Latest Professional cycling Podcast Episodes
Lisa Steingold on el Ultimo
Velo Dulce - September 15, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutesThis 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 ...
Miyelani Kumalo on Living before you Die
Velo Dulce - August 11, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutesMy 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), mor...
Miyelani Khumalo on Living before you Die
Velo Dulce - August 11, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutesMy 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), mor...
Shanel Munger on Resting your way to Success
Velo Dulce - July 06, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutesI 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. ...
Lisa Steingold on 3 ways to Level Up!
Velo Dulce - June 18, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutesI'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 Level...
Tessa Kortekaas on being a Titan
Velo Dulce - May 17, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutesTessa 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 ye...
Lisa Steingold on Learning to Love Lisa
Velo Dulce - April 01, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutesI 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 sh...
Learning to Love Lisa
Velo Dulce - April 01, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutesI 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 sh...
Szifra Birke on Life in Tandem
Velo Dulce - February 20, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutesMy 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 parents’ Holocaust experiences and their indomitable tenacity. She has a real passion for storytelling, and for li...
Lisa Steingold on Insta vs reality
Velo Dulce - January 24, 2023 17:00 - 22 minutesToday'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 profil...
Eva Wiggelendam on Life on Wheels
Velo Dulce - December 25, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutesEva 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 feat...
Ariane Lüthi on finding purpose through pain
Velo Dulce - December 04, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutesI last spoke to Ariane Lüthi 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 l...
Chanelle Zackey-Prinsloo on being a corporate athlete
Velo Dulce - November 19, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutesBeing 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 world’s most iconic brand, Ferrari but she has a vision that stretc...
Vera Looser on guts, grace and glory
Velo Dulce - September 09, 2022 19:00 - 35 minutesVera 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 ...
Lisa Steingold (me again) on 'el Camino de Santiago'
Velo Dulce - August 10, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutesI 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 ...
Lisa Steingold on 'el Camino de Santiago'
Velo Dulce - August 10, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutesI 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 ...
Katee Gray on healing grumpy athletes
Velo Dulce - June 28, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutesKatee 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 ov...
Carrie Leaf On ONE Step at a time
Velo Dulce - June 11, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutesCarrie 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 a...
Hannele Steyn on BELIEF and being a LIONESS
Velo Dulce - May 19, 2022 21:00 - 51 minutesToday, 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,...
Jasmine Davis on NOT being Oprah
Velo Dulce - April 06, 2022 17:00 - 38 minutesI 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 ...
Cherise Willeit on Smiling through it all
Velo Dulce - February 19, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutesI’ve been wanting to chat to Cherise Willeit no jokes for about 10 years now as she seems to be someone who’s 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 ❤Mother 👨...
Molly Yurick on Being Free as a Bird
Velo Dulce - January 12, 2022 18:00 - 40 minutesMolly 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 he...
Lisa Steingold on Rest & Resilience
Velo Dulce - December 27, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutesA 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...
Lisa Steingold (that's me) on Rest & Resilience
Velo Dulce - December 27, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutesA 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...
Kim Brearley on The Munga
Velo Dulce - December 17, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutesKim 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 f...
Maria Olsson on Flying the Dream
Velo Dulce - December 02, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutesMaria 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 Univers...
Katy Curd on Learn. Progress. Play.
Velo Dulce - November 24, 2021 22:00 - 42 minutesKaty Curd is a three-time British 4-cross Champion and former 4-cross Pro Tour winner Katy’s 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 ...
Buhle "Best" Ngobese on Being BEST
Velo Dulce - November 15, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutesBorn 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 Octo...
Karen M Edwards on Gods, Rockstars & the Cobbles
Velo Dulce - November 10, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutesIMAGINE taking professional photographs while sitting at the back of a motorbike? Karen M Edwards, hailing from Cork, Ireland is a cycling photographer. She’s released a number of books including “Chasing Races”, “Gods, Rockstars & the Cobbles” in 2017 and is about to release her next book “Cha...
Kimberly Coats on Africa. On Purpose
Velo Dulce - November 03, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutesOkay 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 a...
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