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3 Things (with Ric Elias)

The Mindset of a Champion (Abby Wambach)

3 Things (with Ric Elias)

Red Ventures

Ric Elias, Red Ventures, Society & Culture, Motivation, Inspiration, Self-improvement, Leadership, Business, Education, Careers

4.9165 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Abby Wambach is a soccer legend. She’s won two FIFA World Cups, two Olympic gold medals, and she currently holds the world record for all-time international goals scored – among men and women. On top of that, she’s a fierce champion for equal pay, and a New York Times bestselling author, going viral with her book, “WOLFPACK.”


In this episode, Ric and Abby discuss what it takes to achieve - and maintain - greatness,  how Abby is fighting for equal pay, and how she’s finding forgiveness through parenting.



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0:00.0

This season on three things, we're zoning in on one theme, peak performance.

0:05.8

What does it take to achieve greatness?

0:07.6

How do you maintain it?

0:08.7

And how do you continually find areas to improve in every area of your life?

0:12.5

People are driven by different things.

0:14.4

To me, the great peak performance out there are the people that are driven by this notion of there's always another gear.

0:21.0

There's always a way to get better.

0:23.1

It's two people, 20 minutes, and three things with Rick Elias.

0:27.3

Abby Wambach is a soccer legend.

0:29.6

She's won two FIFA World Cups, two Olympic gold medals, and she currently holds the

0:33.6

world record for all-time international goals scored among men and women. On top of that, she's a fierce champion for equal pay, and a New York Times best-selling author

0:41.5

going viral with her book, Wolfpack. We're doing something different with this episode.

0:45.7

For those of you who like to keep things short and sweet, you can find a 20-minute edit

0:48.9

focused solely on peak performance in our podcast feed and at 3thing things.redventures.com. But right now you're listening

0:54.6

to the full 40 minute conversation, which includes how Abby's fighting for equal pay,

0:58.6

how she's finding forgiveness through parenting and much more. This is three things with

1:02.9

Abby Wambach. Welcome to the show. Today we have Abby Wambach with us. I am so excited. You know why? Abby, I am excited because anytime I get to

1:13.6

talk to somebody who is the world's best at something, I'm just like, you know what? That is so unique.

1:18.8

So let's start there. You are the all-time goal scorer, men, women, doesn't matter,

1:25.3

in international soccer. Yeah.

1:28.0

What's that like? Um, it's amazing. You know, I think that it gives me, um, some credibility

1:35.5

when I step on stages now. But interestingly enough, there is a Canadian woman who is right

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