A woman just ran 253 miles through the Arizona desert, through the night, through the mountains, for 56 hours straight – and beat every single man in the race. Her name is Rachel Entrekin, and her mantra was simple: "Why not you?"

Women are redefining sport, growing in leaps and bounds over the past 5-10 years, and investment at the elite level has never been higher. So why are girls still quitting at 15?

This solo episode digs into one of the most important conversations in women's sport right now – the growing gap between elite investment and what is actually happening at grassroots, pathway, and semi-elite level. VFLW players earning as little as $25 a game, if lucky enough to be paid at all. A-League Women players on $26,000 watching male teammates earn five times that. Semi-elite athletes are working two jobs just to keep training and keeping food on the table. This is the pipeline that feeds professional women's sport – and it is being underfunded, undersupported, and overlooked.

Kylie Lynch breaks down why this matters not just for sport, but for society.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why elite investment without grassroots funding is a roof with no walls
• The real reason girls are dropping out at 14 and 15
• What semi-elite female athletes are actually earning right now
• Why female-friendly infrastructure, coaching, and registration costs are non-negotiable
• What needs to happen for the momentum at the top to trickle down with intention

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Run clubs are having a moment. And it's being driven by women!

Membership in Australian run clubs increased by 59% in 2024, and researchers found the top three reasons women keep showing up aren't pace or fitness goals. They're motivation, community and mood. Eliza Boyd figured that out before the data confirmed it.

Eliza is the founder of Chill Girl Run Club Geelong, a slow-paced, inclusive run club for women and the LGBTQI+ community that started with a TikTok she almost didn't post. Today it's a thriving community that meets every Saturday and has grown into brand partnerships, race entries and friendships that extend well beyond the course.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Eliza started a run club in Geelong and the one video that launched it all
• The real reason women join run clubs (hint: it's rarely about running)
• How showing up consistently in sport builds mental strength and life confidence
• The challenges of growing a community while protecting its DNA
• Content creation and UGC as a flexible income stream for women in sport
• What holds women back from joining a run club and how to push past it
• What Eliza would tell her 16-year-old self about running and consistency

Chapters

00:00 – Welcome and Intro

00:55 – Rapid Fire: The 4TG x Snap Fitness Questions

02:30 – Eliza's sport background growing up 06:10 – How running became a consistent part of her life

09:45 – Why Eliza started Chill Girl Run Club Geelong

14:20 – The first run club meet and the TikTok that started it all

18:00 – What members are getting from the community beyond fitness

22:15 – Brand collaborations, DNA and keeping the run club authentic

26:40 – Life as a content creator and UGC work

31:05 – Documenting your journey and imposter syndrome

35:20 – What women need to hear about sport and community

39:00 – What would Eliza tell 16-year-old herself

Follow Eliza + Chill Girl Run Club

Find Eliza on TikTok and Instagram: @elizaanneboyd

Follow the run club: @chillgirlrunclub.geelong

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Meredith Young has achondroplasia – the most common form of dwarfism. She grew up in a family that lived and breathed sport, represented Australia across basketball, swimming, athletics and badminton, and became the fastest short-statured woman in the world. Without a sprint coach. Just pure heart and Asics on.

In 2009, she captained Australia's first ever team at the World Dwarf Games in Belfast. Then in 2013 she competed again – knowing her spine was deteriorating – because sport was her sanity. Months later she woke up from spinal surgery unable to move her legs.

This conversation goes everywhere. The netball coach who told a young Meredith she was a "danger" to her teammates. Fundraising Bunnings barbecues to get fifteen athletes to Belfast. Beating her ex-husband in the badminton medal round. Three and a half months in hospital. And what it takes to find your way back to sport when your body has fundamentally changed.

Meredith is one of the most generous, honest guests we've had on It's For The Girls. This one will shift how you think about difference, resilience, and what it actually means to belong in sport.

In this episode we cover:

• Growing up in mainstream sport with achondroplasia and finding competitive advantage in difference
• The netball coach who told Meredith she was a "danger" – and the lifelong impact of a coach's words
• Building and captaining Australia's first World Dwarf Games team from a Bunnings barbecue budget
• Becoming the fastest short-statured woman in the world with zero formal sprint training
• Two major spinal surgeries, losing the ability to walk, and the long road back
• The psychology of recovery – when sport is your identity and your body takes it away
• Why being born different is not a limitation but a pathway to becoming a more whole person

Follow Meredith & Links

Instagram: @meredith_young

Donate towards the 2027 Gold Coast World Dwarf Games

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Chelsea Blissett is a professional footballer for Melbourne Victory and founder of Style TrackHer. In this episode, she speaks honestly about disordered eating in sport, and what eating disorder recovery can look like behind the scenes. No stereotypes. No fluff. Just the real stuff female athletes are often carrying quietly.

Chelsea shares how anxiety, pressure, and a need for control can fuel bulimia and anorexia, plus the physical and mental impact it had on her training, confidence, and day-to-day life. We also talk about the power of support systems, why language matters for coaches and parents, and how she learned to separate “the eating disorder voice” from who she is.

If you are navigating body image, performance pressure, or a messy relationship with food, this conversation will make you feel less alone.

In this episode, we cover:

• Disordered eating stats in Australian sport
• Bulimia, anorexia, and the control cycle
• Warning signs athletes often hide
• Recovery tools that actually helped
• Coach and parent support – what to say, what not to say
• Advocacy and prevention with Hide and Seek Foundation
• Style TrackHer and women’s GPS bra innovation

Support (Australia)

If this episode brings anything up for you, you do not have to carry it alone.

• Butterfly Foundation (Eating Disorders) – https://butterfly.org.au Helpline: 1800 33 4673
• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support) – https://www.lifeline.org.au Call: 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue – https://www.beyondblue.org.au Call: 1300 22 4636
• Emergency – If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 000.

Follow:

• Chelsea Blissett Instagram
• Style TrackHer Instagram

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• Want 1:1 support to build real self-belief and perform with freedom? The 4TG 1:1 Athlete Mentoring is a 6-week program for driven female athletes who want to back themselves, lead with confidence and play to their strengths – on the field and off it.
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Winter sport is back – and if you're sitting with a stomach full of nerves this week, this episode is for you.

In this solo episode, Kylie Lynch opens up about returning from an ACL injury and what she's learned about the gap between physical readiness and mental readiness. Round one nerves are not the same as regular season nerves, and not enough people name that. This episode does.

Whether you're lacing up for the first time this season, coming back from injury, or sitting on the outside after missing selection – Kylie shares practical mindset tools to help you shift from survival mode into performance mode before you run out.

Kylie also offers her FREE 5-Minute Pre-Game Reset, a simple five-step tool built from years of working with sports psychologists and high-performance mindset coaches in Australia. Press on the link above or DM "RESET" to @4tg_podcast on Instagram and I'll send it through! Download it and use it this weekend.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why round one nerves hit differently to mid-season nerves
• The invisible pressure of reestablishing yourself every season
• Coming back from long-term injury and the grief that comes with it
• How to handle non-selection without spiralling
• Reframing nerves as energy, not weakness
• Why calm beats hype as a pre-game state
• How to access the free 5-Minute Pre-Game Reset

Best of luck to everyone playing in Round 1!

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Claudia Nielsen has played elite hockey, represented Australia in Rugby Sevens, and signed with the NRLW's Wests Tigers. She is also completing a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Sydney. And ahead of the 2026 season, she was released.

In this 4TG episode, Claudia gets real about what it actually feels like when the sport you gave everything to doesn't renew your contract — and how you rebuild when your identity takes a hit. We also go deep on the dual-career athlete reality: what Claudia's week genuinely looks like when you're training at elite level and halfway through a doctorate. Not the highlight reel. The real juggle.

If you're navigating selection pressure, contract uncertainty, or that quiet fear of not being enough — this one will land. Because sport can take a jersey off you. But it cannot take the person it built.

In this episode, we cover:

• The multi-sport pathway and what cross-code skills actually transfer
• Walking into elite environments as the person who doesn't fully know the game yet
• Contract non-renewal and identity after being released
• Handling uncertainty and staying elite-standard anyway
• Dual-career athlete life — vet medicine and elite sport simultaneously
• What the multi-sport athlete sees that the single-code athlete doesn't

📲 Follow Claudia on Instagram @_cludes

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Former professional Australian rugby union player and commentator Alicia Lucas joins Kylie on 4TG (For The Girls) for a real conversation about the motherhood tax in women’s sport.

If you have ever felt like becoming a mum means your career is “done”, this episode will challenge that fast. Alicia shares what it was really like navigating pregnancy, contracts, and returning to high performance. Including the surprise part. She came back hitting PBs.

We talk postpartum performance, the mental load, and why better systems matter. Not just for elite athletes, but for every girl who wants sport and a life outside it. This one is honest, practical, and full of perspective for athletes, coaches, and clubs who want to do better.

In this episode, we cover:

• The “motherhood tax” and why it still exists
• Postpartum training and returning to performance
• Mindset, mental resilience and self-belief under pressure
• Contracts, maternity policies and psychological safety
• Identity beyond sport and athlete career transition
• Why clubs should keep mums connected to the system

Follow Alicia on Instagram at alicia_quirk

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• Want 1:1 support to build real self-belief and perform with freedom? The 4TG 1:1 Athlete Mentoring is a 6-week program for driven female athletes who want to back themselves, lead with confidence and play to their strengths – on the field and off it.
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This week is a solo episode with me, Kylie Lynch, and it is a proper life update plus a mindset reset for anyone heading into a new season. If you are feeling selection pressure, nerves in a new team, or that heavy fear of judgement, you are not alone.

I share why I am going all in on 4TG, and why sport has always been my anchor. Then we get practical. Because the fear is not failure. It is being seen trying and falling short. That changes the solution.

If you are an athlete who overthinks, plays safe, or spirals after mistakes, this episode will give you simple tools to get your focus back, control your energy, and play with more freedom.

I also share what I am building next through 4TG, including speaking in schools, clubs and sporting organisations on keeping girls in sport, plus 1:1 coaching for young female athletes around confidence, mindset and performance.

Know a school or club that needs to hear the 4TG message on the importance of keeping girls in sport, or are you an athlete who wants to build unshakeable confidence so you can perform at your best on and off the field? Then reach out today via Instagram @4tg_podcast or visit our website 4tg.com.au

In this episode, we cover:

• Life update – going all in on 4TG
• Selection pressure and fear of judgement
• Why “fear of failure” is the wrong frame
• Locus of control – effort, attention, energy
• How to be unbothered without becoming cold
• 3 tools to stop playing small this season

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🔗 Struggle with Pre-Game Nerves?

Here is our FREE 5 Min Pre-Game Reset Tool that will help you calm the noise, lock in your focus, and walk into game time with more self-belief, not panic, to perform your best.

🧠 1:1 Athlete Mentoring – Confidence and Champion’s Mindset

• Want 1:1 support to build real self-belief and perform with freedom? The 4TG 1:1 Athlete Mentoring is a 6-week program for driven female athletes who want to back themselves, lead with confidence and play to their strengths – on the field and off it.
• We will work on mindset, habits, resilience, leadership ...