Performance Secrets and Speed with Sasha Gollish - Runner, Engineer, Professor

In this episode, Sylvia is joined by Canadian Sasha Gollish, professional runner, performance engineer, speaker and educator. They discuss lessons on and off the track, balancing work and play, diversifying your sport, making choices not sacrifices, navigating academia as a professor, deconstructing personal narratives, daily doses of nature and adventure, and much more.

Sasha also loves to ski and is passionate about making fast turns on the track and on the slopes. She shares what the metaphor of flight means personally and its reference on her tattoo. Sasha is a flying member of the Haute Volée Oiselle running team and teaches at the University of Toronto.

"I think one of the coolest things about resilience engineering is the fact that something can be disturbed and knocked down and afterwards it's stronger because it's designed in a way to be resilient." Sasha Gollish

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"I think in resilience that separation of the things that you can control and things you can't control really helps you identify the things that you build upon, in your realm of control, on the positive side of things." Sasha Gollish

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Topics Include

• Finding space to discover your passions

• Balancing being a scientist and an athlete

• Performance training and lessons from the track

• Connecting with the outdoors

• The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves

• Connecting to our bodies

• Antifragility and resiliency systems in engineering

• Facing the fear of death

• Collaborating with Oiselle

• Investigating our spiritual nature

• The connection between risk and kindness

Resources Mentioned

Oiselle

Connect with Sasha

Sasha’s Website

"I remind myself of the things that I need little bits of joy so that i can bounce back up if i fall down." Sasha Gollish

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