Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce - Kylie on Pin-Up Jason Tattoo, Coaching vs. Caitlin Clark & Bleeding Green with Dawn Staley | Ep. 23

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Kylie is back with a brand new episode of Not Gonna Lie presented by Toyota and immediately kicks things off by weighing in on her Mother-In-Law Donna being cast in the next season of “The Traitors��� (0:34). After that, Kylie gets honest about summer break as a parent and highlights the camps the girls are doing this year and how hard it is to get them to stop drinking the water from their water tables (3:11)! Then, Kylie addresses the absurd image everyone has now seen… The Pin-Up Jason Tattoo (5:55). Kylie attempts to describe the tattoo in great detail and explains her initial reaction to it. Plus, on the subject of Jason and TikTok, Kylie needs to address some people in the comments of a recent Jason “thirst trap” that was posted in the latest edition of “F*ck Around & Find Out” (9:30). Kylie is then joined by the six-time WNBA All-Star and three-time NCAA Tournament Championship-winning head coach Dawn Staley (13:35)! Kylie and Dawn bond over their love for the greatest sports city in the world (Philadelphia) and what makes Philly fans so unique (14:30). Next, Kylie asks Dawn about recently getting inducted into her third different Hall of Fame and what it was really like to coach a college team for six years while she was playing in the WNBA at the same time (19:32). Then, Kylie asks Dawn for some coaching advice for her high school field hockey team and the two bond over some of the Gen Z slang and habits they’ve had to deal with over the years (23:18). Dawn also talks about the toughest players she’s had to game plan for at the University of South Carolina, highlighting Caitlin Clark and what she’s now doing at the WNBA level (28:05). Plus, as a fellow Philly hype woman and women’s sports fan, Kylie asks Dawn if she would have any interest in coaching in the WNBA, particularly if there ever was a team in Philly... (40:30). Make sure you tune into More Sh*t Monday on the Not Gonna Lie YouTube channel for more exclusive clips from Kylie’s longer conversation with Dawn Staley! . . . Support the Show:   Toyota: To learn more about the Toyota Sienna, please visit https://www.toyota.com/sienna/  Purchase Dawn Staley's New Book: New York Times Bestseller ‘Uncommon Favor’: https://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Favor-Basketball-Lessons-Learned/dp/1668023369 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm not going to lie. Yesterday I was caught off guard because I asked Wyatt, are you for real for real? And she said, no, it's pretend pretend. I had to stifle a laugh on that one because she was dead ass. Let's start this podcast. Welcome back to not going to lie. A wave original brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. I'm your host, Kylie Kelsey, former Lifeguard, self-appointed rom-com historian, and I guess I'm going to have to watch the next season of Traders. That's right. Donna Kelsey, my mother-in-law, is on this coming season of Traders. Have I watched Traders? Not a whole season. Am I excited to watch Donna? A thousand percent. I'm going to cheer her on till the end of time.

I am not going to lie though. Her innocence and honesty is working against her or for her. Oh, if she's a faithful, maybe it works for her. Oh, we're all on the edge of our seat. I'm excited. Come on, Donna. Win it! Coming up on today's episode, I think the real ones already know what needs to be addressed on Doom Scroll of the Week.

The Jason Pinup tattoo. I'm still not sure if I have the words, but I'm going to try and find them. And then I'm going to be joined by the six-time WNBA All-Star and three-time NCAA championship-winning head coach, Philly's own, Coach Dawn Staley. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty nervous. Nervous enough to have Marlin Pitzfude. I'm so excited to talk to her about coaching because she is the coach. Gosh, here we go. But before we get to all that, last week I posed a question to the real ones. What age do we stop wiping our children's butts. And I was hoping that you all could send in your suggestions

of when you had that experience and then we can add them all up, divide by the total. You see what I'm saying? Simple math. As always, the comment section delivered. Okay. It says, my oldest will be seven in August and it's half and half pooping. She'll let us know if it's a mushy one. Oh my God, that needs help. But she's pretty good at washing. When it will be my youngest turn, I'm not going to trust her. That, that is so real that you know that it's dependent on the individual involved. It seems that the general consensus can be summed up with this comment, stop wiping before

kindergarten. Signed a kindergarten teacher. Outstanding. Everybody knows around here, we love and appreciate all of our educators. So for that, before kindergarten is a hard heck yeah. Now that we've taken care of that, let's move on to a brand new edition of Can I Be Honest? My kids are officially done with their school year, so I thought I'd get honest about summer break as a parent.

Everybody knows that when school lets out, that means we have all day every day at home with each other. It's so much fun. We're having fun. But this summer is the first summer where the girls are actually going to do some camps. And when I say camps, I mean, they're five and four guys. We're doing like a, it's like a three to four day situation. I think it's maximum three hours.

Like we're really, it's just to get them out somewhere else, anywhere else and moving around. I will say that our age range right now, five to, I don't even know how old the youngest one is. 10 weeks, 11 weeks. I don't know. You get it. is 10 weeks, 11 weeks. I don't know. You get it. She's new. Um, I, it's hard to find an activity for everyone. So as long as I can hook Finn to the front of me and everybody else has their shoes on, we just, we get the heck out. I don't know. Oh Queen Emma put this in the rundown. She put, what are the best time consuming summer activities for toddlers? I'm going to tell you right now, I am a tried and true water table lady. Okay.

Now the number of times I have to say, don't drink it enough to send anybody over the edge. Okay. Especially with three of them, because you're telling each of them individually, do not drink the water in the water table. And then on top of that, you're trying to tell them not to convince each other to then drink the water in the water table. I think the key is not to give them anything that resembles a cup. But who are we kidding? I gave them a shovel a couple weeks ago and they tried to drink it out of that. I will say either send them out in a bathing suit or know that they are going to need to completely change clothes when you are done. And if your child plays nicely in a water table

and you do not need to change their clothes after, you're a race sensory bin mom. I said what I said. I said what I said. You do kinetic sand in the house. Do you see what I'm saying? That's it for can I be honest about summer break. Next up, it's time.

At the time of this recording, it's been exactly four days, 17 hours and 34 minutes since I first doom scrolled upon the pinup Jason tattoo. If you haven't seen this image yet, shield your eyes. I'm kidding. Queen Emma, hit it. God. Just,

it is for my listeners a, I don't even, I genuinely don't even know where to start. My response to this was, excuse me? And I still stand by that because this image for my listeners is an image of my husband kneeling with one hand behind his head, pumping his boobs out and arching his back. Oh my God. Describing it. Oh God. Describing it is even worse than, it's even worse. And he has an eagle in his crotch. I don't know how else to say that. Someone then commented and said, my first thought was what's Kylie going to say about this? And I replied to that,

Kylie doesn't even know where to start. Wow. A couple of things that I have learned since seeing this tattoo. Apparently it is two years old. That's right. This sucker has been in existence for the last two years. the other thing i have learned is that it is on a woman and that um that she lost a bet that she's actually a giants fan who lost a bet with her husband and um her husband is an eagles fan apparently they do bets like this all the time she has has a lot of tattoos, so I guess it isn't that crazy that she put this on her body. A couple of things that I want to address. There's a bunch of people in the comments of this TikTok that are very confused about the eagle crotch, and they think that it's like someone creatively came up with that.

If you search the body image issue when the Eagles offensive line was in it, they had Eagles masks. It doesn't make it better. This doesn't make it better. They had Eagles masks on their crotch. I will say that if you have not seen this yet, it is oddly spot on. I mean, like very well captured his physique, specifically the gray spot, like the silver fox on the side of his head.

I genuinely, this is one of those situations where when I had no context, my thought was no notes. No notes, you nailed that. To the tattoo artist, way to go. I don't, the creativity on this one, you nailed it. This TikTok specifically has reminded me, it might be a good time to bring back one of our favorite segments around here.

That's right, it's fuck around and find out. I think that people are posting what they would think is a thirst trap of my husband. We got some people in these comments. They are fucking around. They're fucking around because they're saying things like. Like how fine my husband is. Are that like they would like a piece or they're doing the little drool emoji i'm gonna do sit down. Put your tongues back in your mouth and be respectful.

That man is a father to my children and also agreed. If I were not a trying to be a responsible adult, I would also be commenting those things under my husband's thirst traps. Cause same, but that's mine. That's mine. So I'm going to need you to get your drool comments out of there. Specifically.

You guys could, you guys could do some like hard eyes. What I will say is that I don't read comments often, but I have seen a fair amount of people they're falling for the thirst traps, but it's actually not on the market. That man is, he mine. But I will say is they are nicely balanced and complimented by the people who say in comments or I've seen it here and there of people saying respectfully to Kylie or if I didn't know that Kylie would come for me, I would say, and then they say what they want to say. Real recognize real.

I really appreciate you at least acknowledging me before you drool all over my husband. I was, that's respectful. I appreciate that. But that's respectful. I appreciate that. But, but that's mine till the end of time. That's mine. That's all I'm saying. And just a reminder, a gentle reminder, he's not on TikTok, but you know who is? Me. And if I catch you in my doom scroll and you are fucking around, you might find out.

You might. That's it for doom scroll. Dawn Staley is coming up right after my first ever mini van mini update brought to you by Toyota. As the real ones will remember earlier this year, I said that minivans were in for 2025. I'm not pleased about it. I haven't been pleased about it since the beginning and I'm not wavering. Only a little.

I'm wavering a little bit. I'm wavering a little bit because I'm not going to lie. Minivans are so in that now I'm driving one. I'm officially a mini van mom. It happened. You guys sent in a ton of suggestions and I ended up going with the Toyota Sienna. I did do a test drive. Shout out to Teresa. She was incredible, very knowledgeable about the car. She made it an easy decision. I'm coming around to minivan life, but just know it's kicking and screaming, okay? And also enjoying the features, whatever.

Well, if you also said that minivans were in this year and are looking for your next car, you can learn more about the Toyota Sienna at toyota.com slash Sienna. She's the six time WNBA All-Star, three time Olympic gold medalist and three time NCAA championship winning head coach. She's also a bestselling author, hall of famer, and maybe most importantly, a Philadelphia legend. Dawn Staley, welcome to Not Going to Lie and Go Birds.

Go freaking birds. Thank you for having me. Of course. Thank you for coming on. I'm not going to lie. Somehow we have not met in person. I am a huge fan, but we've nearly met a couple of times at this point. There's actually a photo of you

and Jason and Travis in a suite at a Phillies game last playoffs. I was actually at that game and Jason came back to the suite and was like, you'll never guess who I just saw. And I was very jealous. I was very jealous about that. Now, I think we're going to agree on this, but I want to say for good measure, Philly is the best sports town in the world. Is that right? Would you agree with that? Without a doubt. Okay, perfect. I want to make sure we're not leaning towards the South. I know you spend most of your time there now.

No, no. And I tell people down here, like, I work here. I'm not from here. I'm from Philly. I rock jerseys. Like I rock. Oh, I've seen that. I mean, court side. Yes. Listen. I love it. And some people, some diehard fans here, they send emails, they post social media messages about my attire.

Like I should be wearing the school colors. I should be. Yeah, I do wear the school colors, but also when we're going as far as we're going, when we win Superbowls, you're going to see me in some Eagles gear. Like me, like you were saying, you've been a lifelong Eagles fan. Um, I can admit that I'm a little biased when it comes to having a favorite Eagles player, but do you currently have one? I do. I do. And who is that?

No, cause it's, it's, um, QB one, Jaylen hurts. And I know that you guys have supported each other in some of the things that you've had going on recently. You, uh, have been on record talking about texting him before Superbowl and he obviously was supporting you guys in the national championship last year. How did you guys first get connected and what is that support system like? We have a mutual friend in Deuce Daily who used to be an assistant coach with the Eagles. My husband speaks very highly of Deuce. So he introduced us. I know sometimes when you play for a team that's in Philly and you're the quarterback,

you're the star, it really is a lonely place. It's a lonely place. He's QB1. We lose. The city goes crazy. Right? Like crazy. So I'm just like, I know it's a lonely place.

Sometimes I just text him, hey, don't get too high with the highs or lows, though he doesn't, he doesn't now. He's the one, he's the coolest cat that I know. But sometimes you need to hear, like, you're the only one that's gonna feel the pressure of everybody else because other people in other positions can just kind of go under the radar, so to speak. But when it's the quarterback and when we know you got potential to take us to Super Bowls and win Super Bowls, you really feel the pressure. So I'm just like hanging there thinking about you. It's Philly.

So ride the wave. And we rode the wave with him all the way to the Super Bowl where it wasn't even a question whether or not we were going to win. I will say in terms of quarterbacks specifically, obviously they're usually the face of the organization at the time, like during their duration. And I do think that it's been made clear in not so distant history of the team that not everyone's cut out for this area. Not everyone is cut out to handle Philly. Our media is tough. They're honest, but so are the fans.

And my husband always says there are some of the most educated football fans that it makes it difficult to argue with their opinions, which I think is a testament to how passionate our city is. That's the part that most people don't get. Like our fans are so educated. Obviously we lead with our hearts, no doubt about it. Like we do lead with our hearts, but our brains are part of the process.

Like they, you know, sometimes I'll say this, we got fans like that in South Carolina where sometimes they are posting stuff on social media. I'm like, I have a point there that I wasn't even thinking about. So let me take a look. Let me see the numbers. Philly fans are are just, it's a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle to cheer for the Eagles, the Sixers, the Flyers, anything Philly, it's a lifestyle. Like it's a part of our very existence for our teams to do well. And it's, yes, it's a play on the heart,

but it's also knowing what you're talking about. Like knowing that you can, like if you're gonna argue, you're gonna have some facts. I mean, and you're gonna speak from emotions and always talk about facts and emotions. Like some people react in such a way that is so emotional to them that they tend not to think about the facts

and they tend not to speak on the facts. They're just speaking because they're so hurt. Philly fans speak from emotions and facts. Now I'd love to get a little more into your coaching career. You are not only one of the greatest women's basketball coaches ever, but you are literally one of the greatest coaches period. You were inducted into your third hall of fame. They're going to have to start making new halls of fame at this point out of all of them. Is there

one that you're most proud of? Absolutely. And which is that? It's the Naismith Hall of Fame, like basketball Hall of Fame. I got, you know, when you, when you play a sport, that was probably the only selfish award that I wanted. Like, I didn't really care about anything else, but the Naismith was near and dear to me because so many greats are in it. Like, and I don't think it's political. Like some of them are political where, you know, you let this person in, you

know, it's a down year, let this person in because they're popular, right? They're going to bring people in. And it's, you know, for me, I year. Let this person in because they're popular, right? They're going to bring people in. And it's, you know, for me, I don't think this Naismith Hall of Fame is is one that is done in a in a in a way that's going to bring somebody in that's just really popular. So I wanted that one in secretly. I wanted as a coach as well, like I want to go in as a player and now as a coach, because I wanted that one and secretly I wanted as a coach as well. Like I want to go in as a player and now as a coach, cause I just

spent, finished my 25th year coaching. And I'm like, is it, is it hall of fame worthy? And the hall of fame nominating committee will, will be the ones that will let me know if my coaching career is worthy, you know, to be in the hall of fame as a coach. I mean, proofs in the pudding. I'm biased though. All the people in Philly, when they, when they listen to this, okay. Good luck to somebody's email down in. We love to manifest things around here. So guys get to move it. You get it. Now, one of the most impressive parts

of your coaching career is that you actually started coaching when you were still playing in the WNBA. You started your career at Temple. I believe it was six years, is that right? That you coached and played. How the hell did you do that? One, Temple came after me, like when I'm in the prime of my career,

to ask me if I wanted to coach. I really turned them down like three times. I'm like, no, I don't want to coach. You gotta respect some persistence. And then I sat down with the AD, he was like, basically two questions. Can you turn, Temple? Can you lead like, basically two questions. Can you turn Temple? Can you lead?

That's number one. Can I lead? I'm like, can I lead, man? Did you do your research? Like, really? I was the captain on every team that I played on. So I was like, yes, I can lead. And then he asked me if I could turn Temple Women's basketball program around.

And I'm drawing the challenges. And I'm like, man, is this a challenge? And then, you know, he took me through a series of interviews in which I didn't even think I was being, I didn't even know I was being interviewed. Like it was a formal interview and I didn't know it because I'm at the time, 29, 30 years old, and all of my interviews were tryouts.

Like I've never been on like a real interview. And needless to say, they were so impressionable. I took the job two weeks later. And then, I mean, part of the process was I don't wanna stop playing. Like I wanna play in the WNBA. I wanna continue to play as long as I can play. And they were like, okay, fine.

But then you get a staff together and then you realize that it's doable. Yes, I'm away probably five or six months out of the year, but when you have a really good staff that's creative, that has more basketball experience than I do, we found a way to get it done. Now I like to do a segment with some of my guests called coach me up. It's where I ask for their expert advice on something. I am currently still a high school field hockey coach. I coach at the high school that I went to right outside of Philly. And so I would love for you to coach me up on coaching.

So what is something that I can do at the high school level to bring out the best of my players? This is gonna be a weird one though. I'm telling you, it's the parents. You have to get to the parents. Like the parents are key. Here's why. Because a lot of times young people

are talking to their parents a lot more than I talk to my parents during my playing days, then probably you talk to your parents during your playing days, you're a little bit younger. So you might have talked to your parents. You might not have talked to your parents. Or you might, I don't know, but I find that young people talk to their parents

so much that the parents are feeding them something. And if it isn't anything that you believe is going to help their child or you believe that's going to help your team, then it's counterintuitive. Yes. Yes. So if you could talk to the parents and I know it's exhausting, it is, but if you can get them saying the messaging that you want them, that their daughters have, have to battle. Like you've won. You certainly won when you got the parents. I don't know about you at the college level, but I feel like every day I'm learning some type of new Gen Z term.

Is there any vocabulary that you've learned over the last few years where you're just like, okay, that must be new? A whole lot. Right? Like Riz, I don't really know what Riz is that, Riz. Like the acronyms. Yes.

And the emojis. Like I don't, I don't know. Like, and I gotta give you this. Like I'm talking to a parent, right? She's upset because her child didn't play a whole lot. And I'm like, your child did play. She just didn't play well. So I gotta put somebody else in that's more productive. Right? And this is all through text messaging. So when

I said that she did this to me. Oh, okay. Yeah, the thumbs down. Like that's, I'm like, I'm like, this me 10, nine, eight, seven. Like I had a countdown before I responded. And then I'm like, hey, look, we can agree to disagree agreeably, but we can't be disrespectful. Like, use your words, we're adults, like use your words.

I may not like it, I may not like it. You may not like it. But let's talk. Let's just talk it out. So it's just things like that, that sometimes for text messaging for me, I mean I could probably figure it out when we're just having a normal conversation, a face-to-face. It's the text messages, responses that really show my age, like bad. I had a talk with my team a few years ago because I had to explain to them that at the very least, they needed to type complete words because I was like, we can be informal, right? Like we can, we can have

that back and forth, but you can also type a message to me and spell out thanks instead of thx. I was like, that's not, that's not coming to me. You can text, you can text that to your friends. That's not coming to me. Try again, cause we're trying to prepare ourselves for Try again, because we're trying to prepare ourselves for potentially college or a professional setting. I know you are not texting your boss. THX. Beautiful. You keep doing that, really.

I mean, it takes a lot of stamina to do it. I know it does, like the correct each and every one of them, but they don't know what they don't know. Like they don't know what's out there. And I'm the same way. Like I really am the same way because, one for us is for them, it's branding. Like they're a brand now.

Like they, how they respond and react and what they post it, those are great things that has helped us. So we're utilizing the NIL space to help them have a better appearance out there, especially social media-wise. Now, you've coached against some of the WNBA's current best players when they were at the college level. I would love to bring up Caitlin Clark because you specifically just had a quote where you said she will probably go down as one of the

greatest players to ever grace the league. Is Caitlin the best player you've coached against in college and who's really up there? The best player we coached against? Well, we only played, only coached against Kaitlyn twice, right? Both times she had over 30, right? I don't know if there's a player that I coached against that had 30 points against us in the two times that they played,

both ones a win and ones a loss. I would say she was, she's probably the most difficult to scout, to play against in that she can beat you a variety of ways. She can beat you with her, obviously, a three point shot. But for me, the most dangerous thing of Caitlyn Clark is her passing ability, her ability to make other people better,

and her ability to have other people better and her ability to have, you know, other people's production along with her production. That's how you win. If you can get somebody to produce along with her, if you could take that away. And that was our emphasis when we won, when we beat them in the semi-finals, no actually it was the finals last year.

We said, Kaitlyn Clark's going to get 30. She can't have 12 assists because if she's got 12 assists, then she's involving her teammates in a way that it doesn't quite add up. We can't produce enough points like they can. And it's probably easy points. They're probably layups. Those 12 assists are probably layups. They're not three-point shots because we can defend that.

It's hard to defend a layup in transition when she's picking you apart, when they've created an advantage in transition. So we try to really concentrate on those areas. So yes, I think she's quite incredible, quite an anomaly when it comes to how many eyeballs that she's bringing on the game and new eyeballs. And the newness of those eyeballs only want her to do well, only want you to speak very highly of her, only want you to agree with what they agree with. And that's kind of hard when we are critics to everyone that plays the game.

We're critics to it. It's a part of the fabric of sports. To be able to- That's the heart of athletics. Yes. It's the competition. That's what we do. You wanna highlight Caitlin Clark for what she does well, but if you are her opponent,

you want to zero in on the things that she doesn't do well. Right? Right. She's a risk taker when it comes to passing the ball. So she'll turn the ball over some. And that's a great thing if you're her opposition and her opponent. It's when she got everything else that's going on. As her opponent, you want to detract from the amount of highlights that she provides on any given night. You want to take those highlights away.

You want to take those easy buckets away. She's going to be great. It's hard for her not to be great because she's such a great player that can shoot the ball. When shooting is an incredible... You can shoot it from one step across half court. You're very dangerous. But to me, what makes her really dangerous is her ability to pass the basketball. The idea that you saying that people just want you to speak highly of her and speak positively, I think it's so interesting to view that as an athlete,

to think that that is exactly what's happening, that it's this idea that a player could a player could do no wrong. But like that is the point of like you talking about game planning against her. Like obviously things can be done wrong. Her taking risks on passing, you being able to eliminate those options is what's going to then really work out the math for you guys to be able to take it. It's really interesting to know that the opinions that are coming in are those fresh eyes are maybe people who haven't sort of been in sports throughout their life to understand that that is the competition that drives these

games that is like, she would probably respect the fact that people are picking apart our weaknesses because she's on a on a journey to try and eliminate those weaknesses herself. I mean that's sports. That's the heart of it. That's the heart of it. And when you are singly focused on one thing and that's for Caitlin Clark to do well, they're

going to tear my butt up for saying this, but I mean I coach the best player in the world, Asia Wilson, and I tear her game apart. I criticize her. She's since, she's gotten better with certain areas. I thought she could be a better rebounder. I thought she could be a better defender. I know she can score the basketball. I know she can shoot the mid-range better than anybody in the game. That's what she was last year in the WNBA.

But can you shoot the three? Can you counter what you do well? Because that's what people are going to take away. If they take it away in the mid-range game, yes, you can get close to the basket, but close to the basket means you're gonna attract a lot more people. So being able to knock down the three ball will make her unstoppable. With all the things that she's bringing to the table.

And if I'm gonna criticize my own, I'm gonna criticize the people that are in the game. And it's not to say that what they're bringing to the game is in great qualities, but nobody walks or plays this game perfectly. No one. And also someone as elite as Asia Wilson, you know for a fact that she did not get where she is by assuming that her game was at the top and that she had nowhere to go.

Right? Like that, her mindset has to be, I'm going to get better every single day. And so if I can receive that feedback and turn it into positive movement forward, then I mean, that is the elite athlete mindset. Like she did not get there by not being able to say like, you know what, I do have some shortcomings. I'm going to fix that right now. Yeah. But now I would say this, as we're talking about Caitlyn Clark, when we did play them in the championship last year, there were over 24 million people that watched the game. A top 24 million, the

average was about 18 million that watched the game. And do I think that people tune in to watch Caitlyn? Absolutely. Give her all the credit. But when they tuned in, they saw a South Carolina team that was full of incredible talent that made our game better. Like she brought more eyeballs to our game,

but they found out that there's more really great players in our game that is worthy of being talked about and worthy of giving credit. So I think it's a win-win situation when we can have healthy conversation about what's happening in women's basketball and now the WNBA. I might've been reluctant to go full minivan.

I believe I've used the words, swore I'd never do this, but Jason and our girls have always been on board. And now that I'm a few months in, they're definitely loving the Sienna, which makes it harder for me to keep resisting. I will tell you, Jason is basking in the fact that I have caved about a minivan. He's been trying this for years. He really was pushing a minivan. He's a big minivan guy. The girls absolutely love the Sienna because school

drop-offs, I just pressed open the door, you remember, and release the Kraken. I released that Kraken right into that school because, boop, she's your problem now. You know what I mean? I will also say that we've taken some trips to the shore and we were lucky enough to get the screen feature in the back. We have a TV. That is a game changer for the beach. The girls are obsessed. Although I won't lie to you guys, I will lie to my children till the day I die, but I won't lie

to you guys. And I did lie and tell my children that the TV only works on long car rides. If you're nervous to go full minivan, listen, I've been there. But hey, maybe check out your local Toyota dealer just for funsies, just fun. Go take a test drive, pop on that heated seat, no strings attached, you know? Go see Teresa. You can learn more about the Toyota Sienna at www.toyota.com backslash Sienna.

I'm very excited to talk to you more. Some more about your book. You have a New York Times bestseller, Uncommon Favor, which is now available. We'll put the link in the description. I don't know if you remember this, but a friend of mine, Josie, went to your book signing in New York and she said that, I said, can you please tell Dawn, I'm so excited to talk to her. But she was so excited because we were talking about what an incredible accomplishment it is that you now have a book, ultimately with all of your accolades, all of your accomplishments

and your years of wisdom to drop on all of us. What made you decide to write it now? One, I'm getting older and I didn't want to forget the stuff. That's one. Two, I just think the things that have been happening to me in my career, they're really good things. I mean, we won an NCAA national championship in an undefeated fashion. And I'm like, that doesn't happen very often. I mean, we won an NCAA national championship in an undefeated fashion. And I'm like, that doesn't happen very often. And then, I mean, so many great things have been happening

to our program, to myself, that I felt like it was the right time to do it now. And it is not even a playoff, the fact that women's basketball is at its highest in demand and highest popularity. It was more of for me to pay homage to Philly and North Philly, my mother, like in the game of basketball. I feel like I'm forever indebted to basketball.

And through coaching, I feel like I'm repaying a debt. And it's a little scary when you put yourself out there, you don't know how you're going to be received, but every single person, it really makes me a little softer. And we don't like to be soft in Philly. It really strikes my heart in a way that makes me grateful for giving myself, opening myself up for the world to see. And it's been received incredibly. Nicole Zichal-Pasquale Well, it gives people even more depth to be able to invest their love and appreciation for what you've done in your life, what you've done for the city of Philadelphia. And like you said, you're

letting people in. I think that everybody, like in any chance they can get to know you more and appreciate what you've done. I think that's an incredible opportunity you've provided us. I have one last question for you. done. I think that's an incredible opportunity you've provided us. I have one last question for you. I know you've been asked this question, but I'm hoping it might be slightly harder to say no coming from me as a fellow Philly hype person. If the WNBA team, if there was a team in Philly, would you ever consider coaching it? No. No, no. You know why? Because I'd rather be an owner.

Okay. I think there's much more in it to ownership. I think, I know a lot of people think that coaching is my best attribute. And I do think I'm a pretty good coach, but when I'm an owner, I could probably touch more people. Let's do it. I'll invest.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. I do think that Philly is a great market for it. As passionate as we are and as much momentum as women's sports has right now, guys, come on. It's easy. I will say this and I've said this. We do have to get the Sixers going. Yes.

Like, it really helps. Like, we don't have to worry about the Eagles. We can help each other, right? We've got to propel each other forward. Yes. Yeah. So that, you know, like the professional teams, you know, are the cornerstones of our city. Like they are like the Eagles are, you got it going on.

The fires, the Phillies, like we got it going on. The Sixers have got to get it going on. And I do think it will be more welcomed. Right now it's not. Right now it's not, but timing is key. Like it really is. When the time is right, it will be around for a long time. If it's forced on, on Philadelphians,

you give us room. It won't land. Yeah, you give us room to criticize it. If it doesn't start off right, you give Philly room to, you know, boo Santa Claus, right? Yep. Oh yeah. Snowballs. Yes. Oh yeah. Snowballs. Yes.

For sure. Absolutely. I cannot thank you enough for joining me today for this conversation. It is so refreshing to hear all of your thoughts and knowledge about coaching and being an athlete and how much sports has done for you. And just like I said, the impressive resume that you have put together is it's for a reason.

You are so incredible at everything that you do. And I really appreciate you sharing that knowledge with me today. You can purchase Dawn's bestselling book, Uncommon Favor, right now on Amazon. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I so look forward to us having this conversation. So I appreciate you and all that you do. Thank you for loving up on Philly.

Always. Can't stop me. And that's a wrap on another episode of Not Going to Lie. You can find even more clips from my longer conversation with Dawn Staley on my YouTube channel on More Shit Monday. I'll be back next Thursday with a brand new episode and we've got something very special planned. You might just see me in a brand new location. A summery spot you could say. God I love that dance floor. We will be holding a yoga class on the beach. Doesn't that sound lovely?

At 8 a.m., the morning of the guest bartending event at the OD. And I would love to see some real ones there. All of the registration fees associated with this yoga class will be going directly to our efforts of fundraising that day and going to the Eagles Autism Foundation. We're doing it in conjunction with Stride, which is a locally owned business, female owned business.

You know, we love to women lifting women. And I hope to see you guys there. Again, all details for that will be on my social media and shared at NGL with Kylie. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Not going to lie is a Wave original brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Thank you to the real ones for tuning in.