Necessary Roughness with Kisha is a sports blog that focuses on football, both college and professional. However, no topic is off limits.

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…We would love to invite you to share what lead you to share your love of sports with others & start Necessary Roughness, and how your life changed since. I came across your website and think you would have a great story to share!

This is the email I received during a hectic but fun weekend in New York City. It came from the production company that is helping Omaha Mutual travel across the country to film people and their aha moments.  Of course being the skeptic that I am, researched this company and this whole “aha campaign.”  When I arrived at their website, I searched and clicked around.  Why would anyone want to hear my story about how Necessary Roughness with Kisha got started? What’s so special about another sports blog written by another massive sports fan? After watching some of the other moments they had posted, it all made sense.

To my surprise, they had good reasoning as to why my blog was such a perfect example of an aha moment.

Aha Moment – “A moment of clarity, a defining moment where you gain real wisdom – wisdom you can use to change your life.”

Without any hesitation, I agreed to meet the aha crew in downtown Providence to talk about my own moment of self-discovery and clarity.

Little did I know that during this process, I’d come across another moment of my own.

With my background in competing in forensics and speech, I wanted to prep for this speech.  I had bullet points, quotes and references in my brain that I brainstormed with my sister the day before. This speech was going to be spotless and perfect. It’s in my nature, I love preparing and the process of the preparation. Weird, I know.

Something happened though when I sat down on the black stool that so many other people with their very own aha moments sat.  It was as if, for the first time I didn’t need any sort of preparation.  It felt like I was born to sit there and talk about one of the things that I love most: Sports.

With a spontaneous fluidity, my story flowed out of my mouth they only way I would’ve wanted it to. And it came out so perfectly.

I explained that I felt like I was chipping away at this stigma that female sports fans had to deal with.  But that I was doing so in a non-angry/bitchy way.  I’m not here to shove it down people’s throats that women love sports and that’s just the way it is.  I just want to make it easier for a girl to openly and confidently be a sports fan.  My life has been filled with opportunities, failures and rejection but that has never stopped me from sticking to what I know…and for the awhile now, what I knew was sports.

Saying this out loud struck something inside me. This is what I’m born to do with my life…whether it writing or talking about sports, it just felt right.

This is the clapboard they gave me after my session, it says that “Being a female sports fan is okay.” Damn right it is

My aha moment was pretty spectacular and I want to send a huge thank you to the Aha Moment Campaign for reminding me that having a passion in life makes it much more bearable.

Look out for my video to come out in a few weeks, it should be interesting.