Strong Mind
Episodes
Rethinking Bravery – Strong Mind Session with Hazel and Angus
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it really mean to have a strong mind? And what does it actually mean to be brave?In climbing, bravery is usually praised and celebrated—bu...
Can You Climb Without Ego? Zen Lessons from Francis Sanzaro
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel sits down with climber, philosopher, and author Francis Sanzaro for a deep dive on the ego—what it is, how it shows up in climbing and life, a...
AMA with Hazel – Climbing, Mindset, Motherhood & More
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode, Hazel answers listener-submitted questions covering everything from climbing training, risk, and perfor...
Big walls and bedtime stories with Leo Houlding
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel sits down with Leo and Jess Houlding and their eldest daughter, Freya. They start with Leo’s legendary adventures, expeditions and first ascen...
Performance psychology for climbers: AMA session with Hazel and Angus.
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel and Angus sit down with a cup of tea to answer some of our listeners' questions around performance psychology. We discuss topics like flow, ...
Rethinking Masculinity In The Outdoors: Resilience, Vulnerability, Emotional Strength and Fatherhood
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING, this podcast mentions suicide and mental health. What does it mean to be a man in 2025 — especially in the world of climbing, adventure, a...
The Cost of Winning: Shauna Coxsey opens up about mindset, mental health, motherhood and her time at the top
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shauna Coxsey is one of the most decorated climbers of her generation, but this conversation goes far beyond competition results. We explore her journ...
What does it take to flash El Cap? Babsi and Jacopo talk pressure, expectation, motivation, fear, failure and flow.
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Barbara Zangler ( Babsi) and Jacopo Larcher to learn more about their ascent of Freerider on El Capitan in Yosemite V...
Emily Harrington - From Chilhood to Motherhood
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING - we do talk about eating disorders in this podcast. In this episode, Hazel speaks with Emily Harrington about her life as a professional cli...
Social Risk and Self-trust With Africa Brooke
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Africa Brooke. Africa is a consultant, coach, strategist, and speaker with a unique focus: tackling self-sabotage and se...
Mind Games - Allison Vest
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel speaks with Allison Vest about her struggles and progress with mental training in climbing. They talk about how she found comp...
Performance Hacks Bonus Episode
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Angus Kille interviews Hazel about how to leverage mental training for performance and their course Performance Hacks. 🧠 Watch o...
Breathing - Science and Tradition
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk a lot about breath! We look at the physical and mental benefits from 2 different perspectives with 2 experts in the field. ...
Working With The Mind - Lor Sabourin
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lor Sabourin is a professional climber, mental training coach, and Training Leader for the Warrior’s Way, an organization that uses climbing-based m...
Mastery and Flow in High Level Bouldering Part 2
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of a conversation Hazel had with Aiden Roberts about mastery, flow and motivation in high-level bouldering. Check out part 1 f...
Spontaneity
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation between Hazel and Jeff Charno. Jeff is the founder and host of Being & Doing online conferences where he has interviewed more tha...
Flow Philosophy
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel speaks with Cameron Norsworthy (PhD in Flow and director of the Flow Centre) about flow. This conversation is a little bit of a...
Understanding Intuition
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Hazel speaks with musician, researcher and lecturer in philosophy of mind Lauri Jarvilehto. This is a more academic conversation but ...
Big wave mindset
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel talks to windsurfer Sarah Hauser. Sarah is one of the world's best windsurfers and has the record for the biggest wave ever win...
Adam Ondra- It's all about the psyche
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded live as a SHAFF (Sheffield adventure film festival) event, so it's a little different in format compared to our other episod...
Exploring the embodied mind
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel chats with Mike Weeks. Mike is a serial entrepreneur, coach and speaker, specializing in resilience and peak performance for em...
A different kind of mountain
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel talks to former pro-climber Mason Earle about his journey with ME/CFS. Mason was living a life full of adventure before almost ...
Busting myths about fear of falling in climbing
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel and Angus Kille chat about fear of falling. They talk about - what fear of falling is and discuss some nuances and misconcep...
Which does Tim Emmett find scariest: base jumping or sport climbing?
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel speaks with climber, ex-base jumper and all-round adventurer Tim Emmett. They talk about Tim's relationship with all the risky ...
Thinking fast
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel speaks with race car driver coach Ross Bentley about how he uses psychological tools and strategies to help drivers perform at ...
Competition, performance and fear
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel and Angus speak with Emma Wood, one of the great minds working in the space of psychology in our community. We talk about sport...
The Best Way to Win
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel speaks with free-ride world champion Lorraine Huber about her journey to win. At first, Lorraine had a lot of anxiety around co...
Mastery and flow in high level bouldering
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first part of a long conversation with Aidan. We mostly focus on mastery, goals, motivation and direction in climbing. To access the secon...
Lessons from the deep
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hazel speaks with professional free diver Miguel Lozano. Free diving has to be one of the more psychologically uncomfortable sports y...
The relationship between flow, mindfulness and performance
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel talks to Sue Jackson about flow, mindfulness and performance and how they all relate. Sue is a psychologist, researcher and mindfulness practiti...