#4 "Love? What? Are you crazy?"

This week on our inaugural Motorsports and Peak Performance episode we're hitting all the big topics on Magnus Sermo, nepotism, love, compassion, getting changed in a truck and Ronda Rousey. We couldn't have wished for a bigger panel to join us either.

Our fantastic guests this week were W-Series CEO and board member of Motorsport UK Catherine Bond Muir, COO and Co-owner of Triple Eight Race Engineering, Chair of the Australian Women in Motorsport Commission and Australian delegate to the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission, Jessica Dane and Kirsten Peterson, former head of sports psychology at the AIS and 7 time Olympic team psychologist. We were once again joined by our esteemed co-host and one woman wrecking crew, WITSUP.com's Stef Hanson.

With this group of legends we crack open the code to getting more female athletes engaged in motorsports.

We shoot the breeze on opportunity at the root level. We learn how bodies like the W Series are smashing the barriers of the accepted norms of the industry with community and inclusivity.

We talk peak performance and how athletes achieve their best outcomes with self compassion.

All this and so much more on your home of tackling gender bias, Magnus Sermo.

Huge thanks go to our sponsor for this show Kirsten Peterson Consulting. As well as being a world leading sport and exercise psychologist endorsed by the Psychology Board of Australia, Kirsten is a coach and group process facilitator who can help you with effective and pragmatic strategies that will have you doing what you love better and living your life more fully.

Catherine Bond Muir

A former intellectual property solicitor, Catherine Bond-Muir did not always look set to one day found the first ever single-seater motor racing championship for female drivers only. However, after her move to corporate finance – where she specialised in sports and gaming deals – followed by the birth of her first and only child relatively late in life, she was ready for a new adventure. And so W Series was born. Since its inception in October 2018, W Series has set out to quite literally change the face of motorsport.

Jessica Dane

Jess was immersed in motorsport from birth by her father. However, she lost touch with it when he moved to Australia when she was 12 but still enjoyed following F1, MotoGP and other categories. Her love for racing ignited when at 17 after attending her first Supercars race in Bahrain in 2007.

Jess' first job in motorsport was in 2008 as a sub-assembly mechanic at her father’s team, Triple Eight Race Engineering. Jess also completed her degree in journalism in the UK and returned to Australia working as media manager for Triple Eight. Since then her many roles in the team include team coordinator and now commercial operations officer.

In 2015, she became a shareholder of Triple Eight, currently one of five alongside her father, Jamie Whincup, Tim Miles and Paul Dumbrell.

Jess is now one of two female owners in Supercars. She is Chair of the Australian Women in Motorsport Commission and Australian delegate to the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission.

In her spare time she is also a full-time law student!

Kirsten Peterson

Drawing on her 22 years of international experience as a sport and performance psychologist for Olympic athletes, coaches, and teams in the US and Australia, Kirsten understands how high performance works.

​She was a team psychologist at 7 Olympic Games and worked with numerous sports, most recently with the Australian national women's water polo and rowing programs.

​Kirsten has worked for high performance organisations including the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Australian Institute of Sport. As head of the AIS Performance Psychology team, she managed a team of sport psychologists across 4 states, crafted national sport psychology strategy and programs for sport psychologists across the Australian national network, and provided advice to national sport organisations.