When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.

Sure, I do feel I am an ambassador for women's football. But that hasn't changed. It's been like that since I started at eight years old. I'm still me.

We don't really compare ourselves to the men's game or what they do. For us, it's about trying to get more people involved in the women's games.

Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?

No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.