EPISODE · Nov 9, 2025 · 30 MIN
Episode 33 :Part 2 , Amana Allen , what happens after the podium.
from www.whoisyourhero.com.au · host mattwhoisyourhero
Legends—Part 2 is here.If Part 1 was pit to podium, Part 2 is what happens after the podium.Amanda Allen came back from a total hip replacement… and still qualified for the CrossFit Games.Then life swung again—shoulder blow-out, domestic violence, homeless in a van, and a relapse that almost cost her everything.And she’s never said this publicly—until now.In this episode, Amanda opens the pages on the stuff most people hide:the night with whiskey and sleeping tabletsthe loneliness no crowd ever seeshow two giant wolfhounds became her guardians and her reason to breatheand why she built a nutrition range and wrote a 100,000-word book parked up in a van… because purpose had to be forged out of pain.We talk social anxiety, introversion, and the truth that saved her:“This too shall pass.”“Discipline is freedom.”“The body remembers what the soul won’t say.”You’ll hear how she survives the dark now: rhythms and routines—training, eating, work, wolves, nature—rinse and repeat until the cloud lifts.And we go deep on belonging—how some of us are called to live on the fringe, and still be a light in the darkness.This isn’t a highlight reel.It’s a human being, brave enough to tell the part most people skip.Episode 33: Part 2 — Amanda Allen.Hit play. Share it with someone who needs a reason to keep going.Hero Up.Support the show
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Legends—Part 2 is here.If Part 1 was pit to podium, Part 2 is what happens after the podium. Amanda Allen came back from a total hip replacement… and still qualified for the CrossFit Games.Then life swung again—shoulder blow-out, domestic violence, homeless in a van, and a relapse that almost cost her everything. And she’s never said this publicly—until now. In this episode, Amanda opens the pages on the stuff most people hide: the night with whiskey and sleeping tablets the loneliness no cro...
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