Hello, everybody.

Hello, everybody. I'm Jillian Sackavits. It's Friday, which means a very warm welcome to all of you, listening to full-time focus. It is presented by Amazon business.

On today's show, Meg Linahan will join me to talk about her sit-down with the women who coined

the term pressure is a privilege. That's right, the legendary Billie Jean King in Los Angeles last week.

And then producer Theo and I will get you all ready for NWSL week for the English women's FAA Cup semifinals

and any other news from the week that caught our eye.

Let's get into it.

Time now to bring in the great Meg Linahan, who not only was covering the U.S.

women's national team out in Los Angeles, but was talking to a legend in herself,

Billy Jean King, one of the greatest professional soccer.

I'm so used to saying soccer, tennis, tennis players of all time, 39 grand slam titles.

But beyond that, Meg, long time and powerful advocate for gender quality, social justice,

and also an entrepreneur and businesswoman in her own right.

I have to hear all about this one-on-one.

And you have a fascinating article that will be dropping on The the athletic on Friday when you're all listening to this podcast.

So, Meg, please take us inside what it was like meeting Billy Jean King, but also having this sit down with her.

Yeah.

I mean, it is such a fascinating thing because so I had gone back as part of the prep for this interview. Yeah, I mean, it is such a fascinating thing because I, so I had gone back as part of

the prep for this interview. Matthew Fauterman, who's our main tennis writer at the athletic,

had done this previous sit down last year with Billie Jean King via Zoom, I think, and just getting

the sense that she's starting to get impatient with the progress of women's sports.

And so I kind of wanted to revisit that. But she was the headliner at She Bleu Summit put on by

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