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E64 - Dr. Elaine Swafford's Morning Cup

My Morning Cup

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Leading Through Challenges

This chapter explores the unique challenges of leading a rotary club during the COVID-19 pandemic, including member engagement in virtual settings and the complexities of program planning. It also reflects on the speaker's historic role as one of the few women and the first African American Rotary president, linking personal growth and perseverance to a transformational experience from their youth.

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Speaker 3

Are a hundred, 90 kgs. A hundred 90 pons,

Speaker 1

two point two and pams. That sounds like it's heavy. It sounds like it's over 400 ound. Hundred, 98 goso, four hunder. So you're still in, like, you're keeping in game shape. What about injuries? Cause i'd imagine there's a million that you had. Rugby feels like one of those sports that, if you ever talked to ane played rugby, there, like, ye, i broke my neck. I broke my arm, i did this.

Speaker 3

Did you have a ton of injuries? I was so fortunate, and really that the worst i had was a broken ankle, you know. So, i i just played so much rugby an back to back seasons without suffering, ou know, radof you, no injurie. I was this very fortunate. Man. I guess i'd credet to my, to my conditionin coachman, i'd a great coincns, i aenjoo sang oso, mama, yourrman, i'll claim it. I'm a beasts.

Speaker 1

I played a little bit at, you know, divin a division one men's level, which is nowhere near as good, even as like, majorleage ruggby in the united states right now. But

Speaker 4

a, allot

Speaker 1

the props that i played with, which is your position, they have like, you know, as their career gets longer and longer, they have to get no shoulder. If you start to pop up, especiallywith props and neck issues. There are guys, know that i've gotn morie, that have spent like, their entire life playing loose head prop, and one side of their body is now bigger and over calcified, like their bones are physically bigger on one side. Bcause you've just spend so much time hitting that side, did you have to actually, like, work to counter train the other side of your body to make sure that you weren't getting like, over use injuries? Yes.