1% Better

In this episode, I talk with Niamh McCarthy. Niamh has collected Olympic and World Championship Silver medals over the last few years in the Discus in the Paralympic games. During the conversation, she talks about how her life has changed since discovering a talent for the Discus. The last few years have been a whirlwind for Niamh as you’ll hear and she’s setting sights on the future and the bar is high! We discuss:•Earliest Memory of painting rocks and being creative as young child•Being part of a Skydiving group and attributing this to her maturity and growth in confidence•Comparing the feeling of skydiving to the feeling of throwing a discus in competition•Living in France between the ages of 9 to 16 and learning lots there•Returning to Ireland and immersing herself in the Leaving Cert years •Learning the Piano growing up and finding it as a good outlet •Constantly learning to adapt •The story about how a chance meeting and conversation with a local solicitor made the connection with a talent scouting even