The Athlete Entrepreneur - with Callum Skinner

10/02/20 • 54 min

#005 – If Athletes: The Other Side was tailor made for any one athlete out there, it must be Callum Skinner. The Olympic Champion, who scored his greatest success in the Rio de Janeiro Velodrome at the 2016 Games, has clocked up more 'other side' successes in the 18 months since his retirement from the track - and by the mere age of 28 - than many athletes will manage in a lifetime.
Symbolising a new breed of athlete reformers taking a grip on Olympic sport, Callum, in his prominent role as Lead Athlete of athlete-led movement, Global Athlete, has been taking on organisations such as the International Olympic Committee with his plans for shaking up how Olympic sport should be run. With a burgeoning career in sports governance, he also sits on the athlete bodies of the British Olympic Association and UK Anti-Doping.
In this fifth outing of Athletes: The Other Side, Callum talks to host and friend Ben Nichols about this and much more, including the two new businesses he has launched this year, in the wildly different markets of coffee and cycling – and all this, despite Covid-19.
Hear more about the Scotsman's pursuits in sports marketing, sport science, business and more – and prepare to be inspired by an athlete going places.

If you'd like to get the links and show notes for this episode, head to:
http://bennichols.co.uk/the-athlete-entrepreneur-with-callum-skinner

If you'd like to get the links and show notes for this episode, head to:
http://bennichols.co.uk/the-athlete-entrepreneur-with-callum-skinner

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Hometown Heroine - with Emma Coburn

#004 – Emma Coburn is a World Champion middle distance runner, hailing from the “Americana idyll”of Crested Butte, Colorado. As the first ever American woman to win a World Championships gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase, she is also an 8-time national US Champion, 3-time NCAA Champion and 6-time All-American. She’s founder of the ‘Elk Run’ and Vice President of new athlete rights movement, The Athletics Association.

In this fourth outing of Athlete: The Other Side, Ben speaks to this home town heroine about her huge ambition to set the pace off the track just as she has done on it. Whether it be through her route into athlete advocacy, her culinary advice to fellow competitors, establishing her very own 5k run in her home town to support people with cancer, Emma demonstrates her entrepreneurial spirit and will give you, the listener, a glimpse into what is still to come in a career already littered with successes.

If you want to learn and listen to a humble, authentic home town heroine that has reached the pinnacle on the track and seems destined to reach new heights off it, then this instalment of Athlete: The Other Side is one not to miss.

If you'd like to get the links and show notes for this episode, head to: http://bennichols.co.uk/hometown-heroine-with-emma-coburn/

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The Iron Man - with Dr. Matt Hanson

#006 - Our first Doctor to feature on Athletes: The Other Side, Matt Hanson is a professional triathlete and coach for triathletes, cyclists and runners.

Hailing from Minnesota, Matt is one of life’s achievers and an Ironman guru. With an extensive background as an athlete, he is a highly-educated figure when it comes to anything sports-related.

As an athlete, he came from the sport of wrestling, yet it is running that has always a been a passion of his. In 2014, his first year as a pro, Matt set 3 run course records and won Ironman Chattanooga (in Tennessee). He has since tallied 10 professional wins, including 3 North American Championship titles.

Remarkably, this former Professor of Exercise Science also owns the fastest ever time at an Ironman-branded, full distance event (7:39:25) where he also clocked the fastest ever marathon off the bike with a 2:34.

Today, he has his own coaching business for athletes from a plethora of sports, not least cycling, swimming, running and triathlon itself. The business offers customized training strategies that covers nutrition, training strategies, race plans – and anything the modern-day athlete might need in 2020. He does all this from a city of 10,000 people – Storm Lake in Iowa.

If you'd like to get the links and show notes for this episode, head to: http://bennichols.co.uk/the-iron-man-with-matt-hanson/