Performance Secrets & Speed with Sasha Gollish - Runner, Engineer, Professor

In this episode, Sylvia is joined by Canadian Sasha Gollish, professional runner, performance engineer, speaker and educator. They discuss lessons on and off the track, balancing work and play, diversifying your sport, making choices not sacrifices, navigating academia as a professor, deconstructing personal narratives, daily doses of nature and adventure, and much more.

Sasha also loves to ski and is passionate about making fast turns on the track and on the slopes. She shares what the metaphor of flight means personally and its reference on her tattoo. Sasha is a flying member of the Haute Volée Oiselle running team and teaches at the University of Toronto.

Topics Include:

Finding space to discover your passions
Balancing being a scientist and an athlete
Performance training and lessons from the track
Connecting with the outdoors
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
Connecting to our bodies
Antifragility and resiliency systems in engineering
Facing the fear of death
Collaborating with Oiselle
Investigating our spiritual nature
The connection between risk and kindness
And other topics...
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.sashagollish.com/
https://www.oiselle.com/

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