Kelly Wetteland is a senior at the University of Arizona, a rising triathlete on the World Cup circuit, and someone trying to figure out how to grow up without losing herself in sport.

In this conversation, we talk about identity, ambition, spirituality, burnout, and the strange transition from being a college athlete into the “real world.” Kelly opens up about breaking both arms in a bike crash, the pressure of high-performance environments, and learning how to chase big goals without letting results define her worth.

We also dive into her upbringing in Los Alamos, New Mexico, life on the Arizona triathlon team, traveling through Europe to race, and why she’s fascinated by long-term thinking, history, and faith. Along the way, we get into parenting, gratitude, saying no, the importance of discomfort, and what it means to become the best version of yourself.

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Liv Dietzel is a professional triathlete, engineer, and coach who races in places most people can't find on a map — the Himalayas, Patagonia, Norway, Brazil. She's won four extreme triathlons and is chasing every one of the fifteen that exist. But underneath all of that is a story that starts somewhere much quieter — a small Catholic farming town in Wisconsin, a dad who ran all over cross country courses just to cheer her on, and a brain cancer diagnosis in 2014 that changed the trajectory of everything.

Liv sits down with me to talk about losing her father to glioblastoma during COVID, why she started doing Ironmans in the first place, and what it felt like to cross that first finish line with him standing at the end of it. We get into her faith, the grief stages she did and didn't go through, and why suffering alone in silence on a mountain in the middle of nowhere is where she feels closest to God.

We also dig into what makes extreme triathlon so different from the standard Ironman circuit, why she pulled out of Dallas 70.3 because she felt absolutely nothing standing at the start line, and the coaching philosophy she built around the coach she never had growing up.

This one goes deep. Bring a coffee.

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Gabrielle Suver was four months out from her best season ever as a pro triathlete — fit, focused, and ready to race Ironman Cozumel. Then on a routine shakeout ride, a truck hit her and drove away. Twenty plus breaks, open fractures, a month in the hospital, and the very real possibility that she might not walk again.

Four months later she's back on her road bike.

Gabby sits down with me to talk about what she remembers from the crash site, the peace she found while lying against a fence not knowing if she would live or die, and why she never really felt anger toward the driver who left her there. We get into her journey from a sickly, bullied kid in New York to a late-blooming pro athlete, her battle with anorexia in high school, the string of medical setbacks throughout 2024 that she now believes were preparing her for this, and the daily practices — nutrition, journaling, gratitude, therapy, and faith — that are fueling one of the most remarkable recoveries in the sport.

This one is raw, honest, and quietly powerful. Gabby doesn't perform strength — she just has it.

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