Joy Before Fear
Joy Before Fear
Podcast Description
Health resilience keeps runners, ultrarunners, and endurance athletes adapting, recovering, and thriving for the long haul.
Joy Before Fear is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. A shift beyond grit-and-grind culture to what truly sustains performance. Because it’s not just about training—it’s about whether you can recover and get the adaptations you’re chasing.
Through real strategies, athlete stories, and live race spotlights, this podcast helps you train smarter, recover better, and build an athletic life that lasts.
Be bold. Put your health first. You got this. Choose Joy Before Fear™
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of athletic resilience, personal growth, and the mental aspects of endurance sports, highlighted by episodes such as Jenny Low discussing her connection to nature and mindset practices at the Orcas Island 100 miler and Ted Clifton sharing his journey to becoming an ultrarunner while advocating for environmental sustainability in home building.
Health resilience keeps runners, ultrarunners, and endurance athletes adapting, recovering, and thriving for the long haul.
Joy Before Fear is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. A shift beyond grit-and-grind culture to what truly sustains performance. Because it’s not just about training—it’s about whether you can recover and get the adaptations you’re chasing.
Through real strategies, athlete stories, and live race spotlights, this podcast helps you train smarter, recover better, and build an athletic life that lasts.
Be bold. Put your health first. You got this. Choose Joy Before Fear™
In this episode, Stacey shares a conversation she had in November of 2025 with Annette Kennedy. Annette shares her “Fit for Life” approach to health, movement, and her athletic goals. In this conversation, we learn what it took to turn the dial from daily survival mode into thriving while living with ankylosing spondylitis.
Annette was generous in sharing her story and candid about the ups and downs of navigating a chronic health condition while holding down jobs, being a mom, being a wife, and being a community builder, all while continuing to fight for her athletic identity. She shares how becoming vegan helped turn the dial from survive to thrive, how her quality of life changed, and what it was like to participate in her first bodybuilding competition in 2025 at the age of 50. This is a grounded and honest conversation about health, resilience, and athletic identity.
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Be Bold. Put Your Health First. You Got This. Choose Joy Before Fear.
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