Ep 150 Jana Pittman - What it takes to be enough

Stand Out Life

Jana Pittman has represented her country at three Olympic Games, and her story is a roller coaster of triumph, defeat, failure and success. Two times World Champion, four times Commonwealth Champion in athletics, she swapped the track for the ice joining the Australian Women’s bobsleigh team, to become the first women to represent Australia in both a Summer and Winter Olympic games. After sport she again shifted focus and qualified as a medical doctor. Jana is wife and mother to 6 beautiful children. She has conquered many hurdles in life including being the final women standing in the recent celebrity television show SAS Australia. Her resilience and passion for life is overflowing. Jana has just released her book ‘Enough’, where she shares her life: the good, the bad and the ugly. Her stories of sport, medicine, divorce, miscarriage, loss, solo parenting, and media shenanigans are told without embellishment or excuses. In this conversation we dive into Jana’s perspective on failure and why we should put ourselves in the way of failure more often. We talk about the chase for success vs the acceptance of the way things are, and why despite her ‘resume’ of achievements Jana is still unsure whether she’ll be able to achieve her next goal. This is a conversation for us all - soak up the stories and real talk with the insightful Jana Pittman. https://www.janapittman.com/ https://www.booktopia.com.au/enough-jana-pittman/book/9781760687991.html