April 11th

Monday, April 11th:

Today was another good day for my project! After all the research I did on the new people I have to interview, I reached out to them via email. It took me a while to send these emails because I had to individualize each of them, and I wanted to make sure they really understand the goal of my project. I'm optimistic that they will respond soon and will want to participate in an interview!

After sending out those emails, I began writing interview questions for these new contacts. I've realized that it's a lot more difficult to write these questions than I had anticipated. I want to ask some of the same questions to each person, but at the same time I am afraid they will have similar answers. I want to make sure that my podcast has a variety of opinions, and isn't too repetitive. What makes me nervous about this project is I truly don't know what these peoples answers are going to be.  Not only that, but at this point there's no guarantee these people will even want to participate in my podcast, so that is a little bit nerve-wracking. I'm really hoping I can generate some inspiring answers with the thought provoking questions I am asking. Although I'm nervous about these things, I am also very excited to start my interviews.

I was in contact with Blakely Mattern again today, the former professional soccer player, and I will interview her on Wednesday. I spent a lot of time today writing out the questions I was going to ask her. It's difficult with timing, because I'm not sure how much time she will have, but I think she will have interesting responses. I'm excited to show someone who has played at one of the highest levels of soccer how passionate I am about giving girls and women the opportunity to play soccer, and I hope that this will be the first step to greater things to come.