July 12, 2024 • 33 mins
Meet your new hosts in this episode of “Inside the Oval” presented by Dignity Health as digital media reporter Briana McDonald, senior motion and graphic designer Noah Hammerman and senior social media producer Nigel McWilliams shared what it's like to work together for the 49ers, reflected on their favorite moments from their careers, discussed what they've learned during their time in The Bay and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, welcome to the Inside the Oval podcast presented
by Dignity Health. I'm Breonna McDonald, I'm Noah.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hammerman, and I'm Nigel Mike Williams.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
And if you're a regular listener of Inside the Oval,
you may have noticed that these voices you're hearing are
different from the hosts of the previous episodes of this podcast.
Our good friends and former hosts, Hailey Jones and Patti
Kuan have accepted new roles and really cool opportunities outside
of the Oval, outside of the organization and past the
mics to Noah, Nigel and I to continue the series
(00:40):
that they started that highlights our wonderful coworkers, learning more
about their roles and the fascinating stories on how they
got to the San Francisco forty nine Ers organization. So
special shout out to Haley and Patty for starting this pod.
We are super excited to pick it up and we
are wishing them all the best in their next adventures. Now,
before we dive into the interview episodes, we wanted to
(01:01):
start off this new season of the podcast with a
meet the Hosts episode, So if you're a faithful who's
tuned into the forty nine Ers podcast network and keeps
up with the forty nine Ers content online. You may
recognize my voice from the first and tent podcast. Again.
My name is Brionna McDonald. Most people call me Brie,
and I work as the forty nine Ers digital media reporter.
(01:22):
This is actually my first time inside the Oval. However,
my now co hosts, Nigel and Noah have been on
the podcast a few times.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Would you guys like to reintroduce yourselves and what you
do here at the Niners.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Sure, it's good to be back.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nigel and I have been on this podcast before, in
the same season. It was the end of the twenty
twenty one season, in the off season actually, But it's
good to be back and very excited that, you know,
we get to pick this up, very grateful for what
Patty and Haley brought to this podcast, and very excited
to be here. But basically, I'm Noah Hammerman. I am
(01:59):
the scene your motion and a graphic designer here with
the forty nine Ers. I've been here. This is going
to be my fourth season, So very exciting and yeah,
it's a true blessing to kind of be here and
around these folks. I'm really excited to learn more about
other people's stories than my own.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm Nigel McWilliams.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm the senior social media producer for the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Originally from sel My, Alabama, shouts out
my hometown. I'm just glad to be here, glad to
be a part of the organization, and it's super excited
about this first episode.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, lovely, Now to start us off, let's talk
about what our jobs are, how they connect, how we
all work together during this season. As the digital media
reporter for the Niners, I help rainstorm fun stories with
the team, and I go to Nigel and Noah to
help make it come to life. So I'm like, Noah,
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can you make me maybe a stat graphic or a
quote graphic? Nigel, can you make me a highlight reel?
And do we all work together to showcase all the
fun stuff that our team does on the field and
also off the field.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, it's super cool to be the creative part of
that equation. So obviously in my job, I get to,
you know, create unique and different kind of illustrations of
some of these things that Breed brings to us, whether
it be you know, uniquely showing off information or what
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have you. So it's a super cool opportunity. And Nigel
and I have worked closely together for every season just
in proximity.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's gotten even closer.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We started off and he was all the way downstairs
and now he's right next to me on my.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Right side every day.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But yeah, very very cool how each of our roles kind.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Of weave on the On the so side, I handle
a lot of our social video content, from producing content,
to editing content to shooting content.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I call myself a swim swarmery knife. I just like
to get things done and get things done effectively, but
I also love creating as well. I've enjoyed working with
Noah and Brie throughout these past couple seasons, and the
working relationship is absolutely amazing. These are not only co workers,
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these are my friends, and that makes it so much
easier to come in every day and put your best
effort for knowing you around good people.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So it makes it very easy to do my job.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yes, and now we're co hosts.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And if you want to check out any of the
content we help create throughout the season, you could go
to the forty nine ers social channels, the forty nine
ers YouTube page, the forty nine ers dot com website,
and you'll see some trace of our creations on all
of those platforms. It's so much fun working for the
creative side on the Niners. Now. We all started actually
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around the same time. It was right before the twenty
twenty one season. Do you guys remember what your first
years were like here in the Bay My.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
First year was me being completely confused about everything, but
I quickly kind of got acclimated with the surrounding areas,
the commute, just travel, what to do around the Bay area.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's super fun.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Just to get out of the house and just go adventure.
I remember the first meetup I had was with Noah
and some of the interns, and we all went out
for some food and drinks and we had a good times,
good good team bonding, good team building, and that really
set the stepping zone for a successful, you know, working relationship.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, it's super cool to be in the Bay. I
think I came from the East Coast from Pennsylvania, born
and bred, and then come all the way out here.
I went to school in Syracuse, so very snowy, and
then I get out here and it's like seventy and
sunny every day, so quite the contrast. But regardless, I
think what's been really cool is there's like a farmer's
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market in every city up the Bay, all the way
to San Francisco. There's like thing you can never say
there's nothing to do, and I love that aspect, coming
from a place where sometimes there isn't that much to do,
and so I've really enjoyed that and getting out there
and making new friends and kind of immersing myself in
the area. It's funny because we talk about our tent
(06:34):
Pole campaign being faithful to the Bay and really trying
to really trying to emphasize that and creative and how
you do that is by showing people the Bay is
by visualizing it, either with imagery, direct imagery, or just
subliminal things like vector art stuff like that. So it's
been really cool to kind of take it's for work purposes,
but it's also for myself, like really learn a lot
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about the area. But I can start to use this
at my job, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Definitely, traveling around the Bay Area really inspired me to
create some of the work and pieces that I put
out currently here and the Bay is beautiful, Like this
is this is prime real estate. I mean, I know
it's expensive, but this is the Bay is beautiful. And
like I said, it's easy to be inspired by walking around.
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I love going to Capitola, That's my little getaway spot.
I love going to Santa Cruz to that little area.
But yeah, by the Bay is a beautiful, beautiful area.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was so blessed to be born in the Bay Area,
raised in the Bay Area. I grew up in the Peninsula,
so right in between San Francisco and San Jose, and
I got to experience all parts of the Bay Area
growing up. But it's really funny because my journey, well,
my journey with the forty nine Ers organization started the
moment I was born, because I was born into a
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faithful family. However, working for the organization, it actually started
across the country in Miami, Florida. I started with the
forty nine Ers as only a contractor, and I was
in my last semester at the University of Miami, and
I was working primarily online, writing articles from my room
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all the way out there in Miami, Florida, and sending
them over digitally to Hayley Jones. Actually the former host
of this podcast, and Keana Martin, who was the former
team reporter of the forty nine ers, and they were
amazing mentors in my first year, so I didn't get
to meet you guys in person. It came after a while,
but that was my first touch with the forty nine
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ers organization. And then after I graduated, I was so
happy to move back home and meet you guys in
person and work with you guys every day, and it's
been such a dream. Speaking of let's talk about career growth,
because where that started and where we're at now it
feels like a lifetime in between. Nigel, what are some
of the things you learned from when you moved out
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here from Selma to now, whether that be in your
personal life or even just in your career life working
here at the Niners.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
My growth with the forty nine Ers currently has been
filled with a lot of opportunities. In twenty twenty two season,
I was promoted and that promotion came with a lot
of other responsibilities. Like I said earlier, I like to
call myself the Swiss arm and ie, whether that was
producing podcasts, running gun shooting, editing. Throughout the season, all
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of the responsibilities that come with the job of social
producer Senior social producer. I'm just appreciative of the opportunities
that the Niners have given me. Hard work pays off,
and I like to say that a lot, just because
it really does pay off.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
My journey here was not easy, but I've made it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And I still have more to go to I still
have more to learn, I still have more to do,
I still have more to create. So I look at
growth as this is where I'm at now, but I
still want to grow more. You know, I'm still hungry.
I still want more, I still want to learn more.
And that's that's that's how my career growth has come.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
With the forty nine.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Ers twenty twenty fourth season, watch out for Nigel. He's
got to be cooking up.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I got some stuff cooked up for the season.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Really, just after the Super Bowl I came back and
it's a readjust phase, Like how do I readjust? How
do I create more content that can capture more of
our fans' attention, How do I connect more with our
fans from an emotional standpoint. What I've learned as I.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Entered the fourth season is take care of yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
The season is long, take the off season to really
prepare yourself for the moths ahead. But really just take
care of yourself. My dad always texts me and says, son,
did you do something for yourself today? And it's just
always a constant reminder that Hey, like, in order for
you to do your best work, you have to make
sure you were you were taking very good care of yourself.
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And that plays a part too, how effectively you come
in every day and do your job. But taking care
of yourself is something that I learned throughout my time here.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Just really taking care of your mental.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Making sure that you're on your a game, and treating
others well, you know, the usual, the usual stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So yeah, what it takes to be a good human.
That's awesome, Noah. When you think about four years ago,
Noah and just coming out to the Bay and joining
the Niners, how have you grown since that moment?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Not much now.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was a goofball back then and I'm a goofball now.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What's cool is there's this I learned this from I
forget the guy's name, but it was an Adobe Max speaker.
I think it was two years ago or something, and
I did the online kind of registration. I signed up
and just kind of watch some of the videos from
the conference. So basically this guy talks about he framed
it as the creative leadership hierarchy model. It can be
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taken two ways. You can take this to creative, but
you can also take this beyond it. But this is
basically what it is. So at you have five stages.
At a one, you get your job done every day.
So whatever you need to work on, you get it done.
You're tasked with an assignment, you do it. Number two,
you start involving your team more, you get everybody else involved,
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you start throwing assists like Steve Nash. Number three, now
you're working at the marketing level. Now you're working at
the department level. Right, so in that case for us,
it's marketing, but now you're working at the department level,
starting to get people interested in what you're talking about
and really caring, and you have a voice to carry
in those conversations. Number four would be now you're at
a company level. You know people are starting to get
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involved in what you're doing. You're peaking people's interests. And
number five is the industry level. Now people respect you
across the industry, and so for my industry, it's creative,
So that was the example in that but across the industry.
So that's personally the path that I've taken and a
lot of people have taken. From the day I got
in here, It's like I was getting my stuff done,
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and circumstantially things changed along the way. Then I became
a real team player. Then now I'm more on the
marketing level. Now I'm more of a voice in our department.
But as the list keeps going and you keep growing,
I think it's super important to just get involved in
as many things as you can. That's what I'm most
proud of with myself, and I think that's a lesson
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for a lot of people. So that's personally how I've
moved up. And at some point I was promoted and
I changed my title after the first year because I
felt as though I was doing more work in a
phase of design that I wasn't being accredited for. So
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that's when my titles so long with the motion design part,
because I really did feel like I was adding a
different facet that most creatives can't in that respect. So
I added that on after the first year and then
kept going second year, got promoted to senior, and then yeah,
been here since that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
How about you bring.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I've had a couple growing points throughout my journey here
at the Niners, the first being from that contracted position
to a full time real employee position, which was fun,
and I learned a lot during that contractor season when
I was completely separated from the whole team and from
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the whole organization. But I tried in every which way
to get connected as much as I could, And like
you said, Noah is just being open to doing literally everything.
I kind of started backwards. I started with a dream
and I wanted to when I was in college to
always be a reporter for a team, and so I
always would love to be on camera, would love to
be on the mic, and I just wanted to start there,
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but I know it takes a lot to get there.
So when I was first interviewing with Haley and Keana
to join the team as a contractor, I said that
that was my dream, but I know I need to
start somewhere, and so that was with writing. And I
learned in writing is that storytelling is the basis of everything.
It's the basis of this podcast or recording. It's the
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basis of a news report you want to give on camera.
So that's where I really fine tuned my writing skills
when I was living in Miami and it was just
me out there writing stories about the forty nine ers
every day. So in that I also tried new things
like I started a live blog on our website where
I could connect with our online community and our online
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fans during games, and I chatted with fans throughout the
game and I sent them breaking news updates throughout the games.
So it's just about starting new things like that. And
then from there, I was promoted to be a full
time employee and my first title was digital media coordinator
and I was in that position for a few years.
And with that I just ran with it. I got
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here and I just tried everything I could. I was
obviously writing articles every day, but I was also asking
Nigel if you could film me in the locker room.
I was asking Noah if you could make me fun
YouTube thumbnails for random vlogs I wanted to make. I honestly,
just every time I came into work, I was like,
what sounds fun, Let's do it. And that's what I'm
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really blessed to be in a creative space because that's
sort of how my brain works. I'm like, what's the
fun thing, what's an original thing we could do, What's
something that could bring laughter, What's something that could bring
excitement to our fans, And just try to bring that
in every avenue. So, whether that be in future stories
or telling bun off the field stories, finding all those
fun things and helping fans feel even more to the
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players is sort of what I motivate myself to do
in every avenue of the creative side here at the
Niners and from there. Over this past offseason, I've been
promoted to a digital media reporter and it's been a
lot of fun, and I'm excited to exercise all those
new responsibilities in this upcoming season. I'm just really excited
for twenty twenty four and it's going to be a
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lot of fun. But over the course of these past
four years the Niners, our team has seen a lots
of ups and downs, a lot of exciting moments, sad moments.
But for you guys personally, what's been your favorite memory
over your career here in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, my favorite memory doesn't have to go far. I
think it was the NFC championship from this past season,
and why it was so specialist because it was merely
days after my twenty fifth birthday and both of my
parents came to town and I got them tickets to
watch the game, and at halftime, of course, we were
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down pretty big, and I just remember them saying, Okay,
we love the seats, but we can't go back to them,
and I go why and they go, because we're superstitious,
and I go, okay, I mean they're really nice seats.
I think you should go back. I think it's going
to be a great half and they go, we're nervous
about it. We'll just stand and of course journeys don't
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stop believing. It's blaring through the speakers and whatever. It's
this whole, you know, big event, and next thing you know,
we're starting to come back and they were like, we're
never sitting in those seats again, Like, you know, we
really appreciate the gesture. And I just remember bringing them
down to the field, being able to stand there with them,
super special moment, and then obviously after that, getting to
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go to the Super Bowl and bring my whole family along,
my sister Rebecca came too, so yeah, super special stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Make sure they never sit in those seats ever again.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I know, got it. I'll try my best.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, great, Nigel. Do you have a favorite memory?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
My favorite memory was from the twenty twenty two season.
I can't remember what game it was, but there was
this kid that had the sign and it has something
the effects of de Bo I love you, you know,
and de Bo doing pregame on warm ups walked over
and this kid just started falling crime man and that
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moment for me sent chills through my body because you
understand at that point in space and time that it's
about the connections that we make with people and that
kids they was made and that that was the most impactful,
most memorable moment for me, Not saying that NFC Championship wasn't,
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but that moment for me really pulled emotion out of me.
Just because these kids travel with families. You know, this
might be that the one time they get to see
their favorite player, and when they do, there's an opportunity
that happens in this situation just becomes something that you
can't forget.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I think my favorite moment working here at the Niners
is similar to that kid that you helped. I had
a moment where I felt like that kid here working
for the Niners. I'm a Bay kid. I grew up
in the Bay Area, like I said earlier in the podcast,
and I've always been a huge Niner fan. Like I said,
it was just born. I was just born into it.
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And so when I was younger, I always loved football.
I even wanted to play football when I was a
little girl, and I would join all of our players
football camps. So I was this little girl and I
remember I signed up for the Patrick Willis skills camp.
I think it was in Redwood City, and I was
the only girl out there in a field full of
boys running drills with Patrick Willis. I just wanted to
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see him. I still have that picture of like little
me standing to a giant Patrick Willis and he was
so sweet. Then obviously he was surrounded by kids. And
when I met him again for our alumni game, I
believe it was just this last season. I told him
the story about how it was that only girl at
his skills camp and how much it meant to me,
and how I've carried that same energy with me as
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I went through college and as I figured out what
I wanted to do with my career, and that love
for football and that joy that I got from just
being on the field and being surrounded by the NFL.
And when I was telling him that story, he asked
for a picture with me, and I thought it was
going to go the other way around. I was ready
to ask him for another picture, but he was just
so excited, obviously, so sweet, so kind. I'm so happy
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he got into the Hall of Fame because he's still
my favorite. When he asked to take a picture with me,
my heart was so warm. I'm sure just how that
kid felt. So yeah, I don't get starstruck very often,
but when it comes to Patrick Willis, yeah, it was over.
I was just so happy and he was the sweetest.
So that was one of my favorite memories. But it's
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so hard choosing a favorite memory working at the Niners,
because I make new favorite memories every day with you guys.
Even it's so fun when the team is on the
road and we're all here together at Levi Stadium watching
the game. We're up at like seven in the morning,
ordering donuts and bagels and bonding and laughing during.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Pre game team bonding.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
There's a lot of team bonding. We're very close. I
see these guys more than I see my family. That's
just how it is working in the sports industry. But
what kind of energy are you bringing into twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
My energy will be on a thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I mean, I'm a silent storm right now. Like I
know this team will come back, and when they do,
I'll just be there to say and smile and cheer.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's kind of what I'm bringing.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
My energy is full of excitement. No, I think this season.
What's cool about this is that we're in a window
of opportunity with this team that's just so great. Like
you don't get to work for franchises that are this
amazing that often we're truly blessed beyond belief, and it's
so awesome to be a part of what's going on
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on the field. It's a really cool and unique experience.
I kind of want to go back to the Patrick
Willis thing because you know, my question for you, Brie,
and this is kind of sparred by the fact that
you've never been on inside the Oval, so you should
be asked. You know, at least one question is Basically,
what do you think five year old Brie would say
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or how would she react if she knew where she'd
end up right now? Because I think it's pretty amazing
to be a fan from day one, be a member
of the faithful, and be right here sitting.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
With us, just chatting.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, she's crying, and I know because I cry often.
I'm very easily emotional. Yeah, that five year old self,
that's her dream is sort of what I'm fulfilling every day.
And when I was going for this job and when
I come in every day to work and try to
give my best, I give my best for my five
year old self, her dream and everything that she wanted.
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So yeah, she is a starstruck right now. She probably
does not think this is real because she is me
and I still am. I still don't think this is real.
It's huge glory to God only. I'm a big believer
in that everything happens for a reason. So I was
born here for a reason, and I had this love
for this team for a reason. And when I was
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in those stands at Candlestick Park, I was just like,
I'll be on the field next That's where my eyes were,
and I just yeah, I was locking in on it,
I guess ever since then. And I am a first
generation college student, and my father immigrated here, and everything
he preached to us when we were growing up was
just to follow our dreams, no matter what the money
will come, don't chase the money. And so I did
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just that. And when I was in college prep programs,
because I was the first in my family to apply
for college at all, I would have mentors and teachers
ask me, Okay, so what is it you'd want a
major in. And I was like, well, I'm not strong
in science, so I don't love math, writing a cool
I don't want to be an author. And they said, okay,
well what do you love? Because when I was thinking
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about school subjects, I'm like, I don't know, girl. And
so when I thought about what I love, I'm like
watching football. And so they're like, okay, see where you
could do with that? Learn about the sports industry. What
can you work in that atmosphere? And so that's when
I found out what journalism was, and I studied a
lot of journalism in college, and I just carried that
passion when they asked me that question of what do
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I love? And it was watching football? And cheering in football,
and that's what I love. Working on the team side
is I feel like I get to be a cheerleader
in a sense because I'm cheering on our team via reporting.
It's very fun working in house. So yeah, I'm just
reliving a dream every day.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What about you?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What my five year old self would think? Yes, it's
kind of an Uno reverse card for the question I asked.
But I think so when I was five. It's kind
of funny because I'm still into the same thing. But
I loved I love Spider Man, so the color red
kind of stuck with me throughout that experience. But I
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think as I grew older, I really learned a lot
about design. This is going to like from skipping from
five to like twelve slash thirteen.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But it's funny enough.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I actually talked about this on the podcast episode I
was on. But I've been on this path to be
in the spot I am today for a while, Like
this is my tenth season getting you know, paid to
do sports design, which is crazy because I'm only twenty five.
But when I was younger, I just appreciated the idea
that you could manipulate pictures. I thought that was so interesting.
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I took like photography class in high school and thought
that was cool, but the idea of messing with an
image in particular ways was super interesting to me, and
it just got me really, you know, jazzed at the.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Fact that you could get paid to do this.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I just remember learning when I got the there was
a chance that I could get paid to do this,
and I was like, oh my gosh, that's sick, Like
I gotta do that. So obviously took that dream and
made it a reality. But five year old Noah would
still be playing with Spider Man toys. And I remember
making all my babysitters this was like a true story.
(27:16):
That's kind of odd, But I made all my babysitters
act like they were the villains and the Spider Man comics,
and I would like web them up. I'd wear the
full suit and I'd web them up and I'd be
running around. But I think it's so cool to like,
you know, take that creativity and channel it into what
I do now. So very grateful that I get to
(27:37):
use my creative juices every day and still you know,
be using my brain in unique ways. But yeah, I
guess since you uner reversed it, to me, I'll pass
it to you. What would five year old Nigel think
about where he is right now?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Brobab would be excited?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Late.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean, growing up, I was always super creative from
my ability to play piano, trumpet oregon. I always love creating.
I did not know that I would find in a
path uh to sports video videography and content creation.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
In college, but it changed my life.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I look back on people that influenced me, like Justin Brandt,
uh God bless that brother. The dude changed my life.
I'm like I said, I know, I wouldn't be surprised.
I'd just be happy where, you know, happy knowing that
even though I couldn't see it, it was still the everything works,
(28:44):
you know, for the good. And I'm just like I said,
I'm just happy and I'm just glad to I'm glad
to be a part of the organization. But yeah, I'd
be lit that that's I'd just be happy, just be
happy knowing that if I could take a glimpse into
the future and see myself now, even though things aren't
(29:05):
always you know, always good, but just knowing that that
everything that I've worked for, all the struggles, all of
the obstacles were They weren't for nothing. You know, everything
that you go through, whether that be professional, personal, what
you go through in life, learn from it, and.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You know, you never know where it can lead you.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Hm. Yeah, that's beautiful. Now it's time to close up
the podcast, and just as our previous hosts, Haley and
Patty would do, is finish off with this question, the
other Duties as Assigned question. I know you guys got
it on your episodes, but I'm wondering if you guys
have any recent stories that fall under that other Duties
as Assigned bullet point when it comes to applying for
(29:50):
a job.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Uh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I mean even this offseason, basically each year our team
does and helps with the media day set up and
take down and just you know, little things within it.
And this year for Media Week, we you know, took
down the set and I just remember, you know, and
it's super exciting because there's all these little things that
(30:14):
we're gonna end up using in the season that you guys,
as faithful, will see and it's it's awesome. But the
part of it that's not fun is taking everything down
after you put it all up. And I remember I
was vacuuming. And you know, I vacuum, you know, the
the floors and stuff at home, but not like this
(30:35):
giant carpet here. So I'm vacuuming and the entire like
marketing staff is taking pictures of me because they think
it's the funniest thing. Like this is true. Other duties
as assign type stuff. But you know, it took the
home life all the way here to work. And my
roommate may disagree with that, thinking that I don't vacuum
(30:57):
that much, but yeah, I think it's I think it's great.
This job is super fun. So that's the little things
along the way that you just have to do to
get it done. Use those are really fun too.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, no other duties are signed.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Speaking of media day, it was super fun painting the set.
I mean, I got to kick it with Aju. Aj
is no longer here with the organization, but shouts out
to that dude all the amazing work that he put
in here. But just like I said, building that team camaraderie,
going out early morning, coming setting up building sets for media.
(31:35):
They's something that I've never actually done and it was
just cool just being a part of the process because
once you are a part of the process. It makes
it so much easier to look at the end result
and be so satisfied with what you see because you
know you had a hand in it, and you know
it's important just because you played a part in it,
(31:58):
and that's what that's what makes it special. Like like
Noah said, this, this job is fun. The amount of
things that we can do here just speaks well to
the organization and the amount of resources that we have
available to be able to do our jobs effectively and
do other things effectively as well.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And like I said, it's all a part of the process. Yeah,
back by brick, break by brick.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It's coming soon. Yeah. Other duties as assigned. I'm trying
to think I have a ton I've learned how to DJ,
I've learned how to be an NFL cheerleader, I've learned
how to be a flag runner. I've learned how to
be on drumline up.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
On the podcast earlier drop line.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
You can check it out on the twenty nine ers YouTube.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Channel shameless plug.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's been a lot of fun. And the list goes
on and on for other duties as assigned, But thank
you for listening. Subscribe to Inside the other more and
be on the lookout for a spotlight episodes featuring our
wonderful forty nine ers coworkers coming soon.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Thanks Nor, Thanks Breathing Bye.
All right, welcome to the Inside the Oval podcast presented
by Dignity Health. I'm Breonna McDonald, I'm Noah.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hammerman, and I'm Nigel Mike Williams.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
And if you're a regular listener of Inside the Oval,
you may have noticed that these voices you're hearing are
different from the hosts of the previous episodes of this podcast.
Our good friends and former hosts, Hailey Jones and Patti
Kuan have accepted new roles and really cool opportunities outside
of the Oval, outside of the organization and past the
mics to Noah, Nigel and I to continue the series
(00:40):
that they started that highlights our wonderful coworkers, learning more
about their roles and the fascinating stories on how they
got to the San Francisco forty nine Ers organization. So
special shout out to Haley and Patty for starting this pod.
We are super excited to pick it up and we
are wishing them all the best in their next adventures. Now,
before we dive into the interview episodes, we wanted to
(01:01):
start off this new season of the podcast with a
meet the Hosts episode, So if you're a faithful who's
tuned into the forty nine Ers podcast network and keeps
up with the forty nine Ers content online. You may
recognize my voice from the first and tent podcast. Again.
My name is Brionna McDonald. Most people call me Brie,
and I work as the forty nine Ers digital media reporter.
(01:22):
This is actually my first time inside the Oval. However,
my now co hosts, Nigel and Noah have been on
the podcast a few times.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Would you guys like to reintroduce yourselves and what you
do here at the Niners.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Sure, it's good to be back.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nigel and I have been on this podcast before, in
the same season. It was the end of the twenty
twenty one season, in the off season actually, But it's
good to be back and very excited that, you know,
we get to pick this up, very grateful for what
Patty and Haley brought to this podcast, and very excited
to be here. But basically, I'm Noah Hammerman. I am
(01:59):
the scene your motion and a graphic designer here with
the forty nine Ers. I've been here. This is going
to be my fourth season, So very exciting and yeah,
it's a true blessing to kind of be here and
around these folks. I'm really excited to learn more about
other people's stories than my own.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm Nigel McWilliams.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm the senior social media producer for the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Originally from sel My, Alabama, shouts out
my hometown. I'm just glad to be here, glad to
be a part of the organization, and it's super excited
about this first episode.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, lovely, Now to start us off, let's talk
about what our jobs are, how they connect, how we
all work together during this season. As the digital media
reporter for the Niners, I help rainstorm fun stories with
the team, and I go to Nigel and Noah to
help make it come to life. So I'm like, Noah,
(02:52):
can you make me maybe a stat graphic or a
quote graphic? Nigel, can you make me a highlight reel?
And do we all work together to showcase all the
fun stuff that our team does on the field and
also off the field.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, it's super cool to be the creative part of
that equation. So obviously in my job, I get to,
you know, create unique and different kind of illustrations of
some of these things that Breed brings to us, whether
it be you know, uniquely showing off information or what
(03:26):
have you. So it's a super cool opportunity. And Nigel
and I have worked closely together for every season just
in proximity.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's gotten even closer.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We started off and he was all the way downstairs
and now he's right next to me on my.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Right side every day.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But yeah, very very cool how each of our roles kind.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Of weave on the On the so side, I handle
a lot of our social video content, from producing content,
to editing content to shooting content.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I call myself a swim swarmery knife. I just like
to get things done and get things done effectively, but
I also love creating as well. I've enjoyed working with
Noah and Brie throughout these past couple seasons, and the
working relationship is absolutely amazing. These are not only co workers,
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these are my friends, and that makes it so much
easier to come in every day and put your best
effort for knowing you around good people.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So it makes it very easy to do my job.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yes, and now we're co hosts.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And if you want to check out any of the
content we help create throughout the season, you could go
to the forty nine ers social channels, the forty nine
ers YouTube page, the forty nine ers dot com website,
and you'll see some trace of our creations on all
of those platforms. It's so much fun working for the
creative side on the Niners. Now. We all started actually
(04:59):
around the same time. It was right before the twenty
twenty one season. Do you guys remember what your first
years were like here in the Bay My.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
First year was me being completely confused about everything, but
I quickly kind of got acclimated with the surrounding areas,
the commute, just travel, what to do around the Bay area.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's super fun.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Just to get out of the house and just go adventure.
I remember the first meetup I had was with Noah
and some of the interns, and we all went out
for some food and drinks and we had a good times,
good good team bonding, good team building, and that really
set the stepping zone for a successful, you know, working relationship.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, it's super cool to be in the Bay. I
think I came from the East Coast from Pennsylvania, born
and bred, and then come all the way out here.
I went to school in Syracuse, so very snowy, and
then I get out here and it's like seventy and
sunny every day, so quite the contrast. But regardless, I
think what's been really cool is there's like a farmer's
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market in every city up the Bay, all the way
to San Francisco. There's like thing you can never say
there's nothing to do, and I love that aspect, coming
from a place where sometimes there isn't that much to do,
and so I've really enjoyed that and getting out there
and making new friends and kind of immersing myself in
the area. It's funny because we talk about our tent
(06:34):
Pole campaign being faithful to the Bay and really trying
to really trying to emphasize that and creative and how
you do that is by showing people the Bay is
by visualizing it, either with imagery, direct imagery, or just
subliminal things like vector art stuff like that. So it's
been really cool to kind of take it's for work purposes,
but it's also for myself, like really learn a lot
(06:56):
about the area. But I can start to use this
at my job, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Definitely, traveling around the Bay Area really inspired me to
create some of the work and pieces that I put
out currently here and the Bay is beautiful, Like this
is this is prime real estate. I mean, I know
it's expensive, but this is the Bay is beautiful. And
like I said, it's easy to be inspired by walking around.
(07:24):
I love going to Capitola, That's my little getaway spot.
I love going to Santa Cruz to that little area.
But yeah, by the Bay is a beautiful, beautiful area.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was so blessed to be born in the Bay Area,
raised in the Bay Area. I grew up in the Peninsula,
so right in between San Francisco and San Jose, and
I got to experience all parts of the Bay Area
growing up. But it's really funny because my journey, well,
my journey with the forty nine Ers organization started the
moment I was born, because I was born into a
(07:57):
faithful family. However, working for the organization, it actually started
across the country in Miami, Florida. I started with the
forty nine Ers as only a contractor, and I was
in my last semester at the University of Miami, and
I was working primarily online, writing articles from my room
(08:18):
all the way out there in Miami, Florida, and sending
them over digitally to Hayley Jones. Actually the former host
of this podcast, and Keana Martin, who was the former
team reporter of the forty nine ers, and they were
amazing mentors in my first year, so I didn't get
to meet you guys in person. It came after a while,
but that was my first touch with the forty nine
(08:39):
ers organization. And then after I graduated, I was so
happy to move back home and meet you guys in
person and work with you guys every day, and it's
been such a dream. Speaking of let's talk about career growth,
because where that started and where we're at now it
feels like a lifetime in between. Nigel, what are some
of the things you learned from when you moved out
(08:59):
here from Selma to now, whether that be in your
personal life or even just in your career life working
here at the Niners.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
My growth with the forty nine Ers currently has been
filled with a lot of opportunities. In twenty twenty two season,
I was promoted and that promotion came with a lot
of other responsibilities. Like I said earlier, I like to
call myself the Swiss arm and ie, whether that was
producing podcasts, running gun shooting, editing. Throughout the season, all
(09:31):
of the responsibilities that come with the job of social
producer Senior social producer. I'm just appreciative of the opportunities
that the Niners have given me. Hard work pays off,
and I like to say that a lot, just because
it really does pay off.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
My journey here was not easy, but I've made it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And I still have more to go to I still
have more to learn, I still have more to do,
I still have more to create. So I look at
growth as this is where I'm at now, but I
still want to grow more. You know, I'm still hungry.
I still want more, I still want to learn more.
And that's that's that's how my career growth has come.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
With the forty nine.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Ers twenty twenty fourth season, watch out for Nigel. He's
got to be cooking up.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I got some stuff cooked up for the season.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Really, just after the Super Bowl I came back and
it's a readjust phase, Like how do I readjust? How
do I create more content that can capture more of
our fans' attention, How do I connect more with our
fans from an emotional standpoint. What I've learned as I.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Entered the fourth season is take care of yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
The season is long, take the off season to really
prepare yourself for the moths ahead. But really just take
care of yourself. My dad always texts me and says, son,
did you do something for yourself today? And it's just
always a constant reminder that Hey, like, in order for
you to do your best work, you have to make
sure you were you were taking very good care of yourself.
(11:17):
And that plays a part too, how effectively you come
in every day and do your job. But taking care
of yourself is something that I learned throughout my time here.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Just really taking care of your mental.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Making sure that you're on your a game, and treating
others well, you know, the usual, the usual stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So yeah, what it takes to be a good human.
That's awesome, Noah. When you think about four years ago,
Noah and just coming out to the Bay and joining
the Niners, how have you grown since that moment?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Not much now.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was a goofball back then and I'm a goofball now.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What's cool is there's this I learned this from I
forget the guy's name, but it was an Adobe Max speaker.
I think it was two years ago or something, and
I did the online kind of registration. I signed up
and just kind of watch some of the videos from
the conference. So basically this guy talks about he framed
it as the creative leadership hierarchy model. It can be
(12:23):
taken two ways. You can take this to creative, but
you can also take this beyond it. But this is
basically what it is. So at you have five stages.
At a one, you get your job done every day.
So whatever you need to work on, you get it done.
You're tasked with an assignment, you do it. Number two,
you start involving your team more, you get everybody else involved,
(12:44):
you start throwing assists like Steve Nash. Number three, now
you're working at the marketing level. Now you're working at
the department level. Right, so in that case for us,
it's marketing, but now you're working at the department level,
starting to get people interested in what you're talking about
and really caring, and you have a voice to carry
in those conversations. Number four would be now you're at
a company level. You know people are starting to get
(13:05):
involved in what you're doing. You're peaking people's interests. And
number five is the industry level. Now people respect you
across the industry, and so for my industry, it's creative,
So that was the example in that but across the industry.
So that's personally the path that I've taken and a
lot of people have taken. From the day I got
in here, It's like I was getting my stuff done,
(13:28):
and circumstantially things changed along the way. Then I became
a real team player. Then now I'm more on the
marketing level. Now I'm more of a voice in our department.
But as the list keeps going and you keep growing,
I think it's super important to just get involved in
as many things as you can. That's what I'm most
proud of with myself, and I think that's a lesson
(13:51):
for a lot of people. So that's personally how I've
moved up. And at some point I was promoted and
I changed my title after the first year because I
felt as though I was doing more work in a
phase of design that I wasn't being accredited for. So
(14:11):
that's when my titles so long with the motion design part,
because I really did feel like I was adding a
different facet that most creatives can't in that respect. So
I added that on after the first year and then
kept going second year, got promoted to senior, and then yeah,
been here since that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
How about you bring.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I've had a couple growing points throughout my journey here
at the Niners, the first being from that contracted position
to a full time real employee position, which was fun,
and I learned a lot during that contractor season when
I was completely separated from the whole team and from
(14:50):
the whole organization. But I tried in every which way
to get connected as much as I could, And like
you said, Noah is just being open to doing literally everything.
I kind of started backwards. I started with a dream
and I wanted to when I was in college to
always be a reporter for a team, and so I
always would love to be on camera, would love to
be on the mic, and I just wanted to start there,
(15:13):
but I know it takes a lot to get there.
So when I was first interviewing with Haley and Keana
to join the team as a contractor, I said that
that was my dream, but I know I need to
start somewhere, and so that was with writing. And I
learned in writing is that storytelling is the basis of everything.
It's the basis of this podcast or recording. It's the
(15:33):
basis of a news report you want to give on camera.
So that's where I really fine tuned my writing skills
when I was living in Miami and it was just
me out there writing stories about the forty nine ers
every day. So in that I also tried new things
like I started a live blog on our website where
I could connect with our online community and our online
(15:54):
fans during games, and I chatted with fans throughout the
game and I sent them breaking news updates throughout the games.
So it's just about starting new things like that. And
then from there, I was promoted to be a full
time employee and my first title was digital media coordinator
and I was in that position for a few years.
And with that I just ran with it. I got
(16:16):
here and I just tried everything I could. I was
obviously writing articles every day, but I was also asking
Nigel if you could film me in the locker room.
I was asking Noah if you could make me fun
YouTube thumbnails for random vlogs I wanted to make. I honestly,
just every time I came into work, I was like,
what sounds fun, Let's do it. And that's what I'm
(16:38):
really blessed to be in a creative space because that's
sort of how my brain works. I'm like, what's the
fun thing, what's an original thing we could do, What's
something that could bring laughter, What's something that could bring
excitement to our fans, And just try to bring that
in every avenue. So, whether that be in future stories
or telling bun off the field stories, finding all those
fun things and helping fans feel even more to the
(17:00):
players is sort of what I motivate myself to do
in every avenue of the creative side here at the
Niners and from there. Over this past offseason, I've been
promoted to a digital media reporter and it's been a
lot of fun, and I'm excited to exercise all those
new responsibilities in this upcoming season. I'm just really excited
for twenty twenty four and it's going to be a
(17:21):
lot of fun. But over the course of these past
four years the Niners, our team has seen a lots
of ups and downs, a lot of exciting moments, sad moments.
But for you guys personally, what's been your favorite memory
over your career here in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, my favorite memory doesn't have to go far. I
think it was the NFC championship from this past season,
and why it was so specialist because it was merely
days after my twenty fifth birthday and both of my
parents came to town and I got them tickets to
watch the game, and at halftime, of course, we were
(17:57):
down pretty big, and I just remember them saying, Okay,
we love the seats, but we can't go back to them,
and I go why and they go, because we're superstitious,
and I go, okay, I mean they're really nice seats.
I think you should go back. I think it's going
to be a great half and they go, we're nervous
about it. We'll just stand and of course journeys don't
(18:18):
stop believing. It's blaring through the speakers and whatever. It's
this whole, you know, big event, and next thing you know,
we're starting to come back and they were like, we're
never sitting in those seats again, Like, you know, we
really appreciate the gesture. And I just remember bringing them
down to the field, being able to stand there with them,
super special moment, and then obviously after that, getting to
(18:39):
go to the Super Bowl and bring my whole family along,
my sister Rebecca came too, so yeah, super special stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Make sure they never sit in those seats ever again.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I know, got it. I'll try my best.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, great, Nigel. Do you have a favorite memory?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
My favorite memory was from the twenty twenty two season.
I can't remember what game it was, but there was
this kid that had the sign and it has something
the effects of de Bo I love you, you know,
and de Bo doing pregame on warm ups walked over
and this kid just started falling crime man and that
(19:19):
moment for me sent chills through my body because you
understand at that point in space and time that it's
about the connections that we make with people and that
kids they was made and that that was the most impactful,
most memorable moment for me, Not saying that NFC Championship wasn't,
(19:40):
but that moment for me really pulled emotion out of me.
Just because these kids travel with families. You know, this
might be that the one time they get to see
their favorite player, and when they do, there's an opportunity
that happens in this situation just becomes something that you
can't forget.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I think my favorite moment working here at the Niners
is similar to that kid that you helped. I had
a moment where I felt like that kid here working
for the Niners. I'm a Bay kid. I grew up
in the Bay Area, like I said earlier in the podcast,
and I've always been a huge Niner fan. Like I said,
it was just born. I was just born into it.
(20:22):
And so when I was younger, I always loved football.
I even wanted to play football when I was a
little girl, and I would join all of our players
football camps. So I was this little girl and I
remember I signed up for the Patrick Willis skills camp.
I think it was in Redwood City, and I was
the only girl out there in a field full of
boys running drills with Patrick Willis. I just wanted to
(20:44):
see him. I still have that picture of like little
me standing to a giant Patrick Willis and he was
so sweet. Then obviously he was surrounded by kids. And
when I met him again for our alumni game, I
believe it was just this last season. I told him
the story about how it was that only girl at
his skills camp and how much it meant to me,
and how I've carried that same energy with me as
(21:07):
I went through college and as I figured out what
I wanted to do with my career, and that love
for football and that joy that I got from just
being on the field and being surrounded by the NFL.
And when I was telling him that story, he asked
for a picture with me, and I thought it was
going to go the other way around. I was ready
to ask him for another picture, but he was just
so excited, obviously, so sweet, so kind. I'm so happy
(21:30):
he got into the Hall of Fame because he's still
my favorite. When he asked to take a picture with me,
my heart was so warm. I'm sure just how that
kid felt. So yeah, I don't get starstruck very often,
but when it comes to Patrick Willis, yeah, it was over.
I was just so happy and he was the sweetest.
So that was one of my favorite memories. But it's
(21:50):
so hard choosing a favorite memory working at the Niners,
because I make new favorite memories every day with you guys.
Even it's so fun when the team is on the
road and we're all here together at Levi Stadium watching
the game. We're up at like seven in the morning,
ordering donuts and bagels and bonding and laughing during.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Pre game team bonding.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
There's a lot of team bonding. We're very close. I
see these guys more than I see my family. That's
just how it is working in the sports industry. But
what kind of energy are you bringing into twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
My energy will be on a thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I mean, I'm a silent storm right now. Like I
know this team will come back, and when they do,
I'll just be there to say and smile and cheer.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's kind of what I'm bringing.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
My energy is full of excitement. No, I think this season.
What's cool about this is that we're in a window
of opportunity with this team that's just so great. Like
you don't get to work for franchises that are this
amazing that often we're truly blessed beyond belief, and it's
so awesome to be a part of what's going on
(23:05):
on the field. It's a really cool and unique experience.
I kind of want to go back to the Patrick
Willis thing because you know, my question for you, Brie,
and this is kind of sparred by the fact that
you've never been on inside the Oval, so you should
be asked. You know, at least one question is Basically,
what do you think five year old Brie would say
(23:28):
or how would she react if she knew where she'd
end up right now? Because I think it's pretty amazing
to be a fan from day one, be a member
of the faithful, and be right here sitting.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
With us, just chatting.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, she's crying, and I know because I cry often.
I'm very easily emotional. Yeah, that five year old self,
that's her dream is sort of what I'm fulfilling every day.
And when I was going for this job and when
I come in every day to work and try to
give my best, I give my best for my five
year old self, her dream and everything that she wanted.
(24:02):
So yeah, she is a starstruck right now. She probably
does not think this is real because she is me
and I still am. I still don't think this is real.
It's huge glory to God only. I'm a big believer
in that everything happens for a reason. So I was
born here for a reason, and I had this love
for this team for a reason. And when I was
(24:22):
in those stands at Candlestick Park, I was just like,
I'll be on the field next That's where my eyes were,
and I just yeah, I was locking in on it,
I guess ever since then. And I am a first
generation college student, and my father immigrated here, and everything
he preached to us when we were growing up was
just to follow our dreams, no matter what the money
will come, don't chase the money. And so I did
(24:43):
just that. And when I was in college prep programs,
because I was the first in my family to apply
for college at all, I would have mentors and teachers
ask me, Okay, so what is it you'd want a
major in. And I was like, well, I'm not strong
in science, so I don't love math, writing a cool
I don't want to be an author. And they said, okay,
well what do you love? Because when I was thinking
(25:04):
about school subjects, I'm like, I don't know, girl. And
so when I thought about what I love, I'm like
watching football. And so they're like, okay, see where you
could do with that? Learn about the sports industry. What
can you work in that atmosphere? And so that's when
I found out what journalism was, and I studied a
lot of journalism in college, and I just carried that
passion when they asked me that question of what do
(25:25):
I love? And it was watching football? And cheering in football,
and that's what I love. Working on the team side
is I feel like I get to be a cheerleader
in a sense because I'm cheering on our team via reporting.
It's very fun working in house. So yeah, I'm just
reliving a dream every day.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What about you?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What my five year old self would think? Yes, it's
kind of an Uno reverse card for the question I asked.
But I think so when I was five. It's kind
of funny because I'm still into the same thing. But
I loved I love Spider Man, so the color red
kind of stuck with me throughout that experience. But I
(26:03):
think as I grew older, I really learned a lot
about design. This is going to like from skipping from
five to like twelve slash thirteen.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But it's funny enough.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I actually talked about this on the podcast episode I
was on. But I've been on this path to be
in the spot I am today for a while, Like
this is my tenth season getting you know, paid to
do sports design, which is crazy because I'm only twenty five.
But when I was younger, I just appreciated the idea
that you could manipulate pictures. I thought that was so interesting.
(26:41):
I took like photography class in high school and thought
that was cool, but the idea of messing with an
image in particular ways was super interesting to me, and
it just got me really, you know, jazzed at the.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Fact that you could get paid to do this.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I just remember learning when I got the there was
a chance that I could get paid to do this,
and I was like, oh my gosh, that's sick, Like
I gotta do that. So obviously took that dream and
made it a reality. But five year old Noah would
still be playing with Spider Man toys. And I remember
making all my babysitters this was like a true story.
(27:16):
That's kind of odd, But I made all my babysitters
act like they were the villains and the Spider Man comics,
and I would like web them up. I'd wear the
full suit and I'd web them up and I'd be
running around. But I think it's so cool to like,
you know, take that creativity and channel it into what
I do now. So very grateful that I get to
(27:37):
use my creative juices every day and still you know,
be using my brain in unique ways. But yeah, I
guess since you uner reversed it, to me, I'll pass
it to you. What would five year old Nigel think
about where he is right now?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Brobab would be excited?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Late.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean, growing up, I was always super creative from
my ability to play piano, trumpet oregon. I always love creating.
I did not know that I would find in a
path uh to sports video videography and content creation.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
In college, but it changed my life.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I look back on people that influenced me, like Justin Brandt,
uh God bless that brother. The dude changed my life.
I'm like I said, I know, I wouldn't be surprised.
I'd just be happy where, you know, happy knowing that
even though I couldn't see it, it was still the everything works,
(28:44):
you know, for the good. And I'm just like I said,
I'm just happy and I'm just glad to I'm glad
to be a part of the organization. But yeah, I'd
be lit that that's I'd just be happy, just be
happy knowing that if I could take a glimpse into
the future and see myself now, even though things aren't
(29:05):
always you know, always good, but just knowing that that
everything that I've worked for, all the struggles, all of
the obstacles were They weren't for nothing. You know, everything
that you go through, whether that be professional, personal, what
you go through in life, learn from it, and.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You know, you never know where it can lead you.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Hm. Yeah, that's beautiful. Now it's time to close up
the podcast, and just as our previous hosts, Haley and
Patty would do, is finish off with this question, the
other Duties as Assigned question. I know you guys got
it on your episodes, but I'm wondering if you guys
have any recent stories that fall under that other Duties
as Assigned bullet point when it comes to applying for
(29:50):
a job.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Uh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I mean even this offseason, basically each year our team
does and helps with the media day set up and
take down and just you know, little things within it.
And this year for Media Week, we you know, took
down the set and I just remember, you know, and
it's super exciting because there's all these little things that
(30:14):
we're gonna end up using in the season that you guys,
as faithful, will see and it's it's awesome. But the
part of it that's not fun is taking everything down
after you put it all up. And I remember I
was vacuuming. And you know, I vacuum, you know, the
the floors and stuff at home, but not like this
(30:35):
giant carpet here. So I'm vacuuming and the entire like
marketing staff is taking pictures of me because they think
it's the funniest thing. Like this is true. Other duties
as assign type stuff. But you know, it took the
home life all the way here to work. And my
roommate may disagree with that, thinking that I don't vacuum
(30:57):
that much, but yeah, I think it's I think it's great.
This job is super fun. So that's the little things
along the way that you just have to do to
get it done. Use those are really fun too.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, no other duties are signed.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Speaking of media day, it was super fun painting the set.
I mean, I got to kick it with Aju. Aj
is no longer here with the organization, but shouts out
to that dude all the amazing work that he put
in here. But just like I said, building that team camaraderie,
going out early morning, coming setting up building sets for media.
(31:35):
They's something that I've never actually done and it was
just cool just being a part of the process because
once you are a part of the process. It makes
it so much easier to look at the end result
and be so satisfied with what you see because you
know you had a hand in it, and you know
it's important just because you played a part in it,
(31:58):
and that's what that's what makes it special. Like like
Noah said, this, this job is fun. The amount of
things that we can do here just speaks well to
the organization and the amount of resources that we have
available to be able to do our jobs effectively and
do other things effectively as well.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And like I said, it's all a part of the process. Yeah,
back by brick, break by brick.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It's coming soon. Yeah. Other duties as assigned. I'm trying
to think I have a ton I've learned how to DJ,
I've learned how to be an NFL cheerleader, I've learned
how to be a flag runner. I've learned how to
be on drumline up.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
On the podcast earlier drop line.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
You can check it out on the twenty nine ers YouTube.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Channel shameless plug.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's been a lot of fun. And the list goes
on and on for other duties as assigned, But thank
you for listening. Subscribe to Inside the other more and
be on the lookout for a spotlight episodes featuring our
wonderful forty nine ers coworkers coming soon.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Thanks Nor, Thanks Breathing Bye.
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