A Quote by Joanna Lohman
As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul on fire.
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It's an amazing life, don't get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is... is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.
When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.
If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.
It is an honor and privilege to be able to be in a position to utilize my platform as a professional athlete to support the lives of others.
It's incredible to be able to make an impact and use the platform that we have in the right way.
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.
For me professionally as well I've built an incredible business that I'm very proud of that is my own brand and that is both creating incredible content to empower and inspire this next generation of working women through a digital platform, mainly through my website, ivankatrump.com, our email newsletters, and our social-media platforms.
I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.
It's frustrating sometimes: as an athlete, you're thrust into the spotlight, and you know, I think this team has always done a really amazing job of understanding that we have this incredible platform; let's do something good with it.
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
Every human being has an impact on another.
There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.
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