Leading Under Pressure with Rebecca Lowe
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The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant
1h 22m
4 speakers
8 chapters
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Who is Rebecca Lowe and why is she a trailblazer in sports broadcasting?
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Welcome to The Curiosity Shop, a show from the Fox Media Podcast Network.
Hey, Adam.
Hey, Renee.
I got to tell you, my sisters and I are losing our minds about our guest today.
I wasn't even sure if you were going to show up. Were you going to be speechless?
No, I came. I am prepared and I am excited. Let's go. I'm going to try not to lose my mind, y'all, because in the curiosity shop with us, sitting next to the cash register on the bar in the shop is Rebecca Lowe. Here's what my sisters and I have come up with as the bio. The most praised person on the most watched soccer broadcast in American history. The 2026 World Cup final drew 38.9 million viewers on Fox with a peak of 51.7, the most watched soccer telecast in U.S. history. And you fronted that sucker. You have hosted NBC's Premier League coverage every season since 2013, seven consecutive Olympics as NBC's daytime host. You have a sports Emmy, which we can see because she's a badass. Yes. From her Paris 2024 coverage.
She's a drama graduate who is going to be an actress. She played, is this true? You played one season of high school soccer or football?
I mean, I mean, it's not, it's half a season and pretty terribly, but yeah, carry on.
And my sisters and I were obsessed with the way she covered the World Cup. So we have Rebecca Lowe with us on the Curiosity Shop, and I'm losing my mind, Adam.
Rightfully so. I mean, Rebecca, before I knew you as face and voice of the Olympics, but now you've become the face and voice of the World Cup. But even before that, I loved you when you did the bit with Ted Lasso.
Yeah, Ted Lasso, that's a whole nother situation. Guys, thank you so much. I'm clipping that introduction off and listening to that when I'm having a bad day because that was the most beautiful thing. Thank you so much. Can I just say what an honor it is to be on this with you guys, truly. We said just before we started recording that when the request came in, that went just right to the top of every request I've had this week, so far above every other request as well. So thank you for having me. I want to know who we beat. Yeah, of course you do.
Don't tell us.
Email us later. Not to get competitive. Okay, I want to start back with, did you fall in love with football as going to Crystal Palace game? Where did this start?
Yeah. That's it, Brené. That's it. We can date it back to September-ish of 1989. And my dad, I guess he had two tickets and somebody couldn't go to a game. And you don't take nine-year-old girls in the 80s to... to football in England. That was not a thing. But there was no one else to go. Actually, he can't remember me going. So therefore, he can't remember why he thought asking me was a good idea. My brother was obviously busy. All of my dad's friends were clearly busy. And he must have just looked at me and gone, yeah, that's fine. You'll do. Come on, let's go. My parents got divorced around that time. And I just wonder whether maybe he thought, you know, this could be a little bonding thing, like a one-off.
Like I don't for one second think my dad thought this would be something that we would then spend the next four decades doing together. But I went to that game and I remember it a little bit. I don't remember it too much. And then six months later, it was the World Cup of 1990, which was in Italy. And England had a really good team and we got to the semifinals and there was a lot of drama around the team and things happened and it caught the imagination more than ever of the country.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Rebecca Lowe and why is she a trailblazer in sports broadcasting?
0:00–10:57
2
How did Rebecca’s early love of football shape her career path?
10:57–21:14
3
What challenges did she face as one of the few women in live sports TV?
21:14–32:39
4
Why does Rebecca say preparation, not confidence, is her super‑power?
32:39–42:26
5
How does she create calm on‑air when co‑hosts get rowdy?
42:26–51:32
6
What is the ‘permission slip’ moment with Zlatan and how did she handle it?
51:32–1:00:29
7
How does Rebecca manage the personalities of Zlatan, Thierry and Alexei on‑screen?
1:00:29–1:10:33
8
What does Rebecca see as the future of women in sports broadcasting?
1:10:33–1:22:59
Speakers
4 identifiedMore from The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant
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