In today’s episode I interview professional windsurfer Sarah Hauser.
Sarah grew up in New Caledonia, a French Island, east of Australia and North of New Zealand. with a population of 300,000 people, She started windsurfing at 13, and knew that no matter what she had to do it as much as possible.
When Sarah was 18 she went to France for 5 years to earn her masters degree in computer science.
At 23, Sarah was now able to work for big companies, but nothing excited her as much as windsurfing. She decided to fly to Maui alone and enter a windsurfing competition. Sarah had not competed in 5 years, but she ended up getting 5th place and caught the attention of sponsors. Over the next couple years, Sarah gradually took extended trips to Hawaii. She competed in more competitions, met her future husband, and eventually made officially moved to Hawaii to pursue her dream.
Since turning pro in 2015, Sarah is a 2x International Windsurfing Tour Champion, and 3x Windsurfer of the Year.
In our conversation Sarah talks about
-the high altitude training she does on the top of 10,000 ft high volcanoes
-her strategy for when she gets washing-machined by a wave
-what compels her to ride waves that are big enough to kill her
-why she believes people connect so strongly with the ocean
-the multiple jobs she works on the island to fund her athletic career
-her tip for people overcoming their fear of getting pounded by the ocean
-the Bob Marley song she sings when she needs to calm her nerves on the waves
And more.
Enjoy my conversation with the fearless, dream-chasing, Sarah Hauser
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In today's episode, I interview World Cup Champion, US national soccer team member, Portland Thorns FC defender, Meghan Klingenberg.
When Meghan was thirteen years old, her mom pulled her out of middle school. The two of them road tripped to University of North Carolina to see the women's soccer team play for the first time. After that game, Meghan began writing letters to the head coach Anson Dorrance, expressing her interest in playing for his team.
Her dreams of becoming a Tarheel came true, and her career accelerated from there. After college, Meghan was drafted to the Women’s Professional Soccer league. She received her first call up to the full national team in 2011 and became a mainstay from then on out. In 2012, she just missed out on the Olympics roster, and went to London as an alternate. This experience created a huge paradigm shift for Meghan. She knew that if she wanted to be on the team, then she had to be different than everyone else. So she opted to head overseas to Sweden and play with some of the best players in the world.
Meghan unconventional path paid-off, and in 2015, she started every match in the World Cup, and helped the team win gold.
She currently plays for the Portland Thorns, who won the NWSL championships last season
In our conversation, Meghan talks about
-her insanely competitive family, and how a Disney Trivia game night turned into family members shunning each other for days
-her involvement with the USWNT Players Association and standing up for equal pay
-how she deals with the pressure of US national team camps
-the value she has found in seeing a therapist
-her approach for dealing with haters on social media
-how she became Edie’s (Portland Thorns head coach, Mark Parson’s daughter) special friend
And more.
Enjoy my conversation with the lively, confident Meghan Klingenberg.
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In today's episode, I read a piece I wrote titled My First Experience with Psychedelic Drugs as a Professional Athlete
"When I was a twelve year-old aspiring professional soccer player, I distinctly remember watching a commercial where a narrator sternly announced “this is your brain.” An image of a soccer ball popped onto the screen. A couple seconds later, the narrator even more fervently added “this is your brain on drugs.” A football appeared.
There was no way in hell I was going to risk losing my soccer ball.
My entire life, I viewed drugs as the devil. Until, September 25th, 2015, when everything changed.
I was driving alone to Black Butte Ranch in Central Oregon, listening to an episode of the Tim Ferriss Show podcast. He was interviewing..." to continue reading full story CLICK HERE
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In today’s episode I interview professional soccer player and Duktig brand co-founder Tiffany Weimer.
Tiffany is a goal scoring machine. At North Haven High School in Connecticut, she scored 109 goals. At Penn State University, she netted 91 goals and holds the NCAA record for most consecutive games with goals scored with a total of 17. She earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, was a Mac Herman Trophy runner up, the Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year, and Top Drawer Soccer Player of the Year.
Tiffany has played professionally for 10 years with stints in Finland, Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, and the US.
In the NWSL she’s played with the Portland Thorns, Washington Spirit, Boston Breakers, and is currently with the Houston Dash.
Tiffany was the kind of kid that named her soccer ball and slept with it at night. Her involvement in soccer extends beyond the pitch. Tiffany utilized her journal degree and became the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Our Game Magazine, a women’s soccer quarterly magazine. After 5 years, she decided to part ways, and recently co-founded The DuKtig Brand which provides planners to help players and coaches to be more organized, prepared, and professional at every level.
In our conversation we talk about:
-her appearance on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 playing soccer with Blake Lively
-the creative ways she makes money to be able to fund her career as a professional female athlete
-why she felt she went about her college recruiting process entirely wrong
-what she learned from playing overseas in Brazil and Finland
-how journaling her training sessions helps her understand herself better.
-the negative effects she believes GPS numbers and sports science has on players
-how being a practice player further improved and enhanced her love for the game
-the mental training app that she uses in the morning
And more.
Enjoy my conversation with the soccer-obsessed, journal-er Tiffany Weimer
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