When One Dream Ends with Reece Weaver

About this episode

Reece Weaver discusses her journey and the emotional challenges faced after her time as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.

Have you ever lived a dream so fully that you felt the quiettug to walk away? Not because it failed you, but because something new was calling. What does it look like to anchor your identity in somethingthat can never be taken from you, even when everything you've built your life around closes a chapter? Reece Weaver spent her entire third season as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader (DCC) carrying a decision nobody outside her closest circle knew about yet. The preacher's granddaughter from Jacksonville, Florida who started dancing at three, earned a scholarship to the University of Alabama —where she also met her husband Will — and felt something shift in her chest the moment she walked into AT&T Stadium as a sophomore. In the years to follow she has become the most-followed DCC in the franchise's history, a breakout presence on Netflix's America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ,and then spent a year in therapy, prayer, and conversation with people she trusts, processing a feeling of “what’s next?” she couldn't explain and couldn't ignore. In this conversation, Miles Adcox and Reece gets to the story underneath her retirement announcement. Reece opens up about the…

People in this episode

Host: Miles Adcox

Guest: Reece Weaver

Topics covered

• identity
• dreams
• mental health
• retirement
• self-discovery
• social media

Keywords

• Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
• Reece Weaver
• identity
• mental health
• retirement
• self-discovery
• social media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, University of Alabama

Books & works: America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Places: Jacksonville, Florida, AT&T Stadium

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