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ex.clusively: beyond the game is a women-led sports culture podcast, centered on the humanity of the game.

In this episode, we share why we created Beyond the Game and why sports needs a space where athletes are seen as more than stats. This conversation goes beyond highlights and headlines. We talk about identity, mental health, purpose, generational impact, and what athletes carry long after the spotlight fades.

Powered by the November Saturdays Foundation, this podcast exists at the intersection of sports, culture, and healing.

Because athletes are more than performers.And sports is about more than the game.

Welcome to Beyond the Game, hosted by Olivia Blankenship and Kensley Tolliver.

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Jay Woods joins ex.clusively: Beyond the Game for a real conversation about pressure, purpose, and the Plug-and-Play Mentality that shapes the way he moves through life.

Jay opens up about staying grounded, handling expectations, and what it really takes to keep showing up, even when life shifts, plans change, and the pressure gets real. This episode is about discipline, identity, growth, and learning how to adapt in every season.

🎙️ Tap in for one of our most honest conversations yet.

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If you’ve ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or like you had to create your own path — this conversation is for you.

In this episode, I’m sitting down with Lillian Glanton, founder of LG Media Co. and the Muscle Shoals Songwriters Festival, to talk about identity, reinvention, and what happens when you stop waiting for permission.

New episodes every Wednesday.

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At what point does punishment become revenge?

In this episode of EXclusively with Kensley Tolliver, Kensley sits down with Stacy George for a candid conversation about incarceration, accountability, and the human cost of power. Drawing from firsthand experience inside Alabama’s prison system and his involvement in The Alabama Solution, Stacy reflects on mental health, addiction, faith, and when justice crosses the line into revenge.

⚠️ Listener discretion advised: This episode discusses incarceration, addiction, violence, and trauma.

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In this episode of EXclusively with Kensley Tolliver, Kensley sits down with her best friend and Co-Founder of the November Saturdays Foundation, Olivia Blankenship, for a conversation about friendship, timing, and what it looks like when everything finally comes full circle.

Launching Season 2 on January 14 — the Day of the Heavyweight, this episode explores small-town assumptions, creative risk, and the quiet truth that some conversations only make sense once you’ve lived through what comes next.

What started as conversation became clarity. What once felt unfinished finally reached fruition.

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November Saturdays exists because no child should be forgotten by the systems meant to protect them.

In this episode, The Making of November Saturdays, I tell the true origin story, from where the name came from to the life experiences that shaped it. Foster care. Displacement. Addiction. Loving someone the system gave up on. And realizing I didn’t survive that season just to live a normal life.

This is a deeply personal episode and includes heavy topics such as foster care, addiction, loss, and trauma. Listener discretion is advised. Take your time with it.

November Saturdays exists to interrupt generational trauma, restore potential, heal communities, and give every child a chance to rewrite their future.

We believe sports save lives.We believe mentorship changes futures.We believe nobody is too far gone.

Sports are our starting point. They are often the last safe place standing when everything else has been taken away. Through youth sports initiatives, mentorship, and community support, we step in where gaps exist and show up where silence has lived too long.

This is not charity from a distance.This is proximity. Presence. Advocacy.

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In this New Year’s Special, I’m opening up about the year that changed me.

From burnout and isolation to faith, friendship, and moments of clarity I didn’t see coming, this episode is a look back at everything that shaped my 2025. I talk honestly about slowing down, letting go of old habits, turning 30, trusting God, and the mailbox moment that reminded me I wasn’t doing all of this alone. You’ll also hear voicemails from people I love, sharing their own highs and lows of the year. Real, emotional, and unfiltered. This episode isn’t about having it all figured out. It’s about learning how to take every version of yourself and carry her forward.

Subscribe to EXclusively so you don’t miss Season 2 premiering on January 14.🤍

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A raw, unexpected conversation about pressure, holidays, miscommunication, and staying true to the vision.

This episode wasn’t planned or outlined, we sat down, hit record, and everything I had been holding in finally cracked open. The exhaustion, the pressure, the holiday chaos, the miscommunication, the burnout… all of it came to the surface.

The week we filmed this, I had just hosted my first event ever, turned 30, and was trying to juggle my full-time job, chasing my dreams, launching a nonprofit, filming a podcast, managing My Ex’s Vintage, and running/editing every single piece of content across my platforms. And in the middle of that conversation, Taylor and I realized it was best for us to go our separate ways. There is nothing but mutual respect and love, I’ll always support her the way she’s supported me, and I’m grateful for the time and heart she gave to my dreams.

This became the real season finale, the raw, unfiltered, behind-the-scenes version of protecting the vision when you’re overwhelmed, misunderstood, judged online, grieving old traditions, and trying to build something bigger than yourself. We opened up about family pressure, lost holidays, being the black sheep, turning 30, starting a nonprofit, dealing with social media opinions, creative tension, burnout, PTSD, and the moment everything finally boiled over.

It’s the honest conversation we didn’t plan to have but needed to.

Welcome to PROTECTING THE VISION.
The real season finale.