President of U.S. Soccer, Cindy Parlow Cone, on Her Path From Pro to President

The RE—CAP Show with Tobin Heath and Christen Press

RE—INC

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Tobin and Christen are joined by USWNT legend and President of U.S. Soccer, Cindy Parlow Cone, to discuss her incredible path from player to President. Did she ever envision herself in this role? How did it happen? And what challenges and successes has she experienced being the first female President of both the men’s and women’s teams? Plus, the unique position they were all in during the pay equity lawsuit, the potential to host an upcoming World Cup, World Sevens Football, the inspiration and impact of the 99ers and, as always, your Community Questions! Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube. Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletter Follow RE—INC: https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/ https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inc https://twitter.com/re__inc https://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin: https://www.instagram.com/tobinheath https://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen: https://www.instagram.com/christenpress https://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC: Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce. The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women’s sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports. RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone. RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Recap Show. On today's episode, we will be talking about World Sevens football, our new puppy Bobby, and we will be joined by Cindy Parlo-Cone for an athlete to founder interview brought to you by Intuit QuickBooks. Now, let's get into the show.
0:20.4	Welcome back to the recap show.
0:22.3	We are so happy you are here.
0:24.5	Today we are going to kick off this episode by talking about the sevens.
0:30.1	Tobin, what in the world is the sevens?
0:32.4	World Sevens football.
0:34.6	Q, throw hat into studio.
0:41.1	That's better.
0:42.8	All right.
0:43.7	World Sevens football is something that I am involved in, which is honestly a new format of global club football.
0:52.5	Seven side football, which is kind of the origin of all of football,
0:57.9	um, fast-paced, like, entertaining, all the things that we love in a football game,
1:04.9	totally condensed into a 30-minute game, seven aside, lots of goals, lots of actions,
1:13.0	lots of one-v-ones, best players in the world, best clubs in the world, all competing grand slam style. This is innovative football.
1:20.2	And what I'm most excited about, because I know you're going to ask, is that we are reimagining
1:27.0	a sport. We are reimagining a sport.
1:28.1	We are reimagining what the next generation of all sports are looking like in this era of sports.
1:33.4	We see this happening on every level across the globe.
1:38.3	And I'm really excited to be a part of this group that's bringing World Sevens to life
1:43.0	because this is something that I'm passionate
1:44.8	about like the fun in football, the entertainment and football. It's what drew me to playing the
1:50.6	game. It's what drew me to my favorite players. And I think this next generation of fans and
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