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Megan Rapinoe

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

“We just get one life.” Megan Rapinoe is proud. But despite her gold-medal filled career, she is even more proud of her impact on society. The soccer legend sits down with Bob Myers to discuss being a dreamer at a young age, when she realized her talent and the decision to come out. She opens up about deciding to kneel in support of Colin Kaepernick and to shine light on police brutality, and admits that - despite her public persona - she indeeds struggles just like everyone else. She’s unabashedly Megan Rapinoe and she’s proud of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's a little bit of like this world wasn't really designed for me anyways.

0:04.4

So I'm certainly not going to try to fit in to some crazy little box that's very small.

0:10.9

So I'm just like, well, what's the worst that happened? I don't know.

0:18.4

Lead by Example with Bob Myers is presented for the people by Caesar's sports book,

0:23.2

You bet you get with Caesar's rewards and must be 21 or older.

0:28.0

Welcome to Lead by Example. I'm your host Bob Myers. Today, Megan Repino joins us,

0:33.4

which is awesome. We don't know each other, but I think we know some of the same people.

0:38.0

Thanks for coming on. Yeah, of course. Thanks for having me.

0:42.7

So I feel like a lot of people think they know you. I might be one of them.

0:50.5

Maybe your public is your private. I don't know, but I'm excited to get to know you a little bit better.

0:57.6

Starting out as a young Megan, we talked about you're from Redding, which is kind of interesting.

1:03.9

I'm not from too far away from there, but as a young woman, young girl,

1:10.6

did you, when you thought about your life and you thought about what it might be,

1:16.0

was, were you a big dreamer? Was it kind of like, I'm going to do these things or were you

1:20.0

destined to say, well, nobody gets out of Redding and that's that stuff's not for me.

1:25.1

No, I was a big dreamer for sure. I was just so into sports. I grew up like 90s bulls fan,

1:35.7

90s cowboys fan too. So I think I'm probably a little bit of the bandwagon.

1:40.9

Yeah, that feels like that. Yeah, a little bit. My dad is from Chicago, like loosely.

1:46.7

My mom's nice as loosely, but I feel like I grew up idolizing them. I mean, obviously,

1:54.0

if you're watching Michael Jordan and the bulls, Dennis Rodman, all that in the 90s,

2:01.9

it was just so entertaining. I think I was enthralled with that, probably mostly.

2:09.2

This is different than any other sports scene that I've ever seen.

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