YogiTriathlete Podcast

YogiTriathlete Podcast

Hosted by: Jess & BJ Gumkowski

YogiTriathlete and its co-founders, Jess and BJ, are waking up and shaking up the world of endurance sports. Their approach is anything but mainstream and they are known to go deep. Buckle up because jumping on this...

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Matt McElroy on the Presence of Competition and Racing at the Top on Plants

Growing up in Huntington Beach, California offered Matt McElroy a life of year-round outdoor activity. Inducted into his family's surf legacy by his dad at the age of five allowed Matt to cultivate confident open...
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Victoria Moran and JL Fields Bring a Coach to Your Kitchen and Compassion to Your Plate

It is widely known through scientific research and living experience that humans can not only survive but thrive on a plant-based diet. No matter your nutritional stance and belief around taking a life to soothe an...
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John Abate on Being a Fierce Competitor with Right Intention and Right Action

With too much weight on his body and too much drinking in his life, John Abate hopped on his messenger bike and started moving his body. A few miles turned into more and over time with consistency and awareness, John...
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Ask The YTs - Going Deep On The Mental Game

We live in an ever-changing world within an ever-changing body. It could be argued that as humans we are hardwired for change yet so often the act of change is so heavily resisted. Change forces us to shift our vision...
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Mishka Shubaly, Plant-Based Ultrarunning Cult Songwriter on What It Means to Be A Man

Heavily practiced behaviors and beliefs become the cage in which we live. For so many, the bars on their cage will never be lifted for they will never receive a moment of clarity during their entire existence here on...
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Taylor Spivey, Professional Triathlete On Going All In For Her Dreams

Most people spend many years, decades even dreaming of finishing an Ironman while Taylor Spivey completed her first 140.6 while still in the womb. Today a professional triathlete, Taylor was born into a triathlon...
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Jeremy McGhee on the Exploration of Loss, Life and Conquering the Impossible

Imagine climbing a narrow gully of snow lined with rock faces and cliffs in the Sierra Mountains. In the cacophonous silence of this remote landscape, you hear every morsel of your breath and every crack of snow...
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Erika Mitchener, Backwards Philosopher on Growing up in the Dojo and the Trifecta of Health

We are all here on this earth for unique purposes and there is no set timeline for how our purposes will unfold. For some, we discover our gifts and passions at younger ages while others spend their entire lives...
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Ask the YTs on Killer Calves, Store Bought Speed and Plant-Based Benefits

Today BJ and I celebrate our 20th Christmas together and having left our closest relatives on the east coast it will be just he and I and Clark. We will teach yoga, we will take a family walk, we will meditate, we...
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Angela Hubbs on Deliberately Creating Your Life...Today

We've all spoken them and we've all heard them and they are called excuses. Ego alibis that prevent us from living the life we really want to live. Downright justifications to keep ourselves in the...
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Maryann Lekas, Part II on The Long Dark Journey to Love

The power of love equals the power to heal and it holds the key to our freedom yet so many of us live in a place of lack when it comes to our receptivity of love. In part two of our conversation with guest, Maryann...
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Maryann Lekas Part 1 on Living in Comparison with the World's Best

The power of the mind is often underestimated and overlooked in the reality of our lives. What most people forget or don't realize is that every word we speak, every thought we indulge and every action we take, serve...
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