But Im curious as to where you see the progress that youre making. If you have any comments or questions about the shows that we do or suggestions for guests please do drop us a line to info at WiSP Sports dot com. Or you can post your comments on our social media at Facebook Instagram and Twitter or LinkedIn. Bridie returned to full time work in 2013 as a behaviour change physician at Epworth HealthCheck and Epworth Breast Service, with a part time role teaching doctor-patient communication at Deakin University Medical School. It was free to air on Channel 10 Channel 10 did an amazing job not only of broadcasting it but as you know the power of social media of retweeting great little clips of some of the really strong athletic performances of women batting and bowling etc. I would go back to the lost baggage section each week when a team mechanic was headed to the airport for one reason or another, but it never showed up. So learning that online is not good enough. And so whilst were not where we need to be in terms of pay equality and the number of women in leadership positions and the doors that are open to girls and women of all abilities and all genders and all racial backgrounds we are certainly much in a much better position than we have been even two years ago. Youre dealing with very powerful people generally men whove had their power for a long time. So youre right were seeing enormous change and you mentioned the M O U the memorandum understanding the Cricket Australia finally succumb to with the male and female cricket players here and look at the impact thats had on our Australian women. But we do have a lot of great wheelchair athletes who did very well obviously in Rio and do very well. At 48 years old, Bridie O'Donnell height not available right now. As a young girl growing up in a house with no electricity and television, Dr Bridie O'Donnell had no idea she would one day be a world champion cyclist. So, how much is Bridie O'Donnell worth at the age of 48 years old? We were racing at the flesh while on which is a famous race in Belgium with the iconic one kilometer and 10 percent climb at the finale and the women do the race in the morning sort of around 10 or 11 and then the end of the race in the afternoon in the mens races of course live on free to air TV across Europe and America millions of people watch the womens race. Then, in her mid-30s, ODonnell made the sharp pivot to professional cycling, a field where she found great success. And the idea around comparison is actually incredibly unhelpful and quite ignorant by a lot of commentators. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. And look were winning the mens ashes too. What were seeing now is those people are being left behind. Whats that look like for you now. Usually former players umpires referees presidents etc. [00:34:51] So they have funded a national program around women in leadership and coaching theyve basically selected 16 scholarship holders from all over the country and are cultivating those. The way to solve those critics is to. A typical training day would unfold in a series of slow, generally silent manoeuvres. Its not actually how well am I getting along with my family my children my wife my husband my parents. By mid-morning, it would be sunny and above 15 degrees, so we would train. Until the next time. Bob Marleys daughter who owns the Jamaican womens team the Thai billionaire who has funded the Thai womens team you know. So Im sorry Im getting to the roundabout part of your question but yeah I was a completely ordinary and active kid grew up in a regional part of Queensland with parents whod sort of taken a bit of a tree change and left a city to work in a very hippy sort of school I suppose it was like a Montessori or an unorganized but very creative supported school. Bridie We could talk for much longer but Im mindful of your time there is there really so much to cover and Yep things keep coming up that Id like to bring up but I going to let you go and get on with your day because I know your day is starting but maybe we could circle back some time and continue this conversation because I think its I would love Aston and yes I could talk about this stuff. You are my reputation as a sporting nation but just to give a little bit about Graham Brady is to your sporting history because youve been very involved with sport actively as a triathlete and then as a cyclist. Shes very thoughtful and contemplative but shes extremely powerful. We wont be able to convince our state politicians and federal politicians to invest in a womens football tournament. Then it would have been an even more difficult. These are the kinds of conversations he has. I was going to get your reaction to that the topic of equality in sport as far as women are concerned now we wed look maybe at Australia maybe rightly or wrongly from here as being somewhat advanced you know making more strides shall we say than than they are than they are then there is happening elsewhere in the world and certainly keeping up with it. Discover Bridie O'Donnell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Number two increasing the number of girls and women but mostly women in leadership positions in sport more CEOs but even more importantly more umpires coaches referees visible leadership of women on fields with whistles telling people what to do is an extraordinarily powerful debunking of this myth that women dont know how to rally a team or they dont know how to be harsh or they dont know how to be assertive and firm or they dont know how to bring together twenty five guys to get them to do something thats thats a complete myth as we all know. [00:20:59] You mentioned a couple of times there Bridie in the last few minutes about the Fitbit the free to air TV that that makes a big difference in terms of exposure for womens sports. Head Coach - Rowing South Australian Sports Institute Aug 2022 - Present5 months Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Head of Rowing Xavier College Aug 2020 - Aug 20222 years 1 month Senior High. And we do look forward to continuing the conversation with you so thanks again and well stay in touch. Lets say my former sport cycling incredible para cycling bombs as by Australians in the last world championships. Women and what they when they dug down into these. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. Were you very very active from a child like most Australian girls. My sessions were always prescribed by Donna [Rae-Szalinski]; they were time trial-specific, and often focused on flat roads, whereas my teammate would put in four or five hours of slow pedalling, then maybe some climbs, usually across the highway towards Sienna. The core values of WiSP Sports are based on the following principles to: WiSP Sports, Inc. So it actually wasnt until I was in my second year of medical school I went straight into medical school out of high school and I started doing a triathlon. Now shes a young AFL footballer playing for Carlton who has not only incredible strength and agility but she has this kicking style thats very characteristic for her. And weve seen more than one women a week killed by her former husband or intimate partner which is a devastating statistic in this country that we need and we are working very hard to remedy. And we do look forward to continuing the conversation with you so thanks again and well stay in touch. Thats what you want in the best kind of basketball coach. But I had incredibly supportive colleagues and certainly the public service is very good at that. and theres been so such a lack of diverse thinking that you know these people generally all the same age that probably went to school together and so by by asking them to have a quota and bring women in. You know you become quite self-absorbed and so focused and you have to be. And what Im asking them to do is think differently about something and that can be for some of them deeply threatening. But as you saw not only from the extraordinary performances of the US national womens team but the one point one billion viewers and the stadiums that were packed out is that people want to see and witness the best quality sport on offer. We had a team of champions and let me tell you we did not translate into a champion day. In 2006, she finished Ironman Austria, Ironman Hawaii and rode a bike course record at Busselton Ironman. But I was a very academic kid and so I studied really hard through high school and I was completely mediocre at team sports and I wanted to be a leader like I was so desperately trying to be the best athlete and I just wasnt I didnt have enough speed I didnt have enough agility and all those things that you do when youre playing netball and touch football and some of the sports that have really big in teams here in Queensland. But the Lottery funding in the UK has boosted all kinds of sports that otherwise would never have had the exposure and certainly reached and mentor and Ill know the position in the Olympics particularly Paralympics. So theyve actually done skill ordered some of them quite formally and others more informally and theyve diversified their boards and they have more young people for example or they have a parent whos really invested in the sport but has never had any opportunity to have a voice in her organisation. [00:38:38] Its my life you know. And as the saying goes you know you cant be what you cant see that that access is critically important. This year, Australias most unique slashie will again join the SBS commentary team for the Tour De France when it kicks off on Saturday 26 June. But the Lottery funding in the UK has boosted all kinds of sports that otherwise would never have had the exposure and certainly reached and mentor and Ill know the position in the Olympics particularly Paralympics. So being active playing sport engaged in it in their life. Equally with Sydney in this country and the population of Victorias about eight and a half million and we have 115 now. So what we know about women in sport in Australia is it has extraordinary links to the importance of just challenging our rigid gender stereotypes. Well it certainly teach to see problem solving skills and what we know theres data from an amazing piece of research that Ernst and Young did globally where they examined women in leadership positions all over the world. She is currently single. [00:36:46] And so whilst we are we have scholarship programs that are offered. So it had both sides of politics supporting the inquiry and it was chaired by an American. [00:36:16] Theres theres thousands of reasons that get put forward as to why a woman cant actually follow around the head coach of a mens cricket team and just think OK what does this job look like and how would I do it if it were me because thats how I learned how to be a doctor. About so many things I could have done better. Women like Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde You know Theresa May. Thats where all of our networking events support it. Bridie ODonnell shares three special things. [00:06:43] But as youve seen globally weve been taken over by Russia China the UK and definitely the US. [00:26:32] No absolutely thats a copout. Now we didnt see an increase in broadcasting of womens professional sport on Foxtel over that time and there was definitely some rattling of cans and people saying hang on a second. What theyve also done is looked around and thought Wow we dont have a lawyer or we dont have a community fund raiser or we dont have a person who understands around membership protection. But my goodness it does allow you a context and help you deal with strong personalities and we say that a lot in where Im working now as a sports administrator or working in government. Is that we achieved our board quota deadline on 1 July of this year where sporting organizations that are funded by the Victorian Government acknowledging that for your listeners that Victorias is one of the states of Australia. Devastatingly however, it was working: her illnessI saw it clearly as an illnesswas performance-enhancing. Where should there be time slots in broadcast opportunities and how can we get the free to air channels to show the nipple World Cup or why. So its one of the biggest cities. Weve seen as we said three seasons of AFL W and yet in this third season 0 teams of the 10 were coached by women which is mind boggling. I had some staff by the time we got to April 2018 and so weve been up and running. During her residency she was a rower and then an iron man triathlete and finished theq Ironman highway world championship in 2006. And if I had had men in the public service say youll never be able to be this boss of this office and run this budget do make this change because youve never done it before then. [00:30:53] And what has happened is seven white straight men have put their hand up. So what we know about women in sport in Australia is it has extraordinary links to the importance of just challenging our rigid gender stereotypes. "A German mother taught the German language, a surgeon parent taught anatomy by cutting up ox's hearts, and we learnt music three times a week from another parent," she said. The progress that the organization has made to advance women and girls participation in sport and the challenges that lie ahead. Teach you about what what it requires to be a woman in leadership and sport in Australia. Bridie: In 2007, Cycling Australia put a call out to other sports for athletes with the potential to become time trialists. The Silver Ferns where were sitting and we also saw and Im sure this photograph reached across the world is the photograph of Taylor Harris That was the most glorious examination and image of a woman kicking sheet. A friend of mine was doing a triathlon Id never ridden a bike before and Id never done a running race and Id only just swum for you know learning that school. [00:35:41] So what we know about women as coaches is that their lack of qualifications is not the thing. She is quite reserved. 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