Mindset Unfiltered by Alexandra Legouix

Mindset Unfiltered by Alexandra Legouix

Sports TV presenter, yoga teacher and meditation & mindfulness coach, Alexandra Legouix, sits down with elite athletes, world champions, health warriors and mental health experts and brings us a series of very raw, open, humbling and inspiring interviews on mindset, mental health, fitness, human recovery and human growth https://www.alexandralegouix.com/podcast

Episodes

July 29, 2025 28 mins

In this live podcast special, recorded at the 2025 Mindset Unlimited Festival, Alex sits down with her Girl on Girl podcast co-host Becky Taylor for a powerful, funny, and honest conversation about trauma, identity, and resilience. The two explore:

  • The mental impact of sudden trauma
  • How identity shifts after life-altering events
  • Why vulnerability is key to healing
  • How to balance humour and honesty in heavy conversations
  • What it mean...
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There I was thinking I knew quite a lot about nutrition, diet, the gut and how it all works... but turns out, I really have so much to learn!  So I was blessed to get to sit down with the wonderful nutrition consultant and founder of MetaWell, Minna Wood

She is a walking, talking advert for what she promotes... she is the epitome of health with beautiful glossy hair, bright eyes and incredible skin! I was so envious! 
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After more than twenty years as a Director, Producer and Senior Executive in the fast paced, high - pressured, and very competitive world of television, Steve decided to use his experience to change his life, and the lives of others. TV gave him a privileged and unique opportunity to meet people who had overcome massive obstacles to achieve extraordinary success, and he made it his mission to discover what is it that separates thos...

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My guest today has struggled with her weight for most of her life and she truly understands just how hard it is to live with obesity.
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10 years ago, Sarah Le Brocq was 24 stone. She applied to be on the show Fat: The Fight of my Life, she was selected to feature on the show and over the course of that following year she lost 8 stone and competed in various top level endurance events. However, over the subsequent few years...

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For years, Jessie Asya Kanzer felt like a failure, unable to “make it,” either as an actress or in the rat race. Her childhood as a Russian immigrant in post-Cold War America heightened her insecurity and threatened her identity, desperate as she was to fit into a culture that was alien at best and hostile at worst. 

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This loss and eventual reclamation of her sense of self sent her on a more spiritual path during which she disc...

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My guest today is Ione Butler - a British film, television and voiceover actress based in New Mexico and LA. She has worked on a number of feature films including Marvel’s Black Widow and has guest-starred in hit TV shows on CBS, Spike TV, TLC and the BBC. 

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Ione has been through some extremely dark times in the past and everything she watched, read or listened to made her feel sad, angry, hopeless or depressed. She w...

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S6 Ep9: Mandy Hickson: former RAF Fast Jet pilot & author on overcoming failure, battling imposter syndrome and how to take self belief to new heights
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My guest today was only the second female ever to fly a Tornado GR4 on the front line.  She pioneered the movement of women into the RAF.  Most of her very remarkable career was spent as the only female air crew throughout 45 missions over Iraq and three duty tours evid...

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Kushal’s thriving career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs was forever changed on September 11, 2001 as he made a split-moment decision to abandon his office and the co-workers who refused to leave the World Trade Center.  Managing to narrowly escape, he witnessed the magnitude of death and destruction up close. 
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He was plunged into lengthy depression where he found himself believing life was meaningless. His search for a re...

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Everytime I have a guest on the show I am blown away by their mind and the conversation we have and this one is no different and, genuinely, I think you'll agree that this is one of the most interesting rambles and one of the most fascinating humans.

Leonard Perlmutter is the founder of the American Meditation Institute and the originator of National Conscience Month. He is the author of 'The Heart and Science of Yoga&apos...

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My guest today is an internationally recognised health and wellness expert for 20yrs, who helps people redefine wellbeing in their lives.  

He was a Head trainer on NBC’s The Biggest Loser; the expert and host of Sky TV’s observational docu-series, Obese: A Year To Save My Life and Fat: The Fight Of My Life and he has trained the masses on CBS’s Kelly and Michael, Good Morning America and ITV’s Good Morning Britain.  

He was also the...

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My guest today is a fascinating, multiple award-winning, documentary photographer who immerses himself in the toughest of environments and captures absolute beauty and hope in the most remarkable way despite being in the most harrowing of situations and places.

His work has been published in the Washington Post,  Time, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Mag, The Guardian, GreenPeace Mag and so m...

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This episode is so wonderful. Andrew Jordan Nance is the founder and lead trainer of Mindful Arts San Francisco whose mission is to provide mindfulness instruction to youth at underserved San Francisco Schools. 

Andrew is also the author of four incredible Mindfulness books:  Puppy Mind, Mindful Arts in the Classroom, The Lion in Me and The Barefoot King.  And, he is the recipient of the Points of Light Award, a national honour reco...

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My guest today is Dalton Leong, CEO of The Childrens Trust - the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury. They deliver rehabilitation, education and community services through skilled teams who work with children and young people, and their families. It’s a wonderful charity and is run by the most incredible selection of staff who all have their own stories and reasons for doing what they do. Dalton is no different...

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My guest today is former motorsports grid girl, Danielle Simpson, who went through a challenging time in her life which got so bad she hit rock bottom and questioned the point of continuing her precious life. Thankfully, she kept going and worked hard to make some big changes in her life. She found a set of tools and techniques to help rewire her brain and stopped beating herself up. 

This new journey led her to train as a mindset a...

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My guest today on Mindset Unfiltered podcast is Mark Billingham MBE - otherwise known as 'Billy'. 

His life began as a tearaway kid on the streets of Walsall - a world that saw him face death twice before he was 16. Knowing that the world was unlikely to improve for him there, he made a choice. He turned his life around when he joined the Parachute Regiment in 1983, before completing the gruelling selection proc...

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Todays guest has achieved extraordinary feats. He is one of just 3 people to break the land speed record. He was the leader of the team who broke the sound barrier ThrustSSC and drove Thrust2 to 650mph in 1983. He is the the brains behind the Bloodhound project plus many other extremely incredible achievements.  He has two top selling books his most recent called Take Risk and another very exciting project coming soon. 

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David Karasek: Olympic athlete, 10-time Swiss swimming champion, founder of 'Tribe of Athletes' joins me on today's episode of Mindset Unfiltered podcast. This is another VERY interesting chat on goal setting, motivation, reprogramming the subconscious, overcoming self doubt and so much more! Such an uplifting and inspiring way to start my day so I hope it does the same for you - i'm certain it will!

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S5 E8: Former IBF World Cruiserweight Champion, Glenn McCrory - on his career; the highs and lows of boxing; the mindset of a boxer; mental health and coping with depression
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Today's chat is extremely raw, emotional and open. Glenn McCrory’s boxing career was anything but smooth sailing.  He reflects on his life - the highs and lows of the golden era; how he celebrated after defeating Patrick "Killer" Lumumb...

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When I was approached by this guest's management company, I was excited. The last time I interviewed him he had just crossed the line in Macau on only 3 wheels after THAT crash... if you want to know what I mean, google Ferdinand and Macau. I knew it would be a great chat, but I didn’t realise it would be quite so inspirational in so, so many ways. From racing to religion, meditation to surfing, anxiety and positivity, letting...

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I remember the day of the 7/7 London bombings. Normally, I would have taken the tube across london to make my way to Liverpool street where I was working in events but we had put on an event ourselves the night before and had basically decided to take the day off to recover.

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In a parallel universe, Martine caught the Circle line tube to work and sat just three feet away from suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer. 

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The worst inju...

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