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EP39-Plant Your Feet & Take the Charge with Kristin Nitz

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In this episode:

As a teen, Kristin Nitz was not only aware of Title IX, she lived it. The law passed during the time she was playing basketball for her school. Kristin was fortunate to have a male coach who embraced the spirit of the law by demanding that his team benefitted from the new-found athletic equanimity they deserved. This experience served as a inspiration for her prolific writing career. Among many other topics, Kristin writes about the triumphs and challenges of the female athlete.

About the Author:

Kristin Nitz is author of three novels for children and young adults.  Defending Irene, is set in Merano, a town in the Italian Tyrol where she lived for three years.  Saving the Griffin, is set in Tuscany. It was nominated for a 2009/10 Georgia Children’s Book award and a Kentucky Bluegrass Award (grades 3-5).  Her young adult mystery, Suspect, was a nominee to the YALSA Best Books 2011.

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EP38-I Can't Imagine a World Without Soccer with Anjuli Turner

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Anjuli Turner is a driven, focused, and intuitive high school junior with an eye on the prize - playing soccer on the collegiate level. She’s been preparing for this honor since kindergarten and won’t quit until her dream has been achieved. While her athletic aspirations are definitely impressive, her concern for the well-being of the less fortunate is exemplary. When she and her sister learned about the travesty of human trafficking, they felt compelled to do something about it. As result, the established iEMPOWER, a non-profit organization dedicated raise awareness of the problem and empower survivors of human trafficking.

Learn about iEMPOWER - Anjuli’s Non-Profit Endeavor

Mission

Did you know that a child is lured or forced into trafficking every 26 seconds?

That’s about 140 kids an hour!

Over 3 thousand kids a day!

And more than 1 million kids a year!

Did you know that child trafficking is a global problem?

It’s not just happening overseas, but also in every state across America.

iEMPOWER! was created to raise awareness of child trafficking and to support survivors.

Doesn’t every child deserve to sparkle?

View this slideshow to see the lovely stars Anjuli and her sister are selling in efforts to raise money and awareness to stop human trafficking.

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EP37-Having a Healthy Mindset with Aubrey Buffa

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Aubrey Buffa is a dynamic pre-teen who has found her passion for life through karate. Because of her participation in the sport, Aubrey has discovered her ability to concentrate, grown to understand the true meaning of friendship, and has become a member of an athletic community she considers to be her family. Also In this episode, Aubrey’s mother talks about the lasting impact the sport has had on her daughter, for which she is exceedingly grateful.

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EP35-It's Hard But It's Worth It with Janine Kuestner: athlete, coach, Highland Games Champion & Title IX enthusiast

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Have you ever been completely floored by the depth of character a person possesses after meeting with them for only one time? I had this experience when interviewing Janine Kuestner. I met her at the Saline Celtic Festival this fall. I spotted her participating in the Highland Game competition (events that I did not know were open to women competitors) wearing a hot-pink t-shirt emblazed with Title IX on the front as she wielded some God-awful heavy load over a bar suspended overhead. I knew then that I had to get to get her on the podcast! While interviewing her, I discovered that she has been an athlete throughout her entire life with no intention to ever quit. All of this, and she is a Title IX activist. In short, Janine Kuestner is - truly - a girl with guts!

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EP34-Never Deny an Opportunity at First Glance with Julie Rubini

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Julie Rubini is a phenomenal author, athlete, and co-founder of Claire’s Day, a book festival commemorating the memory of her daughter. In this episode, Julie candidly discusses love, loss, and the tenacity required to live a full and productive life.

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EP33-Serve Others Wherever You Are with Tiffany Fitzpatrick

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Led by a selfless, life-time devotion to her faith, Tiffany Fitzpatrick’s introduction to the running world was inspired by her desire to help eradicate the horrors of human trafficking. Unassuming, yet quietly confident, Tiffany epitomizes the notion that living a passionate life of service to others establishes a legacy of love, one that is transformational.

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EP32-Thank You...You've Shaped My Life with Lorry Mackay

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Nineteen-year-old college student Lorry Mackay discusses how her life-long participation in athletics has shaped the individual she is today. Lorry attributes the confidence and leadership skills she possesses to the lessons she’s learned on and off the field, to the undying support of her parents, and to the gratitude she feels for the women and men who fought for Title IX.

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EP31-Life is to Participate, Not to Spectate with Kathrine Switzer

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Deb has the great privilege to interview the amazing and inspirational Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered registrant in 1967, during which she was accosted by a race official for merely being female. In this episode, Kathrine talks about her life as a child and how her experiences prepared her for the race of a lifetime.

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EP29-Girls with Guts: An Analysis with Deb Gonzales

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In this episode, Deb Gonzales uses the author’s note from her debut non-fiction picture book GIRLS WITH GUTS: THE ROAD TO BREAKING BARRIERS AND BASHING RECORDS as the basis to analyze the foreboding competition demonstrated in the NCAA championship game between Baylor and Notre Dame. Deb explores the performance of two key players and their coaches, proving that they depict the ultimate expression of what it means to play like a girl!

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EP28-The Answer Is Very Clear...You Can Do Anything with Ashley Wiles

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In this episode, self-proclaimed ‘rule-breaker’, mental health advocate, and entrepreneur Ashley Wiles discusses how her once challenging relationship with her mother served to inspire her life’s work - mentoring young girls with the values and skills needed to achieve any goal they desire. As founder of Sole Girls, Ashley encourages her young athletes to improve their outlook on life by becoming physically active and engaging in the 3 C’s of her program - confidence, community and concentration.

About Ashley Wiles:

Ashley Wiles, founder and Head Coach of Sole Girls, Youth Speaker, Life Coach, 3x Iron(wo)man, Ironman 70.3 World Championship competitor and Mental Health Advocate.  Growing up in a family of runners, Ashley started running at 5 years old, and now runs and competes in triathlons around the world.

While working as a life coach, dealing with anxiety and then seeing Amanda Todd’s video in 2012, she created Sole Girls.  Ashley was named top 10 young entrepreneurs to watch in Vancouver by the Globe and Mail, and top 5 motivators in Canada by Impact Magazine; and recently the 2016 Most Inspiring Coach in North America by Brooks Running.

Ashley has spoken At TedxKidsBC, Rogers Arena, SheTalks as well as schools in Canada and abroad. She travels to teach workshops for adults and girls, hold leadership summits and empower others.

Sole Girls was named top 5 small business in BC with a Community Impact by Small Business BC, and has expanded to license sole girls curriculum globally.  She travels to teach workshops for adults and girls, hold leadership summits and empower others.

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EP27-Just Being With the Dogs Is Winning with Terry Lynn Johnson

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In this episode, author and musher Terry Lynn Johnson, most likely one of the bravest women Deb has ever met, talks about the dangers she’s confronted in the freezing wilderness of Ontario, Canada and how those experiences have become fodder for Terry’s amazing, adventure-packed books for kids.

About Terry Lynn Johnson:

Terry Lynn Johnson writes middle grade adventures based on her experiences living in northern Ontario, Canada. She might have fallen through ice a time or two, been dragged by a dog team, blown up a wood stove, been attacked by a sloth (slowly), nearly drowned on a portage, and chased a bear with a chainsaw. She owned eighteen sled dogs, but now owns one border collie who is almost smart enough to type out her own adventures.

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EP26-Why Not Me? Can I Try? with Debbie Clarke Moderow

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Debbie Clarke Moderow describes the her intimate connection with her dogs as friends and teammates. She explores the complexities she experienced as being a devoted mother and the pull of independence required to become an elite athlete. Debbie hails from a fascinating lineage of strong, athletic women who were willing to challenge societal norms in different ways, a calling that has been passed on to her daughter, Hannah. In this episode, Deb encourages young athletic girls to ask questions, demand answers, and to give it your all in anything you choose to do.

About Debbie Clarke Moderow:

Debbie Clarke Moderow is the author of Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail. The memoir recounts her experience running Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and explores her deepening and inextricable bond with her team of Alaskan huskies. The memoir, her first book, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2016 and will be released by Boreal Books of Red Hen Press in June 2018. Debbie earned a BA from Princeton University in 1977 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop in 2013. She and her husband Mark live in Denali Park and Anchorage Alaska.

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EP25-The All-American Baseball League: They've Defined My Life with Sue Macy

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Sue Macy is passionately steeped in the history of the female athlete. Writing their stories has been her life’s work. She’s met the most accomplished females competitors of all time, face-to-face. Donna De Varona, Althea Gibson, and those incredible women of the All American Girls Baseball League to name just a few. She has been privileged to do so because she honors their legacies with her words, and her heart. In this episode, Sue talks about being athletic as girl and yet stymied by the limitations of growing up in a pre-Title IX era.

About Sue Macy:

Sue Macy is a published author and an editor of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Sue Macy include Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics, Bull's-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley (Photobiographies), Freeze Frame: A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics.

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EP24-The Protective Bond of a Team: We Had Each Other with Katie Mather

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In this episode, Katie describes the special bond players have with their teammates and coaches. Katie also, quite candidly, discusses a terrifying experience in which her fierce sense of athleticism could have, quite possibly, saved her life.

About Katie Mather:

Katie Mather is a former teacher, a devoted mother, a writer, a civic leader, and the host of podcast Out Of Curiosity. She not only lives in Vermont an earned her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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EP23-We're Responsible to Pave the Way with Anne Torrez

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Anne Torrez is a mom, an athlete, an entrepreneur, a coach and founder of Tri It Your Way, a triathlon training service. Anne discovered her brilliance and value as a human being through competing in the triathlon. In this episode, Anne discusses the transformation she’s undergone from being a very shy girl to becoming a focused, determined athlete and how her evolution fuels her compassion to help others do the same.

About Anne Torrez:

Speaker, coach, and athlete Anne Torrez Is the founder of Tri It Your Way, an online and in-person coaching program for triathletes who want to improve their performance and efficiency. She dabbled in various sports and activities when she was younger, my true road to fitness and racing began when she was in grad school. Anne felt unhealthy and unsatisfied with her energy and happiness levels. Anne began with picking up recreational running and trail biking, and learning more about how to eat more healthfully. On a whim, she signed up for a triathlon to challenge and motivate herself. Anne didn't know much about structured training, and didn't know how to swim, but after training for and racing her first triathlon she was hooked! Before discovering this sport, and had never found something that excited her so much or gave her such drive and motivation to excel.

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EP22-There's No Glory in Easy with Kim Chaffee

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Author Kim Chaffee candidly discusses the inspiration for her incredible debut non-fiction picture book HER FEARLESS RUN: KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORIC BOSTON MARATHON, and how the experience has had a lasting impact on her life. Motivated by a deep dedication to health and family, Kim’s caring and humble spirit is demonstrated by the philanthropic organizations she has developed and participated in. Listeners will want to cheer Kim on as #ThisWriterRunsBoston in support of Switzer’s 261 Fearless.

About Kim Chaffee:

Former teacher, Kim Chaffee is the debut author of the epic non-fiction picture book HER FEARLESS RUN: KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORIC BOSTON MARATHON to be launched in April, 2019. While working on Kathrine Switzer’s story has taught Kim that running in magic and with each step comes strength. Kim is a cofounder of New in 19, a group of authors and illustrators with trade picture books debuting in 2019.

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EP21-Big Goals Require a Long-Term Mindset with Silvia Acevedo

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Author, reporter, and avid athlete, Silvia Acevedo, shares her passion for competitive speed skating, a sport she discovered as an adult. Silvia explores the diligence and devotion required to achieve personal and professional goals, on the ice and in all other aspects of life. She states that to crush lofty goals, an individual must own a daily commitment to work on them, little by little, each and every day.

About Silvia Acevedo:

Silvia Acevedo is a journalist and novelist. In her 20 years in news, she’s interviewed presidential candidates, covered national and international stories, and given breaking news reports for CNN and local TV and radio stations around the country. She’s guest hosted a television morning talk show featuring the lighter side of news on Milwaukee’s NBC station. Silvia currently freelances at various news publications and performs voice-over work.

All her years reporting objective fact enticed her to delve into her imagination in her off time. Ms. Acevedo brought fiction — particularly mythology — back into her life. Once she did, the gods of old pestered her until she relented to write about one in particular. The result is the God Awful series of books, starting with God Awful Loser, its sequel, God Awful Thief, and a final book on the way.

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EP20-Do the Thing You Think You Can't with Michelle Cooper (aka Hella Waits)

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Michelle Cooper describes the tender and supportive side of the physically active, and sometimes violent, sport of roller derby. She explores ways that the sport challenges the heart and soul of each competitor. Michelle also explains the notion that there are times in life that we have to borrow another’s belief in ourselves when we no longer have the strength to do so alone.

About Michelle Cooper:

Michelle Cooper is not your average Author | Speaker & Business Alchemy Advisor – in fact, she’s not your average anything!

At the heart of all of it, Michelle is an Influencer dedicated to shifting the conversation around money, shame, our perception of personal value and how we co-create the reality of our dreams. Michelle is a no-holds-barred financial powerhouse with a passion for seeing others succeed.

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EP19-It's About Consistency Over Time with Laura Kebart

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Educator and entrepreneur, Laura Kebart, describes how her dedication to fitness and passion for education combine to create a life full of creativity, healthy activity, and service. Laura shares that the secret to the establishment and achievement both athletic and professional goals is consistency over time. Laura’s lifetime commitment to marathoning serves as the inspiration for all that she does - personally and professionally.

About laura Kebart:

Languageartsteachers.com is a website and small business created by Laura Kebart, a certified (grades 6-12) middle school Language Arts teacher and M.Ed. dedicated to helping educators teach awesome lessons each day of the school year while still having a life outside the classroom for both themselves and their families.

Laura has spent nearly 20 years teaching English / Language Arts to grades 6-12 AND as in instructional coach. Now she serve super-crazy-busy Middle School ELA teachers who are sick to death of sacrificing their personal / family time prepping for class.

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EP18-Solely Responsible for Many Beating Hearts with Hannah Moderow

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Hannah Moderow’s lifelong passion for the frigid Junior Iditarod was birthed when she began dog sledding independently at five years old. In this episode, she describes the dangers and delights of being a “musher,” as well as the loving bond she shares with her sled dogs. For Hannah, dog sledding is a family tradition, one that will, most likely, be celebrated for generations to come.

About Hannah:

Hannah Moderow is a lifelong Alaskan. She holds an MFA in writing for children from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in English and art history from Cornell University.

Hannah decided to become a writer when she was in elementary school because she loved words and stories and adventures. LILY’S MOUNTAIN is her first novel.

Growing up in Alaska, Hannah was lucky to spend a lot of time outdoors hiking, camping, skiing, and dog sledding. 

Hannah raced in the Junior Iditarod while in high school. After graduating from college in 2006, she spent a year living at her family’s kennel in Denali National Park so that she could mush across the state of Alaska in the 2007 Serum Run expedition from Nenana to Nome, Alaska.

Hannah currently lives in Anchorage with her husband, daughter, and sled dog. On a clear day, she can see Denali. When she's not spending time outside with her family or writing stories, she works at Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington. 

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