Podcast appearances and mentions of Helen Glover

In this episode of The Netmums Podcast, Wendy and Alison are joined by naturalist, adventurer, TV presenter, and dad-of-three Steve Backshall. Best known for Deadly 60 and his breathtaking wildlife expeditions, Steve chats candidly about the chaos, comedy, and deep joy of parenting alongside his wife, Olympic rower Helen Glover. From breakfast-in-bed fails to scaling oak trees with his kids, Steve brings his trademark humour and heartfelt honesty to a wide-ranging conversation about fatherhood, family life, and his latest adventure into the world of podcasting. The conversation covers: The Everyday Wildness of Parenthood: Why tying shoelaces, meltdowns in public, and parenting “feral” children are his new extreme challenges. Finding Balance with Helen Glover: How he and Helen juggle Olympic-level careers, school runs, and quality family time (spoiler: not perfectly). Father's Day Real Talk: Why he dreads breakfast in bed and what a "wholesome" Sunday looks like in the Backshall household. Parenting in the Public Eye: Navigating toddler tantrums when everyone's watching—and yes, everyone is watching. Nature as a Reset Button: Steve's powerful belief in the mental health benefits of the outdoors, and how a walk by the river can fix almost anything. Letting Kids Be Who They Are: The importance of not pushing children into your own passions—even if you really want them to love sharks. Big New Adventures: Steve's exciting move into podcasting (That's Just Wild) and his upcoming arena tour, Deadly Live, complete with dinosaurs, stunts, and stage science. Stay connected with Netmums for more parenting stories, laughs, and real-life insights:  Website: netmums.com Instagram: @netmums

After becoming a mother, no one asked Helen Glover if she'd return to elite sport. It wasn't a question - it was an assumption. That silence lit a fire. In this honest and inspiring conversation, Olympic champion Helen Glover OBE reflects on the quiet power of holding on to your dreams, even when the world moves on. She shares how motherhood challenged her identity, fuelled her comeback and helped her discover a new kind of strength. Because parenthood isn't the end of your ambition - it can be the beginning of something even greater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of International Women's Day on 8th March, Gabby has brought a very special group of women together to talk about the road to parity; what progress has been made, and what still needs to happen to secure gender equality. All four of these women have achieved sporting greatness, and redefined what it means to be a female in sport; Karen Carney OBE played football well over 100 times for England, hurdler Sally Gunnell OBE once held the Commonwealth, European, World, and Olympic titles concurrently, Dame Denise Lewis was the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon, and two-time Olympic champion Helen Glover MBE blazed a new trail when she came out of retirement to compete at the Olympics after having her children. All of them have overcome gender barriers at the cutting edge of elite sports and are passionate about leaving things in a better place for the next generation of women whatever their goals or aspirations may be; they embody the determination and will - not to mention, the competitive nature! - that's needed to #AccelerateAction this International Women's Day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP 67 - Interested in working in sports but not as an athlete, coach, or physio? Hugo Jafari is the founder of Ignite Sports Management, an boutique agency that manages some of the worlds leading athletes including Tom Dean, Max Whitlock, Helen Glover and so many more.We share how you can break into the world of athlete management, considerations when starting an agency, so inspiration athlete stories and so much more! Timestamps:0:00 - Intro5:55 - NEVER Do This When Starting In Sports Industry9:14 - The Decision To Work For A Small Or Big Agency14:18 - You Have To Identify Your Area Of Specialism Early20:50 - Starting Ignite Sports Management25:02 - Biggest Challenge Starting An Agency35:25 - Tom Dean Transcends His Sport39:11 - Finding The Right Athletes To Represent49:28 - Is Experience More Important Than A Uni Degree?56:22 - How The Sports Industry Has Evolved Over The Past 12 years59:58 - Inspirational Emily Campbell Story1:03:02 - Educating Students On Sports Careers1:09:15 - You Have To Be BRAVE! 1:13:10 - Quick Fire Questions With HugoFOLLOW US! ►https://www.instagram.com/wmbfdpod/https://twitter.com/wmbfdpodhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bayo-adeoshun-32583156/Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-jafari-093195a2https://www.ignite-sports.co.uk/For more quality content, subscribe here ➡ @wmbfdpod 

You've got to give new things a go and not give up when you're a bit crap at first. Team GB Olympic rower Helen Glover is clear that a huge part of her success is thanks to her mindset that it's better to try and fail than not try at all. In this chat with Fearne, Helen explains how to have the discipline to stick at stuff that feels important to you, even if it doesn't always feel easy. By her own admission, Helen “couldn't have been further from an Olympian” when she started training... At Tokyo 2020, Helen was the first mum to represent Great Britain in rowing at an Olympic Games. She's passionate about pushing back on the perception that age or parenthood should be a barrier in anything you're trying to achieve. She and Fearne unpick the narrative that says women probably won't be all that ambitious once they've had kids! Plus, what's the weirdest place you've found yourself breastfeeding in? Fearne and Helen share theirs... If you liked this episode of Happy Place, you might also like: Molly McCann Leah Williamson Adele Roberts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gold medal winning rower Helen Glover joins Nihal for an in-depth discussion.She talks about family, success and whether or not she'll be there in LA.Headliners is Nihal Arthanayake's new Sunday evening show and podcast, featuring exclusive in-depth interviews with headline guests across entertainment, sport, culture and politics.

Suzy interviews Dr. Polly Swan, an elite rower and medical doctor, on the Movement Prescription podcast. They delve into Polly's Olympic success, medical career, and balancing both endeavors. The discussion covers Polly's challenges, including injuries and overtraining, and the support she received. Polly shares her pandemic training experience, emphasizing the importance of outdoor activities. They explore Polly's Olympic journey, partnership with Helen Glover, and the legacy of inspiring others through sports. The conversation touches on empowering young women through sports, Polly's TEDx talk, and promoting physical activity in the medical field.Produced using funding from NHS Tayside Educational Fund and the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.Find us at https://themovementprescription.co.uk/

Team GB keep collecting the medals and it's been a brilliant 48 hours for the rowers. Alex is joined by winners Esme Booth, Rebecca Shorten, Samantha Redgrave and Helen Glover as well as Matt Aldridge, Freddie Davidson, David Ambler and Oli Wilkes Rowing .Tom takes to the pool this evening and we're hoping he brings back more silverwear.If you want to get in touch follow @tomdean_medalmachine or email medalmachine@global.com, and remember you can follow Tom @tomdean00.

At the Tokyo Olympics, two-time gold medallist Helen Glover showed to herself and the world that a working mother could also be an Olympian. And that, so we thought, was that. Except, well, some people are cut from a different cloth and Helen saw an opportunity to prove that women shouldn't be written off at a certain age or life stage. What if she could medal in Paris at 38 with her kids at the finish line and at an age when they would remember seeing their mum doing her thing? Helen describes how she came to decide on such a big turnaround, how she juggles the different roles in her life and why she thinks being a parent has actually changed her career as an athlete for the better. Helen also compares how this Olympics compares to her first in 2012, the differences in moving from a pair to a team of four and she describes, beat by beat, what it's like to actually race in an Olympic final when it's all on the line. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Glover discusses her career as an Olympic Gold medal winner and also her aims for this summer's games in Paris. She talks about how she began her rowing career, the legacy that she hopes to leave and her greatest moments in life and her career.

Earlier this month, the British Olympic Association announced the 42 athletes selected to represent Team GB in rowing at 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Among them is the two-time Olympic gold medallist Helen Glover competing at this level for the 4th time as part of the Women's four. In 2015 Helen was ranked the top female rower in the world and went on to become the first mother to row for Team GB in 2021. Now having had three children she has her sights set on the podium once more - joining the ranks of other athletes who've achieved sporting success after having a family - cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, sprinter Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, and tennis players Elina Svitolina and Serena Williams. Helen joins Anita Rani.In the next of the Woman's Hour interviews with the leaders of the main political parties in the run-up to the General Election, Anita speaks to Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Meltdown festival opens at the Southbank Centre in London on Friday. Anita Rani hears from one the acts selected by the legendary American singer/songwriter Chaka Khan. It's the pan-African, all female super group Les Amazones d'Afrique, who shot to global fame in 2017, when President Obama included one of their songs among his 20 favourite tracks of the year. They were formed in Mali in 2014, with the goal of campaigning for gender equality and eradicating ancestral violence. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey Editor: Karen Dalziel

In this episode of The 5 O' Clock Apron Podcast Claire cooks with wildlife TV presenter, adventurer and naturalist Steve Backshall. Keen to use his brand new BBQ in his garden on the banks of the Thames, Steve cooks a fish curry, inspired by his extensive travels in India, particularly during his time as 'Adventurer in Residence' for National Geographic. Discover what an adventurer eats in the wild and cooks at home with the family. Hear Steve's take on sustainable fishing, river pollution and how the Thames has changed over the last few years, while he educates Claire on the swan mussel and other Thames edibles. Learn what Steve found in a suitcase under his house, and about his wife, rower Helen Glover's 4th Olympic bid for a gold medal in Paris this summer. On cue, a kingfisher swoops past the pair as they cook the curry together, the Thames flowing and a rather chilly wind blowing. A great day, with a top guy.Steve is on tour with his Steve Backshall Ocean live show this autumn, so if you want to see the man in real life, it's strong recommend from us, especially Dot! https://www.stevebackshall.com/liveshows Follow Claire at 5 O' Clock apron on Instagram to get the recipe. https://www.instagram.com/5oclockapron/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"You are bang up to date on everything you need to know ahead of Paris 2024" Michael sums it up perfectly in our latest Paris 2024 episode - European Champions! A full rowing round up from Hungary includes Helen Glover, Rebecca Shorten, Esme Booth and Sam Redgrave the women's four gold medalists, and men's pair Tom George & Ollie Wynne-Griffith. British Boxing's been praised by the IOC for its role in helping Cindy Ngamba book her place in the biggest refugee team ever for Paris 2024. And Michael speaks to Georgia Bell a rising star on and off the track for British Athletics as the new outdoor season is now upon us! We're less than 3 months til the Olympic Games - tell your friends where you get the news you need to know! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back with our latest complaints about Survivor 46! We're Cha-Chaing into the beginning of a post-Bhanu Survivor 46, talking about the formatting of the 90 minute episodes, New Era "record" setting, Survivor trivia, the ease of finding beware idols, the watering down of Journeys, the editors gooning over idol hunts, the ousting of Jem over Ben and a missed opportunity to include a Helen Glover clip package in the New Era.   Subscribe to Drop Your Buffs on Patreon for exclusive content.   Join the conversation! Find us on Instagram: Drop Your Buffs: @dropyourbuffspod Evan: @evanrosskatz Sean: @soda.pup

It's not every week we have a double olympic champion on the podcast, but this week rower Helen Glover is adding a touch of greatness to proceedings. Speaking directly from a training camp in Portugal ahead of what will hopefully be her fourth olympic games, Helen reveals what motivated her to come out of retirement - not once, but twice - and what it's like juggling motherhood with the demands of being an elite athlete. Helen speaks about the way that her perspective has changed as she's got older; how going through multiple pregnancies has actually made her feel stronger; and her anxieties about retiring completely from the job she still loves. Author of How To Build A Healthy Brain, Kimberley Wilson, also joins to discuss the relationship between exercise and brain health, and why every time you move your body you give your brain a boost! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Glover discusses her career as an Olympic Gold medal winner and also her aims for this summer's games in Paris.She talks about how she began her rowing career, the legacy that she hopes to leave and her greatest moments in life and her career.TOPICS 0 mins - Preparing for Paris 3 mins - Earning her place 5 mins - Juggling parenting with competition 10 mins - Helen's rowing beginnings 13 mins - "Work hard and you can do anything" 15 mins - Helen's first Olympic gold medal 20 mins - Helen's greatest moments 22 mins - Goals for Paris

The amazing Helen Glover is our next Medal Machiner. She discusses with Tom her previous gold medals, and the difference in competing now that she has a family and has come back from retirement. If you want to get in touch follow @tomdean_medalmachine or email medalmachine@global.com, and remember you can follow Tom @tomdean00.

She's admired for being a history-making Olympian, but Helen Glover's own admiration goes to RNLI crews. The Cornish rower explains why Having lived by the sea in Cornwall all her life, Olympic rower Helen Glover has loved the water for as long as she can remember. So it's no surprise that she's long admired the RNLI crews that put their lives on the line to save others. In particular, she singles out the volunteers from Penzance – where Helen grew up – who were tragically lost in the 1981 Penlee lifeboat disaster. In this episode, hear Helen explain why she has so much respect for the selfless RNLI volunteers. And find out which moment during her London 2012 Olympics journey was the most special. 200 Voices is produced by Adventurous Audio for the RNLI    Interview by Adventurous Audio Soundtrack composed and performed by Jon Nicholls    The RNLI is a charity celebrating 200 years of saving lives at sea - find out more at RNLI.org/200   

What can you learn about performance in about 10 minutes from the best in sport, entertainment, business and politics?Performance Hacks gives you two great performance tips you can apply to everyday life from each of our Performance People podcast guests.In this episode, double Olympic gold medallist, Helen Glover shares a strategy to hack time itself and her wildlife TV presenter husband, Steve Backshall, explains how he fuels up for his epic expeditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's One Year to Go! Paris 2024 organisers, and the French capital city, are in full preparation mode as John finds out on his trip on the Eurostar, across the channel! The International Olympic Committee are still refusing to talk about Russia and Belarus... And we're at the training ground of PSG (but we don't talk footy!), we it's actually the Georges Lefevre Stadium and complex which is one of three Team GB bases for the summer games next year. We hear from IOC President Thomas Bach, Team GB chef de mission Mark England, Olympic champion Helen Glover and Team GB gymnast Joe Fraser on the plans for Paris in 12 months time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can you learn about performance in 10 minutes?Performance 10 gives you the best performance led bits from our original podcasts in edited 10 minute cutdowns. Each episode follows two key themes that emerged during the recordings.In this performance 10, Helen and Ben discuss the brutal nature of the Olympic rowing programme and Steve lifts the curtain on a typical night in.Takeaway thinking…don't waste time.Georgie + Ben spoke with Helen and Steve on 5th September 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In Episode Two of Broken Oars University, Broken Oars Podcast's Northern One explores fundamental equivalences between being a rower, and the discipline, practice and craft of rowing and being a musician, and the discipline, practice and craft of music.   Looking at the cultural location and narratives of both, this episode looks at how we self-identify with what resonates with us; the learning trajectory of both disciplines; the importance of mechanical practice and how that leads us to states of grace in both.   Taking in figures in both arenas from Eric Murray and Helen Glover to Maxim Vengerov and Eddie Van Halen to Johnny Dawes and Eugene Ysaye, although it does get into aspects of the psychology of the self, emotional response and spiritual ground, the idea that being a rower and rowing and being a musician and playing music possess core fundamental equivalences is not as big a reach as you think; and it's not as woo as you might fear.   If you've ever been in a boat when it's really moving, if you've ever played in a band when it's really cooking ... ? You're feeling the same thing and you got there the same way.   Get Some!   This episode of Broken Oars has no swearing in it, and is safe to play around children.    (Please click the link here for the Two Set Violin and Maxim Vengerov masterclass, which starts at 31.26 in their clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbA5KDChZw  

Helen Glover is a two-time Olympic rowing gold medallist, triple World champion, quintuple World Cup champion and quadruple European champion. Helen only took up rowing in 2008, aged 21. She won Olympic gold just four years later at London 2012. After Rio 2016 she stepped away from rowing to get married and have children. A delayed Tokyo Olympics saw Helen get back in the boat in 2021 and become the first mum to compete for GB Rowing, finishing fourth in the pairs.Alongside Helen is her wildlife TV presenter husband, Steve Backshall. Best known for BBC's Deadly 60 series, Steve is also an adventurer, environmental campaigner and author. Steve and Helen co-wrote, Wildlings: How to Raise Your Family in Nature, in 2022, a book encouraging children to spend time in the great outdoors.Together they talk about Helen's lockdown decision to return to elite sport with three kids in tow, the brutal reality of training for the Olympics, re-assessing the risks of a life in the wild and why a King Cobra is a safer bet than a night out on the town.This four way conversation was recorded on 5th September 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mathew Carter is the co founder of Gingernuts Creative. A content creation agency based in Soho.    Gingernuts creates highly engaging content for brands & organisations social channels. Working closely with brands to help improve their reach and understand the minefield that is social media.    Mathew has presented regularly with Sky & BT Sport.    Having interviewed some of the most established athletes in their field including Maro Itoje, Ugo Monye, Sam Warburton, Joe Marler & two time Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover.    Mat lives with type one diabetes and is addicted to moving his body. Having recently completing the London marathon.    Mat began his career in the fitness industry writing regularly for Men's Health. This has given him the foundations for everything he does today.   The Angus Warburton Podcast is the show that brings listeners a different perspective on what winning actually means. As a leading personal trainer and coach, Angus is committed to helping people reach their fullest potential and hit the top levels of personal peak performance and, through this show, he will distil what other high-achievers have done to attain their greatness too.   You may well recognise a lot of the famous faces that Angus sits down with to chat, but you will be a lot less familiar with the responses shared as his roster of celebrity guests, entrepreneurs, influencers and thought-leaders go more in-depth than you would expect from your standard interview.

Helen Glover returns to her beloved childhood patch of Newlyn and Penzance in Cornwall to explore the area where she grew up and discover how it's changed since she was a girl. Helen is a double Olympic gold-medal winner and her love of physical activity and the outdoors was shaped by her childhood environment. She recalls running along the prom as part of her training as a schoolgirl athlete, and reflects on fond memories of her Dad's small but legendary ice-cream business, wheeling supplies up down the road in an old pram. Helen also visits the Penlee Lifeboat with long-time RNLI Coxswain, Patch Harvey and meets the Battery Belles, an outdoor swimming group who plunge into the sea every morning. She considers how the cliffs she's known all her life are gradually changing through relentless erosion, and speaks to the director of an art school who ran a mass painting event to raise awareness and funds to protect the landscape he loves. She also meets an artist who had a very near miss when the cliff he was painting under collapsed shortly after he left. Helen also reflects on the sad fact that her favourite beaches are now littered with plastic, and catches up with a young beach cleaner who devotes hours to picking up and making art from other people's waste. Contributors include: Tina Riggall of the Battery Belles; Landscape painter Paul Lewin; Henry Garfit of the Newlyn School of Art; Patch Harvey, RNLI; Louis-Matisse litter picker and artist. Please scroll down, on the R4 Open Country webpage, for related links. Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol - Karen Gregor

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week's moment is a really inspiring one. It is with Helen Glover MBE, the Olympic rower who famously went back to rowing after having 3 children. In this short clip she describes the key to how she achieved her impossible dream. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. ABOUT HELEN GLOVER MBE Double Olympic champion, three-times world champion, twice European champion and a multiple world cup gold-medal winner – Helen Glover is one of the most decorated athletes in the GB Rowing Team. After stepping away from rowing to get married and have three children, Helen returned to the team in 2021 with the goal of being the first mother to compete for the GB Rowing Team. Glover only took up rowing in 2008 and won a historic gold medal at the Olympic Games in London just four years later. Her outstanding women's pair partnership with Heather Stanning became the first British female rowers to successfully defend an Olympic title when they won gold at Rio 2016. That completed a perfect Olympiad for Glover in the pair – she won every race she competed in and claimed a hat-trick of world titles, one with Polly Swann and two with Stanning. You can follow her on Instagram. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day.

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to British rower, Helen Glover MBE. Ranked the world's top female rower in 2015-2016, Helen is a double Olympic champion, three-times world champion, and easily one of the most decorated athletes in the GB Rowing Team. She's also a mum and co-author of a new book with her husband Steve Backshall - Wildlings. Helen tells Ali how she made the GB Team despite missing a couple of inches in height, why she nearly said no to her biggest break, and how she got to Tokyo from her living room in lockdown. This WDIAGR episode is sponsored by YunoJuno Freelance Marketplace.

Welcome to the week's episode of the podcast. Thank you for being here and pressing play. I really appreciate you. This is a very inspiring episode with the Olympic rower Helen Glover MBE. This story is incredible. After winning gold in Rio in 2016, Helen decided to hang up her rows, step away from rowing, and start a family. She now has 3 children, but the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown brought on a change in perspective. And despite not having stepped foot in a boat since Rio four years earlier, Helen decided to take a shot at a third Olympics in Tokyo. What happens next is incredible. Not because I want to start rowing or because I want to be a leading sportswoman, but because this episode is really about taking our dreams very seriously as mothers. And I think that is something we don't do enough. It is being really intentional about the trade-offs we are willing to make for the big things we want to do in life. I ask her at the end what is harder: training for the Olympics or motherhood. I think her answer will surprise you. I hope you love this episode. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. THIS WEEK'S SPONSORS - GYMONDO We are grateful to Gymondo for sponsoring this week's episode Gymondo is an online fitness and well-being platform with 100s of 20 to 30-minute workouts and training programmes ranging from HIIT and yoga to dance and meditation, plus over 1000 healthy recipes. Aside from the freedom and flexibility Gymondo offers, exercising at home is fun, saves you money, fits perfectly into your lifestyle and helps you stick to your fitness goals. Start a 14-day FREE trial and save 50% on your annual membership. You may access the offer just by clicking on this link or by going to gymondo.com and adding the code MOTHERKIND. ABOUT HELEN GLOVER MBE Double Olympic champion, three-times world champion, twice European champion and a multiple world cup gold medal winner – Helen Glover is one of the most decorated athletes in the GB Rowing Team. After stepping away from rowing to get married and have three children, Helen returned to the team in 2021 with the goal of being the first mother to compete for the GB Rowing Team. Glover only took up rowing in 2008 and won a historic gold medal at the Olympic Games in London just four years later. Her outstanding women's pair partnership with Heather Stanning became the first British female rowers to successfully defend an Olympic title when they won gold at Rio 2016. That completed a perfect Olympiad for Glover in the pair – she won every race she competed in and claimed a hat-trick of world titles, one with Polly Swann and two with Stanning. You can follow her on Instagram. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022: Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day.

What's it like being a two-time Olympic champion, quintuple World Cup champion, and a mother of three? Helen Glover joins Scaz, Elma and Mike this week to talk rugby, rowing and parenting.

Helen Glover is a two-time gold medal winning rower and a mum to three under threes. She is also the first mother to have qualified for the GB Olympic rowing team. We talked about how lockdown hit when her twins were 6 weeks old and how Helen found herself training at home and then qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.She explained how she found her body was actually stronger after giving birth - a discovery which she has since shared with Olympic coaches so that more women might be channeled into Olympic training post-children. She also talked about her love of being outdoors, which she ofcourse shares with her husband Steve Backshall. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here on RNIB Connect Radio we are catching up with some of the Paralympics GB visually impaired medal winners from the Tokyo Paralympic Games to find out how they got into sport, what winning that medal was like out in Tokyo and their advice for other visually impaired people on how to get into sport at any level. Our Toby Davey caught up with Ellen Buttrick, who along with the rest of the Paralympics GB Mixed Coxed 4 rowing team won a Gold medal out on the water in Tokyo. Ellen began by explaining to Toby that she was a very sporty child who wanted to try any sport but could not find anything she was really good at until she found rowing at the age of 17 when she signed up to join Leeds Rowing Team a week before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Ellen was inspired by some of the London 2012 female rowers including Helen Glover who had only got into rowing 3 years prior to London, but it was the Paralympics that really inspired Ellen even more and she thought - wow these people are amazing imagine if I had a disability and I would love to do that and make the most of things - and two years later Ellen got that chance herself! Ellen then tells Toby about being diagnosed with Stargardt's in 2014, making it into the Paralympic rowing team, training up to and through the pandemic getting to Tokyo, competing out on the water and of course that final Gold medal race finishing 11 seconds ahead of second place USA.  Ellen ends by sharing her advice to other visually impaired people on how to get into sport, what they might get out of sport and giving things a go even if you don't think you might be good at a sport as you will meet friends that you may never normally meet in life.  Congratulations again Ellen to you and the rest of the Paralympics GB Mixed Coxed 4 rowing team from everyone at the RNIB on that Paralympic Rowing Gold medal. (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

Business Psychologist Michael Costello meets Will Greenwood and Ben Fennell to discuss their life lessons and new book "World Class: Lead, Learn and Grow Like a Champion". Drawing on insights from elite athlete & coaches such as Dan Carter, Kate Richardson Walsh, Rio Ferdinand, Helen Glover & Sir Clive Woodward as well as Business Leaders from Tesco, Unilever, Virgin Media the conversation explores what businesses can learn from sport and what sport can learn from business. This interview shares lessons learnt from - The communications in the England changing room 5 minutes before the Rugby World Cup Final (winning the battle for hearts & minds) - The good the bad and ugly of coaching during his three, yes, three, tours with the Lions (ensuring brilliance can create magic & "riff") - How the team grew stronger not just through a player strike days before a test match but also a little conflict injected by the Royal Marines (England's 'Code of Conduct' and what leaders do to support the 'Disagree and Commit' process) - And lastly Sir Clive Woodward's incredible response to Will's news that his wife Caro had been taken to hospital in England during the World Cup campaign in Australia (the importance of well-being, kindness and leaders investing in their character) Podcast Notes: The book is published by Ebury Edge and Penguin Random House and is available on the 2nd September 2021. To find out more about the book visit http://smarturl.it/worldclassbk or https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/144/1443223/world-class/9780753558775.html Ben Fennell is a master in the field of advertising - developed from 16 years as the CEO of Bartle Bogle Hegarty in Singapore & London – today he works as the CEO of the Growth House working with global brands to develop their senior leaders. Find out more about Ben via the Growth House and via twitter @FennellB. Will Greenwood was critical to ensuring England powered to Rugby World Cup victory in 2003, is a leading broadcaster and commentator of the game and journalist for the Telegraph for 16 years. Find out more via twitter @WillGreenwood @OurlegendUK @Festivalsportuk & https://willgreenwood.co.uk/ To contact the podcast please email admin@workplaceevolution.co.uk or connect with Michael Costello via linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcostellooccpsych1/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jointheevolution/message

Where your hosts genially navigate their Sunday morning tendernesses to ask if GB Rowing came home without a win due to the absence of Gingers (of course that's the reason, every boat needs a Ginger) and ask the question that seems to have escaped everyone in the shitstorm: are things really that bad? Is it all down to grandad bed-blockers not letting the young 'uns have a go in Rio?  Will it all be okay in Paris? Recorded in one take without any of our usual editing process in place, and thus with more moments of brain-fart in it than usual, we also ask: -  Can Matthew Pinsent please stop telling crews he knows exactly how they feel after getting fourth place in the Olympics (A great attempt to display sympathy if not empathy, but he doesn't. He won. Every time. Sometimes by quite small margins, but still ... ) - Do we need to solve a problem like James Cracknell? (No, is the short answer. James Cracknell is the watchman who watches the watchmen. And not only were no James Cracknells were harmed in the making of this episode - but we also didn't steal his motorbike). - Can anyone, anywhere, say anything bad at any time about Helen Glover? - Is it all the fault of a 70-something year-old man who had frankly already earned his retirement ten times over (aka was this all a long plot by the GDR conceived during the Cold War to bring down British Rowing in the twenty-first century?) In setting the British Rowing world to rights with a level of nuance, understanding and bluntness plainly absent from better-placed and certainly better paid commentators, we also ask if the Posh Southern One survived being lured by mermaids to his death; the ennervating properties of salt water, and what Rick Savage from Def Leppard can tell Josh Bugaski about four-year projects, success and working with a demanding producer / coach ...   ... and is a gold medal always a gold medal? (Pip says yes, Northern one says otherwise. Quel Surprise).   Strokeside? Bowside? This is unedited material with potentially a high level of bollocks being talked. You have been warned!

Remembering the importance of play - with the first woman to make a British Olympic rowing team after having children.Helen Glover is already a two-time Olympic Gold medal winner, and wasn't expecting to have the opportunity to win a third.Since winning gold at Rio 2016, Helen has given birth to three children. She has a three-year old, and a pair of one-year-old twins to contend with.She had no plans to get back in the boat, but during lockdown Helen found herself back on the rowing machine, where the Olympic itch gradually returned. And now she's back in Tokyo making history!In this episode, Helen shares lessons-a-plenty - including around the importance of play, how pressure is self-induced, letting go of 'negative' emotions and the skill of being coachable.She also talks about the inspiration she gets from all the support she has received on social media - particularly from new mums.**Sign up for the Mundie on monday newsletter at www.simonmundie.com - this week looking at the downside of goals, the upside of gratitude and other top nuggets to get your week off to a flyer.Follow me on instagram.com/simonmundie/Follow me on twitter.com/simonmundie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Six GB crews took to the water on day two of the racing from Tokyo 2020. On today's Tokyo Debrief we have Heather Stanning, Olympic gold medallist twice with Helen Glover in the women's pairs; Mark Hunter, Olympic gold and silver medallist, together with rowing aficionado and blogger Daniel Spring. They talk to our host Fergus Mainland about all the action overnight from the women's pair and lightweight women's double sculls through to the men's and women's fours and eights. The Debrief is produced in association with Junior Rowing News.

Ladies and Gentlemen ... !   Children of all ages ... !   The counter-intuitive Olympics Episode!   Featuring:   Becoming Masters D, meeting old friends and finding they've got bigger guns than you, being a boat tart, rhythm and timing, the difficulties of being funny AND quirky (it's tough, but we make it look easy ...), and what to do if your Chapman, your Chapman suddenly turns into your cox.   And that's all before we get to the Olympics!   What does a sixteen-month pandemic, very little out of competition testing and the invention of 'magic shoes' mean? Is Flo Jo's perfectly natural record (among others) is finally in danger of falling? What was the dirtiest games in history? Do Redgrave and Pinsent's Gold at Atlanta suddenly look like significant achievements?   Should Tokyo go ahead? Is the IOC only in it for the money? (Bears. Woods). Should we all go and visit the nearest village with bubonic plague and see what happens next? (Go on, we dare you). What would have been a better alternative, and is it the Posh Southern One's conception of a global sustainable Olympic movement? (If the answer is yes, can we have some money, please IOC, even though we've just called you blood-sucking leeches?).   Then we get to the Glover Paradox: how can a woman with Helen Glover's measurables move a boat so fast? Is Fabian Cancellera making her boat? And if the answer is no, and British Rowing's coaching team can't work it out and transfer it to the rest of the squad, are they doing their jobs?   And that's before we get to how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck ...   Nope, not that. How much training does it take to win an Olympics? If Helen can win after nine months back, is the 4-year cycle we've been told is a necessity simply there to keep coaching staff in jobs?    We look ahead to the publication of the documentaries The Mother of All Comebacks and The Road to Tokyo and ask if British Rowing has missed a trick in pushing macro-narratives in the age of micro-narratives and multiple broadcast opportunities, citing our own conversations with them about getting as many athlete stories as possible out there from BRITAIN'S MOST SUCCESSFUL OLYMPIC SPORT (No, British Cycling. You don't count any more).   Oh, it's all here. The death of the belief fairy, what sport means to those who watch and participate in it, dragons on the precipitious cliffs of the North, and being on the outside of the tent pissing in.   You missed us?   Yeah. We know.   We missed you all too!   Bowside? Strokeside? GET SOME!

When he's not scaling mountains or coming face to face with deadly animals, Steve Backshall is a father to 3 toddlers (including twins Kit & Willow), alongside his wife, double Olympic gold medallist rower, Helen Glover. He joins Dave Berry on his Dadpod to find out how he fits everything into his hectic life, if Steve's kids shown any sign of adventure already, and has he had to tone down his dangerous jobs since becoming a father?

When he’s not scaling mountains or coming face to face with deadly animals, Steve Backshall is a father to 3 toddlers (including twins Kit & Willow), alongside his wife, double Olympic gold medallist rower, Helen Glover. He joins Dave Berry on his Dadpod to find out how he fits everything into his hectic life, if Steve’s kids shown any sign of adventure already, and has he had to tone down his dangerous jobs since becoming a father?

On May 4th, Star Wars Day......We're back!This week, Fergus, Tom, Ed and Will kick off a bumper season spanning 17 episodes into the middle of August. We've got an interview with Helen Glover, discuss some of the racing there has been whilst we were off air and look ahead to what we're looking forward to over the next few weeks and months.This episode is sponsored by Team Concepts. Team Concepts, Inc., is a leadership development and consulting company focused on creating high-performance teams. Founded in 1995 by Olympian Dan Lyons, their mission has been to spread the Olympic spirit of excellence and noble purpose through the corporate world.The cornerstone philosophy of Team Concepts is a process for creating and maintaining high-performance teams -- the foundation of inspirational leadership. their training programs rally organisations, divisions, business units or teams by giving them a common language and a unique shared experience on which to build for the future.Visit https://teamconceptsinc.com for more information

Listen as Annie and Wendy grill Helen Glover on her astounding rowing comeback and how she's handling the pressure with a toddler and baby twins in tow. ps GO HELEN! WE KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!

In this episode of Sixteen Summers, Kirsten chats to BAFTA-winning explorer, writer, television presenter and dad of three Steve Backshall about growing up as 'Manure Boy', sleeping on a Delhi garage floor and his life with Olympic rowing champion wife Helen Glover.Steve opens up about his struggles at school, the time his 'best friends' stole his mum's car and his fears for the future of the planet.Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe/follow the podcast and find Kirsten on social media @RealKirstOBrien.

The suffering of men when it comes to divorce and separation can be immense, and ridden with anger and sadness. Helen Glover, a divorce coach, will be sharing what helps men understand their feelings so they can heal.More info on Helen: https://kindasound.org/Helen-Glover.htmlMore info on Ian: https://kindasound.org/Ian-Lynch.html

Today's podcast includes references to the following items:https://twitter.com/TheMasters/status/1381382850046476290https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1381283484333932548https://twitter.com/RangersFC/status/1381284040700014598https://twitter.com/btsportrugby/status/1381240345078423554https://twitter.com/FoxCricket/status/1380656197112451072https://twitter.com/TeamGB/status/1371057049161904129From the creators of The Smart 7, The Sport 7 is a brand new daily sports new podcast that gets you up to speed on Sport in 7 minutes. it's available at 7.07am every weekday morning.We'll have the latest news and stories for all the biggest sports, football, rugby union and league, Formula One, tennis, cricket, snooker, darts and American sports too.You know the drill - Subscribe, rate, tell your friends, tattoo the logo on your neck. It really helps.You need the Sport? We've got the Sport.In Ireland? Why not try our Ireland News Edition?How about Science and Tech? Guess what - The Science 7!Contact us over at Twitter or visit www.thesport7.comThe Sport 7 is Written and Presented by Mike Bovill and produced & published by Daft Doris See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eleanor Oldroyd and Darren Campbell take a look at the biggest sporting issues of the week. British long-distance runner Chris Thompson tells of his trials and tribulations in qualifying for the Olympics in Tokyo, while rower Helen Glover explains how she juggles her career with having three young children. Relay runner Imani-Lara Lansiquot also shares her opinion on how Darren’s new role with UK Athletics will help shape her career. Conor Benn - son of legendary boxer Nigel, gives an insight into his training regime and of the upcoming bout against Samuel Vargas. BBC Sport correspondent Katie Gornall expands on why Birmingham City Women’s team have complained to their board due to their training and playing conditions. And we hear from Tabitha Worsley, who’s looking to become the first female jockey to win the Grand National this weekend. TOPICS: 00:30 – Darren on his new job 02:00 - Imani-Lara Lansiquot on Darren and having a mentor 07:35 – Helen Glover on her career 15:45 – Age is no barrier – Chris Thompson 23:50 – Why the Olympics could still be called off 29:18 – The story behind Birmingham City Women 34:30 – Being up for the fight – Conor Benn 42:05 – Tabitha Worsley on chasing her dream

Inspiration from guests who have listened and answered the call of their own Life Purpose. How they found and and how they express it. This weeks guest is post for the video and links https://luannemareen.com/answering-the-call-of-your-purpose-with-helen-glover/ Blissings Lunne

Mark Williams has spent his career studying expertise and is one of the world’s leading authorities on skill acquisition in sport. His book, co-written with journalist Tim Wigmore, is called The Best, How Elite Athletes Are Made and includes stories and interviews with many leading sports stars including Marcus Rashford, Steph Curry, Helen Glover and many more. So what can we learn from these people about how to be better at what we do in other spheres? How do some of the book’s themes apply beyond sport and are there patterns to the ‘best’ organisations? What are the limits of the sports metaphor in training business people? How much of success is about culture? Do businesses ever grow beyond the culture of their founders? What are the traps of using data as the basis of decision making and how valid is the idea that technology spend is the key competitive advantage in sport/business in the future? To go deeper in to this topic and themes that run through the podcasts, you should sign up to Unofficial Partner’s weekly newsletter, which can delivered directly to your inbox every Thursday afternoon. Head to unofficialpartner.com to sign up.

Helen Mark looks at some of the highlights from the last twelve months of Open Country. This includes contributions from Olympic rower Helen Glover and her husband Steve Backshall in their garden in Buckinghamshire, and Dame Julie Walters talking about her attachment to Warley Woods in Smethwick. Helen heads up into the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on the most Westerly tip of Scotland with light keeper, Davie Ferguson, and from her family farm in Binevenagh she and Seamus Byrne share their passion for the huge flocks of Whooper Swans which make that part of Northern Ireland their home from September until March. Brett Westwood brings us bird song from the woods close to his home in Stourbridge, and Sybil Ruscoe is on top of Cleeve Common gazing out at the view. Artist Frances Anderson reflects on the experience of cross-channel swimming, and beneath the water Jack Greenhalgh and Tom Fisher are capturing the sounds of insects and plants. Back in Scotland the mountain of Ben Shieldaig is where we find artist Lisa Fenton O'Brien as she explores the mountain's unique temperate rainforest habitat, and singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane serenades the wildfowl from the banks at RSPB Hamwall. With the United Kingdom back in lockdown let Open Country bring the outdoors into your home. Producer: Toby Field

Sal Montgomery has a special place in Helen Glover's life. She saved her husband from drowning. And Sal gives a unique insight into how Helen returned to the GB Rowing Squad having had 3 children in the last 3 years. Sal is an extreme canoeist and adventurer and accompanied Helen's husband, Steve Backshall, on a TV trip to a remote part of Bhutan. She talks about the terrifying moment. But also in glowing terms about how Helen manages family life alongside a return to elite sport. Sal spent the summer with the family as Helen began her training on the river. I've also got contributions from a team mate, Jonny Walton, on his admiration for one of the stars of world rowing. And from British Canoeing's Director of Performance, Brendan Purcell, who thinks it's an exciting boost for the GB team. Thanks for listening to the podcast. I hope you're enjoying the series. I'm making them to raise money for Maggie's Cancer Centres, who've been a great help to my wife and family over the last year. If you can spare the price of a cup of coffee that would be much appreciated....it's simple to donate... https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/destinationtokyo Support this podcast

Today's podcast includes references to the following items:https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/1354916886576844803https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/1354919377347424256https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/1203720895853944832https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1354688253249646596https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1354795112182804481https://twitter.com/EuropeanTour/status/1354803416678215681From the creators of The Smart 7, The Sport 7 is a brand new daily sports new podcast that gets you up to speed on Sport in 7 minutes. it's available at 7.07am every weekday morning.We'll have the latest news and stories for all the biggest sports, football, rugby union and league, formula one, tennis, cricket, snooker, darts and American sports too.You know the drill - Subscribe, rate, tell your friends, tattoo the logo on your neck. It really helps.You need the Sport? We've got the Sport.Contact us over at Twitter or visit www.thesport7.comThe Sport 7 is Written and Presented by Mike Bovill, produced by Jamie East / Liam Thompson and is a Daft Doris production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you balance athlete life and being a parent. Today double gold medal winner Helen Glover announced her intention to compete in Tokyo. We hear briefly from her performance director - with more to come tomorrow. Diver Tom Daley talks about being a dad and how that's changed his approach to sport. And BBC Sport's Nick Hope brings news of the next generation of Olympic and Paralympic stars. With thanks to Track and Ball podcast https://podfollow.com/1528282730 Here's Nick's articles https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/boxing/55775887 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/55760658 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2881685748784101 And here's the link to make a donation https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/destinationtokyo Support this podcast

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends March 31st 2021. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:www.holkham.co.ukwww.holkham.co.uk/wonder/introductionwww.holkham.co.uk/events/details/festival-of-sportwww.linkedin.com/in/sue-penlington-6834722b/www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-downing-ba-hons-mcim-98ab9043/ Transcription:Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I'm joined by two guests, Lucy Downing, Head of Marketing, and Sue Penlington, Sustainability Manager at Holkham Estates. We discuss the wonder of Holkham, their exciting sustainability plans, and how they translate to the visitor experience. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Lucy, Sue, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. It's such a pleasure to have you on. I'm really excited about what we're going to talk about today.Lucy Downing: Thank you for inviting us.Kelly Molson: Very welcome. But as you know, because I know that you've listened to the podcast, we always start off with our icebreaker round. So, Lucy, I'm going to start with you first. Can you tell me what your favorite movie quote is?Lucy Downing: Oh, that's really hard. I think, most probably, this is a really trashy movie, but I love it. It would be from It's Complicated, starring Meryl Streep, and it is, "It's too complicated. It's complicated, isn't it?" It's that whole, it's complicated. And just that whole thing about life, and it's a bit of a giggle. Yeah, it's complicated but with a smile on your face.Kelly Molson: All right, Lucy, I think that kind of sums up 2020, right?Lucy Downing: It's complicated.Kelly Molson: Complicated.Lucy Downing: Definitely.Kelly Molson: That's how we will look back on this. Sue, I've got one for you. If you could travel back in time, what period would you go to, and why?Sue Penlington: Wow. Gosh, you don't half-post them. Do you know, I'd say it's really quite soppy, I'd love to go... I lost my dad when I was 15, and I would love to rewind and actually talk to him about what he did as a job. And he spent most time traveling. He took early retirement in the Thatcher era, really. And he did loads of traveling around South America. At the time, I was a flippant teenager who didn't really care, but I would love to know what he did as a job and then more about all of his travels around the world.Kelly Molson: Oh, Sue, that is such a lovely answer. What a wonderful thing to be able to do. That would be perfect, wouldn't it? It's funny, isn't it? When you're at that age, you just don't fully appreciate or ask the right questions, do you? Because you don't know.Sue Penlington: No, that's right.Kelly Molson: You're in that zone.Sue Penlington: And then the other one would be the 1730s, to see Holkham Hall being built. That'd be pretty cool.Kelly Molson: That would be super cool. And that's a super good answer for this podcast as well. I feel like Sue prepared that one. Okay. Sue, back to you again, have you ever met any of your idols?Sue Penlington: I don't think so. Maybe. In 2012, I was lucky enough to go to London to the Olympics, and my sister was working for CNN. And so we got to go behind the scenes for one of the interviews, and I met the two rowers, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, who had won gold that day. But that was pretty cool, I think. And now, Heather's married to Steve Irwin, who my son is a big fan of, and incidentally, they're both coming to Sportsfest at Holkham next year.Kelly Molson: Oh, so this could happen next year?Sue Penlington: Yeah. Amazing. But yeah, I met Heather in 2012 and touched her gold medal.Kelly Molson: Wow. That's really impressive. I've never even seen a gold medal up close. Great answer, Sue.Sue Penlington: Yeah, they're pretty big. They're pretty weighty, as well. Yeah.Kelly Molson: I would imagine them to be quite heavy. You don't see people just wandering around with them, do you?Sue Penlington: No, and at the time, they had no idea the significance of the impact, and they were just in an absolute bubble. It was a special time.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's great. Thank you for sharing that. Lucy, back to you. I want to know, I've been a bit mean here, sorry. What's something that you're not very good at? Mine's ironing, terrible.Lucy Downing: Yeah. That could be that, as well. Oh, digging. Terrible answer.Kelly Molson: Okay.Lucy Downing: Not great at digging, as my husband tells me.Kelly Molson: Does this have to happen quite a lot in your life?Lucy Downing: Yeah, no. Yeah, no. I've got a vegetable garden. Yeah. Complete lockdown. Veg garden. Yes. So, we've been digging, and apparently, I'm not that great at it. I haven't got the right action. Chopping, there's this theme here. So, chopping wood, not very good at it. So I think I'm better at cooking, cooking anything that comes out of the veg garden. I can light a fire, so I can do things... Yeah. But general hardy maintenance outside, not great.Kelly Molson: Which, interestingly, fits in probably quite well with what the topic of what we're going to talk about today, tales of sustainability. Lucy, take Lucy out of this equation. All right. Thank you both for sharing those. But a question that I always ask our guests is about their unpopular opinion. And I have stolen this from Greg James. He would never listen to this podcast, I don't think. And if he does, he might fully appreciate that I've ripped it off from him. Who knows? But I'd like to know, Lucy, starting with you, what is something that you believe to be true, but nobody else believes you on? your unpopular opinion?Lucy Downing: I think, again, this is quite personal, I have had many debates with friends who are moms about being completely open and honest with your kids, all the way through. Whether you're going out, tell them you're going out. Even if they cry, tell them the truth. And I've been like that all the way through. I've now got a 15-year-old and 12-year-old. And for me, that's worked really, really well. But most people always say, "Oh, don't know if you should be really open and honest all the while." So, that would most probably be my unpopular opinion. Is that an okay answer?Kelly Molson: Yeah. That's a great answer. Again, I don't know how unpopular that's going to be, because I would think that that's the right thing to do.Lucy Downing: Okay. Or if not, raw mushrooms are nice. Kelly Molson: I agree with you on that one. But a lot of people will find that very, very uncomfortable.Lucy Downing: I'm not very deep, here, am I really? I'll leave that to Sue. Sue can be deep.Kelly Molson: There you go. Well over to you, Sue. What's your unpopular opinion?Sue Penlington: I'm not sure I've got one. I'm a pretty kind of uncontroversial, black and white, what you see is what you get. But I guess, and this is top secret, really, because part of my role is hosting school visits as the learning manager, and all about education and training and engagement. But I think my unpopular opinion is actually GCSEs don't really matter that much. So, I see a lot of young people under a lot of pressure and they're really hyping it up, and the reality is, great if they can get Maths and English, but has anyone ever given you a job based on your GCSE results?Kelly Molson: No, that's a really good answer, as well. And actually, it's a topic that comes up over and over again when we ask this question, not always about GCSE results, but about university education or whether mainstream education actually works for everybody. And you're right. I don't even know if anyone's ever looked at my GCSE results.Sue Penlington: No, you don't know. Kelly Molson: I don't know that might B in science ever did me any favors.Lucy Downing: Might now, with that sustainability plan.Kelly Molson: Maybe.Sue Penlington: Yeah, I would just want them to come out as a well-rounded individual that's confident and healthy at the end of the day. Because of the pressures on them at the moment, social media and mental health and all that kind of stuff, they're growing up too quickly. So, yeah.Lucy Downing: I'm not telling my 15-year-old son that because he's revising really well at the moment. I'm not going to tell him they don't matter.Kelly Molson: Don't let him listen to this podcast. Keep that podcast from him for a while. Now, a couple of weeks ago, I read a LinkedIn post that your Marketing Assistant, Joanne Birch, put out, and it's really relevant to what we're going to talk about today. I just want to read it out to you. She posted, "Looking after the social media for a diverse 25,000-acre rural estate has its challenges. Whilst our content is largely based around tourism and leisure, it is also important to share the stories from the wider estate, from farming, houses, and forestry to landscapes, gamekeeping, and reserve management." Now that, for me, summed up the vastness of Holkham Estates, and it will have an impact on what we're going to talk about today and what a huge challenge this has been for you. But Lucy, I wondered if you could just give us an overview of Holkham Estates for our listeners that might not be aware of you or have visited there themselves.Lucy Downing: I can. So if you're going to picture it, most of the time, when you think about stately homes, you picture a stately home with a garden. At Holkham, we are very much a landscape with a stately home. So as you said, we're 25,000 acres. We have a national nature reserve, a beach, a beautiful beach. It's been in Shakespeare in Love. If you know the final scenes of Gwyneth Paltrow walking across the sands, that's Holkham. Absolutely stunning. We're a farm. But at the center of that, we've also got our 18th-century Palladian-style mansion, and that's home to Lord and Lady Leicester and their family. They live in the halls, it's a lived-in family home. But then we also have all of our visitor-facing businesses. So we've got the hall, our Hope and Stories experience, which is the attraction museum telling this whole history and the now and the future of Holkham.Lucy Downing: We've got a high ropes course, cycle hire, boat hire, normally a really buzzing events calendar, usually. Obviously, not this year, but it will be very busy and it's very exciting for next year. We have accommodations. We've got the Victoria Inn, which is near the beach. We've also got Pinewoods, which is a holiday park with caravans and lodges. We have our self-catering lodges, which are within the park. And then we've got farming, conservation, gamekeeping, land and properties. We've got nearly 300 properties on the estate that are tenanted. A lot of those people work for Holkham, or if not, they work in the local community. We've got forestry. And then we've also officing, where our land and property business is, that is home to lots of businesses. And it's won lovely awards for the place to work in the UK. It's a stunning landscape that surrounds it.Lucy Downing: And we've got, I don't know if you've heard of her, but Monica Vinader, which is a global jewelry brand. She's based at Longlands, at the offices. She decided a few years back to base her whole business there. She's got all of her shops around the world, but that's where her business is. And I think she's ahead of the times, ahead of this year. She knew how wonderful it would be to be working there, I suppose, and not in a city center. So I hope that gives you a flavour, but yeah, I think it's 25,000 acres of beautiful landscapes with a house in the middle. And lots and lots of wildlife.Kelly Molson: It really is one of the most beautiful places. And that stretch of the world holds a really special place in our hearts. It's somewhere that we visit very, very frequently, and it's stunningly beautiful. But, Sue, I'm just thinking. Sue, you lead on the sustainability plan for the estate, which I'm sure, considering the vastness that we've just heard about, is no mean feat. That's what I'd really love to talk about today, is how you've been able to do that, and what that means. I guess my first question is, how difficult has that been to put plans in place, considering everything that's been happening in 2020? Has it had a huge effect on it? Have you even been able to start?Sue Penlington: Bizarrely, I would say COVID-19 had a bit of a positive spin, in that environmental awareness has really increased. People are a lot more passionate and aware of the disposable culture, and that sort of thing. My biggest challenge initially, I started the role in April, doing initial research. I started off visiting different teams, but then lockdown arrived in March, so I couldn't actually spend time on the ground. So that was a little bit frustrating. And then in terms of building the strategy, it was probably six months of Zoom with senior managers, which, if anyone knows me, I don't really sit in front of a computer very much. So that was really interesting, though, because we've got a farm manager, we've got a conservation manager, a finance manager, and across all the different businesses, the one thing that was the thread that unites them together is sustainability.Sue Penlington: So it was a really interesting time, and it took four or five months to really come together, and what we would say is build that strategy, because there's so much. We could chew on everyone's day-to-day jobbing to do it, and take it as sustainability. So it took about four months. And now we're at the exciting stage where we communicate that with our teams. So I've just been doing a workshop with some of the teams on the estate to share it with them, and then really get ready to deliver for 2021.Kelly Molson: What does that look like, then? What does your sustainability plan look like for 2021? And has it changed dramatically since it was first conceived?Sue Penlington: No. I would say the shape is still there. So we've got three main themes. One is pioneering environmental gain, which is all about connecting ecosystems and biodiversity and habitat. One is champion low carbon living, which is all about carbon emissions, our impact on construction and housing, our leisure operations, that sort of thing, and farming. And then the last one is the one that we always talk about, tread lightly, stamp out waste. So that's all about recycling, reducing single-use plastics, and that sort of thing. So those three things are what we're running with for 2021. We've got three goals, which are quite ambitious as well. And for me, I just see 2021 is that year of change, where we'll make an impact. So we've done quite a lot of talking, and rightly so, and we want to take our visitors on that journey and really start to chip away at those goals.Kelly Molson: With the goals that you've got, can you share what they are, and how you'd hope to achieve them with the sustainability plan?Sue Penlington: Yeah, absolutely. So pioneering environmental gain, the goal is to increase natural capital with every decision that we make. So natural capital, if you're not aware, is soil, it's water, it's air quality, it's biological organisms. So everything in the environment that we as humans need. And what we want to do is increase that. So provide more homes and habitats for birds and insects and pollinators, that sort of thing. And then looking towards construction as well. So, for example, if we're building four houses in Burnham Thorpe, we're now looking at a little meadow down in the village, and let's improve the biodiversity there, but also give the public access. So a big thing for us is bringing nature to people and really engaging with them throughout. So that's pioneering environmental gain. Champion low carbon living is one that you'll probably be pretty familiar with.Sue Penlington: We haven't decided to go for net-zero. We haven't decided to be carbon neutral. We want to be carbon negative by 2040. So we want to take it that next step, where we're actually taking in more carbon emissions than we're letting out. So that's quite a bold run, and the key to that is agriculture. So our farms emit a lot of carbon through the use of artificial inputs, and the Belted Galloways and our cattle fart and burp a lot. And then also the diesel use for our big tractors and that sort of thing. So subtle changes to that farming system will be really important. And then all the stuff that we know about, like saving energy, we're going to look at a solar farm or solar panels, moving over to electric vehicles, all little changes that will make a big impact.Sue Penlington: And then the last one, tread lightly, stamp out waste. The goal is to reduce the amount of non-recycled goods on their state by 10% a year for the next 10 years. So at the moment, we're processing the COVID waste mountain, because we had loads of all our cafes went to take away. We had a great event called Feast in the Park, which enabled people to come out into the countryside safely and have some food and drink. But again, that was all packaging, all take away stuff. So we're looking at our waste mountain, but then ultimately we want to reduce the amount of waste that we create.Kelly Molson: Yeah, it's a really good point to raise that issue. It's something that we talked about a few weeks ago, very briefly, with Yael Coifman that was on, in terms of, I think that in the last few years, us as attractions, but actually us as individuals, we've made quite big steps forward in terms of what we're doing for single-use plastic. I'm really aware of what I'm doing just in my own home, not buying vegetables that are wrapped in plastic, and just small, small changes like that, marginal gains. And, unfortunately, the COVID situation has meant a bit of a step backward in that in terms of packaging, single-use plastic, even down to, we were discussing when you go to the hairdressers now, the robes that they put on you, they're single-use plastic, they're going to get thrown away.Kelly Molson: And it's a real shame that that's happened. So it's great that that's being acknowledged, and something that you know that you're going to work on for the following year. What I'd love to know is how do you get the general public involved in this? Because you're a huge estate, and as Lucy mentioned earlier, you've got so many different ways that people can visit or engage with what you do there. How do you bring your audience? How do you bring them into that sustainability plan and get them involved with it?Sue Penlington: Totally from that pre-visit, from the website. Everyone just Googles nowadays, and straight onto the home page, and so sustainability is on that front page, which I think is really important. And then what we're working on is consistent messaging across all the businesses. So if you're staying at Pinewoods Holiday Park, the recycling bins look the same as if you come up to the Courtyard Cafe. So just making things really easy, making things really clear, and then using different media. So, obviously, social media is a great way of communicating with people, interpretation on the site as well, all of the events that we run. We're looking at running a green-based event as well. So every sort of touchpoint that they come across, and through staff as well is really important. We just want to take them on the journey.Lucy Downing: I think that staff point's really important as well, that we're a team of 250 people, and it should be seen at every touchpoint. So yeah, that's where Sue and Alex, our head of HR, are doing these staff training sessions to introduce our sustainability strategy, and get everyone involved and make sure that everyone's informed and passionate about it and really energized because we are a customer-facing business. So when the customers, whoever they're engaged with, whether they're buying a coffee in the cafe, or whether they're on a nature walk on the nature reserve with one of the team, everybody is talking the same talk and believing what we're doing and know what's happening and can engage everyone in it. So I think that's a really important point.Kelly Molson: Yeah, definitely. And that was one of my questions, actually, is how does the plan translate to visitors and their experience, but actually, it starts with your internal team.Lucy Downing: It does, yeah. It's so important. So I think that's, yeah, without everybody's buy-in, and it's actually, we've got our vision. We have a vision for Holkham, which is to be the UK's most pioneering and sustainable rural estate. And then, under that, we have our five great Holkham behaviors. And last year, we made the decision that one of those would change, and in its place is sustainability. So there's actually a behavior for us. It's something that we need to be inherent. That something that we naturally do, so every decision that we make on the estate, whether it's to print something, whether it's put a lid on a coffee, whether it's the supplier we're using. That sustainability has to be a natural instinct, and that's what we're aiming for.Sue Penlington: Right.Kelly Molson: And that's why it's so important to embed it with the team, isn't it? Because there's so many different people involved in decision-makings throughout the estate. Each of them has to be fully aware of that sustainability plan to understand, okay, well, what decisions do I make about what paper we order, or what suppliers we work with? Are they aligned to our plan as well? It's a huge, huge task, isn't it? But really exciting.Lucy Downing: It is. It's really exciting. And also, if we can, whether visitors or one of those team members, if they can also take that thinking home and start to make changes in their day-to-day lives, and then they talk to other people and their friends and their family members, and it's a ripple effect. And it is much more in the human psyche now, thanks to David Attenborough and COVID. And we are talking about it more than ever before, but it's actually taking action and making changes. That's the important bit.Kelly Molson: So one of the things that you mentioned earlier is, and this is coming back to how this translate to the visitor experience, but you mentioned specific events around sustainability as well. Is that something that you're looking to do more of next year, to highlight the plan and to bring your audience into it and help them be part of it as well?Lucy Downing: Absolutely. So I think, in general, we have lots of tours in the hall and on the nature reserve. So we'll be looking at incorporating that into those, and then on to chat about it. But a green event, we want to have a big event at Holkham. It's our vision to be the most sustainable estate and be pioneering, which means that we want to bring people on that journey with us. So, yeah, we're looking at introducing that next year, and we hope it will grow, much like, I suppose, Glastonbury, from a small music festival. So if we can have that span of growth, that'd be great.Kelly Molson: So, can you share any of the plans for this event? Because I'd love to hear about it, myself. I'm sure our listeners would.Sue Penlington: Yeah. So, what Lucy alluded to, we have a year-round program, and we have to manage to inform and inspire influence. Be it guided walks on the national nature reserve, or we do trailer tours, explore with the experts. So we can learn a little bit more detail, that sort of thing. So throughout our whole events program, we have what I guess would be called educational events, but they're really interesting. And so we'll layer sustainability throughout those. And this individual event, we're looking at starting fairly small, and really influencing local tenants and the local community, and looking at a pioneering environmental gain. That's an area where we've got opportunities. I think we're already ahead of the game in some respects. And then we'd like to build it as a lifestyle event, but obviously, at the moment, we don't know if you can have 500 people together or 10,000, so going to start small and build it up.Kelly Molson: Yeah. That's a challenge in itself, right? Trying to plan anything in advance at the moment. We have no clue what's coming up. I'd like to understand a little bit about how you measure the effectiveness of the plans. Actually, what would be really interesting is maybe to get you back on at the end of next year, to see how these plans have developed and what's come from it. But, yeah. Lucy, how do you measure the effectiveness of it?Lucy Downing: Well, I think there's two different focuses here, but what overrides all of it is data is king. So I think that we're, at the moment, undergoing, we're nearly finished doing our first big carpeting audits of every business. So that's land businesses, but also all the leisure businesses as well because we really need to know where we are right now. Because I don't think you can really set goals and informed goals and also track your progress and measure your progress all the way through without knowing where your starting point is. So that's really important, particularly with our carbon goal. And then, from there, we're going to measure and track all the way through. So we've got lots of systems, whether it's in farming, but we're going to measure and track. And then that most probably will adjust our goals, because at the moment, we're saying we'd like to be carbon negative by 2040. We may well be better than we think. We could be worse. We just don't know.Lucy Downing: So that's really important. And then in terms of marketing, I suppose, that's what I'm looking after. It's our web traffic, it's our social growth, our in-use engagement. We'll be doing online and on-site surveys to find out if people are engaged, where they're at, what they want to find out about more, our PR coverage, it's everything. And then, as you said, it's having those times where you review, so like you say you'd like to chat with us next year, find out where we've got to, have we surpassed some of our goals, and then others we're struggling with. It'll be really interesting, but that's definitely a review. And I think that's where Sue's role is so important because she's herding sheep. I don't think she is. Real amazing. But all the general managers of all the different businesses, they could have all gone off on their own tack with their own goals. What Sue's done is brought everyone together. We're all working towards the same strategy and goals, and it makes it then an estate vision and objectives. So I think that's really important, and it's wonderful to work with all the businesses, as well.Kelly Molson: Yeah. So you've united everyone under a goal. That's lovely.Lucy Downing: When people go onto our website and see our film for our sustainability, we've titled it, Wonder, because we feel we are a place of wonder, you stand in awe, we're peaceful, but you also wonder what it could look like if you don't do anything about it if you don't look at sustainability. So Wonder is our sustainability campaign, it's the title of our strategy. And Sue is our Wonder Woman.Kelly Molson: Oh, she absolutely is.Lucy Downing: She's going to hate that. Sorry, Sue!Sue Penlington: Yeah, [inaudible 00:27:29] .Lucy Downing: I'll get you a mug. I'm going to send you a Wonder Woman mug because I think you need to keep that on your desk all day long.Sue Penlington: Yeah. I bought sustainability shoes. I'm not sure if it works.Kelly Molson: I think Wonder Woman is a little bit, you know, that's power.Lucy Downing: A mug and a cloak. I think that it needs both.Kelly Molson: I'm not sure Sue's keen on that. Don't think the cloak's going to go down very well.Lucy Downing: Or the gold beads. Anyway, [inaudible 00:27:54] .Kelly Molson: It would be interesting to know what advice you can offer to any of our listeners that will potentially be going through this process themselves, or thinking about how they can make, you know, we talked about small marginal gains, where you can make things increasingly better and better and better over time. Are there any advice that you could share with our listeners, in terms of how they start or begin to look at sustainability?Lucy Downing: Interesting. I was chatting with Lord Leicester yesterday about the subject, and we're agreeing that I think you definitely need to know where you are, particularly as a business. You need to know where you are because then you can set your goals in a realistic fashion. I think the one thing to remember is that it has to be realistic because you need to set goals that you can financially deliver. Because if they're not financially viable, then you're not going to be here as a business to deliver them. And what we're also finding, talking to other businesses, is that actually quite a lot of the sustainability gains that you can make are actually financial ones, too. Because you always probably cut down on some of your resources that you're using, you'll think better, you'll work smarter. I think that's something to definitely remember, that it has to be sustainable in all ways, socially, financially, and environmentally.Lucy Downing: So that's definitely some key advice. And I think be authentic. There's a lot of talk around greenwashing. Don't be guilty of thinking, "Wow, this is something we really should do, and we're going to do it." And just talk about it. It has to be authentic. So really think about where you can make the biggest changes environmentally for sustainability and focus on those, and just make sure, yeah. It's like us, really. We're saying we're launching our sustainability strategy. Actually, for the past 10 years, we've got a hundred-acre solar farm. We've got an anaerobic digester. We heat the hall and all of our businesses with a wood chip. So we've got our biomass boilers. So we've been doing it for quite a long time without telling anyone. But what we're now doing is saying, actually, that's not even enough. We need to up it further. So yeah, that's the thing. I think it just has to be authentic and realistic.Sue Penlington: Yeah. And from my point of view, I'm a bit of a doer, not a talker, so don't get bogged down. It could be absolutely overwhelming. And I think when I was first approached by my boss here, I was just like, wow, because it isn't just rubbish. It's every single business. It's huge. But from my point of view, small differences can make a really big impact. And keep chipping away at it, because solutions are out there. There's loads of people doing really cool things. Every night, I'm on Google looking up something else, or going down another rabbit hole because I've seen something on Twitter. So for me, every day's a school day, but yeah, get stuck in and collaborate with other like-minded people. Nowadays, you're not considered swampy because you're talking about sustainability. It's totally on brand, isn't it? And let's not reinvent the wheel. If we can learn from other people, then let's do that. Going through it, literally, every single individual can make a difference.Kelly Molson: Oh, Sue. You've just got me right there, Sue. I think what you said about collaborating and learning from people, that has been something that's so key this year. People are so willing to share their plans. They're so willing to share what they're doing and how they're doing things, especially within this sector. There's always somebody that's doing, or a couple of steps ahead of you, that you can learn from, and people are so, so willing to give up that advice and their time at the moment as well. So definitely, that's a key one for me, ask people. Ask people for help. Ask people have to do things. Lovely. Thank you both so much. I cannot wait to see what happens next year. I'm really excited. I'm going to be at that green event, for sure.Lucy Downing: Yeah. Well, you'll get an invitation, a special one. You'll have a special invitation.Kelly Molson: Thank you. I might even bring Doris, my dog, who has kindly not barked through the whole of this podcast. Thanks, Doris. Now, we always end the podcast by asking our guests about a book that they'd recommend. So if you've got a book each that you'd recommend, that you either just love or it's maybe helped shape your career in some way.Lucy Downing: Okay. For me, I could have just been, I looked at Brene Brown and all of the books have been published, they're really helpful. But I've actually got it here, I brought it in with me today.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's a great book.Lucy Downing: So I'll just say The Kitchen Diaries because I'm a bit of a foodie. And I think that you need to be nourished well, because if you're fed well, if you feed yourself well, and you really, again, it's about sustainability. It's about knowing where your food comes from. You then perform better. So if you want to do really well at your job, and in life in general, you need to look after yourself. So yeah, Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Diaries. It's a very spectacular book. Yeah. I love Nigel Slater. I think he's an inspiration. And he calms me down at the end of the day. Otherwise, I can get quite excited.Kelly Molson: He has this beautiful garden, as well. He has a really beautiful garden. Whenever I see that on telly, I'm like, that's the garden of dreams. It's so neat and beautiful and lovely.Lucy Downing: It is. Oh, he's got a great kitchen. And he relocated his kitchen, and he's down in the depths of his kit where the old kitchen used to be. Yeah. A bit of a sanctuary. So yeah, I'm a bit of a stalker of Nigel Slater.Kelly Molson: All right. Well maybe he's listening, and he'll run a mile now.Lucy Downing: Yeah, he will.Kelly Molson: Sue, what about you? Do you have one you can share with us?Sue Penlington: Well, really any Usborne book that's got a lift flap for my 4-year-old son. We love reading anything about science or farm machinery. But, to pull it back to sustainability, it's a bit of a cliche, but there's an awesome book called Dirt to Soil, by Gabe Brown. And it's all about regenerative agriculture, and how he turned an American dust bowl into a sustainable farm that can grow crops and repair the soil. And it's all the kind of ethos that we're delivering over here. So, yeah, really inspiring. And I haven't got it to show you because I've passed it on to someone in my team to read.Kelly Molson: Oh, I love that. That's what you should do with books. They're never to be thrown. They're always to be kept or passed on.Sue Penlington: Yeah, that's a really good read.Kelly Molson: Brilliant book choices. I love that they're on-topic as well, because, as you know, we give these books away as prizes. So again, if you'd like to win a copy of these books, and if you head over to our Twitter account, Skip the Queue, and you retweet this episode announcement with the comment "I want Lucy and Sue's books", then you'll be in a chance with winning them. And so if you have got a really keen interest in sustainability, this is the podcast for you to enter that competition on because I don't think you could have got two better books. Thank you. I cannot wait to come and see what you guys do next year. Just before we leave, can you let us know where's the best place to see what you're up to? Is it your website?Lucy Downing: It's our website and all of our social channels. And join our newsletter. Join the database so that you received the news. At the moment, you might get a little bit bombarded by Christmas, but a lot of that is sustainable Christmas. So it's really nice to read. But definitely head over to our home page. You can sign up there. And watch the launch film, which is wonderful. And Sue and I, this afternoon, are about to go and record the second film.Kelly Molson: There you go. So, head over to the website. And what is the website? We'll put all of the links in the show notes, but what's the website domain for us, Lucy?Lucy Downing: Holkham.co.uk.Kelly Molson: There you go. Thank you both for coming on. It's been an absolute pleasure finding out about what's happening and getting to know you both. So thank you.Lucy Downing: Thank you.Sue Penlington: Yeah, no worries. Thank you. And don't hold fire. If the restrictions allow, Kelly, come to Holkham before this time next year.Kelly Molson: I will be there. No worries about that, Sue. Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

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Ep. 138 – HELEN GLOVER MBE/STEVE BACKSHALL (PART ONE) - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL The first of two interviews with Helen Glover and Steve Backshall. This week Tim Lovejoy talks to naturalist, writer and TV presenter, Steve Backshall. They discuss building their own house, learning and competing judo/martial arts in Japan, being married to a very successful Olympian, how he began in wildlife television, the worst creatures to be bitten by and his groundbreaking new TV show and book, Expedition. Steve’s books, including his new one are available here - http://www.stevebackshall.com/books Steve is on Twitter - @SteveBackshall And Instagram - @backshall.steve Turn on the tap with Quooker here - www.quooker.co.uk/enuk Beer 52 is here – http://beer52.com/lovejoy If you would like to contact us then our email address is dearlovejoypodcast@gmail.com or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy All our live Youtube interviews are available on the Dear Lovejoy channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgiasdUjzzaVdRnN323EScw

In this latest episode I was blessed to have a deep and introspective chat with male empowerment and lifestyle transformational coach Helen Glover. Helen is the founder and CEO of The Gentleman's Secret which is a coaching and lifestyle brand that helps single professional men create rich new lives after divorce. Helen opened me up to a new way of thinking around holding space for someone who may be suffering through adversity in their life, her no holds barred approach will give anyone in the coaching business food for thought. Also, anyone looking to learn more about cultivating emotional intelligence will most certainly be intrigued by the wisdom Helen has to share. http://www.helenglover.com.au https://www.facebook.com/helen.glover.1272

In this interview with Helen Glover, Host of "The Modern Masculine Podcast" . We discuss the Divine Feminine and Masculine - the ego and the darkside of vulnerability. As well as, taking responsibility for how we show up in a relationship and discerning, what is ours and what we are projecting. Then working through our internal conflict without blaming our partner, making them at fault or making them the problem. Thereby finding the balance in our masculine and feminine. Join our Community of Light Worker, Healers, Coaches, Transformational Leaders, Alchemist, Activators, Influencers, Game Changers, Way Showers and be the first to know when new podcast are released. https://mailchi.mp/excelleratedabundance/divine-human --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Helen Glover, single mum of 4 children, has learned how to take Control of her life despite dealing with feelings of insecurity, depression, and a horrific divorce. Pursuing her own personal growth for the past 25 years, she shows up for herself and her kids with complete Authenticity and Honest Communication, living her truth and owning her path. Hear how Helen’s compassion and non-judgment allow everyone, including herself, to experience All of their emotions. She helps create a sense of safety and security while exploring the beauty and wonder that she sees in the world. Helen’s new podcast is called The Modern Masculine. You can find Helen at helenglover.com.au If you would like to work with me, find me on FB at Dawn Richard, or FB/IG as The Awakening With Dawn. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dawn-richard/support

In this episode we discuss how to be authentic through confronting your own shadows and the "elephant in the room". The importance of re-establishing a new way to look at the divine masculine and feminine roles within society and why this is a crucial aspect of unlocking the truth inside of ourselves and re-aligning with who we are. Helen Glover is a founder of The Gentleman’s Secret - a life-style coaching business and a founder of The Modern Masculine podcast that features real conversations with men in our society. Originally from the UK and now living in Australia, Helen’s diverse background as a counsellor, lifestyle coach and personal life coach have made her the go-to advisor for real and raw lessons in authenticity. To find more about Helen, please visit her pages: www.helenglover.com.au Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Hippieinheelspermissiongranted/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/helen-glover1/episodes/Welcome-to-The-Modern-Masculine-e4jijp --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bridging-the-realm/message

Rob Cesternino and T-Bird Cooper catch up with Survivor: Thailand's Helen Glover in the first episode of the new "Talking with T-Bird" podcast.

The first woman to win an Olympic Gold in british rowing history, alongside her partner Heather Stanning, Helen Glover went on to make that a double Olympic Gold in Rio 4 years later. A meteoric rise in the sport from an interesting start, Helen was one of the most dominant rowers in the world applying her craft in the women's pair to all the heights our sport has to offer and ended with an incredible legacy which you can find out about in this episode! Racing Links: London 2012 W2- Gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt9W2NnQZQE World Champs 2014 Gold: https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fisa/#dm9kOzY4MQ World Champs 2015 Gold: https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fisa/#dm9kOzIwNA Rio 2016 W2- Gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt9W2NnQZQE https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fisa/ (Helen's Most watched race W1x 2009 World Champs Poznan) Guest: Helen Glover (helenglovergb) The Row Show therowshowsa@gmail.com Instagram: @therowshowsa Whats App +2764209145 Hosts: Jake Green (@jakemiltongreen) Lawrence Brittain (@brittain_l) www.lawrencebrittain.com Racing commentary provided by world rowing - http://www.worldrowing.com

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British boxing star Anthony Crolla, double Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover, Britain's most decorated Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey and triple modern pentathlon world champion Samantha Murray join Eleanor Oldroyd to discuss some of the sporting issues of the week.

The Olympic rower Helen Glover is Matthew Parris' guest this week, choosing the life of the mountaineer Alison Hargreaves to discuss with the help of her biographer Ed Douglas. Alison Hargreaves' short life was defined by her love of the mountains. She became interested in climbing as a teenager and devoted her life to pursuing ever greater challenges. She was the first woman to climb Mount Everest without oxygen and unsupported before losing her life on the infamous K2 mountain in Pakistan in 1995. Producer: Maggie Ayre.

Double Olympic champion rower Helen Glover, multiple 400 metres medallist Martyn Rooney and the winner of 129 football caps for England Rachel Yankey join Eleanor Oldroyd to discuss the sporting issues of the week.

The Olympic rower, Helen Glover, speaks to Kriss Akabusi about 'life after gold'. Helen Glover is one of our most successful athletes. In a life devoted to rowing, she has won a phenomenal 21 Olympic, World and European gold medals. But now that she is considering retirement, a life away from competitive rowing feels as daunting as it is liberating. In this programme she speaks to Kriss Akabusi MBE, the larger-than-life, multiple medal-winning Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European sprinter and hurdler. Since leaving athletics, Kriss has had a successful career on TV and in motivational speaking. He and Helen talk about the challenges in finding a new role and identity, and he encourages her to think about what she would like to do next.. Producer: Karen Gregor.

The Olympian, Helen Glover, speaks to world-class badminton player, Gail Emms, about the difficult time she has had since retiring from sport. Helen Glover is one of our most successful athletes. In a life devoted to rowing, she has won a phenomenal twenty one Olympic, World and European gold medals. But now she is contemplating retirement. And she is discovering that looking to the future - towards a life away from competitive rowing - is as daunting as it is liberating. Gail Emms, alongside her doubles partner, Nathan Robertson, won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics and became World Champion in 2006. But when she retired in 2008, she struggled financially and underestimated how hard it might be to find a new sense of identity and purpose. Producer: Karen Gregor.

The Olympic rower, Helen Glover, speaks to Dame Kelly Holmes about 'life after gold' - how to cope after retiring from sport. Helen Glover is one of our most successful athletes; in a life devoted to rowing she's won a phenomenal 21 Olympic, World and European gold medals. But now that she's considering retirement, a future away from competitive rowing seems as daunting as it is liberating. She worries that, in her early 30s, her best days could be behind her. So, for this series, she is speaking to athletes who have already made the transition away from professional sport. In this programme, Dame Kelly Holmes tells her how she rebuilt her life and her identity. Producer Karen Gregor.

This was a real privilege and the first time I've had the oppertunity to chat to a 2 x Olympic gold medalist - Helen Glover MBE. We do chat a little about rowing, but as you'll find out Helen isn't too shabby at the 70.3 triathlon distance. In her first 70.3 race she came 2nd in her AG at Ironman Weymouth, and to be fair she didn't have a bloody clue what she was doing. Brilliant interview, amazing woman and inspiration to all.

This was a real privilege and the first time I've had the oppertunity to chat to a 2 x Olympic gold medalist - Helen Glover MBE. We do chat a little about rowing, but as you'll find out Helen isn't too shabby at the 70.3 triathlon distance. In her first 70.3 race she came 2nd in her AG at Ironman Weymouth, and to be fair she didn't have a bloody clue what she was doing. Brilliant interview, amazing woman and inspiration to all.

GB hockey's gold medal winning captain Kate Richardson Walsh, Olympic, Commonwealth and European medal winning gymnastics star Sam Oldham and double Olympic champion rower Helen Glover join Eleanor Oldroyd to discuss the sporting issues of the week.

England and Arsenal footballer Alex Scott, former captain and now director of the England women's cricket team Clare Connor and double Olympic champion rower Helen Glover join Eleanor Oldroyd to discuss the week’s sporting issues.

Fitness Rewards bring us the Listener Podium and their seven-day run streak has started, I speak to two-time Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover, we bring you news of the world’s deepest half marathon, a US Cross Country gets smashed by a stag, Zane Robertson joins the sub2hour project, you guys rock your kit all around the world, Training Talk reflects on a listener’s first marathon.

We learn from 2x Women’s coxless pairs Olympic Gold Medallist Heather Stanning on this week’s Best in the World with Richard Parr.    The 2x World Champion discusses her daily routine, nutrition and mental preparation with Richard on the show.    A major in the Royal Artillery, Heather talks about her relationship with rowing partner Helen Glover and the role the army has played in her success.     You can see what Heather is up to on her Instagram.    This episode is brought to you by Sportuccino, a new sports breakfast show on Facebook LIVE.  Please LIKE the Facebook page here.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jules and Ade are here with the latest highlights from That Thursday Thing on Penwith Radio! This month we have Jules' Jaffa Cakes, stroopwafels, and healthy pasties. There's shirtless drilling in a Poldark style, camels in Cornwall, and Olympic gold medalist Helen Glover returns to Penzance. All that, plus our pub quiz, and lots more... We're live every Thursday 8pm to 10pm at www.penwithradio.co.uk @jcrowecwll @adekea

A Who's Calling Christian double whammy - Naturalist Steve Backshall and Olympian Helen Glover call fresh from their honeymoon!

Josh Levin interviews 2016 U.S. Olympic field hockey star Michelle Vittese and 1984 U.S. field hockey Olympian Karen Shelton. Also, David Epstein of ProPublica assesses the greatness of British rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. Facebook: http://fb.com/HangUpAndListen Email: hangup@slate.com Show notes at http://slate.com/hangup Ending music by mtbrd http://mtbrd.bandcamp.com/ & Flamingosis https://flamingosis1.bandcamp.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Levin interviews 2016 U.S. Olympic field hockey star Michelle Vittese and 1984 U.S. field hockey Olympian Karen Shelton. Also, David Epstein of ProPublica assesses the greatness of British rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. Facebook: http://fb.com/HangUpAndListen Email: hangup@slate.com Show notes at http://slate.com/hangup Ending music by mtbrd http://mtbrd.bandcamp.com/ & Flamingosis https://flamingosis1.bandcamp.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ade and Jules are back with another podcast of highlights from their Penwith Radio show. This month there's another Poldark update, Ade's been sniffing jellyfish, we play stale doughnut roulette, we join the world Pokemon Go craze, Jules shows a distinct lack of knowledge about competitive diving, and we look back to the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay and Helen Glover's gold medal win. Plus there's a special summer pub quiz!

We recap the 14th & reunion episode of Survivor San Juan Del Sur with Thailand winner Brian Heidik and fellow Thailand contestants Clay Jordan, Helen Glover & Tanya Vance and get their answers with the concluding 'Cagayan Ten'!

A leading world coach, Robin coached the British Women's Pair racing team (Heather Stanning and Helen Glover) to Gold at the 2012 Olympic Games; he was the architect of the GB lightweight mens sweep crews who have dominated the event for the past 8 years and before then won 10 Boat Races for Cambridge University.

Matthew Clarke talks to Olympic Gold Medalists Helen Glover and Heather Stanning about what life has been like since winning the women's coxless pairs.

Rowing pair Heather Stanning and Helen Glover end Great Britain's five-day wait for Olympic gold while BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo gets carried away cheering on Team GB's cycling sprint team. Sir Chris Hoy speaks about the unique design of the London Velodrome where he achieved his fifth Olympic gold medal. Seven-time Olympic medallist Bradley Wiggins speaks to Colin Murray about coping with the pressures of winning. After Chinese swimming star Ye Shiwen's world record win at women's 400m individual medley, Radio 4's statistics programme “More or Less” asks if it really that extraordinary? World Service's “The World Tonight” investigates the rivalry between China and USA at the London Olympic Games. Finally as millions tune in to watch the fastest 100 metres race in history, “The Now Show” speaks to the man who will fire the starting pistol.

Team GB gold medallists Heather Stanning and Helen Glover talk to Johnny and Tiffany. Dame Mary Peters swings by the portacabin and Iwan Thomas takes on the Egg and Spoon Race Challenge.