Victoria Pendleton (Part Two)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In part two of Emily and Ray’s walk with the wonderful Victoria Pendleton, the conversation turns to fear, resilience and the mindset shifts that helped Victoria navigate life after elite sport.
Emily and Victoria also talk more about her brilliant new book The Fear Opportunity, which explores how doing things that scare us, even in small ways, can lead to a richer and more fulfilling life. Emily found it hugely inspiring, and highly recommends giving it a read.
If you haven’t already, do catch up on part one. And be sure to order your copy of The Fear Opportunity, out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of Walking the Dog with the wonderful Victoria Pendleton. |
| 0:04.0 | Victoria's just written a brilliant new book called The Fear Opportunity about harnessing fear to help you lead a better, more enriched life, which I absolutely loved. |
| 0:13.0 | So do order your copy now. |
| 0:15.0 | Really hope you enjoy part two of our walk and do give us a like and a follow so you can catch us every week. |
| 0:20.0 | Here's Victoria and Ray-Way. Actually, we should just... two of our walk and do give us a like and a follow so you can catch us every week here's |
| 0:21.0 | victoria and rewe actually we should just mention because i didn't mention earlier because i was so |
| 0:28.5 | excited about all the stuff your extraordinary life okay did you have dogs when you were growing up |
| 0:33.7 | no i didn't have dogs when i was growing up. Would have loved to have animals. I drew a |
| 0:38.8 | picture of myself age. I think it was like at lower school or I think about 11 of my ambitions. |
| 0:44.8 | I wanted to have a horse called lightning, a black horse, two cats and two rabbits. Yep, that was it. |
| 0:51.1 | Just wanted to have loads of animals and be like a little old lady sat at home with all loads of trophies |
| 0:54.8 | and then medals in the background i drew this picture of a lady by herself sat in an armchair with a blanket and a grey bun and a fireplace and some trophies |
| 1:04.4 | that's what i wanted you know i want to be a crazy cat cat rabbit horse lady that's what i want to be ultimately |
| 1:10.3 | you know that's me minus the trophy |
| 1:11.8 | is it love that get read it out the trophy yeah yeah yeah yeah um that's it that was the dream |
| 1:19.6 | so let's get back to fear yep and which is something I know quite a bit about because I'm quite a fearful person. |
| 1:29.4 | Okay. And I fear failure a lot so I think I won't do it because then I won't have failed. |
| 1:36.9 | And as I've got older, I am starting to try and challenge that a bit. And's I feel as an Olympian this is something |
| 1:44.8 | you'll relate to you I feel it's like a muscle yeah a build a hundred percent you know |
| 1:49.5 | a lot of people assume as an Olympic if you know you're an Olympic champion or a |
| 1:54.1 | world champion that you just must only win you must only know the feeling of |
| 1:57.0 | winning but you lose thousands and thousands of races for the few that you win thousands |
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