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Melie Kerr on Life and Money in the IPL, Blowing up on Instagram

October 28, 2023 / 05:04

This episode covers women's cricket, mental health, and personal experiences. The conversation features discussions about financial aspects of cricket, family backgrounds, and coping with loss.

The guest shares insights on the financial realities of being a female cricketer, mentioning a salary of 190k and the impact of taxes and agent fees. They discuss the importance of visibility for young girls in sports.

Family influences are highlighted, with the guest's mother working with the New Zealand Players Association and their father previously directing cricket in Wellington. The guest reflects on their upbringing and the role of their parents in sports education.

Superstitions and pre-game routines are touched upon, revealing the guest's past habits and current mindset regarding sports and life. They mention a specific routine involving their left leg pad and glove.

The episode also addresses a personal tragedy from July 2020, when the guest's friend's brother committed suicide. The guest reflects on their feelings during the pandemic and the sense of peace they found amidst the chaos.

TL;DR

The episode discusses women's cricket, financial realities, family influences, and coping with personal loss during the pandemic.

Episode

5:04
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maybe it's tied up with that tall poppy
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thing a bit as well yeah and there's
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like players that have played before you
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that don't play for much but I mean you
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got to look at it is an it's an amazing
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opportunity now for women's Cricket
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young girls
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seeing um seeing that like you can make
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a real career out of this and you know
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if you're that's incredible it's not
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something to be embarrassed about it's
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[ __ ] awesome yeah so like obviously
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you'd rather it not be shown to the
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media
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um but it's still kind of badass in a
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way it's amazing yeah but people see
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that and they're like [ __ ] she's getting
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190k but you lose about 40% of it so
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yeah so 40% to say tax tax and then you
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got an agent to pay or like does someone
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get 15% 20% or yeah for I don't have a
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agent that takes my Cricket contracts
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they'll take money
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from Deals they get me oh okay um oh how
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good okay so after text you're still
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looking at like 100k or something yeah
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yeah [ __ ] that's amazing well it's still
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great isn't it it's incredible so are
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your parents still uh teachers um no so
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all my aunties and uncles are um my mom
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is actually with the New Zealand Players
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Association so she works on basically
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life outside of cricket with some of the
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men's domestic teams uh wellbeing like P
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PD type of stuff um and my
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dad he he's he was the director of
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cricket Wellington uh when I was about
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10 my parents actually bought Kelly
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Sports to New Zealand which was like
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sport for young kids what is I've never
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heard of it um this was ages ago but uh
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basically just they run holiday programs
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after school care and they would go into
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primary schools and basically take PE
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lessons right for schools cuz I think
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when my sister started school mom and
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dad was shocked at like how the basic
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skills of catching a ball and whatnot
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were just not there and there was a
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singing Aussie so they bought it to New
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Zealand um you you and your sister never
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had a chance with
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the yeah Didn't Know funny because when
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J was young she like soon as she was
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walking she had a bow in her hair and
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like loves SP and I was just a real
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Chiller like I was just sit there like
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line up cars in a perfect order like a
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little bit OCD and just had no interest
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and my parents like oh yeah M had no
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interest she got into sport quite late I
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was like 5 years
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old she got it to a
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late probably a normal age yeah as your
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is your um DMS just full of like Indian
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Indian D Indian fans I haven't really
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looked at them but I think you get a few
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like marriage proposals and and whatnot
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so um I haven't said yes to any
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oh there's always time there's always
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time you know you never know um and what
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about um are you superstitious or you
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have any like pregame routines or any
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any like must do or like processes yeah
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I used to be really superstitious when I
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was a kid I've chilled out a little bit
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now um I always put my LIF pad on First
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and my left left glove I have the same
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like routine like betting routine like
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two Taps and whatnot um but that's about
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it really yeah that's so you're not an
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overthinker no I'm not an overthinker of
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sport I'm an overthinker of Life yeah
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actually that's Proby good transition
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time we'll get into that now so um yeah
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July July 2020 that's when can you I
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don't know if you want how like we can
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get into this in as as much or as little
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information as you want because I mean
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dragging this [ __ ] back up I know it's
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never never nice and never easy but what
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was what was going on then July 2020
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yeah 2020
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um was when was
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it so that's kind of when Co start
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started didn't it pandemic time yeah
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yeah um so that's when my friend's
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brother committed suicide that year um
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and then obviously like the lo I loved
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lockdown cuz I felt like the world
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stopped around me and I felt like we
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were like at peace and I know it was
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horrible for some people and I had a
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good household but
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um I guess I keep busy and whatnot but I
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just felt like the world stopped and I
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could be I just felt safe like I felt in
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a safe
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[Music]
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place
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oh

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This episode stands out for the following:

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Episode Highlights

  • Women's Cricket Opportunities
    An amazing opportunity now for women's cricket, inspiring young girls to pursue careers in sports.
    “It's incredible, it's not something to be embarrassed about, it's awesome!”
    @ 00m 19s
    October 28, 2023
  • Pandemic Reflections
    During the pandemic, I felt like the world stopped and I found peace.
    “I felt like the world stopped around me and I felt like we were at peace.”
    @ 04m 27s
    October 28, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • It's incredible, it's not something to be embarrassed about, it's awesome!
    Melie Kerr on Life and Money in the IPL, Blowing up on Instagram

Key Moments

  • Women's Cricket00:09
  • Career Inspiration00:12
  • Pandemic Peace04:27

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