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PRETTYSMART


Aug 30, 2024

For over two decades, Emmy & Peabody Award winning Journalist, Sarah Spain has made her mark as a sports reporter. She’s spent over a dozen of those years at ESPN, working as a host, producer and writer. She’s also a radio host and hosts her own podcast “Good Game with Sarah Spain” on iHeart. Today she’s joining PRETTYSMART to share her journey from young athlete to award winning sports journalist. She shares: 

  • Why it never occurred to her growing up that she could have a career in sports. 
  • Why we need to do a better job talking to young girls about sports. 
  • Her thoughts on the controversies surrounding sports and Trans athletes.
  • What she’s had to put up with as a female sports reporter and how it has shaped her opinion of men. 
  • Why she chooses empathy over anger when it comes to trolls on the internet. 
  • How the skills she developed growing up playing sports helped her in her career.
  • Why she’s not surprised that 94% of C Suite women at Fortune 500 companies were college athletes. . 
  • Why she believes women playing sports is like giving the middle finger to the idea of women having one lane/only being allowed in certain spaces.
  • Her thoughts on women’s professional sports  and why it’s taken so long for people to care more about them.

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