Heather Peace is probably best known for conjuring up the complex character Eve Unwin on BBC 1’s EastEnders. She won the 2022 Inside Soap Award for Best Newcomer, and then the 2023 Best Soap Couple alongside actress Balvinder Sopal.

But she's also stood out as a power house of talent on a steady stream of successful TV shows since the late 1990s - the smoking hot Sally Fields in London's Burning, the ass-kicking Becca on Ultimate Force and Detective Sergeant Sam Murray in Glasgow's answer to The L Word, Lip Service. To name but a few.

And when she's not on screen, she's singing and song writing and touring the world with her music, playing intimate gigs to a dedicated army of fans who have together created their own beautiful community.

Throughout all this creativity and hard work, sport - and especially football - has been central to Heather's life, her loves, and her career. Especially now, as she recovers from cancer treatment.

In this beautiful conversation, peppered with Heather's infectious laugh and supreme, considered positivity, Heather discusses:

• how a lifetime of competitive sport has shaped and enhanced her career
• how sport is shaping her home life, with wife Ellie and three young girls
• how sport is helping her return to fitness and full confidence after the shock and treatment of cancer.

We love Heather, and we loved talking to her. We definitely want to stay in touch, so here's how

Heather Peace on Instagram

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 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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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.

Follow us:

the 94% on IG

Rachel Shelley on IG

Nikki Symmons on IG

Follow us on Instagram @94percentpod

And never miss a new show or any events!

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Anna Nolan: the gay nun who (almost) won the first ever UK Big Brother back in the year 2000. Anna certainly won our hearts if not the prize money. These days she's top of her league as a TV Producer and presenter with media production giant COCO Entertainment in Dublin. Where does much of her fearless, strategic, visualising, team-playing success come from...?

Basket ball. Some of the happiest days of her life.

We're celebrating all things Irish here on the 94% - with the wonderful Anna Nolan. Telling tales about the lessons learnt on the court and how they have shaped the woman she is today. From basket ball to the convent to the Big Brother House and a major production company. Even if she's only realising that now, live on the podcast! Epiphany, anyone?

It's also ten years since Ireland became the first country to EVER legalise gay marriage through a referendum. By nearly two-thirds! A spectacular result for a country so steeped in religion.

A fantastically uplifting listen, full of Anna's energy, laughter, wild story-telling and good craic.

You can follow the awesome Anna Nolan on Instagram here. And we highly recommend you do.

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.

Follow us:

the 94% on IG

Rachel Shelley on IG

Nikki Symmons on IG

*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014

Follow us on Instagram @94percentpod

And never miss a new show or any events!

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