Empowerment & Courage

For this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with American ice hockey player Amanda Pelkey. An Olympic Champion and two time World Champion with Team USA, Amanda was also part of the Boston Pride team who won the Isobel Cup at the inaugural season of the NWHL. We speak about the player boycott of professional ice hockey during the 2019-2020 season and the underlying issues of inequality and a lack of resources and salaries within women’s ice hockey but also about what it’s like to become an Olympic Champion, the importance of building relationships and her AMP hockey camps for kids.

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We had the chance to meet with Casper U. Mortensen to talk about his career as a professional handball player, his future goals, the challenges that he has faced and his best advice for those facing adversity and those looking to fulfill their dreams.

For this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with American cyclist Samantha Bosco. She’s a 2x Paralympic bronze medalist, the 2015 Para Pan Am Games Road Race Champion, the 2017 Paracycling World Champion in the 3k Individual Pursuit and has won an additional 9 World Championship medals. We speak about Samantha's journey from dealing with her disability and chronic pain growing up, to eventually finding paracycling and becoming a professional cyclist. She also shares her advice for how to deal with adversity, based on the numerous challenges she has faced throughout her career, and explains the huge difference that surrounding yourself with the right people can make. For Samantha, sports has been a means for strength and power and today she wants to be an inspiration and help change lives by sharing her story with others.

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For today's episode, we were lucky to get the chance to speak with Arianna Criscione. She’s an American-Italian football player, currently playing for PSG in France. She’s a former member of the Italian National Team and has previously won three Italian titles, one Italian Cup, and three super cups with Torres Calcio. Arianna is currently also working as the Women’s Sponsorship Manager at PSG. We speak about her taking the step of moving to Europe to play professional football after finishing her college soccer career in the US. She loves to travel and talks about the many places that football has taken her and some of her best experiences abroad, discovering new cities during local festivities. Looking back at her career, Arianna shares what her definition of success is and how her approach to what it means to be successful has changed over the years. She’s a big advocate for giving girls opportunities to play sports and hopes to show other girls that you can work within the sports industry even if you don’t aspire to be a professional athlete.

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