Your Story Your Lead: uplifting women and girls in sports

March this year marked the beginning of Your Story, Your Lead: a year-long storytelling initiative bringing together ten young women – playing and leading in sport in the Perth Metro area – to build leadership and self-advocacy skills through professional storytelling. The initiative was created by Gaining Ground WA – a mental well-being not-for-profit that aims to uplift women and girls in sports – in partnership with Edith Cowan University and Centre for Stories.

Gaining Ground WA’s executive director Kris Marano, and project director Mariela Espino, talked On The Record with Danielle Raffele about the work Gaining Ground WA does to provide holistic support women and girls in sports, collaborating with ECU and Centre for Stories, and uniting sports and the arts through Your Story, Your Lead.