SELF-BELIEF | Biathlete Deedra Irwin is chasing history in Milan-Cortina, trying to earn Team USA their first ever Olympic medal in Biathlon. With a military background, there was plenty of crossover for Irwin into a sport that involves multiples laps of cross country skiing and shooting. Her fight for a medal comes as she, along with her teammates, also fought to overhaul a culture within the sport that allowed sexual harassment to be far too prevalent. Irwin details the emotions felt all too often by those fighting for change and shares her why in the fight and where things stand now with the 2026 Games upon us.

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FIGHT | Annika Malacinski competes in the exact same sport, at the exact same level as her brother but he’s going to the Olympics and she’s not. The Steamboat Springs, Colorado native takes us inside the fight to get women’s nordic combined into the Olympics as the only sport in the entire Games that does not have a women’s division. This episode is for equality and the big and small things each of us women’s sports fans can do to join Annika and the women of nordic combined in their fight.

Support the fight by tuning in to the Men’s Nordic Combined at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games on February 11, 17, and 19, and to this year’s Women’s Nordic Combined World Cups on March 6, 7, 14, and 15.

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LEGACY | Four time Olympic speed skater Brittany Bowe will be competing in her final Olympics in Milan Cortina and this episode is a reflection. It’s a reflection of her incredible accomplishments on the ice, World Records and Olympic medals included, but more than that it’s about legacy. It’s about how she’s lived every day in a way that transcends sport. This is for anyone who’s every felt like they had to break from something that had previously been their identity and is wondering how to find the through line or where to go next.

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PROCESS | Jaelin Kauf has won nearly every accolade possible in her sport of moguls; an Olympic silver, seven-time US Champion, 16 World Cup wins and the reigning World Champion. But this small-town Wyoming athlete is leaning into something entirely different heading into the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics - the process. She explains how a mindset shift set her up to win the silver in Beijing and how leaning further into the present has made every moment feel highlight-worthy. This is for the recovering destination-driven achievers who are looking to slow down the hustle and, to quote Alex Warren, ‘make the mundane, a masterpiece.’

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CONFIDENCE | Kaysha Love exudes the kind of confidence that is so true and solid it’s contagious. The Team USA Bobsled star shares her journey from gymnastics to track to bobsled, detailing how she’s stayed true to herself every step of the way. In this episode you’ll learn how Kaysha and her teammates get their sleds to Europe (spoiler alert it’s RIDICULOUS), what her favorite part of the sport is, and the legacy she’s following in while writing the next chapter herself.

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SUPERMOM | Canadian free skier Cassie Sharpe has added a new job title to her resume since her last Winter Olympics: mom. She says while it’s her favorite one yet, she’s still Cassie the pro skier too. While juggling both titles can be a bit chaotic when trying to travel the world and compete in the halfpipe, she dives into why she’s embracing being one of the trail blazers among female action sports athletes who come back to their sport at the highest level after having a baby. In this episode she shares the tricks she’s learned, the doubts she’s had and exemplifies how women are so f***ing incredible.

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PURPOSE | At 20 years old snowboarder Maddy Schaffrick thought she would never pick up a snowboard again. The sport that had been her life, her career as a pro snowboarder out of Steamboat Springs, Colorado had wrecked her, ruined her, and left her wondering what on earth to do with herself as someone who spent very little of her adolescent years in the ‘regular’ world. She became a plumber, then a coach to little kids to get a free ski pass, and finally a developmental coach to the next-gen of up-and-coming snowboarders. This episode validates the trauma that all-too-often occurs within teenage sport prodigies, we walk through the process of healing, and the ultimate comeback. This PowHERful Podcast is for anyone who’s been hurt in the past who so desperately wants to rewire that pain into purpose. For Maddy it’s led her to her very first Olympic Games. Where could it lead you?

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CALM | Skeleton racer Mystique Ro has officially locked in her spot for Team USA and is heading to her first Olympics! In this [BEST OF] episode, get to know the daughter who grew up as one of the oldest of 11, how that chaos led her to an individual sport she calls her “kernel of chaos,” and what she’s learned from the trail blazers who came before her about creating a legacy that’s lasting in this episode of The PowHERful Podcast.

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