This week we had the opportunity to sit down with United States Professional Women's Sevens Rugby Player Kayla Canett. Kayla talks us through her journey growing up playing sports in San Diego County, to her time at Penn State securing NCAA Championships, and more recently her 2020 Tokyo Olympic experience as well as her OLYMPIC BRONZE at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the rest of the USA Women's Sevens Team.

This is the FIRST medal for any Sevens Team at the olympics. We were excited to hear how it felt in those final seconds at the Paris Games when the Team knew they had locked in the medal after a breakaway last second score in the match by her teammate.

Kayla talks about her true love for the game and what it's like to be an incognito olympian in a lecture hall full of fellow college students.

Kayla plans to get her degree in kinesiology and ideally stay involved in sports in some capacity, but she's got no interest in hanging up the cleats any time soon.

We hope you enjoy this chat with Kayla as much as we did. Go say hey to her on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/kaylacanett/

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This week we had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with founder of Coastal Run Club, local entrepreneur, Real Estate Agent, and community organizer Sun Greene.

Sun is black and asian, having a very unique and interesting upbringing moving to Southern California after having been raised in a communal household early in life.

Sun's unique perspective on childhood traumas, overcoming those traumas, and being such a bright light in the community is unique, inspiring, and refreshing. We thoroughly enjoyed Sun's thoughts on life and the pursuit of real happiness through community.

Sun is truly such a humble and kind individual and we highly encourage you to listen to this whole conversation as there are a million high quality take aways.

If you're looking to join Coastal Run Club check out their Instagram page here:
https://www.instagram.com/coastal.runclub/

Connect with Sun on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/sungreene/

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Get out, get active, and get involved in your community.

Special thanks to Sun for Sitting In on this week's episode!

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Today we had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Georgeta Ungureanu who is a 2 time Romanian National Road Cycling Champion. Georgeta was previously a swimmer and grew up as an athlete. At one point in her life she was so adventurous to pursue skydiving as a sport and hobby before moving to the United States.

After moving to the US Georgeta learned about road cycling through a friend and shortly thereafter tackled her first 200 mile endurance road ride. She fell in love with the sport there and has since moved to California where she found joy in racing and competition.

Georgeta has an entrepreneurial spirit and seeks to inspire young women in the sport through inclusivity and success. The growth of the sport in recent years excites her a great deal. We were happy to sit down and talk about all of these topics and more in this episode.

Georgeta is gearing up to hopefully be fit and competitive enough to make a run at the 2028 Olympics right here in Los Angeles, CA.

We hope that you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation.

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This week we got the opportunity to sit down with Dante Young of the Miami Blazers. Dante has been a professional cyclist primarily racing on the US Criterium Circuit. Dante originally gained popularity racing in the fixed gear criterium scene all over the world at major events like Red Hook and the Rad Race.

Dante then moved toward Criterium racing in the United States and joined L39ion of Los Angeles where he was able to absorb knowledge from the likes of Justin and Cory Williams, Rahsaan Bahati, and other mentors in the sport.

Over time Dante has become quite successful as both a lead out man, and collected many wins on his own. Growing up right here in Southern California offered Dante many challenges when he was young. We talked about how he avoided getting wrapped up in gang activity, managed to stay clean and sober, and ultimately has blazed a trail as a professional athlete via cycling.

Thanks again for coming on Dante and we hope that you all enjoy this episode and Dante's unique perspective on the sport of American Crit Racing as much as we did.

We can't wait to see what this dude does for the future of criterium racing not only here in the US but globally, as well.

Keep inspiring youth and keep engaging with the community.

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This week we sit down with Taylor Warren a professional American Cyclist racing the United States Road Bike Racing Circuit with CS Velo. Taylor has been racing for over 15 years now and shares his expertise as a coach with Source Endurance.

He has had many successes in his career and in this episode we talk about the reality of racing and earning a living in the American Bike Racing scene. We talk about what it means to earn an income racing and the level of commitment required to do so. We talked through being passionate in your sport and touched on so many other fantastic topics.

The most important, however, may have been the health of the general population of the United States and the sleep epidemic, amongst other things we are facing.

Overall, this was a fantastic conversation with Taylor and we're excited to bring this episode to y'all.

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https://www.instagram.com/taywar92/

Need a Coach?
https://source-e.net/our-coaches/taylor-warren/

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Adam Mills is the current owner of coaching co-operative Source Endurance based in San Diego, California with coaches across the United States. Originally cutting his teeth with Carmichael Training Systems, one of the most prominent training systems in cycling, Adam returned to school and finished his graduate degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology.

Adam now puts his knowledge of science and how the body operates to harness the maximum potential possible in his athletes. Not only does Adam individually coach countless athletes, he has employed 7 other developing coaches under the Source Endurance Umbrella. With over 150 athletes turning to Source Endurance for their training, it's safe to say that Source Endurance has been quite successful since 2008 when Adam acquired the company.

In this episode we talk about the effects of placebo on athletic performance, the science behind VO2 testing and what athletes would benefit from chasing down this crucial data.

Source Endurance has coached many successful athletes including the likes of Alex Hoehn, Cory Williams, Justin Williams, Whitney Alison, and others.

We hope you enjoyed this conversation with Adam as much as we did!

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https://source-e.net/

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This week we got to sit down with legendary big air snowboarder Jussi Oksanen. Jussi is known not only for his competition successes both competing in the Halfpipe in the 1998 Olympics and having medaled and won X-Games competitions in the past, but also his creativity and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Jussi originally grew up near Helsinki, Finland where he fell in love with skating and shortly after, snowboarding. He traveled the world chasing the best snow in the backcountry with Burton Snowboards and finally retired a few years back to pursue other endeavors.

Jussi is now a successful photographer shooting major brand campaigns, many of which revolve around active lifestyle photography.

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. Jussi has great insight into navigating being a dad while traveling for work, tackling big challenges without considering failure, assessing risk, and pursuing/monetizing your true passions.

Find Jussi on Instagram or at his website:
https://www.jussioksanen.com/
https://www.instagram.com/JUSSIOKSANEN

Check out his company Mizu:
https://www.mizulife.com/collections/all-products

Thanks for the clips:

X-Games Real Snow Backcountry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV2JefdQFVg

Follow Me Around - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsu7rJArxPg&t=2157s

Heikki Sorsa & Jussi Oksanen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfAYgzEaV9s

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Elliott Davis is a former NCAA 400M and 4x400M Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Sprinter. He was an All-American Runner on the 4x400M team at the University of Minnesota. Originally from Las Vegas and inspired by his mother, Elliott grew up playing in the Marching Band and competing in track & field events.

More recently, Elliott found the sport of cycling. Originally he was working in a bike shop and whipping around town on a fixed gear as a bike messenger. Eventually, he moved out to San Diego and started riding and racing his bike at the San Diego Velodrome. This is where he was introduced to track cycling.

After some time training locally, Elliott took part in the Search For Speed Program by USA Cycling that seeks out untapped talent across the United States. In this episode we talk at length about his journey through the Search For Speed program and his development as an athlete.

Stay tuned for his potential run at the 2028 Olympics as a Track Cycling Sprinter.

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