Episode #5: Molly Hurford: One Woman’s Quest to Get More Young Girls on Bikes and Reading Books

Imperfect Progress with Anne Guzman

Welcome to the Imperfect Progress Podcast! I’m excited to share this episode focused around girls in sport, women in coaching and community involvement with author, athlete and entrepreneur Molly Hurford.

If you love cycling and you love reading, you and Molly Hurford (@mollyjhurford) will have a few things in common. Let’s add writing, travel and small dogs to that list too!

Molly Hurford is passionate about getting girls on bikes and reading books, so much so that she’s writing books about the topic and reading them online during the pandemic to keep the momentum of her mission alive.

This conversation takes the listener down many interesting roads, starting with Molly’s own path as a young female and how sport and reading did or didn’t play into her story. This is a great story with a twist I didn’t expect. It gave me new perspective on her books as well.

We touch on many other interesting and important topics including:

• The Rally Report:: Girls participation in sport in Canada
• Women in coaching positions – stats and why this matters
• Accessibility to sport – challenges & ideas
• Creating community
• Nourishing a growth mindset in young girls and celebrating effort and hard work.

I think this topic is incredibly important. Globally kids are not moving enough. The arrival of the current pandemic is increasing screen time, possibly worsening the lack of physical activity. It’s so important that we play our part as far as reaching and then including children who may not be exposed to sport through family and now through school. An active lifestyle has far reaching positive outcomes both mentally and physically. Instilling active habits in youth can pay health dividends for years to come.

Where can you connect with Molly online? Follow the links below.

Website: https://consummateathlete.com/

Shred Girls Series Books: https://shred-girls.com/

Podcast: https://consummateathlete.com/category/podcast/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mollyjhurford

LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollyjhurford/

Thank you so much for tuning into the IMPERFECT PROGRESS Podcast! Please share this episode with anyone who may learn or be interested and subscribe on your favorote podcast platform and leave a review, it's super helpful for getting the podcast out there!

Stay tuned for more interesting conversations and I appreciate you listening today. Keep active and stay healthy everyone.

(Thank you to David Langstaff for creating the music for the intro and close of the podcast. I love when local musicians contribute to creative projects).

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