227. MEGAN RAPINOE: A Legend Says Goodbye to the Game

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Laser-focused on her final World Cup, MEGAN RAPINOE chooses our podcast to go *deep* on her bittersweet decision to retire from her iconic soccer career: Why she is excited – and ready – to say goodbye to soccer; Why representing America is so important to her in this moment; Why she doesn’t believe in sacrificing herself for the team; How dissociation helped her on the field – and hurt her in life – and how she’s working to give it up. Plus, Megan explores the question: Does greatness have to cost you your humanity? About Megan: Two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Megan Rapinoe is a fan favorite and one of the team’s most technical and craftiest players. A vocal leader on and off the pitch, Megan helped lead the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup Championship scoring some of the biggest goals of the tournament. Megan took home the tournament’s two top honors – the Golden Boot for top scorer, and the Golden Ball for the best player in the tournament. A New York Times’ Best-Selling author, Time100’s Most Influential People and recent Presidential Medal of Freedom award recipient, Megan is an advocate for equality for all and has been able to intersect her passion for humanity and authenticity. At the end of 2022, Megan and fiancé Sue Bird launched “A Touch More”, a new production company focused on promoting narratives around revolutionaries who move culture forward. The company will amplify stories focused on identity, activism, and underrepresented groups. TW: @mPinoe IG: @mrapinoe To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Pod Squad, today we have the Megan Rapinoe, the Megan Rapinoe of The Soccer.
0:18.8	The Megan Rapinoe is the two-time World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist.
0:23.2	Megan is a vocal leader on and off the pitch.
0:26.4	Megan helped lead the U.S. women's national team to the 2019 Women's World Cup Championship.
0:32.0	Megan took home the tournament's two top honors, the golden boot for top scorer and the golden ball for the best player in the tournament.
0:39.5	And New York Times, best-selling author, Time 100's most influential people and recent presidential Medal of Freedom Award recipient.
0:48.0	Megan is an advocate for equality for all.
0:50.6	Megan and fiancé, Sue Bird, huge fans, launched a touch more, a production company focused on promoting narratives around revolutionaries who move culture forward, which is very fitting for these two.
1:03.8	Megan, welcome to Weekend to Heart Things.
1:07.2	You have done a couple of them.
1:09.5	Well done.
1:10.0	I feel like we should just spend the next hour letting you rest, Megan.
1:13.0	That would be a blast, you said.
1:14.8	Just let, in honor of Megan, we're just going to take an hour of quiet.
1:20.6	I'm just, I'm just going to go lay down and just talk about it.
1:24.1	Well, happy belated birthday.
1:25.4	Have you just celebrated?
1:27.0	Thank you.
1:27.8	Thank you.
1:28.3	And thank you for having me on.
1:30.1	Appreciate it.
1:31.1	What'd you do for your birthday?
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