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Epicenter of Women’s Sports with Karina LeBlanc

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Hosted by Olympic medalist and sports executive Karina LeBlanc, Epicenter of Women’s Sports is a podcast delivering conversations at the intersection of women’s sports, business insights, and leadership. This podcast is your all-access pass to the rise of women's sports. Karina takes you behind the scenes with championship-winning athletes, front-office trailblazers, cultural changemakers, and bold investors who are driving the fastest-growing space in sports. Created in Portland, a city that didn’t wait for women’s sports to have its moment. It helped create one. Each episode is designed to inspire action and deliver tangible leadership insights, showing how everyone has a role to play in building the future of women’s sports.

Latest episodes

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Caiya Hanks & Sarah Ashlee Barker: Resilience, Transformation & the Moments That Made 2026 | Presented by AllTrails

Portland Thorns forward Caiya Hanks chose transformative as her word for 2026. Portland Fire guard Sarah Ashlee Barker chose resilience. In the Season 2 finale, presente

Nov 5
1 h 00 min

Inside The Epicenter Summit: Invest Bigger, Build Differently, Own What's Next

Commissioners, Olympians, scientists and builders took the stage at The Epicenter: Women's Global Sports Summit presented by Nike, at the Philip H. Knight Campus, Nike's

Oct 8
46 min

Dr. Stacy Sims: Building the Data That Doesn't Exist

Dr. Stacy Sims is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who has spent her career closing the gender data gap in sport. Sims is building a large language model

Sep 15
26 min

Tobin Heath: Forever a Thorn

Tobin Heath signed a one-day contract to officially retire as a Portland Thorn, and more than 22,000 fans filled Providence Park to send her off, the biggest Thorns crowd

Sep 3
1 h 00 min

Dawn Staley, Scout Bassett, Bridget Carleton & Sophia Wilson: The Proof Point

Recorded live at The Epicenter: Women's Global Sports Summit presented by Nike, Karina LeBlanc brings four athletes to the stage who are the proof point of what investing

Aug 27
40 min

Sarah Ashlee Barker & Megan DiLeo: No Egos, All Fire

Portland Fire standouts Sarah Ashlee Barker and Megan DiLeo sit down with host Karina LeBlanc for a raw, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud conversation about faith, family, a

Aug 4
44 min

Sarah Ashlee Barker with Megan & David DiLeo: Their First Interview as Newlyweds

Fresh off their wedding, Portland Fire forward Megan DiLeo (formerly Megan Gustafson) and her husband, professional basketball player David DiLeo, join Karina for their f

Jul 28
12 min

Reilyn Turner: Defining Moments and Playing to the Standard

Reilyn Turner has wanted to play professional soccer since she was two years old. In January, the dream came true: a first USWNT cap and a goal to open the scoring, with

Jul 8
30 min

Lauren & Jrue Holiday: Before It Looked Like This

Lauren Cheney Holiday and Jrue Holiday are college sweethearts who became two of the most decorated athletes of their generation — she as an NWSL founding player, World C

Jun 18
1 h 04 min

Josh Lyons & Morgan Weaver: Boardroom, Ballroom, or On the Pitch

KeyBank Market President Josh Lyons has a north star for his eight-year-old daughter: whether she ends up in a boardroom, at a gala in a ballroom, or chasing a pro contra

Jun 3
35 min

WNBA's Portland Fire Alumni: Legacy Reignited

For Epicenter's first-ever live taping, recorded on the concourse at Moda Center before a Portland Fire home game, Karina sits down with four of the women who built the o

May 19
35 min

Reilyn Turner, Megan Gustafson, Karlie Samuelson: Setting the Standard

The conversation continues. After sitting down with Reilyn Turner, Megan Gustafson and Karlie Samuelson for a Mother's Day special, host Karina LeBlanc returns with the s

May 13
27 min

Reilyn Turner, Megan Gustafson, Karlie Samuelson: Moms and Mother Figures Who Shaped Us

What shapes the women behind the athletes? In this special Mother's Day episode, host Karina LeBlanc sits down with three of Portland's professional athletes — Portland T

May 10
23 min

Diana Taurasi: The GOAT, Off the Clock

Diana Taurasi rarely does podcasts. Widely considered the greatest of all time, she’s the only basketball player ever to win six Olympic gold medals, three WNBA champions

Apr 30
12 min

Sylvia Fowles, Ashley Battle, Helen Darling: WNBA Legends

In this episode, WNBA legends come together for a conversation that goes beyond the game and into what it actually takes to build, lead, and evolve it. From defining mom

Apr 16
55 min

Sarah Spain: The Media Shift Powering Women’s Sports

Award-winning journalist Sarah Spain joins Karina LeBlanc for a conversation on the evolution of women’s sports and the systems that have shaped it. From covering the Ol

Apr 2
53 min

Robert Vilahamn: Bravery, Leadership and a New Era for the Portland Thorns

Less than 24 hours after landing in Portland, new Portland Thorns head coach Robert Vilahamn sits down with Karina LeBlanc for his first in-depth conversation about leadi

Mar 16
30 min

Jenny Nguyen: Belonging, Identity, and the Cultural Impact of The Sports Bra

In this Season 1 finale, few people have shaped the culture of women’s sports more powerfully than Jenny Nguyen, founder and CEO of The Sports Bra, the Portland bar that

Nov 26 2025
59 min

Elizabeth Lindsey: What the Data Reveals About Fandom and the Future of Women’s Sports.

Few people understand the intersection of data, fandom, and leadership like Elizabeth Lindsey, Global President of Brands and Properties at Wasserman. In this conversatio

Nov 13 2025
37 min

Christine Sinclair: Thorns Legend, Lifelong Leader & What Comes Next

What does it take to go from great to extraordinary, and stay there for more than two decades? In this deeply personal episode, host Karina LeBlanc sits down with her fo

Oct 30 2025
55 min

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Karina LeBlanc brings incredible energy, clarity, and insight to Epicenter of Women’s Sports. Her vision for women’s sports in Portland — and far beyond — is inspiring, ambitious, and deeply compelling. She doesn’t just talk about the future of the game; she shines a light on how it is already being built. High-energy, thoughtful, and absolutely worth listening to.

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