Olympians & Elite Athlete Interviews Episodes

World Champion swimmer and U.S. National Team member, Margo Geer, joins the podcast and talks about lessons learned on the comeback trail. Geer speaks about her decision to spend a year out of the pool and how it helped her reconnect with her love of swimming. Geer also shares tips for using positive self-talk to reach goals. Subscribe to the Champion's Mojo podcast on YouTube. Leave us a review, too! If you subscribe on YouTube you could win one of our monthly prizes. Champion on's Mojo is als...

They say patience is a virtue and life likes to test it. This episode highlights the extreme patience practiced by Ella Eastin, one of the USA’s toughest swim stars and member of the National Team. Ella Eastin discusses a couple of major setbacks that delayed her Olympic swimming dreams and how she is patiently waiting to make her mark on the international long course scene with hosts Kelly Palace and Maria Parker. Subscribe to the Champion's Mojo podcast on YouTube. Leave us a review, too! I...

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How do you stay strong in the face of adversity - and how do you do it with tenacity and grace? US swimmer Madisyn Cox joins the podcast to talk about overcoming a major career setback to continue to do the sport she loves -- swimming. Cox discusses how time management and tapping into her life’s support system has aided her success so far. She shares her goals for the future, including training to qualify for the 2020 Olympics and applying for medical schools. “Even in tough times, you still...

Rowdy Gaines is the feature of this episode’s Road Trip Segment where he speaks with host Kelly Palace about the role that enthusiasm has played in his success in the pool and in life. He credits his father’s big personality and his four daughters for feeding his enthusiasm in life, as well as a genuine love for swimming. He says the keys to his success in swimming and life are a sense of responsibility, dedication to the sport or career, teamwork and taking risks. Kelly Palace and co-host Mari...

Imperfect Life On today’s episode, Kelly Palace and Maria Parker interview Olympian Summer Sanders about her life after athletics, discussing what she is doing as a businesswoman, wife and mother of two. Sanders calls in to the show from her home in Spain where she is living for a year with her family as a way to purposefully retreat from the busyness of modern family life. Sanders talks about embracing the imperfect moments in life and letting yourself experience them. She discusses he...

Big-Hearted Swimming On today’s episode, Kelly Palace shares her interview with distance swimmer Zane Grothe that she conducted at the recent Pro Swim Series event in Bloomington, Ind. Grothe talks about how watching himself on video improves his technique and how other swimmers like Michael Phelps, Michael Andrew and Caeleb Dressel inspire him. Grothe talks about how pushing himself to do his best in the pool has helped him succeed in other areas of life too. He shares a typical training wee...

Today Kelly and Maria talk with a high-performing elite team, the Andrew family, featuring world champion Michael Andrew and his dad/coach Peter Andrew in Encinitas, CA. What Michael has accomplished at such a young age is beyond impressive. At only 19, he has already been an international sensation, winning a World Championship, multiple Junior World Titles and Junior World records, breaking over 100 age-group records and he just keeps getting faster. Recently, Michael is dominating the TYR Pro...

Subscribe to the Champion's Mojo podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play. Leave us a review, too! Innovation is part of a champion’s mindset. In this episode, hosts Kelly Palace and Maria Parker speak with Mel Stewart, co-founder of SwimSwam, the hub for swimming information. Stewart, better known as “Gold Medal Mel”, won three Olympic medals at the 1992 Games before moving on to a career in media. Stewart talks about the “Dean Farris effect” and the phenomenon he’s beco...

Regaining athletic form after illness or injury takes a mental toll as well as physical. 1988 Olympic medalist Mitzi Kremer joins the show and talks with hosts Kelly Palace and Maria Parker about her own health setbacks and how they've strengthened her resolve as an athlete. Check out the youth swimming organization Mitzi mentions: Blaze Sports. Email us at HELLO@ChampionsMojo.com. Opinions discussed are not medical advice, please seek a medical professional for your own health concerns. ...

The Champion's Mojo podcast introduces its first guest interview, with US Open Water National Team Member and 2019 5K World Championships Bronze Medalist Hannah Moore. Moore talks about how a failure in her own swimming career led to a big success. Hosts Kelly Palace and Maria Parker reiterate that failure happens -- but the lessons from it build champions. Have something you want to share with us? Email it to 4championsmojo@gmail.com. Keep up with the show by visiting...