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Lisa Curry is a world champion swimmer and one of Australia?s most popular personalities. She has a unique and powerful message about discipline and determination.
Lisa competed in three Olympic Games (Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 and Barcelona 1992); two World Championships and three Commonwealth Games. Her competitive swimming career spanned 17 years during which she collected 24 Gold medals, 21 Silver medals and 8 Bronze medals at national and international competitions.
Lisa is a Director of the Curry Kenny Group which she co-founded with her former husband. The Curry Kenny Group runs a multinational and multimillion-dollar portfolio of companies that includes property, aviation and Lisa?s own swimwear label ?Hot Curry?. In 1998 ?Hot Curry? won two awards at the prestigious RAQ Fashion Awards, taking out the Swimwear Award as well as the Excellence in Manufacturing Award.
Lisa has been the face of the cruise liner P&O Cruises Australia and is known for several Uncle Toby?s advertising campaigns. She is also the spokesperson for Fernwood Fitness Centres ? a national chain of women?s health clubs that was ranked in the Business Review Weekly?s Top 10 companies in Australia. The author of six books including the 1998 number one best-seller Get Up and Go, her book Fit Kids was launched in 2000 by the Prime Minister John Howard.
In 2008 Lisa was forced to cut back on exercise and required an operation that fitted her heart with a defibrillator. While the operation caused her to reflect on her life and her priorities, she has not let it slow her down.
In 2009 she gained her license as a personal fitness trainer and embarked upon a Sport and Exercise Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Int eh same year, she coached a team of women, all aged over 50, to paddle across the Molokai channel in Hawaii, a 72km slog against the ocean.
In 2010, having steered Mooloolaba Outrigging Canoe Club and Aussie teams to a record four world championships she accepted the role of Head Coach.
Lisa was the Chairman of the National Australia Day Council from 2000 - 2008, the first woman to be appointed to this prestigious position. She has also been on the Advisory Board of Council for the Encouragement of Philanthropy in Australia and an Ambassador to the Office of the Status of Women - Honouring Women program.
A sought after speaker both nationally and internationally, Lisa draws on her varied career as a competitive swimmer, coach, mother, author and public personality to stress the importance of physical and mental health for effective life management.
Lisa?s life motto; ?The fire inside still burns, and it?s the fire that takes you to success?, helps to inspire and motivate audiences to achieve their best.
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