My Guests Today are Sarah Klau & Verity Simmons.
When Sarah and Verity were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, they weren’t handed a playbook. No manual. No step-by-step.
Just needles, uncertainty—and the choice to keep chasing their dreams, or not.
In this powerful and heartwarming episode, two of Australia’s elite athletes sit down with Drew to unpack what it really takes to thrive with type 1 at the highest level of professional sport.
My Guests Today are Sarah Klau & Verity Simmons.
When Sarah and Verity were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, they weren’t handed a playbook. No manual. No step-by-step.
Just needles, uncertainty—and the choice to keep chasing their dreams, or not.
In this powerful and heartwarming episode, two of Australia’s elite athletes sit down with Drew to unpack what it really takes to thrive with type 1 at the highest level of professional sport.
Here’s what we cover:
- How Verity went from diagnosis at 17 to representing Australia in netball and AFLW
- The three-year misdiagnosis that delayed Sarah’s journey—and nearly derailed her career
- Why both athletes refused to let type 1 define their destiny
- Game-day strategies: how they fuel, train, and play with diabetes
- The brutal challenges (and surprising benefits) of managing type 1 on MDI
- The secret PowerPoint Verity made to educate her entire team
- Their letters to diabetes
- And the twist in Sarah’s letter that turned it into a love story…
and loads more insights, inspiration and laughs
You can get in touch with Sarah & Verity on Instagram
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