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    107. Billie Jean King: Abby’s Hero Shares Her Hardest Battle

    107. Billie Jean King: Abby’s Hero Shares Her Hardest Battle

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    107. Billie Jean King: Abby’s Hero Shares Her Hardest Battle

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    57 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 23, 2022
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    1. How Billie Jean could not live as her full authentic self until age 51.
    2. The moment Billie Jean knew that Abby was not okay after her USWNT retirement. 
    3. How to visualize a reality that doesn’t yet exist – so you can be it, even when you don’t see it. 
    4. How Billie Jean numbed herself through an eating disorder and how she recovered by not being a “good girl.” 
    5. Why Billie Jean does not regret her pre-Roe abortion, and the degrading process she endured to access it. 

    CW // eating disorders discussion
     
    About Billie Jean: 
    Named one of the “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” by Life magazine and a 2009 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Billie Jean King is the founder of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, founder of the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation and part of the ownership group of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Angel City FC and the Philadelphia Freedoms. King also serves on the board of the Women’s Sports Foundation.

    In her legendary tennis career, King captured 39 Grand Slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles, including a record 20 Wimbledon championships. Her historic win over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 Battle of the Sexes, is one of the greatest moments in sports history. In 2017, Fox Searchlight released the critically acclaimed film, Battle of the Sexes, which depicts the cultural and social impact of the groundbreaking match. 

    In September 2020, King became the first woman to have an annual global team sports event named in her honor when Fed Cup – the women’s world cup of tennis – was rebranded as the Billie Jean King Cup. Her memoir, ALL IN: An Autobiography, is available now.

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    Released:
    Jun 23, 2022
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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.