Monica Wroblicky is a Viking shieldmaiden who wears other women’s knee sleeves as her elbow sleeves, eats donuts when she damn well feels like it, and spends her free time helping at-risk youth heal through horse therapy at Heart's Landing Ranch . She’s been training in Strongman for less than a year, has already won several first place honors, and is just getting started. In this conversation, she shares her journey from struggling with her weight to doing bikini comps to eventually wandering i...
Aug 27, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Rachel Carrillo won the lightweight Master's division at California's Strongest Woman this year. Before she got into Strongman, Rachel was a Crossfit regional games athlete and an Ironman athlete and ultrarunner. And before that, she started as an elite artistic roller skater, traveling the world performing with a roller dance troupe in a white leotard -- just like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu! She owns a Strongman and Crossfit gym where she’s forging strong people and training to become the wor...
Jul 30, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Maddy Stewart, aka One Rep Mads, uses strength training to help her flourish while living with mental illness. I love her sweetness, her boundless enthusiasm for the bench press, her boyfriend, her dogs, overalls, and pretty much everything. As a lifter on the cusp of the Millennial and Gen Z generations, she shares what it means to navigate social media and its perils. If you know someone living with obsessive compulsive disorder, this could be a helpful episode to share. And if you just want t...
Jul 16, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Deb Arana is a real-life Artemis. Don't believe me? She's a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, she's a pole dance and aerial performer/instructor, and she's a bow hunter. She's also a fierce Pilates instructor and grandmother who is killing some #physiquegoals at 58. Deb is a body whisperer who holds space for women to find their power in the very different spaces of jiu jitsu and dance. She shares about awakening our erotic nature, where to buy the best stripper shoes, her favorite gis, and how...
Jul 01, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Fresh off her win at the Iron Gauntlet V Strongman/Strongwoman competition, our guest is Lindsay Hall! Her strength journey started when she walked into a gym to find some relief as a recovering addict. At 35 she got into strength through group training classes and began competing in Olympic lifting. A few years later, she was heading to the farthest flung corners of the earth to compete in events like the World Nomad Games in Kurdistan (goat polo, anyone?) and the World Championship of Mas Wres...
Jun 17, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 6
She's a flame-haired, tattooed goddess who emerged as a Westside Barbell coach from a background of boxing and burlesque. She co-authored an epic book on the fighting life called Pain Don't Hurt. Now, Shelby sets women free through strength coaching and the feminist community she leads. You could gaze at her for hours on IG @shelbybelfast -- but what I find most thrilling about her is her thoughtfulness, her intense smarts, her professional seriousness, and her iron conviction. We talk about her...
Jun 03, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The ultimate Strongwoman Squad drops by the garage -- three women from the @grassrootscrossfit team who are redefining what strength over 40 means as competitive Masters athletes at the National level. Natalie Studer, 47, is a kindergarten teacher who channels Maria von Trapp at work. Her strength alter ego, Rage Butterfly, has a fierce war cry that inspires awe and chills. Follow her @rage_butterfly to get fired up to train at 5:30 am. Molly Merson, 42, is a psychotherapist who journeyed from H...
May 16, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Emily Stanwyck is a coach at Deuce Gym. She's also a wife, a mother, and a doula. We talk about how she's expanding her practice to guide women and couples through the process of becoming parents, how she won California's Strongest Woman in flip-flops, and how to use breast milk as a power snack (mind blown!) Follow her @emboslice_ and if you're in the LA Area, sign up for the Women's Only Strongman Social on April 20 or the Strongman 101 program at Deuce (starts April 29).
Apr 15, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3
All hail the Platform Queen! Ari Phillip (aka Platform Queen Ari) broke the record for deadlift IPL/USPA Masters Division at the 2018 Mr Olympia with a 474 deadlift., and she plans to break her own record again this year. Five years ago she couldn't do 5 pushups in a circuit training and before that, she was crawling on the floor surrounded by food delivery bags because she couldn't walk or leave her house. These days, she books her hotels and flights to competitions even before she has complete...
Apr 02, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the Valkyrie Garage, a new podcast celebrating female strength. Our first EVER guest to the Garage is Clinay Cameron. If you don't know her yet, stop everything and follow @clinayislivingproof right now. Clinay is part Division 1 athlete, part strength and fitness coach, part lifestyle advocate, and 100% goals. If you travel with her, she juuuust might walk off the street into a conference room and pick up 400lbs. If you're a strongman noob like me, she just might handle stones for yo...
Mar 12, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
