Interview: Michelle Moore, Author of Real Wins: Understanding the power of difference to make meaningful gains

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode, Shireen Ahmed talks to Michelle Moore, an award-winning leadership coach, author, speaker and educator about her work in racial equity in sports. They discuss athlete activism, redefining success and Michelle's recently published book Real Wins: Understanding the power of difference to make meaningful gains. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Sherewer, Shereen here. Well, I am delighted to bring you this wonderful Christmas present, a wonderful conversation with the author of Real Winds, my friend, a friend of the show, Michelle Moore. Hello, Michelle.
0:23.6	Hi, Shereen. Brilliant to be here today. Thank you so much for inviting me on. Wouldn't have it any other way.
0:30.3	Michelle is an award-winning leadership coach, author, speaker, and educator and voted as one of the UK's 50 most influential women in sport.
0:41.0	Based on a 20-year career in senior leadership roles across sport government and education,
0:46.1	her pioneering work and coaching and leadership programs have transformed the lives of
0:51.2	professionals, young people, athletes, and the culture of many organizations.
0:56.7	She's the winner of the 2016 UK Precious Award for Outstanding Women in Sport,
1:01.6	a football Blacklist Award winner, and an esteemed national changemaker.
1:06.8	Michelle is globally recognized on executive and leadership, race equity, and sports for development.
1:12.5	She is a sought-after experience moderator, speaker of hosting events and delivering keynotes for the University of Cambridge, the NBA, and UNICEF UK.
1:21.7	She's chaired events at the United Nations, presented at the House of Lords.
1:26.4	Michelle makes regular appearances for top-tier media, including BBC Radio 4, TRT World, Channel 4, BBC World
1:33.1	Service Sports Hour, and has been featured in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, the Times,
1:38.0	and The Independent.
1:39.2	In addition to being all these wonderful things, Michelle is a connoisseur of peanut butter and smooth to be precise.
1:46.5	Absolutely. Not crunchy, smooth. Well, that is important and relevant. My friend, congratulations
1:52.8	on your book, first of all. Thank you so much. I'm so in love with my new book. For all of you
1:59.6	listening in, I am just stroking her right now, looking
2:02.6	at her beautifully decorated front cover. So I'm very, very proud of her. I am excited to be here
2:09.5	to talk about Real Winds. That's amazing. Let's talk about the cover art before we get into. It's a
2:15.1	beautiful book, Michelle. It really is. It's bright. It's vibrant, very much like you.
2:20.4	Tell me about who did the cover art. So this was based on a lot of my kind of vision at the very start of my book writing process,
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