On the first episode of a new season, Abby chats to Caroline Boule, a Magenta Project Mentee who is on track to compete in her first Mini Transat campaign and has recently completed her first Atlantic crossing onboard Sailing Poland the V65; one of the yachts that raced in the past Volvo Ocean Races. Caroline had sailed a range of dinghies and keelboats as a child and while at University she got into team racing as well as sailing the 29er. More recently however she has launched into the foiling Moth class, which has really struck a chord with her combining her engineering skills with her love for sailing. Abby spoke to Caroline as she travels back form Antigua fresh from her first Atlantic crossing.

Host: Abby Ehler
Recorded: February 19, 2022

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On this week’s show the U.S. Soccer and Women’s Players Agree to Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit. Under the terms of the agreement, the athletes will receive $24 million and a pledge from the federation to equalize pay for the men’s and women’s national teams. Chris and Nancy share their takeaways from the Beijing Winter Olympic GamesTakeaways from the Beijing Winter Olympic Games including the athletes being isolated for Covid and the loneliness and uncertainty that they faced, the controversy that faced Russian skater Kamilia Valieva with her doping ban suspension overturned for these games and her final performance, Alpine skier American Mikaela Shiffrin had a miserable games underperforming in all six events, Team GB winning gold in the curling and American bobsleigh and monobob sliders Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor making history. Plus 2026 Commonwealth Games, American endurance runner Camille Herron breaking records and the ffirst female head coach in Morocco men’s basketball.

Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Recorded: February 22, 2022

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Certified Dietitian and Nutritionist Drew Mulvey joins Kirstin this week to discuss a very common issue for female athletes; under eating and amenorrhea (i.e. when you don't have your period). Drew walks us through her journey and how sport and a lack of knowledge in nutrition lead to an eating disorder and losing her period. But, sport is also what helped her overcome those challenges and became a big part of her choosing to go into nutrition as a career to help other female athletes. In this episode we dive into what her journey was like getting back to performing well, enjoying her training again and getting her period back.


Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen
Recorded: February 21, 2022

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On this week’s show we review the top stories from the Beijing Olympic Games beginning with skiing. Lara Gut Behrami added Super G Olympic Champion to her Giant Slalom Bronze Medal in Beijing and the World Champion titles she won in Super G and Giant Slalom in Cortina last year. Austria’s Mirjam Puchner divided the Swiss charge by beating Michelle Gisen into the silver medal position. Switzerland made it two in a row when reigning World Downhill Champion Corinne Suter, who was also the World Super G silver medallist behind Lara in 2021, defeated the reigning Olympic Champion Italy’s Sofia Goggia by 16 hundredths of a second to take the downhill crown. Sofia’s return following a nasty fall in Cortina just over three weeks ago was a remarkable effort and she clearly thought it would be enough to retain her title. Sofia and Corinne are currently one-two in the World Cup Downhill rankings. Italy’s Nadia Delgado achieved her first ever podium result with the bronze medal. So we now have two Swiss skiers concurrently holding Olympic and World titles in Downhill and Super G. So far the Swiss have 5 medals in alpine skiing going into the Combined (17th) and Mixed Parallel (19th) events.

The women’s monobob made its highly anticipated debut with US teammates and rivals Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor the clear medal favorites. In the end it was Kaillie, the newly minted American, who clinched the crown. Kaillie won gold at the two-woman events at the 2010 Vancouver Games and the 2014 Sochi Games. Elana is now the U.S. bobsledder with the most Olympic medals with this silver medal finish. Both women have medaled in every Olympic event they’ve competed in, sharing the podium in the last four Olympic Winter Games. Canada’s Christine de Bruin claimed the bronze to make it a North American sweep. But Germany will prove the biggest challenge in the two-man bobsleigh that takes place on the 18/19th having dominated this World Cup season.

We also have an update on the 15 year old Russian skater Kamila Valieva who tested positive to a doping violation in December and was later cleared to compete in Beijing. Snowboarder Chloe Kim makes history at the Games. Plus another record is matched in tennis by Estonian Anett Kontaveit, Emma Gilmour becomes McClaren’s first female driver, and the Women’s Sports Foundation has a new executive director in Danette Leighton.


Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Recorded: February 15, 2022

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Getting Over the Humps


Challenges with training face every athlete. We are not always going to have the motivation to train. When the last thing we want to do is train that day or endure the weather, what are some easy tools we can use to make sure we get our training done? We know that it's okay to miss a day here and there, but when we miss two or more consecutive days we solidify a habit or pattern in our nervous system that makes it harder and harder to get back into training. Hopefully the tips in this episode will help you in those moments when training feels the hardest.

Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen
Recorded: February 143, 2022

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On this week’s episode, Chris & Nancy take a look at the first week of competition from the Beijing Olympic Games. Skating got underway and the skateboarding with some firsts for women. The Giant Slalom saw some major spills and thrills with the flying Swede Sara Hector underlining her tremendous form this season when she became the Olympic Champion in that discipline. Ester Ledecka made history at the PyeongChang Games when she topped the podium in snowboard and skiing and she is already halfway to repeating that feat by claiming gold this week in snowboarding. In other news Wimbledon is taking another step to equality by fixing ticket prices for women in line with the men. Australia’s Cricket Team convincingly defeated England in the Ashes Series. And in football 19 year old Trinity Rodman marked a milestone by signing the highest NWSL contract worth $1.1 million and she has also been called up to replace the injured Abby Dahlkemper for the USWNT She Believes Cup Roster.

Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Recorded: February 8, 2022

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Kirstin's guest is Regionals CrossFit Athlete, Tia Wright. Tia has been a coach for over 12 years and an athlete her whole life. She competed in Volleyball up to the collegiate level and that's when she found CrossFit. We discuss Tia's journey into CrossFit and the lessons she learned along the way that she now shares with the athletes she coaches. We also talk about her dabbling in triathlon and many of the crossovers between the two sports.

Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen
Recorded: February 7, 2022

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Our guest is Canadian Judoka Jessica Klimkait. Jess grew up in Whitby, Ontario and followed in her brother Justin’s footsteps when she began to learn Judo at the age of four at the Ajax Budokan Judo Club, in nearby Ajax. Her former coach of 13 years was the club’s chief instructor Kevin Doherty; a two-time Olympian. At the age of 19 Jess moved to the Canadian Team Training Center in Montreal. She has been on Team Canada since 2014 where she competed in the 2015 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China finishing fifth in the 63kg division. In the same year, Jess competed in her first IJF World Tour event at the Zagreb Grand Prix before taking part at her first two IJF Junior World Championships. She established herself in the senior ranks in 2017 by winning gold at the Pan American Championships before earning her first Grand Slam podium when claiming bronze in Ekaterinburg. Jess became the second Canadian to win a world title in judo at the 2021 IJF World Championships in Budapest. In her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, Jess won the bronze medal in the 57kg category, becoming the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic medal in judo. She is passionate about encouraging girls to take up combat sports, which she has found develops confidence and a body positive attitude. Jess also explains ways to reduce the drop-out rates of teenage girls in sport.

Host: Chris Stafford
Recorded: February 2, 2022

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The Australian Open crowned a new champion last weekend with home-country heroine Ash Barty successfully defeating Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6. Australia beat Ireland to win the Spain Sevens Rugby with the US just out of the medals. We have World Cup skiing news from last weekend’s Downhill and Super-G which were won by Switzerland’s Corrine Suter and Austria’s Connie Heuter. With the Winter Olympics starting this week we hear that Elana Meyers Taylor tested positive to Covid upon arrival in Beijing, and the IOC warned against "inappropriate" Peng Shuai meeting during the Games. Plus we have football news from both the NWSL and WSL as well as cricket from Down Under where England have work today in the Ashes series. And finally an update in netball for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Recorded: February 1, 2022

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Caroline Livesey is a pro triathlete, coach and endurance adventurer. Originally from Scotland an d now living in Spain, Caroline turned pro in 2015 and had numerous podium results on the Ironman circuit before more recently switching to XTRI for a new challenge. In 2019, she won Canadaman, her first attempt at long distance extreme triathlons, which generally finish with a trail marathon. In 2021, she won her second XTRI at the GreekHero, and in 2022 plans to take on the XTRI World Championship race at Norseman as well as the Himalaya XTRI, Celtman and some other gravel biking adventures along the way. Her husband Mark hosts The Brick Session podcast and YouTube channel where you can find films documenting some of their experiences with XTRI and gravel biking. Caroline explains what XTRI races are and how they are different from Ironman races. We also hear how important it is to have a nutrition strategy that not only works for you, but how your nutrition and fueling strategies change from racing an Ironman to XTRI races. 

Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen
Recorded: January 31, 2022

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