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Don’t BOX Me In! Inside the Coach’s box of Coach Trisha Stafford-Odom
CR: I play with a title so much I’ll have Lhamo Dondrub thinking, “If she’s known for being one of the nastiest masters of boxing out, what if someone boxed her in?” What if Trish?
TSO: I’m gone bust out the box! That’s just it; I’ll bust out the box. Don’t get it twisted! When you thought you had me boxed in, no not really. I’m gone get out the box. Oh-oh, guess what. I’ll make the box bigger.
CR: USMC terminology here. You’re a mom, Coach, leader, worker, Internet Thug, etc. We call it Adapt and Overcome. I’ve always wanted to ask, what does that phrase mean to you? When the Left Fields of life attacks life and confused situations happen, how do you adapt and overcome those?
TSO: I think adapting and overcoming are not the same; adapting means one thing, overcoming means something different. If I adapt, I learn to live with my situation. But when I overcome, I defeat that situation I gotta live in. I knock it out da box! But I think it’s just at times when you pull out other skill sets. Skill sets that maybe I’m not as comfortable using, or those which I wouldn’t use as often. But I think I’d have to dig deep! Call out some qualities that people aren’t accustomed to seeing. And overcome……. I’m thinking. Wow, overcome?! I wasn’t prepared for………
CR: I come out the blue there Coach.
TSO: I’ll have to assess the situation. I’ll have to assess it. First of all, what are the similarities of what I think is going to happen? Then I’m gonna break it down so I’ll know if it’s actually different. Look! Chew the meat and I’m gone spit out that bone! I’m going to sift through what I could still use, and then I’mma have to creatively assess the situation and say, “Ok I’mma create another way to attack it.” Of course it takes time, a ‘lil patience and I’m gone pray my way through it. ‘Cause what I’m gone do is pray for some wisdom. I want that SUPER NATURAL Insight. I want to be better than. I want to be more than the average. So assess it. I always use what I was prepared for, and can always rely on another skill to come up with another way.
CR: I’m smashing that one!
