Velo Dulce
36 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -I'm Lisa đââď¸ The bicycle is a great metaphor for life! It's up, it's down... So I decided to interview the bravest, most admired even the funniest of women who've found the sweet spot. Welcome Velo Dulce!
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Lisa Steingold on el Ultimo
September 15, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBThis is my last podcast episode. 2 years after starting Velo Dulce, I've decided to wrap up the show. I wanted to wrap it up by saying thank you to all the incredible women I've had the privilege to interview over the years. Thank you for all your wisdom, stories of bravery and courage, your authenticity and your wanting to make the world a better and brighter place. There were a few lessons I personally learned from the show; You're just the same as anyone else and yet at the same time...
Miyelani Kumalo on Living before you Die
August 11, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBMy guest today doesn't describe herself as a cyclist but she probably cycles as much as the average pro. If she isn't running up a storm. Miyelani Khumalo ran her first race on 19th January 2013, a 5km following her divorce. She has done over 50 marathons (yes that means more than 42.2km), more than 20 ultra-marathons (anything greater than 42km), and 3 Comrades marathons (yes, a whopping 90kms!) The 29th of July 2018 saw her take part in the Washie 100miler (162km) race in the Eastern Ca...
Miyelani Khumalo on Living before you Die
August 11, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBMy guest today doesn't describe herself as a cyclist but she probably cycles as much as the average pro. If she isn't running up a storm. Miyelani Khumalo ran her first race on 19th January 2013, a 5km following her divorce. She has done over 50 marathons (yes that means more than 42.2km), more than 20 ultra-marathons (anything greater than 42km), and 3 Comrades marathons (yes, a whopping 90kms!) The 29th of July 2018 saw her take part in the Washie 100miler (162km) race in the Eastern Ca...
Shanel Munger on Resting your way to Success
July 06, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBI was thrilled to chat to my friend Shanel Munger on this episode of Velo Dulce! Shanel is the Learning Manager at the South African Reserve Bank. She has a passion for partnering with business to create development journeys that build capacity, empower performance and drive business growth. She's also a TEDX speaker and spoke Mindfulness at work: a superpower to boost productivity and wellbeing And she's a phenomenal cyclist with a passion for the sport. I hope you love the chat as muc...
Lisa Steingold on 3 ways to Level Up!
June 18, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBI've been thinking about #levellingup ALOT! Is it that fate just shines on some and others no? Do some just have better luck? The more I study and learn about pro-athletes and those at the top of their game, the more I see just how much of a difference Levelling up makes! The 3 rules of Levelling Up from my perspective? Show up! (And keep showing up!) Know up! (Put yourself in the know by constantly learning and knowing thyself) and No up! Learn when to say No! I hope you enjoy this e...
Tessa Kortekaas on being a Titan
May 17, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBTessa Kortekaas is the winner of the 2023 Titan Mountain Bike Race; a 6-day grueling event held annually in Morocco that goes through the Moroccan desert between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert. Long story short. It's no joke. It was the first time Tessa took part in the race and yet she came out with the win. Having held a long and industrious sporting career, which ironically isn't related to mountain biking at all! She's had various achievements in skating, swimming and tri...
Lisa Steingold on Learning to Love Lisa
April 01, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBI finally did it! I wrote the novel I've been waiting to write my whole life! Learning to Love Lisa is the story of a woman stumbling through her forties in all her flaws and flailings. Moving (un)confidently from South Africa to Spain amidst a global pandemic, it all goes horribly wrong as she loses her job and realises that speaking Spanish is much more difficult than her app promised it would be. So I thought for something different in today's show I'd read out Chapter 1 of the book. ...
Learning to Love Lisa
April 01, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBI finally did it! I wrote the novel I've been waiting to write my whole life! Learning to Love Lisa is the story of a woman stumbling through her forties in all her flaws and flailings. Moving (un)confidently from South Africa to Spain amidst a global pandemic, it all goes horribly wrong as she loses her job and realises that speaking Spanish is much more difficult than her app promised it would be. So I thought for something different in today's show I'd read out Chapter 1 of the book. ...
Szifra Birke on Life in Tandem
February 20, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutes - 30.9 MBMy guest today is Szifra Burke. Szifra was born to Yiddish parents, immigrants from Poland to America. She grew up in Massachusetts deeply affected and inspired by her immigrant parentsâ Holocaust experiences and their indomitable tenacity. She has a real passion for storytelling, and for life too! In preparation for her interview, I watched her talk on WorldChannel about he she got her name. Well needless to say I ended up in tears. As with the women on my shows, this is one POWER hou...
Lisa Steingold on Insta vs reality
January 24, 2023 17:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBToday's episode is a little outside the usual but I wanted to start the New Year by taking a look at the realities of life. Insta vs reality. It's a thing! Sometimes when I'm on Instagram I get depressed when I see everyone living large and living the dream. Then I look at my own Insta profile and actually it looks the same but it doesn't feel like that. This year I'm vowing to Stop comparing my life to others Allow myself to be human and acknowledge my struggles (Which is really hard...
Eva Wiggelendam on Life on Wheels
December 25, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBEva Wiggelendam is the team travel coordinator for MotoGP team Repsol Honda, one of the most prestigious teams in the MotoGP⢠World Championship. She is the only female on the team that covered all the Grand Prix circuits in 2020 (the craziest year in history when the pandemic hit) and was featured as a #WomenInMotoGP star in 2021. Eva is competitive, passionate and committed and it was an absolute privilege to chat to her about... Life in MotoGP The dedication needed for a high-performa...
Ariane LuĚthi on finding purpose through pain
December 04, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBI last spoke to Ariane LuĚthi on the 23rd of September 2021 after her then-recent victory in the Swiss Epic. Since then a lot has happened. In her true courageous style Ariane has been public this year about her battles with Long Covid and chronic fatigue. BUT not one to just lie around and let life take over, she used the break in training to create Pump for Peace On this show, I love the stories of victory but the truth is victory is always fleeting. What is lasting is the Victorians t...
Chanelle Zackey-Prinsloo on being a corporate athlete
November 19, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBBeing a high-performance athlete requires dedication, persistence, hard work and unrelenting commitment. And Chanelle Zackey-Prinsloo is the ultimate corporate athlete. Not only is she the National Marketing Director of the worldâs most iconic brand, Ferrari but she has a vision that stretches far beyond her own ambitions. Coming from humble beginnings, she truly represents what it means to be a champion. We chatted; Challenges What it takes to succeed And being South African I ho...
Vera Looser on guts, grace and glory
September 09, 2022 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBVera Looser is a professional cyclist from Namibia. She's represented her country in the Olympic Games, is fluent in 3 languages and competes at the highest level in cycling riding for a European team. Vera caught my attention some time ago when she rode the Titan Dessert Race (and came 2nd in the GC!) which is only one of the toughest mountain bike races around. Vera's list of 2022 titles ALONE includes; Winner of Namibian road champs, 2nd in the Titan Desert Race 4th in the commonwe...
Lisa Steingold (me again) on 'el Camino de Santiago'
August 10, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBI recently cycled the Camino de Santiago. I wanted to share my thoughts here not because it was some epic physical feat but rather because it was a soulful excursion with a couple of life lessons learnt along the way. I learnt that 'el camino' means 'the way' and it really was a reflection on life and how we find ourselves on and off our paths. If you want to check out the 1-minute video, check it out here. Thank you for listening and see you next month! Lisa Sign up to my mailers if yo...
Lisa Steingold on 'el Camino de Santiago'
August 10, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBI recently cycled the Camino de Santiago. I wanted to share my thoughts here not because it was some epic physical feat but rather because it was a soulful excursion with a couple of life lessons learnt along the way. I learnt that 'el camino' means 'the way' and it really was a reflection on life and how we find ourselves on and off our paths. If you want to check out the 1-minute video, check it out here. Thank you for listening and see you next month! Lisa Sign up to my mailers if yo...
Katee Gray on healing grumpy athletes
June 28, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBKatee Gray founder of Holistic Endurance. She is a Performance Coach, Sports Nutritionist and self-confessed hormone nerd. Katee has a serious passion for optimising athletic and human potential utilising an integrated approach of wellness and performance for the everyday athlete. She spent over 15 years racing triathlon. She has a Bachelor Exercise Science (Major Sports Psychology) and has a Post graduate in Human Nutrition to name just a few of her qualifications! She is also the host o...
Carrie Leaf On ONE Step at a time
June 11, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBCarrie Leaf is a practising psychotherapist, holistic mindset coach, and hypnotherapist. She holds her undergraduate degree in Psychology. She completed her master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. Carrie is a mother to two twin boys (toddlers!) and a stepmother to their older brother and sister. She is a furbaby mom to two boxer dogs. AND she recently released her book "Therapize Yourself". I wanted to chat to Carrie because I was intrigued about how on earth she does it all and ...
Hannele Steyn on BELIEF and being a LIONESS
May 19, 2022 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBToday, my superhuman guest is Hannele Steyn from Cape Town in sunny South Africa. Hannele is the former Sport and Wellness Advisor of the Intercare group, runs her own whole foods company Passion4Wholeness, has represented South Africa and has Springbok colours in biathlon, triathlon, duathlon, road cycling AND mountain biking. Sheâs completed the infamous TransAlps, Ironman. She is also 1 of 3 people in the world who have completed all 18 Cape Epic races and the only woman! (a race WHICH ...
Jasmine Davis on NOT being Oprah
April 06, 2022 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBI just loved this conversation with Jasmine Davis! Jasmine is an artist, photographer, world traveller and freshly initiated rookie aka "novata" into Asturian-Spanish culture. She's also the maker of sentwithlovefrom Jasmine and I met, by mistake, on purpose as it happens and we discovered we both felt we were both meant to be Oprah! We discussed; What it's like NOT being Oprah Dealing with grief And being JOY so that others find you joyful! As always, listen, share and let me know wh...
Cherise Willeit on Smiling through it all
February 19, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBIâve been wanting to chat to Cherise Willeit no jokes for about 10 years now as she seems to be someone whoâs had her fair share of challenges and yet seems to smile through it all whilst still managing to voice her opinion and power her way forward. Cherise describes herself as Wife â¤Mother đ¨âđŠâđŚâđŚ Cyclist, Olympianđ´đź Seeking adventure with my family. đâ°đProudly South-African living in Germany đŠđŞ đżđŚ #ismile4burry We spoke - Overcoming grief and loss - Second chances - Professional cycling...
Molly Yurick on Being Free as a Bird
January 12, 2022 18:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBMolly Yurick is a "maatjie" as we say in South Africa or a mate of mine. Molly joined me on a 50km cycle as a newcomer to road cycling and it brought back memories for me of what it meant to first climb on a bicycle. What really blew my mind however was one night sitting on the couch seeing her name on the credits of Season 5 of Netflix's most-watched series "Money Heist"! I just knew we had to chat! And I've since dubbed her (excuse the pun) as the World's Best Spanish-English subtitler! ...
Lisa Steingold on Rest & Resilience
December 27, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBA couple of people have been asking about my story but more than that I wanted to share the message of rest and resilience and what that really means. Don't have time to listen? Okay here it is; When you try new things, you probably will fall on your ass but that's okay - it's how you level up Resilience means showing up, not just doing the same thing over and over You can rest while working Recently Velo Dulce was ranked no 13 in The BEST 40 Cycling Podcasts! I started this show becaus...
Lisa Steingold (that's me) on Rest & Resilience
December 27, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBA couple of people have been asking about my story but more than that I wanted to share the message of rest and resilience and what that really means. Don't have time to listen? Okay here it is; When you try new things, you probably will fall on your ass but that's okay - it's how you level up Resilience means showing up, not just doing the same thing over and over You can rest while working Recently Velo Dulce was ranked no 13 in The BEST 40 Cycling Podcasts! I started this show becaus...
Kim Brearley on The Munga
December 17, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBKim Brearley describes herself as "one of the ladies who rides" but having recently completed The Munga, one of the toughest races on earth, I'd say she's anything but. The Munga is a non-stop semi-supported mountain bike race through the remote Karoo in South Africa. Riders have 120 hours or five days to ride 1155km and make the cut-off. That's 120 hours with little sleep and extreme temperatures! Alex Harris, the Race Director describes The Munga in these words; âAt the Munga we celeb...
Maria Olsson on Flying the Dream
December 02, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBMaria Olsson is the VP of Creative for Peak Performance and former head of design at Rapha cycling where she was the driver of significant innovations in the technology, styling and design of the premium clothing brand. She lives in Stockholm, worked in London, and studied design at the University of Technology Sydney. Â Earlier this year Maria was featured as one of Cyclistâs most Inspirational Women! We spoke about How she came to be "Eagle Eye" and one of Europe's top design specialis...
Katy Curd on Learn. Progress. Play.
November 24, 2021 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBKaty Curd is a three-time British 4-cross Champion and former 4-cross Pro Tour winner Katyâs titles include Downhill National Series Champion, European 4 cross Champion, 4cross Pro Tour winner as well as having 7 other World Cup Podiums. She left pro-riding to focus on coaching. I caught up with her to find out what on earth 4-cross is and to talk her approach to scary things. I REALLY loved her philosophy of Learn. Progress. Play. - it's something she really lives! Check her out on In...
Buhle "Best" Ngobese on Being BEST
November 15, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBBorn in Newcastle Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, Buhle started riding just 4 years ago. Just two years after an introductory urban fixie ride through the streets of Soweto, Johannesburg South Africa, she finished the 2019 Cape Epic, in the mixed category, with a male riding partner. And in October 2021 she completed the Cape Epic for the 2nd time placing 10th in the all women's category with fellow South Africa Remofilwe Moeketsi. I recently caught up with Buhle and we chatted "Being BEST"...
Karen M Edwards on Gods, Rockstars & the Cobbles
November 10, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBIMAGINE taking professional photographs while sitting at the back of a motorbike? Karen M Edwards, hailing from Cork, Ireland is a cycling photographer. Sheâs released a number of books including âChasing Racesâ, âGods, Rockstars & the Cobblesâ in 2017 and is about to release her next book âChasing Rainbows and Rockstarsâ. Sheâs worked with the Top brands in cycling including Bora and the release of their book âBoys and Bikesâ and shot at events including Volta a Catalunya, Criterium Dauph...
Kimberly Coats on Africa. On Purpose
November 03, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBOkay but seriously, one day you're just walking down the road in Las Vegas and the next you're halfway across the world to Rwanda to develop cycling? Not a word of a lie but this is what Kimberly did when, as she described it, she reached a proverbial fork in the road. In 2009 (just 15 years after the genocide in Rwanda) Kimberly tracked down Tom Ritchey (legendary racer and also the founder of Project Rwanda) and within two months sheâd quit her job, got on a plane headed for Rwanda. Sh...
Tracy Moseley, on Keeping it Simple
October 28, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBTracy Moseley is a legend in mountain biking and one of Britainâs most successful and best-known female mountain bikers! Do yourself a favor and check her out on Google or Wikipedia. No word of a lie, she has more winning titles than the Duchess of Alba. BUT more than that, Tracy has a degree in Biological Science, is a wife, mom to 3-year old Toby AND works for Trek Bikes supporting athletes in their careers. We talked motherhood, doing it all, eBikes, enduro, life at 41 and how to survi...
On living a BIG life with Gracie Elvin
October 13, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBGrace Elvin is a 2-time winner of the Australian National Road Race Championships and the only Australian female rider to podium finish at the Tour of Flanders for Women. Sheâs represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games and Olympics. She left pro racing in 2021Â to say to pursue life outside cycling but that isnât true. Gracie has reinvented her career and is giving back her all to the sport. Sheâs currently a writer for Cycling Tips and co-founded The Cyclists Alliance, an organisati...
Faranak Partoazar - What it means to be an Outlier
October 06, 2021 06:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBMalcolm Gladwell once defined an outlier as a truly exceptional individual "who doesn't fit into our normal understanding of achievement.â This is clearly the case with Faranak Partoazar. Born and currently living in Shiraz, Iran, Faranakâs story to begin cycling and follow her passion is an unusual one. As a girl born in a traditional society, she fought passionately to be able to ride freely, and perseverance saw her become a professional rider in 2014, competing with the Iran nationa...
Ariane LĂźthi - Pain, resilience and dealing with pressure
September 22, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBHailing from Switzerland, Ariane Lßthi is arguably the country's most prolific cross-country marathon racer. She's a 4-time Swiss XCM national champion and 5x Cape Epic Winner. "You only really start to change things when you go into the deep stuff... You change when you have no other choice and when it's really painful. If you haven't changed something you weren't far enough in yet" I spoke to Ariane Lßthi on dealing with pain and pressure what it means to be resilient. To say I was bl...
Jenni Green - On the power of i
September 15, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBJenni Green is the founder of Bia Cycling and one of the most impressive women I know reducing the barriers to entry for women in cycling. Having run one of South Africa's and even the world's biggest mass participation cycling events, Jenni then turned her attention to founding Bia Cycling; a hub for women's cycling in the UK and beyond..... all whilst battling Lyme Disease. Today we talk what it means to cry and keep pedaling as well as how to find the inner strength you need when you ne...
Sarah Hill - You're NOT Alone
September 10, 2021 11:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBSarah Hill is Professional Mt Biker for @livcycling is a coach, Level1 MTB Skills coach and is currently doing her Masters in Psych but more than that, she's real! It was her article "You're not Alone" that really captured my attention in July this year. Sarah, real and courageous and in the very first episode of Velo Dulce, shares her struggles on depression and her journey from here. Sign up to my mailers if you'd like to receive thoughts on what it means to 'go beyond what you though...