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Soul Sister Sessions on Eating Disorder Recovery through Injury and Competition with Abbey Cooper and Julia Hanlon Mar 17, 2020

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This month’s Soul Sister Sessions episode returns to focus on eating disorders, inspired by Eating Disorders Awareness Week on February 24th – March 1st. ROO 223 was a powerful conversation when Abbey and Julia first shared their respective stories of eating disorders, and this episode is a follow up to that. Abbey and Julia answer five listener questions, all specifically focused around eating disorders. This is all shared from their own experiences, and we encourage anyone that is experiencing an eating disorder/disordered eating or any physical or mental health issue, to consult a qualified professional in any instance you feel you require additional support.

This conversation goes deep, and covers the following themes:

Checking in with both Abbey and Julia
Supporting someone with an eating disorder
Accountability in training and how that fits in with managing nutrition, specifically for those prone to disordered eating/eating disorder tendencies
Managing a relationship with food when injured
Guilt and stigmas around food and body image, and how to navigate external pressures and expectations
Comparing body types and self confidence in one’s own body
What recovering from an eating disorder looks like and how that evolves over time
A lighter conversation to finish and close out

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Alex Pavon on Risk and Reward in Professional Mountain Biking Mar 10, 2020

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Alex Pavon is a downhill skier turned professional mountain biker. She retired from competitive skiing in 2013 and found her way to enduro racing. She lives in Flagstaff Arizona and works as an emergency room EMT. This conversation covers a range of topics, including the following:

Alex’s skiing background and the factors that led her to retiring from competitive racing
How she got started in mountain biking
Her favourite places to travel and race
Her experience as a woman in mountain biking
Navigating risk and reward
Working as an EMT and her future aspirations
The fragility of life and her perspective working in the EMT

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Emma Spencer on Never Settling in Her Path to the Olympic Trials Marathon Mar 03, 2020

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Emma Spencer is an elite distance runner, running coach, software engineer and runs for the Tracksmith Hare AC. She has a marathon best of 2:37 (BMW Berlin Marathon 2018), which qualified her to race the 2020 US Olympic Marathon trials. This interview is in two parts, and takes place the day before and day after the trials in Atlanta. Emma ran 2:41:40 and placed 56th out of 390 women.

This conversations covers the following:

Emma’s introduction to running
What her early years of running looked like and her transition into college
Her experience of hazing, bullying, and a toxic culture in her college running program
Her experience with depression and vulnerability in college
Her introduction to the marathon
How she navigated being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
Her experience of gaining an Olympic Trials Qualifying time and what that means to her
Her goals and expectations for the trials
Embracing mental and physical discomfort
Her thoughts on the Olympic Trials post race
Working as a software engineer and her move to North Carolina
Her goals for the future and what running means to her

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Soul Sister Sessions on Overcoming Injury and Cross Training Tips with Abbey Cooper and Julia Hanlon Feb 18, 2020

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For this month’s Soul Sister Sessions episode, both Abbey and Julia are back at their respective homes after spending time together in Flagstaff when Abbey was on her altitude training camp. This month’s episode focuses specifically on running, answering five listener questions that cover a range of past experiences, funny stories and general insights that both Abbey and Julia have gained over the years on their individual running journeys.

Topics include:

A general check-in with both Abbey and Julia
Abbey’s experience with her ACL tear at the Rio Olympics and her key takeaways from that rehab experience
Making health a priority and how that looks
Cross training and how Abbey and Julia integrate cross training into their lives when managing injuries and setbacks
Bone stress injuries and how Abbey and Julia have navigated their respective injuries in the past
The intersection of running and life, and the power of community
What the next month looks like for them both

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Jenny Jurek on Balancing Being a Mother, Designer, and Runner Feb 11, 2020

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Jenny Jurek is a runner, climber, designer and author. She is an accomplished athlete having run many ultras including UTMB, climbed in Yosemite and most recently, bike touring around Japan with her husband Scott and their two young children. In this conversation, a range of topics are discussed including:

Being a mother and the challenges Jenny overcame during her pregnancies
Her work with ‘Every Mother Counts’
Trusting her body
How she met her husband Scott
Her designer roles working at Montrail and Patagonia
Bike touring around Japan with her family
Her experience on the Appalachian Trail when Scott set the Fastest Known Time
What it was like co-authoring a book, “North,” with Scott
Designing for a need and how design fits in with her life now
Her goals for 2020 and her word for the year

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Clare Gallagher & Abby Levene on Activism, Trail Running, and a Decade-long Friendship Feb 04, 2020

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Clare Gallagher and Abby Levene have been best friends for a decade, are professional trail runners living in Boulder Colorado, and activists.

Clare is a Patagonia athlete and works for Patagonia doing advocacy work. She has won the prestigious Leadville 100, CCC (101km sister race of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc) and was the 2019 Western States 100 winner, where she ran the second fastest female time in race history. Days after this podcast was recorded, Clare was announced and awarded the #2 Female UROY (Ultra-runner Magazines Ultra Runner of the Year award) for 2019.

Abby is a former national champion professional triathlete, who took up ultra trail running after stepping away from triathlon. She now runs for Adidas and works as a writer. Most recently, Abby placed 5th in the deeply competitive North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile race in San Francisco. Clare and Abby bring high energy and candidness to this episode, which really highlights their friendship.

This conversation is full of laughter, as well as touching on the following themes:

How Abby and Clare met, and their time together running at Princeton
Eating disorder culture in collegiate running
Role models in the sport of ultra-running
The paths that led both of them to move to Boulder and start trail running, and how their stories intertwine
The importance of community
What running means to them
Their time in Ethiopia with Girls Gotta Run Foundation
The power and importance of advocacy
The intersection of advocacy and being a professional athlete
The ethics and carbon footprint of being an athlete
Their future plans both on and off the trails
Sharing stories of their favourite runs together and describing each other in three words

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Soul Sister Sessions on Flow States, Mindfulness and Intention Setting with Abbey Cooper and Julia Hanlon Jan 21, 2020

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In this months Soul Sister Sessions episode, Abbey and Julia recorded together in Flagstaff, Arizona. This first SSS episode of 2020 checks in with both Julia and Abbey, and goes through some more listener questions. In this episode, Abbey and Julia discuss:

Abbey’s annual trips to Flagstaff as a Professional runner, and how she reconciles and manages being away from her husband
Both Abbey and Julia’s goals and intentions for 2020, and their chosen word of focus for the year
Sharing stories of being in a ‘flow’ state, and unpacking and discussing some of the mechanics of that concept
Abbey’s experience of racing on an indoor track and responding to a listener question specifically related to pre-race anxiety from racing indoors
A general discussion of meditation and mindfulness
Reflecting on the experience of sharing their personal stories with eating disorders in the previous SSS episode
What animals they’d choose to be for a day 🙂

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Molly Seidel on Navigating Mental Health and Running Professionally Jan 14, 2020

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Molly Seidel is a professional runner for Saucony, living in Boston, MA. She graduated from Notre Dame with four NCAA national titles to her name and remains the only woman to date with wins at both the high school Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships and the NCAA National Cross Country Championships. Molly recently qualified for the 2020 Olympic Marathon trials with her win at the San Antonio Half Marathon, and will be making her marathon debut at the 2020 trials in Atlanta in February.

This conversation is a powerful one, and covers the following topics:

Molly’s win at the San Antonio Half and how she is approaching the 2020 marathon trials.
Her skiing background and her time running for a high school that was a skiing powerhouse.
How winning Footlocker wasn’t considered a big deal at her high school, and how that helped take pressure off her running.
How she chose Notre Dame, her collegiate running experience, and her challenges with depression and an eating disorder.
The importance of the Notre Dame team environment
The pressure of winning NCAA’s and dealing with injuries.
Why she turned down her first professional running contract and how she signed with Saucony.
Her pure love of running and why it remains such an important part of her life.
Her involvement with Girls Gotta Run, her trips to Ethiopia and how the town of Bekoji rallied around her in a time of need.
Her love of doughnuts and why that is important to her as a professional runner.
How she embraces experiences for what they are, and her plans to go ‘full send’ in 2020.

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Mirna Valerio on Resilience, Inclusion, and Motherhood Jan 07, 2020

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Mirna Valerio is an ultrarunner, author, speaker, and educator. Mirna’s journey has been well documented since she returned to running after a health scare in 2008. The intention of this conversation is to share where Mirna is at now during this stage of her life, and her continuing evolution as a sponsored runner.

This conversation touches on a range of themes, including:

Her relationship with her mother and what it means to be a mother
Her decision to move to Vermont
Her recent travel schedule and how she reconciles and manages her schedule
Her background as a trained opera singer and how that intersects with her running now
Managing an injury during a big 2019 running schedule
Helping others and giving back
Dealing with bodyweight criticism and negative commentary
Being a role model and her relationship with her son
Her plans for 2020 and her 2020 mantra

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Soul Sister Sessions on Eating Disorder Recovery in Running with Abbey Cooper and Julia Hanlon Dec 17, 2019

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In this episode, Abbey and Julia discuss several listener questions on the topics of personal challenges they’ve overcome and eating disorders in running. Abbey and Julia share some powerful and impactful experiences from their past, much of which has not been shared publicly to date. Both Abbey and Julia reflect on how they’ve grown and reconciled these experiences.

This conversation covers the following topics:

Checking in with Abbey’s running and her reflections from her Thanksgiving Turkey Trot.
Julia’s ongoing process working through an injury and her Girls Gotta Run film project.
Abbey’s high school and college experience with running and an eating disorder.
Insecurities and how unhealthy coping mechanisms develop and manifest.
Abbey running at Dartmouth, being in a high performing environment, and how she found value in the ‘Buddy System’.
Abbey’s relationship with her body, health and running and how those intertwine.
Julia’s experience with an eating disorder.
How yoga helped Julia get in touch with her body.
Factors that led Julia to stop the podcast in 2016.
The confusing culture of body image messaging in the media and how that is embedded in society.
How coaches can play a critical role in educating and preventing eating disorders and disordered eating.
The importance of education around eating disorders.
Effective food journaling.

This episode covers a lot of heavy topics that many people will have been exposed to in some shape or form. It takes a lot of courage to speak out about personal experiences with issues like eating disorders or anything mental health related. We cannot emphasise how important it is to seek professional help if you or someone you know is suffering through an eating disorder or anything mental health related, and as such we have provided a list of resources below.

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