Welcome to the Femmi Pod. Femmi has been built to empower women through movement, education and connection. At Femmi we are building a community of women who can support, inspire and educate one another on how to move with our bodies and not against them. Founders, Lydia O’Donnell and Esther Keown, have come together to kick start more conversations about women, how we can make the most of our bodies, our hormones and ourselves.
We are so excited to introduce to you our NEW femmi running coach - the incredible, Dora Atim. Dora is a Nike Run Club coach and the founder of Ultra Black Running - a running community built for Bla…
In this episode Lyds and Est chat about the importance of addressing expectations vs reality when making plans and/or setting goals. We chat through the current situation we find ourselves in and how…
Welcome back! We are so excited to be back for 2023 and to continuing chasing our purpose of creating a more equitable sporting and exercise arena for women*. This episode we catch up about our time …
Celebrating the year of 2022. Thank you for all of the support you’ve given to us this year. All of the community who have run with us at Femmi events, all of the athletes who run under our coaching …
This week we welcome back our Femmi Physiotherapist Grace Coombs. If you haven't yet listened to our first episode with Grace, we suggest you go back to listen to Ep 26 first. Grace is a Womens Healt…
In this episode we are having a conversation about male allies. We dive deep into the trolling misogynists on social media after we noticed some pretty unnecessary comments on an article about our re…
This episode we are joined by a total badass. Erchana Murray Bartlett is currently on an crazy 6,200 kilometre adventure in Australia, running from Cape York to Melbourne. Erchana is covering a marat…
Episode 50 !!! This episode we recap the IWG Women in Sport conference in Auckland, NZ. We attended the conference to learn from and engage with other incredible humans trying to change the game for …
In this episode we dive into our own journeys with disordered eating behaviours, from being a teenage girl struggling with body image issues to being a competitive female athlete. We talk through som…
We are back. And we would like to think better than ever! This episode we catch up on what we have been up to while we were on holiday and in particular with our running. We then dive deep into the p…
This episode we are honoured to interview the legend Izzi Batt-Doyle. Izzi is one of Australia's leading female runners, representing Australia at the Tokyo Olympics. Izzi also ran at the recent Comm…
This episode is all about the effects of psychological stress on our holistic health. Esther gives us an update on the challenges she has been facing in her personal life and we break down the impact…
This episode we hand the mic over to our community members to speak. A handful of Femmi athletes and coaches tell their stories around how the lack of education in the female space impacted them grow…
On this episode we welcome back to the pod our incredible Femmi Endocrinologist Dr Izzy Smith. Dr Izzy is an Australian based doctor working in endocrinology and is part of our expert team that creat…
This week Lyds is running solo. As Esther is facing a challenging time with her beautiful partner falling ill, she is taking some time out. In this episode Lydia chats through the importance of grati…
This episode we welcome the first ever male to the podcast. James Mortimer is an ex athlete, a long time friend and an incredible athletics coach to many of New Zealand's best sprinters. James has co…
This week we had the absolute honour to interview Femmi Run Coach Meriem Daoui. Meriem is a shining light and a go-getter. Working as a shift nurse, training for marathons and continually doing thing…
This week on the pod we are talking about a very exciting project we have been working on. Femmi Theory. An online education course to help educate others on how to empower women through sport and mo…
This week we speak to the incredible Megan Woff. Megan is an engineer, the female founder of a creative company called Bellish and is now the head of accelerator programme at Startmate. (For those wh…
This week on the Femmi Pod, Esther and Lydia discuss the importance of women supporting women, in order to get a step closer to gender equality. They dive into their thoughts around why women have tr…