EP 6 - Colleen O'Leary

Do you think, what's the secret then? So, like you've said about your mum being mentally tough, what's you being mentally tough now? What is the secret? Where does that come from?

Do you know, I was thinking this on the way up in the car.

I'm from Sandfields and I think back to my street.

All super strong ladies, like super strong women.

I mean, my gran brought me up, my auntie, what was her name now? Auntie Gurley up the street, she brought all her grandkids up.

We had Margaret Morgans on the other end, you know, all strong women.

And still to this day, the girls are all strong as well.

Look, we're all strong women.

And I think the men were out to work or there, you

know?

And it was just, the women just took care of business.

And I think that's where they've just got it from.

I'm bringing up my daughter.

I know my daughter's five.

I met her when she was running around there.

I want her to look up to women like that.

I want her to be like, hopefully, she'll go on and live a life full of sport.

But we're trying to push her into everything now.

Sport opens doors, lads.

And honest to God, yeah, I'll go on to that now.

With Harper, is it? Harper, is

it? Look up to Colleen, sports, all the different types of sports.

She was a Harper.

She did football, dance, rugby, swimming, gymnastics.

That's where you can actually