
NFL ball. I couldn't bank it in. And I made
the NFL ball into a basketball. Who got ten feet?
And it was twenty nineteen and I got the Guinness
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record for it. That is, so you switched it because
you can't hit the back? Yeah, you just got it
because it was into a target you can't. It wasn't
like like, oh, bank it off. It's kind of big
because I'm like, can someone beat my record? And they
could throw it into the target as big as a pool. Oh,
I don't see what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
But so Josh got to get a field record because
I know him. Started learning YouTube, right yeah, And I
had enough of a following to when covid hit twenty
twenty coaching Goodbye teaching, goodbye write.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Everything shut down.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But me and my friends were like, we could still
make videos and make money, just don't bring.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
COVID around, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
So twenty twenty one, I got hit up by Bleacher
Report and House of Highlights hosting a showdown. Their first
showdown was a golf showdown with creators and it was
for a prize of one hundred thousand dollars golf. Their
second one. They hit me up and it was basketball. Okay,
they hit me up and I was the only girl
that was invited.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
It was eight creators.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I'm with Duke Dennis Supreme Dreams like these big creators.
I'm like, how am I here? I have the least
amount of followers, I'm the only girl. But it's knockout
basketball playground game two balls, a prize of one hundred
thousand dollars, and long story short.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I won. Oh my god, I'd be all the boys.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I didn't lose one life, you had three lives, and
I went viral. It was streamed, posted everywhere every big platform,
and I got probably not hitting you, twenty thousand more
followers overnight because of that one one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Mom and Dad are like, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Is this YouTube thing real?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But then brands started coming in pursuing me, and I'm like,
this might be the thing. Six months later, after that
first showdown, they invite me to protect my crown and
another showdown go karting, another one hundred thousand dollars prize
one of twelve creators. There's Jesser destroying Kim Wilder, these
big creators, and another you won. I won first place
(26:18):
another one hundred grand in the same year, Tisha, I like,
income is at an all time high right now. I
couldn't believe it. I'm not Danica Patrick right like. But
the thing that, like I the reason why I was
so successful in both of those is because of what
I've learned since I was a little kid, and especially
in college, is I got the repsin. I was told
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I was given one hundred thousand dollars opportunity. I didn't
just show up and wing it for the first one
for basketball, I got my repsin, I had the jim Key,
I was still a coach.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
For the go karting one.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
They told us it was an Anaheim that's an hour
and a half drive. I drove out there, went to
the exact course, practiced, probably spent like two hundred fifty
bucks learning work it, learning the track line like and
it paid off, Like I gave me the extra edge
and advantage and I won.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So since then that like, so what I say, twenty
twenty one, that was when I kind of was able
to prove to myself like I can do this. I
just won these competitions. Now brands are coming in. I'm
more than just basketball creator. I can go kart, I
could do football, right, So now I'm like, let me
just brand myself as this multi sport creator.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I mean, in hindsight, two hundred and fifty dollars or
one hundred thousand dollars a little tax.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That was a crazy, crazy year.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I got a lot of crap for being prepared, Like
the creators.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Were gone to me it I practiced. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Like I was not only the only girl in the
first one, but I was called a try hard. She's
taken it too seriously, but like that's what people who lose.
That's the type of excuses and the words, you know
what I mean. And same thing for the go karting one.
They're like, oh, she used her one hundred k from
her first win and spent it on a coach she.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I pulled up.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, so I called the glove I had racing bloods on.
That's actually really cute. I would do the same. I
love cute.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But they're calling me a try ard. They're calling me like, oh,
she's cheating, she has a coach. I'm like, it's just
called preparation, right.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, that is insane. But literally screw the haters, because
I mean, you're the one who want And also like,
coming from being an athlete your whole life, if I
stepped up to a plate, I don't care if it
was soccer or a sport that I don't care about.
If you give me a prize pool of one hundred
thousand dollars, thank you, I'm gonna cut your throat. Sure,
and it's a closure. I'm gonna cut your throat, like
(28:39):
I don't care if I suck. But that's also like
I'm a competitive person, so like for people to be like,
you're taking this way too seriously, you're a try hard
my bad for wanting to win this.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Like, yes, I am a try hard. I'm not too
cool to try hard. I'm not too cool to practice exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And so twenty twenty one, the year is popping off
for you.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You're now getting you know, brand deals and whatnot, and
you're growing and so now flash to this year, you're
still going. And so what has the journey of social
media been like for you? Has it been a steady growth.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Are you enjoying it? Yeah, really expanded.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It's a great question.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You know. At first, I was handling everything on my own,
negotiating my rates, the deals that I get, how much
money I'm getting paid, the deliverables I have to do.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I started to.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Realize, you know, like I got to quit coaching. I
can't do both anymore. So letting that go and then
getting a team behind me and not being afraid to delegate.
I mean, I remember giving cheap rates to editors, right,
and I got cheap work.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I got stuff that wasn't on time.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I got stuff that just wasn't even the direction I
told you guys to go into.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Now I'm like, okay, let me let me.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Pay a little more and I'll get quality work, you know.
But yeah, every year I've been elevating. I've been to
the last four Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I've been to the last like for NBA Finals, NBA
also weekends MLB World Series.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
It's been crazy. It's been crazy day.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I mean, social media can truly take you to amazing places.
And so I always tell people, like, whatever you're an
athlete in or whatever you're trying to pursue like, get
on social media because you literally don't know world take
you exactly literally.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And so you're alive on all platforms, right.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, I'm on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, snapchat.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And then are you the one that is manually sharing
all of your content or are you gotten to a
point now like you have people on your team that
can like, Okay, there's someone's gonna handle YouTube.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I'm gonna handle iig.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I Like I said, I pay homage to Josh for
teaching me the way with like YouTube and how to
do all this. I have now hired Josh. You post
on my TikTok and on my snapchat for me, no.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Way, So I'm not talking to Jenna on there.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah, not on TikTok or Snapchat.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Guys to know I'm not talking to Jenna ban Okay.
So he just cuts it up and is it for you?
You're like, you're just like all.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Trust Yes, I trust him.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
He knows my strengths, he knows the little cues to
put on the text overlay.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
I just honestly, and it's so relieving, Tisha, It's worth.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I wake up and I'm like, heck, yeah, Josh post
it on TikTok, like.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
It's scheduled out.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's nice, and I'm so I like thank myself for
trusting that and putting that investment into myself.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hostly, I think.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Like yeah, as being like independent entrepreneurs, like it is
really hard to trust someone else when it comes to
your work. Like I will say, when it comes to
my on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok, I am still
the one hitting the go button.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm still the.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
One pretty much capturing and everything, and it is exhausting.
And it's like I did it on instam, Oh my god,
I forgot to do it on TikTok and YouTube shorts.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh I can always do that, you know, my rab,
I'm not Oh gosh, I can't be everywhere all at once.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Do you feel like since you began, like the trends
and what people are into on social media are different
than what people want now, Like how do you feel
like it's been trying to keep up that like engagement
and retention?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know, like what I shared tog.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Is so different because people are not into like swinging
a golf club and looking cute is not good enough anymore.
Not that that was my only path, y'all, I play pro,
but you know, like now I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
try and storytell.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I'm going to create a brand.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay, I'll do some trick shots and then some other
things like I can't base my.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Whole page on that.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Like, yeah, I didn't feel like that resonated with my
people anymore. Like have you had to make a bit
of a switch in your content.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yes, totally.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I love how you talked about storytelling because I'm going
to try to lean into that more. I'm very like
spectacle type of content, meaning like I'm going for the
virility and I've been learning like that's cool, But if
I want to really build a community, I needed storytell.
I need to really kind of lean into more vulnerable side.
I think people have an idea of who Drenna Bandy is.
(32:52):
That's something that I'm actually going to start doing soon
now that I'm I'm a little bit settled down. And
then on top of what you said building brand, like
I have built my own female parent brand called game
Change Her, And that is really kind of where this
all makes sense for me. It's where I kind of
get to put on my coach's hat again. Like every
(33:12):
day when I was coaching. I love seeing those girls
talking to them about their boyfriends, their girlfriend. I knew
them by name, and I might have a bunch of
followers now, but I don't know them by name. I
don't know them personally sure, and that's something that I
definitely miss being a coach. So now Game Changer, it's
my true impact, true influence, and I feel like that
keeps me going every day because I think being called
(33:36):
an influencer. Back in the day, I felt like that
stigma behind it was like, Oh, she's probably just selling
her body, She's just exactly But I'm like, no, I
actually got substance. I have talent and I'm trying to
make an impact.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
When did you create game change her? And what was
like that moment for you? Like, no, I'm gonna make
this because I want to.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Do this now. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
It was a cool little thing happened when I was
in New York. I was with a brand and I
was playing basketball at one of the most known streetball courts,
the Cage at West Fourth, and a bunch of guys gathered.
If you beat me, you win these tickets whatever, And
it was just a bunch of guys and I saw
this little girl, bright pink sweater and she comes up
(34:27):
to me and she was like hi, and I was
like Hi, what's your name.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I'm Sophia. I'm like, hi, Sophia, I'm Jenna, and she
cut me off because you're Jenna Bandy. I watched all
your videos and I'm not kidding you, Tish.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Right there, I said, oh my god, I have to
do something for girls, specifically and directly for women. I
have an overwhelming male following. I think eighty percent of
my followers at least on Instagram or male sports. I'm
a chick whatever, right, Yeah, So I'm like, let me
do something as zech exactly for girls.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
And that's really that moment for me.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
So I launched Game Changer in twenty twenty four of January,
so it's trademarked. I got some apparel, it's a media company.
I have so many things I want to do with it,
and literally right now I'm talking with my team like,
what is the actual narrowed down direction. You know, we're
trying to just influence and empowered game changers all around
the world, not just in sports, but in law and medicine,
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whatever chosen passion.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
So what has been your favorites, like activation or event
that you've done through Game Changers so far, it.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Has to be the first event after the launch event.
It's kind of a full circle moment for me because
I was kind of put on with my one hundred
thousand dollars opportunity. I then put on an event where
I actually put up twenty thousand dollars and it was
I brought together a bunch of female basketball creators and
it was really cool because they all came without me
(35:52):
paying them. We cover their flight and hotel. It was
at the Mall of America shopping spree. Bunch of brands,
bunch of free products.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Right, but now you know.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
As creators, now no we need to get paid. Free
product is cool, Yeah yeah, yeah right, but when you
get paid and they all came without getting paid, which
was really cool. Long story short, it was a shooting
competition and the girl that hit the winning shot, she
had the least amount of followers, and I just think
it was.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
The best story. Yeah, they won.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
The twenty grand.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
It was just a full circle moment and it really
just kind of validated Game Changer and like wow, like
they're willing.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
To show up for me.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
It really like it proved to myself as well, and
not just outside, but like, wow, this is actually really
something that people believe in and we'll get behind.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
See.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I don't think people realize like how much goes on
to do something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But that's just like that's like so amazing a whole
other state.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It's a whole of the state and also at testament
to how good of a friend that you are, because
people don't show up for people that they don't love,
and your friends show up for you, you know, like
a quick parlay.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Same similar but different.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I hosted my first in my golf girl era event
last year, and I did something similar, not the Mall
of America and not fronting twenty thousand dollars, but I
hosted this big, you know, young girl event and all
these girls.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Looked at all you guys like superheroes.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
And Jenna was one of my brilliant patties and she
spell on my panel, and you showed up for me too.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I don't forget things like that, you know. So it's
it's really it.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Means a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
The fact that you even invited me had me out there,
like I said, like I love what.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
You're doing like we're aligned.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah, I feel like there's so much that matches up
between us, and so that inspired me to even though
it's not twenty thousand dollars prize at the end, like
that inspired me. Just the little details, your little sweaters,
you made, your photo booth.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I'm telling you everything, and.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
With all the prizes, I was like, oh, I got
to add a little auction at the end.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah, you know, really, yeah, it was really, it was
really great.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I actually wanted to ask you what has been your
favorite content piece that you have created?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Oh sucks, I know that one's hard.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It is hard, I want to say because it was impromptu,
It wasn't a brand deal.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
It was when I met Steph Curry. Oh gosh, I
mean that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So I was I was invited by the Clippers to
perform my Guinness World record during a timeout a minute
and ten seconds. And the whole thing was that it
was right after the Super Bowl, so football is still
like in the air, and if I make the shot
from full court at the NBA court, I'm technically beating
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my record. My record's ninety feet and a full NBA
court's ninety four feet. So they're like Okay, here's in
a bandy gettus a record holder. She's here to beat
her own record by four feet. Let's see what she
could do.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And So I'm there with Clippers and I specifically picked
that game because I knew they were playing the Warriors,
and I knew Steph Curry followed me, and.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I was like, maybe I get to meet him, maybe
I get a picture with him.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Right pregame, I'm on the court during warm up, Steph
Curry has this epic warm up. Everyone watches him and
we locked eyes and I'm like, oh crud, that's you know, like,
here we go. And I have the football on my
hand and he's in the same sideline as me. I'm
at half court rocking Clippers. He's clearly a Warriors player, right,
and he literally shoots the ball, looks at me, and
(39:09):
he goes, I am hired by the Clippers, right. I
asked my Clippers liaison, could I throw the ball to
Steph Curry? He goes, yes, this is pregame warmups of
a basketball game. I have a football. I throw him
the football. He catches it and then fumbles it. And
you probably get this. I literally was like, yes, because
(39:33):
you know why he wanted it back so I could
throw it to him again. Oh my god, exactly more
content right. Yeah, So everyone just at the corner of
their eyes are like football, what is going on? But
now he throws it back to me, and now everyone's
phones are out, and I'm like, this is amazing. So
I get the ball back. I throw it to him again.
He catches it, does a little touchdown dance.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
And then I thought he took my ball because he
started running into the tunnel with it. And the next
thing you know, he just turns and tosses it and
when I tell you, tishre it went to the other
side of the court. I was willing to run down
a grandma for this. I dropped the trailer and I
freaking sprinted caught that thing, held it up, and immediately
I just have tears in my eyes because it was
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just an impromptu viral moment for me.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
And I was like, holy crap, what just happened.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It was so fast.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
So I'm walking back to my clipper's lais on and
I'm like, did you get it? Because he had his phone.
Now I was like He's like yeah, And this big
guy in a warrior's Polo comes up to me and
he's like, come with me, and I'm like, crap, he
jigged his finger.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
This is against the rules.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Like, this is the NBA game, the football is in
the stadium. What's going on. I'm thinking the worst.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
He leads me down the tunnel and Steph is waiting
for me. He's like, why got that Clipper shirt on?
And I'm like, oh, they hired me to get into
a record, you know. He's like, well, good luck, you know,
and I'm a really big fan of you. He's just
dapping me up, man, like I'm this like superstar when
he's the legend, And it was just the coolest thing.
(41:05):
Got a picture with him, got to he said good luck,
but it was just so much more than meeting him
and getting a picture. I then went on and had
the time out and missed all ten throws, by the way,
but who cares because I still held the record and
I got a whole viral clip the selest moment.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I mean, that's such a moment. That was so cool.
So I know we touched on this outside of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
We're going to switch gears here, Like you've clearly had
so much success and being a creator and you're clearly
so renowned, But I don't really think people understand what
it takes behind the scenes to keep the you know,
the wheels turning, like we are our own entrepreneurs, yes,
and so like, how does it work for you behind
the scenes with your agents, how you handle your money,
(41:53):
how you handle your scheduling, all of it. Like, take
me behind the scenes of the life of Jenna Bandy quick.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
It's a lot. Hardest part is really just holding yourself accountable.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Sure, it's nice to wake up and not have a
nine to five, but then it's kind of like your
brain never stops. You're always constantly thinking, all right, I
posted this video. I know this is a banger, but
what's next? Yeah, you know you feel that like you're
never satisfied. Fully, I just think since twenty twenty one,
(42:24):
I have been on myself more. I've spent more money,
but I know that it's coming back in a way
where I'm getting more brand deals.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
So I wanted to ask you this and like, I
will be transparent back and you can share with me
how much you want to share.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Okay, what has been like.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
The largest you can give me a ballpark, largest deal
that you've ever had. Okay, okay, so annual deal.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Annual yeah, yeah, six six six six figures.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Okay, yes, because you said it, I'll see the same
back line has also been six figures as well, but
on the low side.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
But I will say it'sfiable. Okay, we we'll justify it.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Then, I think for anyone, because I get this question
a lot on my personal channel, I will say that,
like when it comes to these prices and whatnot, I
think people are always very like shell shocked to some degree.
But hopefully in listening to this, you guys realize how
much work goes behind it. And we're also personalities too,
Like we're not just compensated to do the post right,
we're compensated to show up, create a good time, yeah,
(43:25):
for everyone around us, a moment for everyone, whether it's
like you know, inspiring young girls or like you know,
showing off and doing a thing like that in itself
is like your job.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
In retrospect, though, when you think about when people are
kind of blown away, like wow, you get paid that much,
there is still kind of that feeling towards me because
I'm like, wow, like I get to do what I
love and I honestly, just like you, if you take
away the social media, you'd still be out there ripping
the golf ball. Yeah, I'd still be out there throwing
the football with my brother shooting hoops. So it's kind
(43:56):
of something like, Wow, I really get to do something
that I already was going to do. Now I'm just
I'm turning it on here and I'm I'm being a
little bit more strategic with it.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
For sure, No, for sure. Well, I appreciate your openness
because I don't think people really talk about that stuff
very much, and I think it.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Just is comforting to talk to someone else about it,
Like we are doing what we love. But it doesn't
mean that there isn't pains or stresses that come along
with it.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
And so this is my.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Last question for you, because I know we're already winding down,
which is so crazy, because like I feel like I
could talk to you forever, like we talked about your
whole life and whatnot. But like, what is Jenna Bandy
like behind the scenes, Like you're always on, You're always
so happy, and like you bring such a light to
other people. You're such a hype girl, right, Like you're
a team player. But like what is Jenna Bandy like
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behind closed doors?
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Honestly, I'm such a family girl. I still live very
close to my mom and dad. You know. I have
a twin brother, like I can't spend a birthday without him. Yeah,
and then like I'm in love with my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
Like, I'm just such a family girl. You know what,
I'll tell you. I am super emotional really, just even though.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
I'm so alpha competitive, talking shit, right, I am girly
and I think I take I think I take people
by surprise because they think, oh, you're talking shit with me, right. Yeah,
I'm very emotional. I wear my heart on my sleeve,
you know, I just get quiet.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah. I love that though. I love that you're open
about it though.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I mean it's really real being alpha women, especially in
a place where you're always on and you're front facing.
Like it's okay to be in your soft girl era too.
I mean it's okay to have a little and I
am a good cry.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
You'll do that, a little good cry.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, Yeah, I love that well. Jedna, thank you so
much for the time. Thank you so much for joining
the party, the party, the party you are.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Thank you for having me I'd love to come back anytime.
Have a little party.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
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Jenna. We did this fun thing.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We were like about done filming, and somehow we got
into this place where now Jah Rule and Jenna are
racing and I had then the go mark was when
I hit the shot, and then they were to race
to the green.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
However, Jenna was legitimately going to physically drive the.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Golf cart onto the green if we did not actually
physically stop her.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Not because I'm just so competitive, but because I don't
know the rules of golf.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ye, I don't know that you can't drive the golf cart.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And yes, so now you know. Now we know not
to drive on the green. We had to protect the green.
The wheels would definitely ruin it. But in hindsight, you
still won.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The race being Jah quit, jock quit.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What is going on, y'all? Welcome back to the party. Now,
this next guest I'm very excited for because she's probably
one of the most talented all around human beings that
I know, especially when it comes to sports and just athleticism.
But before I get into it, you already know the drill.
I'd like to share a little story about myself or
some words of wisdom for y'all to get to know
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me better. And today we're going to talk about how
I grew my platform. So I actually get this question
quite often in the DMS of how I became a
golf influencer, how I grew my following, how I became
a personality in all these things, I didn't wake up
with a platform to be able to use my voice
and all the things that I believe in. I began
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ten years ago, twenty fifteen, essentially when I came out
of college and I turned professional simultaneously. I started to
use social media at first just as a means to
expose my golf game and hope so that if just
one person saw my swing, or saw my scores, or
saw my ability, then maybe I can find one sponsor
that can really help me take on my professional golf career.
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Because my parents didn't have the means, but they were
in full emotional support and it was up to me
to make it happen, and so I did, and social
media was one of those ways. Then it came to
a point where social media took over and I was
starting to get more gigs and it outweighed the professional
golf and I started to get injured and blah blah
blah and it was time for me to walk away
from pro golf, and I took on social media more
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and took it seriously. That being said, I feel like
a lot of success in people trying to create platforms
come because they actually don't plan for it to happen.
A lot of times it's because of something that happened
out of passion, and then it turned into something real,
because when you work on something that you're passionate about,
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you can talk about it endlessly day after day after day.
And that is golf for me. And then come to realize,
now it's become a job, and so now what I
do and what I love are one and the same. Really,
there is no secret. It just comes with consistency. I
have just been consistent and I've posted quite literally for
ten years, three to five or seven days a week
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every week for ten years. There's been the occasional I'm
gonna take a week off, but really, because I love
what I do and I naturally like to share and
I'm a more open person. That's how often I've shared,
and that's just on Instagram. Then then came TikTok. I
jumped on the bandwagon of TikTok. Actually quite early. It
was twenty eighteen, It was very new, and I was
one of the first, if not the first female golfers
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on the app, which is why I've garnered the million
of followers that I have. I'm a short form girly,
but if I could change one thing, I would have
switched my platform from Instagram to YouTube, because there is
a lot more value in YouTube, especially ten years ago.
Long form content can easily funnel down into shorter form content,
versus if you're a short form person, you have to
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completely create new content for your long form and followers,
for some reason, does not stick in reverse. YouTubers can
get followers transferred onto their shorter platforms, but people who
are bigger on short form platforms, it's found to be
a lot harder to gain subscribers or more followers on
longer form platforms. So, besides consistency, I think the most
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important part is also finding your niche. When you find
your niche, especially one that you're passionate about and you
can talk about NonStop, and you own that niche, you
can then conquer the next pillars beside it that you
want to achieve, and then from there you get to
grow outwardly. As opposed to Oh, I'm gonna grow my
platform and be like a lifestyle person. Well honeing, you're
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up against the world. But for me, it was like, oh,
I'm a female golfer and I started, you know, social
media during a time when there wasn't much.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I stood out.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Of course, I had to go and move with the
ebbs and flows of social media because what was popular
back then and what worked back then doesn't stick now.
So for me, I found it as an opportunity to expand.
So over time, I thought, now, let me show off
that I was a broadcast journalist. Let me show off
my interviewing skills, let me show off me hosting, let
me show off me speaking, Let me show off my
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instru because I'm a certified instructor. Let me show off
being a trainer because I was a Fitbit trainer for
so many years, you name it. But I had to
own my niche first before I branched out. And now
I get to talk about women's sports. Now I get
to be an advocate for the LGBTQ plus community. Now
I'm an advocate for the AAPI community. But it all
began because I had one home base. I had one
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foundation first, before I built all these different pillars. I
think conquering your niche will really not be a shortcut,
but will be your fastest way to success as opposed
to taking on such a large niche. And then, as
I already touched on, you have to be okay with change.
Back then, it was just fun trick shots and short
entertaining clips. And then when TikTok came, it was a
(05:43):
bunch of fun dances, which was great for me because
I used to be a dancer, so that was a fun,
quick moment for me. But now what really sticks is
brand storytelling, the behind the scenes, the days in the life,
you know, the raw, raw emotions. So you have to
be okay with sharing things of that nature. But yeah,
I didn't wake up with a platform. Can you still
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do it during this day?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? Absolutely. You gotta be consistent, you.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Gotta find your niche, you gotta love it and be
passionate about it, and you gotta just roll with the
punches of social media.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But I promise you it's gonna be worth it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And so, without further ado, I'd like to introduce my
next guest, because she's someone who conquers social media like
a beast, and she's so talented. I'm really excited because
she's actually one of the top sports creators in the US.
She earned her chops playing D two basketball in college,
and though she didn't pursue professional sports, she went on
to hold a Guinness World Record for the farthest behind
the back basketball shop. She's also an avid golf player,
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which is basically how I met. In fact, we're both
a part of the People's League, which is a new
creator league in golf that airs on YouTube. In addition
to all of this, she also started an amazing nonprofit
called Game Change Her, which empowers and supports the growth
of next generation of women leaders and athletes. We talk
all about how she was inspired to start creating sports content,
and how she even got into golf, and what it
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means for her to help other women reach their goals.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So, without further ado, Jenna Bandy, Welcome to the par t.
I know the party. Yeah, very excited to have you.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I feel like every time we've been able to hang
out or get together, like it's just always a good time.
Like you're always just such good vibes, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Just aligned both we get each other. Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You're good energy. We're kind of in the same we're
in the same world.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We are, we really are. So we're gonna get into it.
So we have a fun game.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, So we're gonna we're gonna play two truths in
a lie and this is about you. So you're gonna
tell everybody which one is a lie? Okay, okay, right, Okay,
here's the first three. All right, you're a twin. Your
dad trained Tom Cruise to bartend for the movie Cocktail.
You once hit a half court shot during an NBA
halftime show.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Which one's a lie?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The last one is a lie?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's right, So you haven't hit a half court shot
during an NBA halftime show. No, okay, and Zoe, big deal.
Your dad just trained Tom Cruise. That's actually it's actually crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Like my dad has insane coordination and he he like
trained and would compete in Olympic competitions for flair barton.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
He invented the sport.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
My dad is known as the grandfather of flair bar Like, yeah,
he's flipping all the stuff. And for that movie Cocktail,
Tom Cruise had a scene where he had to do
all that.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
My dad trained him.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That is what a what a while heads really like,
I appreciate that I am not an old head, but
I very much appreciate that. I've done a few ads
where I was attempting to do things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay, not that easy. I broke something. It's hard.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's not easy. Okay, to truth and a lie. You
once raced job rule in a golf cart. You cannot
stand pick a ball.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You hold a Guinness World record. Which one's a lie?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
None of them are alive.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Oh no, second, one second. You love a ball, I'm
addicted to You're really You're really good at it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So y'all she loves pickle ball, and yes he has
race jaw role in a golf cart.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I was there. You did the shotguns start, but I did.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I was the you know, fast and the furious girl
like the flags. I was that Asian girl golf ball start.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I had to start.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's right, we did that, Okay, but now we're actually
going to get into it. So I know, I know
all about Jenna Bandy and you're come up because we
spent some time together. But we got to start from
the very very tough with those of you who don't
know Jenna. She's like one of the most talented human
beings that I have ever met when it comes to sports,
especially like she picks up a club, she picks up
any kind of ball, whether you kick it, whether you
throw it, she can do it. If she's never done
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it before and you told her to do it on
the spot, she can probably do it. Cricket can probably
do it. And so like, where did this even begin?
You just like love sports growing up?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Or Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I have three other siblings and I have a twin brother,
but my older brother is the one I really pay
homage to when it comes to sports and my competitive spirit.
He's only two years older than me. He played Major
League baseball, and growing up he just never let me win,
would talk trash to me, and and when I couldn't
do things, he would teach me.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Took me under his wing and taught me how to
do things no way.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, every sport football, basketball, baseball, and I loved it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So from there, you ended up taking basketball more seriously
than amongst the sports.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You know, it was kind of a debate for me.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I loved softball and basketball, and I was great at both,
and I was getting recruited for both, but I just
liked basketball more so.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I chose to play that in college.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That's crazy and so so you literally had scholarships in
both sports and then you chose basketball.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And then what school did you play for?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I went to cal State Monterey Bay Division two of
Northern California.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then what was your experience like playing collegiate basketball?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Man, I think everyone can attest to this. College is
really where like you find out who you are. Truly,
you're tested a lot before college. My senior year, I
tore my ACL and that was a tough experience because
I was in Terray County's finest. I'm from here, I'm
from LA Yeah, and I was to go to a
small D one and that's what I wanted to do.
But then I tore my a CL went Division two.
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I ended up tearing my other ACL my third year.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And in college in college, yes, and so to on
both my acls. Mom and dad were kind of like, Johnny,
you should probably start thinking about other things in basketball
in your career after college because I really wanted to
play pro. That was the dream growing up, was to
play professional sports, and I wanted it to be basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And so then after your basketball career and not turning
on pro you were still able to parlay it into
what you do now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Honestly, I didn't get right into content creation right after
college as a coach. For five years, I coached girls'
basketball and saw the rest of my life as a
teacher and a coach. I was just I posted some
clips I'm playing in this rec league and they went viral,
but I never.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Took it seriously. Honestly, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, Okay, we're going to get into the content creation,
but I want to learn a little bit more about
you and your family at any point, whether it was
your brother or your family, did you ever you know,
growing up as an elie athlete, a lot of crazy
athlete stories are their families put a lot of pressure
on them. Did you ever experience that or was that
always just like a fun competitive dynamic.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
No, you know, I'm so thankful that my parents never
pressed me to, you know, get reps in like practice.
It was just something that me and my brother did
all the time. And I would see some of my
teammates and friends with their parents like that, and I
could see why they fell out of love for their sport,
and that just wasn't the case for me. I'm so
happy that that wasn't the issue. You know, so I
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heard that.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, I know that your big brother actually says
that you are the best athlete in the family.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Wow, okay, well what do you agree?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
It's crazy? Jet Jet is my bigger brother. And to
my face, he will never say that, Tisha, he will never.
He will call me like you're a bomb, Like you're
my little sister. You're a Jet Bandy's sister. Yeah, that's
what I was known by in high school.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But like in the article in the paper, when news
people are asking him who's the better athlete, he would
say his little sister Jenna. And maybe one day he'll
tell me that to my face, I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And so now you're playing a bunch of different sports.
At what point did you ever swing a golf club?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You know what I want to say, just like at
top golf. Okay, yeah, that makes sense because I grew
up playing softball. I have a swing like I understand,
like loading and getting my hips through. And then honestly,
I'm a very visual learner. Just watch someone. I don't
know what if I was doing it right, but I
I know I could smack it and I said, think
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till this day, I'm not doing it completely.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right, like how many years ago you think?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Honestly recently, like in the last years, I've never played
a full round of golf until.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Until the league, yes, okay, which we will get into. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So I have been around golf obviously in my whole life,
and golf is just not a sport that you pick
up and naturally just like pound the ball.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's not anyone's nature.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
There's not really anyone that I could say that it's
picked up the club in their first couple go rounds
and like.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Can hit it like one fifty to two hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And I remember when I saw your video at a
top golf event that we were both at PGA two K.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They had a big event and I saw your swinging out.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I was like, what the fuck? I was like the
what just happened? And I think I was just so
taken back because you crushed that. And so it's just
been from top golfing and.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Then seriously and just someone being like, hey, to trust
try this with your elbow or your leg, and I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah,
I'm very coachable, very I could catch on the things
very quickly. But I will say golf, out of all sports,
is the toughest. I do athlete my way through a
lot of first sports that I try, and golf has
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been the hardest. Right now, if I picked up a club,
I don't know if I could hit ten in a
row solid on the.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Door like that. Okay, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I will say that the one thing about golf compared
to other sports is that it really does take a
lot of time. You can crush a few, especially when
you're newer into the game, but it's really about like
how often can you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And that takes time.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And so now that you're more involved with golf, like
I've been seeing a lot of my gigs, which has
been so exciting. I love seeing outside people from golf
come into it because that means it's growing. What has
been your most favorite part about learning of golf and
your least favorite about learning about golf?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh? My most favorite part, I would say just the
fact that, like trying something new for me, it's fun
to kind of be a freshman in something again, you
know what I mean. And I'm just super open to
everyone's insight. It is a little bit information overload, but
like Yes. What I think is so exciting is seeing
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people like you, Tisha and Troy and all these other
professionals and seeing how you guys could literally place the ball.
I'm just trying to smack it straight, and You're like, oh,
I could fade it, i could hook it at it.
I'm gonna put a little more loft on it, And
I'm like, Wow, the finesse is incredible, and like I
could do that with a basketball or a football. But
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it's just honestly amazing to see.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That you have had a taste of, like kind of
being competitive in golf. Do you feel that competitive edge
in all the sports you do, even in golf or
is it just like, Nah, golf is for fun, basketball
is for serious.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
No, I definitely feel that competitive edge.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Like being that I'm the least experience in the people's league,
it kind of pisses me off. I'm not used to
being like kind of that below average person anywhere, to
be honest, especially performance wise. So I am determined to
get better. Like I've made the time this week where
I'm going to the driving range. I want to be
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able to hang yeah people when I just come I
know I'm not going to be elite, right, but I
want to be able to hang.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, I mean right now on way.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So then would you say that among sports, golf is
the most difficult mentally or do you feel like it's
just as challenging in other sports?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Right now, it is the most difficult for me because
it's something like I said, I can't just athlete my
way through. Sure, I definitely have to put more time
into it. However, I think baseball or softball is a
little bit more of a challenge because you have to
stay positive through the failures. For instance, baseball or softball,
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you can fail seven times out of ten and that
is successful because that means you went three for ten
and that's a batting average of three hundred, right, Whereas
in basketball, if I go three for ten.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
That's really bad.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So okay, god Yeah, So in baseball you're failing more
times than you're succeeding, so you have to.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Kind of get used to that, got it.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Baseball is so hard you think about it, ninety mile
an hour fastball coming your way and you have to
read it and place it whatever. So you're failing more
times than you're succeeding. Just for instance, like I remember
dealing with my brother during the time he was in
the bigs, and like he just never wanted to talk
about baseball. It's so mentally taxing to you know, and
when you get in a slump, like it's the hardest
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thing to come out of because you're already in your head,
you're already failing more tight like you know.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So that's interesting. I mean, so in golf, it's actually
very similar. I've never I don't know anything about baseball
spoken with that degree. I just watch it. I eat
a hot dog, it looks dope. I want to dress
cute in my outfit. But like in golf, just like that,
like you face many more failures than you do success.
Even if you're let's say, if a pro hits it
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majority of the time in the fairway on the green,
they're making their putts to them because they're such high
level players, it can still be a fail if it
wasn't hit solid and in the middle of the fairway.
Do you get what I'm saying, Like, there are different
ways to rate your wins and losses. You can hit
it solid and then be out of bounds. That doesn't
mean anything just because I hit the center of the
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club base. But I hit out of balance. That's a
loss for me, now, Okay. And then when you think
of the way golf is, there's only one winner. You
got about one hundred and forty people in the field.
You are losing week in and week out, right, because
if you're not first or last in some people's mindset,
right yeah, in golf, well if you're fifthy, that's pretty good,
like you know, you're getting paid. And so it's really
interesting how you speak about the baseball mindset, because in
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golf it really is a lot of failure. And when
you think about it, it's four and a half hours
of around, right, wow, So for that long you better
stay positive, especially if you had like a shot that
like really fuck things up, say like just throw your
rhythm off, you hit it into the water, hit into
the water again. You can be so rattled, you can
be so scared to set up and hit again. You're
trying to avoid all the waters. Now you're thinking of
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don't do this, don't do this versus what you want
to execute, and you can psych yourself out. So I
feel like that's pretty similar to that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You know, just what you just kind of made me
realize too, is that this is an individual sport that
I haven't played individual sports. I have my teammates to
lift me up, to feed off of you.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, and wow, I still.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Think I'm in my little baby steps, you know, my
little baby era of learning golf. Like, once I get better,
I feel like I will start to get more of
that pain for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean, I don't want you to have pain. It
pleas oh byell me.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, So now we're going to talk about the People's League. So,
for those of you who don't know, the People's League
is actually the first creator league that was created for golf,
and it's based on YouTube. Me and Jenna are within
the league. I'm the host of the league, but I
actually think I want to play.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
When I jump in, I'm happy to jump wherever they
need me. Oh my god, yeah, I'm so happy. And
so Jenna, talk to me about the People's League. How
did you get involved?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What made you want to join? Especially being so new
in your golf career.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I pride myself from branding myself as that multi sport
creator and so yeah, I have posted some golf content
and I got hit up by the People's League. And
it's kind of cool because like, I'm not the typical
golf creator my fans who are more football, basketball, baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But also I think it's a smart move.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Honestly, I'm People's lead to bring me in there, even
though I'm not the best golfer. I'm going to bring
that publicity and the entertainment. And you know, for the
first event, I was hurt, My knee was hurt, and
all I could do was.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Chip yeah right, oh wait, we had tih we got
her chip right.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Also say People's League.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I think it's so smart, and I think they really
created an event where it was intimate. It wasn't just
come in, do your deliverable whatever and get out. Yeah,
we had a dinner, we spent the night. We really
got the chance to get to know each other, and
I really appreciated that. It was a different experience than
I was than I've ever had before with a brand.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How long have you been doing social media now?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So I say I've been two feet in since twenty
twenty one. Before that, I was just kind of flirting
with it, testing the waters, didn't take it seriously, had
no pride in it. I was a coach, I was
coach Denna, coach Bandy, I saw the rest of my
life as a varsity head coach and teaching pe or
whatever I wanted to teach.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, I thought it was pee at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah yeah, Like was it a few viral videos that
really like made you put two feet in? Like at
what point were you like, Okay, no, Like this is
the thing, this is a job.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I want to do this.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So since I graduated college in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Okay, same year, Wow, twenty fifteen. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I haven't really met many people who graduated
saying shown a rage.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
We're still twenty five, y'all, don't play games.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I had one foot in with content creation, didn't take
it seriously. I was learning from a guy named Josh
Horton who was doing YouTube for years making money just
spot a home by my parents home based off of
his YouTube revenue alone. And he's like, hey, I would
love to have you a girl on my channel. We
do a bunch of sports stuff. I'm like, I could
do stuff when I'm not coaching. So I just learned
(22:50):
from him how to do an intro, how to post it,
you know, like but little a.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Trick shot guy.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, okay, okay, you guys, phenomenal crazy twenty two Guinness
World Records, right, so Jesus, which is crazy. Yeah, Okay,
So he kind of like took me under his wing. Okay,
answer to any and every question. And I was just
like I said, I'm a very visual learner. And I
started a YouTube in twenty nineteen, but I was still
(23:16):
coaching and during that time, I will segue a little
bit into the Guinness World Record.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
On his channel. We're playing horse but with the football
into the basketball hoop. He was juggling doing all this
crazy stuff, and I was like, let me just go deep.
I sunk it from deep, like from the grass, not
even on the court. I was on the grass and
I sunk it. And him having twenty two Guinness World Records,
He's like, Jenna, that might be a record. We look
it up. No girl has set the record. So that's
(23:45):
not just oh, now you have a Guinness Wild Record.
You have to do it in front of a Guinness
World Record adjudicator or a drudge.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
So he had the hookup me, Josh and two other creators.
We had records to set. We had a day we
rented a gym and we had the adjudicator there. He
measured it all out. It was ninety feet with the
NFL ball. I couldn't bank it in. And I made
the NFL ball into a basketball. Who got ten feet?
And it was twenty nineteen and I got the Guinness
(24:14):
record for it. That is, so you switched it because
you can't hit the back? Yeah, you just got it
because it was into a target you can't. It wasn't
like like, oh, bank it off. It's kind of big
because I'm like, can someone beat my record? And they
could throw it into the target as big as a pool. Oh,
I don't see what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
But so Josh got to get a field record because
I know him. Started learning YouTube, right yeah, And I
had enough of a following to when covid hit twenty
twenty coaching Goodbye teaching, goodbye write.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Everything shut down.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But me and my friends were like, we could still
make videos and make money, just don't bring.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
COVID around, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
So twenty twenty one, I got hit up by Bleacher
Report and House of Highlights hosting a showdown. Their first
showdown was a golf showdown with creators and it was
for a prize of one hundred thousand dollars golf. Their
second one. They hit me up and it was basketball. Okay,
they hit me up and I was the only girl
that was invited.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
It was eight creators.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I'm with Duke Dennis Supreme Dreams like these big creators.
I'm like, how am I here? I have the least
amount of followers, I'm the only girl. But it's knockout
basketball playground game two balls, a prize of one hundred
thousand dollars, and long story short.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I won. Oh my god, I'd be all the boys.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I didn't lose one life, you had three lives, and
I went viral. It was streamed, posted everywhere every big platform,
and I got probably not hitting you, twenty thousand more
followers overnight because of that one one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Mom and Dad are like, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Is this YouTube thing real?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But then brands started coming in pursuing me, and I'm like,
this might be the thing. Six months later, after that
first showdown, they invite me to protect my crown and
another showdown go karting, another one hundred thousand dollars prize
one of twelve creators. There's Jesser destroying Kim Wilder, these
big creators, and another you won. I won first place
(26:18):
another one hundred grand in the same year, Tisha, I like,
income is at an all time high right now. I
couldn't believe it. I'm not Danica Patrick right like. But
the thing that, like I the reason why I was
so successful in both of those is because of what
I've learned since I was a little kid, and especially
in college, is I got the repsin. I was told
(26:42):
I was given one hundred thousand dollars opportunity. I didn't
just show up and wing it for the first one
for basketball, I got my repsin, I had the jim Key,
I was still a coach.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
For the go karting one.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
They told us it was an Anaheim that's an hour
and a half drive. I drove out there, went to
the exact course, practiced, probably spent like two hundred fifty
bucks learning work it, learning the track line like and
it paid off, Like I gave me the extra edge
and advantage and I won.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
So since then that like, so what I say, twenty
twenty one, that was when I kind of was able
to prove to myself like I can do this. I
just won these competitions. Now brands are coming in. I'm
more than just basketball creator. I can go kart, I
could do football, right, So now I'm like, let me
just brand myself as this multi sport creator.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I mean, in hindsight, two hundred and fifty dollars or
one hundred thousand dollars a little tax.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That was a crazy, crazy year.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I got a lot of crap for being prepared, Like
the creators.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Were gone to me it I practiced. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Like I was not only the only girl in the
first one, but I was called a try hard. She's
taken it too seriously, but like that's what people who lose.
That's the type of excuses and the words, you know
what I mean. And same thing for the go karting one.
They're like, oh, she used her one hundred k from
her first win and spent it on a coach she.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I pulled up.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, so I called the glove I had racing bloods on.
That's actually really cute. I would do the same. I
love cute.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But they're calling me a try ard. They're calling me like, oh,
she's cheating, she has a coach. I'm like, it's just
called preparation, right.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, that is insane. But literally screw the haters, because
I mean, you're the one who want And also like,
coming from being an athlete your whole life, if I
stepped up to a plate, I don't care if it
was soccer or a sport that I don't care about.
If you give me a prize pool of one hundred
thousand dollars, thank you, I'm gonna cut your throat. Sure,
and it's a closure. I'm gonna cut your throat, like
(28:39):
I don't care if I suck. But that's also like
I'm a competitive person, so like for people to be like,
you're taking this way too seriously, you're a try hard
my bad for wanting to win this.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Like, yes, I am a try hard. I'm not too
cool to try hard. I'm not too cool to practice exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And so twenty twenty one, the year is popping off
for you.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You're now getting you know, brand deals and whatnot, and
you're growing and so now flash to this year, you're
still going. And so what has the journey of social
media been like for you? Has it been a steady growth.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Are you enjoying it? Yeah, really expanded.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It's a great question.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You know. At first, I was handling everything on my own,
negotiating my rates, the deals that I get, how much
money I'm getting paid, the deliverables I have to do.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I started to.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Realize, you know, like I got to quit coaching. I
can't do both anymore. So letting that go and then
getting a team behind me and not being afraid to delegate.
I mean, I remember giving cheap rates to editors, right,
and I got cheap work.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I got stuff that wasn't on time.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I got stuff that just wasn't even the direction I
told you guys to go into.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Now I'm like, okay, let me let me.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Pay a little more and I'll get quality work, you know.
But yeah, every year I've been elevating. I've been to
the last four Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I've been to the last like for NBA Finals, NBA
also weekends MLB World Series.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
It's been crazy. It's been crazy day.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I mean, social media can truly take you to amazing places.
And so I always tell people, like, whatever you're an
athlete in or whatever you're trying to pursue like, get
on social media because you literally don't know world take
you exactly literally.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And so you're alive on all platforms, right.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, I'm on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, snapchat.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And then are you the one that is manually sharing
all of your content or are you gotten to a
point now like you have people on your team that
can like, Okay, there's someone's gonna handle YouTube.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I'm gonna handle iig.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I Like I said, I pay homage to Josh for
teaching me the way with like YouTube and how to
do all this. I have now hired Josh. You post
on my TikTok and on my snapchat for me, no.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Way, So I'm not talking to Jenna on there.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah, not on TikTok or Snapchat.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Guys to know I'm not talking to Jenna ban Okay.
So he just cuts it up and is it for you?
You're like, you're just like all.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Trust Yes, I trust him.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
He knows my strengths, he knows the little cues to
put on the text overlay.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
I just honestly, and it's so relieving, Tisha, It's worth.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I wake up and I'm like, heck, yeah, Josh post
it on TikTok, like.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
It's scheduled out.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's nice, and I'm so I like thank myself for
trusting that and putting that investment into myself.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hostly, I think.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Like yeah, as being like independent entrepreneurs, like it is
really hard to trust someone else when it comes to
your work. Like I will say, when it comes to
my on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok, I am still
the one hitting the go button.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm still the.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
One pretty much capturing and everything, and it is exhausting.
And it's like I did it on instam, Oh my god,
I forgot to do it on TikTok and YouTube shorts.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh I can always do that, you know, my rab,
I'm not Oh gosh, I can't be everywhere all at once.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Do you feel like since you began, like the trends
and what people are into on social media are different
than what people want now, Like how do you feel
like it's been trying to keep up that like engagement
and retention?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know, like what I shared tog.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Is so different because people are not into like swinging
a golf club and looking cute is not good enough anymore.
Not that that was my only path, y'all, I play pro,
but you know, like now I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
try and storytell.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I'm going to create a brand.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay, I'll do some trick shots and then some other
things like I can't base my.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Whole page on that.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Like, yeah, I didn't feel like that resonated with my
people anymore. Like have you had to make a bit
of a switch in your content.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yes, totally.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I love how you talked about storytelling because I'm going
to try to lean into that more. I'm very like
spectacle type of content, meaning like I'm going for the
virility and I've been learning like that's cool, But if
I want to really build a community, I needed storytell.
I need to really kind of lean into more vulnerable side.
I think people have an idea of who Drenna Bandy is.
(32:52):
That's something that I'm actually going to start doing soon
now that I'm I'm a little bit settled down. And
then on top of what you said building brand, like
I have built my own female parent brand called game
Change Her, And that is really kind of where this
all makes sense for me. It's where I kind of
get to put on my coach's hat again. Like every
(33:12):
day when I was coaching. I love seeing those girls
talking to them about their boyfriends, their girlfriend. I knew
them by name, and I might have a bunch of
followers now, but I don't know them by name. I
don't know them personally sure, and that's something that I
definitely miss being a coach. So now Game Changer, it's
my true impact, true influence, and I feel like that
keeps me going every day because I think being called
(33:36):
an influencer. Back in the day, I felt like that
stigma behind it was like, Oh, she's probably just selling
her body, She's just exactly But I'm like, no, I
actually got substance. I have talent and I'm trying to
make an impact.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
When did you create game change her? And what was
like that moment for you? Like, no, I'm gonna make
this because I want to.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Do this now. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
It was a cool little thing happened when I was
in New York. I was with a brand and I
was playing basketball at one of the most known streetball courts,
the Cage at West Fourth, and a bunch of guys gathered.
If you beat me, you win these tickets whatever, And
it was just a bunch of guys and I saw
this little girl, bright pink sweater and she comes up
(34:27):
to me and she was like hi, and I was
like Hi, what's your name.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I'm Sophia. I'm like, hi, Sophia, I'm Jenna, and she
cut me off because you're Jenna Bandy. I watched all
your videos and I'm not kidding you, Tish.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Right there, I said, oh my god, I have to
do something for girls, specifically and directly for women. I
have an overwhelming male following. I think eighty percent of
my followers at least on Instagram or male sports. I'm
a chick whatever, right, Yeah, So I'm like, let me
do something as zech exactly for girls.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
And that's really that moment for me.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
So I launched Game Changer in twenty twenty four of January,
so it's trademarked. I got some apparel, it's a media company.
I have so many things I want to do with it,
and literally right now I'm talking with my team like,
what is the actual narrowed down direction. You know, we're
trying to just influence and empowered game changers all around
the world, not just in sports, but in law and medicine,
(35:22):
whatever chosen passion.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
So what has been your favorites, like activation or event
that you've done through Game Changers so far, it.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Has to be the first event after the launch event.
It's kind of a full circle moment for me because
I was kind of put on with my one hundred
thousand dollars opportunity. I then put on an event where
I actually put up twenty thousand dollars and it was
I brought together a bunch of female basketball creators and
it was really cool because they all came without me
(35:52):
paying them. We cover their flight and hotel. It was
at the Mall of America shopping spree. Bunch of brands,
bunch of free products.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Right, but now you know.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
As creators, now no we need to get paid. Free
product is cool, Yeah yeah, yeah right, but when you
get paid and they all came without getting paid, which
was really cool. Long story short, it was a shooting
competition and the girl that hit the winning shot, she
had the least amount of followers, and I just think
it was.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
The best story. Yeah, they won.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
The twenty grand.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
It was just a full circle moment and it really
just kind of validated Game Changer and like wow, like
they're willing.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
To show up for me.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
It really like it proved to myself as well, and
not just outside, but like, wow, this is actually really
something that people believe in and we'll get behind.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
See.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I don't think people realize like how much goes on
to do something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But that's just like that's like so amazing a whole
other state.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It's a whole of the state and also at testament
to how good of a friend that you are, because
people don't show up for people that they don't love,
and your friends show up for you, you know, like
a quick parlay.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Same similar but different.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I hosted my first in my golf girl era event
last year, and I did something similar, not the Mall
of America and not fronting twenty thousand dollars, but I
hosted this big, you know, young girl event and all
these girls.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Looked at all you guys like superheroes.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
And Jenna was one of my brilliant patties and she
spell on my panel, and you showed up for me too.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I don't forget things like that, you know. So it's
it's really it.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Means a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
The fact that you even invited me had me out there,
like I said, like I love what.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
You're doing like we're aligned.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah, I feel like there's so much that matches up
between us, and so that inspired me to even though
it's not twenty thousand dollars prize at the end, like
that inspired me. Just the little details, your little sweaters,
you made, your photo booth.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I'm telling you everything, and.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
With all the prizes, I was like, oh, I got
to add a little auction at the end.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah, you know, really, yeah, it was really, it was
really great.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I actually wanted to ask you what has been your
favorite content piece that you have created?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Oh sucks, I know that one's hard.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It is hard, I want to say because it was impromptu,
It wasn't a brand deal.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
It was when I met Steph Curry. Oh gosh, I
mean that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So I was I was invited by the Clippers to
perform my Guinness World record during a timeout a minute
and ten seconds. And the whole thing was that it
was right after the Super Bowl, so football is still
like in the air, and if I make the shot
from full court at the NBA court, I'm technically beating
(38:26):
my record. My record's ninety feet and a full NBA
court's ninety four feet. So they're like Okay, here's in
a bandy gettus a record holder. She's here to beat
her own record by four feet. Let's see what she
could do.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And So I'm there with Clippers and I specifically picked
that game because I knew they were playing the Warriors,
and I knew Steph Curry followed me, and.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I was like, maybe I get to meet him, maybe
I get a picture with him.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Right pregame, I'm on the court during warm up, Steph
Curry has this epic warm up. Everyone watches him and
we locked eyes and I'm like, oh crud, that's you know, like,
here we go. And I have the football on my
hand and he's in the same sideline as me. I'm
at half court rocking Clippers. He's clearly a Warriors player, right,
and he literally shoots the ball, looks at me, and
(39:09):
he goes, I am hired by the Clippers, right. I
asked my Clippers liaison, could I throw the ball to
Steph Curry? He goes, yes, this is pregame warmups of
a basketball game. I have a football. I throw him
the football. He catches it and then fumbles it. And
you probably get this. I literally was like, yes, because
(39:33):
you know why he wanted it back so I could
throw it to him again. Oh my god, exactly more
content right. Yeah, So everyone just at the corner of
their eyes are like football, what is going on? But
now he throws it back to me, and now everyone's
phones are out, and I'm like, this is amazing. So
I get the ball back. I throw it to him again.
He catches it, does a little touchdown dance.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
And then I thought he took my ball because he
started running into the tunnel with it. And the next
thing you know, he just turns and tosses it and
when I tell you, tishre it went to the other
side of the court. I was willing to run down
a grandma for this. I dropped the trailer and I
freaking sprinted caught that thing, held it up, and immediately
I just have tears in my eyes because it was
(40:18):
just an impromptu viral moment for me.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
And I was like, holy crap, what just happened.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It was so fast.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
So I'm walking back to my clipper's lais on and
I'm like, did you get it? Because he had his phone.
Now I was like He's like yeah, And this big
guy in a warrior's Polo comes up to me and
he's like, come with me, and I'm like, crap, he
jigged his finger.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
This is against the rules.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Like, this is the NBA game, the football is in
the stadium. What's going on. I'm thinking the worst.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
He leads me down the tunnel and Steph is waiting
for me. He's like, why got that Clipper shirt on?
And I'm like, oh, they hired me to get into
a record, you know. He's like, well, good luck, you know,
and I'm a really big fan of you. He's just
dapping me up, man, like I'm this like superstar when
he's the legend, And it was just the coolest thing.
(41:05):
Got a picture with him, got to he said good luck,
but it was just so much more than meeting him
and getting a picture. I then went on and had
the time out and missed all ten throws, by the way,
but who cares because I still held the record and
I got a whole viral clip the selest moment.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I mean, that's such a moment. That was so cool.
So I know we touched on this outside of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
We're going to switch gears here, Like you've clearly had
so much success and being a creator and you're clearly
so renowned, But I don't really think people understand what
it takes behind the scenes to keep the you know,
the wheels turning, like we are our own entrepreneurs, yes,
and so like, how does it work for you behind
the scenes with your agents, how you handle your money,
(41:53):
how you handle your scheduling, all of it. Like, take
me behind the scenes of the life of Jenna Bandy quick.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
It's a lot. Hardest part is really just holding yourself accountable.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Sure, it's nice to wake up and not have a
nine to five, but then it's kind of like your
brain never stops. You're always constantly thinking, all right, I
posted this video. I know this is a banger, but
what's next? Yeah, you know you feel that like you're
never satisfied. Fully, I just think since twenty twenty one,
(42:24):
I have been on myself more. I've spent more money,
but I know that it's coming back in a way
where I'm getting more brand deals.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
So I wanted to ask you this and like, I
will be transparent back and you can share with me
how much you want to share.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Okay, what has been like.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
The largest you can give me a ballpark, largest deal
that you've ever had. Okay, okay, so annual deal.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Annual yeah, yeah, six six six six figures.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Okay, yes, because you said it, I'll see the same
back line has also been six figures as well, but
on the low side.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
But I will say it'sfiable. Okay, we we'll justify it.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Then, I think for anyone, because I get this question
a lot on my personal channel, I will say that,
like when it comes to these prices and whatnot, I
think people are always very like shell shocked to some degree.
But hopefully in listening to this, you guys realize how
much work goes behind it. And we're also personalities too,
Like we're not just compensated to do the post right,
we're compensated to show up, create a good time, yeah,
(43:25):
for everyone around us, a moment for everyone, whether it's
like you know, inspiring young girls or like you know,
showing off and doing a thing like that in itself
is like your job.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
In retrospect, though, when you think about when people are
kind of blown away, like wow, you get paid that much,
there is still kind of that feeling towards me because
I'm like, wow, like I get to do what I
love and I honestly, just like you, if you take
away the social media, you'd still be out there ripping
the golf ball. Yeah, I'd still be out there throwing
the football with my brother shooting hoops. So it's kind
(43:56):
of something like, Wow, I really get to do something
that I already was going to do. Now I'm just
I'm turning it on here and I'm I'm being a
little bit more strategic with it.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
For sure, No, for sure. Well, I appreciate your openness
because I don't think people really talk about that stuff
very much, and I think it.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Just is comforting to talk to someone else about it,
Like we are doing what we love. But it doesn't
mean that there isn't pains or stresses that come along
with it.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
And so this is my.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Last question for you, because I know we're already winding down,
which is so crazy, because like I feel like I
could talk to you forever, like we talked about your
whole life and whatnot. But like, what is Jenna Bandy
like behind the scenes, Like you're always on, You're always
so happy, and like you bring such a light to
other people. You're such a hype girl, right, Like you're
a team player. But like what is Jenna Bandy like
(44:40):
behind closed doors?
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Honestly, I'm such a family girl. I still live very
close to my mom and dad. You know. I have
a twin brother, like I can't spend a birthday without him. Yeah,
and then like I'm in love with my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
Like, I'm just such a family girl. You know what,
I'll tell you. I am super emotional really, just even though.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
I'm so alpha competitive, talking shit, right, I am girly
and I think I take I think I take people
by surprise because they think, oh, you're talking shit with me, right. Yeah,
I'm very emotional. I wear my heart on my sleeve,
you know, I just get quiet.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah. I love that though. I love that you're open
about it though.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I mean it's really real being alpha women, especially in
a place where you're always on and you're front facing.
Like it's okay to be in your soft girl era too.
I mean it's okay to have a little and I
am a good cry.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
You'll do that, a little good cry.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, Yeah, I love that well. Jedna, thank you so
much for the time. Thank you so much for joining
the party, the party, the party you are.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Thank you for having me I'd love to come back anytime.
Have a little party.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
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