Anna Hemmings: How a Six-Time World Champion Performs Under Pressure

Anna Hemmings MBE knows the start line better than most: six world titles as a marathon kayaker, two Olympic Games, and the seconds before the starting gun when everyone has trained hard and everyone has talent. What happens in the mind on race day, she says, is what separates the good from the exceptional. On The BEYOND Podcast she joins Aleksandra King, host and producer, to turn race-day psychology into a repeatable system for leaders, founders and anyone who must stay consistent under pressure. Now a high performance and resilience specialist and the founder of Beyond the Barriers, Anna Hemmings was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome at the peak of her career and told she might never race again; she recovered and won three more world titles. The Anna Hemmings podcast episode ends on the lesson that illness taught her: recovery is a strategy for high performance, not a reward. In this conversation: what goes through Anna Hemmings's head in the seconds before the starting gun; why fear lives in the outcome and how the process takes it away; controlling the controllables, down to the breath you can always control; why visualisation is rehearsal, not manifesting; how to question a limiting belief and rewrite it in an increment you can believe, the reframing behind three world titles won on a sprint finish. Full episode page: Anna Hemmings on The BEYOND Podcast Watch the video episode: Anna Hemmings on YouTube Guest: annahemmings.com and Beyond the Barriers Host: Aleksandra King, host and producer of The BEYOND Podcast and co-author, with Elliott King, of Marketing Wins. The BEYOND Podcast is fearless long-form conversation about power, resilience and the truth behind success, hosted and produced by Aleksandra King. New episodes weekly at thebeyondpodcast.com.