Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jimmy Lijamel and podcast against shame.

I have another very inspiring episode for you this week with a former Olympian. She is also an

ultra runner, a filmmaker and an author of the book Bravee which has done so well and helped so

many people. Her name is Alexi Papas and she has joined me this week to talk about all things

mental health, all things trauma, all things resilience and the importance of discipline and how

discipline has come to be seen as something that people push back upon and see as only a bad thing

whereas actually it's most often a massive key to our happiness, not just our successes,

not the kind of traditional successes but real true success of happiness and health.

And I think that's really cool and it's a wonderful part of our chat. She takes me through her career,

her experiences, her post-Olympic blues and depression, the support of athletes around her,

what inspires her and mostly how she is looking to inspire others and her book Bravee has certainly

done that and now she's made a young readers edition which is out on August 22nd and I highly

recommend it because it's such a cool read, it's so inspiring and so the message, the uplifting

and inspiring and wonderful message of someone's triumph against all odds that I think all young

people could benefit from regardless of who they are or what gender they are or where they come

from. We need more stories like this in the world, we need more people like her in the world,

so please enjoy the lovely Alexi Papas.

Well Alexi, welcome to iWay, how are you? I'm doing great, I am it's hot but it's like

slightly less warm today and I went on a jog before this with my friend who has a baby and I actually

we did a stroller run and we traded off and I haven't like pushed, I've only pushed a stroller

running once in my life and it was another friend years ago, it's really hard pushing a stroller

while you're running. A hundred percent, I mean it's hard pushing a stroller when you're doing

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