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.
Joy Before Fear explores the stories of people who embody what it means to Choose Joy Before Fear. From runners, ultrarunners, and athletes to professionals and business owners helping others live healthier, more resilient lives. People who are doing work that affect all aspects of daily life. These conversations highlight people who care deeply about their work, their communities, the lives they touch, and the planet we call home.
Host: Stacey Nievweija
Be Bold. Put Your Health First. You’ve Got This! Choose Joy Before Fear™
In this episode, Ashley Yates joins the Joy Before Fear podcast. Ashley is the owner of Rose City Barbell and author of the book of “Give it Purpose”. Her gym is a CrossFit gym where she has members of all ages youth, teens, all the way up to people in their 70s are all participating in the same classes.
We talk about the mind-body connection of Olympic lifting. As well as all the benefits and why you should consider giving it a go, that you can get those benefits even while practicing with something as simple as a PVC pipe. You don't need to necessarily have the super heavy weights in order to benefit from the mind-body connection.
We hear about how in the third grade Ashley won tickets in a reading contest to go watch a professional basketball game where the Blazers played the Bulls and how winning those tickets and watching that game planted a seed that has brought her to where she is today.
”Come As You Are” is written on the gym wall. Ashley has worked hard to create and environment that allows people to find community in fitness and also get fit while in community.
Wanna go workout at Rose City Barbell? https://www.rosecitybarbell.com
Ashley's book, ”Give it Purpose”, can be found on Amazon
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Be Bold. Put Your Health First. You Got This. Choose Joy Before Fear.
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