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Ep31 Katie Jackson Horsey Happy Place Feb 15, 2018

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Para Equitation Dressage rider Katie Jackson talks cancer, training, life balance, communication with her horses, competition, Olympics, taking care of herself, and happiness in her new life as an amputee.

Her horse, Royal Dancer loves being the center of attention. Katie Jackson aims for gold at the Tokyo 2020 ParaOlympics.

Katie is focused in her training as she pays attention to details and does everything necessary to continue to up her game in the next two years leading to Tokyo2020.

EP30 Syd Schulz Pro Enduro Racer Aims To Love Racing Jan 25, 2018

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Pro Enduro Bike Racer Syd Schulz explains details of her sport - a cross between downhill mountain biking and endurance. She talks about competition, social media, sponsorship, training, go pro, writing, fear, self actualization, and offers some tips on riding with others.

Ep29 Speed Skater Elena Rigas Advantage Cornering Jan 18, 2018

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Speed Skater Elena Rigas from Denmark qualified for the mass start event in Pyeongchang Olympics next month. She spoke about her training, tactics of the event, awesome trainging partners, the Olympics, the difference between inline skating and racing on ice, and, of course, breakfast.

Ep28 Felice Mueller Keep Showing Up Jan 04, 2018

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Olympic Rower, Felice Mueller, is shaking things up in the single scull this year. She just won the Lotman Challenge, a 3-race series, and took home a big check. We talk about equal prize money (it was equal in the Lotman Challenge), Title IX, disliking rowing in high school because it was hard, her strong, female role models, and training. She has amazing words about preparing for the Olympics and the value of sport.

This episode is for young athletes and for parents of athletes. Felice has obviously thought a lot about her place in sport, the value of those before her, coaches, and what she’ll take away from a career in rowing.

Ep27 Shelma Jun Climbing is Political Dec 21, 2017

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Rock climber and Flash Foxy founder, Shelma Jun talks gender, politics, training, mentors, feminism, women only spaces, empathy, mistakes, and focusing on what's close to you then expand out.

Ep26 Elizabeth Streb Redefining Grace Dec 07, 2017

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Choreographer Elizabeth Streb investigates time, space, action, and how we interact with those three fundamental aspects of being on this earth.

Join our conversation and discover the joy of being an Action Hero and of flying.

We talk about: - space, time, movement - action is a universal language - how the audience relates to the Action Heroes - worrying too much about your body and the future - rehearsing a LOT - naming a movement you are unwilling to do, and do it - angels falling to earth

Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer, founder of the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (known as SLAM), located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and an extraordinary innovator and thinker. She has won the MacArthur Foundation Grant, two Bessie Awards, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mellon.

Ep 25 Alison Dunlap Adventure Mom Nov 23, 2017

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Alison Dunlap, mountain, cyclocross, and road cyclist phenom, tells reality of being active woman and having a baby, how to stay fit and sane, some advice for new mothers, and other thoughts about raising a kid interested in physical activity and the outdoors. Alison definitely tells it like it is – no holding back, so join us.

Ep24 Not Drowning in Synchro Monica LaStaiti Nov 09, 2017

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Monica's sport as a kid was marching band. Since then she's being very active as a runner, swimmer, climber, an most recently synchronized swimmer. She proves that it's never too late to find your sport. In this episode we talk about: rough patches of being a kid doing sports, not being good at cool kid sports, some details of competing in synchronized swimming, costumes, boys on the team, but mostly how much she loves being on a team as an adult

Episode 23: Alison Tetrick Gravel Love Oct 26, 2017

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Alison Tetrick talks about winning Dirty Kanza, Gravel Worlds, and Rebecca's Private Idaho, She tells us how growing up in a sporty family gave her the confidence to sign up for the 200 mile Dirty Kanza even thought she’d never ridden more than 125 miles. Join us for all that, discussions of mentoring, confidence, her love of gravel races, the power of sports, what's up for next year, and she has strong words of encouragement for women interested in cycling.

Episode 22: Cyclocross Champ Helen Wyman and Advocate Liz Cornish Oct 12, 2017

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Cyclocross Champion Helen Wyman talks upcoming season, World Cup, training, and pay equity. Bike Advocate Liz Cornish shares why it's important to take up space -- physically and metaphorically.

Originally from Off The Front podcast produced by Elizabeth Emery and WiSP Sports.

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