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, coaches, and business owners helping others live healthier, more resilient lives. Through storytelling, shared experiences, and practical insights, these conversations highlight people who care deeply about their work, their communities, and the lives they touch.
Host: Stacey Nievweija
Be Bold. Put Your Health First. You’ve Got This! Choose Joy Before Fear™
In this episode, Mindy McEachran joins the Joy Before Fear podcast. Mindy is the person behind Crimson Rose Counseling, a trauma-informed art therapist based in Portland, Oregon. We talk about art therapy and why, if creating art isn’t a part of your life, considering bringing it in can help you build resilience and express yourself more fully.
Mindy is a lifelong athlete as well as a lifelong artist. As an athlete, she’s played basketball, been an avid triathlete, and competed in bodybuilding. As an artist, it’s been a form of self-expression and a career, she was a graphic designer for Pearl Izumi and other brands in the sports nutrition and bodybuilding industries while competing in triathlon, taught in the public school system. Now she is a trauma-informed art therapist. We talk about the difference between art and creativity, and we get into the term “resilience” and the phrase “health resilience”, how our ego can get in the way of that relationship. How there’s a point where the word “resilience” may be doing more harm than good.
Work with Mindy via Crimson Rose Counseling: https://www.crimsonrosecounseling.com
Instagram: @crimsonrosecnsl
Therapy Journal: search “Art Therapy Journal Mindy McEachran” on Amazon
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Be Bold. Put Your Health First. You Got This. Choose Joy Before Fear.
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