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Tara Warren knows how to suffer. After completing the Rocky Mountain Slam this year in honor of her late mother's battle with ALS. She sits down with Tom and Preston to talk about her love for running and her connection and love for nature. She touches on her amazing mom and feeling close to her when she runs and especially during the slam. Her story is truly one of strife, spirit, and triumph. 

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Tom, Preston, Matthew Lefthand, and Mitt and Major Niederhauser are together talking about their individual struggles and stoke of this year's LOTOJA. It's a tale of anguish, triumph, brotherly love, and questionable tactics when it comes to bathroom breaks! Enjoy this awesome D.O.S.E. of Stoke and Storytelling.

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#1 International best-selling author of “Warrior In The Garden”, Rob Eastman hosted BrainStoke in his “Chapel” to record this episode. 
Rob, aka; The Tattooed Life Coach has carried the weight of bullying and ADHD at a young age, suicide  ideation, addiction, sexual assault victim and divorce. Rob had several relapses with addiction that led to a low point. A defining moment: “Is that loud enough for you”.
That led Rob to face and embrace extreme ownership of his role and choices in where he found himself. Starting over, with a renewed sense of purpose of who he is as a human and a Father. 

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Tyler Servoss became a father at 17 years old. While other junior cyclists were at the Olympic Training Center focused solely on their future, Tyler was supporting his wife and children doing landscape work on the side, all while still getting in his training reps. 

Tyler is no stranger to struggle and grief. He’s faced serious cycling accidents including a broken neck that he eventually recovered from only to lose his adult son, Kade, in a motorcycle accident who suffered from a similar neck injury. 

 Tyler loves cycling, back country skiing and getting outside where he copes with grief by pushing the pedals and climbing the skin track.  As a husband, father, tolerance disciple and friend to all, get  your daily D.O.S.E of good humanity with Tyler.

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Tom Telford joins Andrew Eubanks from the Leadership & Mindset podcast. Listen to their conversation about financial sector success and becoming a passionate advocate for mental health. They discuss the subtle yet powerful links between military service and business acumen, and how both realms demand resilience and strategic thinking. Tom opens up about how his discovery of ADHD later in life reshaped his understanding of personal and professional challenges, leading him to a fulfilling role in mental health advocacy. Be sure to tune in for an inspiring look at how our struggles can lead to profound insights and advocacy, giving you a unique perspective on leadership, authenticity, and the human spirit’s ability to triumph over adversity. Thanks again to Andrew Eubanks having Tom on!

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Melisa Rollins joins BrainStoke just off her Leadville 100 win! Melisa talks about her roots with swimming, soccer and how biking wasn’t her “thing” as a teen but part of her family’s DNA as they revered the famed, Leadville 100 mountain bike race.
Melisa has the “all-in” gene. An obsessive mindset. An attitude of “go-BIG” in whatever is important to her. That was school, studying and becoming a chemist in her early college years until she realized that something was missing in her life. Physical exertion, competing and pushing her limits. 
That desire took her full circle. A close relationship with her Mother (a highly accomplished cyclist herself) and a new interest in cycling, her eye quickly focused in on the Big-Buckle prize of Leadville. Melisa began devoting herself in a transformative effort that fed her obsession with training, racing and a dream of winning the very race that was hallowed in her childhood home. 

From beakers to bikes, get your daily D.O.S.E with Melisa. The 2024 Leadville 100 Champion. 

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We are so grateful to Keegan Swenson and Sofia Gomez Villafane talking with Kevin and Tom about their discipline centered lives and what it takes mentally to perform on their level. They talk about the environment they have curated to be the best versions of themselves and the importance of self-care as well as trust in their professional and personal relationships. This is a must listen for any BrainStoke and cycling fan! 

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Relationships and marriage fall into the category of BrainStoke’s mantra, “struggle and stoke”. Doing hard things that result in elevated satisfaction from working through challenges. 

Tom and Preston recently hosted guest author, Meg Campbell to talk about her memoir, “With Grace and Gratitude” that describes her personal experience navigating divorce and intentionally choosing to do it differently. To “conscious uncouple”. 

In a time where 50%+ of marriages result in divorce, Meg brings some incredible insight to heavy emotions such as feeling both “wrecked and rescued”.

Whether you’re single, married or divorced, this book and episode are relationship gold and may provide insight and tools for “having the guts to stand by one’s partner even while one is leaving”. 

Raw. Real. Respect-worthy.

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BrainStokers (ambassadors) July roundtable:
What do you do when you feel a “limiter” to peak performance? You’ve trained and put in the time, but the mind and body don’t respond? 
Tom, Preston, Blair Perkes and Matthew Lefthand talk about the difference between fitness and energy and the implications of life stressors on being able to access the mental and physical capabilities of peak performance. They share their experience’s adopting mindset tools and behavior strategies for being focused when it counts. 

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Tom joins Saxton on the Pod to talk entrepreneurship and paying the toll of succes. He preaches happy chemicals and the importance of getting a daily D.O.S.E. for mind and physical health but also as the magic elixir for inspiration and problem solving in business and relationships. Tom closes with some candid thoughts on positive self-talk and protecting the mind as our greatest asset that we should demand an ROI on.