girl on the river
We are delighted to say that Sue appeared on the girl on the river podcast this week.
Sue Anstiss MBE, women's sport campaigner, podcast host, author, founder of Fearless Women join Girls on the Rover
Sue Anstiss is not one of those people who spent 2020 sitting around making sourdough and eating banana bread (though I'm guessing she'd approve of leaping around doing PE with Joe). Instead, she's been busy working towards a world where women's sports are treated equally and girls and women throw themselves into exercise and sport with enthusiasm.
In this third episode of the podcast, Girl on the River chats to Sue (who has an MBE for services to women's sport) about:
her early influences and sporting role models, and how she finally achieved a GB vest in her 40s
open water swimming (in all seasons) and how it's good for the soul
Sue's foray into indoor rowing
Her gradual realisation that there were inequalities between men and women in sport, especially in team sports
How the way we treat girls in society generally will affect how they feel about sport
The reasons why women's team sports have been underfunded and what can be done to improve this
Women in coaching
The work of the Women's Sport Trust and the Unlocked programme
The importance of racial equality in promoting women's sport
Welfare and safeguarding in sport and funding criteria
Fearless Women, Sue's podcast, The Game Changers and her forthcoming book, Game On - the Unstoppable Rise of Women's Sport
Patricia Carswell, aka Girl on the River, loves to row and loves to talk, so it makes sense that in her podcast she'll be chatting to guests from all around the rowing and sporting world about anything and everything to do with rowing. Always informal, occasionally silly, sometimes serious, often informative, she delves into questions such as how athletes become champions, how to promote diversity in sport, the secret to staying alive on an ocean, how to improve your erg score and what to do to keep your body and mind in one piece.
Her guests include Olympians, health experts, Atlantic rowers, kit companies, indoor rowers, TV presenters - in short, anyone with something to say about rowing and its place in the world. The podcast isn't just about Girl on the River and her guests, though. Community is everything in rowing, so you, the listener, are an important part of the show. There'll be regular Q&As and listener debates, and if you have suggestions for fantastic guests, she's all ears. Patricia can be contacted at girlontheriverpodcast@gmail.com or on social media at @girlontheriver on all channels - come and have a chat .And until then... next stroke, easy oar.