Juliet Slot is Chief Commercial Officer at Arsenal Football Club and a board director at the British Olympic Association. At Arsenal Juliet heads a department with a broad remit including marketing, data and insight, commercial partnerships, ticketing, hospitality, conferencing and events, retail licensing and new commercial ventures. Juliet's whole career has been in the sports industry, with senior roles at adidas, Fulham Football Club, London 2012 and Ascot Racecourse, before she joined Arsen...
Dec 05, 2023•49 min•Season 15Ep. 7
Jeanette Kwakye is former international athlete turned broadcaster. This British sprinter was five-time British champion, Olympian and world indoor silver medallist, competing in the Olympic final of the 100 meters in Beijing 2008. Since retiring as an athlete and becoming a journalist in 2013, Jeanette's become a regular broadcaster across the BBC, Sky Sports and Channel 5. Jeanette works across many sports, having anchored world championships and athletics, swimming and taekwondo, along with O...
Nov 28, 2023•56 min•Season 15Ep. 6
Layla Guscoth describes herself on social media as half netballer, half doctor. In 2016, Layla qualified as a doctor and somehow has managed to balance that career with being a professional netballer. Co-captain for the England side at the 2023 World Cup, Layla now has both Silver and Bronze World Cup medals. Layla's played for a number of Super League teams in the UK and Australia and captained both Mavericks and Thunderbirds. We explore how Layla has managed to balance two incredible careers, ...
Nov 21, 2023•46 min•Season 15Ep. 5
Suzy Wrack is a much-celebrated women’s football writer for The Guardian. As an author, Suzy wrote the award-winning book 'A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football', along with the leadership book 'You Have the Power' with England Women’s football captain Leah Williamson, and her new book 'Strong Women', which was published this month. Suzy shares her journey into journalism and how her work at The Guardian enables her to combine her joint passions for social impact and...
Nov 14, 2023•51 min•Season 15Ep. 4
Professional boxer Caroline Dubois is Youth Olympic champion, World Youth champion, four-times European Youth champion, Team GB Olympian and now IBO lightweight Champion. A pioneering female athlete with a stellar professional record of 8 wins no defeats and 5 knock outs, Caroline is known for her immense power and her explosive punches. Caroline talks openly about her recent IBO title and her ambitions to win more World Titles. Sharing her experience of being a young athlete on the British Boxi...
Nov 07, 2023•36 min•Season 15Ep. 3
Our guest in this episode is Ellie Simmonds, one of the world’s most celebrated Paralympians. A five-time Paralympic Champion and 14-time World Champion, Ellie shot to fame when she won her first Paralympic medals aged just 13, at the Beijing Paralympic Games. After two gold medals there in 2008, Ellie went even better at London 2012. As the poster girl for the home games, she won 4 medals, including two Golds, and broke a further two World records. This success in London helped make Ellie the m...
Oct 31, 2023•41 min•Season 15Ep. 2
The Game Changers podcast returns on Tuesday October 31 with eight more trailblazers in women’s sport exploring their careers and key issues around equality in sport and beyond. The award-winning podcast is support by Sport England through a National Lottery Award and hosted by Sue Anstiss MBE. The superb guest list for this latest series includes: Caroline Wozniacki – A professional tennis player who was ranked world number one for 71 weeks at the height of her career, and who won the Australia...
Oct 24, 2023•6 min
Our guest in this special bonus episode is professional tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, ranked number one in the world at the height of her career. Caroline’s professional career took off at 15 when she joined the WTA Tour, and her meteoric rise saw her ranked world number one for 70 weeks. Having won the Australian Open in 2018, Caroline was at the peak of her tennis career when she was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Caroline retired from tennis in 2020 and then, much to the delight of ...
Oct 10, 2023•32 min•Season 15Ep. 1
To celebrate Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s incredible Heptathlon Gold Medal at the World Championships this weekend, we’re re-releasing this special episode of The Game Changers. Now a two-time World Champion, Katarina Johnson-Thompson (KJT) has overcome many challenges during her extraordinary impressive athletics career which includes appearances at three Olympic Games. We’re so excited to see her compete again in Paris 2024. In this episode, Katarina talks about tackling anxiety and body issues...
Aug 22, 2023•27 min
To celebrate the Football World Cup, we’ve been re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football. Our final guest is Anita Asante . With 71 international caps under her belt, in a career spanning 14 years, Asante was a formidable England defender who played top club football for clubs including Aston Villa, Arsenal and Chelsea. Along with English clubs, and representing Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics, Asante played overseas in Saint Louis, Ch...
Aug 18, 2023•47 min
Emma Hayes is Manager at Chelsea Women. In 2023 she led Chelsea to their sixth FA Women's Super League win, and once again Emma’s team won the FA Cup taking her winning tally to five . It’s a fascinating conversation where Emma talks very openly about her life, her career and shares lots of advice for others hoping to be high level coaches in the future. Just to flag, there’s a little bit of occasional background noise of this podcast as the house next door to Emma’s had some building work going...
Aug 15, 2023•49 min
To celebrate the Football World Cup, we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football. Gabby Logan is one of Britain's most influential women in sport. A former international gymnast Gabby is now a household name presenting many of our most popular sports TV programmes including the Olympics, London Marathon, Match of the Day, World Athletics Championships and Sports Personality of the Year. Gabby talks openly about her career path from Sky ...
Aug 11, 2023•50 min
To celebrate the Football World Cup we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football. Professional footballer, media personality, lawyer, philanthropist and now best selling author, Eni ’s high profile racism case against the FA led to critical reforms within the 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....
Aug 08, 2023•43 min
To celebrate the Football World Cup we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football. With 172 appearances for her country, Fara Williams is the most capped player in the history of English football. Fara shares her experience of being homeless as a young player, and how she went on to have an extraordinary 20-year career. Fara talks about her plans for the future and her hopes for the future of the women's game, having recently announced he...
Aug 04, 2023•48 min
To celebrate the Football World Cup, we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football. Today it’s one of the world's leading female professional players, Lucy Bronze. The UEFA Women’s Player of the Year in 2019 was also named The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2020 and won the Euros with the Lionesses in 2022. Having played in the US, and at several British clubs including Man City, Lucy went on to spend 3 years in France at Olympique Lyonnais,...
Aug 01, 2023•37 min
In this final episode of season 14, we talk to Eilish McColgan, an incredible distance athlete. Eilish holds the European record for 10,000 on the road, as well as British records at 5,000m and 10,000m on the track and road, and in the half marathon. With European medals indoors and outdoors on the track, Eilish represented Team GB at 3 Olympics in London, Rio and Tokyo. In 2022 Eilish became Commonwealth Games Champion over 10,000 metres, a feat that repeated her mum's victory 36 years earlier ...
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr•Season 14Ep. 8
Molly McCann, also known as Meatball Molly, is a mixed martial artist, formerly a Cage Fighters champion, who is currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In this very open interview, Molly takes us back to her life growing up in Liverpool, surrounded by alcohol and addiction, and the childhood experiences that led her to follow a different path and become a world famous MMA fighter. We explore what it’s like to lose your privacy and how Molly now deals with the negativity and t...
Jul 11, 2023•40 min•Season 14Ep. 7
Louise Minchin is a journalist, presenter, author and podcaster, who presented BBC’s flagship morning show, BBC Breakfast, for over 20 years. Louise also has a passion for endurance sport. Having raced her first triathlon in 2013, she went on to compete in her Age Group at five World and European triathlon championships before completing a number of extreme events including some of the toughest long-distance triathlons in the world. Louise talks frankly about how she re-discovered sport in her 4...
Jul 04, 2023•41 min•Season 14Ep. 6
Our guest in this episode has been instrumental in the success of the British Paralympic team, helping them to achieve record-breaking medal hauls at 10 Paralympic Summer and Winter Games. Penny Briscoe competed for Great Britain in Canoe Slalom before becoming Senior National Coach for the GBR team at the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She has worked in para sport as coach, team manager, performance director and is now Director of Sport at the British Paralympic Association and is ...
Jun 27, 2023•49 min•Season 14Ep. 5
This episode is a slightly different format, as I talk to a panel of game changers about a specific topic – and in this case it’s women in sports coaching. Just 10% of accredited coaches at the Summer and Winter Olympics over the past decade have been female and we rarely see women in high profile coaching roles in our biggest sports. This conversation explores why this is and what needs to change? My guests for this episode were: Kelly Lindsey, Sporting Director at Lewes FC & former Head Co...
Jun 20, 2023•57 min•Season 14Ep. 4
This is an utterly fascinating conversation with Preeti Shetty, a hugely well-respected figure in sport, particularly in the area of sport for positive social change. CEO and founder of Upshot, Preeti is also a Board Director of Brentford Football Club, the Vice Chair of Street Child United, a Director of London Sport and sits on Women in Football’s Board committee. As the head of Upshot, Preeti focuses her efforts on proving the difference non-profits can makes to people's lives and communities...
Jun 13, 2023•53 min•Season 14Ep. 3
Eve Muirhead OBE is one of the world’s most successful curlers, who became Olympic Champion as skip for the British team at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 having carried our flag at the Opening Ceremony. Eve went on to become World Champion in the Mixed Doubles later that year before announcing her retirement from curling as current Olympic, European and World Champion. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen Birthday Honours. As well as her extraordinary accolades on the ice, Eve is also highl...
Jun 06, 2023•42 min•Season 14Ep. 2
Today’s guest is Jodie Ounsley – a professional rugby player and Honorary President of UK Deaf Sport, who will also be a Gladiator in the new series that returns to the BBC later this year. Jodie is a powerful role model for women and girls and talks openly about her deafness and how it’s impacted her life on and off the pitch. She explains how she’s unintentionally been training for Gladiators all her life and how she’s preparing for the public profile that comes with becoming ‘Fury’ in the new...
May 30, 2023•51 min•Season 14Ep. 1
The guests featured in the new series of The Game Changers could be the most diverse yet, with Olympic, World and Commonwealth Champions, alongside elite coaches, broadcasters, CEOs, Paralympic GB’s Chef de Mission and a Gladiator! The Game Changers podcast features candid interviews with trailblazing women in sport who are knocking down barriers and challenging the status quo for women and girls across society. Along with discussing their careers, what drives them and how they’ve dealt with the...
May 23, 2023•5 min
To mark the fact that the entire Game On book is now available to listen to free on The Game Changers podcast, today we are sharing a previous episode in conversation with the author, Sue Anstiss In this special episode of The Game Changers, recorded in front of a live audience, Sue is interviewed by the rather brilliant Hannah Wilkes from Sky Sports. Sue shares much about her own relationship with sport, along with the joys & challenges across her career from sports marketing with Gatorade ...
May 16, 2023•49 min
In this moving and thought-provoking episode of The Game Changers, I talk to Maria Bobenreith, Executive Director of Women Win, to explore how sport is being used to enable young women to exercise their rights across the world. We consider how sport enables girls to develop their innate leadership, the power of joy to transform even the toughest lives and how nationalism trumps sexism when it comes to success on the world stage. Maria describes powerful examples of how sport is driving social ch...
May 11, 2023•49 min
What’s the difference between ‘sports development’ and ‘sport for development’ and how are organisations using sport as a tool to generate social change. This chapter explores the powerful impact sport can have on the some of the most prevalent problems affecting women in the global South such as gender based violence, childhood marriage and lack of education opportunities. We consider what it is that makes sport so powerful, and talk to leaders in the space including Radha Balani, Lex Chalat, M...
May 09, 2023•38 min•Season 13Ep. 18
This chapter considers the inequalities we see more broadly in women’s sport - across all ages and abilities – and what’s finally being done to address this. From little girls not allowed to join the boys playing football in the playground, teenage girls unable to play a sport they love because clubs don’t have girls teams, through to older women uncomfortable about exercising in public for fear of ridicule. Why are girls already less active than boys at just 7 and how does this difference widen...
May 02, 2023•30 min•Season 13Ep. 17
Moya Dodd, one of the most influential women in global sport. Former vice-captain of the Australian women’s football team, Moya served on the board of Football Federation Australia and Asian football's governing body, before she became one of the first women to join the FIFA Council, where she took a lead role on gender reforms. Moya still sits on FIFA committees along with the IOC Athlete’s Entourage Commission. She is Honorary President of Women in Sports Law, Chair of Common Goal and serves o...
Apr 28, 2023•51 min
In today’s chapter we address the lack of racial diversity in women’s sport – from grassroots participation through to our national teams and boardrooms. Why don’t England’s national teams in sports like cricket, rugby union, rugby league, football and hockey reflect the ethnic diversity of our society? What did it take for sport to finally wake up to the issue, what’s being done to address it now, and who are the inspirational women driving change? This chapter explores some of the factors that...
Apr 25, 2023•30 min•Season 13Ep. 16
