Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women
228 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSparta Chicks Radio shares inspiring stories coupled with practical, tried-and-tested-in-the-real-world advice from successful women in all walks of life about the realities of fear, self-doubt, courage, bravery, success and living life on your terms. From world class athletes, brilliant business minds to everyday women undertaking epic adventures, Sparta Chicks Radio will help you tap into your inner strength, courage, bravery and determination so you can chase your dreams and live a more fulfilling life on your terms.
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#027 Kirrily Dear on the Run Against Violence
August 27, 2017 10:00 - 54 minutes - 43.9 MBOur first return guest, Kirrily Dear, is about to set out on a mammoth challenge - The Run Against Violence in 2017 will take Kirrily 1,300km / 807 miles throughout remote and regional Australia over 19 days on a mission to raise awareness and start conversations about family violence. This time we talk about how she has prepared, mentally and physically, for such a demanding and challenging event, her powerful and profound new perspective around comfort zones she recently gained on top of...
#026: Nadine Champion on Fear, Regret & Using 10 Seconds of Courage
August 20, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBNadine Champion is a Thai Boxing and Kickboxing Champion, an author, speaker and cancer survivor. In her new book called “10 Seconds of Courage” and in this conversation, Nadine shares a real, raw and emotional account of her journey. We discuss her excitement at discovering martial arts at the age of 10, the practical strategies she uses to change her thinking when faced with a situation that is outside her control, how the lessons she learnt from martial arts helped her through her cance...
#025: Michelle Lee on Learning Acceptance over Resistance (also, to Row the Atlantic)
August 13, 2017 10:00 - 50 minutes - 40.6 MBMichelle Lee is a quintessential ordinary Australian woman who has set out to do something extraordinary. In December 2017, she’ll attempt the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a 5,000km unassisted and self-supported ocean rowing event across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain to Antigua in the Caribbean. If she completes it, she’ll become the first Australian women to row across an ocean. But Michelle isn’t a rower and doesn’t come from a rowing background. So h...
#024: Margie Warrell on Finding Your Courage
August 06, 2017 10:00 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBMargie Warrell is a best-selling author, keynote speaker and Women’s Leadership Advocate whose clients include NASA, the United Nations Foundation, Facebook, the Marriott Hotel Chain, the Australian Federal Police (and the list goes on). Not bad for a girl who grew up on a dairy farm in regional Australia and is a mother of 4. Margie’s expertise is around bravery and courage and helping people make braver decisions and lead bigger lives. In this conversation, we discuss everything from how...
#023: Michael Milton on Fighting Your Natural Instinct
July 30, 2017 10:00 - 51 minutes - 41.3 MBMichael Milton knows all about fear, self-doubt, bravery and courage. After losing his leg to bone cancer at the age of 8, he has gone onto become one of Australia’s most talented, decorated and all-around athletes. He is a 5x Paralympic Gold Medalist who has competed in 6 Paralympic Games, both in Winter for skiing and in Summer for cycling. Michael is a World Record holder in both speed skiing and for the fastest marathon on crutches who has also summited Kilimanjaro and walked the Kokod...
#022: The Veloroos on Setting Goals So Big They Scare You
July 23, 2017 10:00 - 56 minutes - 44.9 MBJulie-Anne Hazlett and Sarah Anne Evans are two members of the Veloroos, an Australian non-professional cycling team. The team broke the course record for the 5,000km Race Across America in 2015 and later this year tackle the equally challenging 2,200km Race Around Ireland. In this conversation, we discuss fear and self-doubt, the logistics of riding across America or around Ireland, how everyday women, like you and I, who work full time and have families, find the train to train for such ...
#021: Katee Pedicini on Hormones, Happiness and Health
July 16, 2017 10:00 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBKatee Pedicini is a coach with a degree in Exercise Science who specialises in managing fatigue, stress and hormones to achieve optimum performance. She runs Holistic Endurance based in Melbourne, Australia. In this conversation we discuss what stress is, the impact it has on your body, why many women train a lot, eat well and struggle to lose weight (or worse, put it on) and the small changes you can make to your lifestyle to improve your overall health.
#020: Ness Hartge on Overcoming Her Imposter
July 09, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBNess Hartge is just like you and I. An age group athlete, a busy mum, small business owner and runner. She’s also someone who struggled to call herself an “ultra runner” despite having completed 3 x ultra distance events — and hoped she’d finally feel comfortable doing so once she finished her first 100km race at the Ultra Trail Australia 100km in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney in May 2017. Ness has openly shared on social media her struggle with the Imposter Complex. In this conversati...
#019: Dr Simon Marshall & Lesley Paterson: Brave Athlete, Calm the F*ck Down
July 02, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBDr Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson are a dynamic duo. Simon is a sports psychologist with a distinguished career. He’s been a Professor, has published over 100 scientific publications on the psychology of exercise, been cited over 10,000 times and has real world practical experience as the Performance Psychologist for the BMC Racing team, a pro cycling team that competes in the Tour de France. Lesley is a professional mountain biker, 3x World Champion in off-road triathlon, Ironman Tr...
#018: Melissa Browne on the Rocky Road from Resilience to Wellness
June 25, 2017 10:00 - 53 minutes - 42.5 MBMelissa Browne’s website describes her as an introverted, socially awkward, shoe-loving accountant. All of those things might or are true. But there is so much more to Mel and her story. The CEO or co-founder of 3 business, Mel is also an author, speaker, expert on money and finance who regularly appears on TV and is on a mission to empower women and girls to find their voice and become both business and financially savvy. However Mel is also someone who has (to use her words) overcome a...
#017: Hayley Talbot on Motherhood, Fear & Kayaking the Clarence
June 18, 2017 10:00 - 56 minutes - 44.9 MBHayley Talbot is the first person to kayak the length of the Clarence River in Australia - all 400km / 248 miles - which she also did solo, unassisted and surviving entirely off the land. In this conversation we talk about Hayley’s childhood in the town of Yamba at the mouth of the Clarence River and her journey down it as well as why she doesn’t subscribe to “mother’s guilt”, how she deals with self-doubt and fear (including the human threat which she faced on this journey) and the mental...
#016: Alyssa Azar on Self-Doubt, Criticism and Mt Everest
June 11, 2017 10:00 - 41 minutes - 33 MBAlyssa Azar is the youngest Australian to climb Mt Everest which she did at the age of 19. But her journey hasn’t been easy; she only summited Everest on her 3rd attempt after the first two attempts ended in tragic circumstances and she (and her parents) have both been subject to heavy criticism including from internet trolls who didn’t hold back in expressing their opinions about how inappropriate it was someone so young to attempt what she’s done. In this conversation, we talk about he...
#015: Hanny Allston on the Power of Play and the Meaning of Success
June 04, 2017 10:00 - 52 minutes - 41.7 MBHanny Allston is an insightful, soulful woman with a passion for running, the outdoors and sharing that passion with as many people as possible. Back in 2006, Hanny became the first non-European to win a World Orienteering title. And in fact, she won two - a Junior and Senior world title in the same year (and became the first person, male or female to do so). These days, Hanny is a running coach, the host of the Find Your Feet podcast and owns a retail and online store for trail runners ...
#014: Melissa Urie on Using Your Mind to Achieve the "Impossible"
May 28, 2017 10:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBMelissa Urie is only the second women (and first Australian woman) to complete the Epic 5, an (appropriately named) event consisting of 5 Ironman distance triathlons on 5 Hawaiian Islands over 5 days. That’s 224km / 140 miles of swimming, riding and running every day for 5 days. In this conversation, we discuss how she fits her training into her life, why she wanted to do such a seemingly "impossible" event in the first place, her strategies for dealing with the heat, how you inspire peopl...
#013: Stef Hanson on the Importance of Listening to Your Body
May 21, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBStef Hanson is a triathlete and the Founder of Witsup (Women in Triathlon) - an online and real life community for women in triathlon. Established in 2012, the mission for witsup.com is to break down the barriers of entry for women to the sport but also to give women in the sport the recognition they deserve (at a time when women’s sports is often relegated to a few sentences). Normally the interviewer, I turn the tables on Stef and share her journey. We discuss how we are all prone to wor...
#012: Beth White on How the Reward Always Outweighs the Fear
May 14, 2017 11:00 - 49 minutes - 22.4 MBBeth White is a mother of 3, remedial massage therapist and the 2016 ITU Paratriathlon World Champion in the PT1 category. Beth began losing her sight from the age of 5. Misdiagnosed most of her life, it has only been in recent years she has discovered she has a rare genetic condition (so rare, it does not yet have a name) with numerous symptoms including vision impairment and an inability to sweat. Sadly Beth’s 3 children have inherited the condition and each is slowly losing their sight ...
#011: Laura Siddall on How Your Assumptions Can Sabotage You
May 07, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBLaura Siddall is a professional triathlete with a difference. With her gap year spent as an Officer in the British Army and a degree in Mechanical Engineering, she only discovered triathlon in her late 20s. Laura quickly made up for lost time by winning 4 x Age Group World Championships over various distances in just 4 years. In this interview we talk about the doubt she struggled with after making the decision to turn professional (and how it affected her results for the first few years)...
#010: Kirrily Dear on Achieving What Seems "Impossible"
April 30, 2017 10:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBKirrily Dear is an ultra-marathon runner, a lover of trail running and the co-founder of the Run Against Violence; a volunteer association established to use running and other sporting activities as a conduit to educate and engage communities in family violence protection. The Run Against Violence in 2017 will take Kirrily 1,300km / 807 miles throughout remote and regional Australia over 19 days. In this wide-ranging interview we talk about why this cause was so important to Kirrily (des...
#009: Natalie Cook on the Search for Mental Toughness and Emotional Stability
April 23, 2017 09:30 - 59 minutes - 48 MBNatalie Cook is a 5-time Olympic and winner of two Olympic medals in Beach Volleyball; Bronze in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and Gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In this interview, we discuss her 4-year journey of personal development after the Atlanta Olympics when she realised she didn’t have the mental toughness or emotional stability needed to achieve her goal of winning the Olympic Gold medal in Sydney. Plus in an unexpected twist, I get called out on why I’m hiding behind my fear and ...
#008: Masha Gordon on Failing PE at School to the Summit of Everest (and beyond)
April 09, 2017 11:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBMasha Gordon failed PE at school and admits that she “opted out” of sport from her pre-teen years until her mid-30s when she discovered hiking. Just 6 years later, the mother of 2 now holds the record for the fastest ascent by a woman of the Seven Summits as well as the women’s record for the Adventurer’s Grand Slam (the Seven Summits plus the North and South Pole). In this interview we discuss mothers (or parents) guilt, the challenges she faced during her epic adventure, why you need to ...
#007: Tanya Geisler on the Imposter Complex and the Lies and Stories We Tell Ourselves
April 02, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBTanya Geisler is a Leadership Coach based in Canada who specialises in the Imposter Complex. You may not have heard of it before but I can assure you that you’ve felt the sting of it. It is found in the stories - or lies - we tell ourselves about not being ready, good enough, that we don’t belong or that we are fooling everyone and that any moment everyone is going to find out we have NFI what we’re doing. We dive deep in this personal and revealing interview.
#006: Shirin Gerami on the Privilege of Sport and Breaking Down Barriers
March 26, 2017 08:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBBorn and raised in Tehran, Shirin Gerami only became involved in sport when she settled in the UK at the age of 15. After discovering triathlons in University, Shirin became the first woman ever to represent Iran in triathlon (women had previously been banned from participating in the sport). She has since gone onto to become the first Iranian - male or female - to finish the Hawaii Ironman. She is now on a mission to prove that clothing should not be a barrier to participation in sport ...
#005: Janine Shepherd on Being Defiant and Overcoming the Odds
March 19, 2017 08:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBBack in the 1980s, Janine Shepherd was an elite cross-country skier and member of the Australian ski team training for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Then one day, her life changed. She was hit by a truck while riding her bike. She left hospital 6 months later, a partial paraplegic. Her defiant human spirit saw Janine overcome the odds, and her body, and she went onto not only walk again but obtain her commercial and aerobatics pilots licence, compete in equestrian events and have 3 chi...
#004: Di Westaway on the Secret to Living an Adventurous Life
March 12, 2017 08:00 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBDi Westaway is an Adventure Coach, the founder of women’s adventure training company Wild Women on Top and a team trekking event called Coastrek. She also holds the record for the world’s highest handstand. From her early days as a gymnastics champion to her record-setting handstand in 2016, we talk about how adventure is the key to endless motivation, how to fit your training (and not exercise) into your busy life, that your family always benefits when you look after your own mental and p...
#003: Kate Bevilaqua on Achieving More Than You Can Possibly Imagine
March 05, 2017 09:00 - 51 minutes - 41.3 MBKate Bevilaqua is a professional triathlete, the 2016 Women’s Ultraman World Champion and the first woman in history to win an Ultraman title overall. From her early days in the sport when she hated running through to her 3 Ironman triathlon titles and 2 Ultraman victories, we talk about the fear of not being ready or not having done enough training (which she still experiences after 10 years as a professional triathlete), the sacrifices she made to chase her Ultraman dream, the importance...
#002: Lydia Lassila on Controlling Your Fear So You Can Fly
February 26, 2017 10:00 - 44 minutes - 35.9 MBAerial skier and Olympic Champion Lydia Lassila knows a thing or two about how to manage and control fear. The Gold Medalist from the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010, she became the first woman in history to land a highly technical jump that included a quadruple twist. From her early days as a gymnastic to life as a mother of 2 who is currently training to compete in her 5th Olympic Games, we talk about the importance of being open-minded to opportunities and following your cur...
#001: Siri Lindley on the Power of Self-Belief and Dancing With Your Fears - Sparta Chicks Radio
February 19, 2017 18:00 - 55 minutes - 44.3 MBHow do you use your fear and self-doubt to get the best out of your yourself? That's the question we explore in our interview with Siri Lindley who was 2x-ranked the #1 triathlete in the world and the 2002 ITU World Champion in 2002. Since retiring, Siri has gone onto have an extraordinarily successful career as a coach and is regarded as one of the best triathlon coaches in the world. Even if you aren't interested in triathlon, I have no doubt you'll gain a lot from Siri's heart-centred a...
#00: Welcome to Sparta Chicks Radio
February 10, 2017 21:28 - 12 minutes - 10.1 MBA new weekly podcast that will share inspiring stories coupled with practical, tried-and-tested-in-the-real-world advice from professional athletes, everyday women undertaking epic adventures to successful women from all walks of life (business and the arts). We will dive deep into real, honest and open conversations about the realities of fear, self-doubt, courage, bravery and how you still get shit done and chase your dreams when all you want to do is hide.