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This month, we’re celebrating the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 coming to Sydney by highlighting a different player each week in September.

When Jonquel Jones thinks back to growing up in the Bahamas, she recalls climbing mango trees at her grandmother’s house, and sneaking off to play basketball with her friends. But today, things are very different for the woman dubbed ‘the best player in the world.’ Rising through the ranks of basketball and eventually becoming part of the Bosnian National team, being a black, gay, woman in sport has meant Jonquel’s road to the WNBA has been anything but easy.

In this episode, Jonquel talks to our digital editor Nikolina Ilic about fighting for what's right, how she used fashion to express her true self, and always staying genuine no matter what life throws at you - because ultimately, after all this, that's the only thing she wants to be remembered for.

CREDITS: 

This podcast was hosted by WH digital editor Nikolina Ilic and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin.

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This month, we’re celebrating the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 coming to Sydney by highlighting a different player each week in September.

Ezi Magbegor is considered among the most exciting rising stars of basketball – whether it’s in the US, Europe or back home in Oz, where she celebrated a WNBL Championship win this year with the Melbourne Boomers. But it’s with the Australian Opals that Ezi will be going for gold at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 in Sydney later this month. And we can’t wait to see it.

Our Managing Editor Alex Davies caught up with the 1.93cm athlete, during her WNBA season with the Seattle Storm, to talk training priorities, playing with Lauren Jackson and the power of going at her own pace.  

CREDITS: 

This podcast was hosted by WH managing editor Alex Davies and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin with additional sound editing by Abby Williams.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever felt like you were doing everything right to be healthier, and doing things that worked for you when you were younger, but no matter how hard you kept trying, you still felt blah?

That’s the situation that Elle Macpherson found herself in when she met clinical nutritionist and naturopath Dr Simoné Laubscher. I’ll let Simoné get into the details of that meeting later in this episode, but here’s the teaser version: As she entered her 50s, Elle wasn’t feeling like her previously energetic self. By taking a holistic approach and looking at all aspects of her lifestyle, and the effects that perimenopause and menopause might be having on her body, they were able to turn it around. Now, they work together on Elle’s company WelleCo, where Simoné is a formulator, to spread the message to women everywhere.

In this episode, you’ll learn about the lifestyle changes that can help you feel healthier and more energetic, not just during perimenopause and menopause, but at any stage of life.

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin with additional editing by Abby Williams.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

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If there’s one thing we all deserve a bit more of in life: it’s pleasure. And our guest today is going to help us get exactly that.

Christine Rafe is a sex therapist and sexual wellness expert for Womanizer. In this episode we talk about how to better communicate what you want in the bedroom, and tackle the first step in your pleasure quest: how to discover what it is that you actually like. We also talk about what to do if you and your partner have different libidos and how to manage painful sex.

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin with additional editing by Abby Williams.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the last two years, “survival mode” has been a constant state of being for Jesinta Franklin. But now, with a refreshed approach to her health and wellbeing, the Sydney-based model, businesswoman and Swisse ambassador has “come right”.

In this episode, Jesinta chats candidly about postnatal depletion, dealing with mum guilt and why five-minute workouts are her jam.

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

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If you’ve ever skipped the cooldown at the end of a gym class, or pushed through another workout when you’re running on empty – guilty – this episode is for you. Because, friends, we’re talking about recovery. Professor Shona Halson is a leading expert in the fields of sport performance and recovery, who has worked with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Australian Olympic team, as well as countless athletes here and internationally. She’s also part of the expert team on Be Recovered – an immersive online course via the health app Benefit Pocket – that’s all about the science and how-tos of recovery. Professor Halson talks to our managing editor Alex Davies about why prioritising recovery really is vital for performance and wellbeing, as well as how to make the strategies in the ‘recovery pyramid’ work for you. Plus, she gives the expert lowdown on everything from ice baths and compression gear to those massage guns you’ve seen athletes and fitness pros using.

SHOW NOTES:

Study mentioned: 'Microbes in gut might affect personality'

CREDITS: 

This podcast was hosted by WH managing editor Alex Davies and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin with additional sound editing by Abby Williams.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the fittest humans on the planet are competing in the CrossFit Games. For Aussie athlete Kara Saunders, this year’s Games will be her 10th. It’s an incredible milestone, considering she didn’t have much of a fitness routine before she discovered the sport.

In this episode, Kara shares how a conversation with her mum about going to the gym changed the direction of her life and how she hopes to set the same kind of example to her three-year-old daughter, Scotti. Plus, she delves into all the fitness, nutrition and recovery tips that have helped her – not only prepare for her 10th CrossFit Games – but feel healthier now at 32 than she did at 25.

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

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If you’re a fan of Luxe Listings Sydney, you’ll know D’Leanne Lewis, the real estate agent boss who has dominated the industry over the past 20 years. In the Amazon Prime Video series we see the single mum of two kill it with the younger agents, while also bringing up two small humans and maintaining a good fitness routine.

Well, make that soon-to-be three small humans. At 50, D’Leanne – who is also Principal of Laing + Simmons Double Bay and Bondi Beach – is pregnant.

In this episode, she chats about becoming a success in a male dominated industry, falling pregnant at 50 and how she got her strength back after a tough period in her life.

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CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin, with additional sound editing by Abby Williams.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rewind your mind back to 2020. No, not the first optimistic month but the moment we all realised the pandemic had taken hold of the world and our lives had changed forever in ways we were yet to know. It was during that time, quarantined in South Africa and far away from her family and friends in the UK, that actor Ella Balinska spent her days in an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies that were the result of a pandemic.

Cue: cortisol explosion.

At least that’s how I responded while I was watching Ella in the new Netflix series Resident Evil, streaming now.

As I watched her running and fighting from pandemic-originated monsters in the first few episodes, I wondered, how did she get fit for the role and how did she stay mentally fit while going through the very real anxiety of how COVID was affecting our world?

In this episode, I chat with the UK native, now residing in LA, about her love of spin and netball, how she finally started meditating and why she’s happy to be known for her action roles.

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin, with additional sound editing by Abby Williams.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

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It’s been a couple of years now since Rebel Wilson completed her “Year of Health”, overhauling her lifestyle and making changes that have had a lasting positive effect on both her physical and mental health. Now if you’ve done the odd 12-week challenge in the past and then immediately slipped back into your old habits once the last session was over, you’re probably curious about how Rebel has stayed so consistent over the years.

Well today, we have someone who can answer part of that question for you. Jono Castano is the founder of Acero gym and a celebrity coach who has not only worked with Rebel, but with Rita Ora and Sir Richard Branson. In this episode, you’ll get to know a little bit about Jono himself, his personal approach to fitness and nutrition, plus his tips for helping you find your own lasting transformation. 

CREDITS:

This podcast was hosted and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin.

For more from Women’s Health Australia, find us on Instagram, visit our website or find the print and digital editions of the magazine.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.