When Life Gives You Lemons

Charlie is a professional Ski racer, competing in giant slalom. He is sponsored by Van Deer Red Bull and has been on the Team GB ski team for the previous 14 years. In this chat we discuss how losing his father to lung cancer as a young boy impacted his career as a ski racer, how that childhood trauma has affected him with his relationships today, and his exciting but turbulent life as a professional British Skier. Charlie is an absolute champion with an amazing work ethic and zest for life and joined us for this chat whilst out training in Austria - so apologies for the poor network at times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carly has always been a breast cancer advocate, having lost her mum and grandmother to the disease. Then in her mid thirties, she received her own diagnosis, when she found a lump under her arm whilst accompanying her sister to chemotherapy. Since then, she has shared her breast cancer journey on social media from diagnosis, throughout her treatment and into her remission and she continues to share hope and positivity today.Following her cancer diagnosis, like is similar to a lot of us, her perspective of life changed and she has recently re-trained to be a wellness coach. As well as being a keen writer, she is a mum of 2 small children and runs a business, Keep ‘em Quiet with her husband.This conversation is full of Carly's wisdom, positivity and joyous outlook on life. We discussed so many things including how Carly dealt with the fear associated with being diagnosed with the same cancer which tragically killed her mum, the benefits of practising gratitude, her shift in perspective following her cancer diagnosis, her progress on learning to love herself and much more. Books we discussed are:Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch AlbomDavid and Goliath - Malcolm GladwellThe Gift - Edith EgarYou can find Carly on instagram @carlymoosah Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nick has a remarkably unique story. In his early twenties, he was a police officer, who became addicted to cocaine and ended up homeless in Berlin and on the run from the Albanian Mafia.  Unbelievably, Nick managed to turn his life around and has been clean for 14 years.  He is now the founder and CEO of the UK's largest addiction advisory service Help4Addiction, and I’m thrilled he’s here today to talk to us.https://www.help4addiction.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In June 2019 Claire Danson was a successful triathlete, winning 1st place in her age group at the European triathlon championships.2 months later, her life changed forever, when whilst out on a training bike ride,  she was involved in a horrific collision with a tractor.  She was left with multiple significant injuries, but most notably of her spinal cord which left her paralysed with no movement or sensation below her belly button.Unable to speak from her hospital bed but as soon as she was able to communicate via touch pad, Claire spelt out the word ‘Para athlete’.In the 3 years since the accident, Claire has been working hard on her rehab and training including achieving accomplishments such as cycling from London to Paris for charity, learning to sit ski in Colorado and taking part in an ironman in Turkey.Amazingly, she has now been selected to represent Great Britain on the British Cycling team as a hand cyclist and in this conversation she shows such bravery, positivity and determination that you can't help but be inspired. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this conversation we speak about the fascinating topic of inherited trauma. Louisa shares some fascinating insights about her family's history and recounts how being the daughter of a Holocaust survivor has impacted her as she's grown into the successful actress and mother that she is today.Louisa made her television debut in 2001 in the popular program, judge John Deed. Over the subsequent years, she's graced our television screens in a number of well known shows, including Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, and Midsummer. In 2018, she accepted the role of the controversial character of Maya in Emmerdale, which won her much acclaim and even an award for Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards.Louisa is also a very well respected theatre actor, having starred in a number of critically acclaimed plays, including the Railway Children, which I remember thoroughly enjoying. She has just finished a run of Jews in Their Own Words at the Royal Court Theatre, a play which used verbatim interviews to portray antisemitism in the UK, which as we explore in this chat, was particularly relevant to her as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not only is Will a Paralympic Table Tennis Gold medallist and double world champion but in this chat he speaks so eloquently about his journey of growing up with a physical disability, then being diagnosed with blood cancer at age 7, and how his experience of that traumatic time still drives him today.Will told us how he sees himself as a 'fighter and a winner' and how he now has his sights set on winning more medals in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.Listen to this episode and be inspired. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I'm welcoming Daniel Geey to the podcast. Daniel is one of the UK's most highly respected sports lawyers who has worked on a number of high profile deals over the years. As well as this, he’s a published author and podcaster.Some highlights in this conversation are discussion around; being shaped by occurrences in your youth, the requirement for self reflection, the need to practice resilience (we are not all born with it), hard choices are not easy but they are worth it and the importance of enjoying the process rather than only focusing on the end goal. Daniel's published books are Done Deal and his second book, Build the Invisible has just been released (https://www.danielgeey.com/build-the-invisible).Daniel also presents a couple of podcasts; The Daniel Geey Podcast, which is Football Focused and the other; Build The Invisible, which is a series of interviews with which he built the premise of his second book on. On top of all this, Daniel somehow finds time to run a charity fashion brand called Thirteen, In which all profits go towards funding research into cancer.To find out more about Dan go to https://bio.site/danielgeey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not only was Vicki one of the first females to reach the final round of Chanel 4's TV show 'SAS, Who Dares Wins', she then went on to row the Pacific Ocean in record breaking time, is an Arctic ultra marathon runner and basically an all round motivational woman. Hers is a story of courage and conquering fears and in this chat we discuss how Vicki found the bravery to make significant life changes, how her resilience has grown following significant life challenges, how she has found strength in vulnerability and how she now sees fear as opportunity in disguise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2010, David was diagnosed with a rare tumor growing into his spinal cord in his neck. Following removal of the tumor, he built himself back from scratch, literally teaching himself how to walk again.  Remarkably less than two years later, he won a gold medal in the London 2012 Paralympicsin the mixed Cox four. He then switched sports and joined the British paracycling team with aspirations to go to the Rio Paralympics in 2016. Sadly, henever made it there because a few months prior to competition, he was told that his tumor had returned.  Now, six years on from that, and he has had in total six surgeries to remove the tumor with each further surgery, bringing new life-changing challenges.  Following his most recent surgery in 2017, he became paralysed on one side of his body and now lives his life with a spinal cord injury. Despite this, David continues to defy the odds and is still passionate about sports choosing to spend his time cycling up crazy high mountains. I'm continuously inspired by David's story and I loved this conversation where we got deep and philosophical entering a discussion around ‘what is my why’, the importance of personal values, where David found his resilience and so much more.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just before episode 1, this is an introduction about the who and the why of this podcast. Host Emma Levy introduces us to how the show came to be and how her own brush with adversity has inspired her to look deeper into how, when people are faced with such adversity, they are able to come back stronger.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.