Mpula Lawton is an educator and lawyer and founder of the ARISE Project, which stands for Anti-Racism in Schools and Education. After experiencing racism in the workplace whilst teaching at a primary school, Mpula made the decision to do someth

#015 - Life Lessons from Athletes

Apr 10th, 2022 28m 52s

Today's episode is a bit of a different one, as we share with you some of the best advice given to us by the numerous athletes we have spoken to over the first fourteen episodes of the podcast. In this episode, you will hear from:Triathlete, co

#014 - Alison Newman on The Art of Being a Mum

Apr 3rd, 2022 1h 13m

Alison Newman is a singer, songwriter, podcaster and mum of 2 boys from regional South Australia. She has been singing and performing since the age of 5 and, for the last 14 years, has been juggling her career with being a mum. This is a topic

#013 - Pip Stewart on Life Lessons From The Amazon

Mar 27th, 2022 1h 19m

Pip Stewart is an adventurer, journalist and author who I came across a few months ago when I discovered and started reading her book - Life Lessons From The Amazon. I love the book and really wanted to talk to Pip about her adventures and what

#012 - Scott Jenkins on How Ultra Running Can Help Us Grow

Mar 21st, 2022 1h 15m

Scott Jenkins has been ultra running for years now, completing some of the toughest races on Earth, including the Badwater 135, which involves running through Death Valley in temperatures exceeding 50 degrees, and Moab 240, for which Scott actu

#011 - Aaron Baker on Transforming Your Adversity Into Adventure

Mar 14th, 2022 1h 21m

In 1999, as a professional motocross athlete, Aaron Baker sustained a career ending spinal cord injury. He fractured his cervical vertebrae 4, 5, 6 rendering him a quadriplegic, paralysed from the chin down. He was given a “one in a million” ch

#010 - Gillian Roberts on Thriving After Cancer

Mar 7th, 2022 1h 5m

Gillian Roberts is a fellow teacher from Canada, who is big into endurance sports and triathlons in particular. What makes Gillian's story different to most is that she developed ovarian cancer when she was in her mid-twenties. Obviously, this

#009 - Joe Hughes on Overcoming Adversity and Beating the Odds

Feb 28th, 2022 1h 12m

Joe Hughes is a professional boxer and coach who was born with a condition called Erbs Palsy. Despite being told from an early age by doctors that there were many things he would not be able to do in life (including contact sports!), Joe went o

#008 - Natalie Coaten on The Power of Sobriety

Feb 21st, 2022 1h 13m

Natalie Coaten shares her sobriety story over on Instagram, which is where I was first introduced to her. Nat’s story is probably one that many of us can relate to. She works in the city and spent most of her twenties drinking quite heavily in

#007 - Isaac Kenyon on The Impact of Nature on Our Mental Health

Feb 14th, 2022 1h 26m

Isaac Kenyon is a world-record breaking British eco-adventurer, energy transition spatial analyst/researcher, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and the Geological Society of London. He is also a trustee for Mind, the mental h

#006 - Tom McCluskey (AKA Tommo) on Developing Our True Selves

Feb 7th, 2022 1h 45m

This episode is an extra special one, where I sit down and interview one of my best and oldest friends, Tom McCluskey, AKA Tommo! Tommo is a full-time F1 YouTube content creator and has built a huge online following in a relatively short space

#005 - Lauren Kebla on The Art of Goal Setting

Jan 31st, 2022 1h 15m

Lauren Kebla is a coach and endurance athlete who also works in the education sector, supporting students and young adults. One of the main things that encouraged me to invite Lauren on the show was her ideas and theories around goal setting, p

#004 - Kevin Chapman (AKA lollujo) on The Life of a Content Creator

Jan 24th, 2022 1h 19m

Kevin Chapman is a content creator on YouTuber, a podcaster, and someone who has been almost perfected the art of perseverance and consistency. Kev has managed to amass hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers across his YouTube chann

#003 - Taren Gesell on Finding Balance for Mental and Physical Health

Jan 17th, 2022 1h 17m

Taren Gesell is one of my absolute favourite podcast hosts and YouTubers. He’s a Canadian triathlon coach who may be better known by his online persona ‘Triathlon Taren’. Back in 2020 when I first considered the idea of completing my first tria

#002 - Tom & Jo Brassington on Creating Emotionally Honest Spaces

Jan 10th, 2022 1h 18m

Tom and Jo Brassington are siblings and primary school teachers, who have written a fantastic book - 'Bottled' - to support emotionally honest conversations with young people around their mental health, emotions and well being. In this episode,

#001 - Sean Conway on Living Adventurously

Jan 3rd, 2022 1h 4m

Sean Conway is an adventurer and endurance athlete, whose achievements include cycling around the world, setting a world record for the longest ever triathlon, becoming the first person to swim the length of Britain and coming 2nd in the infamo

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Dec 31st, 2021 2m 30s

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