Alex Morgan
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228 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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And we were like flying to Panama, playing in 95 degree weather where it's like 100% humid. We were going through all these like coaching changes and like there was so much stress going
involved outside of this and then i'm figuring out how i'm gonna tell everyone that i'm like retiring and i'm pregnant and i'm done playing soccer for good oh it was a lot and i just feel like i would hold it together the moment i would enter the training facility and the moment i would leave it was just like i needed my bed like now like i was like not a real human at that time like with my daughter i was just like mom's tired
please go with daddy or take your iPad.
Women have been betting on ourselves, especially female athletes our whole lives. So why not do this as an extension of that? So building together over like from 2018, 19, 20 and launching it in 21 was another thing of just like betting on myself and being like, there are incredible stories that female athletes have,
um, have not told that I want to give a platform to, um, there's a community of female athletes and fans that want to feel like there's a place that they can like call home in that, um, in that it's, you know, somewhere that they feel like women's sports is at the forefront. So that's where Together was like born out of.
And we highlight anything and everything, not just like the big sports and, you know, soccer and basketball and Olympic sports, but we've done a, you know, girls skating club in New York City. We highlighted, you know, surfers in Hawaii and female boxers and, And anyone and everyone that we feel like never really had the platform before, that's what we want to provide to them.
And now we're in our fourth year and it's going really well. And I'm very proud of the work that we've done.
Yeah, that was, that's probably if someone asks like my greatest achievement, um, I don't know that it's my biggest goal I've ever scored or the World Cup or the Olympics.
It's achieving equal pay on the international stage and creating that sort of domino effect or as we like to say, butterfly effect that helped other women in other countries and in the US with their leagues and their teams fight for equality in their sport and outside of sport too.
Uh, it was many years of fighting with our employer, um, which was weird to show up and be working, you know, playing on behalf of us soccer and going and, you know, having these meetings. And I was a part of, you know, the athletes council. So I would go and I'd see everything I would see. I would see everything.
People on other councils step up and say, you guys don't deserve as much as you're getting because or as much as you're trying to get. You're going to be taken away from the kids and you're going to be taken away from these other. And I'm like, we're not trying to take away from anyone else. We're just trying to get what we deserve. We open the books.
We're seeing the revenue that we're bringing in. It's just as much as the men. Irregardless, we should still be. getting the same contracts, irregardless of that.
But seeing the revenue, we were like, and we have proof and you're still fighting us without all this investment, without us on primetime, without us like getting on TV as much as the men, without FIFA stepping up and compensating the federation for the women's side as much as they do for the men's side. So all of these things, we had a great argument, a great PR team, great legal team.
And achieved equal pay finally in 2022. And that was like a moment that it was like, okay, this has changed forever. And it, you know, it's not just like the ones who were named in the lawsuit and the, you know, us that kind of like follow through with it, but it was also the ones that started it, you know, the Mia Hams, Julie Fowdy, Brandy Chastain, all of them that really, you
went around the country in 99, like selling tickets for the women's world cup, like by themselves to get people into the stadiums to be like, watch us, you'll enjoy this product. Trust me. And fans did. And, um, and it was incredible, but you know, it started back then. And I feel like it was just like us continuing on that fight.
Um, but we got to a point where like, it could not continue on any longer like this. And, um, And that's where we were able to settle and achieve equal pay and back pay.
Yeah, well, I mean, they just don't have to have the distraction of fighting their employer over how many coaches are there in comparison to the men. The fact that we used to get commercial flights and like I sat on a middle seat to London in 2012 for the Olympics, like the backseat, like the bathroom was behind my back in a middle seat.
Just like not having to worry about that is great for these players. And I think that's like, Some of us older, more experienced players who were going through this lawsuit and really spearheading it day-to-day with our legal team realized we're not necessarily going to be the beneficiaries of this lawsuit more than...
more than actually like the 18 21 year olds that are just coming in because they're going to be the ones that hopefully won't even know a difference between the women's team and the men's team they won't even really understand that at one point um not only was the pay vastly different but the treatment and like the flights the number of people on staff etc were
We're always, always, always a hot topic for discussion and always a fight that we had to had to bring to the table like there was nothing ever given. And now for them to step into it and just have to play. I mean, no wonder the quality has just like gone through the roof, which is why it was like easier for me to retire because I was like. I am not the best anymore.
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