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Interview: Meghan Klingenberg, Professional Footballer & Lifestyle Brand Co-Founder

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Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5729 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Amira talks with professional footballer and former US Women’s National Team player Meghan Klingenberg about re-inc, the lifestyle brand she founded with Christen Press, Tobin Heath and Megan Rapinoe. They talk about athletes redefining businesses, making gender-neutral and body-inclusive fashion, and their newest collection, Gamer, which finds connections and empowerment between sports and gaming. This episode was produced by Ali Lemer. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:52.9

After winning the World Cup in 2015, Megan Kliggenberg and the U.S. women's national team

0:58.2

returned to the U.S. to much fanfare. There were ticker tape parades, keys to the city,

1:04.6

White House visits. But as the confetti fell, the women reckoned with their sense of shock.

1:10.5

Why should they be shocked at the

1:12.0

enthusiasm? Had they become so accustomed to not getting attention as women athletes that it surprised

1:18.3

them? And amongst this feeling of possibility for the future of women's sports also crept in a

1:24.5

new feeling. They wanted more. For as much as the celebrations were nice,

1:29.6

did it come with pay equity, did it come with more endorsement deals, did it come with the

1:34.0

publicity and investment in women's sports that clearly there was an appetite for? Of course, we know

1:40.8

this team would go on to sue for pay equity, but there was other ways that

1:46.5

Kligenberg and her teammates decided to challenge the status quo.

1:50.8

Not content to wait around for the sporting landscape to change, Kligenberg and fellow

1:56.2

teammates set out to change it in a myriad of ways.

2:00.4

For Kligenberg and teammates Christian Press, Tobin Heath, and Megan Rapino, one of those

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