08/03/2026
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๐ข We caught up with Natasha at a recent site visit of an upcoming location and asked her some interesting questions about the female behind S3 Padel.
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โNobody tells you what being a female leader actually looks like from the inside.
Youโre still figuring it out while being expected to have it figured out.
What Iโve learned: being heard isnโt about being louder. Itโs about learning to speak the room. Every environment has its own language commercial, operational, creative. Get fluent in it and your ideas land differently.
Get commercially fluent. Understand the numbers. Know what drives the business. Thatโs what gets you in the room and keeps you there.โ
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โPadel is a doubles game you walk in needing a partner and leave part of a community. That breaks down barriers other sports donโt.
We run women-only coached sessions built around belonging as much as technique. The ambition is women across every part of the ecosystem players, coaches, operators, leaders.โ
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โThe gap between where the sport is and where it could be.
400,000 players in the UK. 8 million more wanting to try it. Awareness nearly doubling in a year.
Weโre inside something at the stage where the trajectory is clear but the ground is still being built.โ
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โStop collecting permission slips.
I spent years waiting to feel ready more experienced, more certain. Nobody hands you readiness. You build it by doing the thing before you feel ready.
Youโre already ready enough.โ
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