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WHY ARE FEMALE ATHLETES MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER ACL INJURIES? In this episode of the 4TG Podcast, Kylie Lynch sits down with physiotherapist, researcher, former AFLW player, and injury prevention expert Dr. Brooke Patterson to unpack one of the biggest challenges in women's sport. Female athletes are significantly more likely to experience ACL injuries than men, yet for decades, sports science...

WHAT DOES REAL ALLYSHIP IN SPORT ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE? In this episode of the 4TG Podcast, Kylie Lynch sits down with Damian “Damo” Hopper, creator of Prune Masters and one of the strongest public supporters of women’s football in Australia. What started as social media content turned into something bigger. Damo shares how visibility, public pressure, and speaking up can create real change inside sp...

Watch & subscribe now on 4TG's YouTube 📺 Follow & subscribe to 4TG on all your favourite platforms here so you never miss an episode 🔔 4TG is on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport through inspiring conversations, practical insights, and stories from athletes, coaches and industry leaders who have lived it. --- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOVE A SPORT THAT THE SYSTEM NO LONGER...

Watch & subscribe now on 4TG's YouTube 📺 Follow & subscribe to 4TG on all your favourite platforms here so you never miss an episode 🔔 4TG is on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport through inspiring conversations, practical insights, and stories from athletes, coaches and industry leaders who have lived it. --- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FUTURE YOU PLANNED DISAPPEARS OVERNIGH...

At just 16, Indra Brown is already competing at the highest level in freestyle skiing, reaching World #1 status and representing Australia at the Winter Olympics. In this episode of the 4TG Podcast , she shares the reality behind elite sport, mental pressure, and what it takes to perform on the world stage at such a young age. Indra opens up about the mental grit required to stay consistent under...

Watch & subscribe now on 4TG's YouTube 📺 What do you do when the thing that makes you you is suddenly gone? For Britt Furlanis, the answer took fifteen years to find. Britt grew up competing in showjumping before walking away at 15. What followed was a corporate career in gas trading, bodybuilding competitions, and years of high performance that masked a quiet truth she wasn't ready...

Nya Lok was born in an Ethiopian refugee camp after her South Sudanese parents fled civil war. She arrived in Australia at age five, speaking no English, with nothing but her family and a quiet, unshakeable belief that she could figure it out. She went on to captain the first South Sudan women's basketball team in international competition, earn a spot with the Southside Fliers after training...

She finished 17th in her seeding run. She had the flu. She won Olympic gold anyway. Josie Baff is a 23-year-old snowboarder from Jindabyne and Australia's first ever Olympic gold medallist in women's snowboard cross. But this episode is not about what happened on the podium. It is about everything that happened between the race that broke her and the one that made her. After a difficult...

A woman just ran 253 miles through the Arizona desert, through the night, through the mountains, for 56 hours straight – and beat every single man in the race. Her name is Rachel Entrekin, and her mantra was simple: "Why not you?" Women are redefining sport, growing in leaps and bounds over the past 5-10 years, and investment at the elite level has never been higher. So why are girls sti...

Watch and subscribe to 4TG now on YouTube 📺  Run clubs are having a moment. And it's being driven by women! Membership in Australian run clubs increased by 59% in 2024, and researchers found the top three reasons women keep showing up aren't pace or fitness goals. They're motivation, community and mood. Eliza Boyd figured that out before the data confirmed it. Eliza is the founder...

Watch & subscribe to 4TG on YouTube 📺  Meredith Young has achondroplasia – the most common form of dwarfism. She grew up in a family that lived and breathed sport, represented Australia across basketball, swimming, athletics and badminton, and became the fastest short-statured woman in the world. Without a sprint coach. Just pure heart and Asics on. In 2009, she captained Australia's fir...

Watch & Subscribe on YouTube 📺 Chelsea Blissett is a professional footballer for Melbourne Victory and founder of Style TrackHer. In this episode, she speaks honestly about disordered eating in sport, and what eating disorder recovery can look like behind the scenes. No stereotypes. No fluff. Just the real stuff female athletes are often carrying quietly. Chelsea shares how anxiety, pressure,...

Winter sport is back – and if you're sitting with a stomach full of nerves this week, this episode is for you. In this solo episode, Kylie Lynch opens up about returning from an ACL injury and what she's learned about the gap between physical readiness and mental readiness. Round one nerves are not the same as regular season nerves, and not enough people name that. This episode does. Whe...

Watch now & subscribe on YouTube 📺  Claudia Nielsen has played elite hockey, represented Australia in Rugby Sevens, and signed with the NRLW's Wests Tigers. She is also completing a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Sydney. And ahead of the 2026 season, she was released. In this 4TG episode, Claudia gets real about what it actually feels like when the sport you gave ever...

Watch + subscribe to 4TG on YouTube 📺  Support 4TG by becoming a member on Buy Me A Coffee and get exclusive access and BTS content ☕ Former professional Australian rugby union player and commentator Alicia Lucas joins Kylie on 4TG (For The Girls) for a real conversation about the motherhood tax in women’s sport.  If you have ever felt like becoming a mum means your career is “done”, this episod...

This week is a solo episode with me, Kylie Lynch, and it is a proper life update plus a mindset reset for anyone heading into a new season. If you are feeling selection pressure, nerves in a new team, or that heavy fear of judgement, you are not alone. I share why I am going all in on 4TG, and why sport has always been my anchor. Then we get practical. Because the fear is not failure. It is being...

Watch and subscribe on YouTube 📺  Janelle Cuthbertson is a former AFLW player and elite tennis athlete who has lived the part of sport most people never see – the lonely rehab sessions, the identity crash after injury, and the mental health battles that can follow. Across her career, she has faced three ACL injuries plus several long-term (and often freak) injuries , and she has recently announce...

Watch and subscribe on YouTube  📺 In this special International Women's Day episode, we aren't just celebrating how far we've come in women's sport, we're challenging how far we've still got to go. Joining us is legendary sports journalist Marnie Vinall to break down the harsh realities of being a female athlete in Australia: the pay gaps, the corporate greenwashing,...

Watch & subscribe now to 4TG on YouTube 📺  If you’ve ever felt gassed in a game and assumed it means you’re “unfit”, this one’s for you. In this episode of 4TG (For The Girls) , Kylie chats with Liz Ho – Performance Breathwork Expert about how to breathe properly for your sport, and why breathing is a trainable performance skill.  Whether you play AFL, netball, soccer, or you’re building fitn...

This week on 4TG, we chat with the incredible Tori West – Olympian heptathlete, self-taught software engineer, and founder of Peak.app. Tori shares her candid journey navigating the realities of women's athletics, where passion often outweighs financial support. She opens up about self-funding her Olympic dreams, a drive that led her to build a revolutionary tech solution for athletes. Tori’s...

What happens when the sport that’s been your whole life suddenly stops? Former Western Australian women’s cricket fast bowler Piepa Cleary shares the real story of retirement from professional sport, athlete identity loss, and what life after cricket actually feels like when the routine, team environment and performance goals disappear. We dive into: The emotional impact of retiring from elite wom...

Have you ever been in a team where the structure looks perfect on paper… but the connection is missing? This week I’m joined by Tom Cashin – Collingwood VFLW Head Coach and Head of Academy (AFLW) – for a raw, honest chat on what actually creates high-performing teams. We unpack Tom’s people-first coaching philosophy , why he wants athletes setting goals they’re not guaranteed to reach, and how to...

Pre-season is where reputations are built — but it’s not about flogging yourself to prove a point. It’s about building trust, training with intent, and staying consistent long enough to actually improve. In this short, sharp solo episode, Kylie shares 5 practical pre-season tips for female athletes who want to get noticed, improve selection chances, and level up without burning out. From being the...

In this episode of the 4TG Podcast, Kylie sits down with Ayeisha McFerran , Irish international hockey goalkeeper and Unboxed podcast host , for a real-talk conversation about confidence, identity, and the environments that either keep girls in sport or quietly push them out. Ayeisha opens up about being perceived as calm and confident while privately overthinking everything, how growing up outsid...

In this episode of the 4TG Podcast, Jacqui Louder shares her insights from a 25-year career as one of Australia’s leading sport and performance psychologists. Having worked with elite teams like Collingwood and Melbourne Storm, Jacqui discusses the evolution of the high-performance mindset and why mental skills are just as critical as physical ones. She emphasises the importance of effort over res...