Society Nine: The Fight Within Podcast
Society Nine is a modern femme sports brand providing boxing gear and sportswear to empower you and your fight. Our podcast interviews and celebrates the stories and journeys of our guests, with topics ranging from equality and accessibility in sports and fitness, physical and mental wellness, pursuing our dreams, what it means to empower and uplift one another and the intersectionality of it all.
Episodes
March 22, 2022 • 38 mins
Ivy Richardson (she/her) is Nuxalk and Gusgimukw on her mom's side and Irish, Scottish and English on her dad's side. She is the founder of Red Girl Rising, a wellness-through-movement initiative and head coach of Team 700, Vancouver BC's first competitive Indigenous youth boxing team. She also is the co-founder of Matriarch Resistance which is a new initiative created in a direct response to the missing and murdered In...
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**Disclaimer: mentions of disordered eating. Please listen at your own discretion.
Today's episode features the founders of A La Ligne Method, Katie McKenzie and Taren Grewall, and newly joined boxing coach Anna Farrant! We chat at length with the team at House of A La Ligne about nervous system regulation when it comes to body movement choices, and we discuss complex but necessary topics like body, gender and racial privilege ...
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February 22, 2022 • 76 mins
**Disclaimer: we discuss topics of disordered eating. Please listen at your own discretion.
Today we're talking with Gabby Villasenor, and her pronouns are she/her. She moves, works and lives on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples — including the: Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam nations. She's the founder of a Mindful Movement company called Fuelled by Feeling, and an OG Society Nine brand ambassador!...
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April 1, 2021 • 36 mins
Box United is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that uses the sport of boxing to connect communities of young women across the world. Fight Like a Girl (FLAG) is their signature boxing and leadership development program for high school girls run in partnership with the U.S. Consulate in Cape Town, South Africa. FLAG is fiercely committed to developing young female leaders who are proficient not only in jabs and hooks, but in social ...
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January 28, 2021 • 57 mins
Core to Coeur offers exceptional guided Pilates, Yoga, and Functional Movement Instruction for all bodies. Core to Coeur clients workout in the privacy of their own homes, on their own time, in a community-minded setting with movement practitioners that care. And on this episode, Society Nine founder Lynn Le and Core to Coeur founder Madison Page talk about their motivations for creating communities that encourage movement regardle...
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November 11, 2020 • 51 mins
Louise Green is the Founder of the fitness brand, Big Fit Girl. She is the author of the book, "Big Fit Girl," founder of the Big Fit Girl Fitness App, Big Fit Girl Uncensored Podcast and a leading Columnist at SELF Magazine. Louise is currently working on her second book with Penguin/Random House USA. For over a decade she has forged a career as a plus-size Personal Trainer, Global Fitness Coach, Fitness Activist and Autho...
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October 4, 2020 • 46 mins
Society Nine Brand Ambassador Jennie Bender is a kickboxing and spin instructor, personal trainer and Muay Thai enthusiast. She joins us today to share her passion for turning fitness influencer culture into a culture that leverages social influence for civic activism, with her recently launched initiative Fit2Vote. Fit2Vote is a new campaign that's bringing together the Austin fitness community including instructors and traine...
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September 25, 2020 • 44 mins
Our guest is Jessica Ng (pronounced 'Eng'), a first generation Chinese-Hong Kong American from Queens, New York with a Muay Thai fight record of 17-10. Passionate about Muay Thai and training out of Sitan Gym, by day she is a fashion designer and recently launched Southpaw Stitches. Disheartened and frustrated with the lack of support to our NYC communities during the pandemic, she and her co-founder diverted their energy f...
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It's Women's Equality Day! And we have a *long* way to go to making sure this is EVERY day. Society Nine founder Lynn Le and this episode's special guest Taylor Rae Almonte deep dive into where progress has been made, but also where we still have such a long way to go - in fitness, sport, culture and society. Taylor is a Brooklyn based actor, athlete & activist. She is an NYU alumni, having graduated with honors and...
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August 25, 2020 • 63 mins
Society Nine founder Lynn Le and Boombox Boxing co-founder Angela Jennings have a deep discussion about what it's like to re-open a gym mid-pandemic, and to be a Black leader in the DC small business community as well as the daughter of a police officer. Angela co-founded BOOMBOX based on her love for boxing, music and community. Their goal is simple: to empower and inspire, while making the health benefits of boxing-inspired t...
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August 4, 2020 • 16 mins
We talk about "allostatic load" in today's episode - what it is biologically, how it relates to stress, and why just working out, eating well, controlling sleep, etc for basic health maintenance is actually a lot more complicated than we'd think.
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Our guest on this episode is Dr. Connie Wun. She is the co-founder of AAPI Women Lead, the Founder/Director of Transformative Research: An Institute for Research and Social Transformation, and a PHD researcher for the National Organization for Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence. She’s also been a professor and teacher. Her body of work spans all realms of social and racial justice and she has spoken on such topics on na...
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July 25, 2020 • 68 mins
Paige Hendrix Buckner is the Program Manager of Founder Gym. Founder Gym is the first online training program specifically designed to help underrepresented tech startup founders raise money to scale their startups. A Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiast, loving mom and partner and former startup founder herself, Paige shares her journey with our community today and the importance of creating generational wealth for the next generation o...
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July 11, 2020 • 33 mins
This is our inaugural podcast episode, kicking off Society Nine's podcast series focused on conversations around female fighters in life, culture and sport! We reflect on the mainstream and sport media reactions to the Rousey/Holm fight and talk about why as women we shouldn't be shaming ourselves for throwing down that turkey. Join us!
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July 11, 2020 • 48 mins
In Episode 02, we host our special guest Emily Corso! Emily is a former professional MMA fighter (#11 flyweight in the world at one point, in fact!) turned self-defense coach and personal trainer at her own business, Bold and Badass Fitness. Come hangout with us!
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July 11, 2020 • 26 mins
Society Nine is back from a somewhat long hiatus from our last podcast episode, which at this point was in 2017. We're catching you up on what this whirlwind of a 2020 has been like so far, and what kind of future we'd like to write for Society Nine - as a company, and as a community.
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July 11, 2020 • 39 mins
We hung out with Society Nine Brand Ambassador Jarrett Arthur of Jarrett & Jennie Customized Self Defense to learn about her personal evolution as a college elite athlete, to one of the highest ranking female Krav Maga black belts in the country, to now one of the biggest leaders in women's self defense. She also talked about her new women's empowerment retreat called I AM POWER. She's been featured on The Ellen Sho...
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July 11, 2020 • 37 mins
We had the honor of being invited to the United State of Women Summit, hosted by the White House! Lynn, Society Nine founder and CEO, recaps the sentiments, insights and passion learned and gained from the women in attendance, the Obamas and Joe Biden. And then there was that time she was in the bathroom with Gloria Steinem.
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July 11, 2020 • 54 mins
We spent some time talking with pro-boxer and mental health advocate Maureen "The Real Million Dollar Baby" Shea. At 25-2 (12 KO), she is the current IFBA Jr featherweight World Champion, current NABA Champion, former interim WBC Featherweight World Champion and former NABF Champion. While her boxing career is what elevated her personal brand, she is focused on utilizing her platform to speak out for victims of domestic vio...
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We chatted with LA Jennings, a writer and feminist thinker with a doctorate in Literary Studies and a passion for fighting sports. After ten years of training, competing, and coaching kickboxing, submission wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts, she is delighted to bring her dual passions of scholarly research and competitive martial arts into one comprehensive text. Her book, "She’s a Knockout: a History of Women in Fighting Sports...
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