Jess Stenson is a three-time Olympian, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and last year, she became the fastest ever Australian female Marathon runner at the time.

She’s also a trained physiotherapist, a coach, and a mum of three, including an eight-week-old.

We go back to the Olympic dream she’d had since she was eight and quietly given up on, and the coach who told her years later to write it down anyway. What happened next still gives me goosebumps.

This one gets personal. With New York Marathon days away for me, I ask Jess the question that’s actually been keeping me up at night: how do you leave your babies behind to run on the other side of the world? Her answer genuinely changed how I’m walking into next week.

If you’ve ever doubted whether you can do hard things while raising kids, this is the episode that puts that doubt to bed.

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Emily Chadbourne is one of my closest friends, a life and mindset coach, and the person who tells me exactly what I need to hear. We’d just come back from our fourth retreat together, this one in Byron Bay, when we sat down to record.

We get into the comments calling me fat phobic. I talk about why that one genuinely baffles me, I’ve never called someone fat on my page. Every time I’ve said the word, it’s been about fat loss in the context of health and strength, never aesthetics. We talk about what people actually hear versus what I’m actually saying, and why your reaction to someone else’s content usually says more about you than it does about them.

I also read out a message I got this week from a woman who asked her gastroenterologist for a colonoscopy even though she had no symptoms, because of something I’d said online. They found precancerous polyps. Her gastroenterologist asked if her “influencer” happened to be me, turns out multiple of his patients have mentioned me. It’s one of the best messages I’ve ever received.

We talk trolls, tall poppy syndrome, comparison, why women get punished for making money, and why I will never apologise for being proud of myself again.

This one is raw, it’s real, and it’s one of my favourites.

Find Em on Instagram for more of this energy.

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan at or sign up for coaching.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over @lifewithdanniduncan.

It's just me on the mic this week, three weeks out from the New York Marathon and I am an absolute mess with nerves and gratitude in equal measure!

This exact week last year I got my clear scan results. No evidence of cancer. It makes me so emotional to say that out loud!

One year on, as a proud ambassador for the Jodi Lee Foundation, together with the support of Anna Liptak from Adventure Time Travel, I’m about to do something I never thought would be possible: run the New York Marathon.

I tell you exactly how I found out, and the ridiculous moment I made Chris leave the room and come back in because his first reaction to my news was asking if he could come too.

I also get real about what training looks like four months after Gold Coast, the long run that absolutely wrecked me on Sunday (and exactly why), and why age has never been less relevant to what my body can do. I also share why this race means so much more than a finish line, including two friends I’ve lost to bowel cancer and why early detection is the whole fight.

We’re also raising money for the Jodi Lee Foundation with a raffle full of amazing prizes. Grab your raffle tickets here.

A huge thank you to Anna Liptak and the team at Adventure Time Travel for making this whole trip possible.

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan at or sign up for coaching.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over @lifewithdanniduncan.