Football, Inspiring Others, and Encouraging Change with Bex Smith

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bex Smith is an internationally successful footballer who's transitioned to a global executive in sports and business. Bex first came to prominence as a World Cup and Olympic footballer captaining her New Zealand national team, and culminating her club career winning The Triple with VfL Wolfsburg as UEFA Champions League, German League, and German Cup Champions.

During her time as a professional footballer in Germany, Sweden, Australia, and the USA, she earned degrees in Economics and Spanish at Duke University, a dual MBA from Germany's Leipnitz Univ & Purdue Univ and Masters in Psychology from Massey Univ, NZ and speaks 4 languages.

Post football, she transitioned to the Competitions Manager role of FIFA’s Women’s World Cups then Strategic Planning for Women’s Football globally at FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland. She then co-founded JAMAA Sports Productions (currently Pax Films), and became the Global Executive Director of Women’s Game for COPA90 where she executive produced and hosted the BBC podcast called "The Players Podcast" spotlighting the world's top footballers.

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She founded Crux Sports with the unwavering belief that the women's game is the most powerful tool for social and cultural change in the world when managed properly.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:10.5	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators, to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by,
0:22.1	and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day.
0:25.8	Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and inspire, so I hope that the power
0:31.1	hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.
0:37.6	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:39.5	Today I'm joined by International World Cup and Olympic Footballer
0:43.6	and former captain of the New Zealand Women's International Football Team.
0:47.6	Welcome to the Power Hour, Bex Smith.
0:50.3	Hey, Adrian.
0:51.8	So cool to be here.
0:53.5	It's great to have you.
0:54.9	So excited for our conversation today.
0:56.7	And I think before I dive into all of my questions, because I have loads, I think it would be great for you to give the listeners of the show if they're not familiar with your journey, with your career.
1:07.3	If you could tell us a little bit, maybe take us back, actually, and talk us through your journey and career in football. Yes, it's a long one, so I'm going to try to be quick
1:16.3	because I get bored of hearing my own voice when I talk about my football career. But I was,
1:21.8	because I was born in L.A., but my parents are Kiwis, I had this opportunity to play for the
1:26.2	New Zealand national team. So I kind of played
1:28.2	all sports when I was younger. I actually never really wanted to be a footballer. It was never a dream of
1:33.1	mine. I actually wanted to be a professional surfer. But my mom said absolutely not. You're not going to
1:38.7	go around on beaches from 15 years old. So I got my education, played at Duke University, ended up captaining the team there,
1:47.6	and then got noticed by the New Zealand national team. And in my senior of college, I actually
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