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Tough Girl Podcast — 869 episodes · page 7 of 9
Mara Hafezi - The Fit Londoner: Ironman UK, Wadi Rum Ultra marathon 2018 & The Speed Project running from LA to Las Vegas as fast as possible in 2019!
Zoe Langley-Wathen - Her love for long distance walking, #100mappydays & Head Right Out
Wendy Searle - Attempting to break the women's speed record for solo expedition to the South Pole, November 2019.
Natalie Moore - quitting her job and heading to Madagascar for 6 weeks on a marine conservation program! & Carola Fekter - Running 12 marathons in 12 months!
Monika Sattler - Management Consultant turned World Record Holder - 1st Women to cycle the Vuelta a España - 3,058km with 49,337m of climbing!
Dani French - 42 challenges before turning 42 & Hannah Dayan - getting back into cycling and doing Cyclo-cross!
Dr. Joyce Azzam - First Lebanese women to climb the 7 Summits & going after the Explorers Grand Slam!
Ellie Blake - Her journey to Ironman Wales & Meg Saunders - Hiking the Inca Trail and signing up for a marathon!
Dr. Tamie Jovanelly - World Explorer, focusing on major river systems including the Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, Ganges.
Shamila Kohestani - Former captain of the Afghan Women's soccer team - Gender Equality & how sports empower women.
Mel Nicholls - Paralympian, Endurance and Adventure Athlete, Handcycle LEJOG World Record Holder.
Paula Radcliffe MBE - fastest female marathoner of all time, and has held the Women's World Marathon Record in a time of 2:15:25 since 2003!
Sarah Williams - Reflections on 2018 and the start of 2019 - plus update on Tough Girl Challenges
Pippa Lyon - Fighting for Gender Equality with the InternationElles by riding the Tour De France 2019
Christine Dennison - diving and exploring in remote regions from the Arctic Sea to Amazon's Rio Negro. Plus Skiing to the North Pole as part of an all women team!
Laura Kennington - The North Sea Cycle route, the world's longest signposted cycle route, 8 countries, 6,000km #GreatNorthRide
Jen Benson - Adventuring with her partner and two young children, living in a tent for 18 months while exploring Britain's National Parks.
Ali Young - Team GB 24hr racing, chasing a 3hr PB in the marathon & racing in the legendary Spartathlon ultra race.
Krystle Wright - Semi-nomadic, adventure sports photographer with a passion for extreme expeditions!
Sally Kettle - The Life of an Adventurer after rowing the Atlantic Ocean twice!
Shona Macpherson - Taking on new challenges at 40 & her preparation for thru hiking the Pacific Crest Trail - SOBO in 2019!
Pippa Lyon – Completed the Race Around Ireland in 2017, had a baby in 2018 and is riding in the Tour De France 2019!
Alex Mason thru hiking the Appalachian Trail and planning her next BIG challenge (rowing 2 Oceans)!
Lucy Barnard - Her Goal to be the first women to walk the length of the Earth from Ushuaia Argentina, to Barrow Alaska! (Year 2 of the journey).
Liz Thomas - Queen of Urban Hiking, triple crown hiker, whose completing over 20 long distance hikes in the USA!
Tracy Herbert - Grandmother with Type 1 Diabetes, who completed a solo 3,527-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to New York!
Stephanie Case - UN human rights lawyer in Afghanistan, Ultrarunner - Tor des Géants, Western States 100, Barkley Marathon, & founder of Free to Run.
Hollie Woodhouse - The Adventurous Kiwi - Completing NZ's iconic Coast to Coast race, running the Marathon des Sables & most recently crossing the Greenland Ice Cap!
Melissa Urie - Mental health nurse completing Ultra-man Hawaii and in training for UBERMAN in October 2019.
Sarah Davis - First Female-Led Nile River Expedition - 6,853km from the source in Rwanda to the Mediterranean Sea!
Anna McNuff - Racing in the Kathmandu Coast to Coast, New Zealand & her next challenge - Barefoot Britain (100 Barefoot Marathons!)
Francesca Turauskis - Advocate for Adventure & Epilepsy, walked the Camino de Santiago solo, and host of Seize Your Adventure Podcast.
Dr. Memnia Theodorou : First and only Cypriot to have sailed from the UK to Australia as part of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Katie-Jane L'herpeniere - Completing the 1911 version of the Tour de France (5,500km in 23 days) & the Silk Road Mountain Race in Kyrgyzstan.
Anna Mitchell - "Fat chick goes AWOL" - 30-something accountant who dreamed of cycling, hiking and paddling her way around the world & how it all went wrong!
Sara Al Awadhi - Bouldering in the Middle East: Using climbing to discover your country and culture, and empowering other Arab and Muslim women to do the same.
Laura Try - Rowing 3,000 km in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge & part of the winning female team 2018
Caroline Van Hemert, PhD, is a biologist, writer, and adventurer - Completed a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe!
Leanne Spencer & Antonia Bannasch - The Worlds Toughest Ski Race , The Arctic Circle Race, Greenland - 160km!
Sara Schulting Kranz - overcoming trauma, getting back to nature and living by choice.
Chrissie Wellington - British Triathlete and 4X World Ironman Champion (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011), wife, mum and Global Head of Health and Wellbeing at Parkrun.
Alice Bond - taking a sabbatical from work and hiking the 1300km across the South Island of New Zealand followed by travelling in China and Japan!
Holly Budge - Adventurer & Conservationist - Summited Mt. Everest & holds 2 World Records - 1st women to Skydive Mt. Everest & raced 1000kms across Mongolia on Horseback!
Kate Rawles - Outdoor philosopher, writer, activist and cyclist. Cycling South America for the Life Cycle biodiversity bamboo bike ride!
Anna Blackwell - "Kayaking the Continent" - 4000 km from England to the Black Sea through 11 countries & 5 capital cities.
Di Westaway - Chief Adventure Chick (CEO), Founder of Wild Women On Top and Coastrek.
Bex Band - The Ordinary Adventurer sharing more about her life as a nomad and Kick Scooting the length of the States from Canada to Mexico!
Georgina Miranda - CEO of She Ventures | Adventurer, entrepreneur and activist. Completed 6 of the 7 summits and going after the Explorers Grand-slam!
Jacqui Furneaux - 68 - Spending 7 years travelling the world on a motorbike!
Jenny Tough - Running across 2 mountain ranges - the Atlas of Morocco, and the Bolivian Andes!
Callie Morgigno - Bike touring in Asia, climbing Denali and Aconcagua & finishing a 5,000 mile unsupported ski, kayak and bike from Arctic Russia in mid-winter, to the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul!
Dr. Favia Dubyk - Climber. Animal Lover. Physician. American Ninja Warrior. Surviving Cancer One Day At A Time
Jessica "Dixie" Mills - Thru hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) & the Continental Trail Divide (CDT) thereby completing the "triple crown" of hiking!
Veronica Ribot de Cañales - retired diver, 3x Olympian, becoming an SUP racer and Yogi in her late 50s!
Ayesha McGowan - Her mission is to become the first ever African-American pro female road racer!
Brigitte Muir, professional mountaineer & first Australian woman to climb Mount Everest!
Sarah Begum - Immersive Investigative Journalist. Anthropologist-Explorer. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Sara Hastreiter - Current challenge - to be the first women to sail the 7 seas and to climb the highest summits of the world's 7 continents!
Abbi Naylor - Expedition Leader. Outdoor Instructor. Adventurer & Endurance Athlete who completed 30 challenges to celebrate turning 30 in 2018!
Sarah Williams - Cycling the Pacific Coast Highway & Baja Divide
Allie Bailey - has run over 60 races, from half marathons to 100 mile ultras & in January she became the 1st women to run across a 100 mile wide froze lake in Mongolia!
EKikkan Randall - 5X Olympian, Olympic champion cross-country skier 2018 & World Champion, "Get-Activist" and Mom Athlete.
Bettina Guirkinger and Kat Scriven from Aurora Wild Women of the World, Adventuring through Africa in search of the powerful & inspiring women to share and document their stories.
Carolin Botterill - 52 year old mum of 3 who became an accidental ultra runner!
Janey McGill - 630-mile trek of the South West Coast Path, planting sunflower seeds to honour the 616 soldiers severely wounded as a result of the war in Afghanistan.
Loretta Henderson - quit her normal life at 36, and having never cycled before, set off to cycle around the world!
Capt. Sophie Hollingsworth - Former Ballerina turned award winning explorer - New Explorer of the Year 2017. Fulbright Scholar. Fellow of The Explorers Club & PostGrad Fellow of RGS.
Jen Scotney - 36, Vegan, Ultra-runner who works as a Human Rights Lawyer.
Lowri Davies - Kayaker, European Freestyle Champion & adventurer who has paddled in remote locations around the world, claiming first descents in Mongolia and Georgia.
Susie Mitchell - How she trained thru pregnancy and won her 1st World Masters Track Championship 4 months after giving birth!
Nikki Barnard - Ultra runner, recovered from stress fractures and looking at doing the Bob Graham Round this year, in training for Marathon des Sables in 2019!
Katy Parrott - Finalist in the BBC Special Forces: #UltimateHellWeek. Adventure Seeker, Wildlife & Expedition Filmmaker. Army Reservist.
Jane Harries - 51 talks about her life, travel and completing the Marathon des Sables. Jane is also the founder of AdventureShe Magazine.
Tricia Downing - Wheelchair Athlete, Mental Toughness Speaker, Author, Helping you GET YOUR GRIT ON.
Sarah Williams - Planning and Preparation for the Pacific Coast Highway & the Baja Divide!
Janine Doggett - 37, freelance writer & blogger, from Bristol who cycled LEJOG solo via the 3 peaks in 2018!
Terra Roam became the first woman to walk 17,000km, solo and unsupported around Australia!
Katy Willings - Chief of Adventures at The Adventurists - Competing the Rickshaw Rally and rode in the inaugural Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race!
Nicky Spinks - 1st person ever to run a Double Ramsay Round in the Scottish mountains! 116 miles. 57,000ft of ascent. 48 peaks. Time: 55hrs 56mins
Pip Stewart - Cycling 13,000 miles from Malaysia back home to London and most recently paddling the entire length of The Essequibo, South America's third largest river, from source to sea
Paula McGuire - "Must Try Harder" an unlikely adventurer who is an anxiety survivor.
Hannah Cox - How she got out of £20,000 of debt and saved £15,000 in a year to go on a 10 month, 18,000 mile journey from the UK to Bhutan
Hannah Cox - minimalist & adventurer who travelled 18,000 miles overland from the UK to Bhutan on a journey to discover happiness!
Rachel Ann Cullen - Author of "Running for my Life" sharing about mental health and how she eventually overcomes her demons through running,
Dr. Ghazala Ahmad-Mear - Surgeon for the NHS, Adventurer and only woman who walked with Robert Swan on the South Pole Energy Challenge in January 2018.
Felicity Aston - Expedition Leader for The Women's Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition 2018.
Olivia Round - Embarked on a 5,000 mile solo bicycle journey across the United States, in an effort to face her deep-seated phobia of men
Leanne Spencer - Citi exec until burnout, recovered, became a PT, & co-founded Bodyshot! She's taken part in 3x Scotland Coast to Coast Races, as well as Man V Mountain! Currently training for the Arctic Circle Race in 2019!
Mirna Valerio - "The Mirnavator" - Ultra Marathon Runner & National Geographic 2018 Adventurer of the Year!
Moire O'Sullivan - Mountain Runner, Adventure Racer, & New Mum! Author of Bump, Bike and Baby!
Helen Croydon - This Girl Ran: Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete - ditching a glamorous city girl lifestyle, and two years later qualifying to be a GB age-group triathlete!
Susan Conrad - Kayaking 'the Inside Passage', 1,200 miles down the western coast of North America from Anacortes, Washington to Juneau, Alaska.
Hannah Engelkamp - Walked the 1000-mile circumference of Wales with Chico the donkey!
Sacha Dench - 'The Human Swan' travelling 7,000 km from Arctic Russia to the UK on a paramotor!
Kiko Matthews - Overcame Cushing's Disease, and the removal of 2 brain tumours to become a Guinness World Record holder as the fastest women to row the Atlantic Ocean!
Fiona Oakes - The vegan 'Queen of the Extreme' - A British marathon runner, who holds three world records for marathon running!
Cazz Lander - running ultras, doing 12 challenges in 12 months & training to row the pacific ocean!
Charlene Gibson - Oldest British women to summit Cho Oyu in 2016 and now heading to climb Ama Dablam in 2018!
Anna-Marie Watson - Performance coach & founder Reach for More. Endurance athlete recovering #UTMB2017 #HMDS2017.
Katherine Knight - A qualified Yachtmaster Ocean, offshore racer and has won international speed sailing competitions as well as the women's European title in her Moth.