The Winning Mentality

Brista Mayfield is a Crossfit athlete training 4 - 5 hours per day, a wife and a mother. In other words, she's pretty busy, but she doesn't let that stopping her do what she needs to. That dedication and discipline recently paid off in a big way when, for the first time, she qualified for the Crossfit Games - the pinnacle of her sport.

Sport Climbing is an activity you may not be aware of but you soon will be - in Tokyo 2020 it will make its debut as an Olympic sport. Jim Pope is one of Britain's rising climbing stars and one of the sport's most thoughtful characters.

After 30 years playing and coaching in professional sport, there isn't much Tony Smith hasn't seen. He's now putting that experience to good use by helping football managers deal with the stresses and pressures with which he's familiar.

Not many people, especially those who've had highs and lows like Peter Fox has, can say that they've never lost heart, never doubted that they would make it and never given up. He might not have been the most talented player but he out-worked everyone until he got what he wanted.

White water kayaker Nouria Newman is a successful athlete who has retired from slalom kayaking and committed to an unmapped future. She's still learning and striving to improve, but where it will take her is still undecided.

Carl Fogarty is the greatest superbike rider of all time. He won 4 World Championships, 59 superbike races, and also won the legendary Isle of Man TT, breaking the lap record in the process. A horrific crash ended his career in 2000 but he's since run his own race team, won Britain's most popular TV show and written 2 books. Today we're chatting to him about motivation, attitude and how he felt when his glittering career came to a shuddering end.

Derek Warwick is a motorsport legend. He raced for 11 seasons in Formula One, won the Le Mans 24 hour, and fell foul of the legendary Ayrton Senna when they almost became teammates in 1986. In addition, Derek is a successful businessman, a driver steward at Formula One races and a prominent member of the British Racing Drivers Club and the Motor Sports Association. It's been a full life and this was a fascinating insight into it.

Karen Darke MBE is a Paralympic champion, adventurer and speaker. She was keen runner, climber and orienteer in her early life but aged 21 she had a rock climbing accident and was paralysed from the chest down. Since then she's hand cycled across Patagonia and the Himalayas, sea kayaked in Canada, skied across Greenland, climbed the 1000 metre high El Capitan in Yosemite, and won 2 Paralympic medals. It all adds up to a pretty extraordinary story.

If you need some inspiration today, you're in luck! Here's a compilation of 10 of our guests discussing the complex topic of motivation. What makes people continue to challenge themselves even after they've achieved their goals? Is taking risks a motivation in itself? If so, where is the line between personal reward and recklessness? Prepare to be challenged...and motivated.

Lorraine Huber is a World Champion in freeride skiing and an athlete who analyses her performance like few others. Through self analysis and academic study, she's come to understand how and why she performs as she does, and she's got some amazing insights for the everyday person trying to be the best they can be.