When Life Gives You Lemons, the podcast about mindset and resilience, is back for its seventh season.
Hosted by motivational speaker and physiotherapist Emma Levy, who has helped elite athletes on their way to Olympic success, the podcast features interviews with high performing individuals who have been through adversity but came back stronger.
The idea for the show followed Emma’s own trauma when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of just 36. Sat in the chemo chair, she set herself the goal of starting a podcast to explore resilience and the importance of mindset.
Episode one of the new season features principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London, Steven McRae.
Moving to the UK from Australia at the age of 17 after winning the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, Steven started training with the Royal Ballet School in London in 2003.
Although he achieved immense success throughout his dancing career, he also faced setbacks, for example when – alone on stage with 2,250 people watching – his achilles tendon snapped.
Learning how to walk and dance again, Steven shares with Emma how he was able to overcome the difficulties in order to get to where he is today. His BBC documentary Dancing Back to the Light aired recently on TV.
Other guests lined up for the series include:
- Motivational speaker and mindset coach Natasha Graziano who overcame adversity when she was a broke, single mum through manifesting and has now reached the highest peaks in her professional and personal life
- Felicity Ashley who, after completing the world’s toughest row – a 3,000-mile unsupported journey across the Atlantic Ocean, was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer
- Columbian entrepreneur Erika Tamayo and content creator, comedian and disability advocate Fats Timbo
Previous guests include Harry Potter stunt double David Holmes, psychotherapist and bestselling author and podcaster Anna Mathur and Paralympic cycling medallist Blaine Hunt.
Season seven of When Life Gives You Lemons launches today, Tuesday 8 April with new episodes releasing every week wherever you get your podcasts.
