Heidi Watney is one of the main faces of MLB Network, where she’s been the past 7 seasons. You might also know her from her days with the Boston Red Sox as their former reporter and host at NESN. She is a dear friend of mine from the industry as with all of my guests so far, but she is someone I look up to a lot. She is incredibly strong and independent which I love about her, she doesn’t take any crap from anyone (or let the noise get to her head), and she makes a very difficult job on television look easy. She’s also the mother of a beautiful baby boy Jax who is the cutest thing and she is a true family woman. In this episode we dive into how Heidi got to this point in her career, how she’s navigated through some nasty rumors that were spread about her unwarranted (and she wasn’t allowed to defend herself), how developing self-confidence and self-acceptance is an ever evolving journey and most importantly some of the hard hitting lessons she’s had to learn about life through love and loss.

Heidi is one of the most loyal friends I’ve met, and someone who literally provided me shelter when I was in a scramble moving between New York and Chicago… her and her husband Mike let me stay at their house for several weeks for free so I could pinch my pennies as I moved cross country.

I love her perspective on the fact that it’s not about a work life balance… your life should be better than your work and if it’s not… there’s work to be done- she’ll explain later on. Enjoy this episode and if you like what you hear give us a five star rating and a nice review if you feel so inclined.

In this episode we talk about:

- Her story to getting to the national level

- Challenges she’s overcome to get to the National level

- Experience in Boston, life as a sideline reporter

- Combatting rumors when people lie about you to the masses

- The process of building confidence and finding it within yourself

- Advice about working in the sports broadcasting industry

- Transitioning into motherhood- being a working mom on no sleep- how to find grace through it all

- The best advice she’s ever gotten from Joe Maddon ((SP??))

- Relinquishing control on life and rolling with the flow of life

- Balancing it all between career and motherhood- work life balance and why that saying is not true

- Life and loss, losing a family member and how to

- Growing up with a brother with special needs, his sudden passing, and how it impacts her life today

- The lessons she’s learned being on the hamster wheel of career and how to let go of what matters and what doesn’t

- Recent shift in perspective on not having to put career ahead of having a life

- What the biggest thing life has taught her to date