Holding It All Together
I’ll be honest: more than once this week I’ve woken up and it’s taken me a moment to work out which city I’m in.
Highlights of the last few weeks include speaking at The Epicenter in Portland, Oregon, for the Women’s Global Sports Summit; a quick trip across the Pond for the Wellness Oasis in London (my first time speaking in the UK!); headlining the Livelong Summit in New York City last week...
Puberty Isn’t A Plateau, It’s a Rebuild
Think back to when you were 12 or 13. Did you get slower? Clumsier? Was there a season where you stopped enjoying sport and nobody could tell you why? For most of us, that dip was never explained. We were told we’d lost interest, or that we needed to try harder; some of us quit entirely.
It took having an active teenage daughter for the scientist and mother in me to go looking for answers—and...
You Didn't Lose Fitness, You Lost Fuel
If you grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, you were handed two contradictory rulebooks. First, fat was the enemy. Then, almost overnight, fat was fine and carbohydrate was the problem. Neither was built on good science, and neither was built with active women in mind, yet both stuck.
I see the impact everywhere: women who are highly active, lift heavy, know what they’re doing—and still hesitate whe...

