Send us a text In today’s solo episode, I’m going to address a topic that’s come up on the show with multiple guest, do you have to wait 12 weeks to run after baby? In general, there are more women who are educated about the roll of pelvic floor physical therapy, so more women hear the 12 weeks guideline thrown around. But is that guideline applicable to everyone? We talk about: -what the guidelines say -expanding knowledge of the pelvic floor -pro athletes & return to sport -identity as an ...
Jun 21, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Send us a text Today I am speaking with ultra runner Rachel Drake. She is the mother of a 1.5 year old, a two time top 10 finisher at UTMB races (7th at CCC in 2019 and 6th at OCC in 2023), Black Canyon 100k champion and was 2nd at the Golden Trail World Championships in 2020. Outside of running, she has her MD PhD from Oregon Health and Science University and is starting residency training in anesthesiology at the University of Utah. She feels most joyful moving through the mountains and sharin...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Dr. Shefali Christopher, PT, DPT, about Return to Sport after Childbirth, integrating motherhood and athletics. Currently, she is at Tufts University working toward strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion in admissions. Shefali is a mom of two and is a medical provider for the USA Paratriathlon team. We talk about: -diversity, equity, & inclusion in physical therapy -paralympics -juggling mom life -integrating sports & motherhood -being able...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Gina Mundy, an attorney that specializes in childbirth cases. For over two decades, she has analyzed the mistakes that are made during labor and delivery. Drawing on this knowledge, she has authored the book "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth" to help parents prevent these mistakes and have a healthy baby. Rather than merely getting involved after an unfortunate mistake was made, Gina has taken a proactive approach by getting involved before childbirt...
May 31, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Sophie Power, a mum of 3 most known for breastfeeding my 3 month old baby during the 106 mile UTMB ultramarathon in the Alps, (you may be familiar with the photo). She also represents Great Britain on the 24 hour running team. Sophie also founded SheRACES, a campaign for equality for women in racing, including deferrals for pregnancy. We talk about: -pregnancies and postpartum recoveries all being different -running with a prolapse -running faster in her 4...
May 24, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Elizabeth Waterstraat, the founder of Multisport Mastery, Inc. and a certified multisport coach with over 20 years of competitive and coaching multisport experience. Since the inception of Multisport Mastery in 2007, Elizabeth has worked with hundreds of athletes, beginner to advanced, all ages, from all around the world. Through a detailed approach aiming to develop both body and mind, she has developed athletes from amateur to elite, beginner to world ch...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Dr. Jenny LaCross, a certified athletic trainer and board-certified clinical specialist in women’s health physical therapy with almost a decade of clinical experience working with individuals with pelvic health, low back, and hip conditions. After completing her PhD in 2023 studying hip dysplasia in young active females, Jenny joined the University of Michigan Pelvic Floor Research group where she currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow under the...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Mel Sulaver, a registered dietitian working to bridge the gap between women’s health and performance nutrition. As speaker, counselor, and coach, she works primarily with women in sport, focusing on disordered eating, amenorrhea, low energy availability and relative energy deficiency in sport. Mel believes there is an enormous amount of power at the crossroads of “athlete” and “mother” and is looking to challenge the narrative on what is possible throughou...
May 03, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Lexi Thompson, owner and founder of All-Nighters Pediatric Sleep Consulting. She started her journey as a baby sleep coach when she had her daughter. Becoming a first time mom did not scared Lexi, due to her medical background as a NICU nurse. But what did scare her was the dreaded horror stories about never getting any sleep. Lexi was determined to not be “another sleep deprived mom”. Without much hesitation she became a certified sleep consultant, specia...
Apr 26, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Shalaya Kipp, PhD, whose current work focuses on sports bras during exercise and how they affect respiratory function. As a former competitive steeplechaser, she is an NCAA champion, and 9 time All-American. Shalaya has represented the United States at the World Championships and Olympic Games. Currently Shalaya enjoys stroller runs with her 9-month old daughter and 2.5 year old son. We talk about: -running economy -how we try on bras -reevaluating your si...
Apr 19, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Juliet Starrett, founder & CEO of The Ready State, best selling author, podcaster, and three-time whitewater rafting world champion. She is on a mission to help people move more. Her book, Built to Move, gives the ten essential habits to help people move freely and live fully. She shares her experience shifting from an extreme athlete to motherhood and how those paths cross. We talk about: -being a world champion paddler -entering menopause -identity s...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Send us a text 1:00 Introduction 4:25 what &Mother does 7:07 addressing maternal health disparity 13:20 grants for mothers 15:10 support for negotiating contracts 18:12 guidance for pregnant pro athletes 26:02 addressing RED-S 29:04 Brennan’s athletic history 35:58 navigating postpartum 39:11 returning to workouts postpartum 48:00 supporting races The Active Mom Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond for active moms & the professionals who help...
Apr 05, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Send us a text In today’s solo episode, I’m going to answer one of the most common questions I get in my DMs and emails: When is it safe to workout after I’ve had my baby? While there is not a one-size-fits-all answer to this questions, there are some basically guidelines and milestones that are a good place to start when you’re making this decision for yourself. Of course, talking to a medical professional is a good idea, but if you don’t have access to someone who “gets it”, this is a good pla...
Mar 29, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Dr. Sara Tanza, pelvic floor physical therapist, and Steph Bruce, professional runner for HokaOneOne NAZ Elite, mom, Celiac, Co-conspirator for Picky Bars, coach. Sara and Steph both, have been incredibly open about what it looks like to return to exercise after pregnancy and how they are active moms in their postpartum. We talk about: -forming the Dream Team -getting stronger with age -the importance of rehab -life as a professional runner -listening to y...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Andrea Herbert, co-founder of Gold Ivy Health Co. She is making it her mission to simplify the research and inspire women everywhere to own their health and life. As a mother of 3, wife, entrepreneur, and marathoner working to complete a marathon in all 50 states, Andrea juggles a lot. The combo of finding balance, staying aligned with her values, and having fun brings endless fulfillment and she wants more women to join her. Andrea has coached thousands o...
Mar 15, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Dr. Stephanie Waggel, a mother, physician, author, motivational speaker, teacher, cancer survivor, marathon runner, and founder of Improve Medical Culture. She has a degree in psychology, biology and medicine and has over 17 years of experience working in the mental health field. In 2023, Dr. Waggel became certified in perinatal mental health. Specifically, advanced studies in perinatal psychopharmacology (medication for pregnant people). She feels this ar...
Mar 08, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text Today I am speaking with a returning guest, Lisa Ryan, a former high school English teacher who completely changed her career after the birth of her children. Before having children, she was a competitive CrossFit athlete who then struggled postpartum with diastasis recti. Because of her experience, she became a coach to help women avoid experiences like hers. We hear about her coming to terms with getting a tummy tuck to fix her diastasis recti and how she was completely open abo...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Reshma Rathod, co-founded of Restore Motion, a physical therapy practice in Rockville MD, in 2004. She has been Primary Health Care Provider for the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) since 2007, and is also a member of the Hologic WTA Women’s Health Task Force. She has a passion for women’s health and understands the profound need for a women-focused, compassionate physical therapy practice that could support the female leaders who make our communities pros...
Feb 23, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Send us a text Today I am speaking with Brianna Battles, the Founder of Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism. She teaches fitness coaches and practitioners how to understand the needs of their pregnant and postpartum clients (and sometimes their own bodies) so they can go out and be the expert in their community. As a strength and conditioning coach, she realized there was a need for more resources for pregnant and postpartum athletes. She believes the biggest impact can be had when coaches are ...
Feb 16, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Send us a text Today, I speak with Dr. Ashley Winter, Board certified urologist who specializes in sexual medicine and postpartum hormones. After realizing that many of the common concerns that patients were brining to her clinic were not being addressed by the information she was being taught, she decided to do a fellowship in sexual disfunction. After working in managed health for five years following her fellowship, she decided to branch out into the tech side of medicine to help improve sexu...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Send us a text Today, we are celebrating our 100th episode! I’ve been doing the podcast for about two years now, and I’ve have interviewed some incredible guests! But today is my first solo episode. Think of this as a State of the Union” Pelvic Floor edition. I cover what I’m loving about the pelvic floor space right now as well as things I’d love to see change. We talk about: -state of the union -the need for more specialization in pelvic health -from pregnancy to menopause -growing the profess...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Send us a text Today I speak with Holly Brooks, a 2-time Nordic Ski Olympian, twin mom, licensed therapist working at the intersection of performance and mental health. She is also the co-founder of Moms Matter Now, a group focused on empowering, educating, and supporting women from pregnancy to early motherhood so they don’t lose their minds, selves or relationships. Her two passions are athlete & maternal mental health. Holly’s goal is to give moms tools to be models, not martyrs in their ...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us a text Today I speak with Margo Kwiatkowski, an orthopedic and pelvic health physical therapist in Southern California. She has made it her life’s mission to provide valuable, evidence based, and accessible information about pelvic organ prolapse in postpartum people. Margo was diagnosed with pelvic organ prolapse after the birth of her first child in the summer of 2021. She knew all the statistics about pelvic organ prolapse and did “all the right things” but was still taken aback by th...
Jan 19, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text Today I speak with Carter Norbo, a physical therapist, new mom, and member of the Rabbit Elite Team who ran at the University of North Carolina. In August 2023, she had twin boys at 29.5 weeks, but still went for an Olympic trials qualifying time on November 30th, at a marathon in Virginia. Even being so early in her postpartum, she came 73 seconds away from qualifying! Carter is still learning to adjust to life with running, work, and caring for the twins, but I wouldn’t trade it...
Jan 12, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text Today I speak with Munira Hudani, a Pre- and Post-Natal physiotherapist in Canada, and an emerging leader for the management of Diastasis Rectus Abdominis. After years of frustration in landing inconsistent results with her clients, and the dissatisfaction in having to say “we just don’t have enough research right now,” Munira began to challenge the conventional method to managing DRA. She realized that part of the inconsistent results came down to how DRA was being conceptualized...
Jan 05, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text Today I speak with Dr. Aliso Grimaldi, an expert in the management of hip, groin and lumbo-pelvic pain and dysfunction. She is also Principal Physiotherapist at Physiotec and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Because of her interest in the assessment and optimisation of lumbo-pelvic and lower limb biomechanics, Alison has collaborated with the European Space Agency on research. Alison is passionate about understanding why we develop problems around...
Dec 29, 2023•42 min
Send us a text Today I speak with Laura Green, a comedic content creator who loves to stand in front of people and tell jokes. Her brain is a hamster wheel of self deprecating humor focused on the run and fitness industry which she attempts to communicate via short videos and storytelling. She runs a lot. And she also naps a lot. Laura lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two young boys. We talk about Laura’s experiences postpartum and how she handled returning to run after each of her bi...
Dec 22, 2023•50 min
Send us a text Today I speak with Emma Brockwell and Gráinne Donnelly. Emma is a Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist. She treats women of all ages with all women’s health related conditions. She is passionate about pre and postnatal rehabilitation and exercise. She specialises in supporting women back to exercise, particularly running, football and netball if they have any pelvic health dysfunction or are postnatal. She has co-authored the first ‘Returning to Running Postnatal Guidelines’ a...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Send us a text Coming in at #4 of our top episodes of 2023 is my conversation with Megan James. She is a PhD Student at Cardiff Metropolitan University. In her studies, she is exploring returning to running after childbirth. Her goal is to help bridge the gap between clinicians and research, and has collaborated with other researchers and clinicians on recent publications. We look at all of the different factors that can play into a mom’s experience in returning to run after having a baby. Megan...
Dec 08, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Send us a text Today I speak with Dr. Izzy Moore reader in human movement and sports medicine at Cardiff Metropolitan University. After completing her PhD at the University of Exeter, where she focused on optimising female running gait, Izzy completed a two-year post-doctoral position at Cardiff Metropolitan University working directly with sports governing bodies to inform injury prevention and management policies. Izzy’s current research focuses on female athlete health, sports injury epidemio...
Dec 01, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 48
