The High Impact Athletes Podcast High Impact Athletes

Marcus chats with Liv Boeree, one of the most successful female poker players of all time. Liv is the only woman to have won both a European Poker Tour event and a World Series of Poker bracelet, and has amassed tournament winnings of over $3.5m dollars over her career. They talk about what makes a world-class poker player, whether poker skills are born of nature or nurture, and the experience of being a woman in a majority male-dominated game and how to exploit that fact. Liv was a cofo...

Marcus chats with David Nyika, one of New Zealand’s most successful boxers. Olympic bronze medalist, Commonwealth Games double gold medalist, undefeated as a professional: Dave is a shining talent in the ring and he’s just getting started. He also has a huge heart and is known as ‘The Nice Guy’. We get into all things boxing as well as a variety of topics outside the ring, including his Ugandan heritage, his love for animals, and ‘Dave Logic’. Follow Dave on:Instagram at: https://www.ins...

Fernando is a veteran ballet dancer, having spent years at Houston Ballet after graduating from the Royal Ballet School in London. Fernando dives into the pressures and social difficulties of being a male ballet dancer as an adolescent, the struggles of constant rejection, and the power of fully expressing your feelings through dance. Fernando has a profound and pragmatic approach to the food he eats and the way he thinks about consumption, which has led to some rethinking of my own eati...

“The quickest way to become a millionaire in racing is to start out as a billionaire.”Ellis Spiezia is known as the electric renegade and is the first native electric racing driver. He, along with his parents Michelle and Francesco, comprise the Ellysium Racing Team.Marcus chats with the team about the pros and cons of electric vs combustion racing, the financial and lifestyle realities of getting to the top of the racing world, the fears of a parent watching their child crash at high speed, ...

Julia is an Olympian and triple Commonwealth Games Medalist hammerthrower, winning one gold and two silvers across 12 years. She has snared six national titles and set 8 national records in New Zealand. Julia is also a weapon in the classroom, having been Head Girl and Dux at high school and graduating in economics from Princeton, where she became Princeton’s first female track & field athlete to win an NCAA title. Alongside her throwing career Julia has worked for the Reserve Bank of New...

Jamie Farndale is an athlete scholar. He was captain of the Scotland Rugby 7s team, which made history in beating New Zealand (the first Scottish team in any version of rugby to do so) and in winning a world series. He is also studying business sustainability at Cambridge University alongside his pro athlete career. Jamie chats with Marcus and Hugo about his atypical pathway to becoming a professional rugby player, along with all the special moments in his career. We dive into the pros a...