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5th Most Popular Episode of 2021 - Brooke Nolan

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Release Date: 12/26/2021

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

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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 -...

#177: Gill Castle on Birth Trauma, Stoma Bags & Swimming the Channel [Podcast]

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Today you’re going to meet the awesome Gill Castle (you’ll understand the significance of the ‘awesome’ once you listen to this conversation! Gill describes herself as a very ordinary person and Police Officer before the birth of her son in 2011 changed her life. His premature birth left her with traumatic injuries, the full extent of which weren’t identified by doctors for 5 days. Those injuries included a fistula, a hole in the wall between her rectum and vagina that left her with faecal incontinence and needing to use a stoma bag (a colostomy bag) for the rest of her life. A...

#176: Kate Bevilaqua on Coaching Endurance Athletes

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Kate Bevilaqua returns to Sparta Chicks Radio this week!

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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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This week on the podcast I’m delighted to welcome Bonnie Hancock.

#174: Jo Lum on the Power of Backing Yourself

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Jo Lum is a Sydney-based triathlete and busy mum who has been a regular on the triathlon scene for years.

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

The 5th most popular episode of Sparta Chicks Radio in 2021 was Brooke Nolan on Confidence, Compassion & Comparison (in the Arctic)

Growing up exercise was a source of shame and embarrassment for Brooke Nolan.

It was only in her late 20s that she discovered a love of outdoor adventure.

Fast forward a few years and in March 2020, Brooke found herself on the first all-female team to cross the Finnmark Plateau, which is an ice plateau in Arctic Norway.

The crossing was a journey of 250km 14 days that required the team to drag sleds weighing up to 50kgs up to 20km each day in temperatures as cold as -30.

Oh, did I mention?

Before committing to this expedition, Brooke had never seen snow before, and certainly didn’t know how to ski!

Now we could have spent the entire episode talking about the expedition, but as I said, this was March 2020 and Brooke and her team were off the grid for 14 days.

When they left, Covid-19 was a blip on the radar.

By the time they returned, it had become a pandemic, borders were closing and it was a race to the airport to try and get a flight home, which ultimately took her over 4 months.

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