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The SoccerGirl Podcast

260. Kelley O'Hara: From Setbacks to Success

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

Sports

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with USWNT legend and host of JWS'Sports Are Fun, Kelley O’Hara! She gets real about:


⚽ How failures led to her biggest wins

💪 The hidden struggles of pro athletes

🌎 The evolution of women’s soccer

🔥 Embracing failure as a path to growth

👊 The power of unity in driving change for the women’s game


Don’t miss this inspiring conversation on the past, present, and future of women’s sports! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're talking those, you know, we got some problems.

0:04.0

So, too, we know where we're talking how to solve them.

0:06.0

We may laugh, we learn, we might be your game's miss and peace.

0:16.0

Florida with my fam right now.

0:18.0

Nice. Where are you?

0:20.0

We're in New Smyrna Beach. My mom's brothers live down here, so she comes down every year. So I just popped on down, hang out at the beach for a couple of days. There you go. Get out. Where are you all? Cold. I actually live in Florida. I'm in Jupiter. Oh, sick. Yeah, you're close. I saw the lighthouse behind you.

0:38.4

I was like, that looks like our light house. So I was curious. It might be nice. Well, it looks like you've been enjoying your time in New York, though. You've been embracing the real cold. Yeah, you have to. Like, listen, you can't just sit inside. You got to get out there. And if you want to play, you got to wear your layers and just, you know, brave it.

0:57.6

I saw you were on your city bike.

1:00.5

You do that a lot.

1:02.3

I love city biking.

1:03.7

It's like my main mode of transportation in the city.

1:06.7

I don't know if you saw my message, but I got two tickets on my city bike.

1:12.3

Oh, wait, I responded.

1:14.1

Yes.

1:15.0

Wait, in New York?

1:16.4

Yeah.

1:17.3

Because I used to, we lived, we worked our offices in New York, so I lived there for like six years.

1:23.2

Oh, sick.

1:24.0

I lived in the East Village, but our office was in Midtown, so I would bike up. And I would like bike crazy hours. Yeah. Different times. And one time a cop waved at me and I was like waving back. And then he's like, no, come over here. Because you were on your phone? Oh, I had a headphone in. I had one headphone in. But I went through, it was 5 a.m.

1:44.9

and I went through a red light.

1:46.4

Oh, well, that's what you did.

1:48.5

Then the next one, I had one headphone in, and I stopped at the light, and then he pulled me over with his car.

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