Sports mirror life. So how can we use sports to live our happiest, healthiest, bravest lives?

 

Bekah Rottenberg is the founder of Brave Endeavors, a professional mountain bike instructor, a NASM certified personal trainer, a Patagonia mountain bike Ambassador, and a former professional enduro racer. She retired from pro racing to focus on coaching and strength training through Brave Endeavors. 

 

 

We talk about…

 

- Discovering confidence in all aspects of life through mountain biking

- Finding self-confidence through what her body could do, even when academics were challenging

- Breaking into pro mountain biking while balancing that with being a teacher

- Not wanting to go all-in on racing since it’d sacrifice other important parts of life

- Building confidence in youth girls as media poses unrealistic expectations

- Sexism and microaggressions in women’s sports, on a small scale and as an industry

- Changing her mind about transgender women in sports; it’s not just about testosterone

- Building a multifaceted business around a passion for the bike

- “The gap between expectations and reality is happiness”

- Building muscle is investing in your body’s retirement bank account; you don’t have forever to build strong bones

- Our minds can limit or push us, like with breaking the four minute mile

- There are many elements to identity, not just being a mountain biker

 

 

How to connect with Bekah:

• Brave Endeavors
• Bekah on Instagram

 

👋How to connect with Jeni and Angie:

• Jeni on Instagram
• Angie on Instagram
• Angie’s website
• Angie on LinkedIn
• FTLO on Instagram

 

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Shout-Outs:

• Music: The Kind of Sandwich Island by Shut-ins
• Thank you to The Ruins, the best wedding venue in Oregon, for supporting the show.

 

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