July 3, 2024 • 26 mins
What if a life-altering tragedy could be the catalyst for your greatest transformation? In this compelling episode, Brit Dort, a TSN sports reporter, recounts how the tragic loss of a friend at just 19 prompted her to reexamine her life and confront her own unhappiness.
Brit's story is one of relentless hard work and perseverance. We'll delve into the significance of maintaining faith amidst negativity and jealousy, illustrated by an episode where a perceived pandemic failure turned into a dream job. Hear Brit's remarkable journey of making bold decisions and how embracing uncertainty and faith ultimately led her to a fulfilling career in sports journalism.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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L I'm your host , Peters, andour guest today is Brit Dort.
Brit grew up in a small town inSaskatchewan before moving to
Medicine Hat , alberta.
As a teenager, she went on toattend Mount Royal University in
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Calgary where she was enrolledin their broadcast journalism
and communications program.
From there, she interned at CTVRegina and eventually was hired
on as an associate producer onthe Morning Show, going on to
anchor and co-host for fouryears and eventually moving into
CTV Saskatchewan's sole sportsreporter position.
She is in charge of coveringall local sports in the province
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, which also earned a spot atTSN's Bureau for Saskatchewan,
but mainly Brit covers CFL,hockey Canada and other various
local sporting events for thenational network.
Welcome to the show, B Dort,we've done it we made it here.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Thank you for having me.
It's been a long process.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Isn't it funny.
We're both in relative mediaand we're like got issues
logging on.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And just issues of like trying to find time to do
this, like I think it's beenlike a 10 month thing, yeah,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So when I got your call yesterday, I'm like I'm
available, so thank you, oh gosh, thank you.
Well, I mean you're a TSNreporter and I mean this is a
busy time for you.
I can't actually.
I think all busy time right, ifyou're going from one sport to
the next sport, yeah it kind ofis always busy.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is where it's really going to amp up.
Um, and this is honestly likemy last weekend of freedom and I
I took a day off today like avacation day, Cause I was
thinking I'm not going to haveany for a long, long time.
So, yeah, I kind of, and it myfiance is working today and I
was like, hey, what's theearliest you can be done,
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Because I want to go for dinnerand I want to go like we're
going to go golfing tomorrow andeverything.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got everything crammed into one weekend Awesome
.
Well then, we really appreciateyou spending the next half hour
with us.
So thank you All right.
So our first question isobviously looking a bit of your
professional story and how yougot to where you are today, and
we're looking for that pivotalsnapshot, that moment where
maybe there was a turning pointalong your journey.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, oh my gosh, I laugh about this all the time.
It's actually a really sadthing, but I laugh because of
what I went through at such aNow I look back in young age.
I felt old at the time but Iwas really thinking about this
and I was like, the biggestthing I think that I've walked
through was when I was 19.
And so I'd finished my firstyear of college and I was just
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toward the end of it, justwrapping it up, and I ended up
losing somebody that I knew in acar accident.
That was my age and it was thefirst time I'd experienced death
of somebody that was my age andvery sudden and tragic, like
never had walked through that.
I'd experienced death, losingsome family members and things
like that.
But again, it was the firsttime that it was somebody my age
and I just like it hit me andit took everything out of me and
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I had like that wake up momentof okay, if my life ended today,
like where, where would I be?
Like what would I be leavingbehind in this physical world?
And I was so unhappy at thetime, but I think I was so
scared to almost face theunhappiness I was walking
through, because I'm kind oflike that person who was a
pushover my whole life of.
I always did what everybody elsewanted me to do.
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So the program I was in atcollege at the time, the
relationship I was in at thetime, I was like very content
with but not happy with.
And I just had this like 19year old quarter life crisis, if
you're going to call it, and Ijust woke up one day and said,
no, I can't do this, like Iwould be so unhappy if I left
the world today and this iswhere I was at.
And so I had to tell my parentslike I don't want to do the
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program I'm in in school thatI've just done a year of that
they've paid for.
And I also had to end a, youknow, a very long-term
relationship I had been in for,I think, over three years.
Um, you know the person that Ithink everybody assumed I was
going to marry, I know at 19,that seems crazy, but it just it
just seemed that way and Iended both and I've never felt
more lost in my entire life.
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I.
It was very overwhelmingbecause everything from that
point in my life had always beenset out.
For me.
It was like oh, you go to grade10, you go to grade 11, you go
to grade 12.
Now we're moving on to college.
And then, you know, when thesummer was about to start, I was
going to go do my summer joband return to college in the
fall, and so for the first time,I had nothing and that was kind
of like that surrenderingmoment where you're like, where
you're like, all right, lord,send your hands, like I don't
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know what I'm going to do, Idon't know what I want to do.
And it took a lot of finding andit took a lot of you know,
really, yeah, like what sparksjoy in me, and through some
twists and turns, I did end uplanding on on broadcasting and
that side of things.
I initially had thought PR, andthat's why I did a little more
communications too, always kindof figured I wanted to do
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something sports and sportsrelated and yeah, that's kind of
where it at.
And then, literally, you know,three months after two, I met my
fiance.
We've been together for almost10 years now and it's just like,
you see, all the littleintricacies that worked out and
it was just like at the time itfelt so overwhelming, but it all
worked out.
So that's kind of my one bigpivotal point.
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I think that really changed, youknow, the landscape of where I
headed in my career life, um,and then when I got on in my
career eventually so you go toschool for a few more years I
interned at CTV Regina, whichyou mentioned, um, and I
remember finishing my internshipand they didn't have any job
openings and I was justdistraught because again now I'm
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at the second point in my lifewhere I always had something
planned ahead of me.
So now I'm graduated fromuniversity and I have no job
lined up.
I had to move back in with myparents and I was just like
humbled in this moment and Ijust remember panicking,
panicking, panicking.
Six weeks went by and those sixweeks felt like six years
because, you know, I was very,again I think I was very unhappy
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in that moment because I justfelt like you know, god, you're
leaving me, like I was so sure Iwas going to get a job right
out of this internship.
And then, lo and behold, ctvended up calling me back and
said, hey, like we have a job onthe morning show, a producer
job, and morning show, aproducer job.
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And I was like, yes, I'll takeit, cause I would take anything
at that point.
But I remember beingdisappointed that it wasn't a
reporter position because that'swhat I had done when I interned
.
But it turned out to be thebest thing.
Like I ended up falling in lovewith working on the morning
show.
The crew I worked with itworked me into being the anchor
just a year later.
So all those things where youthink you didn't want something
and it happens and it works outthose were those were my turning
points.
And then here we are today, oh,such great stories.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Um, you know, and, and at 19, that is very hard to
lose a friend.
And I'm, when you made thosechanges and you, you know, you
quit the program, you quit theboyfriend, did your friends kind
of look at you like, whoa,you're a little crazy, you know?
Because I think people thinkthat yeah, do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
what's funny is I think my friends could see how
miserable I was and they knewthat, um, and it was more my
parents that I really strugglewith, because I hid it a lot
from them, because, you know, Iwas living under their roof, I
was going to school, like it was.
It was a lot.
It was more them because I theywere very cookie cutter, do
things by the book that I wasalmost the first kid, that
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because I'm the youngest ofthree kids, that I was like no,
I can't do this, I can't.
And I think they thought whatis going through her head?
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Mm-hmm, I think that's common.
I think we hide things from thepeople we love and I bet
there's a lot of peoplelistening wanting to make
changes but, embarrassed, don'twant to tell someone.
And we have to.
We have to tell someone, wehave to, you know.
So thanks for sharing thatstory.
I'm sure it resonates with afew people.
Our next question is about aprinciple of success.
So if you have a best principleof success and tell us a story
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that might illustrate that, anddo you know what?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I think this is funny because I don't remember when
we were last going to try torecord this, but this has
happened, I'm pretty sure, sincethen.
But my principle and this justcomes from my parents too, who
are very hardworking people myfiance is extremely hardworking
and he comes from a hardworkingfamily like is literally work
hard.
I always work the hardest, bethe hardest working person in
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the room, and that has gotten meto where I am today, because
you know, I think a lot of it ispeople don't always see what
happens behind the scenes.
People only see me for 30seconds on a quick sideline hit
when they're watching a CFL game, but you don't know the work
that went into that.
But God sees it Like.
God is always watching you whenyou are working and he knows
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the work that you're putting in.
Um and so the story that kindof goes with this is I was the
briar, was just in Regina, which, if you don't know what the
briar is, it's the men'snational curling championships.
It is a grind.
It is like 10 straight days.
I didn't sleep, I was working.
It was insane.
Team, team Saskatchewan madethe final.
So like that, made it that muchmore work, and it was a lot,
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but I love what I do.
And this guy came up to me whoworked for, I think, curling
Canada and said I've beenworking for 42 years covering
these events and I've never seensomebody work as hard as you,
cause he I guess he had justseen me throughout the week just
like running back and forth toplaces doing live hits, you know
, got to go film these scrums,got to write these stories, got
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to whatever.
And it's so funny because Ididn't realize he had even seen
me, and so it's almost funny,it's almost like same thing,
like God sees what you're doing.
This guy saw what I was doingand I I laughed and I said can
you tell my boss that?
Can you email my boss please?
Um, you know.
So I think that's reallyimportant.
And I actually wrote down averse too that I wanted to share
about that, because it goeskind of alongside this in a way,
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um, a verse that I reallyreally had to tell myself in
this industry when I receivenegativity comes from 1 Timothy
4 (10:17):
12.
Um, you know, don't let anybodythink less of you, because
you're young and you know itgoes on to say about being an
example for other believers andfor people and what you say and
your actions.
Um, a lot happened for me in mycareer, very young, and I was
very fortunate and that's allfrom you.
Know the man above, that's notmy works.
I worked hard to get where Iwas, but it was him on top of
that.
But I received a lot ofnegativity, even from co-workers
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, about things that werehappening for me really fast,
because other people have beenin the industry grinding it out
for years and here I was walkingin and I got an anchor job one
year into the industry.
Now I'm doing what I'm doingagain sports on the national
stage and it comes withnegativity.
It comes from people rooted in,I think, a seed of jealousy and
insecurity, and I understandthat because I've been jealous,
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I've been insecure about otherthings.
So I would have to, even in thetoughest moments, just, even
though you're young, just be anexample, you know, and work hard
.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Do you ever hear the phrase my daughter is 19 and
works hard.
I mean listening to you, I hearher and I asked her one day do
you ever hear people ever sayyou're so lucky?
I'm like because, Ellie, youare not lucky.
You work hard for theopportunities and the blessings
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that come on you.
But I have to give that speechto her.
It's not luck, Ellie, it's workhard.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And I don't know if you hear that, yeah, I think so
too, cause I think and I neveruse the word lucky, I actually
will never say good luck tosomebody.
I'm not a luck person, I don'tbelieve in luck.
Um, I believe in the favor ofthe Lord.
So I'm the same way.
I think when somebody says thator you know, I always say well,
the man above is watching me,like he's the one that's, you
know places on my path andeverything's God willing.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So I feel that, yeah, great response.
I know Ellie's listening, soshe'll take that one.
That's perfect, hi, Ellie, allright?
Well, we I mean we learn morefrom our failures and mistakes
than our successes, and I'mwondering if you have a short a
story that can share yourgreatest failure, or any failure
, and what you learned from it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You know.
So it was during the pandemicand at the time I was the anchor
co-host of the morning show,and the six o'clock anchor job
opened up, um, and I wasn'tgoing to apply for it because,
again, like I naturally wasgravitating towards, I really
wanted to do sports someday.
But it was like pandemic times,things were really shut down
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and my boss ended up telling me,like I think you should apply
for the six o'clock anchor job.
Talked to my parents about it,they were like, well, why
wouldn't you, like it'sconsidered, you know, in the
media world?
The six o'clock anchor was likeI mean, you were the six
o'clock anchor and so I appliedfor it.
And then I ended up you know,if I'm going to do something,
I'm going to go wholeheartedlyto it.
So I, you know, really feltlike I nailed the interview.
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I worked really hard at provingmyself, um, and I didn't get it
like, and you know what I think, all along I knew I didn't want
it and even like it's like, youknow, like listen to almost,
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like that little voice, likewhat God's telling you, like I
didn't want it, but I think hewanted me, he was preparing me
for something else in thatinterview process.
And so he, my boss, called me totell me I didn't get it and I
was almost like that littlefirst sting of rejection Like
you, kind of like oh, okay, likethat hurts.
But then I like hung up thephone and even on the call, I
think, with him I said was Iyour your last call?
Cause I hope so, because I wasvery content with not getting it
.
And he goes no, I have more tocall.
And I said, oh, like I'm sorry,I was like I wish you could end
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on me, cause I was like I amnot one bit upset and the person
you're going to choose is goingto be the person that should do
this, um, and like Brady's myfiance, sorry, but again like I
wasn't upset.
And then, lo and behold, youknow, a few months later is when
the sports job opened up andthe interview process was very
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similar to that, and I thinkthat's what helped prepare me
for that job, cause then I toldthem in that interview process
cause now I'm with the samebosses that I was trying to
convince them that I wanted thisother job four months prior and
now I'm going, okay, I'm doingit again, but this is actually
the one I want, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, it's.
It's funny when you, whenyou're in something and you
don't get it, and you know, thenyou look back right, that's now
four months ago, you've got.
Or six months later you getwhat you want and it's, you know
hindsight, like I never wantedthat.
It was part of the path, thatinterview was part of the
process learning.
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Maybe you learn something aboutyourself.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
But but to be in the same interview with the same
people, yeah, your answers oflike, why do you think you're
the best fit for this job, whydo you want this job?
And they were really good aboutit and I explained that to him.
I said, you know, at the time Idid really want to change.
I felt like I was living inlike Groundhog Day on the
morning show, where it just feltlike the same thing every day.
So I thought I think that's thething is.
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I wanted to change and I feltlike the Lord was placing a
change on my heart.
But he was like, but just wait,you know what I mean.
Just wait, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And I think, I think I bet you had fire in your eyes
for the job you have now, like Ibet there was just this
excitement, there was adifference in you.
I can see it that type ofperson Way different.
Yeah, so at Leader Impact wewant to go personally,
professionally and spirituallyfor increasing impact and I'm
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wondering if you'd be willing toshare an example of how the
spiritual makes a practicaldifference in your life as a
leader.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yes, I wrote so many notes here because I wanted to
make sure to try to soundeloquent, because I clearly go
off on tangents and I'm tryingto remember what part of this.
You know just where thespiritual impacts on me as a
leader.
I think without God like I amnothing, like I am blessed
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because of him, and then youknow my works on top of that,
the gifts that he's given me.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's where I feel like I'm a leader and I just I
feel like I think listening toyou when you gave advice to my
daughter and you know, when yousaid something it's in
everything you talk about.
You talk about it.
So the way you talk about Godis just refreshing.
I you bring it into everyconversation.
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Just listening to you, I'm likeI think she talks about it,
like just thanks, thanks.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Thanks to the big guy above.
Like I think it's so naturalbecause, again, like I was doing
the interview a few months ago,um, and this guy noticed my
engagement ring and he was likeoh my gosh, how old are you?
Like you seem so young to beengaged.
And I just like I was like Whoa, bless your heart, like thank
you for saying that, because Idon't feel young anymore.
And he just immediately said oh, and he said like he recognized
that I said bless your heart.
And then basically was like oh,and turned out he was a pastor
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and I didn't even know that andI was just like so then he kind
of was like when are you gettingmarried?
And we talked a lot about likemarriage and things like that.
So I do think that like, yeah,your words and your actions
which I think kind of goes intoour next question about like the
legacy you leave behind but Ithink if you're always an
example of you know God andsomebody in your words and your
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actions, even if you're notmentioning him, I think people
can tell.
And you know this is like funny.
I wasn't even gonna bring thisup, but when I do rider games at
Mosaic Stadium, there's thesetwo security guards that kind of
.
They're kind of like in chargeof me.
They're also in charge of othersecurity but just to make sure
that I am safe, because you justnever know how fans can be.
And the one game I brought myparents down to the field before
the game and I introduced themto them.
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They're the best securityguards, they same thing.
They just have energy and love.
They're hilarious.
And my mom walked away and shewas like you can just tell they
have the joy of the Lord, likeyou could just feel the presence
of them.
And I said, yeah, and so Ithink that if somebody was going
to compliment me and they say,like what you just said, which
is gorgeous, thank you, I justthink, okay, do I have the joy
of the Lord in everything that Ido?
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And so that's.
I guess me being a leader isjust trying to kill people with
kindness.
Trying to kill, and not everyday, is hunky dory, and I have
games that go awful and my hitsare brutal and it gets really
hard on me and I get anxious andI get all in my head.
But it's like if I can just bea leader in just my actions and
my words and the style of theperson that I am.
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That's good enough for me.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, I would agree.
You are a person of influence,so to be seen like that and for
people to say and recognize itin you is a beautiful thing.
So yeah, thank you, Iappreciate that.
All right, I don't know if youhad any other notes.
If you wanted to look.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, like I was, I wrote a verse down, but I can't
remember if it was for thatanswer or for another answer.
I think it was.
Oh, do you know what?
I think it was and I was goingto bring this up.
So the reason we got in contactwith each other is, I believe,
is his name Tibby, yes, or hername, yes, sorry, his name, okay
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.
So what had happened was he hadseen me, he was watching a game
and I was wearing my crossnecklace which I usually wear
some sort of form of a crossnecklace almost daily and he saw
that.
Then he went to my social media, which on my social media, I
have, you know, like I have aBible verse listed in my
Instagram bio.
I think my Twitter hassomething else too, and that's
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where he initially was like oh,so she's a believer, she's a
follower of the Lord.
And so that's when he hadreached out and I thought it's
so funny how something so smalllike me, just wearing my cross
necklace, made him be like oh,I'm going to look up, brit.
Then he got me in contact withyou and I replied and I was just
like so, even that, it's likeyou're being a leader with
something so small, of just mewearing my cross necklace, you
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know.
And I mean I know some peoplewear them ironically, but I
don't yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I, uh, I would totally agree.
I'll wear mine as well.
I always have it on.
My daughter bought it for meand I've bought one for everyone
in the family and to wear themto recognize.
But I think it's more likeTibby reached out to you, he saw
it and then he goes to yourwebsite and it's not just a
cross, you're wearing, it's onyour Instagram.
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You have a Bible feed or ascripture On your feeds.
You know, on your feeds you arethat person as well.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I'm surprised you have a Jersey in the background.
If anyone's watching us onYouTube, that's actually my
fiance, so he used to playhockey.
Yeah, I'm at his house rightnow, cause I'm where he is, so
I'm not at my place.
I'm at his place while he's atwork.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, Awesome, all right.
Well, uh, our last, one of our,our second last question is L
leader mpact is dedicated toleaders having a lasting impact.
So, as you continue to movethrough your own journey, and as
amazing as it absolutely sounds, have you considered what you
want your faith legacy to bewhen you leave this world?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yes, okay, I this is going to be long, but I wrote
down.
I started writing the wholeverse and then I was like I'm
just going to bring it up on myphone because it's too much to
write.
And so I really, really wantedto highlight 1 Corinthians,
chapter 13, verses one to, Ibelieve, four.
And so I'm going to read itbecause I just think that this
is so important.
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If I could speak all thelanguages of earth and of angels
but didn't love others, I wouldonly be a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal.
If I had a gift of prophecy andI understood all of God's
secret plans and possessed allknowledge, and if I had such
faith that I could movemountains but didn't love others
, I would be nothing.
If I gave everything I have tothe poor and even sacrificed my
body, I could boast about it,but if I didn't love others, I
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would have gained nothing.
And then it goes into the verypopular verse of the love is
patient, love is kind.
Which I mean your biggestcommandment is to love God and
love others.
But I think too, it's like tome the underlying text of that
is if you were given all thesegifts, or you were given
everything, but you don't doanything with it, then you're
you're just a clanging symbol orwhatever it says there.
Like I just think that's soimportant.
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So I mean, if I'm going toleave something behind, it may
as well be what God brought meinto the physical world to show
you know that's great, britt.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Wow, thank you for sharing that.
I love that.
If anyone's watching on YouTube, when your hands move all of a
sudden, I get a thumbs up.
I noticed that too, and I waslike you got to stop putting
your hands up, Britt.
But I'm such a hands talker.
See, I think that's just Godwhich is on me and probably on
air too.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
People like to point that out and I'm like I know I'm
sorry, it's distracting, I know, but it's like God, I don't
know.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
All right, yeah, there we go, all right, and our
last question is what brings youthe greatest joy?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh my gosh, I know I thought about this and I was
like sports.
No, um, I'm extremelyextroverted, if you can't tell.
Um, I love being around friendsand family.
Brady and I are both extremelyclose with our families, um, and
have a lot of really wonderfulfriends.
So I think my biggest joy ishonestly being around people
Like we love it.
We're constantly about it andthen again, like I think the
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greatest joy, like I just said,love God, love others, like
without him, without all this,I'm nothing, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I think that all comes together.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Just community right.
I mean being part of God'scommunity, loving our friends,
loving our family.
It's all community.
Um, britt, I want to thank youfor taking time on your day off
to join us for the.
You know it was a quick timeand, uh, I mean you've got some
golfing and some good times withyou oh, we've got time.
He's not even home yet oh, butum, I think if anyone wants to
number one, if they want tofollow you, where's's the best
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place to find you?
Just to follow what you do.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, you can find me on Instagram.
My username, I'm pretty sure,is stuck because I got verified
on Instagram and I've learnedthat I think whatever you get
verified at, you can't change it.
So my Instagram username isunderscore Dort D-O-R-T.
So yeah, I feel like that'swhere I kind of post the most.
I am on X, which is formerlyTwitter, as I think, just Brit
Dort.
But follow along.
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I don't know.
I don't know if I'm thatinteresting on social media, but
and if anyone wants to contactyou.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is that sort of the same thing, or yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
you can send me a DM or something on there.
I think my.
No, I think my Twitter bio or Xbio has my email listed in it
too.
So I think my Twitter bio or Xbio has my email listed in it
too.
So I think that's how Tibbyended up getting in contact with
me.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, and that's how Tibby found me.
It's like you got to interviewBrit.
Yeah, oh gosh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
So thank you, Brit.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
And it was wonderful just to finally hook up with you
, because it has been, we havetried and I know you're heading
into an incredibly busy time andI know you're heading into
incredibly busy time.
So we're going to pray for youover the next few months because
you are a blessing and I'mgoing to be watching you and
just smiling all the way.
So thank you so much, Brit, forjoining us.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh, you're so sweet, thank you.
Thank you so much for having meand for battling through
waiting for me to reply to you,because that's been a battle and
battling through my technicalissues of trying to just get
onto this podcast.
So I thank you for your timeand for the conversation.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Awesome.
Thank you All right.
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L I'm your host , Peters, andour guest today is Brit Dort.
Brit grew up in a small town inSaskatchewan before moving to
Medicine Hat , alberta.
As a teenager, she went on toattend Mount Royal University in
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Calgary where she was enrolledin their broadcast journalism
and communications program.
From there, she interned at CTVRegina and eventually was hired
on as an associate producer onthe Morning Show, going on to
anchor and co-host for fouryears and eventually moving into
CTV Saskatchewan's sole sportsreporter position.
She is in charge of coveringall local sports in the province
(01:14):
, which also earned a spot atTSN's Bureau for Saskatchewan,
but mainly Brit covers CFL,hockey Canada and other various
local sporting events for thenational network.
Welcome to the show, B Dort,we've done it we made it here.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Thank you for having me.
It's been a long process.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Isn't it funny.
We're both in relative mediaand we're like got issues
logging on.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And just issues of like trying to find time to do
this, like I think it's beenlike a 10 month thing, yeah,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So when I got your call yesterday, I'm like I'm
available, so thank you, oh gosh, thank you.
Well, I mean you're a TSNreporter and I mean this is a
busy time for you.
I can't actually.
I think all busy time right, ifyou're going from one sport to
the next sport, yeah it kind ofis always busy.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is where it's really going to amp up.
Um, and this is honestly likemy last weekend of freedom and I
I took a day off today like avacation day, Cause I was
thinking I'm not going to haveany for a long, long time.
So, yeah, I kind of, and it myfiance is working today and I
was like, hey, what's theearliest you can be done,
(02:28):
Because I want to go for dinnerand I want to go like we're
going to go golfing tomorrow andeverything.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got everything crammed into one weekend Awesome
.
Well then, we really appreciateyou spending the next half hour
with us.
So thank you All right.
So our first question isobviously looking a bit of your
professional story and how yougot to where you are today, and
we're looking for that pivotalsnapshot, that moment where
maybe there was a turning pointalong your journey.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, oh my gosh, I laugh about this all the time.
It's actually a really sadthing, but I laugh because of
what I went through at such aNow I look back in young age.
I felt old at the time but Iwas really thinking about this
and I was like, the biggestthing I think that I've walked
through was when I was 19.
And so I'd finished my firstyear of college and I was just
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toward the end of it, justwrapping it up, and I ended up
losing somebody that I knew in acar accident.
That was my age and it was thefirst time I'd experienced death
of somebody that was my age andvery sudden and tragic, like
never had walked through that.
I'd experienced death, losingsome family members and things
like that.
But again, it was the firsttime that it was somebody my age
and I just like it hit me andit took everything out of me and
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I had like that wake up momentof okay, if my life ended today,
like where, where would I be?
Like what would I be leavingbehind in this physical world?
And I was so unhappy at thetime, but I think I was so
scared to almost face theunhappiness I was walking
through, because I'm kind oflike that person who was a
pushover my whole life of.
I always did what everybody elsewanted me to do.
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So the program I was in atcollege at the time, the
relationship I was in at thetime, I was like very content
with but not happy with.
And I just had this like 19year old quarter life crisis, if
you're going to call it, and Ijust woke up one day and said,
no, I can't do this, like Iwould be so unhappy if I left
the world today and this iswhere I was at.
And so I had to tell my parentslike I don't want to do the
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program I'm in in school thatI've just done a year of that
they've paid for.
And I also had to end a, youknow, a very long-term
relationship I had been in for,I think, over three years.
Um, you know the person that Ithink everybody assumed I was
going to marry, I know at 19,that seems crazy, but it just it
just seemed that way and Iended both and I've never felt
more lost in my entire life.
(04:41):
I.
It was very overwhelmingbecause everything from that
point in my life had always beenset out.
For me.
It was like oh, you go to grade10, you go to grade 11, you go
to grade 12.
Now we're moving on to college.
And then, you know, when thesummer was about to start, I was
going to go do my summer joband return to college in the
fall, and so for the first time,I had nothing and that was kind
of like that surrenderingmoment where you're like, where
you're like, all right, lord,send your hands, like I don't
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know what I'm going to do, Idon't know what I want to do.
And it took a lot of finding andit took a lot of you know,
really, yeah, like what sparksjoy in me, and through some
twists and turns, I did end uplanding on on broadcasting and
that side of things.
I initially had thought PR, andthat's why I did a little more
communications too, always kindof figured I wanted to do
(05:24):
something sports and sportsrelated and yeah, that's kind of
where it at.
And then, literally, you know,three months after two, I met my
fiance.
We've been together for almost10 years now and it's just like,
you see, all the littleintricacies that worked out and
it was just like at the time itfelt so overwhelming, but it all
worked out.
So that's kind of my one bigpivotal point.
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I think that really changed, youknow, the landscape of where I
headed in my career life, um,and then when I got on in my
career eventually so you go toschool for a few more years I
interned at CTV Regina, whichyou mentioned, um, and I
remember finishing my internshipand they didn't have any job
openings and I was justdistraught because again now I'm
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at the second point in my lifewhere I always had something
planned ahead of me.
So now I'm graduated fromuniversity and I have no job
lined up.
I had to move back in with myparents and I was just like
humbled in this moment and Ijust remember panicking,
panicking, panicking.
Six weeks went by and those sixweeks felt like six years
because, you know, I was very,again I think I was very unhappy
(06:29):
in that moment because I justfelt like you know, god, you're
leaving me, like I was so sure Iwas going to get a job right
out of this internship.
And then, lo and behold, ctvended up calling me back and
said, hey, like we have a job onthe morning show, a producer
job, and morning show, aproducer job.
(06:49):
And I was like, yes, I'll takeit, cause I would take anything
at that point.
But I remember beingdisappointed that it wasn't a
reporter position because that'swhat I had done when I interned
.
But it turned out to be thebest thing.
Like I ended up falling in lovewith working on the morning
show.
The crew I worked with itworked me into being the anchor
just a year later.
So all those things where youthink you didn't want something
and it happens and it works outthose were those were my turning
points.
And then here we are today, oh,such great stories.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Um, you know, and, and at 19, that is very hard to
lose a friend.
And I'm, when you made thosechanges and you, you know, you
quit the program, you quit theboyfriend, did your friends kind
of look at you like, whoa,you're a little crazy, you know?
Because I think people thinkthat yeah, do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
what's funny is I think my friends could see how
miserable I was and they knewthat, um, and it was more my
parents that I really strugglewith, because I hid it a lot
from them, because, you know, Iwas living under their roof, I
was going to school, like it was.
It was a lot.
It was more them because I theywere very cookie cutter, do
things by the book that I wasalmost the first kid, that
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because I'm the youngest ofthree kids, that I was like no,
I can't do this, I can't.
And I think they thought whatis going through her head?
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Mm-hmm, I think that's common.
I think we hide things from thepeople we love and I bet
there's a lot of peoplelistening wanting to make
changes but, embarrassed, don'twant to tell someone.
And we have to.
We have to tell someone, wehave to, you know.
So thanks for sharing thatstory.
I'm sure it resonates with afew people.
Our next question is about aprinciple of success.
So if you have a best principleof success and tell us a story
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that might illustrate that, anddo you know what?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I think this is funny because I don't remember when
we were last going to try torecord this, but this has
happened, I'm pretty sure, sincethen.
But my principle and this justcomes from my parents too, who
are very hardworking people myfiance is extremely hardworking
and he comes from a hardworkingfamily like is literally work
hard.
I always work the hardest, bethe hardest working person in
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the room, and that has gotten meto where I am today, because
you know, I think a lot of it ispeople don't always see what
happens behind the scenes.
People only see me for 30seconds on a quick sideline hit
when they're watching a CFL game, but you don't know the work
that went into that.
But God sees it Like.
God is always watching you whenyou are working and he knows
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the work that you're putting in.
Um and so the story that kindof goes with this is I was the
briar, was just in Regina, which, if you don't know what the
briar is, it's the men'snational curling championships.
It is a grind.
It is like 10 straight days.
I didn't sleep, I was working.
It was insane.
Team, team Saskatchewan madethe final.
So like that, made it that muchmore work, and it was a lot,
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but I love what I do.
And this guy came up to me whoworked for, I think, curling
Canada and said I've beenworking for 42 years covering
these events and I've never seensomebody work as hard as you,
cause he I guess he had justseen me throughout the week just
like running back and forth toplaces doing live hits, you know
, got to go film these scrums,got to write these stories, got
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to whatever.
And it's so funny because Ididn't realize he had even seen
me, and so it's almost funny,it's almost like same thing,
like God sees what you're doing.
This guy saw what I was doingand I I laughed and I said can
you tell my boss that?
Can you email my boss please?
Um, you know.
So I think that's reallyimportant.
And I actually wrote down averse too that I wanted to share
about that, because it goeskind of alongside this in a way,
(10:10):
um, a verse that I reallyreally had to tell myself in
this industry when I receivenegativity comes from 1 Timothy
4 (10:17):
12.
Um, you know, don't let anybodythink less of you, because
you're young and you know itgoes on to say about being an
example for other believers andfor people and what you say and
your actions.
Um, a lot happened for me in mycareer, very young, and I was
very fortunate and that's allfrom you.
Know the man above, that's notmy works.
I worked hard to get where Iwas, but it was him on top of
that.
But I received a lot ofnegativity, even from co-workers
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, about things that werehappening for me really fast,
because other people have beenin the industry grinding it out
for years and here I was walkingin and I got an anchor job one
year into the industry.
Now I'm doing what I'm doingagain sports on the national
stage and it comes withnegativity.
It comes from people rooted in,I think, a seed of jealousy and
insecurity, and I understandthat because I've been jealous,
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I've been insecure about otherthings.
So I would have to, even in thetoughest moments, just, even
though you're young, just be anexample, you know, and work hard
.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Do you ever hear the phrase my daughter is 19 and
works hard.
I mean listening to you, I hearher and I asked her one day do
you ever hear people ever sayyou're so lucky?
I'm like because, Ellie, youare not lucky.
You work hard for theopportunities and the blessings
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that come on you.
But I have to give that speechto her.
It's not luck, Ellie, it's workhard.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And I don't know if you hear that, yeah, I think so
too, cause I think and I neveruse the word lucky, I actually
will never say good luck tosomebody.
I'm not a luck person, I don'tbelieve in luck.
Um, I believe in the favor ofthe Lord.
So I'm the same way.
I think when somebody says thator you know, I always say well,
the man above is watching me,like he's the one that's, you
know places on my path andeverything's God willing.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So I feel that, yeah, great response.
I know Ellie's listening, soshe'll take that one.
That's perfect, hi, Ellie, allright?
Well, we I mean we learn morefrom our failures and mistakes
than our successes, and I'mwondering if you have a short a
story that can share yourgreatest failure, or any failure
, and what you learned from it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You know.
So it was during the pandemicand at the time I was the anchor
co-host of the morning show,and the six o'clock anchor job
opened up, um, and I wasn'tgoing to apply for it because,
again, like I naturally wasgravitating towards, I really
wanted to do sports someday.
But it was like pandemic times,things were really shut down
(12:40):
and my boss ended up telling me,like I think you should apply
for the six o'clock anchor job.
Talked to my parents about it,they were like, well, why
wouldn't you, like it'sconsidered, you know, in the
media world?
The six o'clock anchor was likeI mean, you were the six
o'clock anchor and so I appliedfor it.
And then I ended up you know,if I'm going to do something,
I'm going to go wholeheartedlyto it.
So I, you know, really feltlike I nailed the interview.
(13:02):
I worked really hard at provingmyself, um, and I didn't get it
like, and you know what I think, all along I knew I didn't want
it and even like it's like, youknow, like listen to almost,
(13:27):
like that little voice, likewhat God's telling you, like I
didn't want it, but I think hewanted me, he was preparing me
for something else in thatinterview process.
And so he, my boss, called me totell me I didn't get it and I
was almost like that littlefirst sting of rejection Like
you, kind of like oh, okay, likethat hurts.
But then I like hung up thephone and even on the call, I
think, with him I said was Iyour your last call?
Cause I hope so, because I wasvery content with not getting it
.
And he goes no, I have more tocall.
And I said, oh, like I'm sorry,I was like I wish you could end
(13:48):
on me, cause I was like I amnot one bit upset and the person
you're going to choose is goingto be the person that should do
this, um, and like Brady's myfiance, sorry, but again like I
wasn't upset.
And then, lo and behold, youknow, a few months later is when
the sports job opened up andthe interview process was very
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similar to that, and I thinkthat's what helped prepare me
for that job, cause then I toldthem in that interview process
cause now I'm with the samebosses that I was trying to
convince them that I wanted thisother job four months prior and
now I'm going, okay, I'm doingit again, but this is actually
the one I want, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, it's.
It's funny when you, whenyou're in something and you
don't get it, and you know, thenyou look back right, that's now
four months ago, you've got.
Or six months later you getwhat you want and it's, you know
hindsight, like I never wantedthat.
It was part of the path, thatinterview was part of the
process learning.
(14:44):
Maybe you learn something aboutyourself.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
But but to be in the same interview with the same
people, yeah, your answers oflike, why do you think you're
the best fit for this job, whydo you want this job?
And they were really good aboutit and I explained that to him.
I said, you know, at the time Idid really want to change.
I felt like I was living inlike Groundhog Day on the
morning show, where it just feltlike the same thing every day.
So I thought I think that's thething is.
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I wanted to change and I feltlike the Lord was placing a
change on my heart.
But he was like, but just wait,you know what I mean.
Just wait, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And I think, I think I bet you had fire in your eyes
for the job you have now, like Ibet there was just this
excitement, there was adifference in you.
I can see it that type ofperson Way different.
Yeah, so at Leader Impact wewant to go personally,
professionally and spirituallyfor increasing impact and I'm
(15:35):
wondering if you'd be willing toshare an example of how the
spiritual makes a practicaldifference in your life as a
leader.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yes, I wrote so many notes here because I wanted to
make sure to try to soundeloquent, because I clearly go
off on tangents and I'm tryingto remember what part of this.
You know just where thespiritual impacts on me as a
leader.
I think without God like I amnothing, like I am blessed
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because of him, and then youknow my works on top of that,
the gifts that he's given me.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's where I feel like I'm a leader and I just I
feel like I think listening toyou when you gave advice to my
daughter and you know, when yousaid something it's in
everything you talk about.
You talk about it.
So the way you talk about Godis just refreshing.
I you bring it into everyconversation.
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Just listening to you, I'm likeI think she talks about it,
like just thanks, thanks.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Thanks to the big guy above.
Like I think it's so naturalbecause, again, like I was doing
the interview a few months ago,um, and this guy noticed my
engagement ring and he was likeoh my gosh, how old are you?
Like you seem so young to beengaged.
And I just like I was like Whoa, bless your heart, like thank
you for saying that, because Idon't feel young anymore.
And he just immediately said oh, and he said like he recognized
that I said bless your heart.
And then basically was like oh,and turned out he was a pastor
(17:05):
and I didn't even know that andI was just like so then he kind
of was like when are you gettingmarried?
And we talked a lot about likemarriage and things like that.
So I do think that like, yeah,your words and your actions
which I think kind of goes intoour next question about like the
legacy you leave behind but Ithink if you're always an
example of you know God andsomebody in your words and your
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actions, even if you're notmentioning him, I think people
can tell.
And you know this is like funny.
I wasn't even gonna bring thisup, but when I do rider games at
Mosaic Stadium, there's thesetwo security guards that kind of
.
They're kind of like in chargeof me.
They're also in charge of othersecurity but just to make sure
that I am safe, because you justnever know how fans can be.
And the one game I brought myparents down to the field before
the game and I introduced themto them.
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They're the best securityguards, they same thing.
They just have energy and love.
They're hilarious.
And my mom walked away and shewas like you can just tell they
have the joy of the Lord, likeyou could just feel the presence
of them.
And I said, yeah, and so Ithink that if somebody was going
to compliment me and they say,like what you just said, which
is gorgeous, thank you, I justthink, okay, do I have the joy
of the Lord in everything that Ido?
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And so that's.
I guess me being a leader isjust trying to kill people with
kindness.
Trying to kill, and not everyday, is hunky dory, and I have
games that go awful and my hitsare brutal and it gets really
hard on me and I get anxious andI get all in my head.
But it's like if I can just bea leader in just my actions and
my words and the style of theperson that I am.
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That's good enough for me.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, I would agree.
You are a person of influence,so to be seen like that and for
people to say and recognize itin you is a beautiful thing.
So yeah, thank you, Iappreciate that.
All right, I don't know if youhad any other notes.
If you wanted to look.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, like I was, I wrote a verse down, but I can't
remember if it was for thatanswer or for another answer.
I think it was.
Oh, do you know what?
I think it was and I was goingto bring this up.
So the reason we got in contactwith each other is, I believe,
is his name Tibby, yes, or hername, yes, sorry, his name, okay
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.
So what had happened was he hadseen me, he was watching a game
and I was wearing my crossnecklace which I usually wear
some sort of form of a crossnecklace almost daily and he saw
that.
Then he went to my social media, which on my social media, I
have, you know, like I have aBible verse listed in my
Instagram bio.
I think my Twitter hassomething else too, and that's
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where he initially was like oh,so she's a believer, she's a
follower of the Lord.
And so that's when he hadreached out and I thought it's
so funny how something so smalllike me, just wearing my cross
necklace, made him be like oh,I'm going to look up, brit.
Then he got me in contact withyou and I replied and I was just
like so, even that, it's likeyou're being a leader with
something so small, of just mewearing my cross necklace, you
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know.
And I mean I know some peoplewear them ironically, but I
don't yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I, uh, I would totally agree.
I'll wear mine as well.
I always have it on.
My daughter bought it for meand I've bought one for everyone
in the family and to wear themto recognize.
But I think it's more likeTibby reached out to you, he saw
it and then he goes to yourwebsite and it's not just a
cross, you're wearing, it's onyour Instagram.
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You have a Bible feed or ascripture On your feeds.
You know, on your feeds you arethat person as well.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I'm surprised you have a Jersey in the background.
If anyone's watching us onYouTube, that's actually my
fiance, so he used to playhockey.
Yeah, I'm at his house rightnow, cause I'm where he is, so
I'm not at my place.
I'm at his place while he's atwork.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, Awesome, all right.
Well, uh, our last, one of our,our second last question is L
leader mpact is dedicated toleaders having a lasting impact.
So, as you continue to movethrough your own journey, and as
amazing as it absolutely sounds, have you considered what you
want your faith legacy to bewhen you leave this world?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yes, okay, I this is going to be long, but I wrote
down.
I started writing the wholeverse and then I was like I'm
just going to bring it up on myphone because it's too much to
write.
And so I really, really wantedto highlight 1 Corinthians,
chapter 13, verses one to, Ibelieve, four.
And so I'm going to read itbecause I just think that this
is so important.
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If I could speak all thelanguages of earth and of angels
but didn't love others, I wouldonly be a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal.
If I had a gift of prophecy andI understood all of God's
secret plans and possessed allknowledge, and if I had such
faith that I could movemountains but didn't love others
, I would be nothing.
If I gave everything I have tothe poor and even sacrificed my
body, I could boast about it,but if I didn't love others, I
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would have gained nothing.
And then it goes into the verypopular verse of the love is
patient, love is kind.
Which I mean your biggestcommandment is to love God and
love others.
But I think too, it's like tome the underlying text of that
is if you were given all thesegifts, or you were given
everything, but you don't doanything with it, then you're
you're just a clanging symbol orwhatever it says there.
Like I just think that's soimportant.
(22:03):
So I mean, if I'm going toleave something behind, it may
as well be what God brought meinto the physical world to show
you know that's great, britt.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Wow, thank you for sharing that.
I love that.
If anyone's watching on YouTube, when your hands move all of a
sudden, I get a thumbs up.
I noticed that too, and I waslike you got to stop putting
your hands up, Britt.
But I'm such a hands talker.
See, I think that's just Godwhich is on me and probably on
air too.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
People like to point that out and I'm like I know I'm
sorry, it's distracting, I know, but it's like God, I don't
know.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
All right, yeah, there we go, all right, and our
last question is what brings youthe greatest joy?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh my gosh, I know I thought about this and I was
like sports.
No, um, I'm extremelyextroverted, if you can't tell.
Um, I love being around friendsand family.
Brady and I are both extremelyclose with our families, um, and
have a lot of really wonderfulfriends.
So I think my biggest joy ishonestly being around people
Like we love it.
We're constantly about it andthen again, like I think the
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greatest joy, like I just said,love God, love others, like
without him, without all this,I'm nothing, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I think that all comes together.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Just community right.
I mean being part of God'scommunity, loving our friends,
loving our family.
It's all community.
Um, britt, I want to thank youfor taking time on your day off
to join us for the.
You know it was a quick timeand, uh, I mean you've got some
golfing and some good times withyou oh, we've got time.
He's not even home yet oh, butum, I think if anyone wants to
number one, if they want tofollow you, where's's the best
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place to find you?
Just to follow what you do.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, you can find me on Instagram.
My username, I'm pretty sure,is stuck because I got verified
on Instagram and I've learnedthat I think whatever you get
verified at, you can't change it.
So my Instagram username isunderscore Dort D-O-R-T.
So yeah, I feel like that'swhere I kind of post the most.
I am on X, which is formerlyTwitter, as I think, just Brit
Dort.
But follow along.
(24:05):
I don't know.
I don't know if I'm thatinteresting on social media, but
and if anyone wants to contactyou.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is that sort of the same thing, or yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
you can send me a DM or something on there.
I think my.
No, I think my Twitter bio or Xbio has my email listed in it
too.
So I think my Twitter bio or Xbio has my email listed in it
too.
So I think that's how Tibbyended up getting in contact with
me.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, and that's how Tibby found me.
It's like you got to interviewBrit.
Yeah, oh gosh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
So thank you, Brit.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
And it was wonderful just to finally hook up with you
, because it has been, we havetried and I know you're heading
into an incredibly busy time andI know you're heading into
incredibly busy time.
So we're going to pray for youover the next few months because
you are a blessing and I'mgoing to be watching you and
just smiling all the way.
So thank you so much, Brit, forjoining us.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh, you're so sweet, thank you.
Thank you so much for having meand for battling through
waiting for me to reply to you,because that's been a battle and
battling through my technicalissues of trying to just get
onto this podcast.
So I thank you for your timeand for the conversation.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Awesome.
Thank you All right.
Well, this ends our podcastwith Brit.
We hope you enjoyed our timetogether.
I want to thank all of youagain for joining us.
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