This week Sierra and Maya welcome on Dr. Kimberly O'brien! Kimberly is a Harvard educated, founder and Director of Better Together and Unlimited Resilience! She talks about tools on how to navigate the mental health struggles we face in sport. This episode is powerful, helpful and awesome so please give it a listen!

This week we Rachael and Kassie dive into tryout season and how to choose the right club for your player. We attempt to define a few of the leagues and explain important things to take into account when you are trying out for a new club. We also give tips for players at the end of the episode when heading into a new environment! Enjoy!

This week we have Laura Schott back to discuss the different youth soccer trends at the pro, college and youth levels. We discuss the trend of "the younger the better," playing up a level, ID camps and youth NWSL players. What are your thoughts? Let us know! Enjoy!

Welcome back to Beyond the Game! Hosts Sierra Enge and Maya Doms bring you an all new episode featuring their dear friend, teammate and professional soccer player for the San Diego Wave, KENNEDY WESLEY! As a Female Footballers Mentor, Kennedy talks about the highs and hard moments in her journey as a pro and the skills she's learned along the way that help her thrive! Enjoy this second episode of Beyond the Game!

This week we sit down with a former teammate, the Head Coach of University of Oregon, star of Coach the Movie, and a dear friend...welcome Tracy Joyner! We chat about her journey through soccer, what it is like to be a female coach, a head coach of a division one program and taking on new challenges. Enjoy!

This week we sat down with Tori Huster, from the NWSLPA. Tori discusses what the NWSLPA does and how their landmark CBA agreement in 2024 is giving NWSL players the voice and choice they've never had before. Enjoy!

For our FIRST EPISODE, we welcome THE, NAOMI GIRMA!! We chat with Naomi about behind the scenes challenges she has faced and strategies she uses on the mental side of the game that have helped in her career. As close, longtime friends and teammates, we get to go deeper with this Chelsea super star on her feelings behind the struggles and all of her amazing accomplishments! Please enjoy this first episode of Behind The Game!

We are thrilled to announce an all NEW PODCAST SHOW brought to you by Female Footballers!! Welcome to Beyond the Game- with hosts, Sierra Enge and Maya Doms! Beyond the Game will take you behind the scenes of the adversity and challenges players face, and the experiences that don't get talked about often enough. To learn more about this new show, Enjoy!

This week we have on one of our newest and most charismatic mentors, Nikki Stanton! Nikki is a 10 year NWSL Veteran and heading into her first season with the Vancouver Rise. We chat about her journey through the sport and the lessons she has learned along the way. Enjoy!

This week we unpack the larger issue of communication and social emotional wellbeing that relates to the recent allegations of emotional and verbal abuse surrounding head coach Albertin Montoya at Bay FC. Rather than go in depth

on the people involved, we discuss why this continues to occur and how complicated this issue is from all sides of the coin. Enjoy.