You Run Like A Girl

Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 7, we're talking about Ellie Simmond's trip to Japan, the new Canadian women's professional soccer league, and why this private equity firm is betting on women's sports. 

Story links: 

• 🏊🏻‍♀️ Ellie Simmonds: Japan Makes Disabled Life Easy (swimming)
• 🏟 Pro Women’s Soccer in Canada: Inside the New Northern Super League (soccer)
• 💰 Why a PE Firm is Investing in Women’s Sports (sports business)

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Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 4, we're talking about Mindy Kaling's new basketball comedy, the first million dollar women's soccer player, and a hockey legend preparing for her fifth Olympic Games.

Story links: 

• 🏀 Jeanie Buss is Laughing Through Her Pain (basketball)
• ⚽️ Naomi Girma is Women's Soccer's 1st Million Dollar Player (soccer)
• 🏒 Fifteen Years After First ‘Golden Goal,’ Marie-Philip Poulin Returns to the Place Her Legend Began (hockey)

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Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 7, we're talking about Nike's Super Bowl commercial, how Sasha DiGiulian broke climbing's glass ceiling, and yachtswoman Violette Dorange making history with the sails.

Story links: 

• 📺 Nike’s First Super Bowl Commercial in 27 Years - Was it a Win? (sports advertising)
• 🧗‍♀️ How Sasha DiGiulian Broke Climbing’s Glass Ceiling (climbing)
• ⛵️ France Hails a Young Heroine: Violette, Conqueror of the Waves (sailing)

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Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 6, we're talking about ice dancer and designer Madison Chock, A'Ja Wilson's signature sneaker, and Kylie Kelce's rise to the top of the podcast charts

Story links: 

• ⛸ The Figure Skater Who Treats the Rink as a Runway (figure skating)
• 🏀 Nike Unveils A’ja Wilson’s Signature A’One Sneaker (basketball)
• 🎙 ‘The People’s Princess’: How NFL Wife Kylie Kelce’s Podcast About Motherhood and Women’s Sports Became a Hit (sports podcasting)

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Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 5, we're talking about Chloe Kim making snowboarding history, Julie Stewart-Binks speaking her truth, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's entrepreneurial endeavour.

Story links: 

• 🏂 How Chloe Kim Rediscovered Her Love Of Snowboarding (snowboarding)
• 🎤 Julie Stewart-Binks on a Career Derailed by Alleged Sexual Assault (broadcasting)
• 🏃🏿‍♀️ Track & Field Legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s Obsession Pushes Her Towards Massive Decision Amidst Career Return (track and field)

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Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 3, we're talking about the mountaineer fighting for change, the return of a skiing legend, and the highest paid coach in women's college basketball.

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• 🧗🏽‍♀️ Meet the climber set to the become the first Afghan woman to climb Mount Everest (mountaineering)
• 🎿 Lindsey Vonn’s ‘impossible’ comeback roars on with 2026 Olympics in frame (downhill skiing)
• 🏀 South Carolina makes Dawn Staley highest-paid coach in women’s college basketball (basketball)

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Welcome to the weekly audio newsletter for You Run Like A Girl. In edition 2, we're talking about the start of a new women's basketball league, the rise of a rugby star, and the GOAT gymnast who silenced her critics.

Story links: 

• ⛹🏽‍♀️ Women’s basketball revolutionized: How Unrivaled will change everything (basketball)
• 🏉 Ilona Maher sprinkles her stardust on England (rugby)
• 🤸🏾‍♀️ Simone Biles Rising (gymnastics)

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It's been a minute...or 3 years. But better late than never. I'm so excited to be back podcasting with a refreshed outlook on how I'm going to build You Run Like A Girl. In this episode, I talk about what made me stop podcasting, share a few other life updates, discuss some of my favourite sports stories from the world of women's sports, and talk about what's next. 

Story links: 

• Teresa Resch is calling the shots (basketball)
• How Michele Kang became one of the biggest investors in women’s soccer (soccer)
• Inside the design of intricate, crystal-patterned U.S. Olympic gymnastics team leotards (gymnastics)
• An escape, a shot in the dark, a legacy: Here is Olympian Lilia Vu (golf)
• Sarah Nurse, one of hockey’s most marketable stars, is booked, busy and basking in it (hockey)

To anyone who listened even when I wasn't posting - I appreciate you! Can't wait to see what 2025 holds. 

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Today's episode is a pretty special one. I had the chance to sit down and chat with entrepreneur Sienny Thio. Sienny is the founder and creative director of The Mood Lab, a minimalist branding studio for bold and creative visionaries. She is the one who designed the brand identity for the You Run Like A Girl podcast, which is why I'm extra excited about having her on the show. We talk about how she went from working at the UN to running her own business, discuss what a brand is and isn't, hear her tips on using exercise for maintaining physical and mental health and get her advice on what business owners looking to start a new brand should think about. We also got real and talked about the struggles that come with building a new brand and launching any new endeavour. Although I met Sienny through working together on this project, I now consider her a friend and am proud to have her as my guest today. Enjoy!

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Can a genetic response to certain types of food play a role in how well an athlete performs? That's one of the main overarching questions my guest today has been investigating for years. Dr. Nanci Guest wears many hats: she's a registered dietician, personal trainer, researcher and a strength and conditioning coach, among other things. Nanci earned a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from The University of Toronto where she focused on how nutrigenomics affects athletic performance, with a particular interest in caffeine response and genetic variation. Nanci is also a consultant to professional and amateur athletes and has worked with the Vancouver Canucks, athletes in the NHL, NBA and CFL, as well as athletes competing at the national, world and Olympic levels in cycling, swimming, gymnastics, soccer and much, more more. In our interview we talk about why Nanci decided to pursue a PhD, hear about her ground-breaking research and discuss what's next for the future of nutrigenomics.