Okiki Podcast Episode 16: Santia Deck
Meet Santia Deck, recently named the highest paid female football player in the WFLA.
The Queens of Abs, Santia Deck, is a Certified Trainer and Social Media Influencer with over 300,000 loyal and engaged followers. A former Track and Field Collegiate Athlete, she now plays Flag Football for the USA and Rugby for the Harlequins (was training to make the USA Rugby Team) and is a 2020 Olympic hopeful.
Santia is a published Author, a Fitness Model, TV Personality (Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Ranch), Public Speaker, and a TV Host.
Santia Marie Deck was born in Greenville, SC and raised in Houston, TX. She has been running after her dream of success since childhood; and now Santia inspires others with her determination.
Be sure to follow Santia on all her platforms. Check out her handles below:
Instagram: @trackbaby001 https://www.instagram.com/trackbaby001/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santia-deck-033b6b85/
Snapchat: Trackbaby001
Top 5 Takeaways:
Work & Life Balance: Find It Or Burn
You can only give 100% to multiple passions before it becomes unhealthy and burnout occurs. Through the process of burning out with Flag Football and Rugby schedules and competitions, Santia learned the process of maintaining a healthy balance and the work it took to return from burnout. Being proactive going forward and making intentional choices to maintain wholeness and balance is KEY to longevity in an arena or platform.
2. Pursue Education
Santia is a believer in education. With a Major in English and Minor in Psychology, she knows the benefits of education, not only professionally but personally as well. Santia loves to use her position of influence to inspire young girls to pursue their dreams and knows that education is one pathway to seeing dreams fulfilled. She uses her own education to demonstrate to young girls that they too can pursue an education.
3. Team Relationships & Life Relationships are Key
As an athlete Santia specifically values relationships as she knows that relationships in the arena of competition can be difficult to come by. Team mentality teaches you to protect your own but to see the opposing team as rivals only. Through her transition from Flag Football to Rugby, Santia learned a new way of thinking about Team and Relationship as Rugby mentality is supportive of all teams – even opposing ones – and building relationship with one another off the field.
Santia has also learned the important of Life Relationships. As an athlete can become consumed with what she called – Wake. Train. Sleep. Mentality. She knows the importance in having relationships and friendships that bring you out of the isolating training routine of being an athlete and is intentional about spending quality time in those relationships and maintaining a healthy balance between training and relationships.
4. Set Big Goals
Always have your eyes fix forward and give yourself goals to work towards. Santia currently has her eyes set on attending the 2024 Olympics with her Rugby team, as well as speaking and publishing books on a global scale.
5. Brand Is More Than One Platform Profession
Santia believes that Brand is more than just one platform profession, that she is more than an athlete. She is an author, speaker, model, athlete, influencer… and brand needs to encompass all platforms she chooses to stand on. Brand is also having the gift of influence within each platform and this is what Santia is grateful for most.
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