Cheyenne Woods launched a new podcast this week. The former LPGA professional and niece of Tiger Woods released Season 1 of Real Game, featuring eight full-length conversations with athletes from across the world of sports, including her husband – MLB player Aaron Hicks – that are focused on the mental grind.
“When it comes to sports and from my own background of being an athlete, I felt like there was something missing for athletes,” Woods told Golfweek of what she could bring to a crowded podcast space.
“Not feeling like they were the only ones that were going through something or not understanding, what is it like to reach the peak and how do you get there? Those conversations I feel like happened behind closed doors. That’s why I love asking people about it, talking to Aaron, my husband, about what was he going through when he was struggling on the field or the fans were booing him.”
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Hicks shot 6-under 66 at Lake Nona on Friday at the LPGA’s season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. The former Yankees outfielder leads the celebrity division by two points in the Modified Stableford scoring format.
“We have conversations like that all the time,” said Hicks of being part of his wife’s latest project, “so being able to be a part of her new podcast and help her out was awesome.”
New episodes will be released every other week and are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Listeners can submit questions for Woods’ guests through the podcast’s “voicemail” feature. The show, produced by On Par Studios, will begin taping Season 2 later this year.
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Other guests include NFL Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher and LPGA winner Sandra Gal.
“I just was rewatching the Brian Urlacher episode that came out and he’s like, ‘I wasn’t even that good coming out of high school.’ But because of the preparation that he did and the outlook that he had on his career is what made him great,” said Woods.
“So I feel like that is kind of the secret of what separates the great from just the mediocre career is truly how they think about what they do and how they love it. Everyone that I spoke to was obsessed with what they do. They absolutely love it. And I think that’s another commonality of just what you have to do to be successful.”
Former LPGA player Cheyenne Woods poses with son Cameron and daughter Maya.
Woods, now a 35-year-old mother of two, first learned the game from her paternal grandfather Earl Woods and became the sixth African-American to compete on the LPGA.
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The 2014 Volvik RACV Ladies Masters winner on the Ladies European Tour was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame last year.
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