Of all the people that can help shape a movement in sports, fans ultimately have the most power. This week, we center our conversation around four fans who were inspired by Colin Kaepernick's activism, and how they showed their solidarity to the Black Lives movement. Through each story, we see how each individual used their talents, identity, and position within their communities to help shape the conversation happening around them for the better.

This podcast episode explores the multiple reasons as to how Colin Kaepernick became the most polarizing athlete in American sports. We unpack complex topics including the roll of the U.S. nation state in the NFL, racial tensions within American culture, and how social media helps and hurts athlete activism. Helping in that process is social media expert Kalle Eko and Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, Ryan Jobson.

Part two of this two part episode interviews journalist Eve Stern, change management expert Melissa Ng, and activist and founder of ProtectHer and I Am That Girl, Alexis Jones. Each woman carries us through her own experience with narratives about women in sports, and how they found a way to break the normative, and create an extraordinary life.

This episode of Skin In The Game is the first episode in a two part series exploring female/athletes experiences with sports culture. Part 1 interviews three female athletes at difference stages of their experiences playing sports. Each interview reveals an unexpected barrier these women have to overcome in order to be successful.

What exactly is locker room talk?  Episode one of Skin In The Game explores the controversy of Trump's locker room remarks by diving into first hand accounts of athlete's good and bad experiences in locker rooms. In part one of this two part episode, we interview guys from across the country who have played sports at different points in their lives, to share their experiences in locker rooms, and to identify when locker room talk goes from bonding, to crossing the line. Who is on the other side of that line, might surprise you...

What exactly is locker room talk?  Episode one of Skin In The Game explores the controversy of Trump's locker room remarks by diving into first hand accounts of athlete's good and bad experiences in locker rooms. In part one of this two part episode, we interview guys from across the country who have played sports at different points in their lives, to share their experiences in locker rooms, and to identify when locker room talk goes from bonding, to crossing the line. Who is on the other side of that line, might surprise you...