A great week on The Nikki & Brie Show continues as USWNT soccer legend Mia Hamm joins them for an exceptional conversation that covers her career on the field, her perspective on being a mother, her work to raise awareness for bone marrow transplants and the special connection she has to the bone marrow transplant community. For years Nikki & Brie have been putting it out in the universe that they wanted to get Mia Hamm on the podcast. Growing up in Arizona and playing soccer, they both looked up to the USWNT that won multiple World Cups and Olympic Gold medals, and created a path of empowerment and achievement in life. Mia talks about the responsibility and opportunity that the team embraced, knowing that young eyes across the country were watching their every move, raising twin girls, filming a legendary Gatorade commercial with Michael Jordan and what his support meant, exhausting practices that tested her mental fortitude, and how she was introduced to the game of soccer, and the WWE superstar that used to throw her into a pool as a kid that went on to also have a Hall of Fame career. Mia also highlights the importance of her big brother Garrett, whom she admired greatly, who passed away in 1997 from complications following a bone marrow transplant (BMT) his family hoped could help cure aplastic anemia, a rare bone marrow disease he was battling at the time, which is why bone marrow transplant support and gave her a new mission in life to help other families, teaming up with Incyte to make sure they get the tools and information they need with a procedure that can have serious complications like Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD). Mia closes out the episode with a special Inspiration & Affirmation that focuses on being present in a world that’s full of distractions.