Allyson Felix, the most decorated female track and field athlete in Olympic history, retired from her sport earlier this year, winning seven gold medals between 2012 and 2021. She quickly shifted her focus to a new competitive environment, the business world.
Felix then launched Saysh, a women’s lifestyle brand designed to meet the needs of female athletes and active women.In she talks about her career transition varietyAt a sports and entertainment breakfast on July 21, Felix expressed excitement that star female athletes are increasingly waiting to decide to leave the field as media personalities, investors and entrepreneurs. Did.
Announced by City National Bank at Beverly Hills Mayborn, the event also featured two gold-winning snowboard star Chloe Kim, her fast-growing career as a content producer and her growing experience. We talked about. As a young female athlete in unconventional sports.
Felix emphasizes that there are still many growing issues towards gender equality in sports and business, as evidenced by Felix’s public conflict with Nike in 2019 over the lack of maternity leave policy for sponsored athletes. Did. She publicly called on her former sponsor in her editorial in The New York Times. This prompted the Swoosh family to implement her proposal as a general policy after about five months.
“It only shows your voice and my strength,” Felix said in a question and answer session with General Riley. varietySupplementary prize and feature editor. “You can make a difference, and sometimes you can make it relatively quickly.”
With years of discipline, planning and execution experience, Felix is ready to enter the highly competitive field of athletic shoes on the SasyhOne line. Felix learned that while preparing to launch a shoe line, most running shoes were made with a uniform shoe pattern, most often based on the male foot. Saysh is not.
Felix said her company is directly addressing the problem of women who grow their feet during pregnancy and sometimes after childbirth. The company pledges to offer new size free shoes to all pregnant customers.
“You don’t have to choose between motherhood and women,” Felix said.
Chloe Kim will speak at City National Bank’s Variety Sports & Entertainment Breakfast (Photo by Katie Jones / Variety via Getty Images)
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The decorated Olympic athlete did not hide her new challenge of becoming the public face of her business and her enthusiasm for the opportunity to carry out advocacy for women-friendly labor policy at Saysh.
“I am authorized to take this course,” she said. “This is a great new challenge.”
Kim and her longtime manager, Lowell Taub of Stoked Management, talked about the unlikely career path of a snowboarder. From her start as a highly talented 13-year-old snowboarder, today she is a top athlete and partner of content creation and commerce company Together, along with her fellow athletes Sue Bird, Simone Manuel and Alex Morgan. .. She also revealed that she was pursuing her work on the camera.
“I enjoy acting,” Kim told Elizabeth Wagmeister. varietyChief correspondent. “I’m looking at the camera and love to read the lines. Hopefully you’ll see me with some cool stuff.”
Kim said he was surprised at how fast the stars rose when he won the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. Frances McDormand, the winner of the 2018 Oscar and best actress, summons Kim for accepting “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and she wants to go to the slopes with her. said.
“Francis, I’m still waiting,” Kim jokingly said.
“Frances I’m still waiting!” Chloe Kim sends a message to Oscar winner Frances McDormand after Olympian is mentioned in the Academy Award for Best Actress speech.Variety Sports & Entertainment presented by @CityNational pic.twitter.com/16FeE4hwpJ
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