Basketball's Dying

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"Basketball's dying. I'm retiring to be with my son and going through a divorce," she says. "I can't just leave that dark, feminine lance that could slit someone's throat and go for the juggular and win the game" She adds: 'We have men who still haven't learned how tor balance masculine and feminine' A lot of athletes do not integrate these two worlds they were living in when they retire. They're leaving essential parts of who they were thinking they must shame them.

Lance Allred was born legally deaf in a polygamist commune in rural Montana. When he was 13, his family escaped and eventually came out of hiding in Utah, where for the first time, he had to step into a world that he had no experience navigating. Lance had always loved writing, but at nearly 6’4” in middle school, and looking for a new way to belong, his height caught the eye of the basketball coach. The game became his life and he'd eventually become a star athlete that led to college, then years playing all over the world in the pros, including a stint in the NBA. But, underneath it all, Lance never left his love of writing, and he began to share his inner life in print, authoring a number of books and eventually leaving the game to speak to and train leaders. In his newest book, The New Alpha Male, (https://amzn.to/2Ub4d6W) Lance turns his deeply reflective, insightful, and honest lens on the role of masculinity, how his experience of it has changed dramatically since becoming a dad and what he leads with now. In today’s conversation, we explore all of this, including a really beautiful moment where the truer, deeper reason for this book, and who it’s really written for, comes out.

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Website : http://lanceallred41.com/

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