Strong Girl Talk

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. This week Molly and Sasha chat about what psychological safety is—and what it isn’t! Molly just wrote about it for True Sport and Sasha used a lot of this research in her PhD dissertation. We share a bunch of resources below, including Sasha’s week...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. This week Molly and Sasha chat with Juliet Starrett, is a former whitewater rafting world champion, entrepreneur, bestselling co-author of Built to Move , athlete, and podcaster. Before we dive in, do us a huge favor and make sure you give the podc...

This week we chat about the exercise and performance load, what it is, how to measure it, and why it matters especially for girls and women in sport. Of course, first up we have our sports highlights of the week. Before we dive in, do us a huge favor and make sure you give the podcast 5 stars and click follow: Don’t forget to sign up for Shred Girls Weekend , May 31 at the Mansfield Outdoor Centre...

We chatted about the fact that sport is a human right in a recent episode but we wanted to highlight why this really matters when we talk about adaptive athletes, so we asked Kelly Brush of the Kelly Brush Foundation to join us for an incredible conversation. The Kelly Brush Foundation (KBF) is dedicated to making active lifestyles a reality for those who have experienced a spinal cord injury. The...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. This week we chat about the debrief, the chat after the event, how to approach it with curiosity instead of judgement, and learning to debrief and reflect with yourself. Of course, first up we have our sports highlights of the week. Before we dive...

This week on Strong Girl Talk, we're joined by Tina Muir: runner, author of Becoming a Sustainable Runner , and co-founder of Racing for Sustainability. In this Earth Month special, we go far beyond carbon offsets and talk about sustainability in sport, parenting, recovery, and even snack wrappers. Before we dive in, do us a huge favor and make sure you give the podcast 5 stars and click follow: D...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the research, the challenges, and the opportunities that impact female athletes. This week Sasha chatted with Katie Rainsberger. Before we dive into the conversation with Katie, Molly and Sasha talk about all...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the research, the challenges, and the opportunities that impact female athletes. This week is all about … Women’s Sports Highlights This Week: Read the Athletic Article, Put the women’s NCAA Tournament champio...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. This week Molly speaks to Kate Vernneau , the Director of Women’s Strategy with Zwift , indoor training made fun. Pssst… love cycling? Shred Girls: Lindsay and the Curse of Gemini Lakes is available for pre-order now and hits shelves in paperback,...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. We’re calling this an emergency episode, it’s not our usual Friday episode, but this issue was too important for us not to talk about. This episode focuses on recently announced sex testing for eligibility in the female category to compete at the W...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the research, the challenges, and the opportunities that impact female athletes. This week is the last week about Women’s History Month and we dive into removing barriers for girls and women in sport. If you’r...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the research, the challenges, and the opportunities that impact female athletes. This week we sat down to chat with Ellen Noble. Who is Ellen Noble? Ellen is world cyclocross silver medalist, a two-time U23 Na...

Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the research, the challenges, and the opportunities that impact female athletes. This week is book club week and Sasha interviews Molly about her book, Running As Fast as We Can. Just a heads up that this epis...

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Micha is a world-class Canadian Olympic sprinter specializing in the 400-meter. She’s a 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist and the author of the memoir-slash-workbook titled Sprinting Through Setbacks: An Olympian’s Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome . From the research: We chatted again with Micha about role models. Check out our first show notes about role models . Don’t wor...

This year’s International Women’s Day theme include, the United Nations - For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment - and International Women’s Day - Collectively for #IWD2025 we can all #AccelerateAction . To download your copy of Canadian Women and Sports Rally Report, check out their resources . In 2024 ASICS released the Move Her Mind Study , where the researched affirmed that the...

Whether you’re a strong girl yourself or are raising one, this show is for you! Welcome to Strong Girl Talk! You’re the first to hear about our exciting new podcast—three full episodes will be dropping on International Women’s Day (yay!) so check your inbox then. For now, here’s what you can expect: Author & Strong Girl Publishing founder Molly Hurford and Dr. Sasha Gollish, Executive Director of...