Tough Girl Challenges is all about motivating and inspiring women and girls. In this episode I interview Emma Timmis who is a phenomenal endurance athlete. Emma has done some extreme adventures where she’s pushed her body and mind to her limits. Emma was the winner of the National Adventurer of the Year Award in 2015 where she was recognised for her achievement in physical endeavour by running across Africa! This journey took 89 days, starting at the Atlantic Ocean at Henrie

Amy Hughes is a normal girl from Oswestry in Shropshire, who did an extraordinary challenge. Amy ran 53 marathons in 53 days and raised over £53,000 becoming a world record holder at the same time. During this podcast, Amy talks about her start into fitness and making the decision to take up running. Initially, she was so embarrassed, she would go for runs at six in the morning so no one else would see her. Learn how Amy persevered and went from a standing start to running ma

Cheryl Hunter is a motivational speaker, best selling author and transformational expert. Cheryl left her small town in Colorado and headed to Europe with the dream of making it big in the modelling world. What happened next almost broke her, she was kidnapped, raped, abused and held captive. The experience profoundly changed her and her outlook on life. In this episode Cheryl shares how she broke free of her mental prison and cracked the code for others to use. Cheryl is ver

Sally Kettle has always wanted to live an exciting life, she’s wanted to make the most of her time whilst she's here. She has thrown herself into numerous different challenges, from running the London Marathon, to rowing across the Atlantic twice! The fist time, never having been in a boat before and with her mum for company! Sally talks through her different challenges, explaining what made her want to do them, how they came about and how she prepared both physically and me

Tough Girl Challenges is all about motivating and inspiring women and girls. In this episode I interview Jessi Stensland an elite multi-sport athlete and movement specialist. As well as being a video journalist she is also the founder and creator of MovementU. Jessi has had a long and distinguished career over the past twenty years, with national and international wins. In 2004 she won the Half Ironman Mexico, her first attempt at that distance. The highlight of her career wa

Sophie Radcliffe from “Challenge Sophie” is currently living in Chamonix in the French Alps where she takes advantage of the mountains to run, cycle and to train for her next adventure. Sophie describes herself as a normal girl who just happens to love pushing herself both mentally and physical with various endurance challenges. Sophie talks about the mental and physical challenges she’s undertaken from completing the three peaks, cycling from London to Paris in twenty four h

I’d decided ages ago my launch date was going to be Tuesday 4th August (Tough Girl Tuesday!) and that would be when my podcast would go live. In order to have everything ready by that date I needed to submit my podcast to iTunes for review! This was the scary bit, I wasn’t sure how long it would take for them to review the podcast and get back to me. I decided to submit it on Friday in the morning, so it would give them at least two working days before my planned launched dat

Emma is a phenomenal endurance athlete and she has done some extreme adventures where she’s pushed her body to the limits. Emma was the winner of the National Adventurer of the Year in 2015 where she was recognised for her achievement in physical endeavour by running across Africa! A journey that took 89 days, starting at the atlantic Ocean at Henries Bay in Nambia and running across to the Indian Ocean at Pemba n Mozambique a distance of 3,974km. Emma will be sharing her inc

Cheryl Hunter has faced huge challenges in her life and used those experiences not only to change her life but to change hundred of thousands of other lives. Cheryl is a motivational speaker, best selling author and transformational expert. Cheryl shares her personal and inspirational story with us on the Tough Girl Podcast Tueday 4th August - Save the date. #ToughGirlPodcast #CherylHunter

Jane is the author of “Diva Wisdom" a fantastic book in which she shares her own very personal story of growing up and the lessons she’s learned on the way. Jane has spend the past ten years working with women and most recently teenage girls. She wants to empower the next generation of women and encourage them to be who they are, to be authentic and to let go of “little miss perfect” and trying to be “superwomen”. Jane first came to my attention as she is bringing Girls Out L

Jessi Stensland an elite multi-sport athlete and movement specialist. As well as being a video journalist she is also the founder and creator of MovementU. Jessi has had a long and distinguished career over the past twenty years, with national and international wins. In 2004 she won the Half Ironman Mexico, her first attempt at that distance. The highlight of her career was the Olympic journey which culminated with the 2004 US Olympic Triathlon Trials where she finished 4th a

The Tough Girl Podcast is a project I’ve been working on for a while and I’m really excited about sharing more of the details with you. At the moment, I’m getting ready for the BIG launch which is going to be Tuesday 4th August. I plan to release a new episode every week on a Tuesday morning along with a blog post about the guest. Tuesdays are now going to be known as Tough Girl Tuesdays! I’m really excited by this project, one of my goals when I set up Tough Girl Challenges