Hunger & Heart with Kaila Colbin

In 2016 Emma Gilmour became the first woman to win a round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, and in 2022 she became the first woman to drive for McLaren Racing, racing electric off-road buggies in Extreme E. She has rolled at speed twice and been knocked out twice: at Whangārei in 2007 and in Sardinia in 2023. She still races, and runs her family's car dealership in her hometown of Dunedin.

In this conversation we talk about walking away from horses as a teenager, what she tells herself on the start line now, the countdown she runs in the last sixty seconds before a race, leaving a relationship that was also her business, and why her fear of regret beats every other fear.

Hunger & Heart is a podcast about the intersection of wild ambition and fierce compassion, hosted by Kaila Colbin | Raw Conversations with sports legends.

A huge thanks to Celebrity Speakers for supporting this episode. If you want to book Emma Gilmour for a keynote and leave your audience hungry for more, visit celebrityspeakers.co.nz.
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Hunger & Heart is brought to you by the Crusaders Leadership Programme™. Whether you're coaching under-5s or a professional team, we all want the same thing: to build cultures of trust, get the best out of our people, and grow players into leaders.

The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ lets you get up close and personal with some of the greatest rugby legends of all time — people like Sir Wayne Smith, Sam Whitelock, and Kieran Read. You'll connect with a global group of ambitious, caring coaches from a range of codes and backgrounds, and most importantly, you'll gain skills and techniques to drive impact and outcomes for your team.

The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ is a two-week high-intensity virtual experience. It is delivered exclusively online, accessible from anywhere.
Hunger and heart Listeners get 10% off the full price of the program. Use the code HUNGER at checkout. Find out more: crusadersleadership.com
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Rachel Howard is a footballer who debuted for New Zealand at 20, against Team USA, in front of a stadium that spent the second half chanting her name — but not in a good way.

She went on to play a World Cup and an Olympic Games where she never took the field at either.

She's now the General Manager of Adidas Pacific, responsible for around a thousand people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands; and co-owner of BNZ Northern Kāhu — the first all-women-owned sports team in New Zealand.

In this conversation she talks about the night her father died and the decision she had to make five hours later; why she wanted her replacement to be better than her; and the morning she handed in her resignation rather than miss the Olympics.

Hunger & Heart is a podcast about the intersection of wild ambition and fierce compassion, hosted by Kaila Colbin. Find out more at Hunger & Heart with Kaila Colbin | Raw Conversations with sports legends.

This episode includes a discussion of suicide. If it's close to home, support is available in New Zealand any time: · Free call or text 1737 — 24/7 · Lifeline 0800 543 354, or text 4357 · Suicide Crisis Helpline 0508 828 865 Outside NZ, find a local line at http://findahelpline.com

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Hunger & Heart is brought to you by the Crusaders Leadership Programme™. Whether you're coaching under-5s or a professional team, we all want the same thing: to build cultures of trust, get the best out of our people, and grow players into leaders.

The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ lets you get up close and personal with some of the greatest rugby legends of all time — people like Sir Wayne Smith, Sam Whitelock, and Kieran Read. You'll connect with a global group of ambitious, caring coaches from a range of codes and backgrounds, and most importantly, you'll gain skills and techniques to drive impact and outcomes for your team.

The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ is a two-week high-intensity virtual experience. It is delivered exclusively online, accessible from anywhere.
Hunger and heart Listeners get 10% off the full price of the program. Use the code HUNGER at checkout. Find out more: crusadersleadership.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sir Graham Henry has the best win record in All Blacks history - but there was a moment in the early stages when he almost walked away from it all.

In 2001, as the highest-paid rugby coach in the world, he lost a Lions series he expected to win. He hit a wall, resigned, and moved back to New Zealand. Six months later he took a job as a provincial assistant coach.

He went from making $1 million a year to $25,000 a year.

What he worked out in between is what he used to lead the All Blacks to win the 2011 World Cup: it isn't about you.

I talk to him about ambition that survives public failure, the night in Johannesburg that triggered the biggest culture change in All Blacks history, why players take criticism from teammates they'd never take from management — and the question he's still turning over at eighty, about whether he should have been kinder to the men he won with.

WHAT'S COVERED
· The defeat that ended one career and started another
· Why exercise was the first thing he reached for, and what it did
· Going from head coach to assistant, and what surprised him about it
· The difference between culture as a values statement and culture as a set of behaviours
· Humble and hungry — and why the players wrote it, not the coach
· Mentoring pairs: how a new All Black became world class in 18 months
· What he learned coaching the Black Ferns that he wishes he'd known earlier

Hunger & Heart is a podcast about the intersection of wild ambition and fierce compassion, hosted by Kaila Colbin. Find out more at Hunger & Heart with Kaila Colbin | Raw Conversations with sports legends .

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Hunger & Heart is brought to you by the Crusaders Leadership Programme™. Whether you're coaching under-5s or a professional team, we all want the same thing: to build cultures of trust, get the best out of our people, and grow players into leaders.
The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ lets you get up close and personal with some of the greatest rugby legends of all time — people like Sir Wayne Smith, Sam Whitelock, and Kieran Read. You'll connect with a global group of ambitious, caring coaches from a range of codes and backgrounds, and most importantly, you'll gain skills and techniques to drive impact and outcomes for your team.
The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ is a two-week high-intensity virtual experience. It is delivered exclusively online, accessible from anywhere.
Hunger and heart Listeners get 10% off the full price of the program. Use the code HUNGER at checkout. Find out more: crusadersleadership.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For two years, the same question repeated in Sam Dakin's head a thousand times a day. He had no idea what was happening to him.
Turns out, Sam — who was training for the Olympics at the time — was suffering from OCD. Not the light-switch, hand-washing version most people picture, but the intrusive-thought kind that loops in your head all day and won't let go.

It wasn’t until he found a Reddit thread talking about the phenomenon that he finally started to understand what was going on. The relief was extraordinary.

He’s spent the years since talking about it openly, because almost nobody does.

Sam is a double Olympian and Commonwealth Games team sprint bronze medallist who retired after Glasgow this year — while he was still fast, and while he still loved the bike. We get into what nerves are actually for, why a gold medal is worth nothing without the four years behind it, what it takes to do the job nobody assigned you, and how to walk away from something before you start to hate it.

WHAT'S COVERED
— What an intrusive thought actually is, and how it differs from the OCD everyone thinks they know
— Why the relief came from being diagnosed, not from being cured
— Why nerves only ever turn up when something matters
— The difference between athletes who deliver on the day and the ones who don't
— “Depth of medal”: why the podium was never the thing being chased
— Changing how athletes are paid in New Zealand
— Doing the work nobody asked you to do
— Retiring before the love ran out
Hunger & Heart is a podcast about the intersection of wild ambition and fierce compassion, hosted by Kaila Colbin. Find out more at Hunger & Heart with Kaila Colbin | Raw Conversations with sports legends
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A thousand miles down the Yukon River, from Canada into Alaska and up to the Arctic Circle. It’s the definition of remote — more people have been to the top of Everest than have been past Dawson City. No support boat, no resupply, no road, and no rescue worth the name.

Get it wrong out there and you're days from help, not hours.

The Yukon 1000 is the longest paddling race in the world, and Jon Frith is the man who decides who is allowed to start it.
More than 1,500 teams apply. Just 30 make the start line. They paddle 18 hours a day, sleep for three and once they're out past Dawson City, they're on their own.

Jon spent 32 years in the British Army. Competed in the Yukon 1000 because he’s passionate about pushing himself. Now he runs the whole thing.

In this conversation he tells me about his extraordinary life before he found the event. Why the Yukon 1000 has no prize money. What happened the first time he saw the river. And why, while thousands of miles away, he can’t stop thinking about what might just be around the next bend.

Find out more about the race (and get your application in? You know you want to) at yukon1000.org.
Hunger & Heart is a podcast about the intersection of wild ambition and fierce compassion, hosted by Kaila Colbin. Find out more at hungerandheart.com.

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Hunger & Heart is brought to you by the Crusaders Leadership Programme™. Whether you're coaching under-5s or a professional team, we all want the same thing: to build cultures of trust, get the best out of our people, and grow players into leaders.
The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ lets you get up close and personal with some of the greatest rugby legends of all time — people like Sir Wayne Smith, Sam Whitelock, and Kieran Read.  You'll connect with a global group of ambitious, caring coaches from a range of codes and backgrounds, and most importantly, you'll gain skills and techniques to drive impact and outcomes for your team.  
The Crusaders Leadership Programme™ is a two-week high-intensity virtual experience.  It is delivered exclusively online, accessible from anywhere.

Hunger and heart Listeners get 10% off the full price of the program. Use the code HUNGER at checkout. Find out more: crusadersleadership.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.