Chinon Maria, the artist behind Maven Murals, was born and raised on the ski slopes of Vermont. It was in her childhood home where she first began cultivating her creative path secretly drawing and painting on the walls of her home. Chinon attended the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in France, undergraduate programs through the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a BFA from Montana State University where she was captain of NCAA DI Alpine Ski Team.
Chinon Maria's Colombian roots have greatly impacted her use of a vibrant colorful palette utilizing traditional indigenous patterns while her lifelong influences include the golden age of illustration, drag queens, urban street art, Victorian textile design and the fashion industry.
Her personal work depicts many faces of "dolls" both beautiful, alluring and innocent, while all seemingly to be slightly questioning their role in society. Today, she splits her time between New York and Europe. She likes to skip, wear big bows, and sometimes red lipstick. Her theme song is Killer Queen by QUEEN.
Chinon Maria has exhibited her work internationally in galleries throughout North America and Europe
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Marion Abrams is a creative force at whatever project she tackles. Her work has been nominated for an Emmy. The documentarian has captured and/or edited stories for PBS NOVA, PBS Birdwatch, The Vermont Department of Tourism, Vermont Ski Areas Association, The Vermont Lottery.
She partnered with Kelley & Doug Lewis to create the Vermont Spotlight video series, which received 3 Emmy Nominations in its first season. When tragedy hit her home of Pittsfield in 2011 she created the documentary Flood bound to tell the story of a small town coming together and thriving in the face of adversity.
Her latest project and one which has garnered a lot of attention is the SpartanUp Podcast. She developed and launched the podcast with Spartan Race founder Joe De Sena in 2015 and today the podcast continues to top download charts. While her face is not seen she personally touches every episode.
She talks on the podcast about her journey, her work, and living in a small town in Vermont.
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Nicole Mericle started racing obstacle course races last May. Over the past weekend, she notched a new achievement in her short OCR career with a win at the Spartan Race U.S. Championship Series in California. Prior to that her best performances were probably at Monterey Spartan Race 2016, 2 wins at Savage Race and then a second at OCR World Championships. So far this year she has placed 2nd at the Spartan Race San Jose Super and 3rd at the Seattle Super.
Her background is in running and rock climbing. She ran for Rice University and was a 10:07 steeplechaser, 4:25 1500m (4:45 mile) runner there. Injuries from running after college pushed me to start rock climbing. I've climbed routes rated 5.12c and V7. We talk about these on the episode.
A typical week would be maybe 50-60 miles running and climbing 3-6 times a week depending on time. She works as an EMT and doing post-baccalaureate classes in order to apply to Physicians Assistant school.
After a hip injury sidelined me from track and road racing for almost 3 years, she found trail running helped in the recovery process. On the episode, she talks about how she made fun of OCR runners 1 month before I tried it. A friend opened her eyes to the competitive side of OCR and convinced me to try it out.
Elated to be healthy and back in competition mode, she went from not being able to run more than 3 miles in March last year (due to hip injury) to racing all summer. She is still building back from my running hiatus, figuring this sport out and enjoying racing again, but as a highly competitive person she does have her sights set on winning Spartan World Championships and OCR World Championships this year.
She hopes to inspire people to get outside, advocate for environmental stewardship and help others improve their health through exercise and nutrition.
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Alyssa Hawley joins the podcast this week. She is a member of the Spartan Race Pro Team and professional obstacle racer. She is one of the top competitors on the Spartan Race circuit all the while maintaining a full-time job in construction. She joins the podcast to talk about racing, working, and her faith.
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Ami Stuart has been a competitive athlete most of her life and contributes much of her life success to the attributes cultivated during participation in both team and individual sports endeavors. Both her personal and professional lives are focused on health and wellness. In her career as a member research at the University of Utah where she seeks to improve the wellness of patients through improvements in care and outcomes after surgery.
Additionally, she teaches as an adjunct in the department of Health Promotion and Education. She promotes participation in athletics as a part of a healthy lifestyle and believes that benefits are obtained through both recreational and competitive participation. In my personal
In her personal life, she is married to a skilled and passionate cyclist who introduced her to Fat Bike Racing and understands and supports her addiction to endurance sports.
Prior to finding triathlon and cycling she enjoyed various sports through high school and was a member of the Oregon State University Varsity Rowing team. In road triathlons, she found immediate success and in my first race qualified for the ITU Long Course World Championships as a member of Team USA. Due to
Due to expenses she was unable to race at the second ITU World Championships she qualified for in 2010. After second place finishes at the 2009 and 2010 Halfmax 70.3 National Championship races, she endeavored to race my first Ironman triathlon. I attained that goal in 2011 at Ironman Coeur D’Alene. After IMCDA, my husband and I moved to Salt Lake City, UT. In 2012 I found myself injured with a stress fracture in my femoral neck. Recurrent injuries kept me from significant amounts of racing until 2014 when I felt ready to begin again. Since that time I have participated in XTerra with some success and have found that my favorite racing disciplines are mountain biking, fat biking, and trail running. I won my first national championships in fat biking in 2016. Other highlights for 2016 include a second place age group finish at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships and an age group win at the Park City Point 2 Point (Park City, UT). In 2017 I won the Pro/Open Fat Bike National Championships and upgraded to pro on the mountain bike. In 2017/18 I intend to race the High Cascades 100 and the Park City Point 2 Point as well as local and regional races on the snow and dirt. I am a sport ambassador in Park City for mountain bike/fat bike brands with the goal to help other women find and feel comfortable in the sport and to promote a fun, adventurous, healthy lifestyle.
She attained that goal in 2011 at Ironman Coeur D’Alene. After IMCDA, she and her husband and moved to Salt Lake City, UT.
In 2012 she found myself injured with a stress fracture in my femoral neck. Recurrent injuries kept her from significant amounts of racing until 2014 when she felt ready to begin again.
Since that time she has participated in Xterra with some success and has found that her favorite racing disciplines are mountain biking, fat biking, and trail running. I won my first national championships in fat biking in 2016. Other highlights for 2016 include a second place age group finish at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships and an age group win at the Park City Point 2 Point (Park City, UT). In 2017 I won the Pro/Open Fat Bike National Championships and upgraded to pro on the mountain bike. In 2017/18 I intend to race the High Cascades 100 and the Park City Point 2 Point as well as local and regional races on the snow and dirt. I am a
She won her first national championships in fat biking in 2016. Other highlights for 2016 include a second place age group finish at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships and an age group win at the Park City Point 2 Point (Park City, UT). In 2017 I won the Pro/Open Fat Bike National Championships and upgraded to pro on the mountain bike. In 2017/18 I intend to race the High Cascades 100 and the Park City Point 2 Point as well as local and regional races on the snow and dirt. I am a
In 2017, she won the Pro/Open Fat Bike National Championships and upgraded to pro on the mountain bike. In 2017/18 she intends to race the High Cascades 100 and the Park City Point 2 Point as well as local and regional races on the snow and dirt. am a
She is a sports ambassador in Park City for mountain bike/fat bike brands with the goal to help other women find and feel comfortable in the sport and to promote a fun, adventurous, healthy lifestyle.
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Sefra Alexandra- The Seed Huntress- is an ethnobotanist & naturalist educator: on a perennial endurance race to forage & save the seeds of our forests & farms. Sefra is the foundress of Puddy’s Wildernest: luxury tent camp, Directress of Expeditions for Tactivate & Hostess of SpartanUP! The Podcast. She is mentoring agrarians in Southern Haiti on the establishment of a seed bank to preserve & proliferate their local genetic biodiversity & is germinating a limited edition seed collection for the OCR community!
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If the sport of obstacle racing had a face, Amelia Boone would probably be it. A 4x World Champion, she's become one of the most recognizable and most decorated obstacle racing athletes in the world while still working as a full-time corporate attorney. In her free time, Amelia dabbles in ultra running, television sports commentary, and all things related to Pop-Tarts.
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Faye Stenning joins the podcast this week to talk about her career in obstacle racing. She talks about being on the Spartan Race Pro-Team and how she got there. We talk about her training, the burpee off with Lindsay Webster, and how her she was so fast as a kid her gym teachers thought she cut courses during gym class.
All that and more this episode.
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Gabrielle Reece is an XPT training co-creator. Reece is a world renowned athlete, New York Times bestselling author, wife, mother. At 6’ 3” the former professional beach volleyball player and Nike’s first female spokeswoman, Gabrielle Reece, is the true definition of both athleticism and feminine beauty. Gabby’s commanding presence, passion for healthy living, and fitness expertise makes her a popular leader in the world of health and wellness.
On the podcast we talk about her career in sports, being a mother of three and how she continues to balance life and fitness at 47 years old. We talk about the XPT training that she is one of the co-creators and about finding ways to infuse the natural elements into training. We dive into her life as a mother and how she and her husband Laird Hamilton, the famed big wave surfer, are working together to raise happy and healthy daughters.
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Audra Mulkern wants to change the way you look at farming and the food on your plate. As a photographer and writer she has sought to shine a spotlight on the hard-working people who are growing a food system that is sustainable and equitable for all.
Audra is the founder of “The Female Farmer Project” – a multi-platform documentary project that chronicles the rise of women working in agriculture around the world. From in-depth stories, personal essays, photographic portraits and a podcast, the project gives a powerful voice to the fastest growing demographic in agriculture-- The Female Farmer.
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Ashley Seeger is an endurance athlete and coach. With a short life in the OCR world (about 3 years) she was quick to take on some serious events. Finding out endurance was her thing she took a liking to the longer events. She was a personal trainer since 2008 and since then have evolved into a coach for OCR and continue to run her business, Becoming Badass, a gym/bootcamp to help everyone get out of their comfort zones. Coming back from ACL reconstruction last March, and is am determined to make a serious comeback!
On the podcast, Seeger shares her story of overcoming an alcohol addiction and what it was like to hit rock bottle and build herself back up in a healthy and inspiring way. She is candid and open about her past sharing the details openly and honestly. Her story is a powerful one of coming back and turning your life around for the better. Today she continues to help other athletes turn around their lives and embrace their inner badass.
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Samantha Meis joins the podcast this week to talk about MistoBox, entrepreneurship, and the perfect cup of coffee. Samantha is the co-founder of MistoBox and talks on the podcast about how she and Connor Riley created the company from the ground up. What started as a school project has turned into a thriving business.
MistoBox has been featured on the show Shark Tank and was successfully got an investment from Mark Cuban. However, it is the hard work from Meis and her staff that has turned MistoBox into a premier coffee club bringing fresh roasted coffee to people around the United States from ethical, sustainable, small roasters.
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Jade Belzberg is a freelance writer, trail runner and Masters of Fine Art candidate. A native of British Columbia but currently residing in San Diego, Jade's articles have been published in Trail Runner, San Diego Magazine, Rough Guides, and more. Her first historical fiction novel is forthcoming.
Jade joins the podcast this week to talk about becoming an ultra running, writing about running, her historical fiction novel, and how to be a successful running couple. She and her finance Nickademus Hollon have created a work/life balance in which they are able to help lift each other to reach new goals. Jade talks about how they both train for their personal goals while at the same time be sure to find time to explore activities together.
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Cassidy is an obstacle racer and fitness professional out of NYC. She is on the Spartan Race Pro Team, is head coach at Epic Hybrid Training and female champion of Seve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge.
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Nora Gedgaudas is a board-certified nutritional consultant and a board-certified clinical neurofeedback specialist with over 20 years of clinical experience. A recognized authority on ketogenic, ancestrally based nutrition, she is a popular speaker and educator and the author of the best-selling book, Primal Body, Primal Mind, as well as Rethinking Fatigue. Her newest best-selling book, Primal Fat Burner: Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Power Your Brain, and Save Your Life With A High-Fat, Low-Carb Paleo Diet has been lauded by best-selling author and journalist, Nina Teicholz as “a unique and profound contribution to the field.”
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Wim Hof known to many as “The Iceman” has garnered a worldwide attention for his 23 World Records and ability to withstand extreme temperatures. For the last couple of years, Wim has been working with scientists from around the world to show scientifically how and why he has been able to achieve all these records and how everyone can learn to harness their own biology.
He has been studied worldwide by some of the top universities and researchers around the world after a landmark study in 2011 scientists from the reputed Dutch Radboud University thoroughly investigated his physiology, with stunning results. Through these studied it was demonstrated that the autonomic nervous system and thus the immune system can be regulated. From there Wim has traveled around the world being studied as to how his methods can possibly help a variety of autoimmune diseases and modern ailments.
Wim and I had a great chat about his method, science, and how we all can tap into our own inner power to live a happy, strong, and healthy life! Check out the episode then check out his 3-part free video series and learn the basics and try the method yourself.
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Hilary Kearney is the girl behind Girl Next Door Honey. She is a San Diego native with a degree in fine art from the University of California Santa Cruz. She began her beekeeping journey in 2008 and has been enamored of the subject ever since. Today, she’s an active board member of The San Diego Beekeeping Society. Her favorite thing about honey bees is that they are almost all female. When she’s not working with bees, she’s juggling a dozen other hobbies and passions including but not limited to: painting, knitting, dishing out fashion advice, traveling and movie-going.
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Morgan Mckay found obstacle racing and quickly jumped into the longer endurance events in the sport. An accomplished obstacle racer, Mckay has taken on some of the most challenging races in the sport including the Spartan Race - Death Race, World's Toughest Mudder, BFX24, Survival Run and more.
In 2016 she finished 3rd in World's Toughest Mudder. On the podcast this week she talks about growing up, finding purpose in obstacle racing, becoming a trainer, and more.
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Jessie Graff is one of the most well-known professional stuntwomen in the world. Her success on American Ninja Warrior has made her a household name. Videos of her runs on American Ninja Warrior have been viewed well over 15 million times. Jessie joins the podcast today to talk about her life growing up, circus gymnastics, living in a cabin on a dirt road, and how pole vaulting was her sport of choice for a while.
On the episode, she talks about how to get into the stunt industry, her success on American Ninja Warrior and More.
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Crista Scott joins the podcast this week. She is the co-founder of Dirtbag Runners a global online community of trail runners. On the episode this week she talks about the origin of the company, it's organic growth, and it's future.
As well she recounts some of her trail running adventures including a trek around the country, Born to Run Ultra Marathons in California, and more. Check out this fun and lively conversation with Crista Scott.
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Leanne Vogel is the founder of Healthful Pursuit, best-selling author of over 11 health programs, host of The Keto Diet Podcast, author of the upcoming paperback, The Keto Diet, and the creator of Fat Fueled living - a holistic, paleo-friendly approach to a ketogenic, high-fat diet. She has been in the field of nutrition since receiving her holistic nutrition certification in 2007. Leanne shares free videos, podcasts, recipes and keto-friendly resources on her blog, healthfulpursuit.com.
In this episode we talk about how Leanne went from Vegan to Fat Fueled, why you should be eating fat and probably a lot more of it, our morning routines, intermittent fasting, who shouldn't fast, and her new book The Keto Diet.
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Allison Tai is many things, a mother, obstacle racer, coach, ultra runner, world record holder, and wife to name a few. Allison makes a mark wherever she finds herself. She is the mother of two young girls, won the Spartan Race Ultra Beast in 2016 (the weekend after a UB win in Sun Peaks), top of Spartan Canadian Point Series in 2015, second place at WTM in 2014. World record holder for fastest female marathon pushing a stroller in 2013.
But in 2006 the only thing on her mind was feeding and bathing herself without assistance after being hit by a truck at highway speed on a bicycle. From that accident, she suffered from a broke back, arm, and pelvis and additional nerve damage. The doctors initially told her that she probably wouldn't be running long distances for a while.
However, Allison took the injury in stride and recovered to run an ultra marathon less than a year after the accident. Since that time Allison has become a dominant female in the sport of obstacle racing and beyond. On the podcast this week we talk about her injury, recovery, obstacle racing, and how she breastfed her daughter during World's Toughest Mudder in 2014 and still finished second for women that year. All that and more this week with Allison Tai.
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Katy Bowman joins the podcast this week to talk a bit about her latest book Movement Matters. Bowman is a biomechanist who spends her time researching and sharing with the world the role movement plays in our bodies and in the world.
Her work is known worldwide and she has been featured on podcasts like Joe Rogan Experience, Primal Blueprint, Robb Wolfe and many others. She blends scientific approach with straight talk about sensible, whole-life movement solutions, her website, and award-winning podcast, Katy Says, reach hundreds of thousands of people every month, and thousands have taken her live classes.
Her books, the bestselling Move Your DNA (2014), Diastasis Recti (2016), Don’t Just Sit There (2015), Whole Body Barefoot (2015), Alignment Matters (2013), Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief (2011), and her newest, Movement Matters, have been critically acclaimed and translated worldwide.
Passionate about human movement outside of exercise, Katy volunteers her time to support the larger reintegration of movement into human lives by providing movement courses across widely varying demographics and working with non-profits promoting nature education. She also directs and teaches at the Nutritious Movement Center Northwest in Washington state, travels the globe to teach Nutritious Movement™ courses in person, and spends as much time outside as possible with her husband and children.
I was so pleased to have her join the podcast this week and share some of her knowledge with us.
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Helene Dumais left home in Quebec, Canada after high school and began to travel the world in search of adventure. She packed her bags and headed for the French Pyrenees where she became a sommelier at twenty years old. While in France she found her love for adventure and at 23 she hiked 870K of the French Pyrenees solo!
That solo adventure would set the tone for a life of firsts and challenging physical pursuits. Dumais is a self-described; adventurer, athlete and coach today. Her love for the mountain, the outdoor, the adventure was there from a young age. In this episode, she talks about turning everyday chores into adventures growing up.
In the podcast, we chat about some of her record-breaking performances, why she is drawn to the long distances, and what is next on the horizon. She is currently the only woman to finish SURVIVAL RUN Nicaragua and also recently just won SURVIVAL RUN Australia and is looking forward to SURVIVAL RUN CANADA in the fall. We chat a bit about these races and what draws her to such extreme events.
She chats about her record-setting performance running across Florida, and an extreme adventure in Hawaii. Finally, we talk a bit about her coaching and what is on the horizon for Helene.
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Robyn Baldwin joins the podcast this week. She is a self-described Alpha Female who hosts a podcast by the same name. Robyn joins the podcast this week to share her story of becoming an Alpha Female through growing up as a ballerina, being a Canadian Football League Cheerleader, Competitive Fitness athlete, and most recently obstacle racing.
Robyn shares her love for sports and talks about competing with both Multiple Sclerosis and PCOS - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Robyn likes to use the term MS Warrior and find out how she is empowered by the disease and not crippled by it since her diagnosis in 2014.
We drive into her website, book - Love Lost, Life Found, her podcast and more on this episode of the podcast. Be sure to give this one a listen and enjoy the show.
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