Matt & Nathan

What Remains: An Okápe Podcast

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What Remains is an Okápe podcast about everyday people who chose physical pursuit. And what they found when it stripped everything else away. Not the finish line. Not the medal. Not the number on the clock. Something quieter and more permanent than any of those. Hosts Nathan Baumeister and Matt Carlson sit down with people who pushed past the limits they once accepted and discovered something about themselves that couldn't have been learned any other way. They dig into the pursuits that broke them open, what remained, and how that showed up when life got hard in ways that had nothing to do wit...

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Pride, Pivots, and Perspective - Aaron Coleman 06.07.2026 1:00:42

Aaron Coleman has spent five decades chasing mountains, rivers, and the outer edge of what his body can do. In this episode, he sits down with Nathan Baumeister and Matt Carlson to trace how a childhood in Idaho and years of team sports built the foundation for a life defined by outdoor pursuit. Aaron walks through his first real test: summiting Mount Rainier in roughly 24 hours with a friend who...

Winning Is Really Rare - Roni Jones-Perry 29.06.2026 1:04:16

Roni Jones-Perry has been an athlete since she was three years old. Gymnastics first, then a pivot at 13 when the money ran out. Then volleyball, which took over her life by sophomore year of high school and hasn't let go since. She played at BYU, went to the Final Four her senior year, played four seasons overseas in Italy, Poland, and Brazil, and now plays professionally for a team in Salt Lake...

You Can Quit If You Want - Amy Gawlik 22.06.2026 54:11

She finished a triathlon, shot a wedding that same evening, and once woke up in a Mexican ambulance at mile 111 with a broken collarbone, still convinced she could finish. Forty more miles into the dark and a breakdown at mile 60 of her first 100-miler: Amy Gawlik is not someone who does things halfway. In this episode, Nathan and Matt sit down with Amy, triathlete, ultrarunner, wedding photograph...

The Day We Chose Discomfort 15.06.2026 55:41

There's a version of you waiting on the other side of the hardest thing you've ever done. Most people never find out who that is. This episode is for the ones willing to try. In the debut episode of What Remains, hosts Nathan Baumeister and Matt Carlson turn the mic on themselves, sharing the stories, setbacks, and personal reckonings that led them to build Okape. From elite youth soccer in Chicag...

Introduction of Matt & Nathan, Okape, and the six crazy physical pursuits we committed to doing this year 03.06.2026 35:26

Join Nathan and Matt, the co-hosts of What Remains, as they explore their ambitious journey of undertaking six extreme physical challenges in 2026, pushing their limits and uncovering internal breakthroughs. This episode introduces their motivations, the meaning behind Okape, and the exciting adventures they have planned, including mountain hikes, ultra marathons, and open water swims. Before the...