Shelley Taylor-Smith
Shelley Taylor-Smith ... Inspirational..... Passionate ... Patriotic ... 100% Australian ... Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow recipient, is a respected Motivational Keynote Speaker, Seven-time World Champion marathon swimmer, and International best selling author and Business Trainer.
Shelley has proven that any ordinary Australian can achieve extraordinary results; that Thinking Like A Champion and Creating Your Own Champion Mindset® can make a difference in your life, career and business.
Regardless of being tagged with ‘no natural ability’, ‘disabled’ and ‘nothing above average’ 7-time World No.1 Women’s Marathon Swimming Champion Shelley Taylor-Smith is the only woman to hold a No.1 world ranking for both men and women in the history of any sport worldwide.
Shelley Taylor-Smith is one of the greatest athletes in the world. She has rewritten the record books, and has set new standards in marathon swimming with her record seven consecutive world titles - a feat that has never been repeated.
From 1984 to 1997, Shelley achieved consecutive victories against the best men in the sport worldwide and in 1991 gained the No.1 World Ranking in Marathon Swimming for both men & women - the first time this had ever been achieved by woman - and to date the last!
As a young girl Shelley had a dream - to be like her role model Shane Gould and win a gold medal. Despite most of her school years in a back brace and spending three months in traction with partial paralysis when only 23 years old, Shelley never let go of her dream.
Her coach told her "Do you know, you have the potential to be a World Marathon Swimming Champion?" Shelley took up marathon swimming because it didn't require her to make those back bending tumble turns and has since achieved what no other woman has in sport.
In 1998 Shelley was told she had six months to live. While swimming in polluted water she had picked up deadly parasites and giardia. The infections had manifested as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and she was warned that if she continued to push herself her system would completely fail and she would die. Six months later Shelley won the Annual Manhattan Island 48km Marathon Swim for a record fifth time and retired from representing Australia.
Shelley's 'winner's attitude' and her motto: "If you don't quit - you will make it" translates into her everyday life and now she empowers others by sharing with them her greatest asset - The Champion Mindset - training the everyday ordinary people to believe and achieve the extraordinary!
Shelley is as dedicated out of the water as she is in it. Her charity work includes: Ambassador for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation & Life Changing Experiences Sister2Sister Mentoring Program, Vice Patron of Life Education NSW.
As the Founder of the Think Like A Champion Club and Director of Champion Mindset® Consulting, Shelley teaches small businesses and individuals, corporations and sporting teams how-to achieve success, removing the internal roadblocks that stop people from performing at their potential.
Your success is your SELF BELIEF. Ask any one who has achieved anything – big or small – and they will say: “When I believed I could….I did!” The Think Like A Champion Club is committed to teaching individuals ‘how-to’ succeed!
For almost as long as I can remember I've been passionate & committed to helping people achieve their goals. So much so I created the weekly Champion Motivations ezine.
In fact, here's what just five of my subscribers have said about the weekly Champion Motivations newsletter.....
"Man are you good Shelley. You are so good at getting to the absolute axis of mental achievement not only because you've been there. And that, to me, is the most important part of my taking you seriously and also the reason I read every word you write....and then read it again. I'm no quitter anymore because of you teaching me."
Matthew Hardesty - Expeditors International, NSW
"Thank you for the positive kick in the backside!!! These words are so true in the Champion Motivations ezine. Your weekly motivations do not go unread and the message gets through to even negative people like me.
Kallie Welsh - NSW
"Love love love all your emails. They are very inspiring and I forward them onto my friends daily so you are helping heaps of people to enjoy life to the full."
Leonore Woolich - Australia
"Thank you for uplifting me when I need it! You are an inspiration to me and so many people and I thank you for your energy you spend inspiring 1,000s."
Rosana Polita, TAFE SA Adelaide City Campus - SA
"Don't know what I would do without your inspiration every single week. Keep those emails coming pleeeeease. It makes the journey easier when you know what track you are meant to follow. Some days when I'm just not in the mood I glimpse at the subject header in the motivations and subconsciously I have already taken in the message and it gets me through the day.
Carmel Goryachev - VIC
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