Baz Moffat

From being an elite athlete to starting my own business and becoming a mum of two – my journey drives my passion in women’s health.

Life has led me to this point and served up an amazing opportunity to join with Bella and Emma to create The Well.

I have 20 years’ experience working within health, fitness and sport. I’ve combined this knowledge and experience with

challenges in my own life to create a solid set of principles that can and do help women thrive.

I genuinely don’t care what your goals are. I work with Olympic champions trying to steal an extra millisecond and I work with women who don’t want to wet themselves when they stand up.

I simply love working with any woman who has a story and wants to right a wrong.

I love sport but doggedness always outstripped my natural talent. I was usually last-pick for any team but it never put me off. Sport was my outlet as a kid, it was where I felt ‘normal’, accepted and where I could be all-in-me. It became my MO to make it onto any team going.

I began rowing at the age of 21 to meet new friends – and if I’m honest a man! Four years later I was sitting on the start line of the GB trials. I surprised myself and everyone who knew me when I made the GB squad.

I later (just) made the Women’s 8 and won a medal at the 2007 World Championships.

My greatest weapon in sport was probably my mind-over-matter approach, a performance mentality which got me into the boat, onto the team and up the podium. It pushed my body to do things nobody believed it could or should. I was like a machine. And I naively assumed this mentality was an asset that’d help me in life.

Then predictably, when I retired from pro sport, machine-like-me was handed a fairly brutal reality check.

In ‘normal’ life, I still believed my best tool was my ‘eyes-on-the-prize’, and ‘just-push-through’ approach. But you can’t master life like that and my body began to rebel.

I had a sudden realisation that it wasn’t all about body. I needed to broaden my mind too. I needed to soften on my relentless need to achieve. I had to harmonise mind and body, instead of seeing one as master of the other.

As I began to see life through a new lens, the outputs were so significant I began to introduce new thinking and techniques into my coaching work.

And the results continue to astound. I’m fantastically grateful that the penny dropped when it did. The turnaround I’ve experienced in my life has led me to do the most incredible work with the most incredible women.

What I know is viewed as being super specialist and niche … but that’s utter nonsense! What I know should be common knowledge – and that’s my hope for The Well.

I want every woman to have the knowledge that the three of us have had to accumulate through hours, weeks and years of study.

Women shouldn’t need to study how to be a woman. We should know, we should be told. Our environment and culture should support us to be the very best versions of ourselves.