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The Common Threads
by David Swain
The Common Threads is a podcast about today’s leaders, athletes, educators and coaches who leave their mark through their actions. Each episode travels through time to explore the childhoods, influences, and habits of the world's leading athletes, industry experts and entrepreneurs. If you want a deeper look into who these people are, check out The Common Threads hosted by David Swain @swain.
Episodes
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Pioneering Running Coach Greg McMillan: Extraordinary is in All of Us
Greg McMillan didn’t set out to become one of the greatest running coaches in America. He started diving into the research in high school with a simple goal: to run faster. Fast forward three decades and McMillan has coached over 10,000 Boston Marathon qualifiers, 12 National Champions, and...
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Tech Veteran Ime Archibong on Leading with Purpose
“Genius is everywhere.” An unsurprising phrase from someone like Ime Archibong who has had a front row seat to some of the greatest movements in tech over the past two decades. But for Ime, the son of proud Nigerian immigrants, the phrase has a much deeper meaning. If genius is everywhere, how do...
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Bailey Richardson: Building Communities that Get Together and Stay Together
Bailey Richardson grew up with a foundational belief “that you can make any future you want.” This “naive optimism,” as she calls it, led her to the startup world, where, in her early 20s, she became one of the first dozen employees at Instagram and worked closely with Prokit co-founder, David...
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EverAthlete founder Dr. Matt Smith: Mastering Movement, Strength, Breath and Why the Pros are Pros
Dr. Matt Smith helps the pros reach the highest levels, whether they’re competing at Ironman, chasing gold at the Mountain Bike World Championships, running Western States, or playing in the NBA or NFL. But at his training center and clinic, EverAthlete, he’s just as dedicated to training someone...
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Rebecca Rusch: Be Good, Be Vulnerable and Don’t Stop Learning
Rebecca Rusch's nickname is the Queen of Pain -- for good reason. She has pushed herself to excel at every outdoor adventure imaginable, continuously reimagining what's possible and leaving her mark on everything from mountain biking and adventure racing to solo pursuits in the Alaskan…
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WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson on Running and the Future of Media
Wired’s chief editor, Nicholas Thompson, has thought a lot about the intersection of technology, media and society. As a long-time journalist and editor at the The New Yorker and Wired, Nick can talk about media and tech the same way many pro athletes can recount in vivid detail a moment from an...
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Pro Cyclist Sarah Sturm Does it Her Way
Sarah Sturm, aka Sturmy, is an all-in, full of emotion, badass. She packs a big smile with an unconventional approach that has led her to the podium of cycling’s biggest adventures on anything with two wheels. But unlike so many data-obsessed pro athletes, Sarah does things mostly by feel. So…
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Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar on Kindness and Finding your Path
Sarah Friar joined us for this podcast a few weeks before the current events related to George Floyd and race in America. While our minds and hearts are elsewhere, the common threads in Sarah’s journey on charting your path and kindness are important to spotlight. Sarah’s story is anything but...
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Sarah Piampiano-Lord, from 100-hour weeks to the top of Triathlon
Sarah Piampiano-Lord (@spiampiano) is one of the top triathletes in the world, finishing first or second in 7 of the eleven 70.3 and Ironman races she entered in 2019. Ten years ago, she was a 30-year-old, cigarette-smoking investment banker who worked 100+ hour weeks and barely exercised. A...
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Dr. Megan Roche and David Roche on Running, Coaching and Finding your Why
Dr. Megan Roche (@meganroche) and David Roche (@davidroche) have made their mark on the trail running world. While they have street cred through national titles and Trail Runner of the Year awards, it’s their contributions to the running community as coaches, authors and purveyors of the Happy...
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Sports Nutritionist Anne Guzman on health, performance and finding what works for you
Anne Guzman is a sports nutritionist, former pro cyclist and lifelong learner obsessed with sports science and helping people reach their physical and mental potential. We caught up with Anne for this podcast to go over how athletes can maintain health during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well…
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Jeremy Jones’ Road from Snowboarding Pioneer to Climate Champion
Jeremy Jones didn't set out to start a movement or change an industry. But he did, reimagining snowboarding and forever shaping how big mountains are ridden. He could have stopped there. Instead, he started a climate movement with Protect our Winters, created Jones Snowboards to push snowboarding...
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Zwift CEO Eric Min on Entrepreneurship, eSports and Reinventing Indoor Cycling
When Eric Min was thinking about starting the indoor cycling giant Zwift in 2013, he wasn’t sure his previous business success was enough to justify calling himself an entrepreneur. He turned to his co-founder from his last startup and asked, “did we just get lucky or are we entrepreneurs? Let’s...
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Sonya Looney: Mindset, Pregnancy and Life as a Pro
Whether as a pro mountain biker at the world's biggest ultra endurance races, or as an entrepreneur, Sonya Looney turns ideas into actions and has stacked the deck in her corner for maintaining a growth mindset. Navigating life as a pro athlete, and now a pregnant athlete, is certainly not for…
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Ultrarunner YiOu Wang: Learning, Consistency & the Pursuit of Excellence
YiOu Wang didn’t grow up a runner, or even an athlete. Her form of competition was excellence in academics and you’d find her on the math and debate teams. Fast forward to today and she’s one of the world’s top trail and ultra runners. Her path has one common thread, whether in sport or…
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Alison Tetrick: From Brain Injury to Gravel Adventures; Life as a Pro Cyclist
Pro cyclist Alison Tetrick didn’t have a traditional upbringing full of team sports and structured activities. Rather, Alison grew up on a cattle ranch, and used her grit, drive and belief that anything was possible to become a collegiate tennis player before quickly hitting the cycling world…
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Mario Fraioli: Athlete, Coach & Host of The Morning Shakeout Podcast
In the running world, Mario Fraioli has covered it all. He immersed himself in the sport first as an athlete, and now as a podcaster, coach, and author. Today, Mario combines a love of the sport with innate curiosity—he’s got empathy for everyone he meets, especially those who come into life...
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Sarah True on a Life of Endurance
Triathlete Sarah True has spent over a decade on world podiums. She was the top American in triathlon at the 2012 London Olympics with a fourth place finish. In 2018, she made the leap to Ironman distance and instantly made a mark, finishing 2nd at Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt and...
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Rich Roll, A Life Transformed
Rich Roll had the American Dream—Cornell and Stanford degrees, a great job, a wife, but by age 39 the pieces weren’t lining up. In Rich’s words, “From the outside looking in, it all looked pretty great, but on the inside I was like this decaying corpse. I was really dying because I was living at...
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Kate Courtney, World Champion Mountain Biker
Kate Courtney played a lot of sports growing up. She skied, ran cross country, rode horses, and did gymnastics. And like many kids, her bike was a fun a way to get to blueberry pancakes on Sunday mornings with her parents. It turns out she's pretty good at riding to pancakes. At only 22, Kate…
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The Common Threads is a podcast about today’s leaders, athletes, educators and coaches who leave their mark through their actions. Each episode travels through time to explore the childhoods, influences, and habits of the world's leading athletes, industry experts and entrepreneurs. If you want a deeper look into who these people are, check out The Common Threads hosted by David Swain @swain.
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