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#361: Building Watch Her Footy while working Full-Time at the Queensland Reds with Neha Kumar

July 12, 2026

Meet Neha Kumar, Brand and Design Lead at Queensland Rugby Union (Queensland Reds).Neha's career started out in retail and moved into marketing before she landed her first full-time role as social media lead at GIVIT, a Brisbane-based not-for-profit, where she taught herself graphic design, photography and videography on the job and even got to create content for a royal visit from Queen Camilla.Around the same time, she started WATCHHERFOOTY, a passion project covering the NRLW that's now gr...

The Method | How to start building your personal brand when you're terrified of posting online

July 07, 2026

Want to land a job in sport? Apply for The SportsGrad Method: www.sportsgrad.com.au/programSo you want to work in sport.You are not alone, and that is exactly the problem.Sport is one of the most competitive industries in the world. Everyone is passionate. Everyone has a degree. Everyone is willing to work hard. And yet most people spend years on the outside looking in, never quite understanding why.It is not a capability problem. It is a method problem.I am Reuben Williams, founder of Sports...

#360: From Corporate to F1 - How to Build a Freelance Career in Sport with Hayley Conway

July 05, 2026

Meet Hayley Conway, marketing, partnerships and fan experience consultant, and the co-founder of Principal the Label.Hayley's career began on the agency side, spending five years in media, buying TV ads for household brands (yes, including Red Rooster during the footy), before making the jump to client work, where recruiters kept telling her the skills weren't transferable. So she went contract-to-contract for two years, a self-imposed MBA in events, brand activation and PR and built the exac...