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What do you do when the thing that makes you you is suddenly gone? For Britt Furlanis, the answer took fifteen years to find.

Britt grew up competing in showjumping before walking away at 15. What followed was a corporate career in gas trading, bodybuilding competitions, and years of high performance that masked a quiet truth she wasn't ready to face. In 2023, she left it all behind, moved to a property in Queensland, and went all in on her dream of becoming a professional showjumper and Olympic gold medallist.

This conversation is about identity, resilience, and what it really takes to go after something you buried a long time ago. It is also one of the most honest episodes we have had on 4TG.

In this episode, we cover:

• Losing your sporting identity and what the recovery really looks like
• How Britt used gratitude journalling at fifteen to pull herself through a dark period
• Her experience with binge eating and bulimia during the transition to university and corporate life
• Leaving a successful corporate career to pursue an Olympic dream in showjumping
• Rebuilding a relationship with failure and why she now treats it as data
• The fear of voicing your goals out loud and who you should tell first
• Navigating friendship groups when your ambitions outgrow your environment

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A big thank you to:

• Snap Fitness - our community partner helping keep girls and women in sport. Looking for your new gym? They're in over 280+ locations
• Toorak Hotel - is our go-to local for a proper pub feed, cold drinks, and a great atmosphere in the heart of Toorak.
• Project Better is a welcoming 24-hour Melbourne gym with saunas and ice baths for recovery. No lock-in contracts or fees – just a great local training vibe.

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Nya Lok was born in an Ethiopian refugee camp after her South Sudanese parents fled civil war. She arrived in Australia at age five, speaking no English, with nothing but her family and a quiet, unshakeable belief that she could figure it out.

She went on to captain the first South Sudan women's basketball team in international competition, earn a spot with the Southside Fliers after training on with no contract, and sign with the Perth Lynx. Along the way she picked up three degrees, a role as multicultural officer at Basketball Victoria, and a mindset that most athletes spend careers trying to build.

This is not a pity story. Nya is clear about that. It is a story about what you build when nothing is handed to you.

In this episode, we cover:

• Growing up between two cultures and why identity is Nya's greatest strength
• What it actually felt like to walk into the WNBL with no contract and no guarantees
• Why surrendering the outcome was the thing that finally got her on the floor
• The role of therapy and sports psychology in shifting from perfectionism to performance
• Captaining the first South Sudan women's basketball team and the ripple effect on girls back home
• How one coffee meeting led to her role driving diversity and inclusion at Basketball Victoria
• What Nya would tell her 16-year-old self about control, courage and letting go

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Instagram: @nyaduothlok

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Support the show

A big thank you to:

• Snap Fitness - our community partner helping keep girls and women in sport. Looking for your new gym? They're in over 280+ locations
• Toorak Hotel - is our go-to local for a proper pub feed, cold drinks, and a great atmosphere in the heart of Toorak.
• Project Better is a welcoming 24-hour Melbourne gym with saunas and ice baths for recovery. No lock-in contracts or fees – just a great local training vibe.

⭐ Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with an athlete, parent or coach who needs it. Follow @4tg_podcast | 4tg.com.au

🎁 Free Resource 5 Min Pre-Game Reset — calm the noise and lock in your focus before game time to perform at your best!

🧠 1:1 Athlete Mentoring 6 weeks. Mindset, confidence, performance. For driven female athletes ready to back themselves. Limited spots. Apply at 4tg.com.au or DM "MENTORING" to @4tg_podcast.

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She finished 17th in her seeding run. She had the flu. She won Olympic gold anyway.

Josie Baff is a 23-year-old snowboarder from Jindabyne and Australia's first ever Olympic gold medallist in women's snowboard cross. But this episode is not about what happened on the podium. It is about everything that happened between the race that broke her and the one that made her.

After a difficult campaign at Beijing 2022, Josie spent four years rebuilding her mindset from the ground up. Working with a sports psychologist and life coach, she developed the mental performance tools that carried her all the way to Milan 2026. Her story is raw, practical and packed with lessons every athlete needs to hear.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why success is not linear and how to use your worst result as your biggest pivot
• The alter ego strategy Josie uses to perform consistently under pressure
• Process over outcome and why wishing for a result is not the same as working for one
• The difference between confidence and arrogance and why female athletes need to own it
• How Josie used journaling, sports psychology and intentional training to build mental strength
• Why luck in sport is something you forge, not something that finds you
• What needs to change to keep more girls and women in sport for longer

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction and what this episode is really about

02:15 – Snap Fitness Rapid Fire

04:30 – Growing up in Jindabyne and falling in love with snowboarding

08:45 – Fun as a performance philosophy and intrinsic motivation

13:00 – Beijing 2022 and the campaign that didn't go to plan

17:30 – World Championships heartbreak and what it revealed

23:00 – Building an alter ego with her sports psychologist

29:15 – Process over outcome and being present in training

35:00 – Luck, superstitions and letting go of jinx thinking

40:30 – "I can't believe it, but I kind of can" – confidence vs arrogance

47:00 – Tall poppy syndrome and owning your belief as a female athlete

52:30 – What women's sport needs to grow and the power of co-ed environments

58:00 – What Josie would tell her 16-year-old self

Follow Josie

Instagram: @josiebaff

Support the show

A big thank you to:

• Snap Fitness - our community partner helping keep girls and women in sport. Looking for your new gym? They're in over 280+ locations
• Toorak Hotel - is our go-to local for a proper pub feed, cold drinks, and a great atmosphere in the heart of Toorak.
• Project Better is a welcoming 24-hour Melbourne gym with saunas and ice baths for recovery. No lock-in contracts or fees – just a great local training vibe.

⭐ Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with an athlete, parent or coach who needs it. Follow @4tg_podcast | 4tg.com.au

🎁 Free Resource 5 Min Pre-Game Reset — calm the noise and lock in your focus before game time to perform at your best!

🧠 1:1 Athlete Mentoring 6 weeks. Mindset, confidence, performance. For driven female athletes ready to back themselves. Limited spots. Apply at 4tg.com.au or DM "MENTORING" to @4tg_podcast.

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