A Winning Mindset Podcast Returns For Second Season
Multi-award-winning podcast A Winning Mindset returns for a second season with a focus on mental health.
Coinciding with International Day of Persons With Disabilities last week, the podcast A Winning Mindset returned for a new weekly 10-part season.
A Winning Mindset is a partnership between the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Worldwide Paralympic Insurance Partner Allianz, using the life stories of Paralympic athletes to cover an extensive range of educational, confidence and self-improvement themes. The first season garnered both critical acclaim and awards, winning the Best Sport Podcast award at the 2021 Sport Industry Awards.
The second season of A Winning Mindset marks fifteen years of partnership between the IPC and Allianz. As a leading global insurer, Allianz secures people’s lives and gives them courage for what’s ahead and this season celebrates both the athletes and those behind them. Each episode is focussed on mental health, with topics ranging from wellbeing to finding your purpose, from defying expectations to mental growth.
Season one was audio only, but new for this season is video content where bite-size highlights from each podcast will be shared on YouTube and social media with the aim of engaging an even wider audience.
Athletes who won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games feature heavily in season two of A Winning Mindset. Swiss wheelchair racer Marcel Hug, who won four golds in Tokyo and in November smashed the 22-year-old marathon world record, talks motivation. Anastasia Pagonis, Team USA’s breakout star in Para swimming discusses defying expectations, while Indian Para athletics sensation Sumit Antil, who broke the world record three times in the F64 Men’s javelin, examines finding your purpose.
Appropriately with the Paralympic Winter Games only three months away, season two kicks off with a vision impaired Para alpine skier. Great Britain’s Millie Knight talks about support systems, including her guide who helps her navigate hurtling down the slopes. The season also features its first husband and wife partnership as Canadians Billy Bridges and Sami Jo Small, respective Paralympians and Olympians in ice hockey, discuss teamwork.
Craig Spence, Chief Brand and Communications Officer at the IPC, said: “We were blown away by the engagement in the first season of A Winning Mindset. At the IPC we know all about the positivity and resilience of Paralympians, so it was great to see a new and different audience learning from them on how they can improve their lives.
“Thanks to the tremendous support of Allianz season two A Winning Mindset was never in doubt. We are excited that its focus is mental health, one of the most important issues of our age. As a result of the pandemic, addressing our mental health has become societal issue more than ever, and we’re sure that many people will find guidance, support and comfort from the stories and insight our Paralympians speak about.”
A Winning Mindset is again produced by content agency LiveWire Sport, which has worked with the IPC since 2018 and has a rich heritage in Paralympic sport stretching back to London 2012, through its BAFTA-winning partnership with Channel 4. Also returning as season presenter interviewing the athletes is British broadcaster Andy Stevenson, who has a vast array of Paralympic experience working for the BBC, Channel 4 and Whisper Films.
