This Is Victory

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 p...

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...

Host Jenn Heil sits down with Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser, one of the greatest female hockey players of all time. She's a five-time Olympic medalist (four gold), and now works as a practicing emergency medicine physician as well as an executive for the Toronto Maple Leafs. She's also the founder of WickFest, an international girls' hockey festival that pairs on-ice play with off-ice development to bui...

revvel CEO Jenn Heil sits down with Dani Langford — physiotherapist, kinesiologist, professional basketball player, and current manager of player rehabilitation for the Golden State Warriors — to explore how the movement and recovery principles behind elite athletes apply to women in their 40s and 50s. Dani knew at nine years old she wanted to be a physiotherapist, and she grew up in the gym as th...

revvel CEO Jenn Heil sits down with Dr. Penny Werthner, Canadian Olympian and renown sports psychologist of 30+ years to explore how the mental skills that build Olympic champions can help women in their 40s and 50s ("the sandwich generation") perform in everyday life. Penny pioneered the applied use of biofeedback and neurofeedback in Canadian sport. She worked with Jenn through her final Olympic...

Three-time Olympian Phylicia George joins revvel CEO Jenn Heil to discuss the power of self-belief, the possibility of reinvention, and the team behind her elite performance. At an early age, Phylicia chose pursuing an athletic career over attending medical school, following her passion and intuition. She became a world-class sprint hurdler, then made the rare pivot to Olympic bobsled winning bron...

revvel gives women access to expert-built AI guidance for strength, stress, recovery, and metabolic health. Shaped by world-class practitioners once reserved for elite athletes. On this podcast, we take you inside those conversations with elite athletes, world-class experts, because top-tier expertise shouldn't be reserved for a select few. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...