Female rappers are more visible than ever, in large part because of new media. The same thing is happening in women’s sports. We are seeing the collision of generational talent, and media exposure allowing for the growth of the women’s game.

What similarities are we seeing? What’s different? And how can both industries work together to create momentum for exponential growth? Joining me on the podcast to talk about how women’s sports can be apart of the next 50 years of hip-hop if female rappers are leading the way is music journalist @sowmyak Clock starts now! Tik-Tok!

"If you let me play sports, I will learn what it means to be strong".

More than 30 years later, those words remain one of the most recognizable messages in women's sports.

This week, we catch up with Janet Champ, who started her career at Wieden+Kennedy and went on to build some of Nike's most influential campaigns, including If You Let Me Play. At a time when women's sports received little attention from advertisers, Champ and her creative partner Charlotte Moore began creating ads that weren't really about products. They were about ambition, fear, confidence, identity, and the process of becoming. Together, we explore how stories shape culture, why women saw themselves in Janet's work, and how a young writer who never intended to work in advertising helped change the language of women's sports.

Producer and writer Kishori Rajan, co-founder of Viva Maude alongside Tessa Thompson, joins the show to unpack the making of Is God Is, a genre-bending thriller that centers Black women, sisterhood, and rage in ways Hollywood rarely does. This conversation covers a lot of ground. We get into bringing an ambitious creative vision to life, why Kishori is drawn to stories that challenge cultural assumptions, and a question that resonates far beyond film and into sport: who gets permission to be angry, competitive, flawed, and fully human?