The Bounce Forward Podcast

Sarah Kaufmann is a highly sought after cycling coach and owner of K Cycling Coaching. Sarah is a former professional mountain bike racer, with a fifteen year racing career in XC and CX. Sarah has been coaching for over a decade and in this episode we discuss her journey from athlete to coach, the evolution of her coaching, the reason she still builds in interval sessions to her weekly training an...

My mom loved this new cover art, so it's a keeper. Writing my 'Dear Momma' essay was hard, recording it/this was a big and vulnerable lift. This episode will have a different feel and won’t be for everyone. I didn’t intend for it to be this long, but this one’s from the heart—straight flow and no cuts or edits (I couldn’t listen back on this one). I start this episode with an update on...

Mike McCormack is a legend in the world of mountain bike race promoting, a profession that requires both endurance and perseverance. He’s an endurance mountain bike race founder, promoter, organizer and entrepreneur. But Mike is far more than an event organizer. He’s a deep thinker with a tremendous sense of humor and a fiery passion to get it right—on behalf of the riders and community he serves....

Alexandera Houchin is an ultra-endurance mountain bike racer and proud citizen of the Fond du Lac Band of the Lake Superior Ojibwe people. She is fresh off setting a new fastest time record for a female single speed rider on the daunting Tour Divide. In this episode we talk about a range of topics including our government's abhorrent track record on Native American rights, body image, ceremony...

Howzit friends! I’m back from a little mid-season break and this week on the podcast we take another deep dive with the dynamic Dylan Johnson. If you haven’t listened to episode 10, I’d highly encourage you to do so, as you’ll quickly see why Dylan has a massive following and has become a listener favorite here on the show.   In today’s episode we’ll talk to Dylan about how he overcame tremendous...

Today’s guest is the dynamic Dylan Johnson. Dylan is one of the all-time good guys in the cycling world who just so happens to be a multi-dimensional talent on and off the bike. He’s perhaps best known as a professional bike racer competing in the biggest and baddest ultra-endurance off road bike races in North America. As a racer Dylan has an extensive resume, including a top ten at the 2018 Unbo...

Today’s guest is the Alaska raised, Harvard graduate and professional bike racer, Kristen Faulkner. Like so many of our guests, she has a unique and remarkable story. Kristen entered her first professional race in Europe in 2020 and her meteoric rise in the fast and furious sport of road cycling shot her into the woman's world tour in a spectacular fashion. But before she became one of the fas...

Today’s guest is the one and only, Haley Smith. Haley is a professional mountain bike racer who hails from Canada and has represented her country on some of the biggest stages including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Haley is a regular on the UCI Women Elite Cross Country Mountain Bike World Cup circuit and in 2022, Haley explored for the first time, the gravel scene here in North America, dipping her t...

Hello and welcome to the freshest episode of The Bounce Forward Podcast. I’m your host, Michael Leach and today’s guest is the multilayered, multidimensional and colorful Carter Roy, who appeared on Law and Order last night. If you haven’t listened to Part One of this two-part episode, I’d highly encourage you to give it a listen.   I hope you’re hooked by that opening and ready to take the deep d...

Today’s guest is the multilayered and multidimensional, Carter Roy. For a podcast showcasing freewheeling conversations diving deep into the psychology of the comeback—a show that emphasizes stories of endurance and perseverance, Carter may be the ultimate guest, as his story is the epitome of endurance and perseverance.  Carter Roy is one of one, articulate, thoughtful, wise and multi-talented. C...

We all face challenging circumstances such as loss, heartache and disappointment, but what if we could bounce forward from that experience to become our strongest and truest self. Today’s guest, Rose Grant truly is the epitome of what it looks like to do just that. Rose has demonstrated what it looks like to bounce forward with grit, grace, determination and courage. Rose is a 5x Mountain Bike Mar...

In this episode we dive even deeper with Gwendalyn Gibson. Gwendalyn is a professional mountain bike racer, riding for the distinguished Trek Factory Racing Team. She’s here to aspire and inspire. She’s thoughtfully working to become her strongest and truest self and she’s on a mission to make a difference in this world while lighting the world cup mountain bike scene on fire, and we’re really goi...

Gwendalyn Gibson is a professional mountain bike racer from Grand Junction, Colorado. She races for the Trek Factory Racing Team as an Elite World Cup Cross Country rider. She’s a 2x National Champion at Colorado Mesa University, she won Nationals in 2016 at Mammoth, California, she took a top ten at the Under 23 World Championships in 2021, and she burst onto the world stage having a breakout yea...

Dr. Nathan Varley is a well-known and award winning environmental entrepreneur and explorer in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He’s the co-owner and co-founder of Yellowstone Wolf Tracker and Yellowstone Reports. Dr. Varley has a long history of exploring the remote peaks and corners of Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding wilderness landscape and is nearing 100 peaks climbed in Yellow...

Connor Fields is a three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, a Pan American Games Gold Medalist, winner of the Red Bull Revolution and he’s the first American to win an Olympic BMX Gold medal. He turned pro at age of 15 and at 17-years-old, Connor became the youngest rider to ever podium a BMX World Cup. Connor is celebrated in the BMX and cycling community at-large as one of the ALL-TIME grea...

Hi, I'm Michael Leach, dad, author speaker and coach.  I've been talking about launching a podcast for a long time now—for many moons. The stars have aligned and I’ve been working around the clock, and the people I’ve been eager to sit down with for a conversation have jumped on board, ready and willing to make a contribution to the cause and I’m so excited to share their gold—to share their...