Hi everyone and welcome to a new episode of Take Off Your Shoes!

I am super happy to share my conversation with Leah Yingling with you all!

It was a super fun convo where i got to not only learn about her past, her relationship with her twin sister, her husband Mike, her own podcast with Katie Asmuth, Rachel Drake and Hilary Yang Trail Network Podcast, but also about her ever evolving sense of why and her ongoing self-challenge of taking more risks and becoming ‘less even keeled’.

We also talk about (rather timely) family planning and the nuances and the intricacies around it and the balancing act of a career outside of sport, a career as a competitive professional trail runner and wanting to accomplish a very long time coming goal of starting a family with Mike.

She just announced a few days ago that they are indeed expecting a child later this year and I am super happy for the next chapter of her (and their) life.

This conversation just made the time fly by and I had a blast getting to know Leah better, I hope you all do to!

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Photo credit: Mike Mcmonagle