Big Idea Big Moves

Carmel Rodriguez is a personal trainer, fitness model and influencer, and successful online entrepreneur. She is the creator of the YG12 bodyweight workout series and her knack for perfecting acrobat-level handstands and inversions earned her a spot as one of Instagram’s Top 10 New Female Fitness Gurus. She has been featured in Oxygen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Optimyz Magazine, Muscle and Fitness and Inside Fitness Women. Her unique barefoot workouts and signature handstands have helped her build a large, supportive online fitness and wellness community built on "healthy bodies and healthy minds". 

Carmel is also a busy mother and wife. 

In this episode Carmel and Jamie Allison talk about what inspired her to become a "ninja mom" for her kids, training for daily life and the positive impacts of exercise not only on the body but the mind and mental health as well.

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Sydney Steinaker is an amateur pickleball player with aspirations of going pro, an influencer and is the host of The Basic Dink pickleball-themed podcast. On various social platforms like Instagram and TikTok Sydney comments on and builds awareness for the sport through her journey in the fastest growing sport in North America.

Her unique approach to social media and her take on the sport is exposing the sport to a whole new audience and demographic.  

In this episode Sydney and Jamie talk about how her online platform is connecting with a younger generation of players and people looking to try the sport, how she is navigating her new-found influence in the sport and how she works to balance her training, tournaments, her job in cyber security and her podcast. 

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Mark Jones is a Marine, a 5x Death Race participant and endurance athlete. He has completed Go Ruck Selection and is a GoRuck World Champion.  He is now venturing into entrepreneurship with his newest initiative Ruck:Fest. Ruck:Fest is an upcoming multi event fitness celebration featuring Trail, Games and Crew formats in a festival setting. 

In this episode Mark and Jamie talk about the impact his childhood had on his personal resilience, how he struggled with his transition out of the military and how an email from Spartan Founder Joe De Sena may have saved him, and his excitement about launching Ruck:Fest this August.    

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Rylie Matthews is a developmental bobsled brakeman for Team USA and has successfully competed in the North America Cup as part of that journey. Before jumping into bobsled, Rylie was a NJCAA Division 1 All-American in javelin, and NCAA Division 1 track and field athlete.  After her collegiate career finished she set her sights on bobsleigh and the Olympics.

She is a Strength and Conditioning Coach, has a Master’s in Professional Communication and is a Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist.

In this episode Rylie and podcast host Jamie Allison talk about her development journey with USA Bobsled, her scary first experience in a sled, her transition out of collegiate sports to find her next passion and coaching and helping other athletes. 

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Kris Rugloski is an elite obstacle course racer completing over 40 of them and racking up more than 30 podium finishes. After not participating in sports throughout high school or college like most of her peers, she is now enjoying being a true hybrid athlete. She has completed nine 100 mile ultra runs and is quickly becoming a HYROX World Competition favorite.  She was a competitor on the Rock’s The Titan Games and went up against some of the top athletes in her sports on the recently released Spartan Games 2.

In this episode she talks with host Jamie Allison about how she has developed her mental resilience through taking on tough challenges, how she is enjoying her best life right now by integrating her work, sports and social life, and she talks about her experience on Spartan Games 2.

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Lauren Fisher is already a seven-time CrossFit Games veteran (three team, four individual). After starting CrossFit at 14 in 2008 to improve her basketball game, by 2012, she had already finished 12th in Regionals.

Since then, she’s helped team CrossFit Invictus take third at the 2019 CrossFit Games, , and taken ninth and 25th as an individual in the 2014 and 2016 games.  Known for her Olympic weightlifting prowess, she also won the 2014 USA Weightlifting Junior National Championship in her class.

Lauren is an entrepreneur, with her own brand and online fitness program Grown Strong where she helps women around the world become stronger.

She is currently training in Iceland with Annie Thorisdottir and her new CrossFit team.

In this episode, Lauren and Jamie talk about her passion to help women find strength through community and sharing her own struggles and success, how Annie asked her to move to Iceland to train as part of a team, and how she balances being humble with trying to always be the hardest worker in the room.  

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Tim Green is the Head of Marketing and Partnership at TeamUp, a company that provides management software for gyms and fitness businesses.

Tim is a thought leader and advocate for growth in the fitness industry.  He is an experienced marketer with a background in consumer marketing and now has more than 10 years as a SaaS marketing leader. He joined the founders of TeamUp back in 2013 when they were a small start-up and has watched it grow exponentially - even during the pandemic.

In this episode Jamie and Tim talk about how the pandemic pushed forward the importance of having strong systems and providing a superior customer experience, how the experience of returning to gyms and workplaces can be better than ever and how the prominence of online services like Amazon and Uber Eats has changed the business landscape and customer expectations for bricks and mortar businesses.

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Sara Villani is fresh off of an appearance at the Beijing Winter Olympics where she and her partner placed 12th in the 2-woman bobsleigh event.  She made her IBSF World Cup debut in January 2021 and with pilot Christine de Bruin, she achieved a career-high fourth-place finish. During last year’s World Cup season and the Olympics, she was reunited and paired with driver, Melissa Lotholz.

Before bobsleigh she won the Canadian junior title in the heptathlon in 2015 and went on to finish sixth at that year’s Pan Am Junior Championships. In 2016, she won the OUA title in the pentathlon. In her final year at Western University, she won the silver medal in the shot put at the 2019 USports Championships.

In this episode, Sara chats with host Jamie Allison about her quick rise on the bobsled scene, the Olympic experience, being a role model and setting goals using both intuition and logic.

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Colleen Fotsch is both a Crossfit Games individual and team competitor.  She was a Division 1 collegiate swimmer at UC Berkeley where she was a two-time national champ, an All-American and NCAA champion, American record holder, and qualified for the Olympic trials. When her swimming career ended, she discovered a love for CrossFit. She is a three-time regional competitor and finished first in the world in the 15.5 Open Workout. 

Most recently, she made the USA bobsled team before an injury threw a wrench into that plan.  Now she is venturing into a corporate role in Data Analysis. 

In this episode, Colleen and Jamie talk about her love of sports and competition, how what she learned in athletics transfers to the workplace and the challenge of changing from the elite level of one sport to another.  

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Beth Layton started out as a competitive swimmer before delving into CrossFit full-time. She has been a top athlete in that sport consistently and has multiple strong brand partnerships with companies like Born Primitive and Foodspring. She recently left her family and hometown in an effort to realize her goal of making the Crossfit Games.

In this episode Jamie and Beth talk about her move to focus on training, how she built her resilience and her goals for this year. Be sure to tell Beth and Jamie what you think about this episode by leaving a review and rating.  It helps us get the message out there!           

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