Abby Wambach (rebroadcast): "If you're not a good leader on the bench, you cannot call yourself a good leader on the field."

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes from last year, with Olympian and soccer star Abby Wambach. Abby knows a thing or two about winning a gold medal - she actually 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, how she’s developed her leadership style on and off the field, and why one night at the ESPY awards changed the direction of her retirement.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Danielle. This week we're doing something a little different. We're throwing
0:04.8	it back to one of our favorite episodes that we recorded last year with soccer star and Olympian
0:10.3	Abby Wampak. Fresh episodes will be back in your feed again next week, but for now, please enjoy
0:16.7	this episode with Abby. I had two options here. I could become a good teammate,
0:29.2	or I could become a bad teammate. I could have stood in that ego and been like, you know what,
0:32.9	I am good enough and I do deserve to start. Of course, you know, I decided to be a good teammate.
0:37.6	When I decided something, I decided I'm going to become the best at it, so I decided I was going
0:41.5	to become the best bench player that ever played the bench in the whole wide world. Because if you're
0:47.0	not a good leader on the bench, you cannot call yourself a good leader on the field.
0:52.8	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch. This podcast is where we go deep
0:58.0	on career advice from women who have lived it, from the good stuff like hiring and growing a team
1:02.9	to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback. We started
1:08.9	the Skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch.
1:20.1	Hey everyone, this show might sound a bit different today because we're skimming from
1:24.3	three different couches. The skim is still working from home for the time being because of COVID-19.
1:29.9	Today, we have a very special guest joining us. Abby Wombach is here with us on Skim from the couch.
1:36.4	She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a FIFA World Cup champion and a member of the National
1:44.3	Soccer Hall of Fame. Also, she hasn't slowed down in retirement. She is now a New York Times
1:51.0	best-selling author and an equal pay activist. We first had the pleasure of meeting Abby when we
1:57.8	spoke to her wife, Glennon Doyle, on this show in March, and we dragged her onto the podcast as well.
2:04.3	And if you haven't listened to that episode, go check it out. It's a good one. Abby, thank you so
2:09.2	much for joining us today. Welcome to Skim from the couch. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm so thrilled
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