the 94%
94% of women working in C-suite executive roles played sport... 52% at university level*. Talking to some of your favourite and fabulous women from all walks of life about how their sporting experiences have shaped them in weird, wonderful and often quite witty ways. With hosts Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody on TV’s The L Word, gay icon and mother to a teen girl in London) and Dublin’s Nikki Symmons (former international hockey and cricket player for 13 years, Ireland’s first female athlete to come out as gay and a specialised DEI advisor). In all walks of life, not just the C-Suite, participation in sport from an early age promotes professional excellence, in whatever field a woman moves into. And that’s a fact. Sport helps develop resilience, discipline and teamwork. Together these form a holy trinity for success. They discuss the wild and varied parallels they see between competitive sport and their real-life experiences. How lessons learnt on the pitch shape their behaviour off the field. How sport has made them the women they are today. And how they got off the blocks at the very start. But it’s not just the sporting elite in their new careers that we hear from, although our host Nikki will keep us anchored in that arena. Our guests include high-flyers from the world of entertainment, politics, media and corporate… wherever successful athletes find themselves. And that’s everywhere. *EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Tracy E Gilchrist is a GLAAD award-winning editor in chief, journalist, moderator, interviewer and lecturer. And she knows how to hold space, too.
A self-proclaimed sensitive soul, trusted by super-stars and her readers alike, no-one was more surprised than Tracy when her 2024 interview with Wicked's Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo went Viral with a capital V. Who wasn't wanting to hold space with our beloved Tracy after that?
Hannah Graf MBE is a former Captain in the British Army and a powerful activist for the trans community that she and her husband are both integral to.
Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2018 for services to the LGBTQ community in the British military, Hannah campaigns for trans people, offering emotional as well as practical support for them and their families through her vast charity work.
A natural le...
Pam Drucker-Mann is the CEO and co-founder of the newly launched Run-A-Muck, alongside two wonderful The L Word alumni: the iconic Jennifer Beals (see ep 1 of the 94%) and uber-showrunner Ilene Chaiken.
Run-A-Muck is a next-gen media company determined to transform The L Word into the The L World. Creating content for a hungry built-in audience.
And Pam knows a thing or two about world-wide reach - she's be...
Heather Peace is probably best known for conjuring up the complex character Eve Unwin on BBC 1’s EastEnders. She won the 2022 Inside Soap Award for Best Newcomer, and then the 2023 Best Soap Couple alongside actress Balvinder Sopal.
But she's also stood out as a power house of talent on a steady stream of successful TV shows since the late 1990s - the smoking hot Sally Fields in London's Burning, the ass-kicking Becca on Ultimat...
Robyn Exton is the founder and CEO of the world’s largest on-line network for FLINTA and queer women: HER.
(FLINTA = Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Trans, and A-gender audiences.)
In just over a decade, this multi-national community has grown to over 16 million users, across 114 countries, in five different languages. Woah!
No wonder it was just snapped up by Match Group (Fortune 500) for undoubtedly enormous "undisclosed ter...
Anna Nolan: the gay nun who (almost) won the first ever UK Big Brother back in the year 2000. Anna certainly won our hearts if not the prize money. These days she's top of her league as a TV Producer and presenter with media production giant COCO Entertainment in Dublin. Where does much of her fearless, strategic, visualising, team-playing success come from...?
Basket ball. Some of the happiest days of her life.
We're celebra...
Adele Roberts - Radio 1 DJ, multi-marathon 6-Star Medal runner, Guinness world record holder, sports commentator, acclaimed author and brilliant audio-book reader, a Dancing on Ice expert, Big Brother alumni, I'm A Celebrity survivor, multi-award winning LGBT rights campaigner, post-Bowel cancer stoma-celebrating celesbian, owner of an infectiously lovable laugh, a woman with unstoppable energy and an all round lovely, lovely perso...
Huge fanfare please for our very first guest on the 94% podcast - the iconic Jennifer Beals.
Known for her groundbreaking role in Flashdance and as Bette Porter in The L Word, she's a passionate LGBTQ+ ally.
But Jennifer is also a serious triathlete, who played sport throughout her school years ( including basketball and field hockey). Now, she's also an avid pickleball player! (Pickleball!)
94% of women working in C-suite executive roles played sport ,
52% at university level*.
In all walks of life, not just the C-Suite, participation in sport from an early age promotes professional excellence, in whatever field a woman moves into. And that’s a fact.
Sport helps develop resilience, discipline and teamwork. Together these form a holy trinity for success.
Hosts Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody on TV’s&nb...
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