This week, your hosts caught up with a former member of Les Canadiennes de Montréal, Katia Clement-Heydra! She spoke to us about her season in Sweden, shared her thoughts on the current state of women's hockey in North America and more!

This episode was recorded in summer 2020.

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This week, we spoke to skeleton athlete Kim Meylemans aka The little Belgian! She made history in 2018 by becoming the first Belgian skeleton athlete to participate in the Olympics. Achieving several top 10 World Cup results and placing 5th at 2017 World Championships, we talked to her about her career, the ins and outs of skeleton and much more. 

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Introducing Women's Hockey Monday (aka WoHo Monday!) where we release bi-weekly episodes with members of the women's hockey community! To kick off 2021, we spoke to two-time Olympic gold medalist Marie-Philip Poulin about training in a pandemic, the PWHPA, her career and more! This episode was recorded in November 2020. 

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This week, Mel and Safs receive sports agent and attorney, Sasha Ghavami, to talk about his journey into becoming a sports agent. They discuss the ins-and-outs of the profession, including the differences between getting an NFL and CFL certification, the art of negotiation and attracting clients, and more. Sasha also shares stories from one of his most successful clients and long-time friend, Super Bowl Champion and M.D. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and speaks fondly of the company he started with his mother, Vision Ahead and After Sports, a sports management and representation agency.

This episode was recorded in November 2020.

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Mel and Safs welcome Bianca Molnar to the podcast this week. She is the Assistant Manager, Event Services at Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) and has worked in in-game hosting across the world. She talks to us about those two distinct realities, how sports will come back during this pandemic and how she got her start in both fields. This episode was recorded in summer 2020.

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This week, Mel and Safs welcome WNBA star Napheesa Collier, a guard for the Minnesota Lynx. We talk about the bubble this past summer, the social justice movements that took place and her podcast, Tea with A & Phee, that she started with Las Vegas Aces star A'Ja Wilson, among other topics.

This episode was recorded at the end of October 2020.

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Mel and Safs welcome Julian McKenzie and Tristan D'Amours to talk about their award-winning podcast, The Scrum Podcast. Addressing issues that go beyond the realm of sports, these two seasoned podcasters are honest and humble friends of the show. 

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Mel and Safs speak to Dr. Courtney Szto, a professor in the department of kinesiology at Queen's University, about her policy paper on anti-racism in Canadian hockey released in March 2020. 

She is also the senior editor of Hockey in Society, a blog that looks at hockey from critical eye and started Offside Plays, a social media project that looks into various forms of discrimination in sports. This fall, she released a book titled "Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians."

Link to policy paper: https://hockeyinsociety.com/2020/03/02/exclusive-policy-paper-for-anti-racism-in-hockey/

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