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Shanaze Reade, three-time BMX World Champion named the Sunday Times Young Sportswoman of the year speaks on her personal attributes that led to sporting success as well as how can you build your own mental strength and maintain a healthy mindset. Find out more in this exclusive interview from The LGBT Speakers Agency.
Interview Chapters: 4 Key Moments in this Video
• Introduction: 00:00 – Exclusive Interview with Shanaze Reade
• Question 1: 00:04 – What is your advice to others wanting to break into a male-dominated industry?
• Question 2: 00:40 – What do diversity and inclusion mean to you and why are they important?
• Question 3: 01:17 – How important is LGBT+ representation in sports?
• Question 4: 02:17 – How do you build mental strength and maintain a healthy mindset?
• Question 5: 03:25 – What qualities do you possess that you believe led to your sporting success?
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🟡 Who is Shanaze Reade?
From the Olympic Games to the World Championships and every international event in between, Shanaze Reade is a stand-out BMX and track cyclist. Having amassed an enviable trophy cabinet in her more than two decades in the sport, Shanaze not only thrives in the women’s division but regularly outranks her male counterparts, proving her dominance in the often-male led sport. An inspiration to many, Shanaze’s winning mindset, self-belief and resilience are character traits she discusses as an event speaker. Instilling the same qualities for success in her audiences, Shanaze is a hugely sought-after speaker to motivate individuals and entire teams.
With three Women’s BMX World Championship golds to her name, it is fair to say Shanaze is one of the most impressive performers on the track. Winning a further two World titles and eight European all as a junior, Shanaze was later selected to represent Team GB in the first-ever BMX event included at the Olympic Games. She competed in both 2008, as the sole woman competitor for England and 2012, making it to the final on both occasions. Alongside her BMX success, Shanaze was a prominent track cyclist, an event which saw her twice win Gold at the UCI Track World Championships in the Women’s Team Sprint with Victoria Pendleton and once at the British National Team Sprint Championships in 2019.
An athlete known for her power, Shanaze gained such a reputation in her early career. Showing a natural aptitude for sports, Shanaze first tried her hand at sprint and shot-put events in athletics, before finding her feet on a bike aged only ten. Shanaze was a stand-out from the outset, pushing herself by competing against older professions and men, on each occasion securing impressive results, most often wins. At the age of 17, Shanaze won the 2006 British National 19 and Over Men’s competition, proving herself a competitor to watch.
Now focusing her attention on coaching and mentoring, Shanaze is supporting BMXer Bethany Shriever with her Tokyo Olympic ambitions, in addition to acting as an ambassador to Access Sport and British Cycling.
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[This official interview with Shanaze Reade was conducted by The LGBT Speakers Agency in 2023]
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I think for me like when I first started BMX it was very much male dominated world and I kind of got into it and I guess I didn’t really see that it was no girls in it I just loved the sport but I think it my advice for anyone like is I
Love the sport and that’s what was my draw and it didn’t matter who was you know if it was men or women that was doing it I didn’t let anyone standing a way of you know wanting to take part in the sport and I kind of always went in
With the mindset of yeah it doesn’t matter if if you’re racing boys or girls you just do your absolute best and keep the focus on yourself I think they’re important um you know across the board it’s not just in sport it’s in general and and you know diversity and and inclusion is is
Extremely important to me you know I come from a diverse background myself and and the opportunities that I had wasn’t you know from the time that I was in it wasn’t like what everybody else kind of had it was you know from a counselor State and and I just think
Like just giving opportunity and you know making sure that when when I’m doing something it’s not just you know doing it for the elite end it’s doing it at Grassroots as well and that’s important to me it’s super super important I think even like myself like try when I was you
Know wanting to come out so to speak or you what I felt like you know ashamed and guilt and there wasn’t that many people that was open about their sexuality at the time and for me when I you know decided that I wanted to kind of say that I’m in a same-sex
Relationship I did it in the way that it wasn’t about like doing this big announcement you know a samex couple don’t say I’m in the same seex relationship it’s just a relationship and for me that’s what I did I kind of just went about you know putting
Pictures up on social media of the person who I was with at the time my partner and yeah just I think it’s yeah it’s important to break the stigma down because so many people since I’ve come I came out as you know I was I was gay
That you know loads of BMX girls and and other sports have come out and and felt that they could have the strength and the the courage to do so too building um a healthy mindset starts with for me routines like I kind of I kind of have like a daily routine that I
Gratitude is massive like I think for me like I kind of what I do in the day is you know before I get out of that door and start my day I take some time and and reflect about about the day about myself so I’m kind of doing some mental
Preparation before I’ve even got out the door and and that’s like a big big important thing for me um and I think what it you know there’s there’s so many self-help books like I’ve got loads of them you know like a lot of a lot of the
Things that people are saying it’s kind of building that mental tool box up you know to have the tools in there that when you you’re faced with you know difficulties or you know like we’re in lockdown how to deal with that and it’s for me it’s super important that I want
To I want I want to educate people more um about how to deal with certain things and actually how the brain is functioning but in a very simplified way um and that’s where I bring my kind of mindset from Sport and how I you know
Went about things that way and I want to pass that on and and pass that on to the general public um um I was a slave like I was a slave to the to the goal basically um for me like the goal was to be the world
Champion and it was to be the very best that there was and I knew that to get there I had to be you know ruthless I had to be disciplined I had to be you know it it was almost like I had to just really immerse myself in the role as an
Athlete 247 like it wasn’t like you know like we’ve done two hours training therefore you go home and switch off it was like no okay what can I do for recovery what is going to enable me to be a better athlete tomorrow um so yeah it was just all about like just being
Relentless to the Ground