Hannah Miley

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Three Olympic Games, three finals in the same event. Sixth, then fifth, then fourth. She got closer every single time, and the medal never came. In Rio, she missed it by a fingertip. So here's the question that makes this whole episode: What do you do when the thing you gave 20 years of your life to never arrives?

My guest today is Hannah Miley MBE, a Scottish swimming icon, double Commonwealth champion, world and European champion, European record holder, and the most decorated Scottish woman her sport has ever seen.

Three Olympics, 15 plus years at the very top. But the medal that was meant to fix everything, it never landed. And when she finally stood on a Commonwealth podium two years later, silver around her neck, she told me it didn't fill the hole she thought it would. That's where this one gets honest. In this episode, we get into the good stuff.

Why she says the worst thing you can do when you race is to think. The strange pre-race ritual she swears by. Breathing out hot colors, breathing in cool ones, flat on her back on the floor. What it's like being coached by your own dad for your entire career. Why she's now on a mission to change how sport talks about women's health, and the two words she'd give her younger self that still get her: You're good enough.

If you've ever tied your whole worth to a result, a ranking, a medal, a number on a scoreboard, this one is gonna land. Grab a cuppa. Let's get into it.

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