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ex.clusively: beyond the gameJay Woods: Handling Pressure, Life Lessons From Football & the Plug-and-Play MentalityJay Woods joins ex.clusively: Beyond the Game for a real conversation about pressure, purpose, and the Plug-and-Play Mentality that shapes the way he moves through life.Jay opens up about staying grounded, handling expectations, and what it really takes to keep showing up, even when life shifts, plans change, and the pressure gets real. This episode is about discipline, identity, growth, and learning how to adapt in every season.🎙️ Tap in for one of our most honest conversations yet.ꜜ SOCIALS ꜜFOLLOW EX.CLUSIVELY: BEYOND THE GAMEInstagram: @exclusively.beyondthegameTikTok: @exclusive...
2026-02-0756 min
ex.clusively: beyond the gameI Wasn’t Invited to the Table — So I Built My Own ft. Lillian Glanton | EXclusively with Kensley TolliverIf you’ve ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or like you had to create your own path — this conversation is for you.In this episode, I’m sitting down with Lillian Glanton, founder of LG Media Co. and the Muscle Shoals Songwriters Festival, to talk about identity, reinvention, and what happens when you stop waiting for permission.New episodes every Wednesday.
2026-01-271h 01ex.clusively: beyond the gameAt What Point Does Punishment Become Revenge? | Inside Alabama’s Prison Crisis ft. Stacy GeorgeAt what point does punishment become revenge?In this episode of EXclusively with Kensley Tolliver, Kensley sits down with Stacy George for a candid conversation about incarceration, accountability, and the human cost of power. Drawing from firsthand experience inside Alabama’s prison system and his involvement in The Alabama Solution, Stacy reflects on mental health, addiction, faith, and when justice crosses the line into revenge.⚠️ Listener discretion advised: This episode discusses incarceration, addiction, violence, and trauma.New episodes every Wednesday.
2026-01-211h 32
ex.clusively: beyond the gameFruition, Friendship & the Big Idea ft. Olivia Blankenship | EXclusively with Kensley TolliverIn this episode of EXclusively with Kensley Tolliver, Kensley sits down with her best friend and Co-Founder of the November Saturdays Foundation, Olivia Blankenship, for a conversation about friendship, timing, and what it looks like when everything finally comes full circle.Launching Season 2 on January 14 — the Day of the Heavyweight, this episode explores small-town assumptions, creative risk, and the quiet truth that some conversations only make sense once you’ve lived through what comes next.What started as conversation became clarity. What once felt unfinished finally reached fruition.New episodes drop every Wednesday.
2026-01-141h 02
ex.clusively: beyond the gameThe Making of November Saturdays: A True Story of Foster Care, Addiction, and PurposeNovember Saturdays exists because no child should be forgotten by the systems meant to protect them.In this episode, The Making of November Saturdays, I tell the true origin story, from where the name came from to the life experiences that shaped it. Foster care. Displacement. Addiction. Loving someone the system gave up on. And realizing I didn’t survive that season just to live a normal life.This is a deeply personal episode and includes heavy topics such as foster care, addiction, loss, and trauma. Listener discretion is advised. Take your time with it....
2026-01-0751 min
ex.clusively: beyond the game2025: My Refinery | New Year’s SpecialIn this New Year’s Special, I’m opening up about the year that changed me.From burnout and isolation to faith, friendship, and moments of clarity I didn’t see coming, this episode is a look back at everything that shaped my 2025. I talk honestly about slowing down, letting go of old habits, turning 30, trusting God, and the mailbox moment that reminded me I wasn’t doing all of this alone. You’ll also hear voicemails from people I love, sharing their own highs and lows of the year. Real, emotional, and unfiltered. This episode isn’t about havi...
2026-01-0240 min
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 07: PROTECTING THE VISION - What Season One Taught Me | Season 1 FinaleA raw, unexpected conversation about pressure, holidays, miscommunication, and staying true to the vision. This episode wasn’t planned or outlined, we sat down, hit record, and everything I had been holding in finally cracked open. The exhaustion, the pressure, the holiday chaos, the miscommunication, the burnout… all of it came to the surface.The week we filmed this, I had just hosted my first event ever, turned 30, and was trying to juggle my full-time job, chasing my dreams, launching a nonprofit, filming a podcast, managing My Ex’s Vintage, and running/editing every single piece...
2025-11-2837 min
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 06: 30th Birthday Special - Becoming HerThis is my 30th Birthday Special Edition — the turning point.The moment a girl with good intentions becomes a woman with a vision.Thirty didn’t feel like aging… it felt like awakening.A quiet, powerful shift where I finally stopped apologizing for who I am and started protecting the parts of me I spent years abandoning.In this episode:• The truths my 20s exposed — the kind you don’t come back from• The people I outgrew and the pieces of me I refuse to...
2025-11-191h 02
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 05: The Modern Day Boston Tea Party - Freedom of Speech & Friendship Chaos ft. ConnrTSA took my ID more times than I took breaths, Connr dug into my life like she worked for the airport, and somehow this turned into The Modern Day Boston Tea Party.Thank God for edits & 3rd 2nd Chances.Episode 5 now streaming #EXclusively
2025-11-1144 min
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 04: This is a Case for Detective McLovin’ — Mental Health, Italians & A Tubi AuditionWe’re unpacking a lot this week. Mental health is serious but so is the fact that someone really tried me today.I’m off to Salem, where family secrets run deep and my mom’s side might just hold a few mysteries of its own. Still fighting for that star on my ID because apparently my Italian paperwork vanished...Taylor swears she’s been betrayed by carbs and espresso, but I think she just has beef with Italians. She’s sipping Irish coffee in her little cottage, rebranding with the gingers… but when I do it, it’s...
2025-10-151h 09
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 03: tEXas Edition - Forgive Me Father, I Road-Tripped to Texas - the Birth of My Ex’s VintageTexas was supposed to be a road trip — it ended up being a confession. In this episode, I talk childhood trauma, sacred parking lots, friendship chaos, and how a random drive led to the first spark of My Ex’s Vintage.What you’ll hear:• The childhood memory that resurfaced in a church parking lot• What road trips reveal about you• Friendship heartbreaks nobody talks about• How My Ex’s Vintage was born in the middle of nowhereIf redemption and chaos share a la...
2025-10-081h 02
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 02: Bangs & Bars — Celibacy, Chaos, and Freestyle TherapyEpisode 2 is chaos disguised as healing. I’m talking celibacy (well… maybe), questionable freestyles, bangs that changed my life, and the kind of girlhood wounds that show up in adulthood whether you want them to or not.What you’ll hear:• Celibacy and the temptations that ruin it• Why bangs are a personality symptom• Freestyles that sound like spoken word therapy• How healing exposes the real youIf you’re trying to heal while still being a little unhinged, hit Follow.
2025-10-0254 min
ex.clusively: beyond the gameEp. 01: 13 Going On 30 — Growing Up Fast, Losing Papa Don, Becoming MeWelcome to the beginning. Episode 1 is the part of the autobiography where everything starts — grief, growing up too fast, and the summer that aged me more than time ever could.In this episode, I’m going back to 2009, when I was 13, losing Papa Don, learning how to survive a home that felt like a sitcom and a storm at the same time… and falling for the boy who shaped the next 17 years of my life.What you’ll hear:• The moment childhood ended• The grief that changed...
2025-10-0241 min