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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 144 minutes
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0:00.0 | The rich role podcast. |
0:13.8 | The discipline that I learned from sport really helped the creativity, because if you |
0:20.0 | still give yourself some sense of structure, then you're working towards something. |
0:24.9 | And that's the same in sport. |
0:26.7 | If you really want to get to the top, you have to be creative how you're going to push |
0:30.0 | your mind and your body to truly achieve greatness. |
0:33.2 | It's all about mindset. |
0:36.2 | I once believed that you could either be an athlete or an artist, but never both. |
0:41.7 | And certainly you couldn't do both at the highest level, at the elite level. |
0:46.8 | Well here today to break this paradigm is five-time world champion professional triathlete |
0:53.5 | and Oscar nominated screenwriter of last year's smash hit All Quiet on the Western Front. |
1:00.4 | Her name is Leslie Patterson and she's got 400 triathlons to her name. |
1:05.0 | She's a three-time exterra triathlon world champion, a two-time world triathlon cross |
1:12.0 | champion. |
1:13.0 | But if you ask Leslie what her greatest test of endurance has been, she's not going |
1:17.0 | to tell you that it's some PR or some win at a race. |
1:21.0 | It would be chasing an Oscar because for the last 16 years during her professional triathlon |
1:28.1 | career, Leslie fought to secure and maintain the film rights to All Quiet based on the |
1:35.4 | book out of her own pocket from race winnings. |
1:38.4 | She wrote and rewrote the script many times over and despite the odds being stacked heavily |
1:44.2 | against her, just never gave up on her dream of getting this movie made. |
1:50.4 | After many, many years of starts and stops and high profile actors on and off the project, |
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