#007 Lisa Tamati | The Mindset Behind Over 140 Ultramarathons & How It Came to Save Her Mother’s Life

Hello beautiful people

On today’s podcast we have a wonderful woman with a solid mindset, Lisa Tamati. Lisa, over the past 25 years has ran over 140 ultra-marathons, from racing in the Sahara to the Gobi to Death Valley in the US which mind you reaches temperatures of over 50 degrees celsius, to the other extreme of running 222km in a non-stop race in the Himalayas! 

Lisa is a coach, international speaker, host of her own podcast ‘Pushing the Limits’, has produced many adventure film documentaries and even hosted her own TV Show. She is the author of three best selling books: Running Hot, Running to Extremes and her more recent one Relentless: How a Mother and Daughter Defied the Odds. I was fortunate enough to read all three books just before the podcast and it was a real journey to follow Lisa from her early beginnings.

Sometimes with people such as Lisa, you hear of 140 ultra-marathons, and put them subconsciously on a pedestal as if they are somewhat non-human. But as you are aware, for this very reason, I have this podcast, to humanise people such as Lisa, because she wasn’t always the lady she is today who has so much experience and a strong understanding of who she is. She was actually quite the contrast. 

In her earlier years, Lisa experienced toxic relationships that were all born out of a lack of self-worth, she was a self-assessed people pleaser and experienced depression with suicidal thoughts. But it is in this podcast she shares how the evolution of her running tied in with how she personally evolved. 

Lisa is a pretty real and raw kind of girl, she is a say it how it is type, and I personally love this approach as it takes us to the nitty gritty most are somewhat uncomfortable to talk about, even though it is indeed these topics that tend to be at times the most important. We get pretty deep, many times through story, such as carrying the shock of a divorce that happened 1 week before running 222km through a desert in Niger with food poisoning. That is an interesting one! We discuss how to navigate knowing when an endurance sport is doing more damage than what it is worth, and some pretty awesome mindset strategies of how to approach not only an event that is going to challenge you, but challenges that come into our everyday lives.

Towards the end Lisa shares her story up until date of her mum having a brain aneurysm that caused serious brain damage and resulted in her mum being, as she describes, like a baby in a woman’s body. I won’t share too much here, as she shares it with great detail in this podcast, but I will say, what has happened since then is a true miracle, and I like to think, they only ever happen if you believe they will happen, and relentless belief is certainly what Lisa had.

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