Motherhood Didn’t Slow Her Down. It Made Her Faster

Life With Danni Duncan · Oct 28, 2026 · 49m

Jess Stenson is a three-time Olympian, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and last year, she became the fastest ever Australian female Marathon runner at the time.

She’s also a trained physiotherapist, a coach, and a mum of three, including an eight-week-old.

We go back to the Olympic dream she’d had since she was eight and quietly given up on, and the coach who told her years later to write it down anyway. What happened next still gives me goosebumps.

This one gets personal. With New York Marathon days away for me, I ask Jess the question that’s actually been keeping me up at night: how do…