So, what's next?

Would you trying flying into the air and completing a full-twisting somersault, then a double-twisting somersault, and then another single-twisting somersault, all in one jump? Look, me neither BUT on this week's episode of So, what's next?, we get to talk to the first woman to nail this in aerial skiing... welcome, Lydia Lassila! Lydia is a five time Olympic freestyle skier, competing at the 2002 Salt Lake City, 2006 Turin, 2010 Vancouver, 2014 Sochi and 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, taking gold at the 2010 and bronze at the 2014 Olympic games.

Lydia is also the Founder and Director at BodyICE, joint-specific heat and ice recovery packs , as well as their latest venture, ZONE, environmentally conscious yoga equipment.

Lydia also has a critically acclaimed documentary and book called, The Will to Fly, which you can bet I binge watched as soon as we finished the recording.

BodyICE - https://bodyice.com/ (https://bodyice.com/)

ZONE - https://bodyice.com/collections/zone (https://bodyice.com/collections/zone)

The Will to Fly book and documentary - https://bodyice.com/pages/mental-training (https://bodyice.com/pages/mental-training)

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Hello friends, happy So, what’s next? Tuesday! We’ve got another fantastic guest speaker joining us today… the one and only, Jamie Dwyer. Jamie is a four-time Olympian, having gone to the 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Jamie won Olympic gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics and is a five time FIH, International Hockey Federation world player of the year, awarded in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. To add to his incredible achievements, Jamie also has an Order of Australia Medal for his services to sport, was inducted into the Australia Institute of Sport ‘Best of the Best’ and is now the owner of JDH, the go-to hockey brand for hockey equipment, sticks and apparel, and part owner in a number of different restaurants and cafes around Perth.

Jamie Dwyer Hockey: https://jamiedwyerhockey.com/ (https://jamiedwyerhockey.com/)

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Happy Tuesday, friends! I have been absolutely hanging to share this episode with the legend-status, Louise Sauvage. Louise is a nine-time Paralympic gold medalist and four-time silver medalist. She’s also a 11-time gold and two-time silver medalist at the IPC Athletics World Championships. Louise sits in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame - being the first ever Australian Paralympian to be awarded legend status and is now coaching world-class athletes of her own. We chat all about what she’s learned as a coach and athlete, how she prepared and recovered when move from short distance racing to winning the Boston Marathon and how important participation in sport is for people with disabilities.

I am an independent podcaster, sharing these stories as a way of transitioning out of sport myself and wanting to support other athletes. If you want to show your support, please hit subscribe or give it a rating. You can find the ‘So, what’s next?’ community on Instagram, @podcastsowhatsnext.

On this week's episode, we have the wonderful Sally Carbon joining us. Sally is a two time Olympian, competing in field hockey, placing fifth at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and achieving gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Sally also has an Order of Australia Medal for her services to sport, has written nine books, both kids books and adult books, alongside sitting on a number of boards. Sally is not only an incredible businesswoman but her passion for creativity is positively infectious.

This week we're joined by our very own Australian Cool Runnings story, Heath Spence. Heath is an Olympic bobsledder who competed at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh. Heath has since coached the Chinese and Korean national bobsleigh teams and has recently received his pilot's licence. Heath is an incredible speaker and shares his journey from how he got into the sport, how his sporting career abruptly ended and the differences between handling stress as a rugby player and bobsledder.

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On this week’s episode, we’re joined by the delightful, Lauren Mitchell. Lauren is a world champion, Commonwealth Games medallist and two time Olympian in artistic gymnastics and has turned to a career as a radiographer in one of Western Australia’s top hospitals. I was pretty nervous recording with Lauren as the first podcast guest however, Lauren was such a blast to interview and shares some absolute gems of wisdom throughout this episode.

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WELCOME to So, what's next?, the podcast for Australian athletes to share their stories about the transition through and life after sport. We want to explore how athletes define and handle stress and success throughout their journey as elite athletes, what their training regime looked like and then dive into what they experienced during their transition out of sport.