Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - October 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all content, events, articles, and collaborations of Ideagen Global. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all content, events, articles, and collaborations of Ideagen Global. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
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SUPPORTING & ADVOCATING IN WOMEN’S<br />
ATHLETICS<br />
Theodora: Then, in my journalism career, I started doing things that I wasn't expected to do. What I<br />
mean by that is there are a lot of rooms in this industry that I'm not allowed to be in; we're not expected<br />
to be in these rooms. I wanted to smash those doors down and get into those rooms and say, 'I want to<br />
commentate on a game. I want to be behind the cameras. I want to do things that nobody wants me to<br />
do.' But in order to do things that nobody is expecting of you, you have to make your way through. You<br />
have to make yourself visible in a world that doesn't want you to be visible. As I've said before, it's a<br />
male-dominated environment, but we need to be there. We need to be there and be perfect because,<br />
speaking from what I've been through, we've been judged a lot. We have to be ready. We have to be<br />
there, and we have to know that we're going to be judged. I'm trying to open those doors.<br />
Becoming the first commentator from a Greek network and the fourth female in Europe. I'm the first<br />
female to work for the Euroleague and the first one to have her own show. I'm the first one to work with<br />
the NBA Europe, the NBA, and the NBA Summer League. These things fulfill me because I think I'm<br />
opening doors so that other girls won't be scared to walk into those rooms and say, if she did it, then I<br />
can do it. If she grew up playing basketball and gained all those skills, I can, too. You don't have to do it<br />
at the highest level. Very few people will make it to the highest level, but by learning those skills, you<br />
can apply them to the business world. For me, that was the biggest gift. It was inevitable for me to<br />
become an advocate in everything I do and to become a role model and lead by example every single<br />
day of my life. Those young girls look up to all of us, and we have to take responsibility because<br />
success is always past tense.<br />
Theodora Pantelis & Fellow Panelist Yanna Darilis<br />
ACS Athens Panel at the Local Change for<br />
<strong>Global</strong> Impact Summit<br />
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