UNINTERRUPTED - DAY ONES

After her controversial tweets about President Donald Trump, Jemele Hill's life was turned upside down in an instant. A barrage of hate mail, online harassment, and the unexpected loss of her high-profile job at ESPN set Jemele down a new path that allowed her to discover the strength of the people around her as well as the strength inside herself that had been there all along. At the UNINTERRUPTED #DayOnes event presented by Courvoisier, Jemele Hill tells the story of what went down and how she bounced back from her most challenging moment to reach new levels of success and happiness.

Today, are you going to be a leader or a follower? Before she became a successful host and journalist at Bleacher Report, Taylor Rooks' father helped her distinguish between two types of people from an early age and helped set her up for success later on in life. At UNINTERRUPTED's #DayOnes event presented by Courvoisier, Taylor offered up a toast to her father and the lessons he taught her about leadership, connecting with others, and holding yourself to the highest possible standard.

WNBA superstar Sue Bird doesn’t always embody the personality of what people expect from a leader. When she was 14, Sue’s AAU coach wrote her a letter and issued a challenge: allow your level of confidence to match your level of talent. At UNINTERRUPTED’s #DayOnes event, presented by Courvoisier, Sue shared how she learned to step out of her comfort zone and embrace her leadership role as the point guard on the United States’ Olympic basketball team.

When Jason Collins came out as the first openly gay athlete in the NBA, he received phone calls from Oprah Winfrey & President Barack Obama. But it was Jason’s relationship with his grandmother that stood out as the most important of all as he navigated a new stage in life after basketball. At UNINTERRUPTED’s Day Ones event, presented by Courvoisier, Jason shared the story of how his grandmother, Baka, offered the love & support that inspired Jason to fully embrace his individuality and live his truth.

Former NBA star Al Harrington tells the story about the final time he spoke with his father and how that one conversation stuck with him throughout the rest of his life. Thanks to his father's words of wisdom before passing away from cancer, Al set out on a path to take care of his mother and achieve levels of success in basketball that would change the trajectory of his entire family's lives forever. At UNINTERRUPTED's #DayOnes event presented by Courvoisier, Al Harrington expressed his heartfelt appreciation for the lasting lessons from his mother and father that helped shape him into the man he is today.

CREDITS

1st AD: Paulo Torres

Director of Photography: Alan Torres

DISTRIBUTION

Released October 15-19 via UNINTERRUPTED’s YouTube channel