The Sports Bra’s Jenny Nguyen On Women’s Sports, Expansion & Leading With Impact

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today's guest is Jenny Nguyen, owner and founder of The Sports Bra, the country’s first sports bar dedicated to women’s sports. The Sports Bra opened in Portland, Oregon, in April 2022 and will be expanding around the country, thanks to an investment from Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams. Jenny joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about franchising The Bra; her recent travels to Cannes, Paris, and Las Vegas; the “collaborative joy” among Portland food folk; and learning to think big. “I grossly underestimated” the potential of The Bra, she admits. Learn how she’s changed her frame of mind, what’s next, and why she thinks she’s the “luckiest person alive.” Thank you to OpenTable and Pernod Ricard for supporting Radio Cherry Bombe. Click here to get your copy of Cherry Bombe’s Paris Issue with Chef Dominique Crenn on the cover. Visit Cherry Bombe’s Event Calendar for our Summer Series details. Hosted by Kerry Diamond Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt Edited by Jenna Sadhu Content & Partnerships Manager Londyn Crenshaw Recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Jenny: The Sports Bra, website, Radio Cherry Bombe interview in 2023 More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0	Hi, Boys and girls are all fired up.
0:07.0	I'm the founder. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb magazine. I am so excited about today's show. As some of you know, I have been on the road a lot for Cherry Bomb this summer, and my travels brought me to Portland, Oregon. My very first destination was the sports bra. Some of you know about this place.
0:38.1	It's the country's very first sports bar dedicated to women's sports.
0:42.4	The team and I got off the plane, dropped our luggage at the hotel, and headed over there.
0:46.7	We were so happy to see owner Jenny Wynn and experience the sports bra for the first time.
0:51.8	Since I was in Portland, I thought it would be great to sit down with Jenny and
0:54.7	catch up. She was a guest on Radio Cherry Bomb back in May 2023, and a lot has happened since then.
1:01.0	Namely, the whole world has come around to her way of thinking. Women's sports are finally getting
1:06.2	their due, and the sports bra will be expanding. Jenny has partnered with Alexis O'Hanion, the co-founder of Reddit, or, as we know him here at Cherrybaum, Mr. Serena Williams, to expand the sports bra around the country. Very exciting news, and Jenny joins me in a minute to tell us more. By the way, the team and I had a great time in Portland. What a fantastic food city people.
1:28.2	If you want to see where we ate, drank, shopped, and hung out, check out my Instagram stories.
1:32.6	And thank you to the Portland Bomb Squad for showing us a great time.
1:36.3	This episode of Radio Cherry Bomb is supported by Open Table.
1:40.0	As you may know, we've been on the road this summer with Open Table for our Sit With Us
1:43.7	community dinner series,
1:45.2	which highlighted amazing female chefs and restaurateurs in the Cherry Bomb and Open Table networks.
1:50.7	Thank you to everyone who joined us and to the amazing chefs and teams at the featured restaurants.
1:55.3	We kick things off in early June in New Orleans with Chef Melissa Arrugio at Alma,
2:00.4	and then we headed to Atlanta for an
2:02.1	evening with Le Bonnash with Chef Roe Vakili. We were in Dallas at Jose with Chef Anastasia Cognos
2:08.3	Pitman, and we had a sweet ending to our series at Nestrana in Portland, Oregon with chef Kathy Wims.
2:14.7	It was such a treat meeting so many of you. Beautiful food, beautiful people.
2:19.1	It's been so much fun. Thank you to OpenTable for bringing these experiences to life with us.
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