" I think young people often don't get that chance to like take a step back [from sport] and say like, is this working [for me]?" shares Kaleigh Cornelison, who specializes in working with teens and adolescents. 

Kaleigh is a licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience working with teens and the adults who care about them. She leads workshops, creative resources, and writes the both, and newsletter for parents and professionals who wanna embrace both the challenges and the joys of the teenage years. She takes a balanced approach to social media use, acknowledging both the benefits and the downsides to how it impacts development, connection, experiences in sport, and more. 

This episode covers

• her experiences in sports growing up, through college, and training for her first half-marathon
• why she decided to specialize in working with teens and adolescents as a social worker
• the ups and downs, pros and cons to teens participating in sports—from social connection to identity to body image and disordered eating
• how social media can both help and harm our experiences in sport (and of course, as a human, in general)
• how to talk to teens in a way that actually connects with them, especially when it comes to the hard stuff (like disordered eating behaviors)

Connect with Kaleigh Cornelison through her newsletter bothandnewsletter.com. And on Instagram @kaleighcornelisonmsw

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"There's nothing wrong with getting a little out of shape. It's okay! We shouldn't be in our peak or prime all the time," shares Stevie Lyn Smith, sports dietitian and endurnace athlete.

Stevie Lyn Smith is a Registered Sports Dietitian, avid endurance athlete, and dog mom. Her mission is to help educate and coach athletes on how to fuel their goals without sacrificing their health and happiness. And, she’s also part of our Lane 9 Directory of Women’s Health & Sport Clinicians!

This episode covers:

• Why she took 4 years off of training for triathlons
• Her year of racing (and PRs!) in 2025 after that long break
• Setting boundaries and structure for your own racing and recovery, especially when your social circles are also your training circles
• Why she doesn't want to hear that you "can't eat more carbs", and HOW to do that
• Fueling strategies for ultra-endurance endeavors, like an Ironman (of which she's raced 10!)
• and the importance of taking mental and physical breaks from training for big goals, even if it means you lose some fitness. It's okay!

As mentioned: Heather's episode on Stevie's podcast, episode 48 on Real Fuel with SLS. 

Follow Stevie Lyn on Instagram @StevieLynLyn, or connect with her through the Lane 9 Directory here.

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"I was the last [athlete] in my recruiting class by my senior year," shares Asia Rawls, aka Coach Brown Bambi, reflecting on the challenges of collegiate athletics and how she stuck with it. 

Rawls competed in multiple events, eventually excelling in the 400m hurdles. She ran for Eastern Michigan University (EMU) under coach Sue Parks. In this episode she shares how running changed her life, from a young age, after switching school districts and having more access to sport, all the way into getting a scholarship as a student athlete. 

Now, she's the head coach at Machine Athletics (while also working FT in tech!), running with the Detroit-based running group We Run 313, and running World Majors Marathons!

Tune in to hear more of her story, why she brings the world of sprinting into the world of distance running, and how running has shaped so much of her story and who she is today.

Connect with Asia on IG, @brown_bambi.

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" I mean, half of our cross country team in college, I would say had disordered eating," shares Maddie Barrett, of Joyful Run Coaching. 

She's a full time running coach, parent, and recently underwent a double-mastectomy. Maddie is part of the Lane 9 Directory, and joined us to talk about her experiences as a young athlete navigating eating disorder treatment, her time as a collegiate skier and runner, and how she has navigated running and sport through her pregnancy and postpartum.

Just last year, she had surgery for a double-mastectomy and reconstruction, and shares her experiences with that as well.

Connect with Maddie through lane9project.org/directory. 

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" Eating disorders sometimes even mimic OCD. And by that I mean there is a compulsion that satisfies an obsession or an urge," shares therapist Hannah de Groot, a clinician in private practice at Stride Counseling. 

Hannah de Groot is part of the Lane 9 clinician Directory, and joined us to talk about her work in helping athletes navigate symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and eating disorders. She shares her own sport story, and how she got into this work, as well as what it looks like for an athlete to work through Exposure Response Therapy. 

Connect with her work through lane9project.org/directory, and give her a follow on Instagram @stride_counseling. 

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" I believed that what it took to get back to where I was year before was I needed to lose weight, so kinda overnight did a whole 180—was restricting food, was counting calories, just kind of trying to lose weight. But it was all under the guise of being dedicated to my sport," shares Kassidy Johnson, now a Division 1 collegiate sports dietitian. 

Johnson is not only a helping collegiate athletes fuel adequately and navigate their fear of weight gain, she's also training and competing at high level of sport as an unsponsored athlete. She's currently training for, and will soon compete in, the US National Track Championships. She recently ran an 800m PR of 2:00.7 after, as she put it, "significant weight gain" post-college. 

We talked with Johnson about: 

• Working full time in collegiate sports while also training and competing at track meets
• How she knew she wasn't ready to be done running and competing, even when her NCAA eligibility was up and she had no sponsor
• Her experience in sports in high school, and how a basketball injury triggered what would become years of disordered eating and chronic injuries, while also eventually studying nutrition in college as a student athlete
• Finding a master's program in dietetics that also allowed her to continue running
• Why she came back to sports nutrition as a specialty, and what she loves helping athletes navigate 
• The fear of weight gain that plagues so many athletes/sports (and, our general culture around "health")
• Nutrition trends she's seeing in college athletics
• and, of course, bicab. 

Follow Kassidy Johnson on Instagram @KassidyJeane. 

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"... the overwhelming majority of people who identify as women, that run, have at one time had an eating disorder or disordered eating, or at minimum low energy availability. So just assume that 60% of images you saw [on social media] were of someone who is actively not well." 

Zoë Rom and Kylee Van Horn RDN join the Lane 9 Podcast with Heather Caplan RDN to talk about why diet culture in running (and in general) sucks, and how athlete identities get wrapped up in performance nutrition, body image, and the next health trend. Rom and Van Horn co-host the podcast, Your Diet Sucks (YDS), to bring history, facts, and nuance to diet and nutrition trends, through their lenses as a journalist and dietitian. 

This conversation includes: 

• Why Van Horn decided to compete as a collegiate athlete
• How Rom got into running as a "late in life" athlete, on the trails
• Writing about food and nutrition while navigating personal eating disorder treatment and recovery, and the responsibility that comes with reporting on both nutrition and health for athletes, and eating disorders in sport
• Where the line is drawn between disordered eating and eating for performance
• Why they started the show, YDS, together
• A topic there were nervous to tackle on YDS
• and a lukewarm take on taking bicarb!

Follow @YourDietSucksPod on Instagram, and tune into the podcast!

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" I did have some moments where I questioned if I'd ever be the runner I was [before having a kid]", shares Carly Gill Larios, a 2:42 marathoner. 

She joined us for a conversation about her history with disordered eating in high school, the ways in which running was healing for her through her D3 college experience, and what brought her back to running after starting her career in the TV and Film industries. She still works as a Co-Executive Producer for "90 Day Fiance", while running up to 80 miles per week and training for her next marathon. She's a mom to 2-year-old Adella, and dog, Luna, based in Boulder Colorado. 

We talk about: 

• her co-executive producer job!
• what her first few half-marathons and marathons taught her about running, training, and fueling
• how her eating habits have changed over the years, to fueling much more adequately and consistently while training for marathons at the sub-elite level
• how she thought her prenatal and postpartum experiences might be...and how they actually were, in regards to recovery, running, and racing again

Follow Carly on Instagram @Carlysheree. 

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" I was not someone that anyone, including myself, would've thought was gonna make an Olympic team one day."

Kim Conley is a 2x Olympian in the 5000m, competing in the 2012 London Summer Games and 2016 Rio Summer Games. She has competed in everything from the mile to the marathon. During her debut at the 2016 NYCM she shares how she underfueled and bonked hard. Eventually she teamed up with a sports dietitian, changed her fueling strategy, and went on to run in the 2024 US Olympic Trials Marathon. Most recently, she finished 2nd at the Brooklyn Half Marathon in May 2025, and has run a few shorter distances competitively since then.

In this episode we cover: 

• her positive experiences as a high school athlete
• the pressure to be "lighter" during her time in college
• what her first few years as a professional runner looked like
• qualifying for and running in two Summer Olympics, and how she navigated mental health and training afterward
• how her fueling on the run has changed completely
• a new sport she's enjoying now
• and what she has coming up!

Follow Kim on Instagram @kfconley. 

"I think runners specifically are convinced that sh*tting your pants is normal...I see stuff all the time online of people saying, 'Oh, running causes me to have GI issues.' No, running plus your nutrition is the cause." 

Grace Kelley really wants you to be able to run without sh*tting your pants. And she's got the myth-busting reels on Instagram to help! Kelley is a sports dietitian, part of the Lane 9 Directory, and a runner training for her first marathon, Fall 2025. Throughout the process, she's testing out a variety of gels so you don't have to, and keeping a spreadsheet with the facts. She's also making reel after reel of objectively bad nutrition advice from the internet, to save your gut and your run from an ill-informed fueling strategy. 

We had a great time chatting with Grace about how she started running on Dry Land (IYKYK) after swimming through high school, how an appointment with a dietitian changed her career path and her own relationship with food, and more about her private practice. 

Then we dig into some nutrition trends that may be affecting YOUR gut, and what might help. 

Follow her @GraceKelleynutrition on Instagram. And send her bad nutrition things! For the content!

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