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Unfiltered Athletes

Léo Bouissonpodcast.ausha.co
Unfiltered Athletes goes behind the scenes with world class athletes, to reveal the untold stories of their journeys. From gruelling training sessions to mental strategies to achieve greatness, get ready for a raw, unfiltered look at the world of sports. Guests include: Aaron Brown (4x100m world champion), Joel Anthony (NBA), Sage Watson (400m hurdles), Laurence St-Germain (ski slalom), Nick Wammes (track cycling), Shady El Nahas (judo), Phylicia George (100m hurdles and bobsleigh) If you want to know every time a new episode is released, follow the podcast on the platform you’re reading this! And on other social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unfiltered.athletes/ LinkedIn (podcast): https://www.linkedin.com/company/unfiltered-athletes/ LinkedIn (Léo): https://www.linkedin.com/in/leo-bouisson/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UnfilteredAthletes Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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Episodes

#35 | 🩱 Celina Toth | 🚨 Breaking news from Celina in this episode!

I'm thrilled to have Olympian diver Celina Toth with me on this episode; we delve into the riveting world of professional diving. Celina shares personal insights of her career, from challenging coach relationships to moments of sheer ecstasy. Celina gives an unfiltered look into the daily hustle of her remarkable career, and brace yourselves for the bombshell revelation in the second half of the episode. Grab your headphones for an amazing journey into the life of a true diving champion! Follow ...

Feb 14, 202457 min

Extract - Celina Toth

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Feb 13, 20241 min

#34 | 🏒 Antoine Roussel | 🥊 La LNH grâce à la hargne et la persévérance (et quelques bagarres)

Dans cet épisode en français, j’ai la chance de faire ma première interview avec un ancien joueur de la ligne nationale de Hockey, Antoine Roussel. Arrivé au Québec depuis la France à 16 ans, le chemin n’a pas été de tout repos pour Antoine, alors que peu de monde, voire même personne, ne le pré-destinait à atteindre les rangs de la meilleure ligue de hockey au monde. Mais à force de persévérance, de discipline et de passion, Antoine a fini par sginer aux Dallas Stars, ou il a débuté sa carrière...

Jan 24, 20241 hr 17 min

Extrait - Antoine Roussel

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Jan 23, 20242 min

#33 | 🏃 Jeff Pelletier | 🤯 He runs 386km in the desert in 70 hours

Jeff Pelletier is a Canadian ultra long distance runner. Jeff started running seriously at age 27, and after a few marathons, he landed into trail running, which he right away fell in love with. He doesn't chase results and times; instead, he wants to push his body and mind to its absolute limit, taking part in events on longer and longer distances; at the moment of the recording, he was actually getting ready for the Moab 240, a 240-mile race in Utah, spread over multiple days, with little to n...

Jan 17, 202454 min

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Jan 16, 20242 min

#32 | 🏊‍♂️ Finlay Knox | Versatility and grit in the water

I met Finlay Knox, medley swimmer, this summer at the Toronto Pan American Sport Center. Just a few days prior to moving to Vancouver and only a couple days after being back from the World Champs in Fukuoka, Finlay was nice enough to sit and chat, to tell us about the few highs and many lows of a swimmer’s journey to success. Even if he’s only 23, Finlay has faced many moments of doubts, wondering if he was really chasing his own dream or what elite sport expected him to do. While he acknowledge...

Jan 10, 20241 hr 14 min

Extract - Finlay Knox

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Jan 09, 20241 min

#31 | 🏊‍♀️ Tessa Cieplucha | Chasing fun and success in the pool

Tessa Cieplucha, Olympian swimmer and 2021 Individual Medley world champion, explains how important it is to understand what dream you’re chasing, and why you’re chasing it. In a constant battle to find the right mix of fun and growth and success-oriented mindset, Tessa tells us about her daily fight to keep achieving better and better world level performances. After a tough 2022-2023 season, she was on a well deserved summer breaks at the moment of the recording, very much looking forward to th...

Dec 20, 202349 min

Extract - Tessa Cieplucha

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Dec 19, 20232 min

#30 | 🏃‍♂️ Trevor Hofbauer | Giving up on social life to chase Olympic dreams

3-time Canadian champion marathoner, Trevor Hofbauer, joins us on the podcast. He tells us all about his rise to being one of the top Canadian long-distance runner. While initally a basketball lover, he realised, later in his adultehood, his potential for running. So, in 2016, he decided that he wanted to make it to the Olympics. To reach that goal, he focused for 3 full years on this objective, training early in the morning and late at night, on top of his full time job, leaving his social life...

Dec 13, 202341 min

#29 | ⛷️ Brodie Seger | Chasing dreams at 160km/h on the skis

Follow Brodie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brodieseger/ Follow the podcast on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unfiltered.athletes/ LinkedIn (podcast): https://www.linkedin.com/company/unfiltered-athletes/ LinkedIn (Léo): https://www.linkedin.com/in/leo-bouisson/ Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....

Dec 06, 20231 hr 4 min

#28 | 🏃 Lucas Bruchet | Versatility through cross-country and track-and-field

Lucas Bruchet is a multiple-time Canadian champion in both cross-country and in the track and field 5,000 and 10,000 meter. Lucas retired in February 2023, and he looks back on his career to explain the origin of his love for cross-country, his great achievements and successes, and his participation to the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. He digs into the importance of keeping a good sport-life balance, and also discusses the struggles athletes can face when it comes to finance and funding, in order to k...

Nov 29, 202348 min

#27 | ⛷️ Ali Nullmeyer | Riding the elite athlete rollercoaster

Ali Nullmeyer is a professional skier in the slalom category. Even though she's only 25, Ali already rode the elite athlete rollercoaster, after being severely injured in 2017, coming back in 2019, getting her best World Cup results early 2022, before a disappointing result at the 2022 Olympics. She explains how important it is for her to keep a good sport-life balance and healthy relationship with her sport, as she kept studying across her career, to make sure ski isn't the only thing she can r...

Nov 22, 202350 min

#26 | 🏂 Valeria Tsoy | “When pressure starts coming in, fun starts coming out”

Valeria Tsoy is a snowboarder who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, representing Kazakhstan. Her career and post career are a model of resilience and grit. She went through lots of lows, like the risk of losing her funding one year before the Olympics, to amazing highs, when she achieved country-wide fame and recognition a few weeks later following Olympics-qualifying trials. After disappointing results in Sochi, and due to a lack of support from her federation, Valeria decided to d...

Nov 15, 20231 hr 16 min

#25 | 🏈 Hergy Mayala | "Miss one opportunity, and you’re out"

At the moment of the recording, this summer, Hergy played for the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL, the Canadian Football League. Since then, he was transferred to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. We go in depth about the life and struggle of elite football players, and we discuss the importance of keeping high hopes and a solid mental, in a sport where you don't control everything about your performance. Even if Hergy still has many more years to go, it is impressive to witness the wisdom he has already a...

Nov 08, 202347 min

#24 | 🚴‍♂️ James Piccoli | Mechanical engineer turned pro cyclist

James Piccoli is a pro cyclist, who started competing late, around 20, when he wanted to test the objects he was building for school projects, while studying Mechanical Engineering at Concordia University, in Montreal. And even then, once he became a pro, it took him more than 4 years to find what he considered to be "success", and get a decent pro cyclist contract. James is the perfect exemple of athlete resilience, passion and grit, to make his way through the ups and downs of his journey. Fol...

Nov 01, 20231 hr 3 min

Intro - James Piccoli

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Oct 31, 20232 min

#23 | 🥋 Shady El Nahas | Judo for self-defense, to world #2

Some of you might know Shady El Nahas from the TV show L'Ile de l'Amour, but most would know him for his offensive and relentless attitude on the tatami. Shady was born in Egypt and started judo for self-defense after suffering from bullying at school. He climbed the world ranking at a crazy speed, staying world #2 for more than 2 years in the 100kg category. Shady is not hiding: he knows he has to keep his mental at the top to reach his biggest goal: the gold medal, next year at the 2024 Olympi...

Oct 25, 202345 min

#22 | 🏌️‍♀️ Sasha Laoun | Le sport de haut niveau en tant que malentendant

Une fois n'est pas coutume, dans cet épisode en francais, je rencontre Sasha Laoun au café Le Club, pour une discussion des plus intéressante. Tout d'abord, un grand merci au Club de m'accueillir pour l'enregistrement de cette épisode! Sasha est une golfeuse Québécoise, membre des Carabins de l'Université de Montréal, et également de l'équipe Canadienne de golf pour sourds et malentendants. Née avec une malformation du diaphragme qui a requis des sérieuses opérations pour assurer sa survie, Sash...

Oct 18, 202350 min

#21 | 🏃‍♀️💄 Sage Watson | The red lipstick rancher and Olympic hurdler

Sage Watson is a 2-time Olympian and 400m hurdles Canadian record holder. Known worldwide for the red lipstick she wears in competition, Sage is a dedicated and self-conscious athlete, and a fighting individual with well-defined values, as her one-of-a-kind approach to sponsorship shows. Diagnosed with dyslexia early in her studies, she graduated university at the top of her class; she applied the same relentlessness to her sport career, overcoming various injuries, up until today, as she was a ...

Oct 11, 202352 min

Extract - Sage Watson

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Oct 10, 20232 min

#20 | 🏊‍♂️ Cédric Fofana | Bouncing back from heartbreaking first Olympics

#20 | 🏊‍♂️ Cédric Fofana | Bouncing back from heartbreaking first Olympics Cédric Fofana is a diver on the 3m springboard. Cédric went to the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, where he finished last, after a heartbreaking experience; he brings us into the behind-the-scene of this disappointing yet enriching experience, which he knows made him a better diver, and will give him higher chances for the upcoming international events. Cédric is an incredibly poised person, who got interested in diving reall...

Oct 04, 202344 min
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