This week Nicola and Di chat with Australia’s golden girl of swimming Lisa Curry AO. Lisa is a triple Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion. She’s been a household name for decades, appearing on everything from Uncle Toby’s health bars, to her own Hot Curry swimwear line. Lisa has lived a very full life already - raising her beautiful family, achieving incredible sporting and business success, and navigating both the highs and heartbreaking lows of losing her daughter Jaimi. She’s written a moving memoir, where she shares her story Lisa - Life, Love & Loss. As if that wasn’t enough, Lisa also supports the health and wellbeing of millions of women through her company and community Happy Healthy You.

In this episode we chat to Lisa about what it was like to be a triple Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion, and how it felt to stand on that podium. Lisa talks about the deep respect she has for her coaches and the way the things she learnt in her swimming career and the strategies she used back then to become successful are still tools she uses today. 

We also talk about her marriage to Grant Kenny and what it was like to suddenly become Australia’s golden couple, with so much media attention, and how difficult it was years later when they separated and went through a divorce in the public eye. 

Lisa shares very openly and honestly about the devastating loss of her daughter Jaimi. She talks about Jaimi’s tragic battle with an eating disorder and alcohol addiction that would eventually take her life. We talk about the grieving process and what Lisa does these days to calm her mind when things feel overwhelming. 

We also get to hear about the positive things in her life at the moment, including her beautiful love story with her husband Mark and the work she does for women’s wellbeing through her company Happy Healthy You.

This was such an incredibly honest and moving conversation with Lisa and it felt like we were having a cup of coffee and a chat over the back fence with a girlfriend. We hope you love it as much as we did. 

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