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We Can Do Hard Things

Abby Wambach: Will I Ever Be Truly Loved?

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This is the one!   Our favorite person on the planet – Abby Wambach – is going deep, answering the questions that we all have, but that only Glennon and Amanda can ask.   Abby shares, in an intensely new and courageous way, about her lifelong pursuit of love – including her complicated relationships with her mom, soccer, her first marriage, queerness, and her “shadow self” – and why she has questioned her own lovability for so much of her life. ABOUT ABBY WAMBACH: Olympian, Activist, Author, and Co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. Abby is the host of ABBY’S PLACES on ESPN+, in which she showcases what makes her beloved sport of soccer a worldwide sensation. An activist for equality and inclusion, she is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WOLFPACK as well as the adaptation of WOLFPACK for the next generation, an instant New York Times bestseller. She is a founder and part owner of Angel City FC, the first majority-female-owned soccer team in history, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Together Rising. Abby lives in California with her wife and their three children. TW: @abbywambach  IG: @abbywambach

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We need to be loved. We need to be known.

0:07.0

Okay.

0:11.0

Abby, do you think if you put the corner of your mouth on the microphone,

0:14.0

that will somehow like disguise you.

0:16.0

The only behalf present.

0:17.0

Yeah, if I look off screen, does it count?

0:19.0

Okay, so here's where we're laughing.

0:21.0

Oh, it's fun.

0:22.0

First of all, welcome to We Can Do Her Things.

0:24.0

Secondly, it's fine.

0:27.0

It is fine, babe.

0:28.0

We have my dream interview today, which is why we're already giggling with nervous laughter.

0:34.0

We are skydded, all of us, which as those of you know who listen to the words my family

0:40.0

makes up, that is half scared, half excited.

0:43.0

When you have butterflies and you're about to do a hard thing, but you know,

0:47.0

it's a good hard thing that will be happy for you when it's over.

0:51.0

That's what we're doing today.

0:52.0

We are skydded because the interview we have today is Abby Wombach.

1:00.0

We wanted to do an in-depth interview with Abby and ask her some questions that no one's ever asked her before.

1:10.0

And as my sister Amanda and I thought through what we wanted the theme of this interview to be,

1:18.0

the obvious, you know, categories were like, you're just your greatness.

1:23.0

So your achievements in soccer and as a leader and we're going to get to all of that.

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