This episode isn’t about fitness or mental toughness. It’s about what it takes to keep moving forward when capacity collapses.

In Part 1 of this conversation, Natalee Raber - endurance athlete, working mother, and operator of her own training system - walks through how injury, time scarcity, and recovery limits forced a shift away from effort-driven progress and toward disciplined systems.

This was not a motivation problem. It was a capacity problem.

We cover:

• Why effort fails when capacity is capped
• How injury exposes weak systems immediately
• The tradeoff between patience and short-term progress
• Why recovery must be treated as an operational constraint
• What actually allows long-horizon progress to continue
  
  If you’re a founder, operator, or high-performer working inside time, energy, or recovery limits, this conversation will feel familiar.

This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s a practical breakdown of how progress continues when pushing harder stops working.

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