Michelle Wie's Survival Guide to Child Stardom
EPISODE 128: What happened to the next Tiger Woods?
I first found out about Michelle Wie — now Michelle Wie West — back when she was the most famous kid in sports, golfing in Hawaii, more than 20 years ago now.
And I always presumed that I knew her story. Maybe you, like a lot of America, did too.
Because the bottom line was simple: Michelle Wie was a female professional athlete who actually did what so many people proclaimed — and still proclaim! — to be impossible: compete against adult men.
But the craziest part is that Michelle did this… as a child.
But only recently did I realize how valuable Michelle’s specific perspective is, today, as a 34-year-old. And it’s not just because she has watched, and personally shaped, the evolution of women’s sports.
It’s also because Michelle deserves another superlative that can only be awarded in the present, more than 20 years later…
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Youthfully,
Pablo