Have you ever thought about playing PICKLEBALL? Yes, it is ALL the rage right now! Check out my interview with Pickleball Club owner, Denise Foat of Diverse Dimensions Pickleball Club. Join us as we talk about how exciting the sport is, and how you can get involved!
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00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 talents hello hello hello everyone this
00:00:19 --> 00:00:22 is deia Avery of the deia Avery show and
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00:00:30 --> 00:00:33 all the rage now she comes from the
00:00:33 --> 00:00:35 corporate world but fell in love with
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37 the outrageously fun sport of pickle
00:00:37 --> 00:00:41 ball so much so that she is now CEO of
00:00:41 --> 00:00:43 her own club entitled diverse Dimensions
00:00:43 --> 00:00:46 pickle ball Club please welcome the very
00:00:46 --> 00:00:49 beautiful Denise quot welcome thank you
00:00:49 --> 00:00:51 so much deia thank you so much for
00:00:51 --> 00:00:53 having me it's such an honor to be here
00:00:53 --> 00:00:56 today are you are so welcome I'm feeling
00:00:56 --> 00:00:59 all this energy from from your page you
00:00:59 --> 00:01:01 have such
00:01:01 --> 00:01:03 fun I don't know I feel like G jogging
00:01:04 --> 00:01:05 around the block or something I don't
00:01:05 --> 00:01:08 know this fun and trying to Hype it all
00:01:08 --> 00:01:11 up you know but yes just having some fun
00:01:11 --> 00:01:14 I love it I love it awesome so before we
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 talk about your uh diverse Dimensions
00:01:17 --> 00:01:21 tell us a little bit about you about
00:01:21 --> 00:01:23 about you know what you do on a regular
00:01:23 --> 00:01:27 besides the the uh pickle ball Club yes
00:01:27 --> 00:01:31 um so I have been in I I come from the
00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 financial industry so I've been in
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 banking now for about 20 years um I am
00:01:36 --> 00:01:39 now um an operation support manager for
00:01:40 --> 00:01:42 one of the largest SBA lenders in the
00:01:42 --> 00:01:44 country um our headquarters is here in
00:01:44 --> 00:01:46 Wilmington I've been with this company
00:01:46 --> 00:01:49 for about 10 years um and lead a team of
00:01:49 --> 00:01:52 seven and what we do is we support our
00:01:52 --> 00:01:56 closing and underwriting team so that um
00:01:56 --> 00:01:59 individuals throughout this country can
00:01:59 --> 00:02:01 you know have the American dream by
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 starting their own business um so that's
00:02:04 --> 00:02:07 what we do we help we lend um to small
00:02:07 --> 00:02:10 businesses throughout the United States
00:02:10 --> 00:02:13 um so yes that's what I do on my dayto
00:02:13 --> 00:02:19 day um but uh off on the other side of
00:02:19 --> 00:02:22 that what is what I love and what I do
00:02:22 --> 00:02:25 on a regulars planing I play pickle ball
00:02:25 --> 00:02:28 and and that's that's my love so um now
00:02:28 --> 00:02:29 did you start playing did you start
00:02:29 --> 00:02:32 playing ball as like an extracurricular
00:02:32 --> 00:02:34 thing like as a stress reliever or was
00:02:34 --> 00:02:37 it just fun to do it actually was a New
00:02:37 --> 00:02:40 Year's resolution for me about two years
00:02:40 --> 00:02:42 ago and and it wasn't pickle ball it was
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 to get out and get active and because I
00:02:45 --> 00:02:47 knew nothing about pickleball at all and
00:02:47 --> 00:02:50 like this is very recent for me and um I
00:02:50 --> 00:02:52 was at work um I was talking to one of
00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 the girls on my team and uh she had just
00:02:55 --> 00:02:57 finished working out and I was like gosh
00:02:57 --> 00:02:59 you're so dedicated to just you know
00:02:59 --> 00:03:01 work out and go to the cuz the gym is
00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 not my thing right and um I was just you
00:03:04 --> 00:03:05 know talking to her a little bit and I
00:03:05 --> 00:03:07 said my New Year's resolution was to
00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 just get active I said but I gym is just
00:03:10 --> 00:03:13 not for me and she was like what do you
00:03:13 --> 00:03:16 like to do I said I don't know you know
00:03:16 --> 00:03:17 I I always wanted to play tennis when I
00:03:17 --> 00:03:20 was younger um but that just never
00:03:20 --> 00:03:21 happened plus tennis is kind of an
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24 expensive Sport and U my mom she worked
00:03:24 --> 00:03:26 you know two jobs and so it just never
00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 really happened and um she was like well
00:03:29 --> 00:03:32 if you wanted to play tennis and if you
00:03:32 --> 00:03:34 enjoyed it um you might like pickle ball
00:03:34 --> 00:03:36 and I was like you know of course I
00:03:36 --> 00:03:37 looked at her kind of like weird because
00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 you know like that that name is not cool
00:03:40 --> 00:03:43 at all right right right I am not
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 feeling the name but um uh she was like
00:03:46 --> 00:03:48 you know you'll like it and so we got on
00:03:48 --> 00:03:50 the computer we were like looking around
00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 man you were supposed to be working but
00:03:53 --> 00:03:58 um uh came across where a local Club um
00:03:58 --> 00:04:00 has like these begin clinics on the
00:04:00 --> 00:04:03 weekend on Saturdays and uh I checked it
00:04:03 --> 00:04:06 out it was at Greenfield Lake and picked
00:04:06 --> 00:04:08 up a a paddle and I ain't never put it
00:04:08 --> 00:04:13 down so um because of pickle ball it has
00:04:13 --> 00:04:16 now motivated me to go to the gym
00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 because I'm now on the competitive side
00:04:18 --> 00:04:20 and so part of my conditioning and
00:04:20 --> 00:04:23 training and all of that stuff so um
00:04:23 --> 00:04:26 yeah yeah that's that's
00:04:26 --> 00:04:31 my well okay so I have to ask ask you
00:04:31 --> 00:04:35 this do you get a lot
00:04:35 --> 00:04:37 of and there's no other no easy way to
00:04:37 --> 00:04:41 say it especially Black Folk do do you
00:04:41 --> 00:04:43 get a lot of us you know ask you girl
00:04:43 --> 00:04:46 what's pick ball you know
00:04:46 --> 00:04:50 what yes I do okay I I do and and I
00:04:50 --> 00:04:52 think that's one of the main reasons why
00:04:52 --> 00:04:56 I form diverse Dimensions you know
00:04:56 --> 00:05:00 because it's it allows me to one provide
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04 the resources on my page um and to
00:05:04 --> 00:05:07 connect with minorities you know and
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 don't get me wrong the sport is very
00:05:09 --> 00:05:11 inclusive I've always felt welcome I've
00:05:11 --> 00:05:15 met so many people of all ages all Races
00:05:15 --> 00:05:18 like it's awesome and
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 so with
00:05:20 --> 00:05:24 ddpc what I'm my mission is to one
00:05:24 --> 00:05:27 educate reach out and connect with more
00:05:27 --> 00:05:30 people within our community and
00:05:30 --> 00:05:32 throughout this club hopefully once we
00:05:32 --> 00:05:35 build out the membership to give back to
00:05:35 --> 00:05:38 the community you know andc centers so
00:05:38 --> 00:05:42 so there's a bigger picture within this
00:05:43 --> 00:05:45 this this organization that I'm trying
00:05:45 --> 00:05:50 to to build but um yes uh it I do find
00:05:50 --> 00:05:53 it to be a challenge um I do not see too
00:05:53 --> 00:05:56 many people that look like me out there
00:05:56 --> 00:06:00 but um I do see some and um it's you
00:06:00 --> 00:06:01 know it
00:06:01 --> 00:06:05 it's I will say that I'm connecting with
00:06:05 --> 00:06:08 a lot of other clubs similar to
00:06:08 --> 00:06:11 ddpc um they there's a large footprint
00:06:11 --> 00:06:16 in um Atlanta in Texas and uh you know
00:06:16 --> 00:06:18 I'm trying to reach out to
00:06:18 --> 00:06:22 other um individuals that run clubs and
00:06:22 --> 00:06:24 organizations and just trying to learn
00:06:24 --> 00:06:26 from them and pick their brain and and
00:06:26 --> 00:06:29 see what strategies they used you know
00:06:29 --> 00:06:33 yeah encourage people to just again it's
00:06:33 --> 00:06:36 it's all about just getting out the the
00:06:36 --> 00:06:39 benefit of the health and the wellness
00:06:39 --> 00:06:41 that's a you know what I'm saying
00:06:41 --> 00:06:43 because you know you you you're out
00:06:43 --> 00:06:45 there and you're having fun but you're
00:06:45 --> 00:06:46 also working out and don't even realize
00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 that's what you're doing you know
00:06:48 --> 00:06:51 because you're just having so so you
00:06:51 --> 00:06:53 know what we're so as a people we're so
00:06:54 --> 00:06:58 competitive so I know once once we get a
00:06:58 --> 00:07:00 hold of this thing like for real for
00:07:00 --> 00:07:02 Real come on now
00:07:02 --> 00:07:07 you but no I I I think that's amazing
00:07:07 --> 00:07:12 and I wonder what it is that we can do
00:07:12 --> 00:07:16 to to get more um African Americans
00:07:16 --> 00:07:18 introduced especially in the wimington
00:07:18 --> 00:07:25 area to get interested in um
00:07:25 --> 00:07:29 into uh more pickle ball not only I mean
00:07:29 --> 00:07:32 just in general and then
00:07:32 --> 00:07:36 also uh more interested into your Club
00:07:36 --> 00:07:38 so you know so that they can learn more
00:07:38 --> 00:07:40 about it and and to see how fun it is
00:07:40 --> 00:07:44 and to see how beneficial it is as well
00:07:44 --> 00:07:48 so is there anything that that we can do
00:07:48 --> 00:07:51 to to help you well I think this right
00:07:51 --> 00:07:54 here is for starters okay you know you
00:07:54 --> 00:07:56 know is it's getting the word out
00:07:56 --> 00:07:58 providing the resources which is what I
00:07:58 --> 00:08:02 have on my social media Pages um but
00:08:02 --> 00:08:04 yeah it's again it's talking to to
00:08:04 --> 00:08:06 wonderful people like you and allowing
00:08:06 --> 00:08:09 me to you know join your platform to
00:08:09 --> 00:08:12 kind of like spread this this um
00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 information out there and help educate
00:08:14 --> 00:08:16 because it only took one person you know
00:08:16 --> 00:08:18 it was just one little girl that she
00:08:18 --> 00:08:20 left the gym and just sat down and
00:08:20 --> 00:08:22 talked to me and she said hey pickle
00:08:22 --> 00:08:26 ball you know and um that's all it took
00:08:26 --> 00:08:30 you know and so um I think as long as I
00:08:30 --> 00:08:32 just want to keep keep talking about it
00:08:32 --> 00:08:37 branding ddpc myself the sport um you
00:08:37 --> 00:08:41 know it will slowly but surely um spread
00:08:41 --> 00:08:43 you know yeah now as a business owner
00:08:43 --> 00:08:45 opening opening your own pickle ball
00:08:45 --> 00:08:48 Club were you fearful at all and if you
00:08:48 --> 00:08:51 were how were you able to overcome any
00:08:51 --> 00:08:54 challenges that you had um I won't say
00:08:54 --> 00:08:58 that I was fearful um this this is not
00:08:58 --> 00:09:01 my first venture um when it comes to
00:09:01 --> 00:09:04 like starting a business um years ago
00:09:04 --> 00:09:06 years ago because and I try to also
00:09:06 --> 00:09:08 encourage this to my daughter I always
00:09:08 --> 00:09:10 feel like if you have a primary job you
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12 should also have a hustle doesn't have
00:09:12 --> 00:09:14 to be an Empower doesn't have to be you
00:09:14 --> 00:09:17 know anything huge unless you want it to
00:09:17 --> 00:09:21 be you know you you you do whatever you
00:09:21 --> 00:09:24 do um but you know I had a small
00:09:24 --> 00:09:27 cleaning business years years ago um and
00:09:27 --> 00:09:29 that was like my my hustle so the I
00:09:29 --> 00:09:32 would say the only challenging part for
00:09:32 --> 00:09:34 me um when it comes to starting a
00:09:34 --> 00:09:37 business is it's the marketing piece um
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39 because I'm super introverted you know
00:09:40 --> 00:09:42 so um you know it's a challenge for me
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 to really get out there and and just you
00:09:45 --> 00:09:49 know brand and Market um this is why but
00:09:49 --> 00:09:51 back then we didn't really have like the
00:09:51 --> 00:09:56 Tik Tok and all this stuff um but uh now
00:09:56 --> 00:09:58 we do have those those tools that I can
00:09:58 --> 00:10:00 actually take advantage of and and kind
00:10:00 --> 00:10:04 of Market myself um to the masses and
00:10:04 --> 00:10:06 feel comfortable um if that makes any
00:10:06 --> 00:10:09 sense so I won't say it was it's it's
00:10:09 --> 00:10:11 much of a challenge it's it's a slow
00:10:11 --> 00:10:14 process for me I feel like when you care
00:10:14 --> 00:10:15 about something and you're trying to
00:10:15 --> 00:10:19 build a brand um you
00:10:19 --> 00:10:23 know put all your energy into it but
00:10:23 --> 00:10:27 also take your time you know um uh draft
00:10:27 --> 00:10:29 out your plan draft out your your
00:10:29 --> 00:10:32 strategy and and and focus on one thing
00:10:32 --> 00:10:35 at a time you know and enjoy process and
00:10:35 --> 00:10:39 watch your baby grow um and it sometimes
00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 it'll end up taking off on its own you
00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 know well what services do you actually
00:10:45 --> 00:10:48 provide like if I wanted to to come to
00:10:48 --> 00:10:50 diverse Dimensions what am I getting
00:10:50 --> 00:10:52 like when I come there okay Denise I
00:10:52 --> 00:10:55 want to do I is it like just learning
00:10:55 --> 00:10:57 how to play or is it learning how to
00:10:57 --> 00:11:01 play and or do you have events as well
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 um like tournaments or things like that
00:11:04 --> 00:11:06 so diverse Dimensions is still fairly
00:11:06 --> 00:11:09 young we're we're really young um right
00:11:09 --> 00:11:11 now it's all about um building the the
00:11:11 --> 00:11:13 membership well it's The Branding
00:11:13 --> 00:11:16 marketing and building the membership um
00:11:16 --> 00:11:18 once I hit that Target number and I have
00:11:18 --> 00:11:19 a Target number in mind that's when we
00:11:19 --> 00:11:22 will um then incorporate things like the
00:11:22 --> 00:11:24 the tournaments and leagues and and
00:11:24 --> 00:11:26 things of that nature because how I want
00:11:26 --> 00:11:30 these to operate and run is it will help
00:11:30 --> 00:11:34 fund and provide um uh contributions to
00:11:34 --> 00:11:36 other organizations so that's another
00:11:36 --> 00:11:39 thing I'm working on is is connecting
00:11:39 --> 00:11:41 with other rec centers within our
00:11:41 --> 00:11:45 community um so that we can contribute
00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 so the question to like well if you were
00:11:47 --> 00:11:50 to join what do you get um one it's free
00:11:50 --> 00:11:53 so you when you do Join one you have
00:11:53 --> 00:11:54 access to the
00:11:54 --> 00:11:56 resources um then you join the group
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 chat this is where it's all about
00:11:58 --> 00:11:59 connect
00:11:59 --> 00:12:01 that's all it that's all it's about is
00:12:01 --> 00:12:04 is is connecting with other people and
00:12:04 --> 00:12:06 setting up play dates and going out
00:12:06 --> 00:12:09 there and just having fun you know um
00:12:09 --> 00:12:12 once again you know we we hit a target
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 number then you will have access to some
00:12:15 --> 00:12:17 of the leagues or tournaments that we
00:12:17 --> 00:12:19 will eventually at some point
00:12:19 --> 00:12:22 facilitate awesome now really quick I I
00:12:22 --> 00:12:23 heard you mention and I wanted to
00:12:23 --> 00:12:25 backtrack just a little bit you had
00:12:25 --> 00:12:29 mentioned the health benefits of of
00:12:29 --> 00:12:31 pickle ball what are some of the health
00:12:31 --> 00:12:36 benefits of of actually uh playing doing
00:12:36 --> 00:12:38 the sport yeah performing the sport oh
00:12:38 --> 00:12:40 goodness um so pickleball offers like
00:12:40 --> 00:12:44 numerous health benefits um including uh
00:12:44 --> 00:12:47 improved uh cardiovascular fitness uh
00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 increased agility um enhanced
00:12:51 --> 00:12:53 coordination um beyond the physical
00:12:53 --> 00:12:56 aspect it also builds that that social
00:12:56 --> 00:13:00 uh connection you know and and making it
00:13:00 --> 00:13:02 it just makes a wonderful way to just
00:13:02 --> 00:13:06 meet new people so again it's it's
00:13:06 --> 00:13:10 strengthening Community ties um so it's
00:13:10 --> 00:13:13 it's so much you know you know what I
00:13:13 --> 00:13:17 mean and the Fulfillment because again
00:13:17 --> 00:13:19 plugging in our our model of playing
00:13:19 --> 00:13:21 with purpose you know you're you're
00:13:21 --> 00:13:24 doing these things and you're benefiting
00:13:24 --> 00:13:28 as it relates to to physical fitness but
00:13:28 --> 00:13:33 you're also giving back you know so um
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36 yeah okay well what do you see what is
00:13:36 --> 00:13:38 the dream what where do you want this to
00:13:38 --> 00:13:42 go how far do you want this to go Denise
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 o I'm a big dreamer person so I like I
00:13:45 --> 00:13:49 like I want to know the dream behind it
00:13:49 --> 00:13:51 that's that's a
00:13:51 --> 00:13:57 really good question because
00:13:57 --> 00:14:00 like h
00:14:00 --> 00:14:03 I don't know I would say just driving
00:14:03 --> 00:14:04 around
00:14:04 --> 00:14:07 Wilmington and seeing our people out
00:14:07 --> 00:14:11 there getting out and being active I
00:14:11 --> 00:14:13 that's what I want to see yeah that's
00:14:13 --> 00:14:15 what I want to see I want to see more of
00:14:15 --> 00:14:19 us out there doing something you
00:14:19 --> 00:14:23 know that alone will fulfill me yeah
00:14:23 --> 00:14:25 love it now if somebody wants to know
00:14:25 --> 00:14:27 more about diverse Dimensions where
00:14:27 --> 00:14:31 where would they go um Facebook we just
00:14:31 --> 00:14:33 type in diverse Dimensions pickleball
00:14:33 --> 00:14:34 Club we'll pull
00:14:34 --> 00:14:39 up that's be the easiest um once you um
00:14:39 --> 00:14:42 uh find our page uh there's links uh you
00:14:42 --> 00:14:44 can join the club that which is a
00:14:44 --> 00:14:47 private group um through that page and
00:14:47 --> 00:14:49 then I will send out links that's to
00:14:49 --> 00:14:52 join the group meet um to help you you
00:14:52 --> 00:14:55 know uh setting up an account in duper
00:14:55 --> 00:14:57 that's so that you can have a rating if
00:14:57 --> 00:14:59 you decide to compete um um later down
00:14:59 --> 00:15:02 the road and um uh all the resources is
00:15:02 --> 00:15:04 on our page so visit us on Facebook
00:15:04 --> 00:15:06 that's going to be the easiest the
00:15:06 --> 00:15:10 easiest route to connect with us awesome
00:15:10 --> 00:15:12 awesome now is there anything else that
00:15:12 --> 00:15:13 you want to add to this that I didn't
00:15:13 --> 00:15:16 ask because I want everyone to know
00:15:16 --> 00:15:17 about diverse Dimensions I want
00:15:17 --> 00:15:21 everybody to go to her website go to
00:15:21 --> 00:15:24 Facebook get all the information and
00:15:24 --> 00:15:27 actually you know participate and look I
00:15:27 --> 00:15:29 might have to come and
00:15:29 --> 00:15:33 pickle ball girl the weather's nice
00:15:33 --> 00:15:36 tomorrow too hey just text me we can
00:15:36 --> 00:15:40 play anytime anytime like for real like
00:15:40 --> 00:15:43 you will love it awesome awesome well I
00:15:43 --> 00:15:45 want to thank you so much and and if you
00:15:45 --> 00:15:47 have any specials coming up anything
00:15:47 --> 00:15:49 that you would like to promote anything
00:15:49 --> 00:15:52 that's coming you know coming up
00:15:52 --> 00:15:53 anything please come back and just let
00:15:53 --> 00:15:56 me know and talk to talk to our viewers
00:15:56 --> 00:15:58 and our listeners I'll be more than
00:15:58 --> 00:16:00 happy to share that with them okay thank
00:16:00 --> 00:16:03 you so much deia I enjoy you're so
00:16:03 --> 00:16:06 welcome all right you guys make sure you
00:16:06 --> 00:16:08 check out diverse dimensions and we'll
00:16:08 --> 00:16:13 talk to you later bye bye bye
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