Shelley Taylor Smith

International Bestselling Author and Business Trainer, Shelley Taylor-Smith is an ordinary Australian who achieved extraordinary results.  By developing her own Champion Mindset Shelley Taylor-Smith earned 7 consecutive World Marathon Swimming titles, 15 world race records, a solo English Channel crossing and won a record 5 race titles around New York City Manhattan Island.  Yet Shelley is not just an extraordinary swimmer, she is a successful businesswoman who now shares the achievements of her Champion Mindset by empowering others to win.  

With a Bachelor of Science in Education, a Masters Practitioner & Trainers Training Certification in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and currently studying for her doctorate in Psychology, Shelley now shows you how-to Create Your Champion Mindset. Shelly is working with HPS, to ensure the trainings you receive are world class and that the results you can generate in your life are like those in hers. Shelley Taylor-Smith is one of the greatest athletes in the world. She has rewritten the record books, and has set new standards in marathon swimming with her record seven consecutive world titles - a feat that has never been repeated.

From 1984 to 1997, Shelley achieved consecutive victories against the best men in the sport worldwide and in 1991 gained the No.1 World Ranking in Marathon Swimming for both men & women - the first time this had ever been achieved by woman - and to date the last!  

"Shelley's passion for life is as intense as her passion for swimming." - Laurie Lawrence  

As a young girl Shelley had a dream - to be like her role model Shane Gould and win a gold medal. Despite most of her school years in a back brace and spending three months in traction with partial paralysis when only 23 years old, Shelley never let go of her dream.

Her coach told her "Do you know, you have the potential to be a World Marathon Swimming Champion?"  Shelley took up marathon swimming because it didn't require her to make those back bending tumble turns and has since achieved what no other woman has in sport.  

In 1998 Shelley was told she had six months to live. While swimming in polluted water she had picked up deadly parasites and giardia. The infections had manifested as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and she was warned that if she continued to push herself her system would completely fail and she would die.

Six months later Shelley won the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim for a record fifth time and only then did she decide to retire from representing Australia.  Shelley's 'winner's attitude' and her motto: "If you don't quit - you will make it" translates into her everyday life and now she empowers others by sharing with them her greatest asset - The Champion Mindset - training our leaders of tomorrow to think and be Champions today!