Alice Baddeley – Bike Touring Britain: Coastlines, Straight Lines and 1,000+ Mile Challenges
Alice is a long-distance bike tourer, drone pilot, and freelance creative who designs her adventures around self-imposed rules and unconvent...
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The Tough Girl Podcast is all about inspiring and motivating YOU! I will be interviewing inspirational women from around the world, who’ve faced and overcome difficult challenges and situati...
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Anna Wells – Medicine, Mountains and the First Woman to Complete a Winter Munro Round in Scotland.
Anna Wells is a mountaineer, former doctor, and outdoor instructor based in Inverness, Scotland. Her life has been shaped by a deep love of...
Natasha Sones – Wild Swimming, SUP Adventures and Writing Swimming Wild in London and South East England
Natasha is a year-round wild swimmer, qualified Stand-Up Paddleboarding instructor, freelance travel writer, and outdoor adventurer with a d...
Sylvia Malan-Gonzalez: Why Hiking is for Every Body | Fat Positive Hiking, Confidence & Community
Sylvia Malan-Gonzalez is a Fat Positive Hiker from Portland, Oregon, on a mission to show that hiking really is for every body. Although she...
Helen Watson – Author of Tea and Grit and Cycling 15,000km Along the Silk Road from Scotland to China with Her Husband
Helen Watson is a traveller, writer, and conservationist based in the Scottish Highlands. Born in Scotland and raised in Switzerland, she ha...
Gaby Dijkstra – Outdoor Enthusiast and PhD Researcher Studying the Role of Gender in the Extreme Mountaineering Industry.
Gaby Dijkstra is an outdoor enthusiast, solo traveller, and researcher with a passion for remote mountain environments. Whether climbing, sk...
Holly Budge: From Extreme Adventure to Protecting Elephants and Empowering Women Rangers
Holly Budge is a global keynote speaker on risk, innovation, and human potential, operating at the intersection of conservation, science, an...
Devin Brown - Learning to Endure on the Mississippi River and Reconnecting People to Water
Devin Brown is a Minneapolis-based paddler and founder of Sovereign Waters, an emerging organisation focused on connection, access, and purp...
Gina Johansen – Endurance Athlete Preparing for a Solo Unsupported South Pole World Record
Gina Johansen is a Swedish-born endurance athlete, adventurer, and a track work rider based in Sydney and Norway. She is currently preparing...
Denise Leonard - The World's Toughest Row, 50 Days at Sea and Inspiring Women into Adventure
Denise is part of a team of women who have just successfully rowed 3000 miles, unsupported, across the Atlantic Ocean as part of the 'World'...
Clare Dyson: Mountain Leader, Slow Adventure Advocate and Creating Space for Women in the Outdoors
Clare Dyson is a Mountain Leader, outdoor facilitator, and founder of the Women's Adventure Academy, based in the Lake District where she ha...
Catherine Breed – From the Pool to the Pacific Ocean: Swimming the Length of California and Redefining What Adventure Looks Like Today
Catherine Breed is an endurance athlete, ocean explorer, and visionary storyteller redefining what modern adventure can look like — where hu...
Ria Xi - Running 20,000km Across the Silk Road to Redefine What's Possible
Two years ago, Ria was burnt out from her tech career in Silicon Valley, coming out of a difficult relationship, and struggling with mental...
Dr Irene Molina-Gonzalez - Running Beyond Burnout and Finding a New Purpose
Irene is a sports scientist, endurance coach, and ultra-runner originally from Spain, now based in the UK. She moved to the UK in 2013 to pu...
Helen Spencer – Vet, Polar Explorer & South Pole Ski Adventurer
Meet Helen Spencer , a veterinarian from Kent who swapped clinic life for the extremes of the world. From hiking in Afghanistan, Mongolia, a...
Dr. Shawna Pandya – Canada's First Named Female Commercial Astronaut & Space Medicine Pioneer
Meet Dr. Shawna Pandya , Canada's first named female commercial astronaut and a leading figure in space medicine. From emergency medicine to...
Jeannette McGill: Everest at 52, Leadership at Altitude & The Truth Above 8,000m
Jeannette McGill is a seasoned mountaineer and executive leader who, at 52, became the oldest South African woman to summit Everest in May 2...
Lauren Burnison – Pioneering the Sober Travel Movement and Adventures of a Single Mum
Lauren Burnison is the founder of We Love Lucid, the UK's first alcohol-free travel company, and a trailblazer in the sober travel movement....
Helen Dainty – First Woman to Cycle Across Libya & 9 Years Living on £50 a Week by Bike
In this Tough Girl Podcast EXTRA episode, we catch up with Helen Dainty — solo female cyclist, self-described "full-time global hobo," and o...
Chloe Stead – From Navy Life to Nomadic Living, Caminos, Grief & Choosing a Simpler Way
In this episode of the Tough Girl Podcast, we meet Chloe Stead — 42 years old and currently living in a rustic tiny shack in the bush in Tas...