Journey To June

A few weeks ago, after my niece's wedding in Portugal, Josi and I walked the Camino de Santiago from Porto to Santiago. 74 miles in six days, just the two of us. There were storms, blisters, a lot of bread, and one morning when we almost quit.

In this episode we walk you through then trade five lessons each, including the old story I carried up that mountain and what an Airbnb host who spoke no English taught me about the things we pass down. Whatever our kids watch us do when it gets hard, they learn it can be done.

So I'll ask you what I asked myself: what's your Soulstigator Stretch for 2027?

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This week on Journey to June, I spoke to a fellow member of The Post, Madison Gates. Madison grew up a goalkeeper, played for the U.S. youth national team and at the University of Michigan, and now leads marketing as VP at i9 Sports.

In this conversation, we talk about what happens when an identity built on earning your place follows you into the boardroom, and what it took for her to stop hiding the athlete in her. Madison walks me through blowing out her knee at the peak of her recruiting, the teammates who rallied around her, and the stretch in corporate when she tucked her sports background away and felt herself drift. We also get into why she's so passionate about keeping kids playing, across more than one sport, without anyone needing to keep up with the Joneses.

If you've ever wondered who you are when no one is keeping score, I think this one will stay with you.

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Everything in my body said there was no way. With a trip to Portugal days away, I said yes to a last-minute free ticket to Running Man, the race-meets-music-festival in Rome, Georgia. I showed up with an Amazon tent, a Walmart sleeping bag, and no idea why I was there.

In this solo episode, I share what happened when I walked into a crowd of 1,800 strangers and asked one question: why are you here? I talk about the people I met, the words from the speakers that stuck with me, and the half marathon I walked in 97-degree heat. I also come clean about the story I let win when I quit 29029 in 2022.

It’s an episode about starting before you’re ready, deciding the next step instead of the whole mountain, and learning to be stronger than your strongest excuse.

What’s yours? DM me the word STORY on Instagram.

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Caroline Turnbull, one of my private coaching clients, spent her first two years of Division I field hockey at Lafayette sick, injured, and convinced someone else needed to fix it. In this conversation, she walks me through the junior-year shift that turned her into a leader, the torn ACL that ended her senior season, and the years after, when a diet she believed in left her severely anemic while doctors kept telling her she was fine.

What struck me most is how many times Caroline thought she had learned the lesson of listening to her body, only to have to learn it again.

Today she's the co-founder of Mobius, a fitness community app with no leaderboards, no streaks, and no metrics on display, built on the belief that all movement counts. If you've ever trusted the numbers over what your body was telling you, this one is for you.

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A few years ago, Josi and I hired a local guide in Lake Como for a three-hour hike. Josi was ten and not thrilled about it. Silvia Birollo didn't push her and didn't coddle her. She simply walked with her, laughed with her, and got her to the top. I've wanted her on the podcast ever since.

Silvia left school at 17 to support her family after her father's work accident. She spent 18 years at a sewing machine, went back to night school, and built a 20-year accounting career. Then at 50, COVID cut her salary in half. Instead of asking "what should I be," she asked "what am I able to do," and the answer was walk. At 51 she sat in a classroom with people half her age and became a mountain guide.

We talk about shyness, panic, living in a sister's shadow, not becoming a mother, and the mantra that carried her through all of it: nothing is impossible.

Silvia is a big part of why Josi and I are walking the Camino next week. Her story reminded me that the mountain is a metaphor, and some answers only come when you're moving. Her contact info is below if you want to explore Europe on foot with her.

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Visit her Website: www.riempilozaino.com

Instagram: @riempi_lo_zaino

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In this solo episode, I take you back to a waiting room at Cornell's fertility clinic, the moment a doctor asked if I'd considered an egg donor before I'd even started IVF, and the three days I spent alone afterward deciding whether to keep going. 

I also tell you about my friend Ingrid, a tennis pro I've coached since middle school, who fought back from two years of injuries and surgery to reach the US Open quarterfinals this year. 

I explore the difference between instinct and ego, how to actually tell them apart, and five things I do to stay in the arena when everything on the outside is telling me to quit. 

If you've ever wondered whether the pull you feel is worth trusting, this one's for you.
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This week on Journey to June, I sat down with Katie Love, founder of Love Social Media, who turned a broadcast journalism career she couldn't sustain into an agency that now works with 200+ brands and a team of 25 — built from zero dollars and no outside funding. 

But the story underneath the business is the one that stayed with me: a twelve-year-old who watched her family reshape overnight, a sixteen-year-old who moved out on her own to survive it, and a woman who is now, deliberately, building her daughter a completely different childhood. 

We talk about the moment her body forced her to listen, the boss who pushed her out of news over her smile instead of her reporting, and what it actually means to let go of control you built as a survival skill. 

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Every new room asks the same question before anyone says a word: do you belong here? On this episode, I sit down with my daughter Josi for our quarterly debrief — this time about her first season on a new club volleyball team, walking in as an outsider with no shared history and a serve that fell apart under pressure. 

We talk about the car-ride cry after her first practice, the moment a parent asked "who is this girl?" watching her confidence shift, and what it actually took to go from outsider to teammate. 

This one isn't just about volleyball. It's about the imprint left on us by the rooms we fight our way into.
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This week, I'm turning 55.

And recently, I was in the back of a car listening to my siblings talk about their lives moving forward. I had nothing to add. The next day, in the middle of a coaching retreat, I ended up on the receiving end of the exact thing I coach my own clients on.

This episode is that — no guest, just me. What it means to feel "behind." Where that feeling actually lives in the body. A live 2-minute meditation you can do with me. My 5 takeaways. A reflection across five decades. And the 55 Letters project I'm starting today — one letter a day, ending in Portugal at my niece's wedding.

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This week on Journey to June I'm talking to Adam DeVon Miller, founder and CEO of Good Game Foundation, a nonprofit that connects athletes to purpose beyond the game they play. Adam played wide receiver at Wabash College and was the first in his family to go to college — football was the thing that opened that door for him.

But this conversation isn't really about football. It's about what happened after. A service trip to post-Katrina New Orleans cracked open a much bigger question for Adam: what does the game actually mean once the scoreboard disappears?

We talk about the two-a-days that taught him he could push further than he thought, the Kevin Love essay that cracked something open in him years later, and why he believes every athlete is carrying a story worth more than any box score.

This one is about building an identity the game can't take from you — and what it costs when you wait too long to start.
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