Women Who Fight supports female fighters, collecting specialist advice and sharing current research from the experts. We are passionate about creating a space where women can find answers in a supportive and safe environment, promoting equality in the gym, on screen, in research and in prizes, as well as sinking our teeth into the best ways to optimise our health and training. We believe that our training should work with our unique and dynamic bodies, building on our strengths to help us grow and evolve in our field. In a male dominated sport, women need to support each other as we develop within it, and Women Who Fight aims to bring knowledge to the people who need it.
Episodes
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
We had the pleasure of speaking to Laurien and Alex, founders of Off The Zone which teaches coaches to be trauma informed. Laurien and Alex explain what trauma is, how it works and the great potential of martial arts to be part of the healing process.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Alex & Laurien
Sound Editor and Composer: Will Grant
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
"Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause"
Maisie hill’s book Perimenopause Power is the sequel to her fantastic book Period Power. Here we uncover the realities of menopause, understanding its impact and strategies in how to mitigate symptoms, dispelling myths and fundamentally taking control over our own experience of it. This is our second podcast with Maisie and as with the first it was a fantastic conversation.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Maisie Hill
Sound Editor and Song Writer: Will Grant
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
For this episode we had Hayzia and Jorden from the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation - IMMAF. Hayzia is the Chairwoman of IMMAF’s Women’s Commission and Jorden is their Member Development Consultant. Both work to develop women’s MMA and improve their participation in IMMAF Championships and at the national level through their national federations.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Hayzia Bellem & Jorden Curran
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
In this episode, we are talking to Nicole Strock, breaking down a scientific study about female Judokas and their wellbeing called: Eating Attitudes, Body Esteem, Perfectionism and Anxiety of Judo Athletes and Nonathletes.
Scientific journals can be so hard to decipher for the layman, and with Nicole we were able to break down and understand what this paper was telling us. This is the first of three we have planned. Thank you to Nicole for sharing her knowledge.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Nicole Strock
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
Helene is the founder of WILD.AI, an app to track women’s menstrual cycle and build a nutrition, rest and recovery programme around your physiological needs. It makes adjustments to its recommendations as you input your data, helping you to see patterns and mitigate symptoms. It supports menstruating women and those on birth control, as well as peri and post menopausal women. It is still in its infancy (relatively speaking) and Helene has big plans for it.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Helene Guillaume
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Luiz Faye trains in adaptive boxing and has her own business called Kronik Warrior UK. We spoke about her journey and how she is developing adaptive boxing to make it a recognised sport.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Luiz Faye
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Nicky is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Medicine at University College London and Research Fellow in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University.
She conducts clinical research in sports and dance endocrinology and is a member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine and the British Menopause Society.
Her aim is to redefine optimal health and fitness for the individual.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Nicky Keay
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
We had the pleasure of speaking with Phathokuhle Zondi and Nonhlanhla Mkumbuzi about an editorial they co-authored called 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Invisibility of Female African Athletes in Sports and Exercise Medicine Research'.
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guests: Phathokuhle Zondi and Nonhlanhla Mkumbuzi
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Janay Harding is a professional MMA fighter based in Sydney, Australia. Janay fights as a featherweight in the Bellator promotion and is ranked number 7 in the Women's Featherweight Division (at the time of recording in June 2021).
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Janay Harding
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Nicole is a PhD graduate working at the Women’s Health and Exercise Lab at PSU (Pennsylvania State University) and is the Coordinator for the non-profit organisation The Female and Male Athlete Triad.
We first reached out to Nicole's team last year after finding a paper her group had written about menstrual disturbances in athletes. We formed a partnership with their group and collaborated on a project called 'Meet The Fighters' where athletes shared personal experiences about health-related and performance-related issues as combat fighters.
Nicole talks about her research regarding the Female Athlete Triad which is the evidence-based cornerstone of the more recently introduced model of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S).
https://www.instagram.com/theathletetriad/
Hosts: Shanti & Marina
Guest: Nicole Strock
Podcast Editor and Music Producer: Will Grant