The Game Changers
In this award-winning podcast Sue Anstiss MBE talks to trailblazing women in sport. These are the individuals who are knocking down barriers and challenging the status quo for women and girls everywhere. Along with openly sharing their historic careers, what drives them and how they’ve dealt with the toughest challenges, each episode explores key issues for equality in sport and beyond.
We’re incredibly grateful to Sport England who support The Game Changers with a National Lottery award.
You can find out about all the guests at https://www.fearlesswomen.co.uk/thegamechangers
Fearless Women in Sport
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 237
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Jess Carter: The reality of life as a Lioness
“The England management in place now, and the type of environment we try to create for the senior team is very different to before… the environment at England camp is a much friendlier and nicer one …
Series 16 of The Game Changers
Welcome to The Game Changers. It’s hard to believe this is series 16 of the podcast, which celebrates the trailblazers in women’s sport exploring critical issues around equality in sport and beyond.
W…
2023 Highlights
Now entering its 5th year, The Game Changers continues to evolve, providing a safe space for female athletes and senior women in sport to share their stories and explore critical issues around equali…
Kelly Smith: Why talking openly about mental health is so important
This episode was originally released as part of Series 3 on April 7, 2020.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest-ever female players, Kelly Smith MBE is England women’s record goal scorer and four-ti…
Casey Stoney: On embracing mistakes & the desire to keep learning
A re-released episode originally published as part of Series 3 on May 19, 2020.
At the time of the original release Casey was Manager at Man United Women, and had been capped over 100 times for Englan…
Clare Connor: How to thrive as a woman in a male environment
This episode was originally released as part of Series 2 on Sept 17, 2019.
Former England Cricket Captain, Clare Connor has transformed the game from grassroots to the elite level, she is now ECB Depu…
Katherine Grainger: On taking risks to achieve your life goals
This episode was originally released as part of Series 1, on July 16, 2019.
Team GB’s most decorated female Olympian with 5 Olympic rowing medals (including Gold at London 2012) Katherine is now the C…
Chrissie Wellington: How to endure discomfort & self doubt in Ironman
This episode was originally released as part of Series 1 on June 4, 2019.
Four times Ironman World Champion, Chrissie is now Global Lead of Health and Wellbeing for Parkrun.
Thank you to Sport England …
Hannah Mills: Making waves in climate change
Today’s guest is the most successful female sailor in Olympic history - Hannah Mills OBE.
Hannah won a silver medal for Team GB alongside Saskia Clark at London 2012, before the pair went on to win Go…
Juliet Slot: How Arsenal is leading the way in women’s football
Juliet Slot is Chief Commercial Officer at Arsenal Football Club and a board director at the British Olympic Association.
At Arsenal Juliet heads a department with a broad remit including marketing, d…
Jeanette Kwakye: Elite athlete turned broadcaster
Jeanette Kwakye is former international athlete turned broadcaster.
This British sprinter was five-time British champion, Olympian and world indoor silver medallist, competing in the Olympic final of …
Layla Guscoth: Half Netballer, Half Doctor
Layla Guscoth describes herself on social media as half netballer, half doctor.
In 2016, Layla qualified as a doctor and somehow has managed to balance that career with being a professional netballer…
Suzy Wrack: The journalist speaking truth to power
Suzy Wrack is a much-celebrated women’s football writer for The Guardian.
As an author, Suzy wrote the award-winning book 'A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football', along wi…
Caroline Dubois: Strong women demanding respect
Professional boxer Caroline Dubois is Youth Olympic champion, World Youth champion, four-times European Youth champion, Team GB Olympian and now IBO lightweight Champion.
A pioneering female athlete …
Ellie Simmonds: Making impact beyond the pool
Our guest in this episode is Ellie Simmonds, one of the world’s most celebrated Paralympians. A five-time Paralympic Champion and 14-time World Champion, Ellie shot to fame when she won her first Par…
Series 15 of The Game Changers
The Game Changers podcast returns on Tuesday October 31 with eight more trailblazers in women’s sport exploring their careers and key issues around equality in sport and beyond.
The award-winning podc…
Caroline Wozniacki: Inspirational return to the top of tennis
Our guest in this special bonus episode is professional tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, ranked number one in the world at the height of her career.
Caroline’s professional career took off at 15 wh…
Katarina Johnson-Thompson: When your role model becomes your biggest rival
To celebrate Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s incredible Heptathlon Gold Medal at the World Championships this weekend, we’re re-releasing this special episode of The Game Changers.
Now a two-time World Ch…
Anita Asante: The fight to make football more inclusive
To celebrate the Football World Cup, we’ve been re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football.
Our final guest is Anita Asante. With 71 internationa…
Emma Hayes: Leading the way for female coaches
Emma Hayes is Manager at Chelsea Women. In 2023 she led Chelsea to their sixth FA Women's Super League win, and once again Emma’s team won the FA Cup taking her winning tally to five .
It’s a fascinat…