11. Jennifer King & Chris Hope: NFL Redskins female coach & founder of the 100 Coffee Movement - a podcast by Bobby Audley

Today’s episode is a double feature! Before taking a brief break, I am releasing two interviews from this week.

My first guest today is Chris Hope, the founder of the 100 Coffee Movement and my second guest is Jennifer King, assistant Coach with the Washington Redskins and one of only a handful of female coaches in the NFL.

Let’s start with Chis. In 2016 Chris Hope set a goal of sitting down with 100 strangers, in 100 weeks, one 100 cups of coffee. Over two years, Chris met 100 new people for coffee and recently he gave a TEDx talk he called, “What 100 Coffees taught me about human connection.” Chris reached out to me via LinkedIn before he gave his talk as he came across my 50 cups of coffee challenge. Since then he has started the 100 Coffee Movement to help people, organizations and communities build healthy connections to tackle the problems of loneliness and social isolation. Chris is based out of Melbourne, Australia and so I was planning on interviewing him via Zoom from the start and this time of social distancing made it an ideal time to have this chat. In this interview Chris talks about how his team is doing their part during this COVID-19 crisis and for me it was almost comforting to chat with a guy half way across the globe experiencing the exact same thing we are here in America. We are truly all in this together.

After Chris I chat with Jennifer King. Jennifer has played 11 seasons in the Women’s Football Alliance and is a 7 time All-American. Yes she is a female professional football player. In 2013 Jennifer King led her team to an undefeated season and won the Independent Women’s Football League Championship. In addition to being a professional football player, Jennifer was a college basketball coach for over 10 years before joining the staff of Coach Ron Rivera of the Carolina Panthers in 2018 as a coaching intern. After that internship Coach King joined the Dartmouth College football staff as the offensive assistant, where she won the 2019 Ivy League championship and today Coach King is back with Coach Rivera as a coaching intern with the Washington Redskins.
To many, Coach King is a pioneer for women in professional football as the first full-season African American female coach in the NFL.

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