Real Fuel with SLS – Details, episodes & analysis

Gabby is a newly certified RD (woohoo!) based in Seattle who has experience in research, clinical, and private practice nutrition. As an avid runner and RRCA-certified running coach, Gabby’s dream is to work with athletes in private practice, helping to guide both their nutrition and training. One of her major aims in entering the field of nutrition is to refute the misinformation spread by diet culture, like the claim that “thinner = faster.” Gabby aspires to help athletes understand the importance of nutrition in reaching their greatest athletic potential, and more importantly to value, not fear, food. In her spare time, Gabby can be found running, frolicking outdoors, eating ice cream, trying new restaurants, or daydreaming about future travel plans.

In this episode we chat about:

• Her journey to becoming a RD
• Common misconceptions reading research headlines in the news
• Critical thinking skills in understanding research
• How to break through marketing noise and BS
• Disordered eating behaviors in runners and the running community
• Practicing  shifting your mindset and actions with disordered thoughts
• How running started as a negative journey and has become a positive
• Breaking through diet culture
• How to encourage people to make change
• Nutrition coaches vs. RD’s
• Patient advocacy and taking a deeper dive with clients
• Ice cream/milkshake reviews of Seattle
• And so much more!
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Follow Gabby: https://www.instagram.com/gabbyrao/

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Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Molly Hurford is a journalist, author and podcaster in love with all things cycling, running, nutrition and movement-related. She’s the author of a dozen books about endurance sport, both fiction and nonfiction, including Fuel Your Ride and the Shred Girls series. As co-host of The Consummate Athlete Podcast, founder of Strong Girl Publishing and a bookworm-turned-endurance athlete, she’s a little obsessed with getting people—especially girls and women—excited about finding a sport they love and spending time outside.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Molly’s journey as an athlete and bookworm
• What Strong Girl publishing does
• What she’s learned in her writing
• How to get and keep young girls in endurance sports, particularly cycling
• Getting more women in bike shops
• Our own trials and tribulations in endurance racing
• Process vs. outcome goals
• The joy of de-load weeks
• And so much more!

Follow Molly: https://www.instagram.com/mollyjhurford
Learn More About Molly: stronggirlpublishing.com & consummateathlete.com

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Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Claire Shorenstein (MS, RD, CSSD) is a Board-Certified Sports Dietitian based in Santa Cruz, CA. She provides virtual nutrition coaching and other services to athletes of all abilities, and hosts the Eat for Endurance Podcast. Claire also is an avid distance runner and has competed in numerous solo and team events from the 5km to 50-mile distance.

In this episode we chat about:

• Building community
• Fueling long trail ultras vs. road running
• Protein and fat during ultra distance racing
• Overcoming the fears surrounding GI issues on the run 
• Underfueling leading to GI issues vs. certain foods triggering issues
• Figuring out everyday nutrition while juggling all of the plates
• Managing stress to help with nutrition and other strategies besides just exercising
• Showing compassion to yourself as an athlete and supporting your health
• Why egg salad is the best
• And more!

Follow Claire: https://www.instagram.com/eatforendurance/

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/

Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Kylie Oblak is a senior cross country and track runner at Hamilton College. Originally from Boston, she will be moving to New York City to be a consultant when she graduates. In addition to being a student and an athlete she runs a fitness/health instagram account (@kylierunssmiley) where she promotes all things health, happiness, injury recovery, training advice, and more.

*TW disordered eating*

In this episode we chat about:

• Growing up in the social media era as an athlete
• NIL for collegiate athletes
• How switching from ice & field hockey saved Kylie from her ED
• Finding joy and being authentic
• Overcoming injuries and asking for help
• RED-s
• How to advocate for yourself
• And more!

Follow Kylie: https://www.instagram.com/kylierunssmiley/

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/

Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Halle is an orthopedic/pelvic floor physical therapist at Buffalo Pelvic Health and Acupuncture Clinic. She's also a Pilates instructor at Stretch and a run coach at Pace.

Passionate about women's health and fitness, Halle leads a women's cycling group based at Shickluna Bikes. An active runner, she trains with the Buffalo Run Club (affiliated with Pace) and is currently tackling an Ironman.

Beyond her professional roles, Halle enjoys running with her dog Daphne, cycling with friends, being in the mountains, and functional fitness.

In this episode we talk about:

• Pelvic floor: what is it and why does it matter? And it’s not just a concern for women
• Tips to start thinking about pelvic floor health
• Physical therapy & optimal movement patterns: how endurance athletes can use these as preventative tools instead of waiting for injury
• Common movement patterns that can lead to injuries/imbalances in endurance athletes & what you can do to address them
• How to pick out and find a PT/pelvic floor PT 
• Her background in endurance sports and how she uses her knowledge to help athletes and bring joy to the sport teaching group fitness classes
• Her journey and self-coaching to her first full-ironman triathlon
• And more!

Follow Halle: https://www.instagram.com/hallesauerdpt?igsh=cmxucnRoZHQxMDhq

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/
Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Welcome to Real Fuel with SLS! Here’s more about me and why I’m stoked to have you “join” the conversations to make endurance sports and sports nutrition a better place. 

Danielle has a unique background for which she has become known as a unicorn in the women’s health space.  After ten years practicing conventional medicine she shifted her focus + pursued certification as a FDN-P where she now helps women (+ some men) optimize their health through lifestyle + deep dives into their health.

She is also a certified fertility educator, masters level mental health therapist, PNL1 certified nutrition coach + in a prior life spent five years as a personal trainer. You can see where the unicorn term comes from. She specializes in helping women understand where they are + helps guide them to see the steps they need to take to get where they want to be + feel the way they want to feel. 

She is the founder of her company, Empowered Mind + Body as well as co-founder of Unconventional Collaborative, a virtual mastermind to help anyone in the health + wellness space elevate their practice.

She is a human of authentic chaos, lover of dogs, all things outdoors, movement, an enneagram 8w7 + avid trip planner. She is perpetually in search of the optimal health. And what she can tell you is that definition will continually change through seasons of life, but will likely continually include regulating your nervous system, quality connection, play, movement  + good sleep. 

In this episode we chat about:

• Who Danielle is and her jump from conventional medicine to functional medicine
• Her background as an athlete and how it helps her support her clients
• Common misconceptions about birth control in female athletes
• Importance of regular periods for long-term health going beyond bone health
• Her work in the Unconventional Collaborative and creating a space for practitioners to continue to learn and grown
• Coach/practitioner red and green flags
• And more!

Follow Danielle: https://www.instagram.com/danielle.kepics/

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/
Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Emma loves all things cats, cows, and chocolate milk. Her passion for dairy and animals for dairy started while growing up on EL-Vi Farms in Newark, NY. She stays involved to this day at the farm by helping with community relations works like running the social media page and being the race director for the Dairy Discovery 5k that the farm and 3 other local farms host. When she is not working her day job in milk promotion at American Dairy Association North East, she can be found competing for Team Milk in Full distance Ironman triathlons and half & full marathons. Her training and racing allows her to reach the triathlon community online with the benefits of refueling with chocolate milk and make a beautiful community of friends.

In this episode we chat about:

• Food systems, misconceptions about cows/dairy farming, stress is stress even for cows– just like us!
• Getting into sports as an adult from dancing to racing ironman
• Finding euphoria in an Ironman marathon
• Learning about give and take during training for big goals/life– still having fun with the why behind sport
• Learning that your value is not tied to the outcome of sport, work, etc.
• Racing with your period; what’s normal what’s not
• You can still achieve with your period– how can we adapt and overcome and train to be ready
• Health over everything in longevity in sport
• How to respect the training adaptation process and adjusting expectations and goals 
• And more!

Follow Emma: https://www.instagram.com/emmaluvcow/ + https://www.instagram.com/elvifarmsllc/ 

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Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Nick Klastava is a runner and running coach who loves to help athletes balance their training with their life and to focus less on the numbers.

In this episode we talk about:

• Training through the different seasons of life
• Comparing to past life training to current self
• Working through the phases of injury recovery with athletes, getting out of the grind and self-doubt
• Helping athletes find their growth & progress 
• Celebrate the little moments and gain perspective
• Relying less on numbers how it helped me as an athlete to be less anxious and have less performance anxiety and how I help athletes as a coach
• Having tools in the toolbox to show up for yourself in training
• Moving through race day anxiety and stress
• Breaking the stigma around pace or BQ what it takes to be a good coach
• Being flexible as an adult runner and finding joy in it and bring running along with it
• And more!

Follow Nick: https://www.instagram.com/nklastava/  + https://www.instagram.com/liftrunperform/

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/
Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

As a mother of 2 and 3 time Ironman finisher with countless other athletic pursuits under my belt, Katie created pursuit endurance after going through pregnancy as a triathlete and navigating the challenges of being a new mother when she re-entered the sport.

She wants to be the person she wished she had: to give better resources and guidance to mothers who are pregnant and postpartum and want to stay active in their sport.

Katie is a Native Washingtonian originally from Burke, VA. She's a mother to six year old, Elias, and three year old, Emett. She is a three-time Ironman triathlete, 15-time marathoner, and avid cyclist who enjoys clipping into all sorts of adventures on the road, has dabbled a bit in off road riding, and is often indoors on Zwift!

When she's not teaching mothers about cycling & pregnancy and postpartum fitness, she works for DC SCORES as the Senior Director of Development Operations & Events. She lives in the Michigan Park neighborhood of Washington, DC with her husband and two boys, and her first two furbabies, a dog and a cat!

She has numerous multisport certifications under her belt, and is a pregnancy and postpartum athleticism coach!

In this episode we chat about:

• Top myths of working out pregnant 
• The pregnancy comparison trap– how to avoid it and meet yourself where you are at
• Return to sport postpartum– should you have a ‘comeback’ race?
• What is your WHY as a pregnant athlete?
• How to avoid overdoing it during pregnancy and PP
• Nutrition in pregnancy & postpartum
• LEA risks PP
• What questions to ask to ask your provider PP
• Making sense of your body’s feedback as a pregnant/PP athlete
• And more!