Tammy Parlour: Why female athletes make powerful role models

05/03/22 • 38 min

Tammy Parlour MBE is the co-founder and dynamic CEO of The Women's Sport Trust, and works with leaders across sport, media and business, to raise the visibility and increase impact of women's sport.
Away from her role at the Women’s Sport Trust, Tammy is a master in the Korean martial art of Hapkido having practiced for 40 years. She set up her own hapkido and meditation school in the early nineties and still coaches regularly. A non-executive director for AFC Wimbledon Ladies, in 2019 Tammy was awarded an MBE for her services to gender equality in sport.
As the Women’s Sport Trust marks its 10th anniversary this year, we explore how things have changed in the past decade and why female athletes make such powerful role models.
A huge thank you to our partners, Sport England who are kindly supporting the next three series of The Game Changers podcast through the National Lottery.

Thank you to Sport England who support The Game Changers Podcast with a National Lottery award.
Find out more about The Game Changers podcast here: https://www.fearlesswomen.co.uk/thegamechangers

Hosted by Sue Anstiss
Produced by Sam Walker, What Goes On Media
A Fearless Women production

05/03/22 • 38 min

2 Listeners

The Game Changers - Tammy Parlour: Why female athletes make powerful role models

Transcript

Tammy Parlour: Why female athletes make powerful role models
Sue Anstiss:

Hello, and welcome to The Game Changers. I'm Sue Anstiss and this is the podcast where you'll hear from trailblazers in women's sport, who are quite literally knocking down the barriers to challenge the status quo for women and girls across society.

A massive thank you to our partners, Sport England, who are kindly supporting The Game Changers through a National Lottery award. My guest today is Tammy Parl

Generate a badge

Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode

Select type & size

Copy