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Ex-England Cricketer: Why Your First Leadership Failure Matters Most - Ebony Rainford-Brent

What do you do when your first big moment as a leader falls completely flat?

In this episode, World Cup winning cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent tells us about the captaincy speech that bombed, the moment she was told she was the first Black woman to play for England and felt dread instead of pride, and the belief that carried her from street cricket in South London to two World Cups, the ECB boardroom and building one of the most important grassroots programmes in English sport.

This is one of those conversations where every answer makes you rethink how you show up as a leader.

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