Hello and welcome to Business Daily here on the BBC World Service. Well, today it's the final part of our mini-series on women's sport and business, where we're finding out more about this growing sector.

I'm Rahul Tandon and in this episode, we're going to meet the indomitable Sint Marshall.

Sint is chief executive officer of the Dallas Mavericks. In February 2018, she became the first black female CEO in the history

of the National Basketball Association. Usually when you're first, you don't know your first.

You just walk in and you take an opportunity or you just do what you need to do. And then other people tell you, oh, you know you're the only one. I mean, I didn't know that when I walked in. Obviously, if I had been in a meeting with my 29 colleagues, I would have known that. Well, according to Forbes, the Dallas Mavericks have a team value of $2.7 billion. Let's give you some context around that because the Premier League champions Manchester City,

well, they have a value of $4.2 billion.

So the Dallas Mavericks, they're a pretty big club.

Sin was brought in to tackle what she describes as a very sexist and a very male culture.

If you want to do shady business or if you just don't want to embrace women in the workplace or

women in leadership, if you can't kind of get on with this agenda and what we think makes

a great place to work, then we have to separate.

This episode, Sint will tell us about her background where she found

that drive to forge an enormously successful career. And how do you change workplace culture she gives

us some answers. Keep listening because Sint is a fascinating woman. So let's start at the beginning with since childhood.

I was raised in a public housing project who were poor.

My mother was the victim of domestic violence, as were her children.

My father broke my nose when I was 15 years old.

I saw him shoot a man in the head, actually in self-defense, in defense of me.

And then when my parents got a divorce, you know, my father took everything, a uniform

police officer took me to school and I was 11 years old. So I could tell you all kind of

stuff like that, that in my world at the time was just my childhood.

Can we stay on your father?

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