I’m honoured to be joined this week by two time Olympian Jo Jennings. Jo represented Team GB in the women's high jump in both the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics, and was just 19 years old at her first Olympic Games.

Jo is also a Commonwealth silver medalist, representing England at the 1998 games in Kuala Lumpur. Her professional career spanned over 15 years, a huge achievement for an athlete. Following her retirement, Jo went on to have a career at British Athletics supporting upcoming athletes including Matthew Hudson Smith, Dina Asher Smith, Josh Kerr, Laura Muir and many others who are representing Team GB in Paris.

In this episode we discuss the early days, from knowing she had something special to qualifying to represent Great Britain at just 15 years old, missing her University freshers week to compete at the Olympics, why mindset, determination and self-belief are so important, what it was like to experience the Olympics for the first time and then again four years later, overcoming injuries and building resilience for a long career, what an Olympic training regime looks like, what we can all learn from our 20’s and the all important question…what it takes to be an Olympian!

I don’t know about you but i’ve been obsessed with watching the Olympics this year so I was super excited to record this episode. I was also blown away to learn that only 1 in 500,000 people are an Olympian which makes it even more special - I hope you enjoy it!

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