Emma Mitchell was Red Rose number #19, with an international rugby career that spanned 15 years. She won 57 caps for England and Great Britain, competed in 4 World Cups with the 1994 World Cup win being her career highlight. Following her retirement in 2002, Emma went on to coach at club, regional and international level in the USA, Canada and the UK. In 2007 Emma joined the English Institute of Sport as a Performance Lifestyle Coach, supporting over 200 elite GB Hockey athletes and coaches over...
Nov 29, 2022•53 min•Season 12Ep. 5
To celebrate Jill Scott being crowned Queen of the Jungle, in the 2022 'I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out If Here', we’re giving you another chance to hear this brilliant interview with her. Enjoy! Football legend Jill Scott MBE won over 160 caps for England, played in four World Cups, was part of Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics and was a member of the winning England team at this summer's Euros. Jill left her hometown club of Sunderland to play for Everton in 2006 and went on to help them win t...
Nov 28, 2022•42 min
Donna Fraser is a 4-time Olympian who now specialises in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in sport. Donna won medals at 400m at World and European Championships and the Commonwealth Games and reluctantly retired from Athletics in 2009 after a breast cancer diagnosis. She went on to become UK Athletics’ first Equality, Diversity and Engagement Lead, working to champion ethnically diverse communities and inclusivity at all levels of the sport. Following a role as D&I Lead for Birmingham 2022,...
Nov 22, 2022•40 min•Season 12Ep. 4
Rimla Akhtar, Wendy Taylor, Tess Howard and Holly Bradshaw join Sue Anstiss to consider the impact of sports kit for women and girls. There's been much talk about women's sports kit recently, from issues around Wimbledon whites, girls forced to wear skorts for PE and women not allowed to wear the hijab to play sport to extremes of female athletes objectified and sexualised with revealing clothing, high cut leotards & bikini bottoms. This panel of game changers addresses some of the challenge...
Nov 15, 2022•53 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Sarah Hunter is a rugby legend. The world's most capped female rugby player and most capped England player (male or female). Sarah captains England into a World Cup Final this weekend. A World Cup winner in 2014, Sarah has played in four World Cup Finals, and captained England to Six Nations Grand Slam wins and a record breaking run of over 30 consecutive wins. Sarah took over the England captaincy in 2015 and in 2016 was name England’s Player of the Year by the Rugby Players’ Association and Wo...
Nov 08, 2022•51 min•Season 12Ep. 2
Hannah Cockcroft is one of Britain’s most successful para-athletes who burst onto the world stage in 2010, breaking 9 wheelchair sprinting world records. She went on to win two golds at the London Paralympic games, with three more at the 2016 games in Rio and two in Tokyo 2021. In the summer of 2022, Hannah won gold in the T33/34 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, setting a new Games record and completing the set – with Gold medals at Every. Major. Athletics. Championships. It’s no wo...
Nov 01, 2022•58 min•Season 12Ep. 1
Fantastic news for all fans of women’s sport and equality - The Game Changers podcast returns on November 1st with an incredible line up of guests and the one hundredth episode featuring one of the most influential women in sport, Sally Munday. The new series also includes two panel discussions considering women’s sport clothing and racial equality in women’s sport. Once again, this season of the award-winning podcast is backed by Sport England through a National Lottery award. The Game Changers...
Oct 27, 2022•4 min
Jodie Cunningham is one of Rugby League’s most recognisable stars playing for St Helens and England. She was named Woman of Steel for her incredible form during Saint's treble winning season in 2021, and, having represented England in two world cups, she's now working towards her third as England compete in the Rugby League world cup on home soil this autumn. A huge advocate for women's sport and equality in the UK, Jodie now works full-time at the RFL as a National Women's and Girls’ Developmen...
Jul 26, 2022•41 min•Season 11Ep. 7
Fiona Morgan is SailGP ’s director of purpose and impact, who's driving the championship’s commitment to a better future and a better sport. She's been instrumental in creating the pioneering ‘impact league’, Sail GP’s world first initiative to make sustainability essential to the fabric of sport. With nearly 20 years’ experience in the sports industry, Fi has an exceptional track record of shaping social impact strategy and delivering campaigns for some of the world's most high-profile sports b...
Jul 26, 2022•46 min•Season 11Ep. 6
Sophie Carrigill is a British wheelchair basketball player who represented and co-captained Great Britain at the World and European Championships and at the Paralympic games. She’s won world and European silver medals and reached the Paralympic semi-finals in a first for Great Britain. Sophie’s just returned from playing wheelchair basketball professionally in Italy and continues to explore her passions beyond the court as she advocates for disabled women in sport and beyond. Sophie talks candid...
Jul 26, 2022•44 min•Season 11Ep. 5
Radha Balani is a much-respected industry professional who's having a huge impact in the sport for development arena. Radha started her career in the university sports sector before working for leading organisations in sport, including the Football Foundation, Women in Sport, London Sport, and now as co-Managing Director of Think Beyond . It’s a fascinating conversation as we explore the world of Sport for Development and how sport can be used intentionally to transform the lives of women and gi...
Jul 26, 2022•46 min•Season 11Ep. 4
Ali Donnelly is Executive Director of Digital, Marketing and Communications at Sport England. She is a former Senior Civil Servant, who worked at Downing Street where she was the Prime Minister's Deputy Official Spokesperson and the Head of News. Ali was previously Head of Communications at Premiership Rugby club Wasps and has also worked in media and public affairs roles at the BBC have started her career as a journalist at the Evening Echo newspaper in Ireland. A passionate women's rugby fan a...
Jul 26, 2022•49 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Meghan MacLaren, is a hugely successful professional golfer, and significant voice in the sport, commenting on the game and the culture that surrounds it through her hugely popular blog and social media presence. Meg graduated from Florida University in 2016 with a degree in English and Political Science, along with seven Division 1 College Golf victories. She was a member of the victorious 2016 Curtis Cup team, won two ladies European tour Access Events and in 2017 received the LET order of mer...
Jul 26, 2022•39 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Alice Dearing is one of the world's top marathon swimmers and a true game changer in the sport. In 2021 she became the first black woman to swim for Great Britain at an Olympic Games, representing a huge milestone for diversity in the sport. Alice is also co-founder of the Black Swimming Association, an organisation that advocates for water, safety and inclusion for Black and Asian minorities within swimming. Her passion for diversity and inclusion has seen her recognised globally as an advocate...
Jul 26, 2022•45 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Fantastic news for all fans of women’s sport and equality – a new series of The Game Changers will be released on Tuesday July 26, 2022. And for the first time, all seven new episodes in series 11 will be released immediately, ensuring there’s plenty of great, inspiring content to listen to this summer. Once again, this season of the award-winning podcast is backed by Sport England through a National Lottery award. The podcast sees Sue Anstiss MBE talking to trailblazing women in sport who are k...
Jul 20, 2022•4 min
Lizzie Deignan is one of the world’s greatest ever female cyclists. She’s won World, Commonwealth and National titles as a road cyclist and is an Olympic silver medallist. Lizzie is now also changing the narrative around motherhood and elite sport. Having returned to cycling after the birth of daughter Orla, last October she won the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes after pulling away from the peloton with more than 80km to go in what a spectacular race. In this fascinating episode we talk about ho...
May 31, 2022•29 min•Season 10Ep. 8
Isa Guha was the first woman of South Asian origin to represent England in sport when she made her international cricket debut in 2002, aged 17. Her career, which spanned a decade, included winning the 2009 Women's World Cup, Women's World T20 and three Ashes Series. Isa is now firmly established in sports media, having broken many barriers along the way both presenting and commentating for global broadcasters. She’s currently an integral part of the Fox Cricket coverage in Australia and Test Ma...
May 24, 2022•40 min•Season 10Ep. 7
Today’s guest is transforming the way women talk about their bodies. Dr Emma Ross is the former Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport where she led the smartHER progamme, educating coaches and athletes about the female body in high performance sport. Since then, Emma’s worked with everyone from elite athletes and top coaches through to head teachers and schoolgirls - passionate about making sport a better environment for all women. In 2020 Emma co-founded The Well HQ, an organisat...
May 17, 2022•45 min•Season 10Ep. 6
Orla Chennaoui is an extraordinary woman who has many talents including being a multilingual TV sports presenter. Having worked at Sky News and Sky Sports, Orla is now a Lead Presenter for Eurosport, working across cycling, MotoGP and the Olympics. With her background in hard-news and investigations, Orla has always had an open and frank approach to sports reporting whether that’s in front of the camera or hosting podcasts and writing regular columns for Rouleur magazine and the Metro newspaper....
May 10, 2022•42 min•Season 10Ep. 5
Tammy Parlour MBE is the co-founder and dynamic CEO of The Women's Sport Trust, and works with leaders across sport, media and business, to raise the visibility and increase impact of women's sport. Away from her role at the Women’s Sport Trust, Tammy is a master in the Korean martial art of Hapkido having practiced for 40 years. She set up her own hapkido and meditation school in the early nineties and still coaches regularly. A non-executive director for AFC Wimbledon Ladies, in 2019 Tammy was...
May 03, 2022•39 min•Season 10Ep. 4
Pippa Britton is Wales’s most successful Archer, a double Paralympian and double world champion. Pippa made the podium at six consecutive world championships and won 24 medals at 24 international events. Pippa also represented the Welsh able bodied archery team on more than 20 occasions and has broken many world and national records. After retiring from competing, Pippa decided to give back to sport and society combining her understanding of diversity and equality with her experience of governan...
Apr 26, 2022•44 min•Season 10Ep. 3
Along with game-changing women in sport, The Game Changers features male allies and today’s guest is having a huge impact on the visibility of women's sport. Jonathan Licht is a managing director of Sky Sports. He originally joined Sky back in 1998 after starting his career at Eurosport, he was appointed managing director for Sky Sports in 2021 and is leading the business into its fourth decade of operation. During his career at Sky Johnathan has overseen a number of significant initiatives that...
Apr 19, 2022•40 min•Season 10Ep. 2
Shaunagh Brown is a professional rugby player for Harlequins and England who encourages us all to re-think gender stereotypes in sport and across society. A former Hammer Thrower who competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Shaunagh trained as a British Gas engineer and a commercial diver, before becoming a full-time firefighter with the Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Now on a 3-year sabbatical from the fire service, Shaunagh is a full time, professional rugby player, currently playing for Englan...
Apr 12, 2022•39 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Fantastic news for all fans of women’s sport and equality – the 10th series of The Game Changers podcast is launched today with an incredible line up of guests and backing from Sport England through a National Lottery award. This award-winning podcast sees Sue Anstiss talking to trailblazing women in sport who are knocking down barriers and challenging the status quo for women and girls across society. Along with openly sharing their historic careers, what drives them and how they’ve dealt with ...
Apr 11, 2022•4 min
Today's guest is recognised as one of the world’s greatest ever netballers. Serena Guthrie was part of the England team that secured that incredible gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games against Australia on the Gold Coast. Serena played in New Zealand and Australia, before returning home to Team Bath in 2019 where she captained the Roses to bronze in a home World Cup. In recognition for all she’s done for netball in 2019 she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list. Serena been Capta...
Apr 05, 2022•36 min•Season 9Ep. 8
What does the future hold for the fans of women's sport? I find out in this conversation with Angela Ruggiero - a four-time Olympian, and Gold Medallist in ice hockey, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015 with the longest career of any man or woman in a USA hockey jersey. With an MBA from Harvard Business School, Angela's held leadership positions at the highest levels of global sport including the executive board of the International Olympic Committee and Chief Strategy Officer...
Mar 29, 2022•35 min•Season 9Ep. 7
Anne Wafula Strike is an extraordinary para-athlete who is also an author, inspirational speaker, disability rights campaigner and powerful advocate for the less fortunate in society. Born in Kenya, Anne contracted polio at the age of two, resulting in paralysis of her lower body. Arriving in the UK in April 2000, she was introduced to wheelchair racing in 2002 and in 2004 became the first Kenyan wheelchair racer to represent her country at the Paralympics in Athens. Following a successful appli...
Mar 22, 2022•43 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Sue Day was a legend on the rugby pitch – former England captain at 15s and 7s –Sue played in three World Cups, helped win three Grand Slams and was one of England's top try scorers with 61 tries from 59 caps. She was made President of Wasps in 2013 – the first woman to hold that role in the club’s 146-year history. A qualified chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience in financial roles at KPMG, Sue is now COO and CFO of the RFU and leads the Business Operations team which includes fi...
Mar 15, 2022•33 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Kelly Lindsey is a former professional footballer who's also played in the US national team. Since retiring as a player at just 23 following many injuries, she's thrived as an incredibly successful coach leading teams across the world in the US, Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Morocco. Last year was appointed as Sporting Director at Lewes FC the first gender equal football club in the world. Kelly is renowned for her passion and courage in tackling some of the less attractive issues in women's footba...
Mar 08, 2022•43 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Ugo Monye is former Harlequins, England and British & Irish Lions rugby player, who’s now more familiar to us as a sports broadcaster, podcaster and TV presenter. He’s a captain on BBC’s Question of Sport and also took part in last year’s Strictly Come Dancing. When not talking about rugby on TV shows and podcasts, Ugo is Chair of the RFU’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group and recently became a Trustee of the Women’s Sport Trust charity. A passionate male ally for women’s sport, Ugo co...
Mar 01, 2022•41 min•Season 9Ep. 3
