Journey To June

This week I sit down with Olympian, coach, and father of three Roberto Mandje, and what struck me most wasn't the résumé — it was how he talks about being stronger than he ever gave himself credit for. 

Roberto grew up between Barcelona, West Africa, and the U.S., raised by a single mother who never once told him what he couldn't do, and he carried that into a twelve-year running career that peaked at the 2004 Athens Olympics, lining up in the 1500m next to the very runner whose poster hung on his bedroom wall. 

In this episode, we talk about what it actually feels like to stand at that start line, what running alone in the woods still teaches him that a desk never will, and how becoming a father — and, more recently, walking away from the organization he'd spent a decade helping build — forced him to ask what he's actually building his life toward now. 

This one is about identity that doesn't collapse when the structure around it changes, and about what it means to leave every place, and every person, a little better than you found it.
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This week I sat down with Abiola Wabara — a former pro basketball player, national champion, and now the founder of Globall Life, a platform built to help athletes navigate life after sport. 

In this episode, we get into her childhood in Italy as the daughter of Nigerian parents, the culture shock of trading Rome for Waco, Texas, and the ten-year pro career that followed. 

But the real conversation starts after the ball stops bouncing — when Abiola describes googling her own master's degree because she had no idea what to do with it, driving Uber with her resume in the passenger seat, and the panic attacks she didn't even recognize as panic attacks. 

This is a conversation about what happens when the structure that built you disappears, and what it actually takes to build a new one. Abiola's answer might surprise you: it starts with letting go of your ego.
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This week on Journey to June, I sat down with Jill Muhe — a former Division I and professional beach volleyball player who spent a decade grinding on the AVP tour before becoming an athletic trainer, a college head coach, and now a career consultant for athletes navigating life after sport. 

Jill and I talk about growing up playing basketball with the boys, the identity crash that comes with retiring (more than once), and a reframe that stopped me in my tracks: athletes don't lose their drive when sport ends, they lose the ecosystem that was quietly supporting it the whole time. 

We get into what actually happens to a high performer who's grinding without a coach, a team, or anyone celebrating the small wins, and why the real question isn't "why did you play" but "why did you stay." If you've ever felt like your motivation disappeared overnight, this conversation will help you understand what really happened — and how to rebuild.
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This week on Journey to June, I sat down with Amy Pierre-Russo. Amy spent a decade in HR before becoming a life and business coach, and she built something she calls Hustle to Harmony. 

Instead of the scale — which just makes you feel like you're failing the second one side gets heavier — she thinks of it as a pie. You only get 100%. Some seasons work takes 60, some seasons your kid needs 60. That's not imbalance. That's just life.

We went deep into her own story too. Amy lost her mom when she was six, and was raised by her dad, who made the choice not to bring anyone else into the house full-time. I asked her what that absence taught her, and what it's like now raising her own son knowing what that gap felt like as a kid. 

We talked about the guilt of leaving for work trips, the small rituals that make it easier, and this idea of surrender — that you don't have to make peace with hard choices, you just have to give yourself grace around them.

This one stayed with me. If you've ever felt like you're failing at the "balance" thing, I think you'll feel a little lighter after this.
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Five years of Live Your June. One conversation with the girl it's named after.

In this episode, I sit down with my daughter Josephine June — now 13 — to reflect on what it's actually been like watching me build this movement. What shifted. What she absorbed. What she hopes comes next.

We recorded this the week of the Fourth of July. My dad's favorite holiday. It felt right.

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This week on Journey to June, I'm joined by Megan Hayward, a former Division One basketball player, mom of five, and founder of TAG (Temporary Assistance Guru), a staffing platform she built from the ground up at 24 years old. But that's not really where this episode starts.

We started with what it means to let your kid sit in hard. Megan and her husband — a former Jacksonville Jaguar and Denver Bronco — have raised athletes who've had to face that moment: am I going to quit, or am I going to see what I'm made of? One son is at West Point. Another is getting Division One offers. The path wasn't straight for any of them, and that's exactly the point.

Then Megan went somewhere I rarely go on this podcast. She shared the story of surviving an abusive relationship in college — one that produced her son Israel and ultimately the force that broke her free. What she said about raising him, about not pretending his father never existed, about the safe spaces we have to create for our kids — I'll be thinking about that for a long time.

We also talked about what ethical leadership actually looks like in business, ownership as a core value, and the shopping cart test she gave her entire team. Her company TAG sits at the intersection of the gig economy and traditional staffing — solving a problem nobody else was solving with integrity.
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Nine years ago, I said yes to a weekend I couldn't fully explain — three days with Bo Eason, before Live Your June existed, before I had language for what I was even looking for. This year, I said yes to the same experience again, but this time I brought Josi along. 

In this episode, Josi turns the mic around and asks me why it mattered, and then I turn it back on her: what has her own version of that room given her at 13 that took me decades to find.

We talk through what it means to live as a player instead of a fan in your own life and why confidence isn't something you believe, it's something you physically stand in. 

We also get into Roger Love, the voice coach who's worked with everyone from Selena Gomez to Tom Brady, and a moment with LPGA golfer Lorena Ochoa that first showed me what "professional" actually looks like in practice.

What surfaces by the end isn't really about that one weekend. It's me and my daughter comparing notes nine years apart, and me admitting out loud that she's more clear at 13 than I was at 45. 

The episode closes the way it opened: asking what room you've been circling, and whether you're willing to walk in without knowing where it leads.

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Five years ago I launched Live Your June at 50 with no roadmap, no business plan, and no idea what I was doing. What I didn't know then is that the business was never the point. Who I was becoming was.

In this episode I'm sharing the five lessons that have shaped the last five years — not the highlight reel version, but the real one. The rhythms that built me. The rooms that stretched me. The people who carried me when I couldn't carry myself. The seasons I almost quit and didn't. And the moment I realized the vehicle always changes — but the becoming never ends.

If you've ever been told you weren't ready, that it was unrealistic, that you were crazy for trying — this one's for you.

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What happens when you grow up performing for everyone but yourself?

Aly Breathe grew up in Russia chasing a promise she made to her dad at six years old — to stand on an Olympic podium. That promise drove everything: the dancing, the swimming, the gymnastics, the tennis, the exhaustion. On the outside, she was doing it all. On the inside, she didn't even know she was allowed to have her own opinion.

In this conversation, we go into the real cost of that kind of pressure — on the body, on identity, on the way we eat, the way we speak, the way we move through the world. Aly shares her own path from performing-for-approval to what she now calls embodied coaching — the difference between understanding something intellectually and actually letting it go at a cellular level.

Aly's work is the kind that gets rid of chronic pain, restores sleep, and yes — helps people get pregnant. The results sound wild until you understand why they happen.
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💫 Read the Full Reflection:  https://liveyourjune.substack.com/p/when-the-voice-driving-you-isnt-yours
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In this final episode of the Olympic Series, I reflect on what it meant to start chasing a dream when I was 10 years old — long before I understood the pressure, sacrifice, identity, and uncertainty that would come with it.

After sitting down with Olympians, elite athletes, and high performers throughout this series, one thing became clear to me: performance can shape you, but it can’t fully define you.

This conversation is about identity under pressure, borrowed belief, resilience, the environments that shape us, and what happens when the thing you built your life around changes or disappears.

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