I can't quite believe it, but here we are — the 800th episode of the Tough Girl Podcast!
In this special solo episode, I'm taking you behind the scenes for a personal catch-up and reflection on everything that's happened so far in 2025 — from January through to August. I talk about what life has looked like lately (yes, still living at home with my parents!), working part-time at AIM Health, the adventures I've been on, the challenges I've faced, and the exciting things coming up next.
This episode is a bit of everything: gear chat (flat-lay photos and a new Atom Pack!), health updates (peri-menopause, gut health, strength training, and more), financial planning (Patreon, pensions, broken laptops!), plus reflections on my time walking the English Camino, Snowdonia Slate Trail, and tackling the GR20 in Corsica — which was honestly tougher than the Marathon des Sables.
I'm also talking about my motivations for taking on the GR10, what I've learned in 10 years of podcasting, and why the mission — to increase the amount of female role models in the media especially in relation to adventure and physical challenges— is stronger than ever.
Thank you for being here with me on this journey. Whether you've listened from the start or are just finding the show now, I'm so incredibly grateful. This is a celebration of us — of consistency, resilience, growth, and dreaming big.
🎧 Tune in to hear what I've learned over 10 years, what's changed (and what hasn't), and where I see the podcast — and my adventures — heading next.
Let's go!
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Show notes
- Intro to the podcast - solo reflections episode with me - Sarah Williams
- 800th episode!
- Reflecting back from January 2025 - to August 2025
- Setting the scene - chaos in my room - kit and gear everywhere
- Taking photos for the flat lay gear post
- New backpack - atom pack - needing to go on a test hike
- Agenda and plans for this episode
- Behind the scenes and what's been going on
- Living at home with my parents since 2014
- Working at AIM Health - structure, regular hours, income, access to therapies
- Aim Health therapies - Cryotherapy, compression trousers, red light, HBOT, rebalance bed
- Impact on my wellness and recovery
- Saving money, emergency funds, breaking my laptop, spending money…
- Saving money for my pension
- Funds from patreon - paying for the website, music, search function, auphonic, Zoom costs
- Root canal - and teeth looking good
- Health - consistent with training, mobility and strength with Franco
- Not trusting my ankles - needing to strap them up
- Adult ballet
- Yin yoga - not being as consistent as I would like (Kassandra Yin Yoga - Youtube)
- Reflecting back - longevity - turning 44 - big jump in aging
- Peri-menopause and menopause
- Bioresonance, OligoScan
- Feeling slightly fatigued - anaemic again? Blood test coming back normal
- Too much cryotherapy? And stopping for the summer so as not to loose my heat adaption
- Feeling everything is coming together and feeling strong and well
- Gut health issues; belches, bacteria overgrowth, wheat free
- October focus will be gut health and working with a nutritionist and Dr Cath
- Home based for 7 months.
- Adventures
- April - Walking The English Camino with Gemma Smith - stats and filming and not having time to share online
- Snowdon
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