Journey To June

In this solo episode, I take you back to a waiting room at Cornell's fertility clinic, the moment a doctor asked if I'd considered an egg donor before I'd even started IVF, and the three days I spent alone afterward deciding whether to keep going.  I also tell you about my friend Ingrid, a tennis pro I've coached since middle school, who fought back from two years of injuries and surgery to reach...

Every new room asks the same question before anyone says a word: do you belong here? On this episode, I sit down with my daughter Josi for our quarterly debrief — this time about her first season on a new club volleyball team, walking in as an outsider with no shared history and a serve that fell apart under pressure.  We talk about the car-ride cry after her first practice, the moment a parent as...

This week, I'm turning 55. And recently, I was in the back of a car listening to my siblings talk about their lives moving forward. I had nothing to add. The next day, in the middle of a coaching retreat, I ended up on the receiving end of the exact thing I coach my own clients on. This episode is that — no guest, just me. What it means to feel "behind." Where that feeling actually lives in the bo...

This week on Journey to June I'm talking to Adam DeVon Miller, founder and CEO of Good Game Foundation, a nonprofit that connects athletes to purpose beyond the game they play. Adam played wide receiver at Wabash College and was the first in his family to go to college — football was the thing that opened that door for him. But this conversation isn't really about football. It's about what happene...

This week I sit down with Olympian, coach, and father of three Roberto Mandje, and what struck me most wasn't the résumé — it was how he talks about being stronger than he ever gave himself credit for.  Roberto grew up between Barcelona, West Africa, and the U.S., raised by a single mother who never once told him what he couldn't do, and he carried that into a twelve-year running career that peake...

This week I sat down with Abiola Wabara — a former pro basketball player, national champion, and now the founder of Globall Life, a platform built to help athletes navigate life after sport.  In this episode, we get into her childhood in Italy as the daughter of Nigerian parents, the culture shock of trading Rome for Waco, Texas, and the ten-year pro career that followed.  But the real conversatio...

This week on Journey to June, I sat down with Jill Muhe — a former Division I and professional beach volleyball player who spent a decade grinding on the AVP tour before becoming an athletic trainer, a college head coach, and now a career consultant for athletes navigating life after sport.  Jill and I talk about growing up playing basketball with the boys, the identity crash that comes with retir...

This week on Journey to June, I sat down with Amy Pierre-Russo. Amy spent a decade in HR before becoming a life and business coach, and she built something she calls Hustle to Harmony.  Instead of the scale — which just makes you feel like you're failing the second one side gets heavier — she thinks of it as a pie. You only get 100%. Some seasons work takes 60, some seasons your kid needs 60....

Five years of Live Your June. One conversation with the girl it's named after. In this episode, I sit down with my daughter Josephine June — now 13 — to reflect on what it's actually been like watching me build this movement. What shifted. What she absorbed. What she hopes comes next. We recorded this the week of the Fourth of July. My dad's favorite holiday. It felt right. Take the mother-daughte...

This week on Journey to June, I'm joined by Megan Hayward, a former Division One basketball player, mom of five, and founder of TAG (Temporary Assistance Guru), a staffing platform she built from the ground up at 24 years old. But that's not really where this episode starts. We started with what it means to let your kid sit in hard. Megan and her husband — a former Jacksonville Jaguar and Denver B...

Nine years ago, I said yes to a weekend I couldn't fully explain — three days with Bo Eason, before Live Your June existed, before I had language for what I was even looking for. This year, I said yes to the same experience again, but this time I brought Josi along.  In this episode, Josi turns the mic around and asks me why it mattered, and then I turn it back on her: what has her own versio...

Five years ago I launched Live Your June at 50 with no roadmap, no business plan, and no idea what I was doing. What I didn't know then is that the business was never the point. Who I was becoming was. In this episode I'm sharing the five lessons that have shaped the last five years — not the highlight reel version, but the real one. The rhythms that built me. The rooms that stretched me. The peop...

What happens when you grow up performing for everyone but yourself? Aly Breathe grew up in Russia chasing a promise she made to her dad at six years old — to stand on an Olympic podium. That promise drove everything: the dancing, the swimming, the gymnastics, the tennis, the exhaustion. On the outside, she was doing it all. On the inside, she didn't even know she was allowed to have her own opinio...

In this final episode of the Olympic Series, I reflect on what it meant to start chasing a dream when I was 10 years old — long before I understood the pressure, sacrifice, identity, and uncertainty that would come with it. After sitting down with Olympians, elite athletes, and high performers throughout this series, one thing became clear to me: performance can shape you, but it can’t fully defin...

Jarrod Shoemaker spent years competing at the highest level of sport — Olympian, World Championship competitor, World Series winner — but this conversation went far beyond results. What stood out to me most was how honest he was about pressure, identity, and the mental side of performing when expectations rise. We talked about the moment he realized he was holding himself back by thinking too much...

In this episode, I sit down with Olympian and author Cassidy Krug, who competed in the 2012 Olympic Games in diving and is the author of Resurface . Cassidy shares her journey from growing up in a family of diving coaches to performing on the world’s biggest stage—and what it took internally to get there. We go beyond performance and into the real work behind it. Cassidy opens up about the pressur...

Next week on the Olympic Interview Series I'm talking to Cassidy Krug—a 2012 Olympian in springboard diving.  After that conversation, I kept coming back to one thing—she’s still performing at a high level, but there’s a lightness in how she shows up. And it made me realize something I’ve been seeing in my own life and in the people I work with: We don’t struggle because we care too much. We...

There’s a version of success we all chase—the one that looks incredible from the outside. Making the team. Reaching the Olympics. Getting there. But what happens when that moment doesn’t give you what you thought it would? In this episode, Cal Bouchard— a former Team Canada basketball player who competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and now works as a leadership coach— takes us inside the reality o...

I hear a lot of people talking about what it takes to get somewhere—the work, the sacrifice, the commitment—but almost no one talks about what happens after.  In this solo episode, I step into the space that follows the end of something you built your life around: The silence, the loss of structure, the moment when performance is gone and identity is left exposed. At some point, we all face a...

What happens when the thing you’ve built your entire life around… ends? In this episode, I sit down with Gabriel—an Olympian who did what most people spend their lives chasing. He committed fully, stayed in it, and reached the highest level. But what stood out most wasn’t just what it took to get there… It was what happened after. We talk about identity, pressure, and the reality no one prepares y...

This week on Journey to June , I’m talking about a moment I don’t think gets enough attention—the one right before things start to work. The moment where there’s no proof, no clarity, and nothing around you confirming that you’re on the right path. This episode is part of my Olympic Series, where I’ve been sitting down with elite athletes and unpacking what actually happens beneath performance. On...

An identity built early can feel like certainty—until it’s taken away. In this episode, Kaitlyn Kynast — a U.S. National Team rower and Stanford alum with her sights set on the 2028 Olympics — shares what happens when a young athlete loses the path she thought she was on.  Concussions, isolation, and being pulled out of the very environment that once defined her forced a shift she didn’t choo...

This week on our Olympic Interview Series, I sat down with Tom Howell—U.S. National Curling Team athlete—who opens up about something we don’t talk about enough. Not the wins. Not the highlight reel. But what it feels like when you’ve spent years chasing something… and you’re no longer sure if you want to keep going. Tom shares the reality of building a life around a dream that doesn’t have a clea...

This week on the Journey to June Olympic Interview Series, I sat down with U.S. National Team rower Cedar Cunningham to explore what it really looks like to follow something that doesn’t come with a clear path. From walking onto a college team during COVID to moving across the country without a plan, Cedar shares how trusting a quiet internal pull led him into elite performance. In this conversati...

This week on our Journey to June Olympic Interview Series , I brought back former Princeton rower and coach Madeline Davis Tully for a deeper conversation about the belief systems that shape elite athletes. Madeline first appeared on the podcast sharing her journey through collegiate rowing and coaching. In this episode, she returns to dive deeper into the mindset behind high performance—what it t...