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, Holly Grahn shares her transformative journey in becoming an ultrarunner, hypnotherapist, and life coach. Her story is a beautiful example of becoming what you needed. She discusses the importance of understanding the subconscious mind, the role of positive language, and how running has served as a therapeutic outlet. Holly talks about some of the science behind hypnotherapy and its effectiveness in addressing deep-seated issues that traditional talk therapy may not reach. You will learn how tapping into your subconscious mind can help you grow more into your own power, as well as bolster your athletic performance. She recounts her experience at the Orcas Island 100 miler and how her own deep work with hypnotherapy and mindset training supported her during the race. This is a must-listen-to episode!
Reach out to Holly at Leading Edge Hypno, book a free consultation and/or learn more about what she does. https://leadingedgehypno.com/hypnotherapy/
Holly's Hypno Gold App Link https://hypnogold.passion.io/join
Rainshadow Running, the amazing folks that put on Orcas 100 mile race, plus other awesome races. https://www.rainshadowrunning.com
Athlete Health Resilience Coaching with me, Stacey, at Joy Before Fear. https://www.joybeforefear.com
Be Bold.
Put Your Health First.
You Got This!
Choose Joy Before Fear.

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