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Kegels and Coffee
by Isabel von Rittberg
What’s a Kegel? WTF am I doing with my life? What if I don’t want babies? Am I the only one that doesn’t have it figured out? Settle in and join host Isabel von Rittberg in her raw, vulnerable, and sometimes outrageous conversations about the things that keep us up at night. No topic is taboo, nothing is off limits.
Episodes
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Building A New Life & The American Dream
My father, Hans-Georg Graf von Rittberg, was born on March 27, 1943, on his family’s estate in Pomerania during World War II. In early 1945, his mother, Karin Gräfin von Rittberg, eight months pregnant, fled with her two sons ahead of the Russian occupation. Her husband was executed in April 1945...
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Life Is a Quilt
My mother, Gretchen Elizabeth Wetzel, was born in Glendive Montana in 1949. Her mother’s family had arrived in covered wagons in Willow Creek Valley in 1891. But this is not where the traveling ended. After moving to Missoula, my grandfather was hired by the Ford Foundation as an educational...
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Creating Comes From Nothing
Born in Scotland, Angie Seckinger spent her childhood moving a lot all over the globe, from Pakistan, Columbia, Chile and Guatemala to Arizona, Washington DC, Maryland and Germany. Her dad was a foreign service officer and her life was never boring. Angie has been an artist and professional...
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This Is All I've Got
When I first moved to Spain late last summer, I expected to jump straight into my new job at a local winery, guiding tourists and explaining the history of Priorat. I had prepared and studied for the position, but when I arrived the job fell through. Disheartened at first, I then welcomed the...
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How to Find (and Practice!) Your Self-Care Routine
We recorded this episode with Laura Jolley late last summer. I had found her yoga class in Grand Junction shortly after moving there and it changed the entire experience of a difficult phase of my life. With deep stretches and breath work, Laura helped me sink into emotional layers beneath all…
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Love & Loss
Christie Blackmon grew up in northeast Ohio. She studied marketing and psychology at Kent State University and started climbing in her twenties. Her new passion led her to travel throughout the US, Mexico, Thailand and Spain and eventually settle in Colorado, where we met. Though there have been...
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The Things That Keep Us Up At Night
IF YOU ARE CURIOUS WHY MY PODCAST IS CALLED ‘KEGELS AND COFFEE’ THIS EPISODE HAS THE ANSWER FOR YOU! Susan Vachon and I go way back to the California days. She danced for my company in 2009 and has been a friend for longer than that. Susan grew up in suburban New York. After completing her…
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An Outsider in Engineering: Breaking Into the Boys’ Club
Janet Tsai grew up in Colorado and with parents from Taiwan always was a minority within the white world of the Front Range. In our conversation we talked about what it felt like to grow up in Fort Collins, where classmates mistook her adopted friends from Korea as her siblings, her older…
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Traveling Spanish Style
Colette McInerney grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She fell in love with rock climbing, and the lifestyle that came with it, while she was in college. Colette is a talented climber and has a magic touch when it comes to capturing moments with her lens. She has filmed for National Geographic and…
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We Are Not Robots, As It Turns Out
Welcome back to Kegels and Coffee! I am excited to start off with the one and only Steven Dimmitt, host of The Nugget Climbing Podcast. Known as a passionate rock climber who interviews world-class rock climbers and coaches, bringing us new insights, the latest training trends and life wisdom,...
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Loving in the Midst of Gunshots
I got back to the US on May 27th, three days after the Uvalde Texas school shooting where 21 children and teachers died. Five days later, four more people were killed in the hospital shooting in Tulsa Oklahoma. At that point, we had had 223 shootings in the US just in 2022. Since the 4th of July...
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Leaving Russia in Search of a New Life
Dasha Kan was born in Ufa (Urals), Russia. Growing up, she spent a lot of time with her grandparents. Dasha fell in love with rock climbing at age nine and won four world youth championships in speed climbing. She moved to Tyumen, Siberia to go to University and continued training with her coach…
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The Simple Life
Florian Friedel (aka ‘Flo’) was born and raised in Pforzheim, Germany. Flo started working as a programmer running cnc-machines when he was twenty years old, the same year he fell in love with rock climbing. But three years later, he felt trapped in a job that gave him little freedom to travel…
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To Have or Not to Have: That Is the Baby Question
Sarah Dao was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. Her father is from Vietnam, her mother is German. Sarah started climbing at the age of fourteen and since then has only taken two non-climbing vacations. She has the luxury of working remotely for a software tech company as a consultant and lives...
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Dutch People In the Mountains
Wendy Dijs was born in 1979 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Her parents were both artists and lived a very comfortable life in a country that was democratic, took good care of its citizens and also supported the arts. She was only five years old, when her family decided to go on an adventure and take…
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When Failure Dysphoria Is Turned Up
Madaleine Sorkin travels to climb long, difficult rock walls from the Rockies to Yosemite where she has freed up to 5.13+ on El Capitan and the Diamond on Longs Peak. She has completed first free ascents as far as Kyrgyzstan, Patagonia and Jordan. Increasingly a self-described homebody, Madeleine...
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Latino Love
Cayden Eldridge grew up on the East Coast, just outside Washington, DC. He was raised by a Chilean mother and an American father. Annual visits to Chile where he spent time with his nine aunts and uncles and thirty-five first cousins made a huge impact on his life. Today Cayden lives in…
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Self Care: Are You Listening to Yourself?
Emily Korth is an artist and climber who has spent the greater part of a decade living out of vehicles and traveling in pursuit of fulfillment. You can most likely find her climbing in Rifle Canyon, hiking in the Colorado Rockies, or dancing by a fire. Emily has a BFA in Ceramics and photography...
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A Father/Son Ascent Turns Epic
Klaas Willems was born in 1986 in Leuven, Belgium with a genetic lung and digestive disease called Cystic Fibrosis. CF causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system and other organs in the body. One of the first things the doctors told Klaas when he was a little boy was that he wasn’t going...
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Learning Vulnerability
Jenna Blumenfeld grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut where she began her formal ballet training at the New England Academy of Dance. After high school, she discovered modern dance, eventually leading her to earn a B.S. in Kinesiology-Dance at Indiana University. While attending IU, she performed…
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Van Life, Desert Dwelling and the Luxury of Warm Toilet Seats
Natalie Jaime grew up in Fayetteville, NC. She got her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a focus on media production at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and then proceeded to move to Washington DC where she worked as an Associate Producer for National Geographic. Later, Natalie...
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Boys Don't Cry
Chris Hopper was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He began studying classical piano at the age of 5 which sparked in him a love for music that has continued until this day. Today he plays gigs professionally with various bands playing everything from jazz, funk, hip hop, and jam band to…
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From Veterinarian to Pro Rock Climber to Mother
Heather Weidner grew up in Las Vegas, NV. After five years as a veterinarian and weekend warrior, she finally realized that what she really wanted to be doing was rock climbing. Heather is a perfect mix of gentle and fierce: as sweet as can be with people and animals – always smiling – but...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What’s a Kegel? WTF am I doing with my life? What if I don’t want babies? Am I the only one that doesn’t have it figured out? Settle in and join host Isabel von Rittberg in her raw, vulnerable, and sometimes outrageous conversations about the things that keep us up at night. No topic is taboo, nothing is off limits.
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Isabel von Rittberg
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What’s a Kegel? WTF am I doing with my life? What if I don’t want babies? Am I the only one that doesn’t have it figured out? Settle in and join host Isabel von Rittberg in her raw, vulnerable, and sometimes outrageous conversations about the things that keep us up at night. No topic is taboo,...
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