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.

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*EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014

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