On this week’s Women’s Hoops And Talks Podcast, Tara is joined by Meliza Hernadez, a Toronto-based freelance media correspondent to talk about what goes into trying to break through in the competitive media world. How scorekeeping at AAU games, planning tournaments, organizing volunteers and stepping in front of the camera are all part of her journey towards her dream of reporting on NBA events. Along the way we talk about NBA dads, investing in yourself, and what it was like in the arena when Kevin Durant went down with a ruptured achilles.

(Note: on the podcast Tara referred to an episode of Road Trippin’ Podcast with LeBron James as the guest. She got the year wrong, it was actually 2017, the year the Cavalier’s lost, not 2016, the year that they won.)

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Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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