Female Footballers

This week we dive into female focused nutrition for athletes! We interviewed Linda from Levelle Nutrition where they are using female specific data to help create nutritional sports performance products just for females. This conversation is very interesting and can help inform our female athletes on how their physiology is impacted by how they fuel their body. Enjoy! And please check out LevelleN...

We invite you to listen to the recording of our Mental Health Awareness Webinar titled the Mental Side Matters. This webinar featured NWSL players and Female Footballers Mentors, Sam Hiatt (Gotham FC), Sierra Enge (San Diego Wave), and Civana Kuhlmann (Washington Spirit). We were also honored to have special guests Steve and Gina Meyers from Katie’s Save. We hope this discussion around normalizing...

We are back with another HOT TOPIC's episode where we are discussing the purpose and growth behind Mental Health Awareness Month. We dive into redefining terms like mental toughness, we call out youth clubs who aren't doing enough for our youth athletes and we highlight the exciting things we're doing this month including our recent community partnership with NWSL club Bay FC!

This week we welcome Bri Reed, Sam Rosette, and Gabby Cuevas from The Players Network! The Players Network is a professional women’s football community by players, for players, designed to connect, protect, and empower players., primarily players playing internationally. These founders discuss the importance of connection and community when looking for opportunity to play overseas. Enjoy!

This week we welcome our strategic partner and Athmindset Founder/CEO, Lisa Bonta Sumii! We discuss the importance of defining mental health terms and calling attention to how to support athletes through both the common struggles they face and when they may suffer more deeply in sport. Enjoy!

Season 7 kicks off with a new monthly segment called Hot Topics! Each month we will spend one episode talking about relevant content in the female soccer space! This week we are discussing Tryouts and ID Camps. Enjoy!

This week we sit down with Asia Amal’s, founder of I Love To Watch You Play. She is an Emmy award winning sports journalist who now helps parents restore joy, renew purpose and reevaluate the way they support their athlete. This is a great episode for parents! Enjoy!

Join us this week as we chit chat about the start to the NWSL season and the upcoming She Believes Tournament for the USWNT! We talk about league growth, historic moments new expansion teams and some players we are excited about this season! Enjoy!

This week we are joined by founder and Board President of EiFocus, Sarah Kivel. EiFocus is aimed at helping coaches harness emotional intelligence and leadership development within their athletes. Sarah is a certified executive coach who specializes in emotional intelligence. We discuss the definition and importance of emotional intelligence training for athletes. She is a wealth of knowledge and...

This week we continue to highlight Women History Month by having on the legendary Becky Burleigh! Burleigh is a 26 year veteran collegiate! National championship winning coach from the University of Florida, the former Orlando Pride interim Head Coach, and a creative curriculum contributor to the mental side of the game with her course What Drives Winning at the University of Florida. We chat abou...

We are honored this week to have on an Olympic Gold Medalist, a 99 World Cup Winning Goal Keeper, a former College Coach and current part owner of Angel City, the legendary Saskia Webber!! We talk about mentality and goal keeping and how it played a role in her career! Enjoy!

This week we take time to sit down with Everleigh, a mentee from our mentorship program and a youth competitive soccer player. We discuss her experience from her perspective and get insight into what her world is really like.

This week we have on Skye Eddy the founder of Soccer Parenting! She joined us in person at the United Soccer Convention, for a conversation about how we as soccer parents can best support our players. A great conversation, enjoy!

This week we are so fortunate to have on renowned Sports Psychologist Dan Abrahams! We had the privledge of sitting down with Dan at the United Soccer Coaches Convention where we discussed how coaches can implement more mental skills into sessions and trends within sports psychology amongst athletes post Covid. Enjoy the episode!

Happy NGWSD!! Our podcast this week is the recording of our virtual event through the Womens Sports Foundation to celebrate NGWSD! Because many of us here at FF have benefitted greatly from our soccer experience we get we could highlight and she’d light on an area where we all felt the greatest impact, the college experience. We chose to take follower questions about the College Soccer Experience...

This week we sit down with Grace Ahrens, the newest Executive Director of Women In Soccer. WIS is a community of women and marginalized individuals helping to bring more representation and visibility to women’s soccer. We discuss the important work they’re doing and their upcoming career fair. Enjoy!

This weeks episode is all about how the US Center for Safe Sport exists to help keep players safe from physical, sexual and emotional abuse. We dive in to the issues we’ve seen at the NWSL level and discuss how these issues are rampant at the youth level. Thank you to Safe Sports CEO Ju’Riese Colón for her time while at the United Soccer Coaches Convention! Enjoy!

What a weekend! This weeks episode we recap our weekend at the United Soccer Coaches Convention and how we lucked out and interviewed the G.O.A.T. CARLI LLOYD!!!! Listen to her discuss the importance and necessary aspects of implementing a positive team culture for female athletes. This was a pinch me moment for us at FF, so we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! (Keep in mind this unexpected mom...

This weeks guest is an Educational Behavioral Consultant and the founder and CEO of the Mental Game academy, Larissa Mills. Larissa is doing cutting edge work around mental skills training and emotional intelligence. Our discussion surrounds her knowledge and research of Social Media, Phone Use and female athletes. This is a discussion you won’t want to miss! Take a listen and enjoy!

Happy New Year!! It’s 2024 so we are talking briefly on setting intentions and why it’s important! What intentions do you have?

A quick recap episode of the Highs, Lows and Cheers in the women’s soccer world in 2023! We are grateful for your support of our podcast, please rate and review to help us out!

This week we disect the book Hidden Potential by Adam Grant. We dive into how sitting in uncomfortable and hard moments leads to growth and untapped potential and how this relates to the soccer world from the perspective of player, parent and coach. We highly recommend this book and following Adam Grant on social media. Enjoy!

Today we are thrilled to have NWSL San Diego Wave player and OUR NEWEST MENTOR, Sierra Enge on the pod!! We discuss her journey to the pro level, her experience at Stanford, her life long friendships in the game, he let work with Katie’s save and more! A great episode and an even better person!

We’re excited to have NWSL Portland Thorn Player and Female Footballer Mentor, Taylor Porter, back on the pod! She updates us on her 2022 Championship win and her 2023 season. She discusses the importance of creating balance and having self care hobbies, interests and routines. This is a great episode for our young players to listen to!

If you’re feeling the grind of the season, the burnout or just simply noticing that you feel stressed and tense, please check out this weeks episode! Our FF Mentor, Alana Asch takes us through a 10 minute progressive muscle relaxation meditation. This is a great way for players to understand the way your body feels tense and relaxed, so you can be more self aware of when you’re holding stress, anx...