Robyn Exton is the founder and CEO of the world’s largest on-line network for FLINTA and queer women: HER.

(FLINTA = Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Trans, and A-gender audiences.)

In just over a decade, this multi-national community has grown to over 16 million users, across 114 countries, in five different languages. Woah!

No wonder it was just snapped up by Match Group (Fortune 500) for undoubtedly enormous "undisclosed terms".

But it all began as a one-woman venture which Robyn built through discipline, resilience and team spirit - all characteristics Robyn can now trace back to her maternally-enforced sporting experiences during childhood. Thanks mum!

In this energetic and lively conversation, Robyn realises just how important and wide-reaching her sporting life has been to her professional commitment, discussing:

• the hilarious, the legendary Miss Stapleton, her childhood tennis coach
• facing challenges: what to do if you've already been given a "no"
• recognising that we all grow and mature, and how to cope with that

We loved our conversation with Robyn, and we definitely want to stay in touch, so here's how

HER App on Insta

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.

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