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Humbled episodes

  • Jason Rogers - Manning Up
    In 2008, Jason Rogers won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, and soon after he was named one of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. He was the total package: celebrated for his athleticism, rewarded for his impressive masculinity. 10 years later, Jason revealed in an essay for Men’s Health that he had harbored a crippling secret for his entire adult life, a secret that put him at odds with the traditional male athlete identity. Jason opens up about the pain he felt for years living up to an identity that was never the right fit, and the work he has done to come into his own.
    1 hr 6 min
  • Briana Scurry - Rebuilding a Champion's Mind
    Briana Scurry was making plans to retire from soccer, excited to end her incredible career on her own terms. The control she had worked so hard to have was suddenly taken away from her in a match in 2010 when she suffered a devastating concussion that suddenly ended her career, and identity, as a professional  soccer player. Scurry opens up about the ripple effect that one concussion had on her life, and what she has done in the past few years to take her life back and embrace an identity that chose her - advocate for brain and mental health in sports.
    1 hr 6 min
  • Dan Churchill - From Rugby to Celebrity Chef
    Dan Churchill is an Australian celebrity chef, Under Armour chef to athletes, cookbook author, NYC restaurant co-owner, and former rugby player. Dan sat down with Kristin to talk about his work with professional athletes on their nutrition during their competitive years, and then learning to navigate nutrition after retirement. Dan’s take on bringing joy back into eating and cooking for athletes is inspiring, and a good reminder that food that’s good for you actually tastes good.
    49 min
  • Rebecca Soni - Not Just Rebecca the Swimmer
    The first episode in season 2 of Humbled is a powerful example of why these conversations about athlete identity are important. 6x Olympic medalist swimmer Rebecca Soni gets candid about the process of finding out who she is beyond “Rebecca the Swimmer”. With 3 gold and 3 silver medals spanning two Olympics, she was the first woman to break 2:20 in the 200m breaststroke. Her list of athletic accomplishments on the global stage is much longer, but that’s not what she’s all that interested in talking about. She’s curious about how her identity got wrapped up in swimming, how social media and sponsorships complicate an athlete’s relationship with sport, and the power of positive thinking in racing. Rebecca is ready to talk about who she is outside of swimming, and how she has worked hard to find out who that actually is in the 8 years since retiring from professional sport.
    How to find Rebecca:
    Instagram: @rebventures, @riseathletes
    57 min
  • Humbled Season 2 — Trailer
    Humbled is back. Season 2 premieres Tuesday, January 28, with more great stories centered around the good and the bad of athlete identity. One of the things that became abundantly clear last season is that we- athletes, former athletes, forever athletes- are as different from one another as anyone else, yet are united by a single identity whose importance is sometimes hard to explain. In our wide-ranging conversations with athletes and those in their orbit, we will be diving even deeper in the often hidden, but lasting impacts that the athlete identity can have, in ways you’d never expect. This season, Kristin travels across the country to have intimate conversations with athletes tackling questions about identity and its often complicated relationship with sport.
    5 min
  • Natalie Dell O'Brien

    Natalie Dell O'Brien won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls and took home the first ever medal in the event for the US. She has integrated her experience from elite rowing into her new career climbing up the ladder at Google smoother than most. While Natalie's transition from elite rowing seems ideal, it was not without its challenges. Natalie's approach to the transition and how she uses her experience as an elite athlete to her advantage in the business world is downright inspiring. Her story shows that a good transition does not have to be picture perfect. 

     

    Follow Natalie on Instagram @nataliedobrien

    Find Erin @erincafaro and Kristin @kharaldsdottir

    Our kickass podcast editor is Corey Schreppel @coreyschreppel

    Find this episode's show notes and more about the Humbled podcast at www.humbledpodcast.com

    47 min
  • Karen Kraft Rigsby

    Karen Kraft Rigsby is a former Olympic silver and bronze medalist in the women's pair in rowing, survivor of battles with cancer after each Olympic cycle, a badass yogi, and a very proud mom. In between teaching yoga classes, Karen sat down and told her story like it's never been told before. She describes how she was an unlikely Olympian, starting as an architecture major at Cal Poly, and she fought for every inch of her success, spending hundreds of hours training alone in a basement only to be turned away from the national team. Karen's perspective on what her decade-long journey means to her now, and how hot yoga can give you the same relief as rowing does, is a lesson in keeping things in perspective when it feels like the cards are stacked against you. 

    1 hr 21 min
  • Fergus Connolly

    Fergus Connolly is a performance expert who has worked with professional sports teams around the world. Fergus sat down with Erin and Kristin and talked about how he believes that the role of sport is preparing people for the challenges of life. He has made a career out of working with all different types of athletes, special operators and personnel. Fergus has published two books on performance and team dynamics and has a really good insight into not only how athletes can train and perform better, but simultaneously prepare themselves for life after. Fergus gets into the dangers of specializing in one specific area and how that may be our greatest threat to adaptability. Fergus is amazing at is creating models for navigating the world which can help us understand how we as humans and athletes can evolve, adapt, and come out better on the backside of performance.

    For more information about Humbled, check out the Humbled website at www.humbledpodcast.com.Follow Fergus on Twitter @fergus_connolly and Instagram @fergus.connolly.
    Catch up with Kristin @kharaldsdottir and Erin @erincafaro on the Instagrams.
    Thank you as always to our incredible podcast editor, Corey Schreppel! @coreyschreppel

    1 hr 10 min
  • Anik Wild

    Anik Wild is a former X Games champion in skicross, businesswoman, and proud mom. She competed for over 30 years in downhill ski racing and 10 months before the 2010 Olympics, she was forced to retire from her sport due to the cumulative effects of her multiple concussions. Anik sat down with Erin and Kristin in Truckee, CA, where she currently lives with her husband and son to talk about the love of competing, the heartache of having to leave her dream of an Olympic medal on the table, and the joy of being a mom and lifelong athlete. Anik is pursuing life after sport with just as much intensity as she did her career as a skicross racer, but the process of leaving active competition has been a long emotional journey and is the first to admit that she's not completely over it.

    For more information about Humbled, check out the Humbled website at www.humbledpodcast.com.

    You can find Anik on Instagram @anikwild

    Catch up with Kristin @kharaldsdottir and Erin @erincafaro on the Instagrams.
    Thank you as always to our incredible podcast editor, Corey Schreppel! @coreyschreppel

    1 hr 9 min
  • Kristin Haraldsdottir

    Kristin Haraldsdottir is a former NCAA National Champion in rowing, Division I Coach, PhD in Exercise Physiology and co-host of the humbled Podcast. Kristin’s story of becoming great at something, looking to share that joy with someone else and searching for another challenging outlet is a common evolution of the retired athlete. Kristin speaks eloquently to her experience stepping away from her sport from the athlete, coach and research perspective: the battle of trying to find the same challenge and camaraderie as an athlete, her research to find better solutions for athlete recovery and wellness, and her hopes for the listeners and athletes on the Humbled podcast.  

    For more information about Humbled, check out the Humbled website at www.humbledpodcast.com. Catch up with Kristin @kharaldsdottir and Erin @erincafaro on the Instagrams.
    Thank you as always to our incredible podcast editor, Corey Schreppel! @coreyschreppel

    This episode of Humbled is supported by Sonoma Women's Triathlon, a women's-focused tri that runs on July 13 in Healdsburg California. Whether you're a first-timer, an elite or something in between, Sonoma Women's has a great experience on tap for you. Go to Sonomatriathlon.com and register with the code HUMBLED and you will get 10% off registration. Sonoma Women's Tri is a Siberian Unicorn event.

    40 min

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Humbled explores the complex identity of an athlete. Whether you’re an athlete now, were in the past, or don’t see yourself that way at all, these stories will speak to you on just a human level. We…