Ep 7 | Overcoming Health Issues and Finding Balance feat. Karen Dobres

In this episode of Every L Podcast, Karen, co-director* of Lewis FC. The football club is using their platform Karen will talk about how her team is using football for social change, addressing topics such as gender and pay equality in the sport. Karen will also share her personal experiences with taking losses in life and how she handled them, offering insight into her own journey of growth and empowerment. Stay tuned and join us for this enlightening conversation.

Here is a bit more about Karen:

Karen has a unique voice on the Lewes FC Board as she had no interest in football before encountering the club’s equality initiative in 2017. Since then she regularly gives talks at business and sports conferences on equality in football and its effect on driving gender equality in the wider world. 

 Karen has also created the club’s SisterShips programme which is building a network of women’s organisations keen to support the club in solidarity with its equality stance, whilst the club promotes the member organisations’ work in return.

 Karen is a writer and trained counseling therapist, including creating and managing an internal counseling service for PolyGram Records (now Universal). Prior to this Karen has also worked as a fashion model. A co-owner of the Club since 2010, Karen leads on the board for ‘Impact on the World’.

Karen's social handle is: @KarenDobres (IG)

Lewes FC Women: @Lewesfcwomen

Lewes FC Men: @Lewesfcneb

 

*= now former