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SIM Ep 869 Chops 262: Game On with Sue Anstiss

Standard Issue Podcast

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Writer, broadcaster and activist Sue Anstiss has been working in the women’s sports and fitness industry for the last 30 years, and has her fingers in a lot of pies. As well as setting up her own company, Fearless Women, and the Game Changers podcast, she also co-founded the Women’s Sport Collective, and is a founding trustee of the Women’s Sport Trust.   Having written award-nominated book Game On: The Unstoppable Rise of Women’s Sport, she’s now back with a new Netflix documentary of the same name, celebrating the big wins in women’s sport, while also commenting on how far we have yet to go. She joins Jen in this week’s Chops to chat about all of this, the role of the media – and indeed consumers – when it comes to flying the flag, and the ingrained attitudes we still need to unpick when it comes to women’s sport. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Jen here to tell you about this week's episode of The Sunday Chops.

0:18.3

Sue Anstis is something of a grand dom in the world of women's sports.

0:24.7

She's a writer, broadcaster, an activist, she's been working in the sports and fitness

0:28.9

industry for the last 30 years and she is up to a lot. She founded the Game Changers

0:34.4

podcast, The Women's Sport Collective, she's a founding trustee of The Women's Sport Trust,

0:40.8

she's written an award-nominated book, Game On, the unstoppable rise of women's sport,

0:45.4

and now she is back with a Netflix documentary of the same name, looking at all the progress

0:50.2

we've made in women's sport and also how far we have yet to come. Now Sue has been on my radar

0:55.6

for like a decade since I first segueed seamlessly into this world of women's sports,

1:01.6

but this is actually the first time I've spoken to her. So it was delightful to do that.

1:07.1

You can hear how passionate she is about women's sports. We talked about the documentary,

1:11.3

the attitudes we're still having to unpick when it comes to women's sports, and why media and

1:16.2

consumers need to fly the flag if we want to continue to see real tangible progress. I love Sue and

1:22.2

I hope you love listening to her as much as I did change to her.

1:29.1

I am joined by Sue Anstis, co-founder of The Women's Sport Collective,

1:33.6

founding trustee of The Women's Sports Trust, author, broadcaster, legend,

1:39.2

and also director, presenter, producer of the new Netflix documentary Game On, the unstoppable

1:45.0

rise of women's sport. Sue, I mean welcome and thank you, first of all, for all of the incredible

1:51.7

things that you are doing and have done in the promotion of women's sports. We'll start with

1:57.9

the documentary. It probably seems like pretty obvious from the title, but I wondered if you could

2:03.2

tell me, you know, a little bit more about like the themes that you're tackling in it.

2:07.6

Yeah, it's very much a celebration of women's sport of where we are, and as you say the title,

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