Hello Sunshine and welcome to a special edition of the State of the Union Podcast.

On this State of the Union Podcast, we have a special guest.

My friend, I'm proud to call her my friend, I'm proud to call her my colleague, the one, the only, the great,

Hale Heather O'Reilly, and she is coming to us from Dublin over there in the Republic of Ireland.

All right, so here's what happened.

Heather O'Reilly about three years ago, retired from soccer

after an incredible career, gold medals, world cups, incredible success at the professional level.

She says that's it, I've done all that I can.

Now Heather and I have absolutely nothing in common when it comes to winning okay with all of

her medals and all of her trophies and stuff like that but one thing we do have in

common is we took a sabbatical we took a step away from the game and then we

decided we're coming back. We come to

find out last Thursday that the great Heather O'Reilly has returned to the game of

soccer, okay? She has things that have been left undone. She has things to do. She has boxes to check.

The great Heather O'Reilly joining us from Dublin. Heather, why are you in Dublin,

Ireland?

Thanks, Lex. I can't wait to also talk about all the things that we don't have to come.

But I'll try to focus.

I'll try to focus.

So, yeah, Lex, as you know, I am a passionate being. It has driven me in my life and my career.

Sometimes it works for me. Sometimes it works against me. Okay, but it makes me who I am. And so, like you said, I hung on my boots in 2019. I feel like I was like it I was like this orange that had just

been squeezed out there was a few drops left but I was like you know what there's a few

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