EP04 with Imani McGee-Stafford | From Surviving Sexual Abuse to becoming a Woman's NBA Player.

💥Text your Q's to Imani here: +1 (647)-370-2663 💥 Join our https://chat.whatsapp.com/LfVHSbQNDIVHUO9xPaRTjW (Exclusive ChangeMaker's Community) 💥🌍 Imani McGee-Stafford is a WNBA player, University of Texas graduate, mental health advocate, poet, philanthropist, and model. Her goal in life is to be the person she needed when she was younger. She was born in Los Angeles, CA and grew up in an abusive household. Her journey to healing includes overcoming sexual abuse, neglect, and multiple suicide attempts. Imani believes she was given this platform through basketball to talk about sexual abuse, sexual violence, sexual education, and mental health.   Key Timestamps:  [02:00] Imani’s Mental Health Story.  [04:00] Recovering at college  [06:00] Elzie Granderson - Imani’s Story gets featured on SportsCentre.  [13:00] Imani on Social Media  [19:00] Sexual Education  [21:00] “Empathy is undersold.”  [26:00] Life-changing lesson learned being a pro-athlete.  -  [34:00] The Fireball Segment!  [38:00] The Reflection Segment..  [41:30] The Legacy Segment!  Key Quotes by Imani McGee-Stafford   “Growing up writing was my safe place outside basketball. I also love slam poetry - It’s super awesome.”  “Empathy is undersold.”   “[They] had only seen me as Imani the Basketball player. I’m 6”7. I have a huge personality. I’m always kinda bubbly. I’m always cracking jokes. So they’ve never seen this side of me.”  “The number of people.. and not just strangers that reached out… I realized I wasn’t alone in this.”  “This is why I play basketball. This is why I’m here, this is why I have this trauma. This is why I try from that moment forward to bring mental health, sexual violence and sexual abuse to the forefront to anything and everything I’m doing. These are things that are non-negotiables for me.”  “I just try to be who I needed when I was younger and be that picture of a survivor of sexual abuse and to be living with