337: ‘I became a pariah in corporate America’ | Jennifer Sey

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

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Jennifer Sey – former US national-champion gymnast and brand president at Levi’s – was on her way to the top of the corporate ladder when her career was brutally cut short. For speaking out against Covid school closures, she was branded a heretic, smeared as a bigot, and Levi’s demanded her silence. Here, she gives her inside story of the great ‘awokening’ of corporate America, and explains why the cancel culture that forced her out may now finally be in retreat. Plus, she discusses her new venture, XX-XY Athletics, and its battle to keep men out of women’s sports.

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0:00.0	I am just ousted from corporate America overall.
0:03.0	Once you prove you are disobedient and you're not following the script, you're not allowed
0:06.8	back in, even if you were right.
0:09.1	There were organizations and there are organizations, organizations like the Human Rights
0:13.2	Campaign, who were applying what I would argue is mafia-style pressure to these companies.
0:20.8	Everybody believes that they are the champion
0:23.3	of truth, even though most people would rather stand with a group than stand apart and do the right
0:29.0	thing.
0:34.4	Hello, I'm Fraser Myers Deputy Editor of Spiked, and I'm absolutely delighted to be joined
0:40.6	down the line by Jennifer Say.
0:42.9	Jennifer, welcome.
0:44.4	Thanks for having me.
0:45.4	Happy to be here.
0:46.2	I love Spike.
0:47.8	Love it.
0:48.6	I was honored to be asked to write the piece because I just love it.
0:52.7	Fantastic.
0:53.0	And Jennifer, you are the CEO and founder of XXXY Athletics.
1:00.0	You've previously been the brand president at Levi's and you were a national champion gymnast
1:06.1	in the US.
1:08.4	Loads that I want to talk to you about. One thing you've been very outspoken about
1:12.9	is woke capitalism, the woke turn in capitalism. And you've had your own brush with the mob,
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