May 3, 2025 • 13 mins
The World Snooker Championship final is due to take place.
After a thrilling semi-final where Mark Williams edged out Judd Trump - he's secured himself a spot in the final against Zhao Xintong.
Snooker writer Michael Day joined Piney to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
News TALKSB and Weekend Sport before three will get you
to Dunedin where this afternoon round twelve of Super Abi
Pacific has its conclusion. Pretty important match Highlanders against Mowana
pacifica a rare Sunday afternoon game. Paul Allison, Paul Miller
and Mark Ramby have to call for you from three
point thirty five on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio. We'll preview
it with Paul Ellison before three o'clock. But to the
(00:34):
UK where we've got our finalists at the World Snooker Championship.
Welshman and three time former champion Mark Williams and twenty
nineteen champion and world number one Englishman jud Trump played
out an epic semi final this morning, with Williams eventually
winning seventeen frames to fourteen.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Because many photographs as you want another Sam Seed remarkable,
falling on top of the world as great to see
(01:18):
jug convict lection Mike Williams because he was just oo
standing the world number one couldn't do much about this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We have to play Mike Williams as that's what it
means to here you go. Mark Williams into the final
where he will face Chinese player Jao Hintong after he
beat Ronnie O'Sullivan seventeen frames to seven with a session
to spare in their semi final. Let's welcome back to
news Talks d B. Michael Day, chief snooker writer for
(01:50):
Totally Snooker. Michael, thanks for joining us up for a
second weekend in a row. Let's start with the semifinal
between Williams and Trump. Tell us about the swings and
the roundabouts of what looked like an epic semifinal between
these two.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Thanks having back on Jason. It was quite a remarkable
semifinal really. Going into the match, Trump held a quite
a significant headshead advantage over Williams from their previous encounters,
and Trump earlier on in the season beat Williams ten
nine on the final black in the Saudi Arabia Masters Final,
so there's quite a bit of history between the two.
Judd took an early lead in the match. He won
(02:26):
the first session five to three, extended lead to seventh
three so had a four frame buffer, but then Williams
was really strong in the second. The back end of
the second session, he won five at the last six
frames to level up at eight all. He then took
an advantage in the third session. He ended the session
I think it was thirteen eleven up, managed to then
extend that buffer to fifteen eleven, got to sixteen twelve.
(02:49):
She was on the hill and a little bit of
a blip Trump come back. He won two frames, but
Williams finished in style with a break of one hundred
and twenty three to win seventeen fourteen, And it really
was a fantastic match.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Tell us about Williams fifty years old now, so I
hope for for us older guard Michael not putting you
onto that brecket of course, but I mean that's quite old,
isn't it for a World Championship finalist.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He is the oldest Crucible finists of all time, so
he's already made history. Of course, if he was to
win the event, he would be the oldest World champion
of all time. Currently Ronnie O'Sullivan holds that record. Ronnie
was forty six I think when he won the tournament
in twenty twenty two, three years ago, so Williams would
completely smash that record if he was to win the
(03:39):
final as well, he'd be the oldest ranking event champion
in professional snuka history as well. And then it's a
few sort of poetic examples for the final. I mean,
if Williams was to become the oldest ranking event champion,
he would overtake Ray Riardon's records, so obviously a fellow
Welshman who passed away several months ago. So if Williams
was to beat all these records, you know, it does
(04:02):
seem very apt that he sort of does this now.
But Williams is a bit like a fine wine. Really.
He's already come into the event as the world number six,
so he's right at the top echelons of the sports still,
and he's just going to go even further reaching the
final regardless of what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Did I read a piece you wrote that talked about
his ongoing concerns with eyesight issues. He's clearly overcome those.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, it's very bizarre because coming into the event, nobody
was talking about Mark sort of being a contender for
the title. The event before the World Championship was a
Tour championship. He lost first round ten to three to
Dingen WII, and he'd been talking about isoight issue, saying
that he'd been seeing like four balls at a time,
sort of bird vision, and he actually said that, you know,
(04:49):
whoever qualified with the crucill will be hoping to draw
him in the first round. So I don't doubt that
he's got I sight issues, but perhaps there's an element
of kidology in that. I mean, you know, he's certainly
blamed very well for someone who's seen four balls at
a time. Except I understand that he's got an appointment
(05:10):
in June to talk about like laser eye surgery, and
in his post match interview tonight, he's been talking about
whether or not to cancel that because he doesn't seem
to be doing too badly as it is. So we'll
see what happens with with the summer, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So he's into the final Mark Williams, and he will
face Jiao Shintong, who beat Ronnie O'Sullivan seventeen to seven
with a session to spare in the first seam. He
want to talk a bit about Ronne O'Sullivan in a moment,
but Jao shin Tong tell us a bit about him.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Incredible story. Incredible story. Now, now Jao, he's been around
for several years, he's been part of this convey about
of young Chinese talent. He actually his big breakthrough was
winning the UK Championship in twenty twenty one. He beat
Luca Brissell in the final. He then won a ranking
event soon after that. UK Championship is the second biggest
(06:03):
event on the circuit by the way, so that was
a really big time for him to win. But he
was part of the match fixing scandal that rocked the
sport back in twenty twenty three. Didn't actually fix matches
in South but he was involved with players who did,
so he served a ban, a two year ban through
sort of like sort of like guilty admission and early
(06:25):
please and things like that. So he's actually come back
to the circuit. Back in September, he played on the
Amateur Tour. He's won his tourcard back, but that actually
doesn't activate until next season, so he's actually competing in
this event as an invited amateur, which is quite remarkable
to think that someone without a tour card can get
to the final, but quite incredible story. He's actually come
(06:45):
through the very first qualifying round, so even before the
TV cameras at the Crucibil He's won four qualifiers, and
to be honest, he's been comfortable in pretty much all
his games, even against Ronnie incredible story. Only the second
Chinese player ever to reach the final, and he's got
every chance of lifting the trophy over the next couple
of days.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I was watching a large part of the semi final
against Ronego O'Sullivan and Jaoshinng. It sounds like a silly
thing to say, Michael, but he's just such a lovely
player to watch, doesn't he. Just the way he moves
around the table, the way he plays as his shot.
He's a really quite esthetically pleasing snooker player, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
He certainly is. He definitely falls in the bracket of
a naturally gifted player. He makes the game look so simple.
He's a fairly sort of pacy player as well. He
plays aggressive shots, so it's very, you know, I pleasing
for the fans. And of course there is this backstory
that he has been banned, but I think a lot
of fans are very happy to see him back, you know,
(07:47):
and performing. This is what we've been hoped to, you know,
hoping several years ago when he burst onto the scene,
And this is only the third time he's been at
the Crucible. He'd only won one match out here for
I think was back in twenty twenty two. It's incredible
run and as you say, he really is, you know,
a fantastic player.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
To watch a lot of about Ronnie O'Sullivan and his
I guess you'd call it a capitulation in this semi final,
but he changed parts of us Q. Can you tell
us about this, Michael.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, remarkable story, but it's kind of part of the
course with Ronnie. Obviously, he come into the event, he
not played for three months a tournament start of January,
the Championship League. He deliberately smashed this cup in frustration
and left the event with one match still to play.
She's not played on a circus since then. Come back
to the World Championship using a new que, so a
(08:41):
completely different brand to what he was using before. He
was using the titanium Farrell. So, titanium is quite a
new sort of thing for snooker players that we're seeing
a lot of the top professionals turning over to it.
It's a very different material to brass, which is what
Farrells are traditionally made of. In terms of snooker ques,
so Ronnie had been using that throughout the tournament, and
(09:02):
Ronnie did get to the semi finals. He played some
good stuff in the balls, but he never really looked
comfortable his long game. His Cuba wasn't ronne O solo
a esque. And after the first session of his semi
final with Joao, he took a really sort of drastic
action and went to visit que doctor in Sheffield to
change the feruh from titanium to brass, which I know
(09:25):
a lot of professionals I know, Neil Robertson was one
who he posted on social media today saying what a
crazy decision that was, and he just sort of come
and glued to knee. In the second session, Zau played fantastic,
Ronnie struggled and it was kind of a perfect storm
and really that was a session that did the damage
and it was too big of a mountain to climb
for him to beat Shao.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
What does the future hold in for Ronnie O'Sullivan? Is
there any way to predict that, Michael's.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You could with Ronnie? You just don't know. I mean,
all bets are off the table with Ronnie, he did say.
I mean, he was very gracious when he lost the match.
I know he's very fond of Jao, and I believe
they practiced together. He did say afterwards that he'll be back,
he'll be stronger next season. Ronnie loves snooker. I know
(10:14):
all the things and rhetoric and everything he says. Ronnie
loves snooker. It will be a big disappointing to him
not winning an eighth to world time because it's the
only box he you know, really would love to tick
still and he's done everything else in the sport. I
think he'll be back, but it's just going to get
tougher and tougher for him because you've got new players
coming through. Ronnie throughout the tournament was really sort of
(10:37):
down be about his game, his performance is saying he
just doesn't feel great, and you know, Ronnie does need
to feel confident in his game because he's a perfectionist.
He'll come back. We'll see what I mean. Last season
Ronnie won five tournaments. This season, he hasn't even got
to one final, So you know, Ronnie's career is full
of ups and downs. But we'll see Ronnie back, and
(10:59):
it wouldn't be a surprise if we see him lifting
the biggest trophies in the sport again.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, let's Finnish with the final. Joao shouldn't tongue
into Mark Williams. What's your prediction about how this might
play out.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I think this is fascinating. It's the first ever actually
crucible final with two left handers, so there's a little
bit of history there as well. For me, it's a
coin flip, it really is. I think. Obviously you've got
the youth of Jozing Tong, first ever final, Mark Williams
experience fifty years old, it's fifth final for me, the
early session will be very very interesting day one. Joozing
(11:35):
Tong has come through the tournament pretty much without much
pressure at all. I mean this first round gave me one, ten, four, thirteen, ten,
thirteen to five and he beat Ronnie with seven with
a session to spare, so he's come through really sort
of comfortably. Whereas Mark Williams, he was in the quarter
finals against John Niggins, he was one ball away from defeat.
Let's not forget deciding fray John Higgins rattle with the
(11:56):
blue so Mark Williams could have been at home days ago.
So I think for Jow the test will be if
he goes a few frames behind to Mark Williams. If
he does, the pressure may be too much Mark Williams
maybe too Wilie to let him back in the game.
I think the first is really important. They play seventeen frames.
(12:17):
I think needs to be in front personally from win match.
But I've just got a feeling Williams is going to
do it. I think his name's on the trophy. What
we've seen throughout the tournament, He's been in really close matches.
But as I say, it is a coin flip, and
I just hope it goes all the way seventeen or
and we have an absolute twitch fest and the decider.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Absolutely a fast and adding final and prospect well on
behalf of everybody in their fifties. I would like to
say that I'm behind the Welshman Mark Williams, but I
just can't wait to see how it all plays out. Michael,
great to get your expertise. Thanks so much for joining
us across New Zealand. We'll look forward to a fast
and adding final ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Thank you, Jason, it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I've been great to have you on. Michael. Thanks. Indeed,
there is Michael Day Chief Snooker writer for Totally Snookered
so our twenty twenty five World Snooker Championship final Welshman
three time former champion Mark Williams and Chinese player Xiao
Shintong best of thirty five frames, so over a couple
of days. It starts tonight, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Time for more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine. Listen
live to News Talk set B weekends from midday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
News TALKSB and Weekend Sport before three will get you
to Dunedin where this afternoon round twelve of Super Abi
Pacific has its conclusion. Pretty important match Highlanders against Mowana
pacifica a rare Sunday afternoon game. Paul Allison, Paul Miller
and Mark Ramby have to call for you from three
point thirty five on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio. We'll preview
it with Paul Ellison before three o'clock. But to the
(00:34):
UK where we've got our finalists at the World Snooker Championship.
Welshman and three time former champion Mark Williams and twenty
nineteen champion and world number one Englishman jud Trump played
out an epic semi final this morning, with Williams eventually
winning seventeen frames to fourteen.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Because many photographs as you want another Sam Seed remarkable,
falling on top of the world as great to see
(01:18):
jug convict lection Mike Williams because he was just oo
standing the world number one couldn't do much about this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We have to play Mike Williams as that's what it
means to here you go. Mark Williams into the final
where he will face Chinese player Jao Hintong after he
beat Ronnie O'Sullivan seventeen frames to seven with a session
to spare in their semi final. Let's welcome back to
news Talks d B. Michael Day, chief snooker writer for
(01:50):
Totally Snooker. Michael, thanks for joining us up for a
second weekend in a row. Let's start with the semifinal
between Williams and Trump. Tell us about the swings and
the roundabouts of what looked like an epic semifinal between
these two.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Thanks having back on Jason. It was quite a remarkable
semifinal really. Going into the match, Trump held a quite
a significant headshead advantage over Williams from their previous encounters,
and Trump earlier on in the season beat Williams ten
nine on the final black in the Saudi Arabia Masters Final,
so there's quite a bit of history between the two.
Judd took an early lead in the match. He won
(02:26):
the first session five to three, extended lead to seventh
three so had a four frame buffer, but then Williams
was really strong in the second. The back end of
the second session, he won five at the last six
frames to level up at eight all. He then took
an advantage in the third session. He ended the session
I think it was thirteen eleven up, managed to then
extend that buffer to fifteen eleven, got to sixteen twelve.
(02:49):
She was on the hill and a little bit of
a blip Trump come back. He won two frames, but
Williams finished in style with a break of one hundred
and twenty three to win seventeen fourteen, And it really
was a fantastic match.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Tell us about Williams fifty years old now, so I
hope for for us older guard Michael not putting you
onto that brecket of course, but I mean that's quite old,
isn't it for a World Championship finalist.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He is the oldest Crucible finists of all time, so
he's already made history. Of course, if he was to
win the event, he would be the oldest World champion
of all time. Currently Ronnie O'Sullivan holds that record. Ronnie
was forty six I think when he won the tournament
in twenty twenty two, three years ago, so Williams would
completely smash that record if he was to win the
(03:39):
final as well, he'd be the oldest ranking event champion
in professional snuka history as well. And then it's a
few sort of poetic examples for the final. I mean,
if Williams was to become the oldest ranking event champion,
he would overtake Ray Riardon's records, so obviously a fellow
Welshman who passed away several months ago. So if Williams
was to beat all these records, you know, it does
(04:02):
seem very apt that he sort of does this now.
But Williams is a bit like a fine wine. Really.
He's already come into the event as the world number six,
so he's right at the top echelons of the sports still,
and he's just going to go even further reaching the
final regardless of what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Did I read a piece you wrote that talked about
his ongoing concerns with eyesight issues. He's clearly overcome those.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, it's very bizarre because coming into the event, nobody
was talking about Mark sort of being a contender for
the title. The event before the World Championship was a
Tour championship. He lost first round ten to three to
Dingen WII, and he'd been talking about isoight issue, saying
that he'd been seeing like four balls at a time,
sort of bird vision, and he actually said that, you know,
(04:49):
whoever qualified with the crucill will be hoping to draw
him in the first round. So I don't doubt that
he's got I sight issues, but perhaps there's an element
of kidology in that. I mean, you know, he's certainly
blamed very well for someone who's seen four balls at
a time. Except I understand that he's got an appointment
(05:10):
in June to talk about like laser eye surgery, and
in his post match interview tonight, he's been talking about
whether or not to cancel that because he doesn't seem
to be doing too badly as it is. So we'll
see what happens with with the summer, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So he's into the final Mark Williams, and he will
face Jiao Shintong, who beat Ronnie O'Sullivan seventeen to seven
with a session to spare in the first seam. He
want to talk a bit about Ronne O'Sullivan in a moment,
but Jao shin Tong tell us a bit about him.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Incredible story. Incredible story. Now, now Jao, he's been around
for several years, he's been part of this convey about
of young Chinese talent. He actually his big breakthrough was
winning the UK Championship in twenty twenty one. He beat
Luca Brissell in the final. He then won a ranking
event soon after that. UK Championship is the second biggest
(06:03):
event on the circuit by the way, so that was
a really big time for him to win. But he
was part of the match fixing scandal that rocked the
sport back in twenty twenty three. Didn't actually fix matches
in South but he was involved with players who did,
so he served a ban, a two year ban through
sort of like sort of like guilty admission and early
(06:25):
please and things like that. So he's actually come back
to the circuit. Back in September, he played on the
Amateur Tour. He's won his tourcard back, but that actually
doesn't activate until next season, so he's actually competing in
this event as an invited amateur, which is quite remarkable
to think that someone without a tour card can get
to the final, but quite incredible story. He's actually come
(06:45):
through the very first qualifying round, so even before the
TV cameras at the Crucibil He's won four qualifiers, and
to be honest, he's been comfortable in pretty much all
his games, even against Ronnie incredible story. Only the second
Chinese player ever to reach the final, and he's got
every chance of lifting the trophy over the next couple
of days.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I was watching a large part of the semi final
against Ronego O'Sullivan and Jaoshinng. It sounds like a silly
thing to say, Michael, but he's just such a lovely
player to watch, doesn't he. Just the way he moves
around the table, the way he plays as his shot.
He's a really quite esthetically pleasing snooker player, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
He certainly is. He definitely falls in the bracket of
a naturally gifted player. He makes the game look so simple.
He's a fairly sort of pacy player as well. He
plays aggressive shots, so it's very, you know, I pleasing
for the fans. And of course there is this backstory
that he has been banned, but I think a lot
of fans are very happy to see him back, you know,
(07:47):
and performing. This is what we've been hoped to, you know,
hoping several years ago when he burst onto the scene,
And this is only the third time he's been at
the Crucible. He'd only won one match out here for
I think was back in twenty twenty two. It's incredible
run and as you say, he really is, you know,
a fantastic player.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
To watch a lot of about Ronnie O'Sullivan and his
I guess you'd call it a capitulation in this semi final,
but he changed parts of us Q. Can you tell
us about this, Michael.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, remarkable story, but it's kind of part of the
course with Ronnie. Obviously, he come into the event, he
not played for three months a tournament start of January,
the Championship League. He deliberately smashed this cup in frustration
and left the event with one match still to play.
She's not played on a circus since then. Come back
to the World Championship using a new que, so a
(08:41):
completely different brand to what he was using before. He
was using the titanium Farrell. So, titanium is quite a
new sort of thing for snooker players that we're seeing
a lot of the top professionals turning over to it.
It's a very different material to brass, which is what
Farrells are traditionally made of. In terms of snooker ques,
so Ronnie had been using that throughout the tournament, and
(09:02):
Ronnie did get to the semi finals. He played some
good stuff in the balls, but he never really looked
comfortable his long game. His Cuba wasn't ronne O solo
a esque. And after the first session of his semi
final with Joao, he took a really sort of drastic
action and went to visit que doctor in Sheffield to
change the feruh from titanium to brass, which I know
(09:25):
a lot of professionals I know, Neil Robertson was one
who he posted on social media today saying what a
crazy decision that was, and he just sort of come
and glued to knee. In the second session, Zau played fantastic,
Ronnie struggled and it was kind of a perfect storm
and really that was a session that did the damage
and it was too big of a mountain to climb
for him to beat Shao.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
What does the future hold in for Ronnie O'Sullivan? Is
there any way to predict that, Michael's.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You could with Ronnie? You just don't know. I mean,
all bets are off the table with Ronnie, he did say.
I mean, he was very gracious when he lost the match.
I know he's very fond of Jao, and I believe
they practiced together. He did say afterwards that he'll be back,
he'll be stronger next season. Ronnie loves snooker. I know
(10:14):
all the things and rhetoric and everything he says. Ronnie
loves snooker. It will be a big disappointing to him
not winning an eighth to world time because it's the
only box he you know, really would love to tick
still and he's done everything else in the sport. I
think he'll be back, but it's just going to get
tougher and tougher for him because you've got new players
coming through. Ronnie throughout the tournament was really sort of
(10:37):
down be about his game, his performance is saying he
just doesn't feel great, and you know, Ronnie does need
to feel confident in his game because he's a perfectionist.
He'll come back. We'll see what I mean. Last season
Ronnie won five tournaments. This season, he hasn't even got
to one final, So you know, Ronnie's career is full
of ups and downs. But we'll see Ronnie back, and
(10:59):
it wouldn't be a surprise if we see him lifting
the biggest trophies in the sport again.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, let's Finnish with the final. Joao shouldn't tongue
into Mark Williams. What's your prediction about how this might
play out.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I think this is fascinating. It's the first ever actually
crucible final with two left handers, so there's a little
bit of history there as well. For me, it's a
coin flip, it really is. I think. Obviously you've got
the youth of Jozing Tong, first ever final, Mark Williams
experience fifty years old, it's fifth final for me, the
early session will be very very interesting day one. Joozing
(11:35):
Tong has come through the tournament pretty much without much
pressure at all. I mean this first round gave me one, ten, four, thirteen, ten,
thirteen to five and he beat Ronnie with seven with
a session to spare, so he's come through really sort
of comfortably. Whereas Mark Williams, he was in the quarter
finals against John Niggins, he was one ball away from defeat.
Let's not forget deciding fray John Higgins rattle with the
(11:56):
blue so Mark Williams could have been at home days ago.
So I think for Jow the test will be if
he goes a few frames behind to Mark Williams. If
he does, the pressure may be too much Mark Williams
maybe too Wilie to let him back in the game.
I think the first is really important. They play seventeen frames.
(12:17):
I think needs to be in front personally from win match.
But I've just got a feeling Williams is going to
do it. I think his name's on the trophy. What
we've seen throughout the tournament, He's been in really close matches.
But as I say, it is a coin flip, and
I just hope it goes all the way seventeen or
and we have an absolute twitch fest and the decider.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Absolutely a fast and adding final and prospect well on
behalf of everybody in their fifties. I would like to
say that I'm behind the Welshman Mark Williams, but I
just can't wait to see how it all plays out. Michael,
great to get your expertise. Thanks so much for joining
us across New Zealand. We'll look forward to a fast
and adding final ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Thank you, Jason, it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I've been great to have you on. Michael. Thanks. Indeed,
there is Michael Day Chief Snooker writer for Totally Snookered
so our twenty twenty five World Snooker Championship final Welshman
three time former champion Mark Williams and Chinese player Xiao
Shintong best of thirty five frames, so over a couple
of days. It starts tonight, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Time for more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine. Listen
live to News Talk set B weekends from midday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!