My guest on The Game Changers today is cricketing legend Charlotte Edwards who shares her extraordinary journey from making her England debut at just 16 to becoming one of the sport's most influential figures as a player and coach. Breaking countless records throughout her 20-year playing career, Charlotte was appointed England Captain in 2006 and led the team to win the Women's Cricket World Cup in 2009 along with three outright Ashes series. Following her playing career, Charlotte was appointe...
Jul 16, 2024•42 min•Season 17Ep. 5
What drives one of Britain's top rally drivers to push the limits on and off the track? In today's episode of The Game Changers we hear from Catie Munnings one of Britain’s most successful racing talents, a rally driver, Red Bull sponsored athlete and TV presenter who now competes in Extreme E - a radical, all electric off-road racing series in the most remote corners of the planet impacted by climate change. Catie she shares her remarkable journey from sporty teenager to a trailblazing figure i...
Jul 09, 2024•44 min•Season 17Ep. 4
As we head into Wimbledon, LTA President Sandi Procter talks to Sue Anstiss about female representation at the very top of tennis, why volunteers are essential to running of the sport across the country and how Padel and Pickleball could be key to bringing more women to tennis. Sandi is President of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) - and the most senior volunteer in British Tennis. Thank you to Sport England who support The Game Changers Podcast with a National Lottery award. Find out more abou...
Jul 02, 2024•48 min•Season 17Ep. 3
This week’s episode of The Game Changers features professional golfer and major champion Georgia Hall who talks to Sue Anstiss about winning the AIG Women’s Open with her dad as her caddy, the loneliness of playing on the LPGA Tour and why she doesn’t work with a sports psychologist. Georgia won the AIG Women’s Open in 2018 and now plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She’ll be taking part in her first Olympics this summer and will be aiming to win her second major championship a...
Jun 25, 2024•30 min•Season 17Ep. 2
Commonwealth Champion Weightlifter Emily Campbell talks to Sue Anstiss about the changing perception of strong women in society, her medal prospects at the Paris Olympics and inspiring female body confidence. Emily shot to fame at the Tokyo Olympics, winning Britain’s first ever weightlifting medal before going on to win Gold at the Commonwealth Games the following year. Emily hopes to be back on the podium for Paris 2024. Thank you to Sport England who support The Game Changers Podcast with a N...
Jun 18, 2024•53 min•Season 17Ep. 1
Ahead of a huge summer for women’s sports, we’re back with the biggest-ever season of The Game Changers, launching across all podcast platforms on June 18. The ten episodes in this bumper season include Olympians, Paralympians, World Cup winners, European Champions, Presidents and CEOs. It’s also the most diverse series ever in terms the sports featured with guests from athletics, cricket, climbing, diving, golf, ice skating, motor racing, rugby, tennis, triathlon and weightlifting. Once again, ...
Jun 11, 2024•6 min
As we look forward to Paris 2024, we're sharing this previous episode with Olympian Dame Jess Ennis-Hill which was released on October 27, 2020. In this episode, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill explores her incredible journey from an enthusiastic young girl at a summer camp to becoming Olympic and three-time World Champion in Heptathlon. It was a privilege to talk to one of Britain’s greatest all-time athletes as she took us through her early days, remembering the excitement of school competitions and t...
Jun 04, 2024•44 min
This episode was previously released on May 10, 2022. 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...
May 28, 2024•42 min
This episode of the Game Changers was previously released on June 15, 2021. Dr Pippa Grange is a highly sought-after, influential sports psychologist and a culture coach working across elite sports and business internationally. In this episode, Pippa talks about family turmoil growing up, her formative years travelling and working in Australia, her first reaction to the job offer with England Football and the media spotlight she faced in the aftermath of the 2017 World Cup. Within football, Pipp...
May 21, 2024•48 min
In today’s special episode of The Game Changers podcast, we talk to two trailblazing women from Man City Women – Esme Morgan and Charlotte O’Neill. Lioness Esme Morgan was a lifelong City fan who joined the club at under 15 level and quickly progressed through the regional talent squad into the Man City Women’s first team. She’s featured throughout all youth levels of the England national team set-up having first been called up to the under-17 England team in 2017. Esme won her first England sen...
May 14, 2024•33 min
This episode was previously released on November 15, 2022. 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. ...
May 07, 2024•53 min
This episode was previously released on April 14, 2020 Jacqui talks about her lifelong obsession with football, how she changed careers at 27 to re-train as a journalist and how lonely and isolated she felt after the hideous build up to her first appearance on BBC’s Match of The Day. Being the first female commentator on Match of the Day is how Jacqui is best known to many. She went on to present the show in 2015, and in 2016 was awarded an MBE for her services to broadcasting and diversity. Jac...
Apr 30, 2024•49 min
This episode was previously released on October 29, 2019. Paratriathlon World Champion and Paralympic Silver medallist, Lauren also enthralled us all as a semi-finalist on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018. 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...
Apr 23, 2024•38 min
This episode was previously released on June 4, 2019 as the very first episode of The Game Changers Having won 11 Paralympic Gold medals and the London Marathon six times, Tanni now sits as an independent peer in the House of Lords and is Chair of ukactive. Find out more about The Game Changers here 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 Hos...
Apr 16, 2024•38 min
This episode of The Game Changers was preiously released on July 7, 2020. Captain of the Lionesses and Man City, Steph has represented her country at every level, with over 100 appearances for England. Steph’s also led Man City to two Women's FA Cups, three Continental Cup successes and the FA Women's Super League title, as well as landing the PFA’s Merit Award in 2019. Representing Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics, Steph became a household name by scoring in all three group matches, includin...
Apr 09, 2024•38 min
“It was such a shock for me and it still is. I still don't understand it to this day. I actually didn't sleep that night because I didn't want to wake up and it be something I had to deal with again.” Mo Hunt discussing her surprise exclusion from the Rugby World Cup squad in 2023 Ahead of this weekend’s start of the Guinness Women’s Six Nations, I’m thrilled to say that my guest today is Mo Hunt, a much-celebrated international rugby player who's represented her country for over 13 years. Mo wa...
Mar 19, 2024•49 min•Season 16Ep. 7
My guest today is Lisa O'Keefe, a former Scottish international rugby player who was a director at Sport England for 14 years and is now Secretary General of the International Working Group on Women and Sport, the world's largest network dedicated to gender equality in sport and physical activity. Lisa is responsible for leading the Secretariat while it's hosted in the UK until 2026. A passionate advocate for women's sport and breaking down barriers to participation, Lisa led groundbreaking insi...
Mar 12, 2024•49 min•Season 16Ep. 6
“It’s very difficult to find venues in the UK. Teams in the USA have permanent venues where they train. We're stuck with pokey little sports halls where we're constantly fighting the badminton mafia for space.” Today’s episode is an adrenaline-fueled journey into the world of roller derby with the formidable Kristen Dusting, a silver medalist in the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup who's seen it all. We explore the incredible history and growth of what many consider to be the most inclusive of sports...
Mar 05, 2024•38 min•Season 16Ep. 5
Today’s guest is Sabrina Pace-Humphreys, an ultra-runner, award-winning businesswoman, social justice activist, personal trainer, running coach and co-founder and trustee of the community and campaigning charity Black Trail Runners. The mother of four and grandmother of three, recently published her memoir, Black Sheep, a story of rural racism, identity and hope. It’s fascinating to hear how a short walk/jog in the depths of post-natal depression evolved through marathons and ultra-distance race...
Feb 27, 2024•50 min•Season 16Ep. 4
“The utopia of officiating should be that anybody, regardless of gender, can umpire any game”. Sue Redfern is a much-celebrated cricket umpire and former England player. Sue became the youngest ever female to play cricket for England when she started her career at just 16 and went on to represent her country for the next five years, including playing in the 1997 World Cup in India. Having retired from the game and moved away from cricket, Sue came back to work at the ECB and, in 2012, decided to...
Feb 20, 2024•42 min•Season 16Ep. 3
‘The most intricate sport nobody’s ever heard of’ – Claire Taggart describing her sport of Boccia. With the Paris Paralympics just a few months away, it was fantastic to hear from Claire Taggart, world number one at Boccia, and find out more about this inclusive sport. Claire represented Paralympics GB in Rio and Tokyo and became Northern Ireland’s first-ever Boccia world champion in 2022. We discover more about this extraordinary sport, which has no Olympic equivalent and is uniquely open to al...
Feb 13, 2024•48 min•Season 16Ep. 2
“The England management in place now, and the type of environment we try to create for the senior team is very different to before… the environment at England camp is a much friendlier and nicer one than it was a handful of years ago.” We start a new series with a fabulous conversation with Jess Carter, a professional footballer with England and Chelsea. Jess was one of the Lionesses that won the Euros in 2022 and went on to win silver in the World Cup in 2023. Surprisingly, representing England...
Feb 06, 2024•46 min•Season 16Ep. 1
Welcome to The Game Changers. It’s hard to believe this is series 16 of the podcast, which celebrates the trailblazers in women’s sport exploring critical issues around equality in sport and beyond. We are so pleased that again this season of The Game Changers is supported by Sport England through a National Lottery Award. We’re incredibly grateful for their ongoing support, which enables us to share the stories of these inspiring women working across the sporting landscape. My wonderful guest l...
Jan 30, 2024•6 min
Now entering its 5th year, The Game Changers continues to evolve, providing a safe space for female athletes and senior women in sport to share their stories and explore critical issues around equality and inclusion. Ahead of series 16, which launches in February, we're sharing a special highlights episode from 2023. Preeti Shetty , Director at Brentford Football Club, shares her shocking first experience as a spectator at a Millwall game and her challenge in raising funds in sport and tech as a...
Jan 23, 2024•30 min
This episode was originally released as part of Series 3 on April 7, 2020. Widely regarded as one of the greatest-ever female players, Kelly Smith MBE is England women’s record goal scorer and four-time Women’s Premier League winner with Arsenal Women. Kelly talks openly about how tough it was playing football as youngster and being kicked off two teams for being a girl, how England is now the best place for any young girl wanting to play professional football and why she feels it’s so important...
Jan 16, 2024•41 min
A re-released episode originally published as part of Series 3 on May 19, 2020. At the time of the original release Casey was Manager at Man United Women, and had been capped over 100 times for England and captained the Lionesses and Team GB during the London 2012 Olympics. Casey talks us about how she was bullied for playing football as a girl, her surreal first cap in front of a crowd of 45,000, what makes a great captain and leader, the difference in life as a manager versus a professional pl...
Jan 09, 2024•49 min
This episode was originally released as part of Series 2 on Sept 17, 2019. Former England Cricket Captain, Clare Connor has transformed the game from grassroots to the elite level, she is now ECB Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director England Women. 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 Wa...
Jan 02, 2024•51 min
This episode was originally released as part of Series 1, on July 16, 2019. Team GB’s most decorated female Olympian with 5 Olympic rowing medals (including Gold at London 2012) Katherine is now the Chair of UK 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 prod...
Dec 26, 2023•41 min
This episode was originally released as part of Series 1 on June 4, 2019. Four times Ironman World Champion, Chrissie is now Global Lead of Health and Wellbeing for Parkrun. 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...
Dec 19, 2023•50 min
Today’s guest is the most successful female sailor in Olympic history - Hannah Mills OBE. Hannah won a silver medal for Team GB alongside Saskia Clark at London 2012, before the pair went on to win Gold in Rio 2016. Hannah retained her Olympic title with new partner, Eilidh McIntyre at the Tokyo Games in 2021, and was also the Team GB flagbearer for those games. Off the water Hannah’s hugely passionate about the environment. She’s an International Olympic Committee Sustainability Ambassador, who...
Dec 12, 2023•40 min•Season 15Ep. 8
