All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

I'm your host Jeff Fluck, and today it's another in the Driven Life series where I'm talking

people in the racing industry this season about motivational topic, success, self-improvement things.

And I really wanted to highlight someone who is making efforts in that

area on the IndyCar side right now, but hopes to expand to all of Motorsports. And that is Katie Hargit.

She is a reporter in IndyCar, but she also is the founder of Fuel the Female, which I will

let her explain, but it's something where it has a great chance to make a

positive impact on getting more females into motorsports on the competition side, not driving

necessarily, but actually working on teams, working on the cars. And that's obviously something

that's very underrepresented right now. So I wanted to talk to her and have her shed some light on that

as we head into the month of May.

All right, everybody. I'm here with Katie Hargit. And first of all, thank you so much for joining me.

I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for thinking of me. I appreciate it.

So I've seen a lot of this about on social media, really. The fuel of female stuff has gotten some decent tension, I feel like, and it's gaining a lot of

momentum. I guess first of all, can you just explain to people that haven't heard of it how you came

up with this concept and what you're trying to accomplish. So I've been in motorsports for 20 years,

both as a driver and as a reporter. And in every step of my motorsports career, I've had really

powerful female mentors. When I was a driver, I've had really powerful female mentors.

When I was a driver, I was a part of Lynn St. James Women in the Winners Circle and her driver development program.

Once I got into reporting, I was traveling with ESPN NASCAR as a runner and got close with Nicole Briscoe and Shannon Spake.

Jamie Little was pregnant at the time.

So I've always just had these great female mentors that I said, when I'm in the position

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