Live from The Sports Bra in Portland! The Value of Women’s Sports Bars with Founder Jenny Nguyen.

The RE—CAP Show with Tobin Heath and Christen Press

RE—INC

News, Soccer, Society & Culture, Sports News, Sports

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tobin and Christen visit the iconic Women’s Sports Bar, The Sports Bra, in Portland, Oregon for a fun and informative chat with the bar’s founder, Jenny Nguyen. In this conversation, they discuss the a-ha moment for Jenny to actually go for it, some of the potential challenges that came with it and how they see establishments like hers as an important factor in impacting viewership. Plus, what got Jenny to finally “change out of her pajamas,” why her women’s sports bar isn’t just for women and where they all see the future of the bar and gal culture going next. Thank you to Intuit QuickBooks for being an incredible partner and bringing our “Athlete to Founder” segment to life! Learn more at https://quickbooks.intuit.com. Listen to weekly episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube. Sign up for our newsletter, The Sunday Spark: https://re-website.com/pages/newsletter Follow RE—INC: https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/ https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inc https://twitter.com/re__inc https://www.threads.net/@re__inc Follow Tobin: https://www.instagram.com/tobinheath https://twitter.com/TobinHeath Follow Christen: https://www.instagram.com/christenpress https://twitter.com/ChristenPress About RE—INC: Founded and led by 2x World Cup Champions and equal pay trailblazers Christen Press and Tobin Heath, RE—INC is an inclusive platform at the intersection of sports x progress and equity brought to life through content, community, and commerce. The RE—CAP Show, our award-winning podcast (#1 Soccer Podcast on Apple), gives viewers a front-row seat to the thrilling, unpredictable, hard-changing world of global women’s sports. Our mission is to change the way women are seen and experienced in sports. RE—space, our membership platform, is home to thousands of global reimaginers who want to be themselves, better themselves, and never watch a game alone. RE—gear, our merch, is the uniform for changemakers and built for the underserved fan. With 20+ collections and collaborations, we create products that go beyond the ordinary. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to the Recap Show.
0:07.6	On today's episode, we are on location at the Sports Brawl in Portland for a conversation
0:13.2	with the sports braw's founder and owner Jenny Wynne.
0:16.3	Brought to you by Intuit QuickBooks.
0:18.3	Enjoy the show. Welcome back to the Recap Show. We are here with Jenny
0:28.2	wins. Welcome. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. At my own place. No, we're happy to have
0:35.6	you guys here at the Sportsbrough. We're happy to have you here at the sports bra. No, we're happy to have you guys here at the Sportsborough. We're happy to have you
0:37.8	here at the sports bra. Okay, Jenny, tell us about this magical place. Oh my gosh. Well, we opened in
0:45.4	2022. We're about to celebrate our three-year anniversary. I mean, I feel like I had all black hair
0:50.7	three years ago and like I'm having the Obama effect happens so maybe in another
0:55.2	three years I'll be bald but yeah we opened in on April 1st which was exactly four years after
1:02.7	watching the game that inspired the idea of the sports bra so on April 1st of 2018 I watched
1:10.4	the NCAA women's basketball championship.
1:14.0	And watching that game at a sports bar is what planted the seed for this space that we're
1:20.7	here in today.
1:21.2	Wow.
1:21.7	So what was that actually experience?
1:23.8	Was it?
1:24.8	Yeah.
1:25.8	What was it?
1:26.8	So a big group of friends of mine and I, so we all met playing basketball.
1:30.0	We all got together.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RE—INC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of RE—INC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.