Rise Resolute Podcast
Self-Improvement
About
If you are open to being inspired by gritty women who have pushed through difficulties and finding motivation in the way we are all connected, this podcast is for you. Prepare to be inspired as Gina Meyer, Doctor of Physical Therapy and leader in the health and wellness industry gets up close and personal with athletes who have made it through seemingly insurmountable challenges. Connect to their struggle, find out how they were able to RISE, and apply their lessons to push past even your own expectations for your life. Come RISE with us.
Episodes
- Michelle Martinez: Keep striving.
Michelle Martinez, a Ventura running coach and educator for over two decades, shares her experiences in distance running and coaching. The episode explores the evolution of courage in racing and life, emphasizing the value of consistent ef…
- Katie Arnold: Keep moving towards possibility.
In the Rise Resolute Podcast, elite ultrarunner Katie Arnold shares insights on courage, emphasizing it as moving forward despite fear. The episode touches on her experiences as a writer, athlete, and mother, highlighting how awareness and…
- Brittany: Believe you can.
Brittany Simque, a certified health coach, details her health and wellness journey, including losing over 200 pounds and completing the Chicago Marathon. The episode emphasizes the power of belief in achieving personal goals and embracing…
- Liz: Eyes off self, attitude up.
Liz Rucker shares her path to nonprofit work, encouraging listeners to focus on making an impact by looking beyond themselves and trusting their faith and intuition.
- Jenny: Be fearless
Jenny Barber, a survivor of exploitation and an anti-trafficking advocate, shares her personal story and discusses co-founding Talitha coffee, an organization that helps survivors reintegrate into society. The episode focuses on overcoming…
- Tina: Be a light in the darkness.
Connect and Rise with Tina, Breast Cancer Survivor, optimist, and poet. Tina discusses her Cancer journey and shares a few of her wonderful poems as they relate to this ongoing journey of life. Tina will inspire you to share your light fro…
- Lori: Never give up on the things you want most in life.
Connect and Rise with Lori Hauck, distance runner, accounting professor, business coach, and doctorate student as we process our feeling around the LA fires and discuss how mindset can transform everything. In the 2025 season of the podcas…
- Ariella: Push past fear into growth.
Connect and Rise with Dr Ariella Parker, Doctoral Behavioral Analyst and expert in pivotal response treatment as we discuss growth through all the stages of life, pushing past fear, and giving ourselves grace as we journey through. Ariella…
- Esther: Be flexible and keep your curiosity and wonder.
Connect and Rise with Esther Goetz, author and creator of Moms of Bigs. Esther shares insight that is extremely empowering for moms, but truly can be applied to anyone’s life. Her platform supports giving kids the “wings of freedom to beco…
- Heidi: You can RISE despite any obstacle.
Connect and Rise with Dr. Heidi Lovett, triathlete, ultra-marathoner, author, humanitarian, and so much more! Heidi will remind you of your strength within to rise despite difficulty and struggle. She encourages movement and stepping outsi…
- Monday Magic #2: On you must go.
The Monday Magic series aims to bring a little positivity to the start of your week. Go crush your Monday! https://talitha.com/ginameyer
- Monday Magic #1: Looking for a better hill to climb
Enjoy the kick off episode of the Monday Magic series which aims to bring a little positivity to the start of your week. Go crush your Monday! https://talitha.com/ginameyer
- Monique: How you respond to your game-changing "no" can make all the difference.
We are revisiting some favorite episodes… Connect and Rise with Monique, Body Positive Advocate and Fitness Entrepreneur, who shares her journey of opening fitness studios aimed at empowering ALL women through movement. Monique responded t…
- Chanelle: Remember your why.
Connect and Rise with Chanelle Price, 2014 World Indoor 800m Champion. Chanelle shares incredible insight on understanding the power of the mind and how changing our thoughts can have a huge impact on our lives. Chanelle also discusses the…
- Marisha: In the tough decision lies your power.
Connect and Rise with Marisha Charbonnet who shares amazing insight including her personal journey through finding out that she has the BRCA Gene which indicates a high risk of cancer. She describes that though the “ostrich” approach to li…
- Tami: Trust God; do good; be resilient.
Connect and Rise with Tami Hedrick, multifaceted leader and Community Impact Advocate. Tami shares amazing insight on growth through all of life’s changes and stages. She challenges us to rewrite how we identify ourselves through our strug…
- Alesha: You were born with a purpose.
Connect and Rise with Alesha Brown, CEO and founder of Fruition Publishing. Alesha discusses her personal journey and how she has learned to be resilient in the face of adversity. She explains that “cultivating resilience is the path to fu…
- Jaqueline Alnes: Make space for failure.
Connect and Rise with Jaqueline Alnes, runner, writer, and author of the recently released book, The Fruit Cure. Jaqueline shares her story reminding us that our value can be found internally and intrinsically and is not based on any exter…
- Susan: This is possible.
Connect and Rise with Susan Donnelly, minset and strategy coach for ultra runners who has finished 144 hundred mile races!! Have you ever wondered what it takes to finish a 100 mile race? Or to be a finisher in life? Susan tells us that yo…
- Jaci: Every race has a purpose.
Connect and Rise with Jaci Wilson, runner and holistic run coach. Jaci discusses how developing and working on our mindset must be practiced throughout our lives. She is an advocate for developing a gratitude practice, especially noticing…
- Patrice: Be empowered.
Connect and Rise with Patrice Bening, runner, mom, and Certified Financial Planner who empowers women through Herself by Morton. Patrice shares the amazing story of how she learned boldness from her mother as a child in Romania. She will r…
- Tonya: Be audacious with your life and don't wait to pursue your dreams.
Connect and Rise with Tonya Bradley, ultramarathoner, Lupus patient/ Lupus awareness advocate and health equity advocate. Tonya discusses what it means to her to be audacious and tells us more about running the Berlin, Chicago, and London…
- Rette: Have all the fun.
Connect and Rise with Rette Green, triathlete, mom, and autoimmune warrior. Rette shares some of her journey and reminds us to take the chances. Always take the shots. She reminds us that the things that we value deserve to hold space in o…
- Miriam: Joy awaits.
Connect and Rise with Miriam Gilbert, ultrarunner and retired professor, as she discusses life, strength through struggle, and her book: Come What May, I Want to Run: A Memoir of the Saving Grace of Ultrarunning in Overwhelming Times. Miri…
- Juliana: You will be found.
This is a sweet little episode with my niece Juliana that was recorded earlier in July before our shared birthday. She has such a big heart. The idea of the episode was to talk about an amazing song she knew from a dance performance. She f…
- Adriauna: Remember the mission.
Connect and Rise with Adriauna Davis, Founder and Executive Director of The Harmonie Grace Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at empowering and supporting families of at-risk infants to inspire hope and serve those affected by preterm pregnancy…
- Anne: Look for the wins.
Connect and Rise with Anne Chang, marathoner, coach, mother, and Saucony Canada Ambassador. Anne opens up, sharing some of the struggles she has faced and the strength she has developed through those struggles. She is an advocate of taking…
- Jessie: The purpose of life is to evolve.
Connect and Rise with Jessie Wolinsky @badassblindbabe who has lost most of her vision to retinitis pigmentosa but who has NOT lost her desire to continuing evolving and living an expansive life. She will encourage you to do the same. Jess…
- Kriste: Come home to yourself.
Connect and Rise with Kriste, runner, writer, producer, meditator, speaker, ambassador, and advocate of changing our narratives on wellness. Kriste describes how internalized ideas and lived experiences sometimes hold us back. She discusse…
- Ashley: Connection can change everything.
Connect and Rise with Ashley Davies, movement coach, run club leader, and community connecter in Seattle, WA. Ashley shares how struggle shaped her, how she has learned to create boundaries to protect her space, and the way she is allowing…
- Amanda Sullivan: Made for more.
Connect and Rise with Amanda Sullivan, childhood cancer mom and advocate who is also a health & wellness coach. Amanda shares her story including how she returned to wellness to show up better for herself after her journey through cancer t…
- Monique: You are rich.
Connect and Rise with Monique, Body Positive Advocate and Fitness Entrepreneur, who shares her journey of opening fitness studios aimed at empowering ALL women through movement. Monique responded to a game-changing “no” in her life. She re…
- Amanda: The world needs your unique gifts.
Connect and Rise with Amanda Fludd, Mental Health and Wellness Speaker, Licensed Psychotherapist, High Performance and Leadership Coach, and runner. Amanda shares incredible insight on the importance of developing the mental tools needed t…
- Breanne: Make the shift to productive thoughts.
Connect and Rise with Breanne Smedley, Elite Competitor Coach for female athletes. Having been an elite volleyball player herself, Breanne went on to pursue sports psychology and now serves as a mindset coach for female athletes and their…
- Heidi: Become a better version of yourself so that you can go on to help others.
Connect and Rise with Dr. Heidi Lovett, triathlete, ultra-marathoner, author, humanitarian, BGR Ambassador and so much more! Heidi discusses loss and how important it can be to slow down and learn to prioritize healing. She shares her stor…
- Martha: courage is taking action to honor what you truly think and feel.
Connect and Rise with Martha M. Garcia, a fully dimensional woman who is passionate about sports, movement, mindfulness, and being a human above any title or identity. Martha discusses embracing the duality of life and reminds us that ever…
- Caitlin: Do it afraid.
Connect and Rise with Caitlin Keen, Olympic Trials Marathoner, winner of the Flying Pig Marathon (twice) in Cincinnati, Ohio and advocate of exercise and movement. Caitlin shares some of her journey and describes the power of making it thr…
- Jaye: You are so much stronger than you realize.
Connect and Rise with Jaye, runner, attorney, wife, mom, and breast cancer warrior. Jaye shares her journey, describing how she detected her own cancer through self examination and advocating for the importance of early detection. Jaye bea…
- Kim: Consistency is key.
Connect and Rise with Kim, host of the Fit Girl Magic Podcast and Health/Wellness Coach specializing in working with women over 40. Kim shares her journey and describes how we can all benefit from changing our game plan for health at diffe…
- Ashley: Don't settle.
Connect and Rise with Ashley, military veteran, military wife, mom of four, triathlete, runner, and pre/postnatal exercise specialist. Ashley shares her journey after winning a Half Iron Man World Championship at 22 years old. She describe…
- Adina: We expand our opportunities by leaning on one another
Connect and Rise with Adina Crawford, Yoga/Meditation Master and voice for inclusion across all exercise and wellness platforms. In this, her second interview, Adina discusses that courage can be found within each of us. She dispels the id…
- Courtney: Let the things that make you feel make you strong.
Connect and Rise with Courtney, Licensed Midwife and new mom. Courtney shares her journey to this point, including how she’s continuing to learn to give herself grace as a new mom. Her powerful insight on feeling our feelings (good or bad)…
- Elizabeth: Find what you love and do as much of it as you can.
Connect and Rise with Elizabeth Clor, marathoner and author of Boston Bound. Elizabeth describes her journey and how she found the freedom to be her authentic self. She describes the mental strength she has developed through running and en…
- Annie: Authenticity changes everything because it is the truth.
Connect and rise with Annie, wife, mom, nurse, runner and mental health advocate. Annie shares her journey as she approaches almost ten years since she attempted to take her own life. Her powerful insight about the beauty of life (despite…
- Rebeka: Connection, authenticity and a love letter to listeners.
Connect and Rise with Rebeka (athlete & coach, 8 time USA Track and Field championship qualifier, certified level 2 coach for the USATF, and CSCS) and I as we discuss the power of connection and authenticity, especially when we are in a da…
- Cara: Embark on a self-love journey
Connect and rise with Cara Rego runner, fitness enthusiast, wife and mom of two as we discuss the intersection of movement and mental health. As a self-proclaimed lover of both positive vibes AND pizza, find out more about Cara’s self-love…
- Justina and Marissa: Women supporting women can change the world.
Connect and Rise with Justina (Founder of the Fijian Girls Foundation) and Marissa as they share the power of women supporting women. Find out the “why” behind the Fijian Girl’s Foundation and how ending period poverty can empower the futu…
- Jamicka: You matter for life.
Connect and Rise with Jamicka Edwards, Runner and Run Coach Race Director, author, mother and CEO/Founder of the You Matter for Life Foundation. Be inspired by Jamicka’s awesome story of growth and living a life of purpose. Jamicka shares…
- Rose: Anyone can give up, but it takes true courage to keep going despite the circumstance.
Connect and Rise with Rose, runner and amputee, who shares her story of strength and perseverance. Rose encourages us to look for the gifts we’ve been given through struggle. She describes how she realized that she needed to choose herself…
- Christina: Start showing up for you.
Connect and Rise with Christina, DC-based runner, attorney, and member of the Brooks Run Happy Team. Christina shares her journey of choosing courage, even in the most difficult times. She asks us to consider the things we never know we’re…