Sitting In Podcast

Chelsea Wolfe is a BMX Freestyle Athlete who was ranked Top 5 in the world leading into the World Championships in 2023. She suddenly got news overnight that she could no longer compete under new UCI legislation that extended to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 

Chelsea's entire life was turned upside down in an instant after having based her financial livelihood and the bulk of her existence around competin...

This week we got to sit down with an absolute legend in the fixed gear cycling space, James Grady. James is the founder of Mission Crit that was a popular fixed gear criterium race in San Francisco that drew crowds of thousands before the pandemic in 2020. 

After that, James went on to lead the Red Bull Bay Climb and Red Bull Short Circuit. This event was highly successful and was proof of concept that cycling fans around ...

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 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 bei...

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 ...

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 t...

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 e...

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 harne...

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 trave...

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 arou...

We got to sit down this week with Terrence Mahon. Terrence comes from a competitive running background and over his 20 years of experience has coached US Olympic Runners, US and European Championship Runners, and countless other professional athletes. 

We got to talk to Terrence about the development of technology in the sport of both sprint and endurance running. We also talked through the mindset and mentality of success...

Alexey Vermeulen is a current professional gravel bike racer. He was previously riding on the World Tour Stage for BMC Devo and later what has now become Jumbo Visma/Visma Lease A Bike. Alexey left the World Tour and began pursuing a career in gravel cycling as it was growing in popularity across the United States and the world. 

Alexey has many successful results to date including national championships and major gravel e...

Laurel Rathbun is a professional female cyclist who raced her bike at the World Tour Level at a very young age. Unfortunately, her professional career was challenged after a horrific crash left her with nerve damage in her right shoulder. She was able to return to the world of professional cycling with shear drive and determination, but racing at this level was never the same for Laurel. 

Laurel eventually retired from the...

Alec Merlino is a Survivor 37 contestant who was ultimately voted off after losing a grueling immunity challenge late in the game. He became the 4th member of the jury but his journey with testing himself physically and mentally has not stopped since the show. 

Alec has finished multiple triathlons, has completed the combined distances of an Iron Man Triathlon, has dabbled in acting, and is an entrepreneur in the health an...

Welcome everyone to The Sitting In Podcast. We've been working on this project for months now and we are so excited to bring this podcast to fruition. We feel that so often Professional Athletes and Athletes in general are defined by their accolades or lack thereof in their sport. 

With this podcast we aim to redefine these athletes through conversations about real life. These conversations are meant to get to the bot...