Books, Basketball & Family Stories with Sue's Sister, Jen Bird

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

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Soccer, Sports, Basketball

4.4 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Touch More, we are convening for our first-ever book club meeting! We’re joined by a very special guest: Sue’s older sister Jen, the owner of Athena Books in Old Greenwich, CT. Even if you didn’t get a chance to finish our first pick, We Can Do Hard Things by Abby Wambach and Glennon and Amanda Doyle, join us to hear why the book was the perfect debut selection. We’ll hear some listener thoughts on the book and then get into much more with Jen, like why she opened a bookstore, how she reads 70+ books a year, and how she can take some credit for Sue’s speed on the court. Also, Jen recommended some more books for this summer! Check them out and order them here. Listen to find out how to enter a raffle to win some of these books! A Touch More: The Podcast is produced in partnership with VOX MEDIA and TOGETHXR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.0	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
0:05.0	I've ruled out uni because of my grades.
0:10.0	Study with the Open University and there's no need to rule out anything.
0:13.0	With our respected degrees, you can learn from home and work alongside study.
0:17.0	We're open to all. Plus, you'll have the support of expert tutors.
0:22.8	So rethink your future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. The future
0:28.8	is open. There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's. Then there are days when you're
0:35.4	Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:38.3	You'll get to know the difference.
0:39.3	New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.
0:43.3	Until 9th of September from 11 AM,
0:47.3	participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:50.3	Welcome back everybody.
0:52.3	We are so excited for this episode. We're calling it our first book club meeting. Let's go. Meeting is adjourned. We are going to talk a little bit about our first pick. We can do hard things. And we have a very special guest. My sister.
1:15.4	The Jen Bird, owner of Athena Books.
1:22.4	She is the brainchild of our book club and has a special giveaway to announce for our listeners.
1:24.7	We're very excited to talk to her.
1:29.0	I mean, we talk to Jen every day when she's on her exercise bike in the morning. Honestly, this is you guys. This is the birds. Doing five things at once, all at level
1:37.3	100 out of 100. It's like amazing. So we actually can't wait to bring what is normally our breakfast
1:43.5	conversation on her bike. It is a life hack. Very quickly. Her bike in the kitchen is a life hack. I wouldn't do it per se. Oh. But it has hacked her life. She exercises and is just in the kitchen doing stuff. Does stuff. It's amazing. Like FaceTime us. Yeah. And yeah, usually FaceTime us and get some face time with her.
2:03.6	Get some pedals in.
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