Athco

ATHCO

Health EN ↓ 36 episodes

ATHCO is a podcast for athletes who want to turn their passion into profession. Real conversations with athletes, founders, and creators who've done it. Sharing the playbook so you can too. The training. The business. The mistakes. Everything you need to build something meaningful from your passion.

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010: The Instagram Strategy That Put Her on the Forbes Cover 14.03.2026 1:14:30

She had no personal Instagram account. No following. No connections in the creator world. Just a consulting job she didn't love and a dream of hosting her own travel show. Three years later, Aakanksha Monga has 1.4 million followers on Instagram, nearly a million on YouTube, and was the first travel content creator on the cover of Forbes India. In this conversation, she walks us through everything...

009: You Don't Have to Be Elite to Make a Living From Sport 06.03.2026 26:53

Seven guests in seven weeks but this time it's just us. No guest, no script, just Daniel and Jannis talking about why ATHCO exists and what we're actually building. We met playing spike ball two and a half years ago. Our first idea was a creator-athlete retreat. Then it became an event. Then it got way too big and we had to pull it back. Now it's a podcast, a community, and a whole lot...

008: He Blacked Out at a Festival and Changed His Whole Life 28.02.2026 1:00:38

He had a first-class architecture degree. Clear path to director. But he looked at the people above him gray, overweight, stressed and knew that wasn't where he wanted to end up. Josh Lancaster spent years covering up insecurities with alcohol. Blackouts every weekend. Until one night at Leeds Festival changed everything. He hasn't had a drink in over 4 years. In this episode we talk about the con...

007: The Truth About Turning Fitness Into a Career 21.02.2026 1:19:51

Emma Wilcock spent years in consulting while training CrossFit competitively on the side. Now she's a Product Manager at EvolveU (a women's fitness app) and competing at HYROX Pro level all without taking the "quit your job and figure it out" risk. In this episode we talk about how she made the transition from corporate to fitness tech, why you don't need a massive following...

006: The Secret to Brand Deals Nobody Tells You 14.02.2026 1:33:47

🔔 FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.cc Newsletter: Subscribe for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession 👉 https://the-athco-collective.kit.com/135242159e 📍 FOLLOW DEAN: Instagram: @deanhorwitz_ Podcast: @trailchaserspod YDRun Project: @whydo.run 15 years in social media. 80+ podcast episodes. And a project to interview 1,000 runners...

005: He couldn't afford a bike. Now brands pay him to ride. 07.02.2026 1:11:58

🔔 FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.ccNewsletter: Subscribe for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession 👉 https://the-athco-collective.kit.com/135242159e 📍 FOLLOW LAZIEL:Instagram: @_lazielLaziel grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe a country with 90%+ unemployment and an economy that's been in freefall for over two decades. He didn't finish...

004: How she gets 840k views while working a 9-5 31.01.2026 1:23:52

🔔 FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.ccNewsletter: Subscribe for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession👉 https://the-athco-collective.kit.com/135242159e 📍 FOLLOW LAUREN:Instagram: @lauren.gilesTikTok: @lauren_c_giles840,000 views a month. While working a full-time job as a software engineer. That's what Lauren Giles is pulling of...

003: The most extreme triathlon in the world (and why I signed up) 23.01.2026 1:14:02

🔔 FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.cc Newsletter: Subscribe for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession 👉 Newsletter 📍 FOLLOW CONNOR: Instagram: @connorrandrew_fit Connor´s Fundraiser: Donate now! Horizon Gym Cape Town: @horizongym An 8 kilometer swim in the freezing Atlantic Ocean. A 109 kilometer cycle through Cape Town. A 50 kil...

002: From eating disorder to opening a business in Bali: How she rebuilt her life 16.01.2026 1:17:48

🔔 FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.cc Newsletter: Subscribe for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession👉 https://the-athco-collective.kit.com/135242159e 📍FOLLOW HOLLY: Instagram: hollykimrowe TikTok: voicenotesformymom From a restrictive bodybuilding prep at 15 that spiraled into an eating disorder, to discovering healing through Cr...

001: From a Township to Adidas Model: How he built his brand from zero | Nkosi Nsumbu 12.01.2026 1:12:22

FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.cc Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession: https://the-athco-collective.kit.com/135242159e FOLLOW NKOSI: Instagram & TikTok: @nkosinsumbu_ YouTube: Untold Stories 7785 Facebook: NkosiRuns Production Company: @Starkosiproduction ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ From growi...

001: From a Township to Adidas Model: How he built his brand from zero | Nkosi Nsumbu 10.01.2026 1:12:22

FOLLOW ATHCO: Stay up to date and never miss an episode! Instagram: @athco.cc Newsletter: Subscribe for exclusive insights on turning your passion into a profession :https://the-athco-collective.kit.com/135242159e FOLLOW NKOSI: Instagram & TikTok: @nkosinsumbu_ YouTube: Untold Stories 7785 Facebook: NkosiRuns Production Company: @Starkosiproduction ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...