‘…this is the trouble with endurance sports; that you’ve got time to be thinking negative thoughts and that can have a big detriment on your race.’I was introduced to Ellie Greenwood by a mutual friend who said of Ellie: she was ’a tremendous athlete, high-performance coach, avid volunteer, community ambassador, engaging storyteller, she is an […]
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“What can I do here? What can I change? What am I in control of? What can I affect? What can I impact?”This week on Sparta Chicks Radio you’ll meet mountain biker and award-winning travel journalist, Tracey Croke. If you follow Tracey on social media, you would have seen stunning photos from her work assignments in […]
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“I’m just so passionate that thing where you learn how, with your mind and with your spirit, to push yourself past what you think you can do. That, to me, is just one of the greatest things you can learn.”This week Hayley Talbot returns to join me on Sparta Chicks Radio. My guest on episode #17 […]
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“You can take on things that you think are much bigger than yourself, because you grow in the process.”Back in 2007, Heather Hawkins was by her own admission, a desperately unfit and busy mum of 2. Then one day she visited her doctor after noticing some unusual symptoms she initially attributed to the ‘middle age’ spread, […]
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“While many people would say that cystic fibrosis held me back from winning races and winning a World Championship, I say no – it didn’t hold me back. It actually probably elevated my game. And I probably won a lot more races than I would have because I had a tremendous reason to be on […]
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“I’ve learnt that I’m a lot stronger than I thought I was. That I wasn’t a fraud….and it’s given me a lot of confidence to try things, even if I don’t have all the answers. And not be scared of what people think.” This week on Sparta Chicks Radio, I’m delighted to introduce you to Steph […]
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“Living a stand out life is being true to what matters to you, to really playing ‘all in’, whatever that is, for you. So if I’m doing something that resonates for me, that’s true for me, and I’m turning up completely all there, and soaking up the moments and being grateful for the moments, then […]
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Steph Lowe is a triathlete, Sports Nutritionist and the Founder of the Natural Nutritionist, a business based in Melbourne dedicated to teaching how easy real food living and performance can be. The foundation of her approach is a whole foods, lower carbohydrate, higher fat (or LCHF) lifestyle, which she also describes as JERF (just eat real […]
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“…if you do something to push your comfort zone, and you think of your comfort zone as a circle, it’s not that one thing comes out like a pimple of your comfort zone. It actually expands your entire comfort zone to a whole new level.” Given Jacqui Holth’s nomadic childhood, it’s no wonder she left Australia […]
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“What I think is brilliant about the outdoors is that it will prove you wrong about what you thought your limits were…. And when your body can do something you never realised it could, it’s a really incredible reinforcement for your mind that maybe you were limiting yourself in every other area of life too.” Who better […]
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