Give Me Strength with Alice Liveing

What makes a strong person to you? Bestselling author and personal trainer Alice Liveing interviews extraordinary people about the importance of building mental and physical resilience and how this can empower us to live happier, stronger lives. You can find more about Alice on Instagram @aliceliveing, on Twitter @aliceliveing_

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How To Optimise Our Immunity with Dr Jenna Macc...
Immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi specialises in understanding how nutrition, movement and lifestyle interact with the immune system in health and disease.
54 min
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Looking After Your Skin with Dr Anjali Mahto
Dr Anjali Mahto is Alice's very own dermatologist and author of best-selling book, The Skincare Bible.
47 min
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Overcoming Trauma To Find Your Stronger Self wi...
Milly Pickles is a content creator, motivational speaker and fitness and disability advocate.
28 min
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The Joy Of Saying No with Natalie Lue
Natalie Lue is the author of The Joy Of Saying No which is a simple lan to stop people pleasing, reclaim boundaries, and say yes to the life you want.
50 min
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Navigating Health Anxiety with Dr Kirren Schnack
Dr Kirren joins Alice to discuss health anxiety.
31 min
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How To Optimise Sleep with Dr Sophie Bostock
Dr Sophie Bostock is a sleep specialist who is fascinated by sleep.
50 min
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How To Be A Trailblazer with Khadijah Mellah
Khadijah Mellah is the first hijab wearing jockey in a competitive British horse race.
42 min
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The Power Of Positivity with Michelle Griffith-...
Michelle Griffith-Robinson is a Great British Olympian, personal trainer and life style coach who manages to balance it all as a mum of three children.
35 min
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The Training Secrets Of A List Celebrities with...
Luke Worthington is one of the most sought after personal trainers in the world.
53 min
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Overcoming Binge Eating with Dr Emilia Thompson
Dr Emilia Thompson is Registered Nutritionist, Educator, Mentor and Meditation Teacher within the health, fitness and wellness space with a BSc in Sports Biomedicine, MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition, PhD in Exercise Physiology, PGCAP in higher education.
45 min
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How Running Can Help You Find Headspace and a C...
Paula Radcliffe is a 3x winner of the London and New York marathon as well as winning the Chicago marathon.
41 min
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Making Fertility Fun with Emma Cannon
64 min
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Understanding Our Hormones To Find Our Happy Pl...
Emma Ross is winner of the Sundays Times Woman Of The Year Award 2021, the co-founder of The Well HQ and the previous Head of Physiology at The English Institute of Sport.
47 min
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Finding Inspiration From Strong Women Professio...
30 min
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Living Your Life With Your Passion And Purpose ...
Vee Kativhu is a YouTuber, author, education activist, BBC teacher, TEDX Speaker and a LinkedIn Changemaker as well as being a graduate from Oxford and Harvard.
61 min
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Dealing with a Pandemic & Public Pressure with ...
Professor Devi Srinder is a public health researcher, author and professor and chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.
37 min
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Finding Your Peace & Purpose with Wendy O’Beirne
Wendy O’Beirne is a life coach who found her way to her career after realising at the age of 32 that she wasn’t feeling fulfilled.
56 min
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Life Without A Filter With Katie Piper OBE
After surviving an acid attack at the young age of 24, Katie Piper is now a thriving author, activist, TV presenter and model who is always advocating for women who have suffered burns and disfigurement injuries
53 min
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Accepting Our Bodies with Alex Light
After struggling with various eating disorders, Alex Light transformed her beauty and fashion blog into a digital safe space to help others.
43 min
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Coming Soon: Give Me Strength!
What makes a strong person? Is it how far you can run, how much you can lift or is it how far you’ve come mentally to overcome something?
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The Practice of Calm, Quiet and Happy with Fear...
As someone who started her public facing career as a 15 year-old, Fearne Cotton has really grown into her skin over the years; keeping acceptance, kindness and positivity at the top of her priorities. Fearne speaks to Alice about the power of an open mind, her growth and self discovery since she became a mother and how she focuses on the day to day task of being kinder to herself in the pursuit of happiness. They also discuss the topic of strength, specifically with regards to the power breathing can provide during mindful practices such as Yoga. As the author of three self-help books: Calm, Quiet and Happy, and host of the highly successful podcast series Happy Place, Fearne has become an expert in the wellbeing space making this a really thoughtful and inspiring conversation.
48 min
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Strength and Balance with Alesha Dixon
Singer, dancer, Strictly Come Dancing royalty and now business owner - Alesha Dixon joins Alice to talk about what strength means to her. Alesha discusses how exercise has always been a big part of her life, as before she chose a career in the music industry she studied sport at college in order to become a PE teacher. She also mentions how exercise supported her though some of the more difficult times in her life and helped her feel more herself after her two pregnancies. She also discusses her recent wellness venture NobleBlu which is launching in June, and why balance is all part of being strong.
54 min
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Rest, Recovery and Pelvic Strength with Dr Amal...
Dr Amal Hassan aka Sport Exercise Doctor on Instagram and cofounder of Umi Health, speaks to Alice about building strength for life through rest, recovery and listening to our bodies. Amal talks about her experience of burnout from overexercising, and how commonplace this is in the fitness world. For Amal, this happened whilst she was training to become a doctor and is one of the reasons why she spends her career spreading the important message of rest and recovery as a sports exercise clinician. Amal also talks about why she co founded Umi Health, as she experienced pelvic floor dysfunction following her pregnancy. She is passionate about supporting women with the knowledge and tools to build core, pelvic floor and functional strength for life.
44 min
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Finding fitness that works for you with Dr Zoe ...
From the Gladiator TV series, to now a media medic and tv presenter, Zoe Williams is an advocate of an active and healthy lifestyle. Alice and Zoe discuss how the last year has impacted movement in a global way, and why it’s so important to encourage, especially, young girls to find a sport they love at an early age. Zoe chats about how she's prioritising a healthy lifestyle whilst being pregnant, and how the last year has impacted her work as a frontline GP worker at NHS Nightingale Hospital.
53 min
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Making Happiness Your Discipline with Ella Mills
Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella, speaks to Alice about the work-life balance she’s cultivated over the years of growing her business with husband Matt, whilst raising her young family. Placing an emphasis on creating discipline in order to be happy, Ella discusses how she had consciously carved out boundaries in her work and private life in order to make this a priority. Whether that’s with the working relationship with her husband, creating purpose with the Deliciously Ella brand, or her daily practice of meditation which allows her to check in with herself every morning. Ella makes the point of bringing all this back to the importance of kindness, especially to ourselves and that we can’t be everything to everyone. This uplifting and motivating conversation is one not to miss!
46 min