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S9, Ep5 How to Fail: Ovie Soko

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Dilemma of Playing Ball for a Living

In a Nigerian household, if you say that you want to play a sport for a living, the response is: "You're not serious" It was something that just definitely didn't catch on. And when I felt like, okay, but this is what I'm good at and it wasn't taken seriously for a while, it built a little dilemma and a bit of a frustration because in school learning in that environment wasn't for me. That's something I learned later on in life once I started to travel with it. This is where this whole notion of when people get a little bit older, they get cynical and all this. It's because if you have lived a life where you

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