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Jay Shetty PodcastNAOMI OSAKA REVEALS the Message Serena Williams Sent Her After their US Open Final Match!
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At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Naomi Osaka on identity, motherhood, mental health, and resilience lessons
- Osaka describes feeling shame, isolation, and overwhelm around her French Open withdrawal, including avoiding the outside world and struggling with the media spotlight.
- She explains how early, intense training and a “blueprint” upbringing created a deep tennis-first identity that later made wins/losses feel like measures of personal worth.
- Osaka revisits the complex emotions of winning her first Grand Slam against Serena Williams—dream-fulfilled yet clouded by controversy, hate comments, and doubts about “deserving” the win.
- Motherhood shifts her internal landscape toward patience and perspective, reducing the emotional devastation of losses while introducing new motivations and boundaries.
- She outlines practical coping tools—journaling, meditation with rain/ocean sounds, selective detachment from opinions, and leaning on trusted relationships—to manage comparison, anxiety, and self-criticism.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasMental health disclosures can be messy and still meaningful.
Osaka feels embarrassed about how she communicated her struggles, yet believes speaking up opened pathways for wider athlete mental-health conversations and humanized athletes.
Over-identifying with performance makes setbacks feel existential.
She describes valuing herself as a person based on wins and losses, and later learning—through life events and supportive people—that tennis is not her entire self-worth.
Public narratives can contaminate even “dream” achievements.
Winning her first Slam against Serena was a childhood dream, but controversy and online hate led to intense emotional conflict and delayed processing of the moment.
Boundaries aren’t anti-media; they’re pro-human.
Osaka explains that as fame grew, press questions felt engineered for headlines rather than understanding, contributing to fear, withdrawal, and the decision to step back.
Comparison may never disappear, but its power can shrink.
She accepts competitive “sizing up” thoughts can arise, and the work becomes responding differently—watching the “wonder” spiral and not letting it dictate choices.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesMy whole identity as I knew it was being a tennis player, so I would, I guess, value my, my life or what my value was as a person on whether I won or lost.
— Naomi Osaka
I was just reading comments of people saying that I didn't deserve to win or, like, I didn't win fairly. And I don't know, it just, it just really sucked.
— Naomi Osaka
No one can ever predict someone else's path. I just realize, like, some people will understand that, and some people won't, and it's not my job to convince, um, people of that.
— Naomi Osaka
I don't ever claim to know answers, but I think when I was at really low moments of my life, I always felt like I was alone. Um, so I would say you're never alone.
— Naomi Osaka
You have to be the lion, and the flies around your eyes are people's opinions, and you just have to focus and keep your eyes straight.
— Naomi Osaka
SPEAKERS
Naomi Osaka
guestFour-time Grand Slam singles champion and former world No. 1 professional tennis player.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host and interviewer for the Jay Shetty Podcast.
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