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Transformation Code with Sam ChurchThe Man Who Survived Antarctica’s Deadliest Waters | His Mindset Will Redefine Your LimitsHow do you push past your limits when everything in you wants to quit?In this episode, Sam sits down with Ryan Stramrood, one of the world’s most respected extreme cold-water swimmers, to unpack the mindset, resilience, and mental toughness behind surviving the impossible.Ryan has completed more than 140 Robben Island crossings, swum the Bering Strait, and taken on minus one degree water in Antarctica. But he didn’t start as an elite athlete. He was an ordinary father who decided he was no longer willing to live at h...
2025-12-041h 16
Decidedly I Decision Tips for Business OwnersEp. 193: Deciding to Push Past Impossible | Ryan Stramrood on Extreme Ice Swimming & Mental GritWhat happens when a self-proclaimed couch potato decides to plunge into some of the coldest waters on earth? You get Ryan Stramrood, world record ice swimmer, Antarctic adventurer, and performance coach who’s redefined what it means to push past impossible.In this episode of Decidedly, we dive deep (literally and figuratively) into Ryan’s journey from ordinary beginnings in Cape Town to becoming one of the world’s most acclaimed extreme swimmers. Along the way, Ryan shares how the freezing waters of Antarctica, the English Channel, and countless Robben Island crossings taught him the truth about fear...
2025-09-171h 02
The Power of IntegrityMental Limits, Integrity & Cold-Water Grit | Ryan Stramrood | The Power Of Integrity PodcastWhat happens when you ignore fear, face the cold, and discover that your mind, not your body, is the biggest barrier to success? In this episode of The Power of Integrity, host Ralph Adamo sits down with Ryan Stramrood, global keynote speaker, performance coach, and three-time Guinness World Record-holding extreme swimmer, to explore the connection between mindset, truth, and leadership.
Ryan shares how he went from a self-described “average Joe” and couch-bound sales executive to one of the world’s most elite open-water swimmers. He takes us inside his solo swims in Antarctica, the English Channel, and shark...
2025-05-0843 min
disrupt. with Koa BrowneHow to Overcome Fear & Break Free from Your Comfort Zone | Ryan StramroodIn this episode of disrupt. I sit down with Ryan Stramrood, an ultra-extreme open-water and ice swimmer, Guinness World Record holder, peak performance coach, and inspirational speaker. Ryan's story is nothing short of incredible. From being a regular guy with no formal sports background to breaking world records in some of the planet's most brutal waters, including swimming a mile in Antarctica at -1°C and being among the first people to swim around Cape Horn. His journey is a masterclass in mental resilience, pushing past comfort zones, and redefining human potential. 🔥 In this episode, we dive into...
2025-03-111h 27
PowerUp by Lucienne | PowerUp TalksEp. 83: Ryan Stramrood | Cómo salir de tu zona de confortCómo salir de tu zona de confort. 🌟Ryan Stramrood, Conferencista Motivacional y Coach de Alto Rendimiento, poseedor de tres Récords Guinness y experto en mentalidad de alto desempeño, se une a Lucienne en un Power Up Talk que desafiará tus límites. En esta conversación, Ryan compartirá cómo enfrentar el miedo, abrazar la incomodidad y desarrollar la mentalidad necesaria para superar cualquier obstáculo. 🔹Búscanos en Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts y YouTube: “Power Up Talks | Power Up By Lucienne.” 🎧#Conecta #Colabora...
2025-02-2118 min
EO 360°: A podcast by the Entrepreneurs' OrganizationExtreme Swimmer | Ryan StramroodRyan Stramrood is a three-time Guinness World Record holder, motivational speaker, and extreme open water swimmer. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Ryan's swimming challenges have taken him around the world, including Siberia, Antarctica, the Arctic Circle, and the Bering Strait. As a speaker, Ryan inspires his audiences with captivating stories from his swimming adventures. Listen in as Ryan regales Dave with tales of his adventures out in the open sea. Links: Ryan's Website: https://ryanstramrood.com/ Ryan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_stramrood/
2024-09-0356 min
Only One In The RoomScott Talks to Ryan StramroodWhat if you hit a wall while swimming across the English channel and felt it was impossible to go on? Ryan Strm Rd, multiple Guinness Book, World record holder, inspirational speaker, world-renowned, extreme swimmer, author, and single dad, still had four hours to swim. And he knew that if he put so much his one hand on the support boat running alongside him, it would all be over. So what would you do if it was getting dark and the ocean was so cold that you could no longer feel your arms? Would you give up and climb into...
2024-08-2217 minOnly One In The RoomRyan Stramrood - The Only Ice Swimmer In The RoomWhat if you hit a wall while swimming across the English channel and felt it was impossible to go on? Ryan Strm Rd, multiple Guinness Book, World record holder, inspirational speaker, world-renowned, extreme swimmer, author, and single dad, still had four hours to swim. And he knew that if he put so much his one hand on the support boat running alongside him, it would all be over. So what would you do if it was getting dark and the ocean was so cold that you could no longer feel your arms? Would you give up and climb into...
2024-08-2057 min
Love Not FearEp. 37 Beyond Fear: Pushing Past Impossible with Ryan StramroodIn this engaging episode of the Love Not Fear podcast, host Eduard Brink is excited to welcome Ryan Stramrood, an extreme swimmer, performance coach, and high level inspirational speaker. Discover Ryan's unexpected journey from running a successful advertising business to becoming a renowned cold water swimmer and a consequential keynote that altered the course of his life.Together, they delve into Ryan's transformative experiences, from his first grueling swim sessions to his record-setting crossings from Robben Island and beyond. Ryan shares insights into the mental and physical challenges he faced and overcame, revealing how...
2024-07-1237 min
SwimScape - the podcastE11 - Ryan Stramrood - Push past impossible with this inspirational swimmer from South AfricaSend us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Ryan Stramrood from his home in South Africa.Ryan has done some amazing swimming in cold water. He has swum in the Arctic and the Antarctic as well as doing 140 Robben Island crossings. Robben Island was famously where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for many years.Ryan has written a book called 'Push Past Impossible' where he challenges people to go beyond their own 'impossible'.This was a great chat and he has some wonderful stories to tell.Web: https://ryanstramrood.com/
2024-03-2657 min
FAAA PodcastFAAA Podcast Congress Series 2023Fraser Jack speakers with Ryan Stramrood on how to PushPastImpossible – discover the strength you never knew you had at this year's FAAA Congress 2023
2023-12-1513 min
Chief Endurance OfficerBeyond the Waves - Ryan Stramrood - Chief Endurance Officer - Episode # 032Today’s guest is an author, swimmer, and a 3-time Guinness World Record holder! Introducing Ryan Stramrood, Global Head: Business Development, Partnerships & Growth at Sub(x). Ryan partners with host Gregory McDonough to share his journey to embracing and understanding the endurance mindset, effective self-talk and visualization, and the power of stepping out of comfort zones. He also delves into the importance of nutrition and understanding mind-body mechanisms.Takeaways:Having an endurance mindset really impacted Ryan’s life in unexpected ways, beginning with his realization of possessing such a mindset when he started open...
2023-11-1745 min
The Ridiculously Human PodcastToni Enderli, Extreme Ocean Ultra Distance SwimmerSome people have mental grit….and then there is Toni Enderli. An unassuming character, doing herculean things. Accomplishing feats, very few humans would even contemplate doing. He certainly is an endangered rare breed of man, doing tough things, pushing physical and mental boundaries. The magic and growth happens at the edges of our comfort zones, something which Toni is not shy of testing! As an extreme ocean swimming athlete, Toni has conquered some of the world's most daring swimming feats, including the gruelling English Channel (38km) and Hawaii's treacherous Molokai Channel (42km). Choosing to...
2023-10-171h 05Only One In The RoomScott Talks to Ryan StramroodScott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Ryan Stramrood right after the show.PATREON SHOUT OUTS:Mercedes Cusick LMFT, Website: www.mercedescusick.com, IG: @recoverhealbloomCheck Out How To Do The PotThanks to Kathleen HahnCute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-owned and all of their leggings make makes your booty look amazing. Go...
2022-11-1621 minOnly One In The RoomRyan Stramrood Is The Only Ice Swimmer In The RoomWhat if, while swimming across the English Channel, you hit a wall and felt it was impossible to go on?Ryan Stramrood, multiple Guinness Book World Record holder, inspirational speaker, world-renowned extreme swimmer, author, and single dad, still had four hours to go in his swim and knew that if he so much as put one hand on the support boat running along side of him, it would all be over.So what would you do if it was getting dark and the ocean was so cold that you could no longer feel your arms? W...
2022-11-1558 min
Business of EndurancePushing Past Impossible with Ryan StramroodRyan Stramrood is one of South Africa's top extreme adventurers and ice swimmers. He quietly travels to the planet's most inhospitable waterscapes where he seeks out extreme cold water swimming experiences. He swam the first official “Ice Mile” in -1°C water in Antarctica, completed a swim in the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon in Iceland and is the only person to have swam west to east across the shark infested waters of False Bay; all of which is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of his swimming achievements. Ryan is also a TED speaker and author of the b...
2022-09-231h 36
Lessons From The World's Best16. Ryan Stramrood: Pushing Past ImpossibleRyan Stramrood is an extreme ocean and ice swimmer, wearing only a speedo, swim cap and goggles. He achieved a Guinness World Record for the fastest crossing of the 32km shark-infested False Bay in Cape Town, spent 32 minutes swimming one mile in one degree below-freezing Antarctic waters, and has numerous extreme ocean crossings under his belt. At the time of recording, he had completed the 7.2 km Robben island to Blouberg crossing, in the cold Cape Town waters, a whopping 122 times.
What makes his story so compelling, is that he started out as an unfit, over-weight, average-Joe at the age of 29. H...
2022-07-252h 01
Danny Jones Podcast#142 - Why Swimming Through Shark Infested Ice Water is Good For Your Brain | Ryan StramroodRyan Stramrood is a multiple Guinness World Record holder for ultra-extreme open water and ice swimming. Ryan is rated globally as one of the top 50 extreme swimming athletes in the world. Ryan's death-defying accomplishments have uncovered some of the deepest psychological myths of the human mind. Ryan's book - https://amzn.to/3tJHfWn https://ryanstramrood.com https://www.instagram.com/ryan_stramrood Follow Danny https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2022-06-211h 46
DL LINK2022.05.26 – Ryan Stramrood, multiple Guinness World Record holder, one of the top 50 extreme swimming athletes in the world, sought-after international inspirational speaker, and author – PUSH PASH IMPOSSIBLE
2022-05-2647 minDL LINK2021.04.22 – Ryan Stramrood Stramrood Connect – inspirational speaker, businessman and an extreme open water swimmer – The secret to keeping your nose above water – no matter what and at all times
2021-04-2219 min
Sport LightExtreme swimmer Ryan Stramrood nominated for international awardWell known extreme swimmer and inspirational speaker Ryan Stramrood has been nominated for the prestigious World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) ‘Man of the Year’ award, after being recognised for achieving the record number of crossings from Robben Island to the mainland, in June 2020. It was his 109th swim of the challenging crossing between Robben Island and Blouberg beach, which ranges between 7,4kms and 11kms of very cold water.Guest: Well-known extreme swimmer and inspirational speaker - Ryan Stramrood
2021-01-2318 min
INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEWSChange Your Life, From a Chubby Couch Potato to a World Record Ice SwimmerHe was a couch potato, and one day he joined a swimming squad, for no reason other than a friends suggestion. Before he knew it, Ryan Stramrood was swimming from the famous Robben Island, to Cape Town's main land. Within a just a couple of months of joining the squad. Little did he know then he would be swimming from Europe to Africa, Alcatraz Island to Main land San Fransisco, the Serbian Lakes at 0.1 Degrees, Antartica at -1Degrees for 32 minutes breaking records! Taiwan to China. The list goes on and on and on. To date Ryan has swam...
2020-07-231h 50
INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEWSJen’s Personal Notes | unscripted conversation for YOU, triggering truthful connection with SELFHi my beautiful listeners. So here's the deal. If you are connecting with your truth, click pass. But if you are not and you hate your day job, and you know there is something out there for you, this is a little conversation to simply trigger some thoughts. My recordings are unscripted, so - as the interviews this is raw, not researched and simply a real life, story and perspective in real time. I recorded this straight after interviewing Ryan Stramrood, an amazing, and courageous open water swimmer from South Africa. His interview will go live in the weeks to...
2020-07-0823 min
Sports SpecialLife and times of Ryan StramroodInterviewee: Ryan Stramrood - one of South Africa's Top Extreme Adventurers and Ice Swimmers
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