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How are you today?

I'm good today.

I'm pleased.

I'm happy.

I'm Yeah.

I'm glad that the heads up stuff's going well on the fact that you guys here today really great news.

So anyone getting deeper?

I've been out two months of first came back last week.

So I'm happy my kids are healthy and it's a huge honor to be invited here with royalty.

Think See that?

That right, there is very questions, very broad, We say every day.

And like I said, generally do we mean it?

Do we actually care how that person is or is it a throwaway comment off with his campaign?

There's a lot of things that probably said in this conversation that could be taken into day to day life.

And it's very good question.

How are you today?

How is your yesterday?

What's going on in your life, these kind of things that people need Thio we have to talk about but more importantly, feel that they've got the confidence of friends or people like us.

We're all from different backgrounds but have a common understanding.

I agree, but I think it's more like that question like taking an interest in life actually hold somebody is in light, wanting to take an interest in their life and seeing how they're getting on.

Well, it goes a long way.

Goes a lot further what you think.

If somebody genuinely looks at the care and you want to speak to someone talking, always, I believe half the problem.

So it's a good question again.

101 100 I got on when you most happy I filled out for me.

That question would have changed over the years.

I am now 37 545 kid, you know, most happy when my house is as noisy as hell.

I was most happiest when I was on the football pitch, being so proud toe represent the country.

But then when you come to a different part of your life retirement and then you have Children, that's what I'm most happiest.

When I see smiles on their faces, your life just changes, and a whole new perspective comes when you have Children for me and my kids and my family is times my Children drive me insane and they sleep.

But I love him dearly and your most happy when they're around.

I think health is another thing is why we're talking about myself.

But health is so important.

I think we we take it for granted a lot of times and you guys were no more than I did about injuries and stop it.

I think when you know I love one yourself is not feeling that good.

Whether it's you know you're ill or you're injured, I think that can play a big part of whether you can get through the days and look to the hopeful for the future.

You want me to go through this could go anywhere.

I apologize on edge moving monopoly man.

What a question to pick up How's the season goes so far he he would.

Your team, How really are Caesar's been very difficult personally off Scheveningen have been out for four months and coming back to a team that's in the relegation zone obviously has not been ideal.

But I've been picking up of late and naturally to score against Villa situation for the S O B good.

Yeah, you got it you want to do that technical llamar hasta la.

How does foot will make you feel?

I think sport for me has always been a big thing.

I've loved ending physical, challenging situations on that relish in, and I really enjoy it.

Also, it's where I'm part of a team.

There's a lot of what I do is I'm about my own little time.

You have to lead a room leading an event, and actually, when you wanna pitch, you know it takes 11 people toe to toe with it.

So I feel very much long as I've just gotta look after my quarter.

The pitch usually the tiniest small corner, three corner flags, a defender.

But you know, that's That's my my little territory and I kind of just got it, look after it and try and actually win it for the team.

I like that.

I like that camaraderie.

I I missed the coming away from the game and you being up in a basically a battle.

For me.

It was confidence.

It made me feel confident.

I was quite a shy and reserved person off the pitch, low self esteem.

But when I stepped across that white line.

I was Kelly Smith.

The footballer wanted the ball at my feet.

I wanted to help my team win.

I was kind of like the go to player that I loved.

I love that.

And when I was off the pitch, I was kind of like, really preserved.

So you just brought me so much confidence on the pitch.

And I love that.

I'm Jim Guy way.

I get stressed.

It's for me.

It's that me time and brought to the gym.

And that's when he had phones work out, a little swearing and afterwards it's like exactly you prioritize and be like, You know what?

Sometimes things ain't as bad Rangers get sending less literal.

You come in, you know what is what is, and that's it.

It's just finding out what kind of works you know.

Oh, what is your perception of mental health within the football community?

But I think in past years it was a perceived weakness.

If you said our struggle a bit mental, he's know for it.

Yeah, that would be to proceed way where I think now.

So many people speaking on the subject people go.

Actually, we know we could see the ability isn't five profile player comes out and speaks about their problems.

And then those people that aren't in the public domain, they look upset, saying they've got that problem you think about it really helps when those kind of figures going out to go back to your question manager called me into his office a few months ago.

You talk to me, How you feeling, how you doing?

At the time I was out the team, I was playing poorly.

You could see in train.

I wasn't my usual self.

He's basically said how you feel.

I was honest with him.

I said Listen, got from struggling the men.

I'm trying really hard, but it's really getting to me.

He basically said, Angela, we believe in you.

I believe in you for many years and I know that eventually you're gonna get off this state you're in.

And for me, that was literally like the best thing I could have been told that time.

Yet the next game I came on the score and I was back in the team in a few weeks or something, something so little with it as a five minute wait.

No pressure I would you kick off a conversation about mental health.

So I'm in a position where it's affected me personally free in 18 months.

But I lost my grandma, granddad and dad in 18 months box of five people who raised me free, literally shattered window where I turned to alcohol as a comfort.

So if I could look back on my older self, I would say if he is a blessing because you've been through it, lived through it and learn what to do.

Now I think you know people's characteristics in and around you, So I tend to, for example, my brothers and in a bit of a bad spirit a minute.

So I saw him the other day, and that was wrong with you.

Talk to me.

Let's just get it out because from community where we don't speak, we'll talk about our problems.

Yeah, that's kind of the thing that we do.

We talk about it and you have to identify who's around you and be be brave enough to speak about it, because is that everyone's going through problems.

We all have different lifestyles, different backgrounds.

You've got problems.

I've got problems.

Someone down the street now is go for someone as well.

So if we no those people or we could see this summit changing and we have to disaster question and hope that they can start talking, it may just be just a conversation just to get things off your chest.

If you keep bottling things up, eats away you.

We got not make out like it's a taboo subject to talk about.

So, you know, even when you guys mental health and the lot not only began on like, um, with that stigma is literally the more normal conversations have a bit more people be opened up, and that's what it is about you feeling right.

Also, people to build a share stuff that really matters because that is what this is about.

It's about.

It's about making it into like a big deal meant Elvis.

It's way would have meant off.

It's all that, but it's about just trying to understand somebody and understand what they've been through.

Part of this is all about just being more open about how we feel and just be able to talk about those feelings, and I never will not shy away, so I think we're quite modest in this in this country is Well, I think we don't wanna meet over the Dow.

We don't set any woman, so therefore, we don't really ask.

You actually got to be a bit more punchy and say, Hey, how you doing?

All right.

Can you talk a bit more about that?

You should be.

Oh, yeah.

It doesn't matter.

Which one of you wanted to pull over there?