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She Got Next
by Olivia Christian
She Got Next is a multi-platform series featuring Olivia Christian in conversation with women that make the industry of sports GO! From the C-suite to the coaching staff, mental health providers to marketeers, and athletes to analysts, this show not only dives into the details of the various roles women are playing in sports, but their individual sports fandom, trending topics, and ways they're creating space for the next generation of women in the industry. https://www.youtube.com/@shegotnext
Episodes
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The Doctor is In with Seattle Reign FC's Dr. Mariah Bullock, PhD.
Dr. Mariah Bullock is the Clinical & Sports Psychologist for Seattle Reign FC, where she provides individual and team mental health and mental performance counseling, as well as staff consultation to help optimize player and staff performance and wellbeing. She’s also a Mental Performance Coach…
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Pro Softball is Rounding the Bases: Allie Kleva of Athletes Unlimited
Allie Kleva is the Chief Growth Officer for Athletes Unlimited. Prior to joining AU she spent a decade at CNN leading strategic partnerships and brand alliances. Before that she worked in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration at the New York City mayor’s office of media and entertainment. She...
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My Life Is Not Real: ESPNW's Rachel Bleier
Rachel Bleier is a Social Media Manger, Women's Sports with ESPNW. In 2018 she took a leap of faith and rerouted her career into sports with goal of landing a role at The. Sports. Leader. Four years later, she and her colleagues are posting 400 + times a day on multiple platforms covering…
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Detroit Basketball's Team Photographer, Amanda J. Cain
Based in Detroit, MI, Amanda J. Cain describes her work as 'going beyond simple documentation; it explores culture, identity, and the human experience through powerful storytelling. ' She's traveled the country, big cities and small, capturing , artists and athletes in their element. Her first…
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Sports Journalism Isn't Dead with Jenni Rutherford
Jenni Rutherford is the Chief Operating Officer of Meadowlark Media, developer and producer of The Dan Le Batard Show, Pulitzer Prize winning show, Pablo Torre Find Out, and various documentaries and series in partnership with brands like Prima, Netflix, and Apple TV. On this episode of She Got...
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Jemele Hill is Over the Misogyny in Women's Sports
After leaving ESPN in 2018, Jemele Hill has STAYED booked and busy. She published her memoir, Uphill, is a regular on CNN Newsnight, and is the host of Spolitics, and Co-host of Flagrant and Funny. On this episode Jemele and I discuss: 🎤 Building her personal brand 🎤 Authenticity being her…
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Football and Family with Jasmine R. Williams
Jasmine R. Williams, MBA is the daughter of NFL royalty and a marketing maven. As Football Operations Manager for Roc Nation Sports, she's carving out her own legacy in the industry. In this episode Jasmine and I discuss:🏈 Growing up on the football field🏈 Working for the Cowboys and striving…
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Stacy Johns: Leading the LA Sparks Legacy
Stacy Johns is the newly named President of the Los Angeles Sparks. With decades-long experience in sports, including 16 years with the Indianapolis Colts and six years with LAFC, she is up for the challenge of writing the next chapter of the LA Sparks story. On this episode, Stacy and I discuss:...
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SF Giants' Therese Viñal is In a League of Her Own
Therese Viñal has been the In-Park Host for the San Francisco Giants for 10 years. A Bay Area native, she grew-up surrounded by and playing allll the sports. So good, she played volleyball at the University of Colorado If you've been to Oracle Park, a consistently top ranked ballpark, you've…
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Ball is Life with Brittani Burgess, Sports Documentarian
Brittani C. Burgess is a documentary filmmaker, archivist, and hooper. Her professional credits include On the Rise: JuJu Watkins and Undeterred: A LOVB Original Series. On this episode of She Got Next, Brittani and I discuss: * Stepping off the court and behind the lens *When she developed her...
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Jessie Katz, Head of iHeart Women's Sports
Jessie Katz is the head of iHeart Women’s Sports Network, the first audio network solely devoted to women’s sports. In 2025 iHeart reported that it raised women's sports coverage from less than one percent in 2024 to more than 34 percent in 2025, reaching 89 million monthly listeners across…
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Danielle Slaton, Bay FC Co-Founder, LOVB SF Signal Owner/Investor
Danielle Slaton is one of the Founding Four, the Co-founders of Bay FC and she is an investor/owner in LOVB SF. Danielle was a member of USWNT from 2000-05, earning a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and a bronze at the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup.She played professionally in the Women’s...
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FIFA World Cup and the Bay Area Sports Juggernaut
Karina Herold is the Chief Operating Officer for the Bay Area Host Committee, a non-profit focused on bringing world-class sporting events to the Bay. A former college hooper, eldest daughter, Capricorn, and organizer of Legos by color, Karina was built for this work. She's a California girl that...
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Women's Sports Are Just Good Business
As Faculty Director for the University of California Berkeley's Leadership Academy for Women's Sports, Dr. Kellie McEhlaney is proudly carrying on her father's legacy. Earlier this year, the first academy cohort of emerging and established leaders came together ' to build essential skills in...
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Jes Wolfe: Rebel Girls and the LOVB SF Bay Area Movement
Jes Wolfe is the CEO of Rebel Girls, an empowerment brand dedicated to raising the most inspired and confident generation of girls. She's also the Chairwoman of LOVB SF, the new professional volleyball team set to hit their first serve in January 2027. On this episode this Oregon native, Stanford...
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The Bay Area's Women's Sports BOOM!
With the Valkyries, Bay FC, Golden State Storm, and the soon to launch LOVB SF and the WPBL SF, the Bay Area is experiencing a women's sports BOOM. Luckily, the Women in Sports and Events (WISE) SF Bay Area Chapter and its leadership has stayed ready to support the diverse and dynamic women that...
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Athletics and USA Baseball Women's National Team's Veronica Alvarez
Veronica Alvarez is the Coordinator of Player Development for Latin America for the Athletics. And since 2019, after an incredible playing career, she became Manager of USA Baseball Women's National Team. On this episode Veronica and I discuss: Her approach to human development and coaching up...
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Athletes Unlimited's, Cassidy Lichtman
Cassidy Lichtman is the Vice President of Volleyball and Athlete Engagement for Athletes Unlimited, also known as AU. Before taking on this role, Cassidy had an incredible professional volleyball career as an AU player and as a member and two-time gold medalist with TEAM USA. At Stanford, among...
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Seattle Storm's Sheridan Blanford
Sheridan Blanford is the Seattle Storm's first-ever Chief Social Impact Officer. In an interview with Seattle Refined she explained, “It was a dream job I didn’t even know I could dream about." In this conversation, she and I talk: 🏀 Details of her role and how it,..."combines...every aspect of...
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WNFC Oregon Ravens' Alexis Greer
In her rookie year as a defensive lineman with the WNFC's Oregon Ravens, Alexis Greer was awarded: ✔️League Sack Leader ✔️Ravens Trench Player of the Year ✔️Ravens MVP Lineman ✔️Ravens Rookie of the Year On this episode we discuss * Her journey from the sideline to lining up * Being an example…
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Jeanne Vetter
Jeanne Vetter is the Vice President of Global Partnership with the back-to-back World Series Champion, Los Angeles Dodgers. On this episode Jeanne and I discuss: * The infectious 2025 Dodgers team and their back-to-back world series win * Dodger fandom and leaning into the diversity of LA culture…
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Creative Artists Agency Brand Consultant, Bri Hamilton
Bri Hamilton is a Executive Consultant for CAA Brand Consulting. A native of Los Angeles, Bri is passionate about making a positive impact wherever and wherever she can. On this episode of She Got Next we discuss: Growing up as a “rec center” kid Coaching middle school and high school girls…
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SNKRS Platform Marketing Global Digital Director, Maria Civitate
Kicking off season 2 of SHE GOT NEXT with a dope conversation with Maria Civitate, Global Digital Director, SNKRS Platform Marketing. In this episode we discuss: 👟Her passion for creating a more inclusive sneaker culture 👟Building her brand while working for an iconic one 👟Her Missouri roots…
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Gotham FC's Eve Godat
Eve Godat is the Senior Director of Content for Gotham FC, the NWSL's 2025 champions. She and I wrapped up the year with an inspiring discussion about: Gotham's "underdog my ass" mentality What belief and a relentless pursuit of your dreams can win you How elevating others leaves a lasting impact...
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TOGETHXR's Sarah Bergstrom
Sarah Bergstrom is the Head of Operations for TOGETHXR, one Fast Company's 2025 Brands That Matter. TOGETHXR, founded by Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim, Simone Manuel and Sue Bird, and "with a focus on rich storytelling, TOGETHXR is an unapologetic platform where representation and equality is the norm.…
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Front Office Sports's Ellyn Briggs
Ellyn Briggs is a Senior Brands Analyst and Data Reporter for Morning Consult. Her work as a sports reporter and her commentary have been featured on outlets like NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Awful Announcing, and Front Office Sports. In this episode, Ellyn and I discuss…
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NWSL's Lacey Mencl
I spoke with Lacey Mencl, legal counsel with the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) before the championship match this past weekend. In this episode we discuss: Her role/experience with negotiating the league's collective bargaining agreement How the star-studded advisory board will help the...
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OffBall's Ashtyn Butuso
Ashtyn Butuso is a writer and producer for OffBall, a platform that "finds the most compelling content across the internet directly from the people creating it. Sports, Culture. Curated Daily. " As the writer of their M-F newsletter, Ashtyn "curates the chaos of the Internet so you don't have…
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Sports Product Design Expert, Erica Loh Jones
Erica Loh Jones spent 11 years at Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Fantasy Sports. During that time she served as Head of Product Design where she led the launch of multiple award-winning experiences across Sports, Gaming, and Betting. In this episode Erica shares: Ways she and her team built inclusive...
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Brianna Appel, Founder/CEO Seat Theory
Brianna Appel is the Founder/CEO Seat Theory, a a women’s sponsorship sales & partnership marketing academy and agency that is training the next generation of leaders in women’s sports and entertainment. In this episode Brianna shares: Her faith-rooted entrepreneurial journey Why timing really is...
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Seattle Majestics Football, Bianca Mouton
Born and raised in Fort Worth Texas, Bianca Mouton bought a one-way ticket to Seattle and never looked back. Her hearing story of passion and perseverance, you can't help but root for this Defensive Tackle for the Seattle Majestics🏈 and member of WISE Seattle.
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The Athletic's Tina Sturdevant
Tina Sturdevant is the Talent Development Director for The Athletic. Her role includes building out systems and processes for diversifying the pipelines from which they seek talent, hire and nurture talent. In this episode we discuss the ways in which journalists shape our perspective and tell us...
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Chicago Bears Scout, Ashton Washington
Ashton Washington is a Scout/Player Personnel Coordinator for the Chicago Bears. In this episode we discuss how her love of football, attention to detail, passion for people, and support from her village has fueled her success. While her mamba mentality has her focused where her feet are , Bears...
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Bianca Dawkins of the Minnesota Lynx and Timberwolves
Bianca Dawkins is the Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Minnesota Lynx, where her mission my mission is to cultivate an environment where diversity thrives and every voice is valued.In this episode we discuss: -Minnesota sports culture and...
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Zing Shaw, the NBA's 1st Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
After creating the role with the Atlanta Hawks, Nzinga "Zing" Shaw became the NBA's first Diversity and Inclusion Officer. During her 5 years with the organization she received numerous accolades including being named to Sports Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 Gamechanger list. Hear Zing…
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Stanford Women's Basketball's Student-Athlete Development
Malia Bates is the Director of Student-Athlete Development for Stanford Women's Basketball and leads the NIL efforts, building out program-specific strategies to elevate the influence and marketability of the team’s student-athletes. On this episode we discuss her professional journey, including...
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Minnesota 's Women in Sports and Events (WISE)
WISE win Cities President, Cecilia Lettner, and Advisory Board member, Jessica Poole, joined Olivia to talk about the growth of women's sports in Minnesota's, Paige Bueckers and young athletes are using their voice for progress, and how their creating an inclusive community for the day ones to…
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Washington Spirit, RaShauna Hamilton
RaShauna Hamilton is the Vice President of Fan Growth and Community for the Washington Spirit . She joined Olivia to talk about the growth of women's soccer, how the Spirit embrace the diversity and inclusion on the field and in the stands,, being inspired by Venus Williams , and how a scene from...
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Ivy Watts: Mental Wellness On and Off the Track
Ivy Watts, a highly decorated collegiate track athlete graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of New Haven and was a top 30 finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Despite these achievements, she struggled daily with anxiety, self-worth and depression. After doing the work and...
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SF Bay Area's Women In Sports and Events
Board members Nadine Glinski and Becca Smith join Olivia to talk about the growth in investment, eyeballs and acknowledgment both women's sports and women working in sports. In their roles as Mar/Comms Chair and Events Chair for WISE, they are committed to creating a place where woman are…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
She Got Next is a multi-platform series featuring Olivia Christian in conversation with women that make the industry of sports GO! From the C-suite to the coaching staff, mental health providers to marketeers, and athletes to analysts, this show not only dives into the details of the various roles women are playing in sports, but their individual sports fandom, trending topics, and ways they're creating space for the next generation of women in the industry. https://www.youtube.com/@shegotnext
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Olivia Christian
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