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How do you bounce back from your biggest setbacks? That’s the question Emma Levy is hoping to answer in When Life Gives You Lemons, recently back for its seventh season.
Inspired to start the podcast after experiencing her own trauma when she was diagnosed with breast cancer aged just 36, Levy set herself the goal of starting a podcast to understand resilience and the importance of mindset in our darkest moments.
Levy also just happens to be a physiotherapist whose work has helped take athletes to the Olympics. This is reflected in the show’s previous seasons, with Olympians Tom Daley and his collaborator Matty Lee, gymnast Becky Downie, and curling champion Eve Muirhead joining Emma in the studio. The theme of triumph over adversity seems to unite elite athletes and naturally, this also sees a wealth of Paralympians sharing their stories. These include swimmers Ellie Simmonds and Will Perry, table tennis player (and Strictly star) Will Bayley, and handcyclist Claire Danson.
There’s also a great track record of non-sporting guests, including Traitors star Mollie Pearce, journalist and former politician Sir Trevor Phillips, and entrepreneur and host of the excellent Hidden 20% Ben Branson.
The new season gets off to a strong start, with Stephen McRae, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, joining Levy in the studio. The Australian snapped his achilles tendon on stage in front of two-thousand people and tells us how he got his career back on track after learning to walk - and dance - again. Episode two meanwhile features social media sensation Fats Timbo. Born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, Timbo speaks about coping with bullying and transforming her biggest challenges into millions of followers, a modelling job and a book deal.
New episodes of When Life Gives You Lemons are out every Tuesday.
