Women Unscripted

Canadian Ice Hockey Goalie Kendra Fisher presents a new bi-weekly podcast that will address mental health and LGBTQ issues in an authentic and open way. The purpose is to educate and help people so that they have better understanding and the tools to cope with a variety of situations to enable them to stay mentallyfit. Kendra was diagnosed with a Severe Anxiety Disorder, Severe Panic Attacks, Depr...

Lisa Ingarfield is joined by author, journalist and host of the Burn it All Down podcast Jessica Luther to discuss Women’s Representation in the Media and the repetitive erosion of women's contributions. They unpack some examples of how female athletes are shunted into the shadows and regarded as a secondary story, regardless of their performance. Why media perpetuate this style of journalism to c...

On this month’s FAIR PLAY Zoe George and her guest co-presenter Bronwyn Easterbrook-Smith focus on rugby and look towards the Rugby League World Cup… Kiwi ferns vice-captain Georgia Hales drops in to discuss the competition, their preparation and not having a home ground advantage. Rugby Union is enjoying phenomenal growth globally and the Kiwis have had lots to celebrate as the Black Ferns captur...

When the World Cup season kicked off at Soelden, Austria, in October, eyes were glued to the World Cup veterans who were hunting for podium results. In episode four, Gabbi Hall went a different direction to talk to two new faces on the White Circus, Foreste Peterson from the U.S. and Kristin Lysdahl of Norway to talk about their first experience at Soelden and how they got to the World Cup. Plus a...

Siri Lindley and her wife Rebekah Keat are champions in the sport of triathlon as well as in their coaching club and in their passion for rescuing animals.  Team Sirius Tri Club is the number one triathlon coaching club in the U.S. and Siri has produced world and Olympic champions since she retired with two world championship titles to her name. Bek is a 6 time Iron Distance Champion and has the 6...

Chris Stafford's guest this week is 23 year old Catherine Tryee who has been having a banner year since she represented Team USA on the Nations Cup show jumping team in Florida last winter. She recently enjoyed a career best result when she came third in the Washington International FEI Nations Cup aboard Enjoy Louis. Cat was the Leading Lady Rider, won the 10,000 Leading U25 Award, as well as the...

Elizabeth Emery's guests this month are Laura Crawford from Adventure Cycling Association and Caren Hartley of Hartley Cycles. Laura, an expert and pro in bike tourism, is the U.S. Bicycle Route System Coordinator at Adventure Cycling Association and she chats about her short term and long term goals. In 2009, Laura and her partner Russ founded The Path Less Pedaled, when they sold everything to t...

With the Audi FIS World Cup ski season starting this weekend in Soeldon, Gabbi Hall catches up with Italy's alpine star Sofia Goggia to hear about her plans for the season including the Olympic Games. The also discuss pressing issues like cooking, and whether Sofia prefers peanut butter or maple syrup when she races in Vermont. And Gabbi tells us why she loves following Sofia on Instagram! Plus th...

Kendra Fisher is a Canadian ice hockey goalie and inline hockey player although her story today is not so much about her successes as a professional athlete as the mental illness that changed the course of her career. As a young player she achieved considerable success and was at the point of trying out for the Canadian team when the physical symptoms stopped her in her tracks. She was eventually...

Ash Nelson's guest this month is Team USA forward Michelle Vitesse who competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games where the team finished 12th and four years later in Rio where they finished 5th. In addition Michelle has a gold medal collection from the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games, 2014 Champions Challenge and 2017 World League.  She describes herself as 'a bit hard-headed—a loud personality i...

Chris Stafford's guest this week is Lucinda Fredericks who is a familiar name to anyone in eventing having been in the sport since her Junior and Young Rider years turned to a successful senior career with a string of 3 and 4 star horses. Her partnership with Headley Brittania captured the big three - Badminton, Burghley and Kentucky before the mare retired to the breeding barn. Lucinda’s team sil...

Rio Olympic Silver Medalists in the Lightweight Doubles, Lindsay Jennerich & Patricia Obee, are back and their topic is Dealing with Disappointment in competiiton as an individual and in a team. They share their personal experiences of how they coped when they didn't get the result they hoped for or expected, how critical analysis is critically important not just in defeat but also when you win. A...

Dr Lisa Ingarfield, PhD, hosts a new monthly podcast that will address thought provoking and challenging discussions exploring all things women and gender equity in sport. TALKING POINT will provide a platform for deeper conversations about diversity and inclusion when it comes to women’s role in sport, and is intended to provide a means for people to engage and maintain that conversation and keep...

Zoe George returns to launch a re-vamped show for fans of women’s sport in New Zealand - it's all about Fair Play which covers the news as well as the issues around women’s sport. Joining her again as guest co-presenter is White Ferns player Sophie Devine. Their guests are Sarah Beaman, the woman behind the study into women’s cricket for NZC and they ask what’s been done as a result of the study a...

We persuaded Gabbi Hall to come back for another episode following her very successful podcasting debut last month and she brought another great guest with her in Canada’s technical specialist Marie-Michele 'Mitch' Gagnon. They discuss Mitch’s summer preparation and plans for the World Cup season, her thoughts on the Winter Olympics and we hear about her new business venture. Gabbi also has the la...

That conversation around the State of U.S. Show Jumping was ignited this summer when Katie Prudent spoke out on this podcast. To discuss the response to her comments Chris Stafford is joined by U.S. show jumping team rider Callan Solem, Amateur Hunter Jumper Jennifer Baas who wrote to The Chronicle of the Horse in response and Molly Sorge is Senior Editor and Web Content Editor at The Chronicle. T...

Abby Ehler from The Magenta Project is back with friends who are taking part in this year's Volvo Ocean Race. Olympian Annie Lush, who was also on Team SCA in the previous edition of the race, has joined Abby on Team Brunel, and another Olympian, Italy's Francesca Clapcich, is on Dee Caffari's Turn the Tide on Plastic. They discuss the dynamics of the new mixed crew format, why you would endure fr...

Elizabeth Emery talks to British Cyclocross racer Helen Wyman and bike advocate Liz Cornish. Helen is 9 times National Cyclocross Champion, two-time European Champion, and a World Championship medalist. She is also a superstar in women’s cyclocross advocacy. Many of the positive changes over the past few years — pay equality, race length, tv coverage — is due to her work as part of the UCI Cyclocr...

Gabbi Hall from Ski Racing Media hosts our all new skiing podcast ahead of the start of the Audi FIS World Cup season, which features Fresh Tracks -  the latest news and updates of alpine racers including who is  looking good in training, who is rehabbing from injury and who to look out for this season. Gabbi’s first guest on The Mixed Zone is Jacqueline Wiles from Aurora, Oregon, a speed skier kn...

What do two best friends do after winning a Olympic medal then retiring from a lifestyle that involved spending several hours a day together? After years devoted to their sport of rowing the Canadian Lightweight Pairs partnership of Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee have so much more to talk about. What’s it like to be an elite athlete, to win against all odds, to find a winning partnership, to...

Piggy French has been a popular figure in British eventing since her Junior and Young Rider days when she was a member of the European team gold medal in 2001. She also claimed the individual silver at the 2009 Europeans riding Some Day Soon and a year later rode Jakata at the World Equestrian Games where the pair finished 14th. The partnership went on to finish 9th at the 2011 European where Pigg...

U.S. show jumper Alexa Pessoa is adjusting to a new routine as the mother of two children and the wife of rider and Chef d’equipe of the Irish team, Rodrigo Pessoa. With six years between their daughters Sophia and Luciana Alexa is finding the balance between being there for her daughters and making time for her riding career. For her the time spent in the stables is dedicated to the horses and tr...

Kate Richardson-Walsh, OBE, has recently retired from international hockey as the most capped player for England with 375 appearances. With Olympic gold and bronze medal from four Olympic Games, Kate has been a part of England's resurgence after failing to qualify for the Athens Games to becoming Olympic Champions in Rio. During the span of her career, during which she captained England and Great...

Former Ironman World Champion and World No 1 Siri Lindley has become a highly successful and popular coach with Team Sirius Tri Club the No 1 coaching club in the US.  She is also a sought after motivational speaker and author. Her wife Rebekah Keat is also a record breaking professional triathlete turned coach. The couple recently took their love of animals to a new level when they established Be...

Clare Connor, Director of England Women’s Cricket talks to Chris Stafford about how the World Cup tournament played out in England this summer where it broke all kinds of records, including a capacity crowd of 27,000 at Lords for the final between England and India. It climaxed with a win for England, a win for women’s cricket, and importantly a win for all women’s sport. And with England’s upcomi...