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The SoccerGirl Podcast

121- Taylor Ross- Founder and CEO of Crossbar

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

Sports

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Taylor played college soccer at the University of Rhode Island. Taylor graduated from URI with a degree in marketing, Her company, Crossbar is currently working on a project to build a school for 300 children in Tumaini, Kenya, one of the poorest parts of that nation where hunger and disease are rampant. She (and her brother, Jordan) founded Crossbar by combining her passion for soccer with her overwhelming desire to make sustainable change in the world. www.crossbar.life Support the cause: https://soccergrlprobs.com/collections/true-love-collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzApw5cXoTg

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, ladyballers. Welcome back. We're soccer props and it's game time.

0:08.8

Guess what? I have pumpkin coffee. Let's go! What a summer! Hi, Taylor. Hi. How are you?

0:17.2

So good. How are you guys? We're good. What's going on? Where are you now? Are you in Colorado?

0:22.5

I'm actually in Portland. I moved here for work like eight months ago. I'm curious. How are you liking Portland?

0:28.4

All about it's amazing. Isn't it like trendy and hipster-y? Like when we were there for a

0:34.4

work a couple of times, the restaurants were really cool. Yeah, yeah. It's like super up and coming

0:39.4

where I am and there's so much you do, you can like go out to the to eat or you can go to like a

0:43.6

brewery or the bars or you can snowboard or go to the beach. So it's like pretty ideal.

0:49.6

You know a lot of the games there? I just went to my first thorns game like a couple weeks ago.

0:54.8

So it was pretty like I'm locked down with COVID and stuff but they just opened up the stadium

1:00.3

and it's so great because it's soccer-specific so like it's full. And you can feel it's

1:05.6

folks like rocking. So we've known you for quite some time and obviously we know a bunch but can

1:14.0

you just talk a little bit about like where you played soccer and how you got into the non-profit

1:19.9

and charity world because you're so passionate about helping others. So we would love for you

1:25.5

to talk a little bit about that. For sure. Yeah well first off thanks so much for having me.

1:29.9

I know I've known you guys for a little bit and it's been the best. I played soccer my whole

1:35.2

life. I played four years at Rhode Island in college and that was great even when to Fairfield

1:41.2

one time. I think we lost over time. It was raining. You never forget you know.

1:50.6

So I played four years at Rhode Island and then I went out and I played a year in Colorado

1:56.3

which was great. When I wasn't playing soccer I either had a camera in my hand or I was really

2:03.6

interested in business since I was really young. And when I was in high school I started like a

2:09.6

little side hustle selling like soccer pennies and I liked making like the social media and the

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