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Born with cerebral palsy and deafness. Four days old when doctors said there was nothing more they could do. Bullied at school for her disability. Dropped from a Paralympic relay team an hour before the race. Told by her own parents to walk away from the sport.

Livi Breen didn't just keep going. She became a world champion, Commonwealth gold medallist, and captain of Wales.

In this episode of Inside the Maverick Mind, we go far beyond the medals to understand the person behind the smile - the family that refused to overprotect her, the twin brother who was her first competitor, and the coach in his 70s who learned to understand her body before he taught her anything.

We cover:

The meningitis that nearly took her at four days old

Discovering she could run at a school sports day

London 2012 - competing at 16, the false start she didn't hear, and Paralympic bronze

Rio 2016 - the heartbreak of being dropped from the relay and how it changed everything

Moving to Loughborough and becoming world champion within ten months

Coach Aston Moore - patience, honesty, and breaking everything down

Paris Paralympics - jumping the same distance as bronze and losing on countback

The Adidas briefs controversy that went viral and changed the rules

Captaining Wales to gold and silver at the Commonwealth Games

The psychologist she's worked with since she was 15

Why she face-plants after her best jumps - and why she laughs about it

Her maverick mindset: "Never say you can't, because you will."

This is a conversation about resilience, identity, leadership, and what really sits behind that extraordinary smile.

Hosted by Emyr Afan OBE

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