A women-led sports culture podcast hosted by Kensley Tolliver and Olivia Blankenship, founders of the November Saturdays Foundation. From honest conversations to laugh-out-loud moments, Kensley and Olivia sit down with athletes, coaches, and cultural voices around sports to spotlight the person underneath the helmet. Each episode explores identity, relationships, mental health, faith, family, and the real-life moments that shape athletes beyond the game.
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A women-led sports culture podcast hosted by Kensley Tolliver and Olivia Blankenship, founders of the November Saturdays Foundation. From honest conversations to laugh-out-loud moments, Kensley and Olivia sit down with athletes, coaches, and cultural voices around sports to spotlight the person underneath the helmet. Each episode explores identity, relationships, mental health, faith, family, and the real-life moments that shape athletes beyond the game.
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May 27, 2026
Basketball, Brotherhood & Building a Legacy | Calen & Caden Lightford
<p>In this episode of ex.clusively beyond the game, host Kensley Tolliver and Olivia Blankenship, sit down with brothers Calen and Caden Lightford for a real conversation about basketball, family, discipline, mentorship, and finding purpose beyond the court. From Calen’s journey as a college athlete and future basketball coach to 14-year-old Caden balancing basketball and sports photography, this episode highlights the importance of hard work, networking, and staying grounded.The conversation dives into growing up with strong parental support, the lessons sports can teach about life, overcoming injuries, mental toughness, and how today’s generation navigates pressure, social media, and identity.🎧 WATCH & LISTENYouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeartRadioConnect on Socials:Calen Lightford:@clightf0rd @clightbasketballacademy Caden Lightford:@fatt_productions1@__f5ttBo's Best Wings:@bosbestwingsFollow ex.clusively: beyond the game:@exclusivelybeyondthegameFollow The November Saturdays Foundation:@thenovembersaturdaysfoundationwww.thenovembersaturdaysfoundation.org</p>
May 27, 2026
The Blessings That I Almost Missed Part Two | Shenequa Phipps
<p>In this two-part episode of ex.clusively: beyond the game, Kensley Tolliver and Olivia Blankenship sit down with author, mother, wife, nonprofit founder, and advocate Shenequa Phipps for one of the most emotionally honest conversations the platform has had to date.This conversation dives into healing, rejection, faith, emotional resilience, identity, single motherhood, generational trauma, purpose, and learning how to keep going through seasons that almost break you.Shenequa opens up about surviving painful chapters of life while still showing up for others, sacrificing her own dreams to raise her children, navigating rejection, and learning how to heal from trauma without allowing bitterness to define her. Through faith, writing, and vulnerability, she shares how brokenness became part of her purpose instead of the end of her story.Together, Kensley, Olivia, and Shenequa discuss the emotional weight people silently carry behind closed doors, the fear of letting go, God’s timing versus our timing, father wounds, domestic violence, emotional survival mode, and what it means to stop diminishing your own pain just because someone else “has it worse.”This episode is a reminder that healing is not linear, rejection is not always punishment, and some of the blessings we almost miss arrive quietly.Topics in this episode include:mental health, emotional resilience, faith, healing, generational trauma, identity, rejection, forgiveness, leadership, single motherhood, purpose, vulnerability, and life beyond survival mode.⸻What part of this conversation resonated with you most?Drop your thoughts in the comments and let us know what conversations surrounding healing, mental health, leadership, faith, and identity you want ex.clusively to explore next.Subscribe for more conversations surrounding sports culture, emotional resilience, leadership, mental health, and life beyond performance.Purchase Blessings That I Almost Missed </p><p>Barnes & Noble & Amazon⸻WATCH & LISTENYouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeartRadioCONNECT WITH US@exclusivelybeyondthegame@kensleypaydentolliver@_livblankenship@thenovembersaturdaysfoundationTHE NOVEMBER SATURDAYS FOUNDATIONthenovembersaturdaysfoundation.org</p>
May 21, 2026
The Blessings That I Almost Missed | Shenequa Phipps
<p>This episode of ex.clusively: beyond the game dives deep into the emotional battles people often carry in silence. Kensley Tolliver and Olivia Blankenship sit down with author, mother, daughter, wife, nonprofit founder, and advocate Shenequa Phipps.From mental health and suicidal thoughts… to generational trauma, father wounds, single motherhood, healing, faith, and purpose. Shenequa opens up about surviving brokenness while still finding a way to smile, raising children while sacrificing her own dreams, returning to school later in life, and how writing became part of her healing journey.This conversation is for anybody who’s ever felt overlooked, emotionally exhausted, stuck in survival mode, or questioned if God still had a purpose for their life. And sometimes… the blessings we almost missed are the ones that changed everything.If this episode impacted you, share it with someone who may need to hear it.</p>
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