美国国家公共电台 NPR A Message To Inspire Women To Lead: Own Your Awesome

 

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Commentator¹ and longtime U.S. soccer star Julie Foudy has had some big moments in her life.

(SOUNDBITE OF 3RD FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP MATCH)

UNIDENTIFIED SPORTS ANNOUNCER: (Unintelligible) In front. (Unintelligible) Foudy - it's in. It's in.

(CHEERING)

INSKEEP: That was in a 1999 World Cup match against Denmark. The U.S. women won the World Cup that year. Julie Foudy says years of high-level sports taught her some lessons beyond winning.

JULIE FOUDY: People often ask me, what's the best lesson you learned after almost two decades on the U.S. women's soccer team? And I'm fairly certain they want the secret formula to winning. Instead, I tell them, the best lesson I learned is actually a secret about life. And that lesson came to me while watching my incredible teammates do their thing on and off the field. And sure, I love that they were amazing athletes and we were winning World Cups and Olympics together. But I was most impressed that they were even more amazing human beings who led in a variety of ways. And now that was a complete shock to me, the diversity of leadership styles, because I had always thought leadership was positional.

I'd always thought leadership was as CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up. But my U.S. teammates showed me that leadership is personal, not positional. They showed me that asserting your own leadership style is most important, being authentically² you. You could be a quiet leader, like Mia Hamm, or a vocal³ leader, like Abby Wambach or, let's be honest, Loudy Foudy - an emotional leader like Brandi Chastain, a cerebral⁴ leader, a nerdy leader - you get it. You just had to find your unique approach, your way. No need to be a celebrity⁵ or leadership expert, you just had to care enough to raise your hand.

Ah, yes, that whole raising-your-hand bit - it can be scary for women. We love, as women, to make sure all the boxes are checked, that we are just prepared but overprepared before we raise our hand. And it's that discipline that I love most about women, but it's also what holds us women back the most because by the time we raise our hand, that opportunity is often gone.

Yep - we women are great at underselling ourselves and not so great at owning our awesome⁶. So my motivation in life is to get all women to unleash⁷ that inner force - not in the sense that you have to wear a T-shirt proclaiming your awesomeness⁸ or walk around telling everyone you're the bomb-diggity (ph), but in a way that allows us to step out of our comfort zones, stand up for something or speak out for someone. Whether you empower one person or the free world, that is leadership. Because if I can own my awesome and you can and we can get more young people to do it, too, and then use that to do good - well, that's a world I want to live in.

So let's start now, shall we? Go on. Go be courageously⁹ and fabulously¹⁰ you - because you can.

(SOUNDBITE OF ULRICH SCHNAUSS AND JONAS MUNK'S "CHASING RAINBOWS")

INSKEEP: Indeed, she can. Julie Foudy, a member of the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame and analyst¹¹ for ESPN and I think the first person ever to use the phrase the bomb-diggity on NPR News. Her new is called "Choose To Matter."

1 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

2 authentically   

ad.sincerely真诚地

参考例句：

• Gina: And we should give him something 2 authentically Taiwanese. 吉娜：而且我们应该送他有纯正台湾味的东西。
• A loser is one who fails to correspond authentically. 失败者则指那些未能做到诚实可靠的人。

3 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。

4 cerebral   

adj.脑的，大脑的；有智力的，理智型的

参考例句：

• Your left cerebral hemisphere controls the right-hand side of your body.你的左半脑控制身体的右半身。
• He is a precise,methodical,cerebral man who carefully chooses his words.他是一个一丝不苟、有条理和理智的人，措辞谨慎。

5 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

6 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

7 unleash   

vt.发泄，发出；解带子放开

参考例句：

• They hope to create allies to unleash against diseases,pests,and invasive species.他们希望创造出一些新群体来对付疾病、害虫和一些有侵害性的物种。
• Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.如今，大坝不时地改变水位，从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气。

8 awesomeness   

可怕的

参考例句：

• Dominion and awesomeness are his who brings about harmony in his heavens. 权能和威严为他所有，他在高天缔造和平。 来自互联网
• There is no charge?for awesomeness, or attractiveness. 彪悍不求回报，迷人更无所需。 来自互联网

9 courageously   

ad.勇敢地，无畏地

参考例句：

• Under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the army and civilians in flooded areas fought the floods courageously, reducing the losses to the minimum. 在中共中央、国务院的正确领导下，灾区广大军民奋勇抗洪，把灾害的损失减少到了最低限度。
• He fought death courageously though his life was draining away. 他虽然生命垂危，但仍然勇敢地与死亡作斗争。

10 fabulously   

难以置信地，惊人地

参考例句：

• The couple are said to be fabulously wealthy. 据说这对夫妇家财万贯。
• I should say this shirt matches your trousers fabulously. 我得说这衬衫同你的裤子非常相配。

11 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。