Get to Know Sports Journalist Arielle Chambers
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Robles. I'm Paloma, and today we're talking to journalists and sports commentator, Ari Chambers. |
| 0:08.7 | Hi, Ari. Welcome to the show. Hey, Paloma, girl. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. And your hair is amazing. |
| 0:15.6 | Thank you. Yes, honey. Kidding, please tell our audience a little bit about yourself. Yeah. I mean, what do you want to know, Paloma? I love women's sports. I love talking about women's sports. I'm a serial entrepreneur. I'm an owner. I'm a founder. I'm a journalist. And I love getting to know people and sharing their stories. How did you first fall in love with women's sports? |
| 0:38.1 | Okay, so I am born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, |
| 0:42.0 | and I don't know if that means anything to you, |
| 0:44.2 | but it means so much to me because I was able to be surrounded by women in high spaces |
| 0:50.3 | in the sports landscape growing up. |
| 0:52.3 | And then all of my friends had just so happened, they were really, really great at basketball. So I would tour around with them in the sports landscape growing up. And then all of my friends had just so happened, they were really, really great at basketball. |
| 0:56.0 | So I would tour around with them in the summertime |
| 0:58.0 | because I was a competitive cheerleader my whole life. |
| 1:01.0 | And summer was kind of like our downtime. |
| 1:03.0 | So I fell in love with it because of the women in high places, |
| 1:07.0 | but I stayed in love with it because my friends did it. |
| 1:16.2 | What's your favorite thing about being a sports broadcaster? And what's one of the challenging things? I have a natural curiosity for people, Paloma. So I love to hear about the stories. |
| 1:22.2 | Like, it's really, it's hard for me to, I have to resist trying to ask you about yourself right now, but I have a curiosity for everybody's story and I want to be able to help facilitate that. |
| 1:33.7 | My biggest challenge was back then it wasn't so easy to sell women's sports. It wasn't so obvious as it is now. |
| 1:41.5 | Like women's sports right now is the hot thing. It's a multi-billion |
| 1:45.3 | dollar industry now. But like I started a lot enough ago that women were just fighting |
| 1:51.8 | to have anything seen. And so it was a really hard pushback of like, why should we care about |
| 1:58.0 | this? And people became passionate about it. How do you get in the zone |
| 2:03.0 | before going on air or talking to a large crowd? Oh, we all have such different methods, right? |
| 2:09.3 | Me, I like to be super prepared. So I like to go over notes. I like to meet up with people |
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