Women Unscripted

Wendy Barrett is a breast cancer survivor who discovered the sport of dragon boating in 2007, just two years after a double mastectomy, and fell in love with the sport.  She joined the breast cancer dragonboat team “Abreast in a Boat” in her home town of Vancouver, Canada, which had started ten years earlier as a research project for women recovering from breast cancer. This organization is now worldwide with teams of women competing and paddling together for empowerment, encouragement and companionship in healing and staying healthy. It had been a break of some 40 years for Wendy since she had previously ‘messed about in boats’, as she put it, growing up rowing and sailing on the River Thames in England.  Discovering Dragonboating was a turning point in her life when she was healing from two surgeries and dealing with a lot of scar tissue. She gradually became more competitive joining new teams and learning to be the steerer, an all important role in dragon boating, and in 2015 steered her first competitive boat, the Granddragons. And she has also steered the women’s FCRCC Senior C team too.  In 2017 at the Canadian Nationals she won a place to compete in the Dragon Boat Club Worlds in Hungary 2018 clinching silver in the 2000 metre race as the steerer. Now at the age of 75, Wendy has been selected to steer the Canadian National Senior C women’s team to represent Canada in Thailand this August. And we’ll hear about her plans to compete in the Canadian Nationals in Vancouver to try and qualify for the Club World competition in France 2020.
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For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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Wendy Barrett is a breast cancer survivor who discovered the sport of dragon boating in 2007, just two years after a double mastectomy, and fell in love with the sport.  She joined the breast cancer dragonboat team “Abreast in a Boat” in her home town of Vancouver, Canada, which had started ten years earlier as a research project for women recovering from breast cancer. This organization is now worldwide with teams of women competing and paddling together for empowerment, encouragement and companionship in healing and staying healthy. It had been a break of some 40 years for Wendy since she had previously ‘messed about in boats’, as she put it, growing up rowing and sailing on the River Thames in England.  Discovering Dragonboating was a turning point in her life when she was healing from two surgeries and dealing with a lot of scar tissue. She gradually became more competitive joining new teams and learning to be the steerer, an all important role in dragon boating, and in 2015 steered her first competitive boat, the Granddragons. And she has also steered the women’s FCRCC Senior C team too.  In 2017 at the Canadian Nationals she won a place to compete in the Dragon Boat Club Worlds in Hungary 2018 clinching silver in the 2000 metre race as the steerer. Now at the age of 75, Wendy has been selected to steer the Canadian National Senior C women’s team to represent Canada in Thailand this August. And we’ll hear about her plans to compete in the Canadian Nationals in Vancouver to try and qualify for the Club World competition in France 2020.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Paralympic dressage rider Sydney Collier is based in upstate New York from where she is aiming for her second Olympic Games next year and hopes to have a new partner to take her on this journey.  Since 2016 after she suffered her 5th stroke she has been classified as a Grade 1 rider, which is the most severely impaired, Sydney has long since battled against all the odds since she started riding some 14 years ago. 
But nothing has deterred her from the sport she loves and the partnership she strives for with her horse. She was a member of the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy riding Victoria Dugan’s Warmblood gelding Willi Wesley finishing 13th. Two years later she returned to the squad to make her Olympic debut in Rio, this time finishing 9th in the team test and 7th place in Grade 1b Individual Championships on her trainer Wesley Dunham’s horse Western Rose. She then has since teamed up with a new sponsor in show jumper Georgina Bloomberg and their quest now is to find a horse for Sydney for the Tokyo Games.
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For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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Email: [email protected]

Paralympic dressage rider Sydney Collier is based in upstate New York from where she is aiming for her second Olympic Games next year and hopes to have a new partner to take her on this journey.  Since 2016 after she suffered her 5th stroke she has been classified as a Grade 1 rider, which is the most severely impaired, Sydney has long since battled against all the odds since she started riding some 14 years ago. 

But nothing has deterred her from the sport she loves and the partnership she strives for with her horse. She was a member of the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy riding Victoria Dugan’s Warmblood gelding Willi Wesley finishing 13th. Two years later she returned to the squad to make her Olympic debut in Rio, this time finishing 9th in the team test and 7th place in Grade 1b Individual Championships on her trainer Wesley Dunham’s horse Western Rose. She then has since teamed up with a new sponsor in show jumper Georgina Bloomberg and their quest now is to find a horse for Sydney for the Tokyo Games.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

See What She Can Do is a Toronto based organization that is aimed towards uniting women around the power of sport. Their mission is to find inspiring content, people and business to help you do your thing, and your tribe and resources to help keep you moving.  Caroline Wiley is the Founder and President or this new organization which is building a community and cooperative that will help girls and women to connect in a variety of ways, through groups and events and via a business directory and marketplace.  We hear how the organization came about and Caroline’s vision for the long term future of See What She Can Do.
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For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].
 

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Host: Chris Stafford
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See What She Can Do is a Toronto based organization that is aimed towards uniting women around the power of sport. Their mission is to find inspiring content, people and business to help you do your thing, and your tribe and resources to help keep you moving.  Caroline Wiley is the Founder and President or this new organization which is building a community and cooperative that will help girls and women to connect in a variety of ways, through groups and events and via a business directory and marketplace.  We hear how the organization came about and Caroline’s vision for the long term future of See What She Can Do.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

British diver Barbara Heathfield first started diving at her high school at age 11 and has returned to the sport she loves after a break of 20 years. Now aged 60 she is taking on the world having competed in numerous National and International Masters competitions. Barbara says: “I thought I would give it a go again, so I joined a club and started to re learn some dives.  I must say it was much harder than I remembered it as a child.  It wasn’t long before I became hooked again, and needless to say, one by one my sons stopped diving but I carried on.  I had forgotten quite how nerve wracking it could be.”  Barbara has won the British Masters Championships many times in her age group, and been placed in the top three in the European Championships. She was a gold medalist in the platform synchro event at the 2010 World Masters in Gothenburg, the 3m Synchro and Platform Synchro in Riccione in 2014 and the Mixed 3m Synchro in Budapest in 2018. Barbara is still aiming for the top three in an individual event in the World Masters.  Later this year she will be competing at the Croatia Masters Championships in Rijeka, and the World Masters Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.
For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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British diver Barbara Heathfield first started diving at her high school at age 11 and has returned to the sport she loves after a break of 20 years. Now aged 60 she is taking on the world having competed in numerous National and International Masters competitions. Barbara says: “I thought I would give it a go again, so I joined a club and started to re learn some dives.  I must say it was much harder than I remembered it as a child.  It wasn’t long before I became hooked again, and needless to say, one by one my sons stopped diving but I carried on.  I had forgotten quite how nerve wracking it could be.”  Barbara has won the British Masters Championships many times in her age group, and been placed in the top three in the European Championships. She was a gold medalist in the platform synchro event at the 2010 World Masters in Gothenburg, the 3m Synchro and Platform Synchro in Riccione in 2014 and the Mixed 3m Synchro in Budapest in 2018. Barbara is still aiming for the top three in an individual event in the World Masters.  Later this year she will be competing at the Croatia Masters Championships in Rijeka, and the World Masters Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Molly Bailey is a Senior Reporter at The Chronicle of the Horse and she joins us this week to chat about The Devon Horse Show’s Junior Week highlighting some of the young talent that she watched at the championships. We also discuss what’s making news on the international scene from the current FEI rankings and the interesting difference in gender balance between the three Olympic disciplines. The highest placed female show jumpers all happen to be US riders Beezie Madden, Laura Kraut and Margie Goldstein. And with the Pan Am Games being the main focus for the US eventing team to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games we talk about the role of the Pan Ams and other events this year. Find out what The Chronicle is focused on too as we look ahead to this week’s main national event in the US.
For show notes and related links for this episode click here.
For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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Instagram: @twomenunscriptedpodcasts
Email: [email protected]

Molly Bailey is a Senior Reporter at The Chronicle of the Horse and she joins us this week to chat about The Devon Horse Show’s Junior Week highlighting some of the young talent that she watched at the championships. We also discuss what’s making news on the international scene from the current FEI rankings and the interesting difference in gender balance between the three Olympic disciplines. The highest placed female show jumpers all happen to be US riders Beezie Madden, Laura Kraut and Margie Goldstein. And with the Pan Am Games being the main focus for the US eventing team to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games we talk about the role of the Pan Ams and other events this year. Find out what The Chronicle is focused on too as we look ahead to this week’s main national event in the US.

For show notes and related links for this episode click here.

For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].