Personal Podiums

Coffee shops, yoga studios, and boutique donut spots are all usually signs of a shifting neighborhood. But that's not the case for Marcus, the fictional character on the FX on Hulu series The Bear, and Zedtiwu co owner of the Black-owned vegan donut shop Cloudy Donuts in Brooklyn, New York (with two additional locations in Baltimore, Maryland). Zewditu is living in the real life world we imagine Marcus's character could arrive in. 

We talk about reimagining narratives, digging deeper into craft,  process, and passions. What does a chef on a fictional show have to do with flow state? Or an entrepreneurial journey have to do with being a good teammate? Find out on this episode of Personal Podiums.

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Clayton Murphy joins us to give the background story on the week leading up to his run at the 2021 Olympic Trials in the 800. We learn that there was so much behind the show stopping races that we didn’t know as fans.

Katerina Stefanidi is one of greatest Greek Olympic athletes of all time. She’s also a great storyteller. Kat shares her athletic journey and the big lessons learned along the way. 

When Bowerman Track Club split into smaller groups in the early stages of the pandemic, Jerry Schumacher teamed his fittest, most experienced distance athletes, Moh Ahmed and Lopez Lomong with one of the team’s newest and most inexperienced members, Grant Fisher. What started as a lot of butt kicking ended with a magic and meteoric rise. 

Olympian Darrell Hill sits down with us to talk about big changes in life, technical changes in sport and the importance of trusting yourself and the people around you. Our hosts share big personal and professional moments of change and trust too.

Two of the fastest women in American history who shared an Olympic Silver medal in the 4x100 in Tokyo share their origin stories and focus on mental health. Marielle Hall shares context about what it means to be Black woman in sport with conversation inspired by a poem she shares. 

The Olympic Games don’t technically have Freshman but if they did, they'd look a lot like Grant Fisher and Chris Nilsen in Tokyo. These two young athletes took the opportunity of a “gap year” in the form of additional time afforded by the circumstances of the pandemic it turned it into Olympic glory. Now, both are the best Americans ever in their respective disciplines (5000m/10000m and pole vault). We also talk to true freshman Ania Keenan who is moving from California to NYC to pursue collegiate athletics and journalism at NYU.