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• Anna Nolan

  Anna Nolan: the gay nun who (almost) won the first ever UK Big Brother back in the year 2000. Anna certainly won our hearts if not the prize money. These days she's top of her league as a TV Producer and presenter with media production giant COCO Entertainment in Dublin. Where does much of her fearless, strategic, visualising, team-playing success come from...?Basket ball. Some of the happiest days of her life.We're celebrating all things Irish here on the 94% - with the wonderful Anna Nolan. Telling tales about the lessons learnt on the court and how they have shaped the woman she is today. From basket ball to the convent to the Big Brother House and a major production company. Even if she's only realising that now, live on the podcast! Epiphany, anyone?It's also ten years since Ireland became the first country to EVER legalise gay marriage through a referendum. By nearly two-thirds! A spectacular result for a country so steeped in religion.A fantastically uplifting listen, full of Anna's energy, laughter, wild story-telling and good craic.You can follow the awesome Anna Nolan on Instagram here. And we highly recommend you do. 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.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. Follow us:the 94% on IGRachel Shelley on IGNikki Symmons on IG*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014Follow us on Instagram @94percentpodAnd never miss a new show or any events! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Adele Roberts

  Adele Roberts - Radio 1 DJ, multi-marathon 6-Star Medal runner, Guinness world record holder, sports commentator, acclaimed author and brilliant audio-book reader, a Dancing on Ice expert, Big Brother alumni, I'm A Celebrity survivor, multi-award winning LGBT rights campaigner, post-Bowel cancer stoma-celebrating celesbian, owner of an infectiously lovable laugh, a woman with unstoppable energy and an all round lovely, lovely person. And still we've missed something out... oh, Audrey. How could we forget Audrey?Sport has played a hugely important role throughout Adele's life, from BMX-ing with the boys as a kid to smashing through the glass ceiling in the male-dominated world of DJ-ing.In this hugely joyous, uplifting episode, Adele talks aboutgrowing up and running with the boys, both professionally and personallyfacing the challenges of bowel cancer whilst living her sporting life to the max - with her stoma Audreyher wonderful, nurturing relationship with her beautiful partner, Kate Holderness.You can follow the wonderful Adele Roberts on Instagram here. And here on the 94%, we highly recommend you do![Note: The number of Deloitte Olympians at Paris 2024 was actually 19]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.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. Follow us:the 94% on IGRachel Shelley on IGNikki Symmons on IG*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014Follow us on Instagram @94percentpodAnd never miss a new show or any events! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Jennifer Beals

  Huge fanfare please for our very first guest on the 94% podcast - the iconic Jennifer Beals.Known for her groundbreaking role in Flashdance and as Bette Porter in The L Word, she's a passionate LGBTQ+ ally.But Jennifer is also a serious triathlete, who played sport throughout her school years ( including basketball and field hockey). Now, she's also an avid pickleball player! (Pickleball!)In this wide-reaching episode of the 94% podcast with co-hosts Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody on The L Word) and Nikki Symmons (former international hockey player for Ireland and DEI expert), Jennifer shares how sports have shaped her journey, building resilience, teamwork, and discipline—qualities that have guided her incredible career both off-screen and on. Telling stories she's never shared before, from her youth and her life now, about how sport spawns success. She even surprises herself with some small epiphanies!Jennifer truly is one of the 94% and we're proud to celebrate her with our first gold medal.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.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. Follow us:the 94% on IGRachel Shelley on IGNikki Symmons on IG*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014Follow us on Instagram @94percentpodAnd never miss a new show or any events! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• the 94%

  94% of women working in C-suite executive roles played sport , 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.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. So listen out for episodes with actor Jennifer Beals, Radio 1 DJ and author Adele Roberts, founder of HER dating app Robyn Exton and CEO of Coco Media, Anna Nolan.Follow us on IG the 94% podcast*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014Follow us on Instagram @94percentpodAnd never miss a new show or any events! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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