Sophie Hellyer is the founder of Rise Fierce, a cold-water swimming community which empowers women through wild swimming and kinship,. Currently living by the sea in Cornwall (UK), she regularly hosts Rise Fierce retreats across the UK – incorporating wild swimming, surfing, yoga and women’s circles – where she encourages other women to jump in and rise up.

Sophie is also the co-host of Two’s Company, a fortnightly podcast discussing everything from food to feminism, periods to politics, sustainability to some slightly obscure vagina facts.

Sophie is a qualified instructor for surfing, SUP, open-water-swimming and yoga, as well as a RNLI lifeguard at her local beach.