Episode 67: Jordan Larson and Sue Enquist

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy and Lynn Olszowy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Olympic gold medalist volleyball player Jordan Larson and legendary college softball coach and high performance consultant Sue Enquist join Laughter Permitted to discuss how the U.S. national volleyball team developed its team culture en route to gold at the Tokyo Olympics. Jordan shares how Sue came to work with the team, and both talk about the secret sauce that went into building the Olympic volleyball team's chemistry. This episode also features Julie's viewpoint on hopping on the "Ted Lasso" fan train.

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0:00.0	The Laughter Permitted Podcast is brought to you by Ally. Do it right.
0:04.0	Hello my friends, hello. Just go to let you know that we have another awesome episode.
0:16.4	That's what we want you to know. Welcome to Laughter Permitted.
0:21.6	I'm Julie Neildheim and Fowdy. This is little Zowie. Hi there.
0:27.4	Jules, I don't know that song. Shut up. You do not know Neildheim and Jazz singer. Hello again.
0:36.6	Maybe if I heard him sing it. I cannot believe that.
0:43.4	Lynn, am I that old?
0:46.4	Well, might be that you're that off key. I don't know.
0:51.4	I'm gonna have to go to Spotify and look up the song.
0:54.4	We need to hear from my doof village. If they knew what that song was, please.
0:58.4	Fair enough. Give me some hope. Oh my gosh.
1:01.4	Okay, on to our episode. We have our first two for for the season.
1:05.4	Two for one with guests, which is very exciting.
1:08.4	And this is a unique two for this episode is with USA Women's Olympic volleyball team captain Jordan Larson
1:16.4	along with Sue Inquest, who was a consultant for that Olympic volleyball team for the Tokyo Olympics.
1:24.4	And we focus a lot of this interview around the idea of building team culture.
1:29.4	One of my favorite topics. But first a bit more about both of these phenomenal women.
1:34.4	Jordan Larson is a three time Olympic volleyball player. She won silver at the 2012 London Games.
1:41.4	Bronze at the 2016 Games and Rio. And then finally got that goal medal at the Tokyo Olympics this past summer.
1:51.4	And Jordan was named best outside hitter and MVP of the Tokyo Games. Yes, she was.
1:57.4	Jordan Larson. She played college volleyball at Nebraska leading the Huskers to a national championship in 2006.
2:03.4	And has played professionally in Puerto Rico, Russia, Turkey, and even in China.
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