Carli Lloyd on Fueling Greatness with Discipline

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🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Ryan speaks with Carli Lloyd about the intense discipline that it takes to be a professional athlete at the highest level, how she was able to bounce back from being cut from the Women’s National Under-21 team, how Stoicism informed her soccer career, and more.

Carli Lloyd is a former American professional Soccer player who retired in 2021. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, two-time FIFA Player of the Year, and a four-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021). Lloyd scored the gold medal-winning goals in the finals of the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Lloyd also helped the United States win their titles at the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cups, the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and she played for the team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup where the U.S. finished in second place. She currently stars on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test on Fox.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation
0:09.4	inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues
0:14.7	of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper
0:20.9	dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how
0:28.3	these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.
0:35.9	Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down,
0:41.1	be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most
0:47.0	importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.
0:52.7	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Actually,
1:02.0	I was talking with Paul Raeble. This is many years ago, one of the great lacrosse players
1:06.6	of all time past podcast guests. I was on his podcast and he recommended this book, The
1:13.1	Captains Class by Sam Walker, which I absolutely loved. We sell the painted porch, I highly
1:17.6	recommend. And I remember reading that book and, you know, there's the teams you know
1:23.2	about, there's the New England Patriots, there's the San Antonio Spurs, there's the Chicago
1:29.7	Bulls, the great teams of history. And for whatever reason, it wasn't until I read,
1:35.0	actually I know what reason women's sports tends to get the short end of the stick in American
1:39.8	culture. But I hadn't really thought of the US Women's National Team as one of the
1:46.6	great dynasties of sports all time. And it very clearly is, very clearly was, it remains
1:55.0	an institution that a ton of people can learn from. And I have seen that team totally differently
1:59.8	from reading that book. I've seen a bunch of different teams differently from reading
2:03.2	that book. But all of that led to a very wonderful and humbling surprise when we were doing
2:11.5	the marketing reach out for courage or discipline. And someone on my social team was like, Hey,
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