Female Founders: Dianne Sykes and Sara Oblak Speicher of Elite Mystique Agency On The Five Things You Need To Thrive and Succeed as a Woman Founder
An Interview With Candice Georgiadis
I know a lot of women hold themselves back in fear and they never take the chance. But if they have this vision, and are willing to take the leap, then it’s also important to clearly define success. Like, what does success mean to you, not to anybody else around you? And then you use this to measure your progress with it. And then, just like in sports, there’s going to be grit. There’s going to be a hustle. You will have to show up, learn new skills. It will require agility, stamina, perseverance, and determination. And just a little bit crazy, haha.
As a part of our series about “Why We Need More Women Founders”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dianne Sykes, MS NSCA and Sara Oblak Speicher, MBA.
Dianne Sykes, MS NSCA and Sara Oblak Speicher, MBA founded Elite Mystique Agency Inc. to help executive women simplify and actually enjoy the complexities of life. Dianne is a physiologist and Sara is a strategist, and they offer operational solutions for executives in their homes and organizations. Collectively, these former elite athletes draw on 45+ years of coaching experience, and have served over 2500 clients to reallocate their resources and establish more energy in their bodies and more time in life. www.elitemystiqueagency.com
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
Sara: Thank you for having us! Well, as an elite athlete, I’ve always been supported by coaches, but it wasn’t until much later in life that I became one. After the end of my international basketball career, which has brought me from Slovenia to New York City, I had set my sights on climbing a corporate ladder although I always loved this sense of freedom, flexibility, and limitlessness that comes with owning your own business… But when I lost my job the same time my husband and I found out we were expecting our first baby, I started my own business. Serving female founders, business owners as a virtual assistant at first, I soon realized these women require and deserve greater support. So I tapped into my knowledge and experience of being a formally-trained consultant, and grew that business into a premier agency.
After the birth of my second baby, I craved an even deeper work, I wanted to help make an even greater difference in my client’s lives. Coaching has always come natural to me so I decided to invest my time, money, and energy in developing and mastering coaching skills. Plus, it was personal — I really got to experience the value and depth of quality coaching as it helped me heal from postpartum depression, immense homesickness, disconnect, and severe burnout that nearly killed me. I’ve been doing this for 10 years now, and it feels like a perfect time for what’s coming next.
Dianne: I think that for me, entrepreneurship found me. I didn’t, I didn’t find this path; it opened itself up because it, you know, it was always a part of who I was. Even as a kid, I just wanted to be either the president of the United States or the big gymnast. Then realizing that I never really wanted to follow a structured path, but certainly most of my formative years, I subscribed to following that path of structure wound up in medical school. And, I love human potential. I love studying human potential. And so I also love helping people with their performance and help them overcome any physical conditions that would stand in the way of them experiencing their full potential.
And so I knew that I had a passion for medicine, but not really knowing any other alternatives, I went into pre-med thinking I was going to be a heart surgeon and had a kind of that big aha moment… Recognizing that there’s gotta be another way for me to help somebody heal their heart other than cracking their chest open and spending 10 hours over there putting their heartbeats together.
And that led me into physiology and then into the wellness sector. And of course, growing up as an elite athlete, understanding the importance of always having a coach, helped me be the very best version of me as an athlete, as the scholar, as whatever I was doing.
So taking that and saying, well, how can I. Support and guide people to live out their full potential, physically, mentally, spiritually. And that’s what led me to do what I do today, which I’ve been doing for 25 years.
Sara: And that’s when we met — Dianne and I were both a part of the same mastermind. Athlete and Mom Codes brought us together, we developed a deep friendship and that ultimately evolved into this business partnership. We founded Elite Mystique Agency to support executive women. To help them simplify complexities of fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, time mastery, and mental brilliance. Best part is that everything we teach, we have done for ourselves.
Dianne: Yup, basically learning how to live again. I think it’s even beyond trying to redefine health, happiness, and fun. I think for many women, it’s what is their actual definition of enjoying their life? What is success? How to actually just live it in a moment?
I think that a lot of executive women live in this theoretical land of “Well, what would that be like? Let me intellectualize and let me define that cerebrally…” But we’re more interested in their experience of life, what it means to actually experience success.
Deep meaningful relationship. That’s the difference between it and the spectator and an athlete both know how to play basketball, but the athlete is actually the one experiencing it. We’re very interested in women having an actual experience of success and the actual experience of fulfillment in their lives.
Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you began leading your company?
Dianne: It’s all been interesting! Even how we came together and established an agency has been outstanding, interesting. I think even when we’re in the weeds and then minutiae of running our business on a daily basis, it’s super interesting. It’s interesting to be an entrepreneur in the Aquarian age, running a female founded business, supporting other female leaders. There’s just nothing uninteresting. It’s an interesting question to ask because we wouldn’t be doing it if the work wasn’t interesting! Even in the monotony of opening off our business bank accounts, spending two hours on the phone with the bank — that’s interesting. Going back and forth with a marketing person, how to position a Facebook ad, that’s interesting. Having a woman on the phone bitching about her endless task list, that’s interesting…
Sara: Your answer actually inspired me. You know, as somebody who has been trained in this Piscean approach to leadership and to business operations, which is very hierarchical, very linear, I think what you and I are experiencing and redefining is a much more harmonious and flow.
And one of the most amazing experiences in that regard is just our relationship to time and productivity. How we just honor the fact that we can sit down and we can waste the whole day staring at a computer and nothing’s going to happen. Are we going to beat ourselves over? No, we’re going to close the computer. We’re going to do our own thing.
And then the next time we sit down and we do more in an hour than most people would in a week. When we get into the flow, that has been very interesting to observe and to experience from my perspective. Especially during our Camp Elite Mystique when we got together with the sole purpose of doing things in person, sitting side by side, which creates a very different energy than zooming from five states away.
Can you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?
Sara: I pretty much made every single mistake in the books and I’m not talking just about starting the Elite Mystique Agency, but also my own company 10 years ago. There’s this beginner’s naivete when you just pick up the phone and do the guerrilla approach to marketing, to sales, and you say yes, and then you figure it out.
But the lessons that I have learned have not necessarily been from making those mistakes, but from what transpired as the years went by. Being a part of this industry that has so many unwritten rules of what you’re not supposed to be doing, and how you’re not supposed to be presenting yourself, and how you’re not supposed to make yourself available, and how you’re not supposed to say certain things or offer certain things or price certain things… It really jaded me. I looked back and realized I no longer did the most basic business stuff, the ABCs of business!
So that was going on the lessons that got applied to launching our agency, going back to the basics and going back to this beginner’s naivete. Releasing a lot of those limitations — and I’m still working through many, to be honest. Because there have been a lot of things I was shying away from in fear of being judged or in the fear of failure or rejection.
Dianne: I think Sara just hit it right on the head in terms of how I actually now, as a recovering perfectionist, am seeing mistakes as the greatest blessing from the higher power. The greatest blessing that could come through from my soul to carry out my destiny. Because what is that mistake? It’s a miss-take. Take two. Take three. Take four. Take however many takes you need in order to get it to be in alignment with what your heart is really leading you to do. And so it’s all about what can I take from that? What lesson is there for me that is such a treasure because if it weren’t for that lesson, I would have the wisdom that I have now to move forward in a way that is in alignment with what the heart is leading toward.
When I look back to when I first started my career as an official brick and mortar business owner and trusting investor, that investor turned out to have been part of a Ponzi scheme and laundered our money. And not just it wasn’t just the money that we put into this, but it was the money that we made from the business.
So basically, in the first year of opening, my very first business, I lost a hundred thousand dollars of my and my husband at the time who was my business partner. Our hard earned money. And was this a mistake? Should I trust the wrong person? But recognizing that, that actually wasn’t my mistake.
My mistake was that I wore that in shame for years. The mistake in essence was that I didn’t take the lesson because I was so ashamed. That I trusted somebody that I shouldn’t have, and that I beat myself up every day in hiding and then shame, cover up and then not wanting to admit that out loud to anyone that I trusted. Because I hid in shame, I didn’t take the lesson.
The lesson was not “don’t trust anybody” because that’s exhausting and that’s not who I am. The lesson was, “don’t be ashamed of the decisions you make, because you’re doing the best you can with what you got good morning.”
And it took a lot more mistakes of me feeling ashamed of my decisions as an entrepreneur and a leader rather than just owning me, executing a decision based on what I knew at that time.
So looking back, I could have just said, I trusted her. We made a move. We were able to open our doors. We need a lot of money. We should, we helped a lot of people and she stole from us. Cool. Instead of wearing that in my adrenal glands and letting it blow me out.
None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story about that?
Dianne: I’m just going to say that’s this is such a cliche question, it’s the truth. Because there’s no one woman. I mean every, day in every way, there are about 50 people that I see as being incredibly supportive. So to highlight one person is not fair. What I will say is I enjoy seeing the support, especially more recently, the support of people. Because a big turning point for me over the past six months or so I was seeing that not everybody is going to support me in the way that I define and require being supported. And first of all it took a very long time to even finally being okay asking for help.
The next step was, “Can I actually then receive that help?” It’s one thing to get right with asking for it, which is super hard for a lot of us women in the first place. Once we reconcile with being able to ask for help, can you actually receive it because help isn’t going to come in just the flavor you want, especially if you’re still clunky around communicating what it is that you want help with.
So was it really helpful to me to have people close to me, criticize me for my choice. Yeah, that was really, really fucking supportive. I could have chosen to see it as totally toxic, which I did for so long. But I was like, well, wait a minute. It’s just that this person cares about my wellbeing enough to have an opinion, which means that’s a lot of energy heading in my direction for my greatest good. So that I can carry out the service I was here for.
Thank you. Thank you for saying that feedback because it just puts me more on my path of knowing what I’m here to do. It didn’t come in the package, tied up in a bow of “Hey, you’re awesome, Diane, do a great jobs that you’re doing such a good job. I totally get it. I totally understand you.”
You know, maybe that wouldn’t have been the support I needed. Maybe that wouldn’t have motivated me to make some changes in my life that allowed me to open up my creativity and expand even more, even more alive. Yeah. So I would say now I see support in everybody, everybody, and going back to even the woman who pongy schemed our money away, the one for her, I wouldn’t be here now.
So is that supportive? I had to lose a hundred grand before I made my next movie and I could not have made a million dollars in my brick and mortar businesses. If I didn’t lose a hundred friends.
Sara: Indeed! You mentioned asking for help, and I think that is the sticky point for so many. Especially when we are conditioned to glorify this idea of “self-made” and “pulling up by the bootstraps.” We tend to not only forget that, like you said, there are 50 people supporting us every day — but even ask for help in the first place!
I was raised to be super independent, fierce, and then created these blinders and filtered vision that turned very toxic when I indeed required and received support. Weather from my husband, from our families, from friends. Instead of receiving it, it felt like a knife twisting in this core wound. So I offer to the reader that she re-evaluates her filters, ther perceptions, and conditioning around asking for and receiving support — in whatever shape and form that might be — without this feeling of guilt, shame, or incompetence.
Ok, thank you for that. Let’s now jump to the primary focus of our interview. According to this EY report, only about 20 percent of funded companies have women founders. This reflects great historical progress, but it also shows that more work still has to be done to empower women to create companies. In your opinion and experience what is currently holding back women from founding companies?
Dianne: Ourselves. We’ve got to take full responsibility for ourselves. There’s no one else or no other structure that we can continue to blame and think that that’s somehow going to move the ball forward for us. We gotta to take responsibility. How do we do that? My opinion and my personal experience starts with us first supporting ourselves.
We talk about other people supporting us. Well, are you your own cheerleader? Are you all inside your head, telling yourself you’re beautiful? Telling yourself you’ve got this? Telling yourself you’re intelligent? Telling yourself you’re sophisticated? Telling yourself you can?
Or are you inside your own head, all day long, shitting on yourself? Because that is so inverted. How is that going to get people to pay us? How is that going to get us in the doors? If we can’t even support our own talent, if we are not hedging bets on ourselves, then who else will?
And then the second piece is that if we first clean that up, then it puts us in a position to actually provide that for each other. Instead of, “I feel so shitty about myself and I see another woman who is making some strides. I am now going to take her out. I am going to first compare myself to her, and then compete and complain.”
The three deadly Cs that I believe have every woman not leading a company are too much complaining, too much comparing and too much competing. And that’s why only 20% of us are running companies because we’re so freaking busy just in the land of complaining, comparing, and competing. How about “Wow, I’m so inspired by what she’s doing, how can I support her and how can I create a similar experience for myself knowing that it’s possible?”
Can you help articulate a few things that can be done as individuals, as a society, or by the government, to help overcome those obstacles?
Sara: I love this question. As Dianne says, the first step is in taking full responsibility for ourselves — while also seeing a greater picture.
Let me preface what I am about to say with the fact that personally, I am as progressive as we get. I believe that capitalism has outlived itself, and that indeed, a complete systemic reset is necessary.
That said, I also think that complaining about the system… that’s easy. And unproductive. Yes, we all know it’s broken. Rigid. Not working for everyone. But what I would offer is that we also do something about it.
I am seeing it time and time again — and have in sports, in academia, in the corporate, even in entrepreneurship — that just things just are because they always have been. Or that because I had to face challenges, well then so should you.
What if instead we consciously focus on bettering ourselves, and doing anything we can to better others? Legwork required to do so will differ, too. Some of us will march the streets. Some of us will educate. Some of us legislate. Some raise funds, and some hold space and raise the vibration. We all have a part to play. Yes, we are tired. We are scared. And yes, things might get worse before they get better. But we gotta keep pushing. Persisting. And be audacious to utilize resources that already are available. Literally at our fingertips.
Dianne: Yeah. Something easy to start with is noticing what are you being vocal about? Because the moment you start changing your thoughts about yourself you will vibrate at an entirely different, higher, frequency that has a tremendous impact on the planet. Your good thoughts about yourself impact humanity in a multitude of ways.
That’s more powerful and more quantum than any of us can understand. But I would challenge any woman to just start right there with what you got right in front of you. You think bad thoughts, how does that affect your health? Your family? How does that affect your community? How does that affect your health?
Sara: I would expand on that a little bit though because it is a bit more nuanced. For example, simply thinking good thought still won’t fix the broken and rigid system that discriminates against certain communities. Plus, there is this thing called Toxic Positivity. To think good thoughts does not equate suppressing and dismissing complex emotions like anger, fear, resentment, sadness. It requires you to properly acknowledge and process and alchemize them.
Dianne: Yeah, that’s what we do and it’s just far more intertwined and complex than what this interview is providing. So what I can offer right here, right now, is a simple solution.
Just stop, just breathe in and go. I don’t need to think this through anymore. It’s done. And it can be that powerful.
See, women are powerful. Biologically we are quick, and the most coveted life force because we give life. We are the most powerful life force. And what does that mean?
That if we’re inverted, it’s powerful in the negative, it’s multitude times more power than the negative. Then our male counterparts. So I’m just simply saying, start with yourself. You can convert that into positive energy — not overlooking that of course there is fine tuning. But really at the end of the day, speaking as an athlete, it just comes down to diligence and discipline.
Can you be devoted to changing those thoughts or is that too much hard work? And you’d rather be busy doing other things and then running that negative tape in your head all day long and being addicted to it?
This might be intuitive to you as a woman founder but I think it will be helpful to spell this out. Can you share a few reasons why more women should become founders?
Dianne: Um, we are biologically wired for it. We are! We have the physiological structure and resources to operate at a very, very, very high level of performance. The complexity of a woman’s endocrine system is what allows us to hold another life for nine months and give birth to it. So running a company as fucking easy as hell. That’s a piece of what we have done in memoria, which is run a household, raise a family. And that comes so naturally to so many of us. It’s just simple, I guess, without the comparison and the complaining and the competing to knock out our energy before we even get out of bed. Then we soon start to see that our cup runneth over with energy, we get energy for days.
We got energy for eons pouring out of us when that oxytocin and serotonin are making a nice little blend because we are creating enough of it as we are tending and befriending each other, supporting each other. Then oxytocin and serotonin are absolutely just bathing ourselves in nutrient dense juiciness, vitality, timelessness. And the dopamine hits that we get when combined with the proper dose of adrenaline and cortisol, is like a shock to the brain.
To just execute decisions, delegate, be super clear, be absolutely decisive on a whim. About 50 different things at once we run. That capacity, you are supercomputing with our brains all day long. Again, this is what we are biologically designed for. That’s why we are still not extinct because of our ability to do these things with our ice flows.
And so running a company is in comparison to running a house. Pretty similar, pretty simple. And then furthermore, you take into consideration that if a woman starts to understand the richness of her lunar cycles, which could sound as esoteric, but it’s not, it’s just pure understanding of energy. Then we can use that energy to optimize our performance.
And we use that energy to our benefit every day and say “OK I can absolutely make quick decisions, but now I can also switch into having a vision for the future and seeing it crystal clear in my mind’s eye and actually.”
The secretions from the pituitary gland and the pineal gland to we have much more colorful and creative and imaginative visions of the future that our male counterparts again, because we are biologically wired for that. So for us to close our eyes and visualize something in the future and pull that into reality.
And I can go on and on, because this really is about human performance. And there are so many things! We have masculine and feminine energy and there were so many things that we can do. The masculine and that there are so many things that men can do that we are so grateful for is women. But it’s high time that we understand how running a company is easier than changing.
What are the “myths” that you would like to dispel about being a founder? Can you explain what you mean?
Sara: Perhaps this old pattern that we have to, as founders, behave and run our companies in a specific way that has been modeled by men. But when we tap into our own strengths, into our own gifts, into the laws of energy and the universe, we can create our own way that is way more powerful than what we allowed ourselves to experience before.
Dianne: Yeah, I think the myth is that it’s super complicated. Busting that myth is understanding that if we just simply use our intuition, then there is no complicated thing. It’s all just there as a puzzle and the puzzle wouldn’t present itself if there wasn’t a solution to it. And it’s just us getting into that intuitive space of “Hey, I trust my gut and I’m going to make this decision. It’s going to take me down this road.”
It’s what I said before about making a mistake. I trusted someone and she gave us some opportunities and it didn’t work. But I could have just taken the lesson and said, “I’m so glad I trusted my gut and did that anyway, because I took a risk. I had to bet I had to bet on myself and I, and it all worked out.”
But perhaps it would have worked out a lot quicker had I not carried that guilt and shame around for so long, and questioned my own intuition, questioned my own ability to make executive decisions quickly.
Is everyone cut out to be a founder? In your opinion, which specific traits increase the likelihood that a person will be a successful founder and what type of person should perhaps seek a “regular job” as an employee? Can you explain what you mean?
Sara: This question in ite essence evokes comparison that Dianne mentioned earlier, trying to compartmentalize individuals. I think anybody who wants to be a founder could be a founder, but only the person themselves knows if that is for them.
I know a lot of women hold themselves back in fear and they never take the chance. But if they have this vision, and are willing to take the leap, then it’s also important to clearly define success. Like, what does success mean to you, not to anybody else around you? And then you use this to measure your progress with it. And then, just like in sports, there’s going to be grit. There’s going to be a hustle. You will have to show up, learn new skills. It will require agility, stamina, perseverance, and determination. And just a little bit crazy, haha.
Chances are, you will be called delusional. Hold onto this vision, into this knowing that you’re creating something that hasn’t been done before and no one else, but you can bring it to life.
But again, it’s on any one person to decide for themselves whether or not not this is something they want.
Dianne: I mean, again, it’s an interesting question because it comes back to what gives you energy? Does it give you energy to found a company? We just spoke about how every woman is completely capable of founding and running a company with her eyes closed. The question is, do you want it?
Because some women just don’t want it. It’s like just because you can have kids doesn’t mean you want to, and that’s every woman’s prerogative to make herself. But it’s really a bigger question of can you get right with deciding for yourself what you just said? What does success look like to you?
And then owning that without shame, without guilt, without comparison. You know, complaining without you should be. Like, “I should be doing this over here, but I’m not.”
It’s like, well, if your destiny is calling you forth to sweep the floors in Costco, then you get to do that to your heart’s content and be the best that anybody ever could possibly be on this planet. And you’re bringing beauty to this earth for the time that you’re here and it’s going to make your heart sing doing that then fucking awesome.
Ok super. Here is the main question of our interview. What are your “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started” and why? (Please share a story or example for each.)
Dianne: I feel like we answered it — nobody could tell me what I was ready to hear. Period.
Here’s the answer. I don’t wish that anybody would’ve told me anything. Because I don’t wish for it to have been any different than what it is. And what I am grateful for now is being more receptive and more responsive.
How have you used your success to make the world a better place?
Sara: This is exactly why we created our Elite Mystique Agency. For many years, Dianne and I have supported our respective clients in different ways. In the end of the day, our clients pretty much wanted the same things: to have more time. To have more energy. To be able to do more. To be able to live better. We just used different knowledge, specialized skillset, and practical experience to help them achieve that.
By the time the world pressed pause in 2020, Dianne and I also started talking on the phone daily. It was through those conversations that we realized just how compatible our services and modalities were; how passionate we are about the same issues, and how we strive to create similar experiences.
As we watched so many women around us struggle, we decided to pool our resources to help empower, inspire them, to really help them simplify complexities of their lives, businesses. They already carried so much on their shoulders… Some of them succumbed to the pressures of expectations. Others found themselves trapped in toxic environments when they needed nurturing the most. When time and energy is the one thing that they don’t have in excess, how can we help them feel better, navigate more with greater ease, do more to help make the change in their lives and in the world?
Dianne: I’ll just add that perhaps, keeping it on a pragmatic level, there is so much that we can talk about with regards to this, but it’s really how I see defining success. How we’re living successfully every day is because Sara and I have become masterful at energy and time conservation. It is what we do. It’s how we live and we know how to maximize time and circulate energy.
Every morning, it’s kicking the sheets off the bed knowing that there are thousands and millions of women out there who say the same thing over and over. “I wish I had more time and I wish I had more energy.”
And so we impact the planet by saying, “Hey there, we can support you in this.”
And it’s not about fixing you because some part of you is broken and it’s not about giving you one formula that we think is going to work for everybody. It’s not. It’s actually listening to why it is that women believe they don’t have time or energy and giving them the opportunity to feel supportive and then taking those reasons that she believes she doesn’t have time and energy and offering an array of different solutions and possibilities. And then she decides for herself what she feels is going to work.
And then our other gift and what we have been so successful at, is being accountable. Being devoted, diligent. What made us great athletes is that we were disciplined and we can offer that accountability to the people that we serve every day. We’re going to make that midnight call and say, what are you doing? You blow it out in the mirror, what’s going on? get right with your thoughts. What are you doing? Are you wasting time? Why?
You know, it’s that which has made us successful at what we do and allowed us to move mountains through the midst of COVID and raising children and marriage and divorce and, parenthood and single motherhood, all of it.
Well, because we know how to circulate energy in not just some nice times. How do we know? Maybe it’s just our gifts. Maybe it’s just the practice we’ve put into it. Or a mix of both, but that’s what we do. And we’ve become it too. If anybody knows us, they know we are two women who live life. They know we are not two women who are like, “I’m perfect and happy, and everything’s great…” but we are certainly two women who are like “Okay. Things are shitty and I’m okay with it, it’s all awesome because I’m so grateful to be alive.”
And that’s contagious. And it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say that and to offer that to other women. And that’s what we do.
You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good for the greatest number of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger.
Dianne: I think you just answered it right there.
You are not broken, but let’s figure out your own way and enjoy every step of the way, even when life gets shitty. Every single human being has a cocktail of strengths, a smorgasbord, if you will. And it’s just understanding what those strengths are and how to align your priorities and preferences of those strengths.
Are you actually doing the activities every day that are aligned? What are you doing that’s going to make you feel really energized and really good as a human? And I think that alone has the biggest impact on the most people, in the quickest amount of time.
And it’s really sobering , especially for sometimes when you’re like, “Holy shit, I’m really good at these things, but yet I spend my entire day doing activities and nothing to do with what I’m actually good at.” And it makes you feel bad about yourself.
We are very blessed that some very prominent names in Business, VC funding, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the US with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this if we tag them.
Dianne: Well, I am very much looking forward to having breakfast with Megan Rapinoe because she’s just at the precipice of great change. She’s certainly been somebody who, just in the past few days of us providing these interview answers, was really pushing the needle forward to have that settlement for US Women’s soccer. And speaking as a mother of an 11 year old who aspires to be just like her, I do need to sit down with Megan, and have a chat about how she’s going to hold that responsibility and be the leader that my daughter’s generation needs. And I really know that she’s going to require our guidance and our support.
She has a lot of responsibility on the plate and she still wants to be able to. And she deserves what she desires. She deserves to enjoy all of it. And I’m concerned that perhaps she might not be, and that is not okay with me.
Thank you for these fantastic insights. We greatly appreciate the time you spent on this!
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