5x
World Karate Champion
25+
Years of Health & Growth
7-fig
Business rebuilt
from zero
Global
Women mentored worldwide
Leadership Mentoring · Fitness & Wellness Industry
The industry has enough coaches.
It needs more leaders.
Lourene Bevaart is a five-time World Karate Champion, entrepreneur, and leadership mentor helping high-achieving women in fitness and wellness step fully into their authority — and build businesses that match their ambition.
5x World Karate Champion
25+ Years of Health & Growth
7-fig Business rebuilt from zero
Global Women mentored worldwide
Lourene Bevaart
Five-time World Karate Champion · Gladiator · Entrepreneur
Five-time World Karate Champion. Gladiator. Entrepreneur. I've been knocked down more times than I can count — in the ring, in life, at rock bottom. Every single time, I got back up. Now I help women do the same.
"I had survived world championships. I had no idea how to survive this."
The BLUEPRINT
I was eleven years old when my mother caught me holding an imaginary trophy above my head.
"What on earth are you doing?" she asked.
"I'm practising," I said. And I meant every word.
From that moment, I carried three non-negotiable goals: become a PhysEd teacher, win a world championship, and one day, be a mother. Not pipe dreams. Not idle wishes. A blueprint — and the unshakeable belief that I had what it took to see it through.
After university, the first box was ticked. I graduated and stepped into the classroom. But something in me was still restless. I'd grown up watching Bruce Lee films, utterly captivated by the discipline and raw power of martial arts. It was time to stop watching from the sidelines.
The BLACK BELT
At my first karate class, the instructor looked out at 40 of us and said: "Look around. Only two of you will ever earn a black belt."
I didn't shrink. I didn't panic. I looked around the room and thought: who's coming with me?
"I didn't shrink. I looked around the room and thought: who's coming with me?"
Four and a half years later, I tied that black belt around my waist. The feeling was indescribable — pure, hard-earned pride. I went on to win five World Karate Championships. I felt invincible. Alive in a way nothing else had ever matched.
I had achieved goal number two. Five times over.
The Spotlight
Then the cameras found me.
After winning Series 2 of Gladiators, I was invited to join the show as Glacier. When my boss refused to grant me six weeks' leave for filming, I didn't negotiate. I resigned on the spot.
No 9-to-5 security was worth dimming that light.
I pivoted to elite personal training, and the clients were extraordinary — travelling the world alongside Russell Crowe, who christened me 'Wonder Woman', and preparing Shane Warne for his cricket comeback. By every outward measure, I had made it.
But I felt something was missing. Something I couldn't name — yet.
The COLLAPSE
I thought a family would finally fill the hollow place inside me.
So I did what women are quietly encouraged to do — I married, settled down, and in my early 40s, welcomed two beautiful daughters into the world. The final goal was achieved. The void remained.
I adored my girls with everything I had. But I couldn't shake the darkness. I felt dazed, lost, empty. And then — without warning — my whole world collapsed.
The breakdown of my marriage was a grief I was completely unprepared for. The love and security I'd built my life around disappeared almost overnight. In its place: isolation, financial devastation, and the heaviest depression I had ever known.
Government support barely covered the basics. Every day, I woke up wondering how I was going to take care of my daughters, let alone build something worth living for.
"I had survived world championships. I had no idea how to survive this."
The RISE
Then one phone call changed everything.
A friend who knew exactly how far I'd fallen told me about a business opportunity. For the first time in what felt like years, something shifted. Not because the timing was perfect — because for the first time in a long time, I felt hope.
I did what I've always done when the stakes are highest. I put my head down and worked. Hard.
I set a goal: become completely debt-free within four years. I got there. And then I built a seven-figure business — not just as a financial achievement, but as proof that the version of me lying on the floor of her lowest moment still had everything she needed to rise.
Today, I get to help women do exactly that.
I show up every day as living proof that rebuilding is possible — financially, physically, emotionally. I get to show my daughters firsthand what real strength looks like. And I get to help women all over the world step into businesses and lives that genuinely light them up.
This isn't the end of my story. It's barely the beginning.
The BLUEPRINT
I was eleven years old when my mother caught me holding an imaginary trophy above my head.
"What on earth are you doing?" she asked.
"I'm practising," I said. And I meant every word.
From that moment, I carried three non-negotiable goals: become a PhysEd teacher, win a world championship, and one day, be a mother. Not pipe dreams. Not idle wishes. A blueprint — and the unshakeable belief that I had what it took to see it through.
After university, the first box was ticked. I graduated and stepped into the classroom. But something in me was still restless. I'd grown up watching Bruce Lee films, utterly captivated by the discipline and raw power of martial arts. It was time to stop watching from the sidelines.
The BLACK BELT
At my first karate class, the instructor looked out at 40 of us and said: "Look around. Only two of you will ever earn a black belt."
I didn't shrink. I didn't panic. I looked around the room and thought: who's coming with me?
"I didn't shrink. I looked around the room and thought: who's coming with me?"
Four and a half years later, I tied that black belt around my waist. The feeling was indescribable — pure, hard-earned pride. I went on to win five World Karate Championships. I felt invincible. Alive in a way nothing else had ever matched.
I had achieved goal number two. Five times over.
The Spotlight
Then the cameras found me.
After winning Series 2 of Gladiators, I was invited to join the show as Glacier. When my boss refused to grant me six weeks' leave for filming, I didn't negotiate. I resigned on the spot.
No 9-to-5 security was worth dimming that light.
I pivoted to elite personal training, and the clients were extraordinary — travelling the world alongside Russell Crowe, who christened me 'Wonder Woman', and preparing Shane Warne for his cricket comeback. By every outward measure, I had made it.
But I felt something was missing. Something I couldn't name — yet.
The COLLAPSE
I thought a family would finally fill the hollow place inside me.
So I did what women are quietly encouraged to do — I married, settled down, and in my early 40s, welcomed two beautiful daughters into the world. The final goal was achieved. The void remained.
I adored my girls with everything I had. But I couldn't shake the darkness. I felt dazed, lost, empty. And then — without warning — my whole world collapsed.
The breakdown of my marriage was a grief I was completely unprepared for. The love and security I'd built my life around disappeared almost overnight. In its place: isolation, financial devastation, and the heaviest depression I had ever known.
Government support barely covered the basics. Every day, I woke up wondering how I was going to take care of my daughters, let alone build something worth living for.
"I had survived world championships. I had no idea how to survive this."
The RISE
Then one phone call changed everything.
A friend who knew exactly how far I'd fallen told me about a business opportunity. For the first time in what felt like years, something shifted. Not because the timing was perfect — because for the first time in a long time, I felt hope.
I did what I've always done when the stakes are highest. I put my head down and worked. Hard.
I set a goal: become completely debt-free within four years. I got there. And then I built a seven-figure business — not just as a financial achievement, but as proof that the version of me lying on the floor of her lowest moment still had everything she needed to rise.
Today, I get to help women do exactly that.
I show up every day as living proof that rebuilding is possible — financially, physically, emotionally. I get to show my daughters firsthand what real strength looks like. And I get to help women all over the world step into businesses and lives that genuinely light them up.
This isn't the end of my story. It's barely the beginning.
Victories
1989
Shukokai World Championships
1990
Shukokai World Championships
1991
Shukokai World Championships
1992
Australian Team Captain
1998
Australian Team Captain
1993
Women's World Cup
1994
Women's World Cup
1997
Women's World Cup
Victories
1989
Shukokai World Championships
1990
Shukokai World Championships
1991
Shukokai World Championships
1992
Australian Team Captain
1998
Australian Team Captain
1993
Women's World Cup
1994
Women's World Cup
1997
Women's World Cup
Official Bio
Lourene Bevaart doesn't just talk about resilience. She's lived it at every extreme.
As an elite athlete, she claimed five World Karate Championships, became Gladiator Glacier after winning Series 2 of the iconic Australian show, and trained some of the country's most recognisable names — including Russell Crowe and Shane Warne. As a health and wellness entrepreneur, she built a thriving seven-figure business from the wreckage of her lowest point: a broke, isolated single mother in the grip of debilitating depression.
Lourene is a survivor — not in spite of everything she's been through, but because of it. She is fiercely committed to helping other women see that purpose, power, and financial freedom aren't things you stumble into. They're things you build, deliberately, one decision at a time.
The holder of a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Diploma of Education, Lourene will tell you her most formative education came from somewhere else entirely — the University of Life.
Official Bio
Lourene Bevaart doesn't just talk about resilience. She's lived it at every extreme.
As an elite athlete, she claimed five World Karate Championships, became Gladiator Glacier after winning Series 2 of the iconic Australian show, and trained some of the country's most recognisable names — including Russell Crowe and Shane Warne. As a health and wellness entrepreneur, she built a thriving seven-figure business from the wreckage of her lowest point: a broke, isolated single mother in the grip of debilitating depression.
Lourene is a survivor — not in spite of everything she's been through, but because of it. She is fiercely committed to helping other women see that purpose, power, and financial freedom aren't things you stumble into. They're things you build, deliberately, one decision at a time.
The holder of a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Diploma of Education, Lourene will tell you her most formative education came from somewhere else entirely — the University of Life.
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