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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FUTURE YOU PLANNED DISAPPEARS OVERNIGHT?

In this episode of the 4TG Podcast, Kylie Lynch sits down with Paralympic Gold Medallist Nikki Ayers OAM PLY to share one of the most powerful comeback stories in Australian sport.

After a devastating rugby injury changed the course of her life, Nikki endured 16 surgeries, years of uncertainty, and the challenge of rebuilding her identity beyond the athlete she thought she would become.

Rather than walking away from sport, she discovered para rowing and went on to become Australia's first Paralympic gold medallist in the sport.

This conversation goes far beyond medals.

Nikki opens up about long-term recovery, perfectionism, mental health, identity, trust, leadership, retirement, and finding purpose after adversity.

Whether you're an athlete, coach, parent, or someone navigating a setback, this episode is a powerful reminder that your identity is bigger than any one moment.

IN THIS EPISODE

✔ Recovering from a career-changing injury

✔ Surviving 16 surgeries and rebuilding confidence

✔ The mindset of controlling what you can control

✔ Separating identity from performance

✔ Psychological safety and trust in elite sport

✔ The road to Paralympic gold

✔ Retirement, reinvention and what's next

ABOUT THE GUEST - NIKKI AYERS

Nikki Ayers OAM PLY is a Paralympic Gold Medallist, world champion para rower, former rugby player and passionate advocate for resilience, inclusion and high performance.

Connect with Nikki on Instagram: @nearlyleglessnikki

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ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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At just 16, Indra Brown is already competing at the highest level in freestyle skiing, reaching World #1 status and representing Australia at the Winter Olympics. In this episode of the 4TG Podcast, she shares the reality behind elite sport, mental pressure, and what it takes to perform on the world stage at such a young age.

Indra opens up about the mental grit required to stay consistent under pressure, the sacrifices behind a full season of overseas competition, and the importance of focusing on process over results. She also reflects on the role of family support and how identity beyond sport helps her stay grounded.

This conversation goes beyond medals and rankings. It explores mindset, resilience, and the emotional side of elite performance that most people never see.

In this episode, we cover:
 • Building mental strength in high-pressure environments
 • Why process matters more than rankings
 • The cost of chasing elite sport at a young age
 • Family sacrifice and support systems in athlete development
 • Staying grounded while competing at the top level

If you’re interested in athlete mindset, sports psychology, or the real story behind elite performance, this episode will connect with you.

🎧 Listen now to hear the journey of one of Australia’s most exciting young athletes.

📌 📩 Sponsorships and collabs: [email protected]

✨A big thank you to our partners:

Snap Fitness  -(https://www.snapfitness.com/au?utm_source=4tg&utm_medium=website)

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Toorak Hotel - ( https://www.toorakhotel.com.au/)   

Podcast Socials: https://linktr.ee/4tg_podcast? 

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ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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What do you do when the thing that makes you you is suddenly gone? For Britt Furlanis, the answer took fifteen years to find.

Britt grew up competing in showjumping before walking away at 15. What followed was a corporate career in gas trading, bodybuilding competitions, and years of high performance that masked a quiet truth she wasn't ready to face. In 2023, she left it all behind, moved to a property in Queensland, and went all in on her dream of becoming a professional showjumper and Olympic gold medallist.

This conversation is about identity, resilience, and what it really takes to go after something you buried a long time ago. It is also one of the most honest episodes we have had on 4TG.

In this episode, we cover:

• Losing your sporting identity and what the recovery really looks like
• How Britt used gratitude journalling at fifteen to pull herself through a dark period
• Her experience with binge eating and bulimia during the transition to university and corporate life
• Leaving a successful corporate career to pursue an Olympic dream in showjumping
• Rebuilding a relationship with failure and why she now treats it as data
• The fear of voicing your goals out loud and who you should tell first
• Navigating friendship groups when your ambitions outgrow your environment

📱 Follow Britt on Insta @britt.furlanis

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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Nya Lok was born in an Ethiopian refugee camp after her South Sudanese parents fled civil war. She arrived in Australia at age five, speaking no English, with nothing but her family and a quiet, unshakeable belief that she could figure it out.

She went on to captain the first South Sudan women's basketball team in international competition, earn a spot with the Southside Fliers after training on with no contract, and sign with the Perth Lynx. Along the way she picked up three degrees, a role as multicultural officer at Basketball Victoria, and a mindset that most athletes spend careers trying to build.

This is not a pity story. Nya is clear about that. It is a story about what you build when nothing is handed to you.

In this episode, we cover:

• Growing up between two cultures and why identity is Nya's greatest strength
• What it actually felt like to walk into the WNBL with no contract and no guarantees
• Why surrendering the outcome was the thing that finally got her on the floor
• The role of therapy and sports psychology in shifting from perfectionism to performance
• Captaining the first South Sudan women's basketball team and the ripple effect on girls back home
• How one coffee meeting led to her role driving diversity and inclusion at Basketball Victoria
• What Nya would tell her 16-year-old self about control, courage and letting go

Follow Nya

Instagram: @nyaduothlok

Visit the Toorak Hotel - Toorak Hotel is your go-to local for a proper pub feed, cold drinks, and a great atmosphere in the heart of Toorak.

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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She finished 17th in her seeding run. She had the flu. She won Olympic gold anyway.

Josie Baff is a 23-year-old snowboarder from Jindabyne and Australia's first ever Olympic gold medallist in women's snowboard cross. But this episode is not about what happened on the podium. It is about everything that happened between the race that broke her and the one that made her.

After a difficult campaign at Beijing 2022, Josie spent four years rebuilding her mindset from the ground up. Working with a sports psychologist and life coach, she developed the mental performance tools that carried her all the way to Milan 2026. Her story is raw, practical and packed with lessons every athlete needs to hear.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why success is not linear and how to use your worst result as your biggest pivot
• The alter ego strategy Josie uses to perform consistently under pressure
• Process over outcome and why wishing for a result is not the same as working for one
• The difference between confidence and arrogance and why female athletes need to own it
• How Josie used journaling, sports psychology and intentional training to build mental strength
• Why luck in sport is something you forge, not something that finds you
• What needs to change to keep more girls and women in sport for longer

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction and what this episode is really about 

02:15 – Snap Fitness Rapid Fire 

04:30 – Growing up in Jindabyne and falling in love with snowboarding 

08:45 – Fun as a performance philosophy and intrinsic motivation 

13:00 – Beijing 2022 and the campaign that didn't go to plan 

17:30 – World Championships heartbreak and what it revealed 

23:00 – Building an alter ego with her sports psychologist 

29:15 – Process over outcome and being present in training 

35:00 – Luck, superstitions and letting go of jinx thinking 

40:30 – "I can't believe it, but I kind of can" – confidence vs arrogance 

47:00 – Tall poppy syndrome and owning your belief as a female athlete 

52:30 – What women's sport needs to grow and the power of co-ed environments 

58:00 – What Josie would tell her 16-year-old self

Follow Josie

Instagram: @josiebaff

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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A woman just ran 253 miles through the Arizona desert, through the night, through the mountains, for 56 hours straight – and beat every single man in the race. Her name is Rachel Entrekin, and her mantra was simple: "Why not you?"

Women are redefining sport, growing in leaps and bounds over the past 5-10 years, and investment at the elite level has never been higher. So why are girls still quitting at 15?

This solo episode digs into one of the most important conversations in women's sport right now – the growing gap between elite investment and what is actually happening at grassroots, pathway, and semi-elite level. VFLW players earning as little as $25 a game, if lucky enough to be paid at all. A-League Women players on $26,000 watching male teammates earn five times that. Semi-elite athletes are working two jobs just to keep training and keeping food on the table. This is the pipeline that feeds professional women's sport – and it is being underfunded, undersupported, and overlooked.

Kylie Lynch breaks down why this matters not just for sport, but for society.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why elite investment without grassroots funding is a roof with no walls
• The real reason girls are dropping out at 14 and 15
• What semi-elite female athletes are actually earning right now
• Why female-friendly infrastructure, coaching, and registration costs are non-negotiable
• What needs to happen for the momentum at the top to trickle down with intention

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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Watch and subscribe to 4TG now on YouTube 📺

 Run clubs are having a moment. And it's being driven by women!

Membership in Australian run clubs increased by 59% in 2024, and researchers found the top three reasons women keep showing up aren't pace or fitness goals. They're motivation, community and mood. Eliza Boyd figured that out before the data confirmed it.

Eliza is the founder of Chill Girl Run Club Geelong, a slow-paced, inclusive run club for women and the LGBTQI+ community that started with a TikTok she almost didn't post. Today it's a thriving community that meets every Saturday and has grown into brand partnerships, race entries and friendships that extend well beyond the course.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Eliza started a run club in Geelong and the one video that launched it all
• The real reason women join run clubs (hint: it's rarely about running)
• How showing up consistently in sport builds mental strength and life confidence
• The challenges of growing a community while protecting its DNA
• Content creation and UGC as a flexible income stream for women in sport
• What holds women back from joining a run club and how to push past it
• What Eliza would tell her 16-year-old self about running and consistency

Chapters

00:00 – Welcome and Intro 

00:55 – Rapid Fire: The 4TG x Snap Fitness Questions 

02:30 – Eliza's sport background growing up 06:10 – How running became a consistent part of her life 

09:45 – Why Eliza started Chill Girl Run Club Geelong 

14:20 – The first run club meet and the TikTok that started it all 

18:00 – What members are getting from the community beyond fitness 

22:15 – Brand collaborations, DNA and keeping the run club authentic 

26:40 – Life as a content creator and UGC work 

31:05 – Documenting your journey and imposter syndrome 

35:20 – What women need to hear about sport and community 

39:00 – What would Eliza tell 16-year-old herself

Follow Eliza + Chill Girl Run Club

Find Eliza on TikTok and Instagram: @elizaanneboyd 

Follow the run club: @chillgirlrunclub.geelong

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

• Instagram: ...

Watch & subscribe to 4TG on YouTube 📺

 Meredith Young has achondroplasia – the most common form of dwarfism. She grew up in a family that lived and breathed sport, represented Australia across basketball, swimming, athletics and badminton, and became the fastest short-statured woman in the world. Without a sprint coach. Just pure heart and Asics on.

In 2009, she captained Australia's first ever team at the World Dwarf Games in Belfast. Then in 2013 she competed again – knowing her spine was deteriorating – because sport was her sanity. Months later she woke up from spinal surgery unable to move her legs.

This conversation goes everywhere. The netball coach who told a young Meredith she was a "danger" to her teammates. Fundraising Bunnings barbecues to get fifteen athletes to Belfast. Beating her ex-husband in the badminton medal round. Three and a half months in hospital. And what it takes to find your way back to sport when your body has fundamentally changed.

Meredith is one of the most generous, honest guests we've had on It's For The Girls. This one will shift how you think about difference, resilience, and what it actually means to belong in sport.

In this episode we cover:

• Growing up in mainstream sport with achondroplasia and finding competitive advantage in difference
• The netball coach who told Meredith she was a "danger" – and the lifelong impact of a coach's words
• Building and captaining Australia's first World Dwarf Games team from a Bunnings barbecue budget
• Becoming the fastest short-statured woman in the world with zero formal sprint training
• Two major spinal surgeries, losing the ability to walk, and the long road back
• The psychology of recovery – when sport is your identity and your body takes it away
• Why being born different is not a limitation but a pathway to becoming a more whole person

Follow Meredith & Links

Instagram: @meredith_young

Donate towards the 2027 Gold Coast World Dwarf Games

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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Chelsea Blissett is a professional footballer for Melbourne Victory and founder of Style TrackHer. In this episode, she speaks honestly about disordered eating in sport, and what eating disorder recovery can look like behind the scenes. No stereotypes. No fluff. Just the real stuff female athletes are often carrying quietly.

Chelsea shares how anxiety, pressure, and a need for control can fuel bulimia and anorexia, plus the physical and mental impact it had on her training, confidence, and day-to-day life. We also talk about the power of support systems, why language matters for coaches and parents, and how she learned to separate “the eating disorder voice” from who she is.

If you are navigating body image, performance pressure, or a messy relationship with food, this conversation will make you feel less alone.

In this episode, we cover:

• Disordered eating stats in Australian sport
• Bulimia, anorexia, and the control cycle
• Warning signs athletes often hide
• Recovery tools that actually helped
• Coach and parent support – what to say, what not to say
• Advocacy and prevention with Hide and Seek Foundation
• Style TrackHer and women’s GPS bra innovation

Support (Australia)

If this episode brings anything up for you, you do not have to carry it alone.

• Butterfly Foundation (Eating Disorders) –  https://butterfly.org.au Helpline: 1800 33 4673
• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support) –  https://www.lifeline.org.au Call: 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue –  https://www.beyondblue.org.au Call: 1300 22 4636
• Emergency – If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 000.

Follow:

• Chelsea Blissett Instagram
• Style TrackHer Instagram

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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Winter sport is back – and if you're sitting with a stomach full of nerves this week, this episode is for you.

In this solo episode, Kylie Lynch opens up about returning from an ACL injury and what she's learned about the gap between physical readiness and mental readiness. Round one nerves are not the same as regular season nerves, and not enough people name that. This episode does.

Whether you're lacing up for the first time this season, coming back from injury, or sitting on the outside after missing selection – Kylie shares practical mindset tools to help you shift from survival mode into performance mode before you run out.

Kylie also offers her FREE 5-Minute Pre-Game Reset, a simple five-step tool built from years of working with sports psychologists and high-performance mindset coaches in Australia. Press on the link above or DM "RESET" to @4tg_podcast on Instagram and I'll send it through! Download it and use it this weekend.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why round one nerves hit differently to mid-season nerves
• The invisible pressure of reestablishing yourself every season
• Coming back from long-term injury and the grief that comes with it
• How to handle non-selection without spiralling
• Reframing nerves as energy, not weakness
• Why calm beats hype as a pre-game state
• How to access the free 5-Minute Pre-Game Reset

Best of luck to everyone playing in Round 1! 

Support the show

ABOUT THE HOST

Kylie Lynch is the Founder and Host of 4TG (For The Girls), a podcast and platform on a mission to keep more girls and women in sport.

A VFLW athlete, Australian representative in Polocrosse, coach, mentor and media/communications professional, Kylie has spent her career at the intersection of sport, media and community impact. Through 4TG, she shares the stories, lessons and experiences of elite athletes, coaches and industry leaders to help girls and women build confidence, navigate challenges and stay involved in sport for longer. Because sport doesn't just build athletes. It builds confidence, resilience, leadership, connection and opportunities that positively impact girls and women both on and off the field.

Connect with Kylie:

• Instagram: @kylie__lynch
• LinkedIn: Kylie Lynch
• Website: www.4tg.com.au
• Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE 4TG COMMUNITY

4TG exists to help keep more girls and women in sport.

Through powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, experts and industry leaders, we're building a community where girls and women feel inspired, supported and empowered to stay in the game.

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