Welcome To The Unlikely Triathlete! With Rob Hardstone

Welcome to the very first episode of The Unlikely Triathlete Podcast — where Coach Rob Hardstone shares the raw, unfiltered story behind his journey from a tough childhood in South Africa to military endurance training, high-risk commercial diving, and ultimately becoming a full-time endurance coach. Rob opens up about growing up in severe hardship as the child of a young single mother in Durban, facing bullying, being ostracised in Afrikaans schools during apartheid, and discovering the mental resilience that would eventually shape his life. He reflects on how brutal military service transformed him from a skinny, uncertain teenager into someone who learned to stand up, fight back, and endure challenges far beyond what he believed possible. From there, Rob dives into decades spent in one of the world’s most dangerous jobs — commercial saturation diving — surviving high-risk offshore operations, pirates, gunfire, and life-or-death pressure while managing multi-million-dollar dive vessels and crews of over 100 people. And through all of that? He found endurance sport. Triathlon lit a fire in him, revealing a new purpose: helping ordinary, busy, “unlikely” people discover the extraordinary strength within themselves. Social Links https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...   / rob_hardstone     / rob.hardston   BOOK A CALL WITH ME! Call booking link: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widge... Green Mamba Tri Coaching Community Link: https://community.greenmambatri.com/c...