Why Sage Steele Chose Motherhood Over Career | Real Talk | PragerU

you rejected ESPN the first time around and decided to have a baby and to raise a family and I think about that because just yesterday I bumped into this young woman she's probably about the age of your daughter um maybe a few years older she's married and she she walked up to me and she said I am so scared to have children and I think this is so important because young women have been told to be afraid to have children uh one reason on the right is that because the education system is so broken and they're going to hear all these bad ideas and they're going to go on social media and it's so difficult to raise children which it's it's not easy of course and then another reason on the left is that humans are parasites on planet Earth and that we're mooching off the planet and we need less humans and uh you know there's a toxic mom culture which which both are really bad because at the end of the day there is nothing more beautiful and meaningful there's no better vitamin for your life than having children and somebody like you who put your career on the line to go and have a family and what I said to this young woman I said you listen I I just stood with President Trump and I I do incredible work that I'm really proud of and I really enjoy it and really nourishes my soul but there is nothing nothing more important to me than my children there's nothing I'm more proud of than having kids it's what I get to actually really keep to myself it's yours it's really mine I you you went through a divorce you don't have the husband you've changed your career you don't have ESPN but look at you you have your kids I have my babies you have your babies and look we'll have Kur Ruffles with our children especially if they're in their late teenage years but this message that young women are to afraid to have kids or that they should have their career first because otherwise they won't be able to have kids or that having kids in this period of scary time in the world is not worth doing I just think is a message that we have a responsibility to break yeah and break it hard and I probably don't think about that decision to turn down ESPN enough um because it's just what I did in that moment just what I thought was right but I look back and I'm like wow that I took a big chance there too you know but I was raised with in such a beautiful family that I knew that I would regret um putting that priority on the back burner for this career and so I was pregnant with my second um when I finally got the call from ESPN and I was so excited and I went up to audition and I mean I was like 12 months pregnant like just well and crushed the the audition because I didn't care because I had this baby be bouncing on my bladder like let's go let's get this over with you know and then I yeah I got the call and um I mean my husband was very supportive of taking the job he was a stay-at home Dad um my parents knew this little girl that had been talking about ESP in her whole life I finally did it because I've been talking to them for four or five years and they were like this is what you need to do to get better and to work on it and to be basically worthy of working here and they were right and then I got there and they gave it to me and I was like I can't do it and my agent at the time was like are you hi like what are you doing you ESPN doesn't need you you need ESPN and I and they she's like you're going to get black ball they'll never call you back I just knew I wanted at least three kids and so and I had a dear dear friend steuart Scott the late great steuart Scott who's I miss him every day um he's a legend at ESPN and died of cancer almost 10 years ago which I can't believe and he was the one that pulled me aside when we he didn't even know me that well and said um don't come until you're ready because this place will eat you up especially as a young mom so this is in 2004 and I listened and I just said you know what and I prayed I'm like if it's meant to be then they'll call me back so I said no and signed another contract where I was in DC Baltimore and had a third kid and three years later they called back and it happened to be a better offer too