Hi everyone. I'm Maggie McGrath editor of Forbes Women.

Elite women's sports are expected to generate 1.3 billion dollars this year and a lot of that

money comes from commercial deals and

sponsorships. Joining us now is someone who knows more than just a thing or two

about this. Carly Lloyd is a retired U.S. Women's National Team player. She's an Olympic

gold medalist and she's also a Fox Sports analyst. Carly, thank you so much for being

here. Sure. Good to chat. So before we were starting this recording, we were talking you and I about a lot of your

sponsorship deals and you were talking about the necessity of these deals even after retiring from playing because of

the lack of a retirement package. Can you talk to me about how you've approached the business

opportunities in your post playing career?

Well, I think first and foremost, it comes from performance on the field.

And obviously, our team was very successful over the years in 2015 from an individual standpoint from myself

and my performance as well as the team's performance on winning a World Cup,

which was the first World Cup that we had won

since the 99 World Cup.

So it took 16 years, 16 long years.

So that performance that I had and the team had and just the

the coverage that Fox Sports had with the World Cup and where it was located in Canada.

So many people tuned in and it was like everything kind of just aligned

for us to have opportunities come our way.

And so personally, I had a ton of opportunities,

you know, opportunities to go speak,

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