C++ :: Creating Global Variable / Pointers?

I am making two classes using the juce library [URL] ....

this is a problem that has now come up after solving an earlier problem i posted but its a completely seperate issue.

i have a class for loading a file when i button is clicked that seems to work. Here is the function in my LoadButton cpp:

void LoadButton::buttonClicked(Button* button)
{
FileChooser pedoFileChooser ("Choose an Audio File", File::nonexistent, String::empty, true);
if (pedoFileChooser.browseForFileToOpen())
{
File pedoFile (pedoFileChooser.getResult());
}
}

I want to be able to then use the file stored in pedoFile in the cpp of another class called PlayButton. I tried doing this with a pointer? not sure if that's correct way of doing it (i know very little about C++ or programming) by changing the function to this. I'm getting the error invalid initialisation of non-const reference of type 'juce::File*&' from a temporary of type 'juce::File'

void LoadButton::buttonClicked(Button* button)
{
FileChooser pedoFileChooser ("Choose an Audio File", File::nonexistent, String::empty, true);
if (pedoFileChooser.browseForFileToOpen())
{
File* &pedoFile = (pedoFileChooser.getResult());
}
}