Beyond the Highlight

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The execution behind projects from women working in sports. Each month, Tori Boykins sits down with a woman in the industry to break down one piece of work: what she set out to do, the calls she made along the way, and the impact it left behind. A podcast from HERizon Connect, a professional social networking platform for women working in sports.

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  1. 1d ago

    Shooting your shot at WNBA All-Star Weekend with Shana Sumers

    Shana Sumers landed a moderator seat at WNBA All-Star Weekend by asking one question and listening for the gap. She turned that week into 60+ new connections and 38 follow-up calls. Shana is a founder, speaker, and career coach who helps athletes build careers as powerful as their game. In this episode she breaks down how she found out about Chicago Sports Tech Week six weeks out, why moderators are the last thing an event books, and how she used that to time her ask. We get into treating relationship building like a strategy, the calendar reminders and notes that make her follow-up work, and why she says authenticity is preparation. What we get into: How she used what she already knew about booking talent to find the gap she could fillRunning relationship building and follow-up as an intentional systemSaying yes to the gigs that built her reps and expanded her toolkitWhy the ask is fair game once you’ve added value first(1:07) Who Shana is (3:07) How the All-Star moderator seat came together (12:29) Relationship building as a strategy (21:32) Getting better at the craft (21:46) What came after the weekend Read the full case study: https://www.herizonconnect.com/beyond-the-highlight/shana-sumers Shana on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shana-sumers Instagram, Threads, and TikTok: @shanabetalking Her podcast: Bad Queers Beyond the Highlight is a podcast from HERizon Connect, a professional social networking platform for women working in sports.

    Shooting your shot at WNBA All-Star Weekend with Shana Sumers

  2. 4d ago

    Welcome to Beyond the Highlight

    You’ve seen the highlight. The post, the launch, the campaign that made the rounds. This podcast is about what it took to get there. I’m Tori Boykins, founder of HERizon Connect, and after ten years in the sports industry I’m still curious about how this work comes together behind the scenes. Every month I sit down with a woman working in sports and go deep into one thing she built: a campaign, an event, an initiative, a business she started from nothing. Having gone from individual contributor to leading a team, these are the conversations I wish I’d had access to earlier. What we get into every episode: The work: what she set out to build, and what she had to figure out as she wentThe strategy and execution: the calls she made, and the skills she spent years building that made it possibleThe outcome: what it produced, and everything that came up along the way that nobody sees from the outsideNew episodes every month, starting now. Follow the show wherever you listen, and find the full written case study for every episode at herizonconnect.com. Tori on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/toriboykins   Instagram and Threads: @toriboykins Beyond the Highlight is a podcast from HERizon Connect, a professional social networking platform for women working in sports.

    Welcome to Beyond the Highlight
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The execution behind projects from women working in sports. Each month, Tori Boykins sits down with a woman in the industry to break down one piece of work: what she set out to do, the calls she made along the way, and the impact it left behind. A podcast from HERizon Connect, a professional social networking platform for women working in sports.

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  • Creator
    HERizon Connect
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 HERizon Connect: Beyond the Highlight
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    Beyond the Highlight