The Game Changers
In this award-winning podcast Sue Anstiss MBE talks to trailblazing women in sport. These are the individuals who are knocking down barriers and challenging the status quo for women and girls everywhere. Along with openly sharing their historic careers, what drives them and how they’ve dealt with the toughest challenges, each episode explores key issues for equality in sport and beyond.
We’re incredibly grateful to Sport England who support The Game Changers with a National Lottery award.
You can find out about all the guests at https://www.fearlesswomen.co.uk/thegamechangers
Fearless Women in Sport
The Game Changers
Series 20 of The Game Changers
Welcome to The Game Changers – the podcast that celebrates extraordinary women in sport. In Series 20, we’re shining a light on the courageous, pioneering and fiercely passionate women who are re-defining the future of sport.
You’ll hear from Diane Edwards, the Commonwealth 800m champion who overcame a devastating injustice and fought a landmark legal battle to clear her name before becoming a powerful advocate for inclusion and opportunity in sport.
Pioneering skateboarder, Lucy Adams, shares how she carved her path in a male-dominated sport – breaking boundaries, staying true to herself and inspiring young people, from all backgrounds, to step onto a board.
Respected both as a former player and now as a top-flight coach, Carla Ward reveals what it really takes to lead in the high-pressure world of women’s football, while ultrarunner and campaigner Sophie Power opens up about motherhood and rewriting the rules for women in endurance sport.
We talk to Scottish rugby star Rhona Lloyd about body image and using her platform to challenge attitudes in society, and England netball icon Eboni Usoro-Brown about the challenges of motherhood in elite sport and her evolving mission to drive change on and off the court.
We hear from Sally Horrox, now shaping the global women’s game at World Rugby, as she shares insights from a groundbreaking career that’s spanned the commercial rise of netball and women’s football – including the creation of two Super Leagues.
And Sammi Kinghorn, Paralympic gold medallist and world-record holder on her extraordinary story of grit, growth and overcoming the unimaginable.
Join us as we uncover the stories behind the headlines and explore what it means to drive real change in sport.
New episodes in this series will be released throughout August on Mondays and Wednesdays each week, so please follow or subscribe now and you’ll be the first to hear from these extraordinary trailblazers.
The Game Changers is free to listen to on all podcast platforms or from our website @fearless.women.co.uk. The website is also where you’ll find details of the Women’s Sport Collective, our free, inclusive community for all women working in sport.
Thank you to Sport England, who support The Game Changers podcast (and the Women’s Sport Collective) through with a National Lottery Award.
The Game Changers – Series 20.
Inspiring conversations with fearless women in sport.
Thank you to Sport England who support The Game Changers Podcast with a National Lottery award.
Find out more about The Game Changers podcast here: https://www.fearlesswomen.co.uk/thegamechangers
Hosted by Sue Anstiss
Produced by Sam Walker, What Goes On Media
A Fearless Women production
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Sue Anstiss:Hello and welcome to the Game Changers, the podcast that celebrates extraordinary women in sport. I'm Sue Anstis and in this series 20, we're shining a light on the courageous, pioneering and fiercely passionate women who are redefining the future of sport. You'll hear from Diane Modell, the Commonwealth Games 800m champion, who overcame a devastating injustice and fought a landmark legal battle to clear her name before becoming a powerful advocate for inclusion and opportunity in sport. Pioneering skateboarder Lucy Adams shares how she carved her path in a male-dominated sport, breaking boundaries, staying true to herself and inspiring young people from all backgrounds to step onto a board Respected both as a former player and now as a top-flight international coach. Carla Ward reveals what it really takes to lead in the high-pressure world of women's football, while ultra-runner and campaigner Sophie Power opens up about motherhood and rewriting the rules for women in endurance sport.
Sue Anstiss:I talked to Scottish rugby star Rona Lloyd about body image and using her platform to challenge attitudes in society, and England netball icon Ebony Osoro-Brown about the challenges of motherhood in elite sport and her evolving mission to drive change on and off the court. We hear from Sally Horrocks, now shaping the global women's game at World Rugby, as she shares insights from a groundbreaking career that spanned the commercial rise of netball and women's game at world rugby. As she shares insights from a groundbreaking career that spanned the commercial rise of netball and women's football, including the creation of two super leagues, and sammy kinghorn, paralympic gold medalist and world record holder, on her extraordinary story of grit, growth and overcoming the unimaginable it is something that I really struggle with and I would like to figure that out.
Sammi Kinghorn:because I do the sport because I love it. It's not like I get paid a lot to do it. That's not the reason I do it. It's because I love it, not that I'm falling in love with it, but I'm finding it harder to love racing as much.
Sue Anstiss:Join us as we uncover the stories behind the headlines and explore what it means to drive real change in sport. New episodes in this series will be released throughout August on Mondays and Wednesdays each week. So please follow or subscribe now and you'll be the first to hear from these incredible trailblazers. The Game Changers is free to listen to on all podcast platforms or from our website at fearlesswomencouk. The website is also where you can find details of the Women's Sport Collective, our free, inclusive community for all women working in sport. Thank you to Sport England, who support the Game Changers podcast and the Women's Sport Collective through a national lottery award.
Rhona Lloyd:Lottery Award. I got my place in 2014. I lost it because I was pregnant with my first son and they said you couldn't defer for pregnancy.
Lucy Adams:You could for injury. Pregnancy was a choice. You know, my little girl sort of said Mummy, are you off tomorrow? And I said no, baby, you are. And she said when am I going to spend some time with you? And that, as a mother cut deep and I remember going no, baby you are. And she said when am I going to spend some time with you? And that, as a mother cut deep. And I remember going to work, thinking I tell everybody what I do is for my little one, but here I am working 24-7, never seeing her, and that was really tough.
