at what point in your life did you first feel comfortable being open about your sexuality yeah it was um I think I was probably 26 27 years old and and I think as a as an adult um you know as a grown-up as a coach to be able to reflect back on some of the things that may have happened when I was a player that I wasn't aware of that I'm aware of now it just it um it hits me in ways that I hope our players get hit by soon so that they can continue to live their lives in ways that that are a good e
xample for others that give others confidence and that that save a life what's making you emotional because we're just like for me I'm just Steph you know I'm just I'm just a person that that lives my life and tries to be a good human being that tries to to do the right thing um and and in being that that I could that I could impact someone who I don't even know I think it just it brings a level of humility you know to to me um I think it brings a level of um of of compassion and empathy for tho
se who don't have the village that I had who are the people in your village my um my family certainly you know my family certainly um everything from from my parents my grandparents my aunts and uncles my cousins my sisters my partner Lisa my kids um you know they they are there how many kids three I have three of my own fourth blended family I have a blended family so four boys eleven ten and nine-year-old twins wow yeah do all your children play basketball they all play um in fact I call our L
ittles the nine and ten-year-olds I call them the littles I coach them in YMCA basketball so they do they all play you know my favorite story to tell is my oldest when he was born he was just always around our team when I was coaching Indiana fever and he was about three years old when I took him to his first Indiana Pacers game and he just looked at me and he said Mommy boys play basketball too because he had just been around so many women all the time and um and families look um differently al
l over the place and what does that mean and you know to love one another to have each other's back to to to put each other first to over communicate to problem solve to have difficult conversations right all of those things that that we learn um as we grow older I think for us as a family and as a blended family um and it's a two two house household family is to model that for our children so we can't just talk about it we have to be about it and I think that um you know we've evolved into doin
g doing a pretty decent job at that
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