Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton: Dogs, Fear & Finding Courage
Oh My Dog! with Jack Dee and Seann Walsh
Pink Cloud / Off The Kerb
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Olympic cycling legend Victoria Pendleton joins Jack, Seann and Sara this week.
Victoria tells us about her inspiring new book, The Fear Opportunity, and why stepping outside your comfort zone can transform your life. From Olympic gold medals to skydiving, fear of failure, and learning to embrace new challenges, it's a fascinating conversation about courage, resilience and growth.
Plus, we meet Victoria's beloved dogs Valor the Belgian Malinois and Leilo the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and hear why high-drive dogs need jobs to do, and discover how dogs have helped bring balance to her life.
And of course, the all-important question: does Victoria let her dogs kiss her on the mouth?
00:00 Heatwave dog chat & where's Mildred?
07:03 Remembering Hugo
11:49 Rescue Hotel update & listener gifts
15:10 Dolly's summer groom
16:40 Dogs before and after grooming
18:02 Dog paddling pools and staying cool
20:31 Mildred escapes through the fox hole
23:22 Victoria Pendleton joins the show and we meet Valor
24:30 How Victoria got dogs as an adult
25:48 Leilo the Rhodesian Ridgeback
28:04 Feeding giant dogs
28:57 Living with a Belgian Malinois
30:22 Dogs and Olympic training
31:24 Why two dogs are better than one
32:10 Victoria's new book: The Fear Opportunity
33:20 Fear, courage and stepping outside your comfort zone
35:02 Sara's skydiving story
36:25 Victoria's skydiving obsession
37:03 Fear of failure and elite sport
39:07 The inspiration behind the book
40:13 What neuroscience teaches us about fear
41:34 How dogs help anxiety and stress
43:29 Where the dogs sleep
44:33 Does Victoria let her dogs kiss her?
45:52 The police dog that flattened Seann Walsh
46:16 Jumping out of planes with military dogs
47:53 Why Victoria wouldn't recommend a Malinois
48:12 Life lessons from Victoria Pendleton
51:51 Signing off and Patreon.com/omdpod for more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh My Dog with Jack D and Sean Walsh. |
| 0:04.8 | Coming up, we speak to Olympic gold medalist Victoria Pendleton about dogs and her upcoming book. |
| 0:10.5 | And we also talk about how we are coping in the heat. |
| 0:14.1 | Hi, Sean. |
| 0:15.8 | Hello. |
| 0:16.8 | Are you? |
| 0:18.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:19.3 | Mid-texting. |
| 0:20.3 | You're texting someone, aren't you? I'm texting Grace to ask her something Mildred related that I don't quite understand. Okay. Do you want to share it with us? Okay. Well, okay. All right, fine. Well, look, listen, Mildred's not here. Mildred's at Grace's parents. Right. Because of the heat. Yes. Oh, yeah. Well, you're saying yes, but I don't quite understand the logic. Well, haven't they got a nice big garden and sort of shade and stuff like that? They have got a big garden, yes, they do. That must be why then, mustn't it? That's probably... But either we've got a garden. |
| 0:54.8 | I know you've got a garden, but you're right in the centre of town. |
| 0:58.8 | And so obviously it does get about two or three degrees hotter, doesn't that? |
| 1:02.8 | So it was probably a good call to take her there. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't need to send the text to Grace now. |
| 1:09.7 | Thanks, Jack. |
| 1:12.8 | Thank you. Glad we got that sorted. Yeah. I don't need to send the text to Grace now. Thanks, Jeff. Thank you. Glad we got that sorted. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, there you go. So when would you get Mildred back? |
| 1:17.7 | When the weather cools down. |
| 1:18.9 | I don't know. She's been gone for like two nights now. I really missed her. |
| 1:22.2 | I miss her at bedtime. That's when I really miss Mildred's bedtime. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.3 | How's Juniper coping with the hot weather? |
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