July 30, 2025 • 39 mins
In the season finale episode, Nikki Blades joins the Par-Tee to talk about her transition from a successful career in radio and TV to becoming an avid golfer, her intensive training with renowned instructor Chris Como, and the complexities of female friendships in the golf space. Plus, Nikki and Tisha sound off on the intricacies of women's golf apparel!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is there anyone in the golf space that you wish
to collaborate with or work alongside with.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Charlie is a badass. She's such a badass. She's such
a bad ass. She's so tough, And I like that
because so often you're forced to maybe be more feminine
in certain spaces than you'd probably like to be as
an athlete. Like, there are times where I'm focused. I
don't want to have to worry about appeasing anybody else,
because when I'm being competitive, it's not to put down
(00:30):
the other, softer side of me. But while I'm playing
this damn game, like, no, I'm not here to make
everybody else happy. And when I watch her play, she
plays her game.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, she really does.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just play her game and that's what makes it, you know,
But that's what it's all about. One thing I'll tell
you that I've learned about golf is that it's selfish
as fuck.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You have to not care. You need to walk onto
that course like it's yours. Every hit is yours, every
put is yours, Everything is yours. And the moment that
you're worried about what anybody else is thinking, it's not
your game anymore, you are either gonna be good or
be a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
In my opinion, that's a good point. That is it
which and it's fine. It doesn't matter what you want
to do.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, but when I look at her, it makes me
feel more comfortable than my competitive desks. It makes me
feel more seen, more settled in the fact that I'm like, yeah,
I like her vibe. I don't always want to run
around and being happy and smiley, like nah, I'm here,
I'm here to get this game.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm competitive.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
She's powerful. I like her attitude. So she's someone that
I just would like to be around because I think
that she's dope and as an athlete, she trains.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hard off the course.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
She also has good time off the course. She feels
like she's a really balanced person and that's refreshing to see.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
No, I can definitely attest to that. We're gonna have
to make that happen. Yeah, I gotta get her in
front of you.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I think i'd love you. Y'all. Welcome back to the
part Would you Believe It?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
This is our our last episode of the season, and
I am so excited to share today's guest Not only
is she extremely obsessed with golf right now, but she's
also had quite the journey to success from Maxim model
to MTV hosts to social media influencer, entrepreneur, radio host.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh and she's also a foodie. Just know, this girl
has done a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
She is kicking up a notch with her game and
we're talking on a competitive level.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Honestly, I can't wait for you to learn all.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
About her career, how she fell in love with golf,
and her unique perspective on where golf is headed next,
not to mention a little sneak peek into her dating
life maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So, without further ado, please welcome Nicki Blades to the
par Tea. I am very excited to have you. This
is actually our first.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Time really even like sitting down and getting to know
one another. So I'm really excited for the next hour
to just get to know you, share your story and
fun fact.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You are actually my last guest of the season, so
we are ending strong, don't you know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I feel special?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So special anyway, So we actually like to begin every
podcast with a little bit of four play, so we
have rapid fire questions. Are you ready okay golf or
radio golf. Okay, Hawaii or California? I love all right,
favorite food sushi Japanese? All right, food scene in s
F or l A, don't kill me s F.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
We have the most.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Michelin star restaurants in the country. Yeah, it's amazing. It's diverse.
Our culinary scene is top tier.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, Okay, morning tea time or afternoon tea time, afternoon
after me too?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right? Driver or potter driver? I know, yeah, up high,
let a fly? All right? On course? Playlist? What's on it?
Go to song?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's been a lot of key block lately.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's right now, just on repeat and then Kaylani, Yeah,
I know she's good right now, it's just folded on.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, he is good. I will say, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Last one, what's one DM you've gotten that has made
you just laugh out loud?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It was someone famous Lightning And my DM's asking when
we're gonna link up, And they've been asking the same
question for about five years.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Now, and you just won't keep it timing day.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, it's not that, it's like I swear, they keep
forgetting that. They keep asking me the same question.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh, keep.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
This every like couple of months I'll get one of
those messages from them and I'm like, do you not
know who you're talking to?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah? Yeah, but I see your previous message just like
right above.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's how I know someone's like hiding stuff. You must
clear out your inbox. But I laugh every single time.
It's just so funny to me.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, well we'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's more like that. That's more like the end of
the pod talk. But we got to start where we
got to start, and that is how did you even
get into golf?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
A friend of mine who plays a different sport is
into it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I got to go check him out at the ACC
and Tahoe.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh okay, okay, so he played in it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He played in it, And when I saw play, I
just knew that their background was in a different sport
and I knew that they got into golf later in life.
And I was watching, I was like, the environment was
way different than I thought golf was going to be.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Just the overall event was really cool, and that's a
good event.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Me Arrogantly enough, I saw people that weren't athletes, that
had really diverse backgrounds.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I'm like, well, if they can do it, I think
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And then when I made that decision from being in
that space, I just got a lot of love from
people around me that were interested, that already golfed, and they.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Were like, okay, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So I kind of had no choice but to embrace
it because so many people were very welcoming and accepting.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, it's amazing, but that's how I started. And then
I'm talking about three hour range session, full.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Blown grinding right now.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It was one of those things like you have too
much support to not just try to do it all.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Wait, so how many years now? How you've been playing
year three as of July? Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And so then wait, so then you went to the ACC, which,
for those of you who don't know, that's the American
Century Championship. It's a really really fun event where you
mix and celebrities, some retired pros and they go out
and play against each other. Steph Curry usually crushes it
over there, Tony Romol crushes Michael Penya.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
This year was crazy. You know the year that Steph
hit that hole in one. I was there. Oh okay,
that was it?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So the environment was electric.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I just didn't understand how the golf scene was because
I played other sports and golf is just always seen
as very It's very quiet, it's very prestige, you know, prestigious.
It's everybody stand up straight, put your collared shirts on it.
It's not at all what I was expecting. But I
saw where it was going, and you were actually one
of the people that I saw online showing golf in
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a different way.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I love I did add this news news to me.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
When I met you, I was really excited because you're
you're into fitness. I was watching all of your fitness videos.
I was seeing the golf ad it in and you're
doing the trick shots, you're doing the little lessons. It
was just like I had never seen that. And then
as you were really leaning more into the social media
side of golf, I was watching you work with all
the celebrities and athletes, and then I saw the opportunity
(07:09):
in the space to grow outside of just being a professional.
It was showing how people were pulling in from all
these different directions and the power of social media. Plus
you know, your diverse background, so that was inspiring to me.
I was like, oh, there's a space for this yes,
and that was it was like a combination.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
A lot of things started to click.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So what other sports have you played? So?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I played travel softball and volleyball since I was like
seven or eight. I traveled all over the US getting
that opportunity to play at an extremely high level. And
then I played basketball, softball, volleyball in junior high, in
high school, and then volleyball and softball in college.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You really did play like all the sports like, okay,
so you were an athlete through and crew.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So I feel like picking up golf.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Like I will say that golf is probably one of
the hardest sports naturally to pick up. But when I
watch or swing, it's very clear that, like, you are
an athlete and you clearly like to practice. So how
much are you practicing and playing these days?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, I have decided to take it to the next level.
I'm partnering with Chris Como.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I love Chris Como.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Chris is so dope.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He's so good.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He's a phenomenal, very renowned golf instructor. And he does
it like holistically too, Like he will make you work
on your fitness and your game and your mental and
outside your life, inside your life, like that is for serious.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yes, and then his como coaching Golf Academy out in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Okay, So I just got back yesterday from training with him.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, no way yesterday with him and his team, it
was a lot for two days.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
It was just a lot to.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Take in information overload kind of thing in a good way.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, it was in the best way possible, very digestible
the way that we went about it.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But that's to the level that I'm taking it.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And so what is your goals now with golf? Like
for your game? For a game?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, like what do you are you trying to achieve
like a certain handicap?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Do you want to compete even or are you just
doing this for you?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No competition?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Really?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
If I don't do it, then how am I supposed
to be able to relate to those who have In
my mind?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I want to be able to have my own
shows eventually surrounded around golf. But I want to go
through the grind of what it takes to get to
that position so that when we're having a conversation, I
can understand what you've gone through. Yeah, but I want
to be able to understand it. Golf is just such
a complicated sport. There's so much to learn, there's so
much history, there's just technically equipment. There's no real way
(09:38):
to just take it in in this short amount of
time if you don't actively do it. So I want
that experience with those who have done it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's amazing. So that was your first lesson, my first
lesson with them.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, yeah, And so this is going to be like
a frequent occurring, like how like every month.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Once a month, I'll be flying out today, has to
go work with them. But you know, like most wing coaches,
you got the check.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
In, going through the work. Yeah, a lot of work
to be done in between.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It was I don't like using the word humbling because
it wasn't a humbling experience, but it was one where
I have to give myself grace and I have to
give myself, yes, the patience, and I trust and believe
the individuals that.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'm working with.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
When you got six pairs of eyes and a whole
group of pros.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, this is a different level of coaching, y'all. This
isn't just like hey, can you check out my swing?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
No? Come on, plates, we got check out?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah, the one way there.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know, I'm watching what looks like EA basketball on
the screen, and they got me swing these things.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I got these dots on my head. And it's just
by the way, Texas is hot as ship, y'all. Yeah,
and I we're all black. I'm like, oh, I gotta
be on camera. I'm gonna look. No.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I was like this, it's not even about looking cue anymore.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
No, which also, can we talk about that part of
the game?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, of course, can we please?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Because this is the learning curve.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I believe that when you are mixing being on camera
with performance, those are two different things, very much so,
and especially when it comes to golf. What is my
hair gonna do? Am I in a hat? Am I
an advisor? How long does this skirt have to be?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Can I wear pants? What are these socks gonna do?
Am I worried about tan lines? Today? Did I put
on screen on?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
This?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Shit is making me sticky? Why does this glove not
feel well? These shoes don't feel comfortable? I need like, yes,
why that.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is so fact?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And I love that you bring that up because you
know the athlete mindset. It's like, you do your best
to ever complain right. You don't want to be you
don't want to be problematic or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But this is real shit. Like I can't tell you
how hard it is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Like you know, when you're on TV and you're trying
to golf and it's hot as shit, and then you're
trying to golf with your hair down because you're gonna
do a stand up in a second, God forbid, the
wind is blowing the wrong way. And then you're just
like talking and your hair is doing all this and
you try to be cute, you're trying to hit a shot.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I can't see anything.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I am.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I miserable right now.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Okay, why is all of this is messing me up?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Okay, Yeah, there's a lot to think about. There's a
lot of move parts. And it's like it's already one thing.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
To be good at golf, yeah, and then to be
self conscious of being good at golf and talking to
the camera is a whole other thing. So I'm just
saying that there needs to be a lot more appreciation.
All right, it's hard.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And then and then what you think golf looks like
from a fun perspective is like the outfits of this
girls are wearing their hair downs. Or first off, if
I see a girl with a full beat and her
hair down. That is a filming day.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah it is not.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
This girl is.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You're here to look cute and only play minimal holes,
probably just ride in the cart.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I love that for her, yeah, but I hate
that for me because I have been in the process
of trying to figure out what is going to look good.
By the way, women's golf clothing yours. Thank you for sending.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Me you look amazing it, thank you, thank you for
rocking it.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But it's just like it's so hard to find, and
then a lot of companies aren't putting functional clothing out there.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I agree it's very cute, but it's like country club cute.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I can't claim it because the way that it sits
on my hips, it's my stomach's gonna come out. I'm
not gonna be able to wear this to a country club, which,
by the way, I've already gone into trouble and I
was in dress code except I'm just long, So you know,
I'm having to learn, Like I don't like golf pants necessarily.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There's not a lot of not a lot of options,
not a lot of options.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I like the ones that you came out with more
of like the trousers stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yes, like okay, on and off the course, trying to
solve a problem.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yes, yeah, I'm glad that I could talk to you
about it, because you can't talk to the guys a
polo shorts pants and they.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Wear that on and off the course too.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm just like, yeawing, got no what are close? It's
I can tell you golf tad like, you know, like, okay,
go funny.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We're like at celebrity golf events and we're like, okay,
I was just in the sun for seven hours.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'm ten shades darker. Yes, look I got a hat
one and then I gotta look hot in an hour?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What am I gonna do with my hair?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And right now I'm in the process of trying to
define my uniform. Yeah okay, that's when I'm trying to
find your.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Style kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, okay, see what works, what doesn't, what I like
And because I want to eliminate as many excuses as
possible for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
When I play.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, and I personally enjoy being you know, in the
comfy like more of the men's wear side. I actually
prefer dressing that way. I think the men have it made. Yes,
as far as fashion and golf goes.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I agree, they're always like one step.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I mean, men's clothing has always been kind of like
one step ahead in golf, and so I feel like
now now it's kind of like the year where women's
clothes is stepping up. It's really just about how do
we make it functional? How do we eliminate some some
problems Like you said, I think the tan line thing
is like such a real thing, like as as of
now a brand owner. That's all I'm thinking about too, right,
It's like, how can I create sun sleeves that make sense?
(14:45):
But maybe like isn't going to make you feel hot.
Maybe it's just going to put a sun sleep on top.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, I mean, so we're work on it, we're thinking
about it, and I am with you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We are going to have to literally sid sidebar this right.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I'm I'm going to take you notes for sure, because
you are are you not that long ago you were
just beginning a golfer. What advice would you give other
women who maybe are still intimidated to get into it
or maybe just need that little bit of encouragement to
get into the game, because you, just like you Dove
in you, like, clearly you're kind of like an all
in person. I'm an all in person. I'm like, I
(15:17):
like this and you just do it. Yeah, But like,
what advice could you give to some ladies?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Find other friends, family members, people you know that are
already doing it and latch on.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, it is a difficult place to get into.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There are times where I've just played my first like
nine holes by myself.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I love that you did that, By the way.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That was nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Really, I should be really peaceful.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
There's an invisible person behind me rushing me at all times.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
That's what it felt like the first time I went
mm hmm again we're our own worst critics. But going
out there and then still feeling like, well, how does
the pace go? There's a lot that I don't know.
I've never really asked what plane by yourself looks like.
I'm still the type of person that's like, hey, can
you help me find my ball?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Okay, hey watch my ball? What the hell are you
here for?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Hey helping me watch my ball?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
So imagine I'm like, by myself, pick a ball straight,
because ain't nobody here to help you out on me? Right?
This would have made an easy flat course, because I'm
not about to be in Narnia trying to find this
ball by myself. But you know, saying it's easier said
than done to find a community, which takes time, and
that's trial and error. There have been people I've started
(16:24):
golfing with that I will never golf again with. There
are people that I've may have not given a chance
to get that I'm gonna probably love spending time with.
But if you have some friends or anybody you know
that has even picked up a golf club and you
can just be around, that's the best way, and then
you start to shape your game.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I love that, Like, just don't go alone.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
It's so much fun when you're doing especially if you're
like starting out with another person who is starting out
with you. I think it's such a fun journey when
you get to do it together. Yeah, yeah, so I
think that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And research and research and research, And I only say
that because there's so many unwritten rules.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
How the like driving ranges work when it comes to wardrobe,
when it comes a lot of those things. So I
would say following accounts like yours helps a lot because
you can kind of start to see like, Okay, maybe
I'm not that I'm not familiar with the golf space,
but you start to look at some people that are
that have done it and you've given tips, and that's
(17:24):
really nice. And because I had so many helpful people
around me, that is why I was able to get
to where I'm at currently.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
So for those of you who don't know Nikki is
a media personality. You may see her on the social media's,
radio host podcast hosts, model all these things.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
But I would love to know where did you even start?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, sports was really the driving force and to be
trans into modeling. I thought I was always going to
be a professional athlete in one way or another. I
was going to figure it out. But one thing I
knew about a lot of women that were in the
sports space is that essentially they all were models because
you're going to get a brand deal. That was always
something that I realized was a part of the game.
So I started modeling after I was playing sports. So
(18:17):
the modeling helped lead to one of the competitions that
I did so Maxim magazine. Right, I was named one
of the top ten hottest girls in America.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's right, that's right, Like this how.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Long ago when Instagram was getting started, it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Was like so it's like probably like a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah yeah, but that but that was like the thing
that launched me into really.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
My careert Maxim Maxim.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, so Maxim was using Instagram to help get voting
and to diversify and show personality. So they used Instagram
in order to do that. We had all these videos
and things we had to do. So then that's how
I got started in social media. And then social media
helped lead me to television. And I'd worked with like, okay,
you're Filipino, Yes, you know mix you know Mixed TV.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yes, I was on Mixed Rated.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Wait really yeah with.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Joey Gila and yeah what yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Did you know that I worked with them? I had
my own series with them for a hot sec before they.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
They Yeah, changed, I was hello, I was I was
there too.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
What those of you who don't know what we're talking
about on my mone because Mixed TV was a smaller
entity that was like a Filipino American media company and
Filipino American you know your part you have Filipino in
you and mom's side.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah wait what is your your full cultural background.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Hawaiian, Chinese, Irish Filipino. Then there's like a bund there's
black there. You know, I'm mixed with a lot of
I'm a love yeah, but mainly you know, identify as
far as culture.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You know, home is Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yes, so the Hawaiian Chinese Filipino has always been really
really strong. So mixed TV yes, okay, so that's you know,
that was the first time that I was on television, okay,
and then I did wild'n Out. But while all that's happening,
social media is going.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Social media is really the cattles between all these different endeavors.
And Snapchat used to be a big thing. Yes, So
I would love, I love just talking on Snapchat. I
would just be going off talking you know, the rains,
you know, like kind of what everybody does on TikTok. Now, yeah,
I was doing that on Snapchat.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
So a friend of mine, he was in the radio
station in stock In. His name is Chef Fiani, another Filpino,
and I'd work with him on some other stuff. But
he was like, Nikki, you should really try radio. I'm like,
I just television. What do you mean what am I
gonna do? Why am I going to go go do radio?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So he somehow convinced me to go.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Next thing, you know, it was overnights, weekends, afternoons, middays
to morning with in like six months of getting into radio.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah, and then from that, Tim asked me to be
on No Chaser.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
We're talking about Tim, We're talking about I only know
him as Timothy Daily.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeain's fine, Yeah, it's Tim Tim.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah. He was also wilded out by the.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Way, and I started flying out back and forth from
Bay to La, Bay to La and made that happen,
and then No.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Chaser was still doing to this day.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
From there, I ended up leaving Stockton doing radio in
San Francisco, bigger market market, four big main warnings.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
It amazing. I left that a year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
From there, I got to host Ridiculousness.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And I feel like I was one of the only
people that hosted that wasn't a comedian and didn't have
like a million followers. So I was very thankful to
be able to be in the position that I was in.
Knowing I'm like I'm looking around, I'm like, okay, hey,
if I'm in this room, then that's a good sign.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And then so then was that like a one episode thing?
Was it a serious thing?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I did four?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You did four?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I did four episodes? Yeah, I did four episodes. It
was amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I will say that I wish I would have celebrated
it more. But while you're in it sometimes it's hard.
You don't want to be braggy. And while I was
at the radio station, it was a conflict. I would
say they weren't very supportive of it. I wish I
would have gotten the support. I don't mind saying it
because I've been away for a while. There was a
full meeting on whether or not we should even mention
me doing television on the morning show.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And it's crazy because essentially, when you're doing morning radio,
you're sharing your life with these people. They knew about
every time my dad was in the hospital or my
sister and just you share so much. And that was
a moment that I wish we would have leaned into more,
but they didn't.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
It was a lot of pushback.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
So I do ridiculousness. We have the podcast going.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, I do my first tournament in hoy I'm still
working in radio while these things are happening, and it
got to a point to where it was like, you're
doing a lot outside of here.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And they didn't want that.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
No, even though you were still giving them your time.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Absolutely, they were just it was, you know, they just
want you to be so committed to only radio.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, And there was a conversation of I'm just being transparent.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I've never really gotten to speak about it.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It was like they didn't want me to come off
like I thought I was better than the people to
us that and that felt hurtful because I was somebody
that used to listen to these people growing up and
they were so ambitious. You know, you got like Angie
Martinez shout out to her, who's in the golf space
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Literally, yeah, we got to have her on the pod,
and that was, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I love Angie.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So you're looking at all these people and they've always
ventured outside of just radio.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Most people started in radio.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You got Steve Harvey, you got Oprah, you got Wendy Williams,
you got Ryan C. Christie, And that was to me
what I thought I was doing. You start here and
you continue to grow and you bring it back home. Yeah,
But unfortunately it just wasn't meshing well, and then eventually
I ended up leaving to really lean into social media, creating, television,
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just multimedia and golf. So when I sat with the
boys and they understood what was going on and the
pressure that I was being put under to step away.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I love them though.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
They were so supportive and they also knew too, you know,
when you're speaking to just such a wide range of
people every morning from a corporate level, I'm not upset
at the fact that they did ask me to choose.
That's what that's their priority is themselves. Sure, that's what
they had to do, and they saw their talent that was,
you know, in other spaces that they didn't necessarily agree with.
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Our topics are controversials, definitely not safe for work. What
we're talking about on the station, and I'm working with
people that work with we're talking to kids and we
have so I got it from a business perspective, and
so did the boys, and I could not imagine staying
there longer than I did. I'm so thankful for the
time that was spent there. It gave me credibility, it
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gave me so many skills. So I did it and
then was lucky enough to say, Okay, I'm not going
to come back, but they were kind enough to let
me thug it out, go and get a final goodbye,
close out my time like properly, properly, and not a
lot of people get that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So I was very grateful for that, like take away.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Everything that I learned and then now use those skills
to now apply to this next chapter of my life.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I feel like some people are not willing to pivot
or to accept change, and I think in this industry,
if so long as this is where we want to
be for however long, I think one of the biggest
things are the best things you could do for yourself
is to be willing to pivot, and that is quite
literally your dream, it is.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I went from such a strict structure. I had very
I had a very strict dad who did not let
me do anything, and it took a lot of unlearning.
And I wasn't always no.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
He said something earlier.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, we were on the way in and because because
you said you didn't book your flight out, and I
was like, look at you, You're just so easy, and
You're like I wasn't always like hell.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And I'm not talking about like, oh, the last five years.
I'm talking about like in the last couple.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Of months, like really really losing my father and I
was there with him till his final breath. We all
were there. And that's the type of moment that I
feel like I fulfilled one part of my life already.
I served my purpose. I did the best I possibly could.
I have zero regrets when it comes to my father's
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life and our relationship. I gave everything I possibly could.
And so with that said, I was gifted the ability
to say goodbye. So if I don't move forward and understand, like, Okay,
you did that part. Now you need to be open.
You now have to live for yourself. What does freedom look.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Like to you?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And when I constantly tried to control situations that I
had really no control over, I was only making myself upset.
So I had to start learning how to make these
adjustments because it's just me. I mean, yes, there's friends
and family, but really, at the end of the day,
it's just you. And I didn't like how I was
feeling when I didn't have control over a situation. Sure,
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so I started putting things in place that would allow
me to have more leeway. So I didn't have to
book my flight because I already have something in place
where it's like it's okay, I move things around in
case the schedule changes.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's like control of the uncontrollable.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yes, I completely understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
But what a beautiful like awakening and lesson for you
to have had in such a huge moment of grief.
But you're able to find such beauty in that and
literally basically unravel like a new version of yourself, you know,
through that, And that's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Now that you are in the golf space.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Essentially like your own golf personality golf influencer, how has
the space treated you? How have you enjoyed the events?
Other women in the space give me everything?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Still learning and meeting new women in the space, there's
very few to you and fart between unless you are
really open and friendly. I don't know if it's the
easiest to build a community. Sometimes I'm out in the bay,
so I'm not really running into a lot of women's true,
you know, and then golf is a very isolating sport.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Anyways, you kind.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Of you have to actively go to meet up with
other women.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And I'm trying to to grow that part and I'm
making new friends. I wasn't always the most friendliest when
it came to people. I will be one thousand percent honest.
Girls are complicated.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
They're complicated.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
They I have.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, I know, I know I've had girlfriends before.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But the women in the space, I would say, we
all have a little bit of an armor up.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I think, you know what, it's such a different perspective.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So I like to hear this yeah, because I don't
want to. I don't want to bullshit everybody with with
saying that. It's like, yeah, it's just like this big, welcoming,
loving community. I wasn't always as welcoming I came in from.
You know, when you think about modeling, you think about entertainment.
Not everybody's friendliest, tough and yeah it's tough.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
People are tough.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
People are tough.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
People are tough, and I'm I say, I'm shy. A
lot of people will like to disagree, but when it
comes to they're like, no, you're not. But it took
a long time because I was so defensive when it
came to women and like other aspects of my life,
that it was not the most comfortable for me.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
To always make a lot of female friends.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Sure, So the golf space and where I'm at now
is very different than when I first started.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I would say now I'm way more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I'm way more welcoming because I've had some time in
the game and I don't feel as intimidated by those
who have played or you know, I'm super self conscious
when it comes to being out there.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I don't want to do bad, but.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
None of us do.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But I felt like because I was so new, and
then I'm like shy in the sense of like, oh,
I don't want to know what you're thinking, that I'm
like messing.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Up or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And where I started versus where I am now are
two very different places, and I love where we're shifting,
and I feel like a lot of women are being
more welcoming to each other. Of course, with anything, there's
going to be people you like and people you don't like.
But I don't think I have anyone I don't like
right now.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
That's good. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I feel like I ain't got no beef licious, so
you know, if you got people with meat, you, I
don't have.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Evil nobody, so you know, I like you.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Okay, My face may say otherwise, which I feel like that.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Is something that is a thing. I don't have the
friendliest face.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Well, you have a very beautiful face, so maybe that's
also intimidating.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
At the same time, you know, in my head, I'm
not thinking about that because I'm just like due doodoo.
Sometimes I'm like be bopping around trying to eat something.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
But I but I've.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Learned to open myself up more to the idea of
maybe other women that I felt the same way that
I felt, and then understanding it is sometimes hard for
us to talk to each other.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Let's just be real, like, no, it's true, it is.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Not the easiest.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And then when you're in a male dominated space, this
is the constant. We're all girls that have been around
the dudes for so long that every once in a
while we forget how it is to kick it with
the girls. And I've never played with like maybe one time,
played in an all girl group one time.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Okay, we'll definitely had the change. Yeah there's only one time.
But I completely hear you.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I get the guard up I get, especially when you're
stepping into the entertainment industry and like you said, being
in a male dominated sport, there is a sense of
like a bit of puffing your chest and then a
bit of protection and.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Before you can even release yourself to the other women.
But I do feel like where golf is headed now,
there is a lot more women that.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Are open, yes, collaborative, because there wasn't you.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
There's maybe you, and there was a few handful.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of others that just were showing golf in the entertainment
side on social media. And then there's girls that have
been golfing that are just golfers and pros and serious.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
And then there's the in between. I'm and in between.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
A lot of the girls now that are the creators.
We're the in between, and there were there aren't many.
So while you're trying to build your social media, then
you're trying to golf and you're trying this and you
have to worry about what you're wearing. There's so many
elements that we don't discuss, yeah, that are constantly happening.
When I'm worried about what I look like, how do
I look in this group, what is going on?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
How I plane?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
There's so oh my, that's happening, And then you have
these girls getting thrown into these spaces together for so
many personalities forced to interact and you only know them
off of their social media and depending on how they
present themselves is how they're going to be perceived in person,
which I feel like I had to constantly battle that
and I'm like, look, look, I look one way, I
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act another. Please understand. Like I said, like I was, like,
I get it. My face looks mean sometimes like I know,
don't worry. I swear I have to run around and
be like I'm not smiling. I'd be like, I hug
you come here.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
But yeah, but the space itself is I'm blessed. I'm
so fortunate. There's nothing that I can say that this
golf game hasn't done for me. There's you know, of course,
there's places of growth as a whole always, but I'm lucky.
I'm meeting this space with more support than there is
(32:54):
any naysayers at the end of the day. Yeah, you
may not like what I wore, but you saw my
swing and you can't fight me on this. Yeah, yeah,
do you know what I mean? The golf is kind
of a show improved type of sport. It is, and
that is why I take the training so serious because
I've been so lucky to already come into a space
that has a lot of love around it. So then
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if I don't take advantage of these gifts, essentially the opportunities,
then I'm I'm doing everybody a disservice. Yeah, So the
game is growing. The game is absolutely growing. I am
a part of the community of like, yeah, it's growing
because of people like you and a lot of other
creators and a lot of other women in pros just
in the space showing not only you know, women, I
(33:37):
will say, golf and women get a lot more love amongst.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Like the athletic scene than a lot of other women's sports.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Do.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I feel like it's it's a lot of sport, a
lot of support, you know when you talk to those
when it's like you want to see a pure swing,
you want to see good golf, watch women play, Like
this conversation is very real amongst everybody that's involved and
of that with the sports. So there's been that lot
of validation for sure, and people just want to see
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it grow in the right way. And of course the
entertainment side of it, we're gonna we're gonna see what
we can do, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
That's how bills get paid, literally get paid.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
But yeah, I'm loving the space, which is why I'm
dedicating as much as I can to it.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Like, I didn't realize how serious you were taking it.
So I think it's going to be very exciting to
watch your journey and actually competing and whatnot, because it
is a beast in itself, like you're I mean, you're
no stranger to competition and being an athlete. But I
think this will be a very challenging but very fulfilling,
like this journey for you. Yeah, so we are already
(34:44):
winding down here, and the last thing we will talk
about for just like a quick couple of.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Minutes is a dating life. How are we doing? How
is the How are the streets?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Oh, I don't I'm never in the streets. First off, Yeah,
I'm in the crosswalk. Okay, I'm trying to get through
the street to the other side.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Right. I don't like to play in the road.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
This is not frogger, Okay, I just want to get
to the other side. Okay.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
But it's interesting. I'm lucky.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
It's it's I.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Meet amazing people who I've dated, some really amazing people
currently technically single in the dating space right now, there
are people that you know, you know, I really am
excited for the alignment. That is the word that I'm
using a lot these days is who aligns, which is
why I'm so open to travel and to experiencing new
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things and places because I haven't met my you know,
my my perfect partner. I haven't met my person yet,
but I am. I think I'm close.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Okay to name your dating green flags.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Ooh great at communicating. Oh has to be Oh communicators.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Oh talk?
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Oh they respond fast.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh my god, you just told me what you're gonna
do before I needed to ask. Oh, you do what
you say you're gonna do. See, Okay, but that's definitely one.
I like focused individuals. They're there, they have drive. I
think that's very That's a green flag.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I want to be someone's world. Don't get me wrong.
I definitely want to be the center of your universe.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
But I but the greenest flag that I could see
is someone that has with whatever they got going on,
but then they're supportive of what I got going on.
That to me, someone who believes in this crazy ass
dream that I have is a green flag. And the
biggest red flag is when somebody asked me, like, why
are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Absolutely, red flag? You just do it for attention?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Do you an immediate goodbye? Goodbye?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
But yeah, the communication, understanding kindness. I really like gentlemen
I or even gentlewomen. You know, I'm very Yes, I
I am open. Yeah, I like those that are caring,
that are loving, compassionate, family oriented, all the all the
things that make up a good human of course I
find you know them waved in red flags.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Now, mind you, I'm colorblind sometimes every once, you know,
I know I'm the problem.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
But you know what you're looking for, It is out there,
and I feel like with the whole perception and life
switch for you, you are just like that much.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Closer to it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Like I said, I'm on the right path. I know
I'm on the right path, all.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Right, y'all. So basically, Nikki is single, she is very open.
She told you her.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Green flags, She loves to golf, She's a full package.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
You already know what the truth.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, but don't slide into my DMS asking to take me.
That's another thing too. I may say I'm open, but
that's not an invitation. You know you she asked a question.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah, I asked a question.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
She asked it. Not the rest of y'all. She stop
asking me to golf with you.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
That is one way to try and get you on
a data Yet too long.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
One of the worst, one of the worst first dates
I went on when I started golfing was golfing with someone.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
That is far too long. It's far too much time.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm gonna be cute the whole time.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
And I wasn't that good. The person was like, I
don't know if you are like messy with me? Are
you good? Are you not good?
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Like?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
No, it was horrible. Don't golfing dates?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Maybe not the first ding.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Absolutely not. That's too much time together?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay, no, all right, Well where can everybody find you?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
You can find me on everything at Nikki Blades, you
have Instagram, we have TikTok. Is kind of something that
I'm doing, okay, a little bit working on the YouTube
channel as we speak.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
So I'm going to be documenting my journey.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I love that, as you should, and that is We're
in the process of doing that right now, so keep
an eye out for that. We're on Twitch. No Chaser
podcast with myself, Tim and Rick. But yeah, that is
where you can find me. Nikki Streetyat's Blades Golf Club,
Nicki Blades, that's me.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That is right, Nikki.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Thank you so much for joining the par t. It
was such a pleasure having you.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
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Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Is there anyone in the golf space that you wish
to collaborate with or work alongside with.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Charlie is a badass. She's such a badass. She's such
a bad ass. She's so tough, And I like that
because so often you're forced to maybe be more feminine
in certain spaces than you'd probably like to be as
an athlete. Like, there are times where I'm focused. I
don't want to have to worry about appeasing anybody else,
because when I'm being competitive, it's not to put down
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the other, softer side of me. But while I'm playing
this damn game, like, no, I'm not here to make
everybody else happy. And when I watch her play, she
plays her game.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, she really does.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just play her game and that's what makes it, you know,
But that's what it's all about. One thing I'll tell
you that I've learned about golf is that it's selfish
as fuck.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You have to not care. You need to walk onto
that course like it's yours. Every hit is yours, every
put is yours, Everything is yours. And the moment that
you're worried about what anybody else is thinking, it's not
your game anymore, you are either gonna be good or
be a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
In my opinion, that's a good point. That is it
which and it's fine. It doesn't matter what you want
to do.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, but when I look at her, it makes me
feel more comfortable than my competitive desks. It makes me
feel more seen, more settled in the fact that I'm like, yeah,
I like her vibe. I don't always want to run
around and being happy and smiley, like nah, I'm here,
I'm here to get this game.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm competitive.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
She's powerful. I like her attitude. So she's someone that
I just would like to be around because I think
that she's dope and as an athlete, she trains.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hard off the course.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
She also has good time off the course. She feels
like she's a really balanced person and that's refreshing to see.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
No, I can definitely attest to that. We're gonna have
to make that happen. Yeah, I gotta get her in
front of you.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I think i'd love you. Y'all. Welcome back to the
part Would you Believe It?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
This is our our last episode of the season, and
I am so excited to share today's guest Not only
is she extremely obsessed with golf right now, but she's
also had quite the journey to success from Maxim model
to MTV hosts to social media influencer, entrepreneur, radio host.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh and she's also a foodie. Just know, this girl
has done a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
She is kicking up a notch with her game and
we're talking on a competitive level.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Honestly, I can't wait for you to learn all.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
About her career, how she fell in love with golf,
and her unique perspective on where golf is headed next,
not to mention a little sneak peek into her dating
life maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So, without further ado, please welcome Nicki Blades to the
par Tea. I am very excited to have you. This
is actually our first.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Time really even like sitting down and getting to know
one another. So I'm really excited for the next hour
to just get to know you, share your story and
fun fact.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You are actually my last guest of the season, so
we are ending strong, don't you know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I feel special?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So special anyway, So we actually like to begin every
podcast with a little bit of four play, so we
have rapid fire questions. Are you ready okay golf or
radio golf. Okay, Hawaii or California? I love all right,
favorite food sushi Japanese? All right, food scene in s
F or l A, don't kill me s F.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
We have the most.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Michelin star restaurants in the country. Yeah, it's amazing. It's diverse.
Our culinary scene is top tier.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, Okay, morning tea time or afternoon tea time, afternoon
after me too?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right? Driver or potter driver? I know, yeah, up high,
let a fly? All right? On course? Playlist? What's on it?
Go to song?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's been a lot of key block lately.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's right now, just on repeat and then Kaylani, Yeah,
I know she's good right now, it's just folded on.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, he is good. I will say, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Last one, what's one DM you've gotten that has made
you just laugh out loud?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It was someone famous Lightning And my DM's asking when
we're gonna link up, And they've been asking the same
question for about five years.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Now, and you just won't keep it timing day.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, it's not that, it's like I swear, they keep
forgetting that. They keep asking me the same question.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh, keep.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
This every like couple of months I'll get one of
those messages from them and I'm like, do you not
know who you're talking to?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah? Yeah, but I see your previous message just like
right above.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's how I know someone's like hiding stuff. You must
clear out your inbox. But I laugh every single time.
It's just so funny to me.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, well we'll get into that.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's more like that. That's more like the end of
the pod talk. But we got to start where we
got to start, and that is how did you even
get into golf?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
A friend of mine who plays a different sport is
into it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I got to go check him out at the ACC
and Tahoe.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh okay, okay, so he played in it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He played in it, And when I saw play, I
just knew that their background was in a different sport
and I knew that they got into golf later in life.
And I was watching, I was like, the environment was
way different than I thought golf was going to be.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Just the overall event was really cool, and that's a
good event.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Me Arrogantly enough, I saw people that weren't athletes, that
had really diverse backgrounds.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I'm like, well, if they can do it, I think
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And then when I made that decision from being in
that space, I just got a lot of love from
people around me that were interested, that already golfed, and they.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Were like, okay, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So I kind of had no choice but to embrace
it because so many people were very welcoming and accepting.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, it's amazing, but that's how I started. And then
I'm talking about three hour range session, full.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Blown grinding right now.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It was one of those things like you have too
much support to not just try to do it all.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Wait, so how many years now? How you've been playing
year three as of July? Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And so then wait, so then you went to the ACC, which,
for those of you who don't know, that's the American
Century Championship. It's a really really fun event where you
mix and celebrities, some retired pros and they go out
and play against each other. Steph Curry usually crushes it
over there, Tony Romol crushes Michael Penya.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
This year was crazy. You know the year that Steph
hit that hole in one. I was there. Oh okay,
that was it?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So the environment was electric.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I just didn't understand how the golf scene was because
I played other sports and golf is just always seen
as very It's very quiet, it's very prestige, you know, prestigious.
It's everybody stand up straight, put your collared shirts on it.
It's not at all what I was expecting. But I
saw where it was going, and you were actually one
of the people that I saw online showing golf in
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a different way.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I love I did add this news news to me.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
When I met you, I was really excited because you're
you're into fitness. I was watching all of your fitness videos.
I was seeing the golf ad it in and you're
doing the trick shots, you're doing the little lessons. It
was just like I had never seen that. And then
as you were really leaning more into the social media
side of golf, I was watching you work with all
the celebrities and athletes, and then I saw the opportunity
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in the space to grow outside of just being a professional.
It was showing how people were pulling in from all
these different directions and the power of social media. Plus
you know, your diverse background, so that was inspiring to me.
I was like, oh, there's a space for this yes,
and that was it was like a combination.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
A lot of things started to click.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So what other sports have you played? So?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I played travel softball and volleyball since I was like
seven or eight. I traveled all over the US getting
that opportunity to play at an extremely high level. And
then I played basketball, softball, volleyball in junior high, in
high school, and then volleyball and softball in college.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You really did play like all the sports like, okay,
so you were an athlete through and crew.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So I feel like picking up golf.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Like I will say that golf is probably one of
the hardest sports naturally to pick up. But when I
watch or swing, it's very clear that, like, you are
an athlete and you clearly like to practice. So how
much are you practicing and playing these days?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, I have decided to take it to the next level.
I'm partnering with Chris Como.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I love Chris Como.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Chris is so dope.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He's so good.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He's a phenomenal, very renowned golf instructor. And he does
it like holistically too, Like he will make you work
on your fitness and your game and your mental and
outside your life, inside your life, like that is for serious.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yes, and then his como coaching Golf Academy out in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Okay, So I just got back yesterday from training with him.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, no way yesterday with him and his team, it
was a lot for two days.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
It was just a lot to.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Take in information overload kind of thing in a good way.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, it was in the best way possible, very digestible
the way that we went about it.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But that's to the level that I'm taking it.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And so what is your goals now with golf? Like
for your game? For a game?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, like what do you are you trying to achieve
like a certain handicap?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Do you want to compete even or are you just
doing this for you?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No competition?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Really?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
If I don't do it, then how am I supposed
to be able to relate to those who have In
my mind?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I want to be able to have my own
shows eventually surrounded around golf. But I want to go
through the grind of what it takes to get to
that position so that when we're having a conversation, I
can understand what you've gone through. Yeah, but I want
to be able to understand it. Golf is just such
a complicated sport. There's so much to learn, there's so
much history, there's just technically equipment. There's no real way
(09:38):
to just take it in in this short amount of
time if you don't actively do it. So I want
that experience with those who have done it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's amazing. So that was your first lesson, my first
lesson with them.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, yeah, And so this is going to be like
a frequent occurring, like how like every month.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Once a month, I'll be flying out today, has to
go work with them. But you know, like most wing coaches,
you got the check.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
In, going through the work. Yeah, a lot of work
to be done in between.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It was I don't like using the word humbling because
it wasn't a humbling experience, but it was one where
I have to give myself grace and I have to
give myself, yes, the patience, and I trust and believe
the individuals that.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'm working with.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
When you got six pairs of eyes and a whole
group of pros.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, this is a different level of coaching, y'all. This
isn't just like hey, can you check out my swing?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
No? Come on, plates, we got check out?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah, the one way there.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know, I'm watching what looks like EA basketball on
the screen, and they got me swing these things.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I got these dots on my head. And it's just
by the way, Texas is hot as ship, y'all. Yeah,
and I we're all black. I'm like, oh, I gotta
be on camera. I'm gonna look. No.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I was like this, it's not even about looking cue anymore.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
No, which also, can we talk about that part of
the game?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, of course, can we please?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Because this is the learning curve.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I believe that when you are mixing being on camera
with performance, those are two different things, very much so,
and especially when it comes to golf. What is my
hair gonna do? Am I in a hat? Am I
an advisor? How long does this skirt have to be?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Can I wear pants? What are these socks gonna do?
Am I worried about tan lines? Today? Did I put
on screen on?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
This?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Shit is making me sticky? Why does this glove not
feel well? These shoes don't feel comfortable? I need like, yes,
why that.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is so fact?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And I love that you bring that up because you
know the athlete mindset. It's like, you do your best
to ever complain right. You don't want to be you
don't want to be problematic or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But this is real shit. Like I can't tell you
how hard it is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Like you know, when you're on TV and you're trying
to golf and it's hot as shit, and then you're
trying to golf with your hair down because you're gonna
do a stand up in a second, God forbid, the
wind is blowing the wrong way. And then you're just
like talking and your hair is doing all this and
you try to be cute, you're trying to hit a shot.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I can't see anything.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I am.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I miserable right now.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Okay, why is all of this is messing me up?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Okay, Yeah, there's a lot to think about. There's a
lot of move parts. And it's like it's already one thing.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
To be good at golf, yeah, and then to be
self conscious of being good at golf and talking to
the camera is a whole other thing. So I'm just
saying that there needs to be a lot more appreciation.
All right, it's hard.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And then and then what you think golf looks like
from a fun perspective is like the outfits of this
girls are wearing their hair downs. Or first off, if
I see a girl with a full beat and her
hair down. That is a filming day.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah it is not.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
This girl is.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You're here to look cute and only play minimal holes,
probably just ride in the cart.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I love that for her, yeah, but I hate
that for me because I have been in the process
of trying to figure out what is going to look good.
By the way, women's golf clothing yours. Thank you for sending.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Me you look amazing it, thank you, thank you for
rocking it.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But it's just like it's so hard to find, and
then a lot of companies aren't putting functional clothing out there.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I agree it's very cute, but it's like country club cute.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I can't claim it because the way that it sits
on my hips, it's my stomach's gonna come out. I'm
not gonna be able to wear this to a country club, which,
by the way, I've already gone into trouble and I
was in dress code except I'm just long, So you know,
I'm having to learn, Like I don't like golf pants necessarily.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There's not a lot of not a lot of options,
not a lot of options.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I like the ones that you came out with more
of like the trousers stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yes, like okay, on and off the course, trying to
solve a problem.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yes, yeah, I'm glad that I could talk to you
about it, because you can't talk to the guys a
polo shorts pants and they.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Wear that on and off the course too.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm just like, yeawing, got no what are close? It's
I can tell you golf tad like, you know, like, okay,
go funny.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We're like at celebrity golf events and we're like, okay,
I was just in the sun for seven hours.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I'm ten shades darker. Yes, look I got a hat
one and then I gotta look hot in an hour?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What am I gonna do with my hair?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And right now I'm in the process of trying to
define my uniform. Yeah okay, that's when I'm trying to
find your.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Style kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, okay, see what works, what doesn't, what I like
And because I want to eliminate as many excuses as
possible for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
When I play.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, and I personally enjoy being you know, in the
comfy like more of the men's wear side. I actually
prefer dressing that way. I think the men have it made. Yes,
as far as fashion and golf goes.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I agree, they're always like one step.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I mean, men's clothing has always been kind of like
one step ahead in golf, and so I feel like
now now it's kind of like the year where women's
clothes is stepping up. It's really just about how do
we make it functional? How do we eliminate some some
problems Like you said, I think the tan line thing
is like such a real thing, like as as of
now a brand owner. That's all I'm thinking about too, right,
It's like, how can I create sun sleeves that make sense?
(14:45):
But maybe like isn't going to make you feel hot.
Maybe it's just going to put a sun sleep on top.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, I mean, so we're work on it, we're thinking
about it, and I am with you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We are going to have to literally sid sidebar this right.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I'm I'm going to take you notes for sure, because
you are are you not that long ago you were
just beginning a golfer. What advice would you give other
women who maybe are still intimidated to get into it
or maybe just need that little bit of encouragement to
get into the game, because you, just like you Dove
in you, like, clearly you're kind of like an all
in person. I'm an all in person. I'm like, I
(15:17):
like this and you just do it. Yeah, But like,
what advice could you give to some ladies?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Find other friends, family members, people you know that are
already doing it and latch on.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, it is a difficult place to get into.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There are times where I've just played my first like
nine holes by myself.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I love that you did that, By the way.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That was nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Really, I should be really peaceful.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
There's an invisible person behind me rushing me at all times.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
That's what it felt like the first time I went
mm hmm again we're our own worst critics. But going
out there and then still feeling like, well, how does
the pace go? There's a lot that I don't know.
I've never really asked what plane by yourself looks like.
I'm still the type of person that's like, hey, can
you help me find my ball?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Okay, hey watch my ball? What the hell are you
here for?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Hey helping me watch my ball?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
So imagine I'm like, by myself, pick a ball straight,
because ain't nobody here to help you out on me? Right?
This would have made an easy flat course, because I'm
not about to be in Narnia trying to find this
ball by myself. But you know, saying it's easier said
than done to find a community, which takes time, and
that's trial and error. There have been people I've started
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golfing with that I will never golf again with. There
are people that I've may have not given a chance
to get that I'm gonna probably love spending time with.
But if you have some friends or anybody you know
that has even picked up a golf club and you
can just be around, that's the best way, and then
you start to shape your game.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I love that, Like, just don't go alone.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
It's so much fun when you're doing especially if you're
like starting out with another person who is starting out
with you. I think it's such a fun journey when
you get to do it together. Yeah, yeah, so I
think that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And research and research and research, And I only say
that because there's so many unwritten rules.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
How the like driving ranges work when it comes to wardrobe,
when it comes a lot of those things. So I
would say following accounts like yours helps a lot because
you can kind of start to see like, Okay, maybe
I'm not that I'm not familiar with the golf space,
but you start to look at some people that are
that have done it and you've given tips, and that's
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really nice. And because I had so many helpful people
around me, that is why I was able to get
to where I'm at currently.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
So for those of you who don't know Nikki is
a media personality. You may see her on the social media's,
radio host podcast hosts, model all these things.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
But I would love to know where did you even start?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, sports was really the driving force and to be
trans into modeling. I thought I was always going to
be a professional athlete in one way or another. I
was going to figure it out. But one thing I
knew about a lot of women that were in the
sports space is that essentially they all were models because
you're going to get a brand deal. That was always
something that I realized was a part of the game.
So I started modeling after I was playing sports. So
(18:17):
the modeling helped lead to one of the competitions that
I did so Maxim magazine. Right, I was named one
of the top ten hottest girls in America.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's right, that's right, Like this how.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Long ago when Instagram was getting started, it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Was like so it's like probably like a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah yeah, but that but that was like the thing
that launched me into really.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
My careert Maxim Maxim.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, so Maxim was using Instagram to help get voting
and to diversify and show personality. So they used Instagram
in order to do that. We had all these videos
and things we had to do. So then that's how
I got started in social media. And then social media
helped lead me to television. And I'd worked with like, okay,
you're Filipino, Yes, you know mix you know Mixed TV.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yes, I was on Mixed Rated.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Wait really yeah with.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Joey Gila and yeah what yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Did you know that I worked with them? I had
my own series with them for a hot sec before they.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
They Yeah, changed, I was hello, I was I was
there too.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
What those of you who don't know what we're talking
about on my mone because Mixed TV was a smaller
entity that was like a Filipino American media company and
Filipino American you know your part you have Filipino in
you and mom's side.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah wait what is your your full cultural background.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Hawaiian, Chinese, Irish Filipino. Then there's like a bund there's
black there. You know, I'm mixed with a lot of
I'm a love yeah, but mainly you know, identify as
far as culture.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You know, home is Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yes, so the Hawaiian Chinese Filipino has always been really
really strong. So mixed TV yes, okay, so that's you know,
that was the first time that I was on television, okay,
and then I did wild'n Out. But while all that's happening,
social media is going.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Social media is really the cattles between all these different endeavors.
And Snapchat used to be a big thing. Yes, So
I would love, I love just talking on Snapchat. I
would just be going off talking you know, the rains,
you know, like kind of what everybody does on TikTok. Now, yeah,
I was doing that on Snapchat.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
So a friend of mine, he was in the radio
station in stock In. His name is Chef Fiani, another Filpino,
and I'd work with him on some other stuff. But
he was like, Nikki, you should really try radio. I'm like,
I just television. What do you mean what am I
gonna do? Why am I going to go go do radio?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So he somehow convinced me to go.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Next thing, you know, it was overnights, weekends, afternoons, middays
to morning with in like six months of getting into radio.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah, and then from that, Tim asked me to be
on No Chaser.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
We're talking about Tim, We're talking about I only know
him as Timothy Daily.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeain's fine, Yeah, it's Tim Tim.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah. He was also wilded out by the.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Way, and I started flying out back and forth from
Bay to La, Bay to La and made that happen,
and then No.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Chaser was still doing to this day.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
From there, I ended up leaving Stockton doing radio in
San Francisco, bigger market market, four big main warnings.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
It amazing. I left that a year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
From there, I got to host Ridiculousness.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And I feel like I was one of the only
people that hosted that wasn't a comedian and didn't have
like a million followers. So I was very thankful to
be able to be in the position that I was in.
Knowing I'm like I'm looking around, I'm like, okay, hey,
if I'm in this room, then that's a good sign.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
And then so then was that like a one episode thing?
Was it a serious thing?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I did four?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
You did four?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I did four episodes? Yeah, I did four episodes. It
was amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I will say that I wish I would have celebrated
it more. But while you're in it sometimes it's hard.
You don't want to be braggy. And while I was
at the radio station, it was a conflict. I would
say they weren't very supportive of it. I wish I
would have gotten the support. I don't mind saying it
because I've been away for a while. There was a
full meeting on whether or not we should even mention
me doing television on the morning show.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And it's crazy because essentially, when you're doing morning radio,
you're sharing your life with these people. They knew about
every time my dad was in the hospital or my
sister and just you share so much. And that was
a moment that I wish we would have leaned into more,
but they didn't.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
It was a lot of pushback.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
So I do ridiculousness. We have the podcast going.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, I do my first tournament in hoy I'm still
working in radio while these things are happening, and it
got to a point to where it was like, you're
doing a lot outside of here.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And they didn't want that.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
No, even though you were still giving them your time.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Absolutely, they were just it was, you know, they just
want you to be so committed to only radio.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, And there was a conversation of I'm just being transparent.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I've never really gotten to speak about it.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It was like they didn't want me to come off
like I thought I was better than the people to
us that and that felt hurtful because I was somebody
that used to listen to these people growing up and
they were so ambitious. You know, you got like Angie
Martinez shout out to her, who's in the golf space
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Literally, yeah, we got to have her on the pod,
and that was, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I love Angie.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So you're looking at all these people and they've always
ventured outside of just radio.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Most people started in radio.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You got Steve Harvey, you got Oprah, you got Wendy Williams,
you got Ryan C. Christie, And that was to me
what I thought I was doing. You start here and
you continue to grow and you bring it back home. Yeah,
But unfortunately it just wasn't meshing well, and then eventually
I ended up leaving to really lean into social media, creating, television,
(23:42):
just multimedia and golf. So when I sat with the
boys and they understood what was going on and the
pressure that I was being put under to step away.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I love them though.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
They were so supportive and they also knew too, you know,
when you're speaking to just such a wide range of
people every morning from a corporate level, I'm not upset
at the fact that they did ask me to choose.
That's what that's their priority is themselves. Sure, that's what
they had to do, and they saw their talent that was,
you know, in other spaces that they didn't necessarily agree with.
(24:11):
Our topics are controversials, definitely not safe for work. What
we're talking about on the station, and I'm working with
people that work with we're talking to kids and we
have so I got it from a business perspective, and
so did the boys, and I could not imagine staying
there longer than I did. I'm so thankful for the
time that was spent there. It gave me credibility, it
(24:33):
gave me so many skills. So I did it and
then was lucky enough to say, Okay, I'm not going
to come back, but they were kind enough to let
me thug it out, go and get a final goodbye,
close out my time like properly, properly, and not a
lot of people get that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So I was very grateful for that, like take away.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Everything that I learned and then now use those skills
to now apply to this next chapter of my life.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I feel like some people are not willing to pivot
or to accept change, and I think in this industry,
if so long as this is where we want to
be for however long, I think one of the biggest
things are the best things you could do for yourself
is to be willing to pivot, and that is quite
literally your dream, it is.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I went from such a strict structure. I had very
I had a very strict dad who did not let
me do anything, and it took a lot of unlearning.
And I wasn't always no.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
He said something earlier.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, we were on the way in and because because
you said you didn't book your flight out, and I
was like, look at you, You're just so easy, and
You're like I wasn't always like hell.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And I'm not talking about like, oh, the last five years.
I'm talking about like in the last couple.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Of months, like really really losing my father and I
was there with him till his final breath. We all
were there. And that's the type of moment that I
feel like I fulfilled one part of my life already.
I served my purpose. I did the best I possibly could.
I have zero regrets when it comes to my father's
(26:06):
life and our relationship. I gave everything I possibly could.
And so with that said, I was gifted the ability
to say goodbye. So if I don't move forward and understand, like, Okay,
you did that part. Now you need to be open.
You now have to live for yourself. What does freedom look.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Like to you?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And when I constantly tried to control situations that I
had really no control over, I was only making myself upset.
So I had to start learning how to make these
adjustments because it's just me. I mean, yes, there's friends
and family, but really, at the end of the day,
it's just you. And I didn't like how I was
feeling when I didn't have control over a situation. Sure,
(26:45):
so I started putting things in place that would allow
me to have more leeway. So I didn't have to
book my flight because I already have something in place
where it's like it's okay, I move things around in
case the schedule changes.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's like control of the uncontrollable.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yes, I completely understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
But what a beautiful like awakening and lesson for you
to have had in such a huge moment of grief.
But you're able to find such beauty in that and
literally basically unravel like a new version of yourself, you know,
through that, And that's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Now that you are in the golf space.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Essentially like your own golf personality golf influencer, how has
the space treated you? How have you enjoyed the events?
Other women in the space give me everything?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Still learning and meeting new women in the space, there's
very few to you and fart between unless you are
really open and friendly. I don't know if it's the
easiest to build a community. Sometimes I'm out in the bay,
so I'm not really running into a lot of women's true,
you know, and then golf is a very isolating sport.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Anyways, you kind.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Of you have to actively go to meet up with
other women.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And I'm trying to to grow that part and I'm
making new friends. I wasn't always the most friendliest when
it came to people. I will be one thousand percent honest.
Girls are complicated.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
They're complicated.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
They I have.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yes, I know, I know I've had girlfriends before.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But the women in the space, I would say, we
all have a little bit of an armor up.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I think, you know what, it's such a different perspective.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So I like to hear this yeah, because I don't
want to. I don't want to bullshit everybody with with
saying that. It's like, yeah, it's just like this big, welcoming,
loving community. I wasn't always as welcoming I came in from.
You know, when you think about modeling, you think about entertainment.
Not everybody's friendliest, tough and yeah it's tough.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
People are tough.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
People are tough.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
People are tough, and I'm I say, I'm shy. A
lot of people will like to disagree, but when it
comes to they're like, no, you're not. But it took
a long time because I was so defensive when it
came to women and like other aspects of my life,
that it was not the most comfortable for me.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
To always make a lot of female friends.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Sure, So the golf space and where I'm at now
is very different than when I first started.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
I would say now I'm way more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I'm way more welcoming because I've had some time in
the game and I don't feel as intimidated by those
who have played or you know, I'm super self conscious
when it comes to being out there.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I don't want to do bad, but.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
None of us do.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But I felt like because I was so new, and
then I'm like shy in the sense of like, oh,
I don't want to know what you're thinking, that I'm
like messing.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Up or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And where I started versus where I am now are
two very different places, and I love where we're shifting,
and I feel like a lot of women are being
more welcoming to each other. Of course, with anything, there's
going to be people you like and people you don't like.
But I don't think I have anyone I don't like
right now.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
That's good. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I feel like I ain't got no beef licious, so
you know, if you got people with meat, you, I
don't have.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Evil nobody, so you know, I like you.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Okay, My face may say otherwise, which I feel like that.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Is something that is a thing. I don't have the
friendliest face.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Well, you have a very beautiful face, so maybe that's
also intimidating.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
At the same time, you know, in my head, I'm
not thinking about that because I'm just like due doodoo.
Sometimes I'm like be bopping around trying to eat something.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
But I but I've.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Learned to open myself up more to the idea of
maybe other women that I felt the same way that
I felt, and then understanding it is sometimes hard for
us to talk to each other.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Let's just be real, like, no, it's true, it is.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Not the easiest.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And then when you're in a male dominated space, this
is the constant. We're all girls that have been around
the dudes for so long that every once in a
while we forget how it is to kick it with
the girls. And I've never played with like maybe one time,
played in an all girl group one time.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Okay, we'll definitely had the change. Yeah there's only one time.
But I completely hear you.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I get the guard up I get, especially when you're
stepping into the entertainment industry and like you said, being
in a male dominated sport, there is a sense of
like a bit of puffing your chest and then a
bit of protection and.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Before you can even release yourself to the other women.
But I do feel like where golf is headed now,
there is a lot more women that.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Are open, yes, collaborative, because there wasn't you.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
There's maybe you, and there was a few handful.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of others that just were showing golf in the entertainment
side on social media. And then there's girls that have
been golfing that are just golfers and pros and serious.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
And then there's the in between. I'm and in between.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
A lot of the girls now that are the creators.
We're the in between, and there were there aren't many.
So while you're trying to build your social media, then
you're trying to golf and you're trying this and you
have to worry about what you're wearing. There's so many
elements that we don't discuss, yeah, that are constantly happening.
When I'm worried about what I look like, how do
I look in this group, what is going on?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
How I plane?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
There's so oh my, that's happening, And then you have
these girls getting thrown into these spaces together for so
many personalities forced to interact and you only know them
off of their social media and depending on how they
present themselves is how they're going to be perceived in person,
which I feel like I had to constantly battle that
and I'm like, look, look, I look one way, I
(32:19):
act another. Please understand. Like I said, like I was, like,
I get it. My face looks mean sometimes like I know,
don't worry. I swear I have to run around and
be like I'm not smiling. I'd be like, I hug
you come here.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
But yeah, but the space itself is I'm blessed. I'm
so fortunate. There's nothing that I can say that this
golf game hasn't done for me. There's you know, of course,
there's places of growth as a whole always, but I'm lucky.
I'm meeting this space with more support than there is
(32:54):
any naysayers at the end of the day. Yeah, you
may not like what I wore, but you saw my
swing and you can't fight me on this. Yeah, yeah,
do you know what I mean? The golf is kind
of a show improved type of sport. It is, and
that is why I take the training so serious because
I've been so lucky to already come into a space
that has a lot of love around it. So then
(33:15):
if I don't take advantage of these gifts, essentially the opportunities,
then I'm I'm doing everybody a disservice. Yeah, So the
game is growing. The game is absolutely growing. I am
a part of the community of like, yeah, it's growing
because of people like you and a lot of other
creators and a lot of other women in pros just
in the space showing not only you know, women, I
(33:37):
will say, golf and women get a lot more love amongst.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Like the athletic scene than a lot of other women's sports.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Do.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I feel like it's it's a lot of sport, a
lot of support, you know when you talk to those
when it's like you want to see a pure swing,
you want to see good golf, watch women play, Like
this conversation is very real amongst everybody that's involved and
of that with the sports. So there's been that lot
of validation for sure, and people just want to see
(34:07):
it grow in the right way. And of course the
entertainment side of it, we're gonna we're gonna see what
we can do, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
That's how bills get paid, literally get paid.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
But yeah, I'm loving the space, which is why I'm
dedicating as much as I can to it.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Like, I didn't realize how serious you were taking it.
So I think it's going to be very exciting to
watch your journey and actually competing and whatnot, because it
is a beast in itself, like you're I mean, you're
no stranger to competition and being an athlete. But I
think this will be a very challenging but very fulfilling,
like this journey for you. Yeah, so we are already
(34:44):
winding down here, and the last thing we will talk
about for just like a quick couple of.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Minutes is a dating life. How are we doing? How
is the How are the streets?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Oh, I don't I'm never in the streets. First off, Yeah,
I'm in the crosswalk. Okay, I'm trying to get through
the street to the other side.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Right. I don't like to play in the road.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
This is not frogger, Okay, I just want to get
to the other side. Okay.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
But it's interesting. I'm lucky.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
It's it's I.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Meet amazing people who I've dated, some really amazing people
currently technically single in the dating space right now, there
are people that you know, you know, I really am
excited for the alignment. That is the word that I'm
using a lot these days is who aligns, which is
why I'm so open to travel and to experiencing new
(35:41):
things and places because I haven't met my you know,
my my perfect partner. I haven't met my person yet,
but I am. I think I'm close.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Okay to name your dating green flags.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Ooh great at communicating. Oh has to be Oh communicators.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Oh talk?
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Oh they respond fast.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh my god, you just told me what you're gonna
do before I needed to ask. Oh, you do what
you say you're gonna do. See, Okay, but that's definitely one.
I like focused individuals. They're there, they have drive. I
think that's very That's a green flag.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I want to be someone's world. Don't get me wrong.
I definitely want to be the center of your universe.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
But I but the greenest flag that I could see
is someone that has with whatever they got going on,
but then they're supportive of what I got going on.
That to me, someone who believes in this crazy ass
dream that I have is a green flag. And the
biggest red flag is when somebody asked me, like, why
are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Absolutely, red flag? You just do it for attention?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Do you an immediate goodbye? Goodbye?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
But yeah, the communication, understanding kindness. I really like gentlemen
I or even gentlewomen. You know, I'm very Yes, I
I am open. Yeah, I like those that are caring,
that are loving, compassionate, family oriented, all the all the
things that make up a good human of course I
find you know them waved in red flags.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Now, mind you, I'm colorblind sometimes every once, you know,
I know I'm the problem.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
But you know what you're looking for, It is out there,
and I feel like with the whole perception and life
switch for you, you are just like that much.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Closer to it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Like I said, I'm on the right path. I know
I'm on the right path, all.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Right, y'all. So basically, Nikki is single, she is very open.
She told you her.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Green flags, She loves to golf, She's a full package.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
You already know what the truth.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, but don't slide into my DMS asking to take me.
That's another thing too. I may say I'm open, but
that's not an invitation. You know you she asked a question.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah, I asked a question.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
She asked it. Not the rest of y'all. She stop
asking me to golf with you.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
That is one way to try and get you on
a data Yet too long.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
One of the worst, one of the worst first dates
I went on when I started golfing was golfing with someone.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
That is far too long. It's far too much time.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm gonna be cute the whole time.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
And I wasn't that good. The person was like, I
don't know if you are like messy with me? Are
you good? Are you not good?
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Like?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
No, it was horrible. Don't golfing dates?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Maybe not the first ding.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Absolutely not. That's too much time together?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay, no, all right, Well where can everybody find you?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
You can find me on everything at Nikki Blades, you
have Instagram, we have TikTok. Is kind of something that
I'm doing, okay, a little bit working on the YouTube
channel as we speak.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
So I'm going to be documenting my journey.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I love that, as you should, and that is We're
in the process of doing that right now, so keep
an eye out for that. We're on Twitch. No Chaser
podcast with myself, Tim and Rick. But yeah, that is
where you can find me. Nikki Streetyat's Blades Golf Club,
Nicki Blades, that's me.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That is right, Nikki.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Thank you so much for joining the par t. It
was such a pleasure having you.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
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Speaker 3 (39:05):
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Speaker 1 (39:07):
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