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In this episode we talk to Nirupa Shankar, Joint director of the Brigade Group, a mother of two and an Ironman finisher. She shares about her experience of balancing life as a corporate leader, an involved mom and as a triathlete. She also shares her experience of shedding of nearly 25kilos not once but twice after child birth and getting back to fitness. She was very candid about her athletic abilities and it comes across as a refreshing and pragmatic approach to fitness. She shares practical tips based on her experience. I found quite a few of them very interesting for myself including the one about breaking up with SAMM. Who or what is SAMM you ask, listen from her directly.

0:00:00 Intro
0:04:40 Nirupa's relationship with sport growing up
0:05:50 Taking up fitness to lose post partum weight
0:08:30 What helped her lose weight, breaking up with SAMM
0:15:10 Her lessons from post partum weight loss
0:18:00 Start of triathlon journey, first race at Thonnur
0:25:20 Croatia Olympic distance tri, Dubai 70.3 Half Ironman
0:29:00 Change of mindset, having zero expectations, not focusing on timing
0:35:15 Dealing with personal set backs and finishing full distance Ironman
0:55:15 Prioritization of work, family and sport
1:00:10 Learnings from sport that she takes to work
1:06:10 What next in terms of sport
1:08:10 Tips for working athletes
1:10:00 Closing comments


About the podcast:
The working athlete podcast is a podcast with and for working athletes from all walks of life and various sports. The goal is to provide inspiration, training tips, mental hacks, time management and life-style advice through conversations with some of the best in sport, from athletes to coaches. If you think you can benefit from this, please consider subscribing and hitting the bell icon so that you don't miss the weekly episodes in future.

Who is a working athlete? Someone working fulltime/part-time, entrepreneur or anyone who has to work to make ends meet and doesn't let being busy to stop him/her from pursuing an active lifestyle is a working athlete. I consider stay at home moms/dads who pursue a sport, as working athletes because homemaking is a full-time job.

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I'm Venkat/Venkateswara Rao in my work avatar, working as a Chief Data Analyst in the IT industry in Bangalore. I'm Venky/Bikeyvenky for my friends in the cycling community.