I once owned a very stylish black one-piece swimsuit with a plunging neckline and when I wore it, I imagined I was some sort of Sophia Loren-esque hybrid of a Bond villain and a Hitchcock heroine. [00:33:06] Thats what you want in the best kind of basketball coach. I was allocated a coach in my state, persisted through that year then won the time-trials in the Oceania and National Championships. Bridie O'Donnell's tumultuous tenure at . Its a great question. Thats what you want in the best kind of basketball coach. 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. These are the procedures he performs and you get a sense of the job. [00:02:16] I began by asking Bridie how the organisation came about. So theres something for everyone here at WiSP Sports. She is a member of famous with the age 48 years old group. 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. My pleasure. It also saved me when we would arrive at 2.5 star motels with awful pillows that inevitably led to terrible sleep. Bridie also managed and reached for Rush womens team a national road series cycling team in Australia in 2016. "In cycling it's known as this ultimate test of endurance and mental fortitude," she said. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 29 April. Bridie returned to full time work in 2013 as a behavior change physician at Epworth health check in Epworth breast centre with a part time role teaching doctor patient communication at Deakin University Medical School from 2013 to 2016. Its my life you know. I would make some coffee and then I would eat some sort of cereal with yogurt and berries. Instead of a ring, he had a necklace made for the proposal. Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you for listening and turning up the volume on womens sport. And interestingly the response by the AFL media was to remove the photo and then the Internet responded even more vociferously people in support of her and of womens sport by saying this is not the solution removing womens images from public spaces is not the way to silence critics. 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. Women like Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde You know Theresa May. Women and what they when they dug down into these. [00:39:37] And if youd like to find out more about Bridies work and the organization you could find a link in the show notes accompanying this episode at WiSP Sports dot com. 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. In November, 2017, Bridie was appointed the inaugural Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation by the Victorian Government and in May, 2018 she published Life and Death a cycling memoir about her experiences as a professional cyclist in the international peloton. And what Im asking them to do is think differently about something and that can be for some of them deeply threatening. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. You know theres this myth that oh lets just train more women lets give them coaching courses lets educate them. You know these are the difficult things to manage training when its cold and wet and rainy is actually quite simple compared to inter family tensions or a difficult boss or trying to manage team leaders or staff that you you just cannot seem to get on the same level. Were you very very active from a child like most Australian girls. Now if we come back to Australia and we look at the WB ls a great example we have the fourth season of The Womens Big Bash. In 2007 she began road cycling and in 2008 after winning the national time trial title she raced on the Australian national team and then professional teams in Europe and the United States representing Australia at three world championships. Bob Marleys daughter who owns the Jamaican womens team the Thai billionaire who has funded the Thai womens team you know. 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. Another of my pro teammates restricted her carbohydrate intake for the eight weeks leading into a major race, losing 20% of her body weight, and she placed third overall, securing herself a strong result and a bonus from her bike sponsor (bonus is probably too strong a word for it; when women cyclists get a bonus from a bike sponsor, it tends to be $500 or $1000, for men it might be a million Euro for a Tour de France win). Best of 2016: Bridie O'Donnell's world record breaking hour in photos, The stories behind the stories: CyclingTips editors share their favorite articles of 2016 and why, The women's world hour record climbs again: Evelyn Stevens rides 47.98 km, Beyond fitness: What it takes for a world hour record attempt. Taylor Harris herself was interviewed on the radio sort of saying I know you shouldnt read the comments but Ive read them and these are by some men whove got women in their profile pictures you know wives and probably kids. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. [00:22:49] Well why doesnt the UCI the governing body say if you want to hold a rice race licence you have to broadcast X amount and you have to provide the footage and everyone would pass the buck and say its not their job. [00:31:54] So gender diversity and having gender equality in leadership positions is an enormous priority for us. Bridie: In 2007, Cycling Australia put a call out to other sports for athletes with the potential to become time trialists. The cause and effect: get lean first and the results will follow. She represented Australia at three Road World Championships and broke the UCI Womens Hour World Record in 2016, riding 46.882km at the Adelaide Superdrome. Shes an expert shes respected shes hard. Devastatingly however, it was working: her illnessI saw it clearly as an illnesswas performance-enhancing. [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. But more of them are mind lovingly great and a privilege an absolute privilege to work in an industry to be paid a salary every fortnight to do something that is affecting change for millions of people is a distinct privilege and I just I know its the job of my lifetime. Were seeing this more in the year in the UK and in parts of Europe with the different networks too. 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. Because Im most curious about this you know being in the media for as long as I have. They drop out at all different parts of their lives milestones of their lives for example university or pregnancy or menopause or an aged parts of their lives. You know how to deliver you keep going when youre tired you keep going when youre annoyed when it rains when its windy. So I was appointed after a very long process. We have 17 per cent of school aged children are getting the required amount of physical exercise every day of one hour one hour of movement and only 17 percent of kids are getting it. 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. So whilst we do have a reputation of being healthy and bronzed and tanned were in fact you know I think we have the third highest rate of childhood obesity in the world behind the US and Mexico. How we overcome this hurdle of you know challenging the networks to make this free to air and satisfying the sponsors and getting the coverage that women need in the media. Usually former players umpires referees presidents etc. We venture into the book with an excerpt from Chapter 7, where ODonnell recounts what she saw when she headed to Europe to race for an Italian team in 2010. Right there. She is currently on secondment to the Department of Health as Area of Operation Controller for the South-East Metro region in the COVID-19 response. Brady thank you so much for taking time to come on the show today. Teach you about what what it requires to be a woman in leadership and sport in Australia. And were seeing this more in the States. So I was appointed after a very long process. Right there. In November 2017, Dr Bridie O'Donnell was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation (OWSR) which aims to improve gender equality in sport. Bridie graduated as Valedictorian from the University of Queensland Medical School and won the J R S Lahz Prize for Most Outstanding Intern in 1999. Bridie also managed and reached for Rush womens team a national road series cycling team in Australia in 2016. Eighty five per cent of those women were new women. She won national championships, Oceania Championship, raced in the AIS National team in Europe and was a member of professional womens teams in Europe and the United States. O'Donnell is a world champion road cyclist, a former rower, and triathlete. Bridie O'Donnell took to cycling late, but a rapid rise to the top ranks of the Australian scene fuelled her ambitions. [00:16:37] But its early days but theres no doubt that what were seeing now is instead of the why we used to there would have been a lot of the why why should we fund womens sport or why women arent as good as men. These are the procedures he performs and you get a sense of the job. At times it turned into a battle not only against the worlds best cyclists but of also shutting out the voices bluntly telling her she was too old, too fat and too slow. And how about the increase in female coaches. You know we have a really a problem in Australia against violence against women. Our guest this week is Dr. Bridie ODonnell who is head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation in Melbourne Australia and she is here to discuss the issues affecting women and girls from her perspective. O'Donnell will have "a week or so of non-goal oriented behaviour" before training for the national road cycling competition with the Women's Rush Cycling Team. She would say why dont the race organisers just mandate to you know Euro sport that they have to show 30 minutes and they would say well you need to pay us and then say Okay fine. But what were seeing now is many more questions about how Okay okay we get it but how are we going to do it. For women, it was a legal version of doping, without the financial cost or the risk of being caught breaking the rules. O'Donnell said her primary education was also unique, going to the Blackall Range Independent School, which shunned traditional classroom education and held many lessons run by parents. And these images and these these styles of leadership also show us that being a coach or an umpire or CEO or a president does not have to be one way doesnt have to be delivered one way by one type of old authoritative suit wearing table thumping man. In 2015 there was an inquiry into women and girls in sport and active recreation here in Victoria which was actually initiated by the then opposition government and then implemented by the current government. 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. Once, an Aussie teammate had to be given a break from racing to allow her to gain some weight. Systems are the problem. Portugus; bridie o donnell private life. Just a little over 18 months I want to dig a little bit deeper into what youre working on now because Australia of course seems in many ways to tell us and the rest of the world is one of the leaders when it comes to womens sports in terms of equality and opportunity facilities and so on. And when Peggy talks people listen. First, she worked as a medical practitioner. Once the road went up and gravity became a factor, women whose physiology could generate power while carrying as little weight as possible were the benchmark. Whats that look like for you now. You know how to deliver you keep going when youre tired you keep going when youre annoyed when it rains when its windy. What Ive experienced and when I was a professional cyclist lets say 10 years ago I was in an extraordinarily talented team. Bridie O'Donnell Net Worth Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. But I think thats a long conversation and when I do that we can solve it here 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. During her residency she was a rower and then an iron man triathlete and finished theq Ironman highway world championship in 2006. So were not even retaining our high performance coaches from one Commonwealth Games to another. 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