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Laura Youngson from Ida Sports | Checkout #104

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In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Laura Youngson from Ida Sports, a company who have created the first football boot specifically designed for women’s feet. Only a couple of years old, Ida Sports have grown from an idea on the back of a napkin and an early prototype they called the ‘frankenshoe’, […]

EP 104

Laura Youngson the co-founder of Ida Sports, a serial entrepreneur who has set up and run a number of businesses and not-for-profit organisations. Laura studied physics and has since worked as a diplomat, on the London Olympics and for PwC, before starting her own businesses. She is a TEDx speaker and holds four world records set with the organisation she founded, Equal Playing Field, which advocates for gender equity in sport.

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In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Laura Youngson from Ida Sports, a company who have created the first football boot specifically designed for women’s feet. Only a couple of years old, Ida Sports have grown from an idea on the back of a napkin and an early prototype they called the ‘frankenshoe’, to selling out of their first range, getting stocked in Dicks Sporting Goods and having Isabel Dawes kick a goal in the AFLW grand final wearing their shoe. 

Questions answered in this episode include
  • What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever bought online? 
  • Who is your favourite retailer? 
  • Which retail fad do you wish was history?
  • Can you recommend a book or podcast that our listeners should immediately get into? 
  • Finish this sentence.  The future of retail is… 
 

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