Abby Wambach: “If you're not a good leader on the bench, you cannot call yourself a good leader on the field.”

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theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In an alternate universe, we’d be cheering in front of our TVs right now. Because the Olympics would be on. So while we wait for Tokyo 2021, we sat down with someone who knows a thing or two about winning a gold medal: Abby Wambach. She won two while she played for the US Women’s National Team. And the soccer star hasn’t slowed down in retirement. She’s now a bestselling author and an equal pay activist. In this episode, Abby shares what it was like to play with her idols, including Mia Hamm (12:45), how she’s developed her leadership style on and off the field (19:33), and why one night at the ESPY awards changed the direction of her retirement (27:49). Stay tuned at the end for a spotlight on Babyation, a company that’s unapologetically for moms. Their first product: a breast pump that’s quiet and discreet. Want to be featured? Submit yourself or a friend here.

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0:00.0	I had two options here. I could become a good teammate or I could become a good
0:09.8	teammate or I could become a bad teammate.
0:13.0	I could have stood in that ego and been like,
0:15.0	you know what, I am good enough and I do deserve to start.
0:17.0	Of course, I decided to be a good teammate.
0:20.0	When I decided something, I decided I'm going to become the best at it.
0:22.0	So I decided I was going to become the best at it,
0:22.6	so I decided I was going to become the best bench
0:24.7	player that ever played the bench in the whole wide world.
0:28.4	Because if you're not a good leader on the bench,
0:30.4	then you cannot call yourself a good leader on the field.
0:33.0	I'm Carly Zaken.
0:36.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:37.0	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:38.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:42.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:45.0	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary
0:48.0	and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:50.5	We started the skim from a couch,
0:52.0	so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch?
0:56.0	Hey everyone, this show might sound a bit different today because we're skimming from three different couches.
1:07.1	The skim is still working from home for the time being because of COVID-19.
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