Drawing from their extensive background in sports, Sporting Change co-hosts Mathieu Constantin and Raine Paul believe that all sport leaders have a responsibility to strive to become positive shift makers in their communities. Afterall, we are all leaders in our own way; Coaches, teammates, parents, officials, board members, and even fans have the power to sport change.
Dare to Care, the proud hosts and sponsors of the Sporting Change Podcast, believe that sport leaders can spark change through small yet powerful actions around the world.
Winning Without Losing the Human Side with Speed Skating Canada
Welcome back to another episode of the Sporting Change Podcast.
About a month ago, the Future of Sport Commission released its report—over a thousand pages—and the headline was hard to ignore: Canadian sport is broken. Heavy stuff. And honestly, when you hear that, it can feel a bit overwhelming… like where do we even go from here?
So today, we wanted to shift the lens a little. Because while there are real challenges in the system, there are also examples of what’s working—organizations that are getting it right.
And one of those is Speed Skating Canada.
Not only are they our most decorated sport organization across both Winter and Summer Olympics—which is pretty incredible on its own—but recent research also highlighted something even more important: a strong, intentional culture. One that focuses not just on performance, but on people.
That research was led by Dr. Katrina Monton. She’s a faculty member in Organizational Psychology at Rutgers University and the Director of Experiential Learning. Her work looks at high-performance environments and how they can drive excellence without sacrificing well-being. She’s worked across sport, healthcare, and the military, helping organizations build cultures where people can actually thrive—not just perform.
And joining her today is Alexandra Proulx, Speed Skating Canada’s Manager of Culture and Safe Sport. Since 2021, she’s been at the forefront of reshaping how the organization approaches athlete well-being, inclusion, and overall culture. Her experience spans major international events and national initiatives, all centered around making sport safer and more human-first.
This is a conversation about what it really takes to build a healthy, high-performance culture—and what the rest of the sport system can learn from it.
Enjoy the show.
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25 Mar 2026
Talking "The Bullied Brain" with Jennifer Fraser Ph.D.
Hello listeners and welcome to another episode of the Sporting Change Podcast. We’re so happy that you are tuning in today!
This week, we were very lucky to talk about some of the work and brilliance of Dr. Jennifer Fraser. We will hear about how her PhD from the University of Toronto in Comparative Literature acted as some of the fuel behind becoming the author of The Bullied Brain, and her newly released book the Gaslit Brain.
Jennifer is an award-winning educator, an international presenter and an author of five books. She has been called upon for her expertise by many coaching boards, sports associations, federal sport programs for Indigenous Youth and Canadian parliamentary committees. She also writes a regular series, "The Bullied Brain" for Psychology Today.
For over two decades, she has been researching and writing about how abuse cultures form, what drives them, and how to transform them into healthier, happier, more high-performing ones.
Today,we will be talking about the impact of examining the neuroscience of abuse and how this research has shifted the conversation in shocking, empowering, and ultimately hopeful ways. We’ll talk about her book The Bullied Brain, how abuse and maltreatment affect the brain’s neuroscience, the role of institutional complicity, and why learned helplessness can take hold. But more importantly, we explore how neuroplasticity allows us to reshape our brains and move beyond what she calls the “bullying paradigm.”
I hope you learn as much as we did from Jennifer’s brilliance. Enjoy the show!
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Thanks to their partnership with BRP’s Ride out Intimidation (https://news.brp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/brp-chooses-ride-out-intimidation) program, Dare to Care’s Sporting Change Podcast can continue to educate and empower sport leaders around the world.
Please click here (https://www.daretocare.ca/sports) or follow us on social media @daretocaresports (https://www.instagram.com/daretocaresports/) if you want more information on how to get your free Dare to Care bullying prevention sessions!
17 Feb 2026
Fair play off the field with Kim Short
Welcome back to The Sporting Change Podcast. We’re glad you’re here.
Today, we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges facing sport right now: governance. There’s a persistent belief that to be involved in governance, you must come from a sports background. While experience in sport can be valuable, this mindset can place the wrong people in the wrong roles and can therefore create serious conflicts of interest.
Too often, we see organizations prioritizing their reputation over the safety of children. We’ve seen non-disclosure agreements used to silence people, maltreatment issues being brushed under the rug, and secret funds created to pay out victims rather than address systemic harm.
Joining us today is Kim Shore, a leading Safe Sport advocate, writer, and governance leader, and we’re excited to welcome her back for her second appearance on the podcast.
Kim brings deep experience in sport governance and child-centered advocacy, and she’ll help us explore what conflict of interest really looks like, where it comes from, the consequences when it’s ignored, and how organizations can prevent it—or respond ethically when situations arise.
Before we begin, a quick disclosure: we are not lawyers or legally certified professionals. Nothing shared in this episode should be considered legal advice.
Let’s get into it.
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Please click here (https://www.daretocare.ca/sports) or follow us on social media @daretocaresports (https://www.instagram.com/daretocaresports/) if you want more information on how to get your free Dare to Care bullying prevention sessions!
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