Before it becomes a Netflix film, The Girls of Summer is worth revisiting. This week, longtime New York Times reporter Jere Longman joins the show to discuss his book "The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women's Soccer Team" and How It Changed the World," the story that inspired the upcoming on screen adaptation and why …
"If you let me play sports, I will learn what it means to be strong." More than 30 years later, those words remain one of the most recognizable messages in women's sports. This week, we catch up with Janet Champ, who started her career at Wieden+Kennedy and went on to build some of Nike's most …
Producer and writer Kishori Rajan, co-founder of Viva Maude alongside Tessa Thompson, joins the show to unpack the making of Is God Is, a genre-bending thriller that centers Black women, sisterhood and rage in ways Hollywood rarely does. This conversation covers a lot of ground and we get into how Rajan brought an ambitious creative …
This past weekend at Coachella, Justin Bieber showed us the future of fame: raw, self-referential and direct-to-consumer. It was a stark contrast to the "Hard Power" and superhuman sacrifice of Beyoncé’s legendary 2018 Homecoming performance at the festival. While the pop world was debating these generational shifts in the desert, a group of women were …
In this episode, I’m joined by researcher and athlete Melissa Lodge to break down the science behind RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport), underfueling and why so many female athletes are struggling — even when they "know better." We talk about why education alone isn’t enough, how sport systems often fail women, and why high …
What does the rise of Pilates reveal about women, power, and the bodies we value most? This week, I’m joined by fitness instructor, creator, and writer Mary Beth to unpack her viral New York Times feature connects Pilates to larger political and cultural trends. We talk about going viral, desirability, privilege, and what the most …
This week we're talking about the fictional characters that made all the athletic girls feel validated, and gave women and girls a chance to see themselves on screen. I'm joined by filmmaker Jac'leen Smith to discuss her short film Flex Venus, inspired by her experiences as a track athlete. Jac'leen is currently crowdfunding for her …
Doping scandals often make headlines with a clear villain and a rule broken. But the story is often more complicated.
In this episode, Christina Henderson, event director of The Running Event, shares what it’s like to lead one of the most influential gatherings in the sport.
After years of chasing the elusive sub-two-minute 800m, Skylyn Webb finally did it — but not without a long stretch of feeling stuck in the middle. In this episode, I talk with Skylyn about the slow, often invisible middle parts of pursuing a goal, the burnout that nearly pushed her out of the sport, and …