Abby Wambach

Abby Wambach, one of soccer's legends, discusses her journey from an illustrious sports career to navigating life beyond athletics. She shares insights on maintaining motivation and the emotional challenges athletes face after retirement. Abby emphasizes the importance of learning from losses and the need for empathy in team dynamics. She also explores personal definitions of 'enough' and encourages a reassessment of success in a society driven by comparison. Join her for a candid conversation on resilience, identity, and personal growth.

In this discussion, guests Abby Wambach, a legendary soccer player, and Sian Bylock, a cognitive scientist, dive into the mental game behind sports. Wambach shares insights from her iconic 2011 World Cup performance, emphasizing resilience and teamwork. Bylock explains the phenomenon of 'choking' under pressure and offers strategies to combat anxiety. Sports journalist Kate Fagan discusses the need for equitable coverage of women's sports, while Sarah Lewis redefines success as a continuous journey of mastery. They all highlight how sports psychology can enhance daily life.

Glennon Doyle, a renowned author and activist, teams up with Abby Wambach, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, to dive deep into authentic parenting. They reflect on their personal journeys, discussing divorce and the importance of emotional support for deeply feeling children. The duo tackles the intersection of faith and identity, emphasizing the need for kids to explore their beliefs freely. Also highlighted are the pressures of diet culture and the power of self-affirmation, creating a rich dialogue about nurturing both children and oneself.

Abby Wambach and Brené Brown discuss the new rules of leadership, inspired by Wambach's book 'WOLFPACK'. They delve into topics such as unlearning old rules, leading from wherever you are, transforming failure into fuel, and leveling up through challenges.

In the conversation that’s meant the most to Glennon, Abby, and Amanda – poet and spoken word artist, Andrea Gibson makes the bravest announcement we’ve ever heard. Andrea shares how to boundlessly, relentlessly love our lives by: paying attention to the only thing we can control; letting go of living in fear; and feeling less alone and terrified through it all.CW: Discussion of suicidal ideationAbout Andrea: Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show”. Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health and the dismantling of oppressive social systems. Andrea is the author of seven books, most recently “You Better Be Lightning”. TW: @andreagibsonIG: @andreagibson 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

This is the one!  Our favorite person on the planet – Abby Wambach – is going deep, answering the questions that we all have, but that only Glennon and Amanda can ask.  Abby shares, in an intensely new and courageous way, about her lifelong pursuit of love – including her complicated relationships with her mom, soccer, her first marriage, queerness, and her “shadow self” – and why she has questioned her own lovability for so much of her life.ABOUT ABBY WAMBACH:Olympian, Activist, Author, and Co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things PodcastAbby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. Abby is the host of ABBY’S PLACES on ESPN+, in which she showcases what makes her beloved sport of soccer a worldwide sensation. An activist for equality and inclusion, she is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WOLFPACK as well as the adaptation of WOLFPACK for the next generation, an instant New York Times bestseller. She is a founder and part owner of Angel City FC, the first majority-female-owned soccer team in history, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Together Rising. Abby lives in California with her wife and their three children.TW: @abbywambach IG: @abbywambach 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

Abby Wambach, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and award-winning author, shares her raw journey through grief and sobriety. She discusses the profound shift from seeking external validation to discovering inner self-worth. Abby reflects on her brother's tragic death and how it impacts her sobriety. She emphasizes the transformative power of self-love and recounts how her DUI arrest was a catalyst for growth. With candid introspection, she reveals that every struggle can lead to deeper self-awareness, ultimately redefining personal success and happiness.

Abby Wambach, a legendary soccer player with two Olympic golds and a FIFA World Cup title, dives into her journey after retirement. She discusses the identity crisis athletes often face, especially women, emphasizing the importance of self-worth beyond sports. Wambach also tackles the significance of embracing failure as a growth catalyst and the critical elements of building winning teams. The conversation culminates in redefining what 'enough' means in a world filled with societal pressures, urging listeners to find their own sense of fulfillment.

We can do hard things, and yet, sometimes we can try easier. Glennon, Abby, Amanda – and the Pod Squad! — share the strategies they’ve used to suffer less – giving us simple Life Hacks for relationships, home, tech, travel, and saving time. 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

Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed has been a sensation of 2020 and beyond, and now she’s launched a new podcast titled with words of hers that have become a cultural force: We Can Do Hard Things. Meanwhile her wife, the soccer icon Abby Wambach, has her own bestselling books and is hosting a new tv show - Abby’s Places on ESPN+. Krista spoke with them before they were quite so much in the public eye together, and it’s a window into the passions that brought them here. They sat together in Seattle at the 2018 summit of Women Moving Millions, a consortium of women testing the meaning and boundaries of philanthropy. And courage was the theme of the day.Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA Women’s World Cup champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of Year Award. She’s written two books: Wolfpack and Forward: A Memoir, and is host of “Abby’s Places” on ESPN+.Glennon Doyle is creator of the online community Momastery and founder and president of Together Rising, a nonprofit for women and children in crisis. Her books include Untamed and Love Warrior. She also hosts the podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things.”This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach — ‘Courage is the presence of fear, and going anyway.’ Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in January 2019.