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Gillian Goerzen was at the healthiest she’d ever been, training for an Ironman… or so it appeared. 

The truth was, she grappling with an eating disorder that sapped her of her energy,  joy, and health. But because she didn’t “look like” she was chronically underfueled, she flew under the radar for years. As the medical community is finally starting to recognize, eating disorders don’t have a certain look.

Today, Gillian is a body-positive health coach, a certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, and an author who helps her clients ditch diets, programs,  and plans and reclaim their authentic approach to health and fitness. 

Gillian has also traded Ironmans for distance swimming — while managing a rare disease. 

She lives, works, and plays in the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada with her two sons, husband and mini-Aussie, Tucker.

Connect with Gillian
https://www.superyou.ca/
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube 

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Training for an Ironman triathlon as a way to “legitimize” a disordered relationship with exercise
• Embracing joyful movement — despite having to give up running
• Shifting  from a disordered relationship with food to embracing an intuitive eating approach
• Can you eat “diet foods” as an intuitive eater? 
• Why intuitive eating is  more than respecting hunger and fullness cues 
• Questions to ask yourself if you’re wondering whether your eating and exercise are disordered 
• Managing life as an athlete, a mom, and a professional with indolent systemic mastocytosis

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Content warning: eating disorders, trauma 

If you need a huge dose of inspiration, this episode is for you. Our guest, ultra runner and gravel cyclist Hillary Allen, best known for her incredible comeback after the near-fatal accident she survived during an endurance race in Norway, is the definition of resilience.

Hillary is a Boulder-based ultra-endurance athlete who races for both the Brooks running team the Pinarello gravel bike team. She’s also a scientist with a Master's degree in neuroscience and physiology, a running coach, and the author of Out and Back, a memoir chronicling her incredible story of recovery and resilience. 

Hillary was at the pinnacle of her running career, when, while competing in 2017 a sky race in Norway, when one misstep almost cost her life. She fell 150 feet off of a ridge when and had to be airlifted out with a long list of injuries. 

Doctors said she would never run again. Not only is she running again, she's crushing it. With strength training and gravel cycling in her repertoire, she recently complete her first 100-miler at the UTMB, where she placed third American.

In this interview she shares how she got into trail running, her eating disorder recovery, what motivated her through her arduous rehab process, how she manages strength training, running, and cycling, how her creative process helps with her mental health, how she keeps perfectionism at bay, why she wrote her memoir Out and Back, what community means to her, how she healed from trauma, and so much more. 

Connect with Hillary
Website
Facebook
Instagram
Hillary Allen - Athlete - Brooks Running | LinkedIn
Hillary Allen - YouTube
Trail Society on Apple Podcasts

Links/Resources
Amelia Boone
Rea Kolbl
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hillary’s newsletter (sign up and get a free workbook)


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I joined Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin on the Another Mother Runner podcast starting at 11:29 to discuss: 

• what intuitive eating encompasses
• my macro counting obsession and why I stopped
• what “food freedom” is—and how to achieve it
• how to balance the needs of training with intuitive eating
• how to recognize “the food police” in your head—and silence it!

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Intuitive eating isn't as simple as eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're full,  There are ten principles, and in this quick solo episode, I discuss the first principle: reject the diet mentality.  This is a big one, so I'm covering it in more than one episode, starting with simply defining the diet mentality. Listen to find out what the diet mentality is (and isn't) and subscribe to make sure you don't miss future episodes where I'll dive into why the diet mentality is generally incompatible with intuitive eating and how to actually change your mindset.

Resources/Links
Real Fit podcast episode 44: Overview of Intuitive Eating
The F*ck it Diet by Caroline Dooner
Intuitive Eating, 4th edition by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole

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Jill Angie is a running coach who helps fat women start running, build body confidence, and embrace their inner athletes. She’s also the host of the Not Your Average Runner podcast and author of three books on running while fat.

In this interview, Jill talks about why she started running in secret, what body acceptance looks like for her, how she manages the barriers that come with navigating fitness spaces in a larger body, leaving the pharmaceutical industry to start a run coaching business for fat women over 40, and sooo much more. 

Connect with Jill
http://notyouraveragerunner.com
www.facebook.com/notyouraveragerunner
www.instagram.com/notyouraveragerunner
tiktok.com/@notyouraveragerunner
https://notyouraveragerunner.com/podcast/

Links/Resources
Not Your Average Runner book by Jill Angie
Not Your Average 5k book by Jill Angie
Not Your Average Half Marathon book by Jill Angie
Mandy Patinkin dog/infant IG video
Jill Angie’s interview with Jen Madden on the Not Your Average Runner podcast
SELF article where I quoted Jill on navigating fitness world in larger body

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Lori King is a working mom of two who recovered from both an eating disorder and Guillain-Barre syndrome and manages to conquer some of the world’s most intimidating ocean swims. The award-winning marathon swimmer’s many accomplishments include the Catalina channel swim (20 mi), the Manhattan Island swim (28.5 mi, the 8 Bridges Hudson River Staged Swim (7 days, 8 bridges, 120 miles), Capri-Napoli, Ibiza Marathon swim, and Kalamata, Greece. In 2016, the Long Island mother of two became the first woman (and second person) to successfully swim the 36.5 miles around the island of Bermuda in just over 21 hours.

This past June Lori swam the Ka’iwi channel (the Channel of Bones), one of the hardest channels in the world to complete due to its rough conditions and active sea life. And in August 2022 she swam from Block Island, RI  to Montauk, NY, a challenge that’s been called the “local Everest of swimming.” 

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Website
Instagram

In this episode, we discuss

• Growing up as a swimmer and the performance anxiety that cropped up during adolescence
• The comment from a doctor that served as a catalyst for Lori’s eating disorder
• How she got into eating disorder recovery 
• Her Guillain-Barre diagnosis and how her body has changed since the diagnosis 
• Why she does open water marathon swims and how her crew motivates her
• How she trains for a marathon swim    
• Cold water acclimation 
• Her recent swim from Block Island, RI to Montauk, NY
• Why she worries more about jellyfish than shark during ocean swims

Links/Resources
Eight Bridges Hudson River Stage Swim
New York Times story on Lori King’s swim from Block Island to Montauk
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui  
PRP injections (efficacy study)
Bonnie Schwartz, swim coach
Lori’s Swimpedia page
Guillain-Barre Syndrome 

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In this solo episode you'll hear...

• How I found intuitive eating (or maybe how it found me when I needed it)
• What intuitive eating is and isn't
• My short answer to the question "What is intuitive eating?"
• How other intuitive eating professionals answer the question "What is intuitive eating?"
• The ten principles of intuitive eating

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Marley Blonsky is a speaker, writer, advocate, influencer, and self-described fat adventure cyclist, and as the co-founder of All Bodies on Bikes, she’s on a mission to make the sport of cycling more inclusive for people of all sizes and shapes.

In addition to her advocacy work, Marley also rides for Cannondale, Pearl Izumi, Shimano, Ride With GPS, Chamois Butt'r, and Kuat Racks. She loves gravel and cyclocross racing despite coming in last in every single race she’s done and she’s also an avid bikepacker. 

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All Bodies on Bikes film
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter

In this episode, we discuss… 

• Why Marley describes herself as fat 
• Why she didn’t wear shorts for years 
• Her journey to body acceptance
• How she got into cycling 
• Making friends at stop lights 
• The joy of bikepacking
• How to poop in the woods 
• Why paper maps are the best 
• Getting food poisoning on a bikepacking trip
• The story behind All Bodies on Bikes 
• Marley’s thoughts on the bike industry’s efforts toward inclusivity
• Leaving the corporate grind to pursue a dream
• Why she feels successful in cyclocross racing — despite consistently finishing last
• Tricks for combatting inertia to get out the door and ride 
• Coping with depression 
• What her training looks like 
• Dealing with internet trolls 
• Embracing body neutrality 
• Marley’s database where companies can connect with outdoor apparel and gear testers of all sizes 

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Guest Bio

Taneika is a gravel cyclist, runner, mother of two, active-duty sailor, and freelance writer living with a medical condition called myasthenia gravis. She’s a member of the elite women's gravel team Velocio//Exploro. Committed to being the change she wants to see in outdoor spaces, Taneika toes the line at as many gravel races as she can and is creating a gravel scholarship to reduce the barrier to entry for female-identifying athletes of color. 

Connect with Taneika

Website: https://www.msadventurer1.com/
Facebook: Taneika Duhaney
Twitter: @msadventurer1
Instagram: @msadventurer1
LinkedIn: Taneika Duhaney

In this episode, we talked about…

• Gifting herself a Peloton bike  
• Being diagnosed with PCOS and endometriosis 
• Getting the myasthenia gravis diagnosis and how she’s managed to thrive in spite of it
• Why her parents didn’t allow her to participate in sports as a kid
• Grieving the loss of her pre-diagnosis self   
• Finishing the Marine Corps Marathon after receiving the myasthenia gravis diagnosis
• Transitioning from road to gravel 
• Working with an occupational therapist to ride sustainably
• Showing up as the only female Black cyclist at her first gravel race 
• What it means for communities and businesses to truly embrace diversity and inclusion 
• What giving herself grace looks like 
• Redefining success 

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Links/Resources

Velocio Exploro gravel cycling team 
Getting it in Cyclists
Fall Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC
Dirty Kitten Gravel race
Unbound Gravel race
Real Fit interview with Rona Kilmer
Girls Gone Gravel Festival
Birdie personal safety alarm

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On this episode, Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall and I discussed all the good stuff — including her love of cycling and snacks, the power of nature, the importance of ritual, and what happens when she tunes into her heart. 

Jessica is a cyclist, a hiker, and a general lover of the outdoors. She’s also a rabbi with a passion for writing, creating, and helping others to inject rituals into their routines, which we are definitely going to talk about as it pertains not just to spirituality but to everyday life and sport. 

As a rabbi, she moved away from a traditional role in a synagogue to forge a different kind of path that pulls from a variety of traditions and really highlights her many gifts. (Which I LOVE!!) 

As a spiritual leader and coach, she guides participants into deeper connection with Spirit by moving beyond intellect or logic, to access soul-wisdom so their path lights up with ease, vitality, abundance, and JOY! 

Championing spiritual inclusivity via creative rituals, intentional reflections, mindfulness practices, and the wisdom of the natural world, Jessica guides with humor, authenticity, and Divine presence.

This one is a must-listen for anyone who wants to create more joy and meaning in their life. 

Connect with Jessica
Website
Facebook group Divine Winks
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
Podcast- Sacred Stories

In this episode, we talk about…

• Jessica’s relationship with food; why Weight Watchers was so attractive to her at a tumultuous time in her life and how she let go of food rules. 
• The week-long Hazon cycling trip in Israel that was her intro to road biking
• Her passion for open faced nut butter and jelly sandwiches
• The bike ride she was on when she knew she had to quit her job and move to a different state. 
• Leaving a dream position as a congregational rabbi to work for herself in a non-traditional role.   
• The one thing Jessica can rely on to supercharge the growth of her business
• Setting boundaries as an entrepreneur
• Why rituals matter and how anyone can imbue their life with more of them. 

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