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Maria Taylor’s tumultuous exit from ESPN helped her recognize she’s not defined by those 4 letters, aliases immoderate different job.
In a TikTok video, nan NBC Sports broadcaster was candid astir their nationalist breakup successful 2021 while addressing her quality connected ESPN’s “ManningCast” pinch Peyton and Eli Manning connected Monday.
“So (Monday) nighttime I was connected my erstwhile employer’s network, let’s talk astir it,” Taylor began successful a “get fresh pinch me” video connected Tuesday, adding moving astatine ESPN was her “dream job” while successful assemblage astatine UGA.
“I worked for 10 years astatine ESPN and loved my clip there, but nan ending came a small tumultuously.”
Taylor near ESPN, wherever she worked from 2013-2021, aft then-colleague Rachel Nichols made disparaging “diversity” comments about her successful leaked audio, which was made nationalist successful July 2021. She joined NBC Sports that aforesaid month.
“But past came a clip erstwhile I had nan opportunity to really determine what I wanted to for my life moving guardant and if wherever I was was nan champion spot for me, and arsenic we each know… it’s difficult to spell done change,” she said.
“But I knew successful my bosom of hearts that it was time. I honestly conscionable needed much opportunities to walk clip pinch my family to commencement a family and astatine nan level I was going and nan activity that I was doing, I didn’t deliberation I would person nan time. I still wanted to activity astatine a very precocious level, but I conscionable wanted to attraction connected very important value events.
“And I besides felt for illustration nan narration had ran its course. And it’s truthful funny because erstwhile I was making my last decision, personification was making nan lawsuit that ‘well if you time off present past you’ll ne'er ever beryllium connected tv again — for illustration nary 1 will ever spot you again.’
“And I retrieve being like, ‘The ways successful which I don’t attraction whether aliases not anyone ever sees maine again’ — arsenic agelong arsenic I spot checks clearing into my slope account. And astatine that infinitesimal I knew I was onto thing else.
“And to beryllium honest, I besides benignant of felt for illustration it was conscionable clip for a marque caller challenge. I was getting a small worn retired of nan aforesaid things, and I conscionable wanted to effort thing new.”
Taylor joined NBC Sports little than a week aft her statement pinch ESPN expired.
“I’m going to beryllium wholly and wholly honest, I cried. I cried for 2 consecutive weeks while I was successful Tokyo covering nan Olympics, because I virtually flew from nan NBA Finals to Tokyo and I thought to myself ‘like what person I done, what americium I doing here? I don’t cognize anyone here. It’s COVID,'” she recalled. “I was truthful sad. But to beryllium honest, I was grieving something.
“I was grieving nan thought of what I had for my dream job.and my dream had changed. So I was stepping into realizing what nan caller life would look like, truthful I was grieving and that took astir 2 weeks.”
Taylor said she’s grateful for that process good arsenic her clip astatine ESPN.
“I’m thankful for maturing and emotion tin and beardown capable to locomotion distant and realizing that 4 letters don’t specify me, 3 letters don’t specify me, my occupation doesn’t specify me. I get to specify who I americium and want to beryllium successful this world and if that intends I’m changing carers and locations, it intends perfectly thing — and it’s nobody’s business.”
Her video was captioned with, “Let’s talk abut change. Just take you and fto it by.”
Taylor and her hubby Jon Hemphill welcomed their son, Roman Ryan Taylor Hemphill, successful December 2023.
Taylor is successful her 3rd play arsenic big of “Sunday Night Football” for NBC — and became nan first full-time female to big nan network’s “Football Night successful America” workplace show.
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