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
Gabby Logan: How nothing beats presenting live sport
To celebrate the Football World Cup, we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football.
Gabby Logan is one of Britain's most influential women in …
Eni Aluko: The power of using your platform to speak your truth
To celebrate the Football World Cup we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football.
Professional footballer, media personality, lawyer, philant…
Fara Williams: Extraordinary success in the face of adversity
To celebrate the Football World Cup we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football.
With 172 appearances for her country, Fara Williams is the…
Lucy Bronze: Overcoming obstacles to become the best in the world
To celebrate the Football World Cup, we’re re-releasing episodes of The Game Changers podcast with incredible trailblazing women in football.
Today it’s one of the world's leading female professional …
Eilish McColgan: The long journey to gold
In this final episode of season 14, we talk to Eilish McColgan, an incredible distance athlete.
Eilish holds the European record for 10,000 on the road, as well as British records at 5,000m and 10,000…
Molly McCann: How adversity drives success
Molly McCann, also known as Meatball Molly, is a mixed martial artist, formerly a Cage Fighters champion, who is currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
In this very open interview,…
Louise Minchin: Celebrating Fearless Women
Louise Minchin is a journalist, presenter, author and podcaster, who presented BBC’s flagship morning show, BBC Breakfast, for over 20 years.
Louise also has a passion for endurance sport. Having race…
Penny Briscoe: Leading the transformation of Para Sport
Our guest in this episode has been instrumental in the success of the British Paralympic team, helping them to achieve record-breaking medal hauls at 10 Paralympic Summer and Winter Games.
Penny Brisc…
Kelly Lindsey, Giselle Mather, Jess Freeman & Sarah Kelleher explore the world of women sports coaches
This episode is a slightly different format, as I talk to a panel of game changers about a specific topic – and in this case it’s women in sports coaching.
Just 10% of accredited coaches at the Summe…
Preeti Shetty: How sport impacts positive social change
This is an utterly fascinating conversation with Preeti Shetty, a hugely well-respected figure in sport, particularly in the area of sport for positive social change.
CEO and founder of Upshot, Preet…
Eve Muirhead: Staying Ice Cool to Win Gold
Eve Muirhead OBE is one of the world’s most successful curlers, who became Olympic Champion as skip for the British team at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 having carried our flag at the Opening …
Jodie Ounsley: The impact of strong, powerful role models
Today’s guest is Jodie Ounsley – a professional rugby player and Honorary President of UK Deaf Sport, who will also be a Gladiator in the new series that returns to the BBC later this year.
Jodie is a…
Trailer: Series 14 of The Game Changers
The guests featured in the new series of The Game Changers could be the most diverse yet, with Olympic, World and Commonwealth Champions, alongside elite coaches, broadcasters, CEOs, Paralympic GB’s …
Sue Anstiss: The unstoppable rise of women's sport
To mark the fact that the entire Game On book is now available to listen to free on The Game Changers podcast, today we are sharing a previous episode in conversation with the author, Sue Anstiss
In …
Maria Bobenrieth: The impact of sport for young women
In this moving and thought-provoking episode of The Game Changers, I talk to Maria Bobenreith, Executive Director of Women Win, to explore how sport is being used to enable young women to exercise th…
Game On: Chapter 18 - The Girl Effect & Conclusion
What’s the difference between ‘sports development’ and ‘sport for development’ and how are organisations using sport as a tool to generate social change.
This chapter explores the powerful impact spor…
Game On: Chapter 17 - It's a Mass Movement
This chapter considers the inequalities we see more broadly in women’s sport - across all ages and abilities – and what’s finally being done to address this.
From little girls not allowed to join the…
Moya Dodd: Bringing diversity to FIFA
Moya Dodd, one of the most influential women in global sport.
Former vice-captain of the Australian women’s football team, Moya served on the board of Football Federation Australia and Asian football…
Game On: Chapter 16 - Race for Equality
In today’s chapter we address the lack of racial diversity in women’s sport – from grassroots participation through to our national teams and boardrooms.
Why don’t England’s national teams in sports l…
Maggie Alphonsi: Creating change as an impactful leader
Today we re-release an episode with Maggie Alphonsi, one of rugby's greatest female players.
Having helped England win a record breaking 7 consecutive Six Nations crowns and the 2014 World Cup, Maggi…