the 94%

Rachel Shelley

94% of women working in C-suite executive roles played sport...

52% at university level*.

Talking to some of your favourite and fabulous women from all walks of life about how their sporting experiences have shaped them in weird, wonderful and often quite witty ways.

With hosts Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody on TV’s The L Word, gay icon and mother to a teen girl in London) and Dublin’s Nikki Symmons (former international hockey and cricket player for 13 years, Ireland’s first female athlete to come out as gay and a specialised DEI advisor).

In all walks of life, not just the C-Suite, participation in sport from an early age promotes professional excellence, in whatever field a woman moves into. And that’s a fact.

Sport helps develop resilience, discipline and teamwork. Together these form a holy trinity for success.

They discuss the wild and varied parallels they see between competitive sport and their real-life experiences.

How lessons learnt on the pitch shape their behaviour off the field.

How sport has made them the women they are today.

And how they got off the blocks at the very start.

But it’s not just the sporting elite in their new careers that we hear from, although our host Nikki will keep us anchored in that arena. Our guests include high-flyers from the world of entertainment, politics, media and corporate… wherever successful athletes find themselves.

And that’s everywhere.

*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014

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Listen to the last episode:

Pam Drucker-Mann is the CEO and co-founder of the newly launched Run-A-Muck, alongside two wonderful The L Word alumni: the iconic Jennifer Beals (see ep 1 of the 94%) and uber-showrunner Ilene Chaiken.

Run-A-Muck is a next-gen media company determined to transform The L Word into the The L World. Creating content for a hungry built-in audience.

And Pam knows a thing or two about world-wide reach - she's been a real super-power when it comes to how the world thinks. Working at Conde Nast Publishing House for almost twenty years, ultimately becoming their first female global CRO (Chief Revenue Officer), Pam has successfully helped steer global mega-magazines like Vogue, Wired, GQ, and The New Yorker, through pretty choppy years as publications learnt to embrace the digital world.

But now she’s left that lofty role at Conde Naste to build a new world order, with Jennifer and Ilene acting as co-chief content creators.

Run-A-Muck aims to create new franchises and projects across streaming, podcasts, live events, sport... you name it, they’re creating it.

Pam's a New Yorker at heart, and in this fast, funny and savvy conversation, Pam reveals

How Run-a-Muck is about to change everything with The L World
How a taste for competition and challenge is essential to success at work
What happened when she first met Jennifer Beals...

We're definitely keeping the conversation going with Pam, and you can too by following her Pam Drucker-Mann and Run-a-Muck.

94% of women working in C-suite executive roles played sport at a younger age,

52% at university level*.

In all walks of life, not just the C-Suite, participation in sport from an early age promotes professional excellence, in whatever field a woman moves into. And that’s a fact.

Sport helps develop resilience, discipline and teamwork. Together these form a holy trinity for success.

Hosts Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody on TV’s The L Word, gay icon and mother to a teen girl in London) and Dublin’s Nikki Symmons (former international hockey and cricket player for 13 years, Ireland’s first female athlete to come out as gay and a specialised DEI advisor) talk to some of your favourite high-achieving women from all walks of life, about how their sporting experiences have shaped them in weird, wonderful and often whacky ways. With a lot of laughter en route.

They discuss the wild and varied parallels they see between competitive sport and their real-life experiences.

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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.