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The SoccerGirl Podcast

156. Estelle Johnson - Gotham FC & Cameroon National Team- Empathetic Leadership, Hilarious NWSL Draft Story & Unconventional Road to Playing in the WWC

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

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51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today on the Podcast we chat with Gotham FC's Estelle Johnson. Estelle gives great advice on how to be an empathetic leader as well as having great two way communication with your coach. She also tells us two amazing stories, the first being about her NWSL draft as well as her journey to playing at the 2019 WWC. We also could not stop laughing at her biggest SoccerGrlProbs, one of which we have NEVER heard before!

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0:00.0

Hi, so how are you? How's the season going? Yeah, it's going pretty good. Um, obviously struggled

0:10.6

last weekend, but you know, we have to just keep reminding ourselves because we started

0:16.1

so early that like we've literally played six games. You played a season before the season.

0:22.5

Seriously, don't remind them. But like seriously, we're like, you know what? I know this feels

0:28.2

like the middle of the season and like crunch time, but it's okay. We're taking some time to

0:32.8

like heat up and figure out who we are type of things. So yeah, you've been on Gotham for a while.

0:40.0

You were on Gotham before it was Gotham, right? Yeah, I think I was maybe a year and a half or two

0:47.4

years of sky blue before we brand it. And it's so funny. Like now we'd like the name Gotham,

0:54.9

but at the time we're like, really? Really? Gotham? Like y'all have to be kidding us.

1:01.6

Now we're like,

1:05.8

how like what has it been like to see the team evolve and grow like since you started there?

1:11.9

Oh my gosh. It's been like this. Is it like this? Oh no, it's definitely been like this. I'd say like

1:21.4

yeah. You know, how do you like big bumps in there? Obviously with everything that went on

1:28.2

with the league last year, but I mean just night and day and it was like a huge credit to like our

1:36.7

leaders now. Like y'all has been incredible as a GM, like having somebody who's played in the

1:44.5

league for so long. And like we used to train together in our off seasons. Like a lot of players

1:50.2

know her personally. And I think that's like been huge for this transition. She's very instrumental

1:56.6

in like trying to get the players perspective and like the stuff that really really matters to us.

2:02.4

We know we can go straight to her. And so I think that's been like the biggest, biggest change

2:07.9

for us. Like recently it's just having somebody that we know like knows what we're going through.

2:13.8

She totally gets it. We don't really feel like we're complaining as much as it may feel like when

2:20.8

you go talk to your GM, it's like kind of scary. But with her, it's just been amazing. So like

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