Host Jenn Heil sits down with Beckie Scott, Olympic champion, global anti-doping leader, and one of Jenn's personal heroes. In Salt Lake City in 2002, Beckie became the first North American woman to win an Olympic cross-country skiing medal, a bronze that became silver, then gold, as the doped athletes ahead of her were disqualified over the following three years. She went on to chair WADA's athlete committee, founded Spirit North, an organization that now reaches 20,000 Indigenous youth across Canada every year. Today, she is the CEO of Nordiq Canada. In this conversation, Beckie and and Jenn unpack what it takes to speak up when the world tells you to stay grateful and silent.

In this episode, Jenn and Beckie discuss:

• The four-year climb from 45th at her first Olympics to the podium — building a system and culture that didn't yet exist
• The call that turned her medal moment upside down, and the surreal three-year journey from bronze to gold
• Why staying silent felt like complicity: the backlash of speaking out, and the personal toll of leading the clean-sport fight
• Life now: founding Spirit North, interval sessions with old teammates, protecting sleep, and what victory means today

The support behind great performance should not be reserved for sport.

revvel gives women access to world-class experts — the kind of team most people never get.

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Host Jenn Heil sits down with Helen Upperton, Olympic silver medalist in two-woman bobsleigh. Four years after missing bronze in Turin by five one-hundredths of a second, Helen piloted her sled to the podium at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games alongside brakewoman Shelley-Ann Brown. After retiring from sport, she broke new ground as a firefighter in Calgary, passing a grueling physical test while pregnant and earning her place in a field where women remain rare. Then motherhood brought her hardest opponent yet — severe postpartum depression — and Helen realized recovery would demand what winning always had: a team built around her.

In this episode, Jenn and Helen discuss:

• The Vancouver podium on home soil, and the rock-bottom year before it — choosing joy and gratitude to climb out of a deep hole
• Turning fourth place in Turin into fuel, and pioneering a place for women in firefighting
• Postpartum depression: ignoring the signs, the phone call that started her recovery, and why accepting help is a strength
• Building your team — friends, experts, and coaches — and asking, "What do I need to be the best version of myself?"

The support behind great performance should not be reserved for sport.

revvel gives women access to world-class experts — the kind of team most people never get.

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revvel CEO Jenn Heil sits down with Professor Louise Burke, world authority in sports nutrition. Louise has shaped elite athlete fueling for over 40 years, including 30 years leading nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport and five Australian Olympic teams. For decades Louise has shaped how elite athletes fuel, pioneering "research-embedded training camps" where she co-designs studies with athletes inside their real training environments rather than a lab. In this conversation, she and Jenn translate that elite, individualized approach into something every woman can use.

In this episode, Jenn and Louise discuss:

• Louise's changed mind on GLP-1 medications — why being "so effective" is exactly the reason to get in their way and protect muscle, bone, and nutrition
• Cutting through the "holy wars" of nutrition — why context beats any single perfect diet, and how influencers have made trustworthy advice harder to find
• What the science actually says about female-athlete nutrition — from real iron and body-image differences to the overhyped menstrual-cycle claims
• REDs (relative energy deficiency in sport): what low energy availability does to the body, and why it took so long to name

The support behind great performance should not be reserved for sport.

revvel gives women access to world-class experts — the kind of team most people never get.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.