# Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton: Dogs, Fear & Finding Courage Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-my-dog-with-jack-dee-and-seann-walsh-6087144/olympic-champion-victoria-pendleton-dogs-fear-finding-courage Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-my-dog-with-jack-dee-and-seann-walsh-6087144/olympic-champion-victoria-pendleton-dogs-fear-finding-courage.md Podcast: [Oh My Dog! with Jack Dee and Seann Walsh](https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-my-dog-with-jack-dee-and-seann-walsh-6087144) Published: 2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omd-pod1/episodes/Olympic-Champion-Victoria-Pendleton-Dogs--Fear--Finding-Courage-e3k5525 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10b7d8230/podcast/play/120803845/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-31%2F425239081-44100-2-2d7271705b08.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/oh-my-dog-with-jack-dee-and-seann-walsh-6087144/episodes/olympic-champion-victoria-pendleton-dogs-fear-finding-courage Duration seconds: 3193 ## Resource Olympic cycling legend Victoria Pendleton joins Jack, Seann and Sara this week. Victoria tells us about her inspiring new book, The Fear Opportunity , and why stepping outside your comfort zone can transform your life. From Olympic gold medals to skydiving, fear of failure, and learning to embrace new challenges, it's a fascinating conversation about courage, resilience and growth. Plus, we meet Victoria's beloved dogs Valor the Belgian Malinois and Leilo the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and hear why high-drive dogs need jobs to do, and discover how dogs have helped bring balance to her life. And of course, the all-important question: does Victoria let her dogs kiss her on the mouth? Become part of our "Off The Lead" Pack on Patreon: patreon.com/omdpod See Seann live: seannwalsh.com See Jack at the Palladium: jackdeecomedy.com Join more than 185,000 people in signing the petition to shut down MBR Acres: https://act.animalrising.org/shut_down_mbr_acres Email us: hello@omdpod.com 00:00 Heatwave dog chat & where's Mildred? 07:03 Remembering Hugo 11:49 Rescue Hotel update & listener gifts 15:10 Dolly's summer groom 16:40 Dogs before and after grooming 18:02 Dog paddling pools and staying cool 20:31 Mildred escapes through the fox hole 23:22 Victoria Pendleton joins the show and we meet Valor 24:30 How Victoria got dogs as an adult 25:48 Leilo the Rhodesian Ridgeback 28:04 Feeding giant dogs 28:57 Living with a Belgian Malinois 30:22 Dogs and Olympic training 31:24 Why two dogs are better than one 32:10 Victoria's new book: The Fear Opportunity 33:20 Fear, courage and stepping outside your comfort zone 35:02 Sara's skydiving story 36:25 Victoria's skydiving obsession 37:03 Fear of failure and elite sport 39:07 The inspiration behind the book 40:13 What neuroscienc… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/oh-my-dog-with-jack-dee-and-seann-walsh-6087144/episodes/olympic-champion-victoria-pendleton-dogs-fear-finding-courage/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/oh-my-dog-with-jack-dee-and-seann-walsh-6087144/olympic-champion-victoria-pendleton-dogs-fear-finding-courage.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.