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Episode 22: From Childhood to Motherhood - Emily Harrington

In this episode, Hazel speaks with Emily Harrington about her life as a professional climber from when she was a kid competing to now as a mother herself.

Episode 21: Social Risk and Self Trust with Africa Brooke

In this episode, Hazel speaks with Africa Brooke. Africa is a consultant, coach, strategist, and speaker with a unique focus: tackling self-sabotage and self-censorship.

Episode 20: Mind Games - Allison Vest

In this episode, Hazel speaks with Allison Vest about her struggles and progress with mental training in climbing.

Episode 19: Performance Hacks Bonus Episode

In this bonus episode, Angus Kille interviews Hazel about how to leverage mental training for performance and their upcoming course Performance Hacks.

Episode 18: Breathing - Science and Tradition

In this episode, we talk a lot about breath! We look at the physical and mental benefits from 2 different perspectives with 2 experts in the field.

Episode 17: Working With The Mind - Lor Sabourin

Lor Sabourin is a professional climber, mental training coach, and Training Leader for the Warrior’s Way, an organization that uses climbing-based mental training to optimize performance and improve mental health. Lor’s work is trauma-informed and they have just finished a Masters's degree in mental health counselling with an emphasis on somatic therapy and adventure-based counselling.

Episode 16: Mastery and Flow in High Level Bouldering Part 2 - Aidan Roberts

This is the second part of a conversation Hazel had with Aiden Roberts about mastery, flow and motivation in high-level bouldering.

Fear Revealed: Climbing Blind

GB paraclimber and rock climber Jesse Dufton is one of the only blind climbers out there who is regularly onsighting adventurous trad climbs (Jesse dubs this style ‘non-sighting’). Hazel talks to Jesse to reveal how he overcomes fear when climbing.

Hazel chats to Aidan Roberts about climbing Alphane 9A

Aidan Roberts recently climbed Alphane, a 9A boulder in Chironico Switzerland. As Aidan has also been doing one-to-one performance coaching with me (Hazel), I caught up with him to hear his reflections on the process of climbing Alphane from a psychological perspective.

Episode 2: Miguel Lozano – Lessons from the deep

In this episode, Hazel speaks with professional free diver Miguel Lozano.

Episode 1: Sue Jackson – The relationship between flow, mindfulness and performance

Hazel talks to Sue Jackson about flow, mindfulness and performance and how they all relate. Sue is a psychologist, researcher and mindfulness practitioner.

Curiosity over Conquering

Laura Tiefenthaler, doctor, mountain guide, and alpinist, was the second woman to solo the North Face of the Eiger. How does she recognise her motivations and get in the right mindset for such a challenge?

Hazel answers common questions about mental training for climbing and the Strong Mind course

Hazel answers common questions about mental training for climbing and the Strong Mind course

A conversation with flow-state expert Cameron Norsworthy

Cameron Norsworthy from the Flow Centre chats to Hazel Findlay about what flow state is, how to access it and what the barriers to flow are. This conversation was recorded for the Curious Climber podcast.

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