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#172: Dr Erin Ayala on Values, Mental Health & Redefining Self Care

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Release Date: 11/07/2021

#178: Lucy Barnard on Walking the Length of the World

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

A few weeks ago, Sparta Chicks Radio celebrated its 5th birthday. And there is no one I’d rather share that celebration with than this week’s return guest, Lucy Barnard! Lucy is attempting to become the 1st woman to walk the length of the world. She set off in February 2017 from Tierra Del Fuego in Argentina to walk to Barrow, Alaska; a journey of 30,000km /20,000mi across 15 countries that she anticipated would take about 5 years. When Lucy first joined me on the podcast in March 2018, I realised we share a unique connection; we both started our respective journeys -...

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Welcome to this special edition of Sparta Chicks Radio as we count down the 5 most popular episodes of 2021.

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Welcome to this special edition of Sparta Chicks Radio as we count down the 5 most popular episodes of 2021.

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Welcome to this special edition of Sparta Chicks Radio as we count down the 5 most popular episodes of 2021.

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Welcome to this special edition of Sparta Chicks Radio as we count down the 5 most popular episodes of 2021.

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Welcome to this special edition of Sparta Chicks Radio as we count down the 5 most popular episodes of 2021.

#175: Bonnie Hancock - Why Not Paddle Around Australia?

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I’m delighted to welcome Dr Erin Ayala to the podcast this week.

Erin is a Licensed Psychologist, a certified Mental Performance Consultant and is listed as a licensed mental health provider on the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s Mental Health Register.

What I love about Erin’s perspective is that it’s holistic: she recognises that daily life, health and athletic performance are intertwined and inseparable from one another.

When she’s not at work, Erin is also an endurance athlete (having completed 9 marathons and 1 Ironman) and these days is focused on life as an elite cyclist.

On top of that, she recently co-founded a cycling team called Stamina Racing Collective which prioritises people who would traditionally struggle to find a home in cycling (especially, black, indigenous, people of colour and non-binary and trans athletes)

In this conversation, we discuss the power of values, the difficult decisions she had made based on those values and her surprising definition of self-care.

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