A chat with Sam Mewis: From player to podcaster
Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week on Full Time, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan are joined by friend of the show Sam Mewis, the former USWNT player turned podcaster and editor-in-chief with The Women's Game.
Mewis reflects on the past 18 months since she retired from soccer and stepped into a new role on the media side. How has she evolved as a journalist and presenter over that time? What tensions has she encountered along the way? Where is the evolving media landscape of women's soccer heading?
After a knee injury ended her career prematurely, Mewis also talks about her post-career move to Burlington, Vermont, and how the state "healed all wounds." The trio also talk Vermont Green FC women, where Mewis is currently coaching a summer exhibition series, and the emotions that come when you step back on the pitch again but not as a player. The show closes out with Mewis discussing her current favorite NWSL players and her favorite goal of her career.
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Articles referenced on the show:
Sam Mewis, World Cup winner with USWNT and NWSL champion, retires from professional soccer
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUEST: Sam Mewis
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:49.3 | My name is Tamara Griffin, and I am so excited to let you know that on this episode, we are going to be joined |
| 0:56.0 | by the former U.S. Women's National Team player and the editor-in-chief of the women's game, |
| 1:03.3 | Sam Mewis, friend of the pod. She has made such an interesting transition from her playing |
| 1:09.6 | career into the media landscape, covering |
| 1:11.7 | the women's game from all angles. And we're going to ask her all about how she's made that move. |
| 1:16.9 | The other things she's gotten up to, like coaching, and what she's making of this transition so |
| 1:21.7 | far. Of course, in order to do that, I am going to be joined by my friend and former Vermont |
| 1:26.6 | resident Meg Linahan. |
| 1:27.9 | Meg, how's it going? |
| 1:29.4 | Former Vermont resident? |
| 1:31.1 | I'm a current Vermont resident. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, it's like, too many former. |
| 1:35.0 | We were in such peak Vermont mode last week. |
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