Women's Motorsports Network Podcast - Fuel Her Future Podcast

Women's Motorsports Network Podcast - Fuel Her Future Podcast

Women's Motorsports Network Podcast shares the stories of women involved in motorsports from around the world. The first episode was in 2018 and new episodes are added each week. Feel free to suggest potential guests to Melinda at melinda@wmnnation.com.


Fuel Her Future with Melinda Russell  is a solo podcast that began in June of 2026,
Fueling Your Future with Inspiration, Encouragement, Courage, Confidence, and Community.


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Women's Motorsports Network Podcast

Recent Episodes

What Youth Racing Is Teaching Athena Rose Webster About Life

What Youth Racing Is Teaching Athena Rose Webster About Life

Athena Rose Webster shares what it’s like to fall in love with racing at just four years old and keep building skill, confidence, and speed as a young kart driver. From her first NASCAR experience to competing at tracks across Missouri and Kansas, this conversation shows how early exposure, family s...

Girls Belong in Racing: Zoey Smith Is Proving It Every Weekend

Girls Belong in Racing: Zoey Smith Is Proving It Every Weekend

Fifteen-year-old Legend Car driver Zoey Smith may be young, but her racing journey is already filled with determination, perseverance, and life lessons that racers of every age can appreciate.

Maddy Brook: Fat Duck Racing And The Need To Feel It

Maddy Brook: Fat Duck Racing And The Need To Feel It

Send us Fan Mail Dirt tracks have a way of revealing who you are the moment you turn in. Maddy Brook is only 17, but she already talks like someone who has learned that speed is equal parts courage, composure, and community. She joins us from Western Sydney to share how her life as a zookeeper at th...

Racing Made Me Confident Even When I Was Shy with Jillian Cole

Racing Made Me Confident Even When I Was Shy with Jillian Cole

Send us Fan Mail A rear tire flies off on the last lap and you still take the win by crossing the finish line backwards. That’s the kind of real-world racing story we love, and teen driver Jillian Cole brings it with honesty, humor, and a clear look at what youth motorsports actually demands. We sit...

Lauri Eberhart: How To Get Hired In Motorsports Without A Pit Pass

Lauri Eberhart: How To Get Hired In Motorsports Without A Pit Pass

Send us Fan Mail A $5 an hour summer job at a racetrack doesn’t sound like the start of a major motorsports career, but that’s exactly where Lauri Eberhart begins. From Michigan International Speedway to Nazareth Speedway to the NASCAR hub in North Carolina, Lori shows how motorsports careers are bu...

Why A 10-Year-Old Has More Sponsors Than You-Laci Mitchell

Why A 10-Year-Old Has More Sponsors Than You-Laci Mitchell

Send us Fan Mail A 10-year-old with a trophy shelf behind her sounds adorable until you realize she’s also a serious driver with a clear head for speed, strategy, and safety. We sit down with Laci Mitchell from Victoria, Australia, a fourth-generation racer who started at five and now races both qua...

Katrina Gray: Racing Across the United Kingdom

Katrina Gray: Racing Across the United Kingdom

Send us Fan Mail Most racing stories start with childhood karting, but Katrina “Kat” Gray takes a route that feels a lot more like real life. Kat joins us from Lincolnshire in the UK, where she teaches people to drive for a living and still finds time to chase lap times on some of the most iconic ro...

Kim Estep: I Bought The Porsche After Two Laps

Kim Estep: I Bought The Porsche After Two Laps

Send us Fan Mail You don’t need to start racing at five years old to belong on a racetrack. Melinda Russell sits down with Kim Estep, a Porsche racer who didn’t take her first laps until her 30s, and still built a path into real competition through coaching, club racing, and the kind of community th...

Recent Blog Posts

Angelique Bell: Perseverance, Passion, and Pink Tail Tanks in Sprint Car Racing

Angelique Bell: Perseverance, Passion, and Pink Tail Tanks in Sprint Car Racing

· Guest: Angelique Bell – Sprint Car Driver, California · Topics Covere…

Caylie Kjos – Dirt racer competing in late models and eco mods in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Caylie Kjos – Dirt racer competing in late models and eco mods in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Key Topics Covered: · How Caylie went from “no interest in racing” to becoming hooked after her first start …

How Eileen Noyes Reclaimed Purpose (and Peace) in a Blended Family of Fifteen

How Eileen Noyes Reclaimed Purpose (and Peace) in a Blended Family of Fifteen

· Guest: Eileen Noyes — host of Unsidelined podcast, coach, mom/stepmom to a blended family of 15 · &n…

Racing Roots and Big Dreams: Meet Indiana’s Ava Weil

Racing Roots and Big Dreams: Meet Indiana’s Ava Weil

· Guest: Ava Weil – senior at LaVille Junior Senior High School, racer at Mocharts of Marshall County (Argus, India…

Lisa Kubo: Pioneering Import Drag Racing and Breaking Barriers for Women in Motorsports

Lisa Kubo: Pioneering Import Drag Racing and Breaking Barriers for Women in Motorsports

Guest: Lisa Kubo Key Topics Covered: · Growing up in a street racing family in California · &n…

Meet Sadie Parsons: A 10-Year-Old Racer With Big NASCAR Dreams

Meet Sadie Parsons: A 10-Year-Old Racer With Big NASCAR Dreams

Show Notes Guest: Sadie Parsons In this episode, Sadie Parsons shares her journey from her first go-kart at age five to racing multiple divi...

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