31 min listen
Julie Foudy: Leadership in Sports
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Sep 1, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
**Positive Coaching Alliance is proud to have worked with Liberty Mutual Insurance to create this podcast and [other powerful resources](http://devzone.positivecoach.org/browse/%2522Liberty%2520Mutual%2520Insurance%2522).**
This podcast series features Positive Coaching Alliance staff interviewing prominent former athletes, coaches and general managers. Each episode, these influential stars share insights from their own sports careers. Listen in as they talk about filling emotional tanks, bouncing back from mistakes, staying motivated through long seasons to continually give 100% effort, and how they translated their sports experience to invaluable life lessons.
**IN THIS EPISODE: JULIE FOUDY**
In this episode, Jim welcomes former US National Women’s soccer team player Julie Foudy ([@JulieFoudy](https://twitter.com/JulieFoudy)). Foudy appeared in four World Cups, winning two FIFA World Championships. She also played in three Olympic Games, earning two Gold and one Silver medal. Foudy talks about leadership - on the field as a player, on the sidelines from coaches and teammates, and today as an ambassador for women and girls in sport. Here's where you'll find Foudy talking about featured topics:
- **Coaching Own Child**- 6:30, 28:40
- **Mistakes**- 22:05, 27:15
**ABOUT JIM THOMPSON**
Jim Thompson is the founder and Executive Director of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a nonprofit organization founded at Stanford University with the mission of helping to transform the culture of youth sports to give all young athletes the opportunity for a positive, character-building experience. PCA served as the experts behind the Liberty Mutual Play Positive™ program.
This podcast series features Positive Coaching Alliance staff interviewing prominent former athletes, coaches and general managers. Each episode, these influential stars share insights from their own sports careers. Listen in as they talk about filling emotional tanks, bouncing back from mistakes, staying motivated through long seasons to continually give 100% effort, and how they translated their sports experience to invaluable life lessons.
**IN THIS EPISODE: JULIE FOUDY**
In this episode, Jim welcomes former US National Women’s soccer team player Julie Foudy ([@JulieFoudy](https://twitter.com/JulieFoudy)). Foudy appeared in four World Cups, winning two FIFA World Championships. She also played in three Olympic Games, earning two Gold and one Silver medal. Foudy talks about leadership - on the field as a player, on the sidelines from coaches and teammates, and today as an ambassador for women and girls in sport. Here's where you'll find Foudy talking about featured topics:
- **Coaching Own Child**- 6:30, 28:40
- **Mistakes**- 22:05, 27:15
**ABOUT JIM THOMPSON**
Jim Thompson is the founder and Executive Director of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a nonprofit organization founded at Stanford University with the mission of helping to transform the culture of youth sports to give all young athletes the opportunity for a positive, character-building experience. PCA served as the experts behind the Liberty Mutual Play Positive™ program.
Released:
Sep 1, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (43)
Kim Oden: Teamwork And Performance Under Pressure: **Listen in as Positive Coaching Alliance goes 1-on-1 in interviews with top pro and college players, coaches, executives and other major sports figures who provide tips, tools, information and inspiration for youth and high school sports coaches, parents and student-athletes.** This 1-on-1 interview features Kim Oden, a PCA National Advisory Board Member and Olympic Volleyball Bronze Medalist. Oden graduated from Stanford University with a degree in public policy. After graduation Kim joined the U.S. Women's National Volleyball team and captained the squad in both the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics Kim finished her Olympic career by bringing home a bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics. As a coach at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California, Oden won PCA’s Double-Goal Coach® Award. Ruben Nieves, PCA Director of Training, talks to Oden on such topics as performance under pressure, specialization and teamwork. Oden i by Power of Positive