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Hi, everyone. Welcome to teaming up with Becky Sauerburn, brought to you by the women's game.

I'm Becky, and this is a show where we meet people in and around the game of soccer, the leaders,

the thinkers, the doers, and connect with who they

are by talking about what they love and what they nerd out on. Today on the pod, we are teaming up

with Rebecca Lowe, NBC's studio host for All Things Premier League, legendary football reporter,

and overall an incredibly lovely person. She's done fieldwork for some of the biggest events in the

world. She's covered the past six Olympic Games. She presents the Kentucky Derby every May and is host of the It's Called Soccer Podcast alongside a carousel of retired pro footballers. Rebecca has led the charge of bringing English football to an American audience, transforming America's relationship with the sport completely and doing so with charm, wit, and her sheer love for the beautiful game.

I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Rebecca. As I take my own first steps into a sports

broadcasting and media career, I am reminded how important representation is and how fortunate we are

to have trade blazers like Rebecca leading the way for women and what is still a very male-dominated arena.

You'll hear that her path to becoming NBC's Premier League studio host was littered with

misogyny and harassment and that that negativity almost derailed her.

It's a reminder that we often don't know what people have gone through to get to where

they are. And if people are willing to share those stories and to share their scars,

we'd be really wise to listen up. All right, everybody, here's my conversation with Rebecca Lowe.

Rebecca, welcome teaming up. Thank you so much for being here. You've mentioned before that your

work-life balance is pun intended. Always a work in progress. You live in Northern California, you work in

Stanford, Connecticut. Which end of the US are you coming to us from today? First of all, thank you

for having me. I come to you from home. So Thursdays, is it Thursday? Yes, Thursdays, I'm at home.

Thursday tends to be my big prep day. I mean, to be honest, Becky, every day is a prep day in this job.

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