Best Heather Caplan Podcasts (2025)

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Renee Hodges DPT: What endurance athletes need to know about Bone Stress Injuries 46:02

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" We have a lot of work to do to help improve the health of [running] culture, like the basic understanding of what it means to be a healthy runner," shares Renee Hodges DPT. Renee Hodges is a physical therapist (DPT) based in the Phoenix AZ area, specializing in endurance athletes. As an endurance athlete herself, Hodges shares that she has experi…

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Meghann Featherstun RDN: Running after a sacral stress fracture, and sports nutrition trends in 2025 58:08

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" I just needed to do all of those things for myself before I really talked about it publicly. Plus, I was not in a great head space about it at first, as most people aren't with a big injury," says well-known sports dietitian Meghann Featherstun, RDN MS CSSD, in regards to the post where she shared her sacral stress fracture injury at the end of 2…

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Jess McClain on Fueling, Pro Running Round 2, and her 2025 Boston Marathon 1:00:01

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" I think I was just trying to make only running work for me and I just am not the kind of person that can only run. I need other things in my life," shares Jess McClain, who most recently finished 7th overall and first American across the finish line at the 2025 Boston Marathon, in 2:22:43, a 3-minute personal best. Jess McClain is professional ma…

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Sasha Gollish on Perimenopause, and Gender Equity in Sport 58:13

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"My big fear with all of this is the trickle down," Dr. Sasha Gollish joins us on the episode, to chat about her work in Gender Equity in sport, her time as a professional runner for team Canada, how she knew she was in perimenopause, and much more. Gollish ran at a younger age, but took some time off and worked as an engineer in Toronto before get…

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Emilia Benton, 14x marathoner and freelance journalist 38:54

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"I didn't know what I was doing at all...I didn't take any gels in my first marathon...Now I take gels like every 5K or sometimes every 30 minutes." Emilia Benton is a freelance health and wellness journalist who is particularly passionate about sharing diverse stories and elevating underrepresented voices. Her work has been published by outlets su…

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Alexa Efraimson: From pro runner at 17 to Registered Dietitian helping athletes fuel without restriction 48:58

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"For so long, every conversation, every day, was like, 'what is your weight?' So really like reinforcing confidence and performance all around the number on the scale." Alexa Efraimson signed a professional running contract with Nike when she was just 17 years old. She hadn't gone through puberty yet, and while did shortly after that, her cycles w…

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Molly Bookmyer, Elite runner on making big fueling changes, and finding what works for you 43:57

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"{Houston} was a really great season opener and showed me again that I could fuel like I even fuel in the half marathon now, it's I'm able to take fuel. It's, and sustain my training and feel healthy and finishing strong in my races," shares Molly Bookmyer. Bookmyer is an elite distance runner based in Columbus OH. She walked onto the Ohio State XC…

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Navigating disordered eating, amenorrhea, and performance anxiety in collegiate athletics with Natalie Tyner 45:11

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"I had lost my period for a year. I was definitely not eating nearly enough, eating healthy to an extreme point...it was a very unhealthy relationship with my body," shares Natalie Tyner, who was a North Carolina State Champion in high school and went on to compete collegiately for University of NortH Carolina (UNC). Natalie is now focusing her wor…

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Annie Rodenfels: Period health, Queerness in running, Body dysmorphia, and coaching herself (for now!) 55:25

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"I feel like on every team I've been on, I've been someone who has eaten the most...which is sometimes a little daunting." Annie Rodenfels joins Lane 9 to talk about everything from period health, queerness in running, body dysmorphia, and why she's still coaching herself...longer than she anticipated doing so! Rodenfels is a professional runner ba…

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Lindsey Hein on Running After a Hysterectomy, Mastectomy, and Four Kids! 52:44

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"I think for so many years I was married to like, if I don't get the run in, I don't feel like I got a quality workout in and I just don't feel like that anymore," shares Lindsey Hein, host of I'll Have Another, among other podcasts produced by her media company, Sandy Boy Productions. Lindsey is a 17-time marathoner, running coach, mom of 4, race …

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Equinox Trainer Amanda Katz on Nailing the Basics (Fuel!), Eating Disorders, and "Looking" Fit 58:02

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"It's an act of resistance, in taking care ourselves, especially for those of us who have had a disordred relationship with food. Take care of yourself not just because you want to feel good on your runs, but because you want to be a badass in life." Amanda Katz is a personal trainer, running coach, Equinox trainer and programmer for indoor cycling…

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Neely Spence Gracey, Running 4 Marathons in 2024 and What's Next 57:30

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"It was pressure I put on myself. Because I saw other athletes and I wanted to be part of that, okay, look, I want to prove that they did the right thing supporting me during my pregnancy, and now I'm going to come back for them." Neely Spence Gracey ran professionally for eight years after a lot of success as a collegiate runner in the D2 program …

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Amelia Boone, on Eating Disorder Recovery in Her 40s 39:49

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"I absolutely know, had I not made that decision to go back into treatment, I would be still spinning my wheels in like a very, very harmful place. So, it was a risk worth taking." Amelia Boone, as many of you know, is an Obstacle Racing World Champion turned Ultrarunner, attorney by day, and eating disorder awareness advocate and writer. She had a…

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Why we started Lane 9, 8 years ago (Part 1) 48:44

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Eight years ago, on the eve of Eating Disorder Awareness Week in 2017, we decided to go live with our personal stories—our lived experiences with disordered eating, hypothalamic amenorrhea, running, injuries, all of it—and see what happened. We had BIG Ideas for Lane 9 Project, but the only way we knew how to start, was to write. Alexis wrote her e…

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Julianne Morse on how therapy and nutrition counseling fueled her to big PRs as a D3 athlete 42:37

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"A lot of us were really struggling with our own issues, particularly related to issues with eating disorders, issues with body image that sort of thing, myself included. and I think unknowingly I was kind of passing it on to my teammates," shares Julianne Morse, or Coach Jules as she's known these days! Morse joined the Wheaton Lyons women's cross…

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Val Rubio Meza, from 400m to a 2:55 Marathon at CIM 47:31

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"I never once felt like myself while I was running in college," shares Val Rubio Meza on the Lane 9 Podcast. But she certainly found her stride with running groups, and longer distances, after her collegiate running days were over. While she specialized in the 400m in high school and college, and couldn't fathom doing a 6 mile training run, she eve…

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Katie Steele on Mental Health in Sports, Coaching Dynamics, and "The Price She Pays" 53:57

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Katie Steele LMFT competed for University of Oregon and Florida State as a collegiate runner, and now incorporates her experiences with mental health struggles, unethical coaching practices, and the pressures of collegiate athletics into her work as a therapist. She co-authored the book, "The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Cri…

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Cate Barrett: Unlearning "faster is better", and rebuilding postpartum 1:01:25

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"I've done a lot of work trying to unpack the ''faster is better, or faster is the only way to run...it sounds so silly saying it out loud, but it's just been like, weighing on my consciousness." Cate Barrett shares about this process, of unlearning the one and only way she knew how and was trained to run, as a competitive collegiate athlete and fi…

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Caila Yates RDN on Running Groups and Diet Culture, How to Fuel Adequately Anyway 57:13

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"Okay, no one on your team is fueling. But, what if you're the person to set the example?" Caila Yates is a sports and eating disorder dietitian based in Boulder CO, in private practice (Steady State Nutrition). She started running in college because one of her friends was doing it, and the rest is history. For her, running was supportive to her ow…

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Marine Corps Marathon Winner Tessa Barrett on Navigating Early Success, Grief, and Post-Collegiate Running 52:22

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"When I was in college I saw a lot of people struggling, not just myself, because it's just a very difficult time." Tessa (Tess) Barrett won the 2013 Foot Locker National Cross Country Championship as a senior in High School. She was featured on a billboard in her hometown! The highs were high, and it could seem like everything was going well at th…

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5 Big Changes to Lane 9 in 2025! 13:24

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Hello 2025! The year we are connecting female-bodied athletes to the clinicians and coaches who are trained and equipped to support their fully body health—menstrual, mental, and physical wellbeing that keeps athletes in their game(s). Tune into this short n' sweet episode to hear from Lane 9 Co-founder, Heather Caplan, about what we're up to this …

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2x Olympian, Weightlifter, and RD2Be Jourdan Delacruz, of Her Athlete 52:28

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"I think making two Olympics was easier than trying to figure out what I want to do now." Jourdan Delacruz has been competing as a weightlifter for ten years, from training as a highschooler at the US Olympic Training Center, to multiple international competitions, to both the Toyko and Paris Olympics. Meanwhile, she completed her degree in Nutriti…

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Georgetown Athlete Fiona Max on Performance Anxiety, Owning Your Training, and Recognizing Perfectionism 50:00

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" Own what you're doing. And, if you're really riding a wave of inconsistency or doubt, remember that you're always on your own side." Georgetown athlete Fiona Max, running Cross Country and Track & Field in her last year of NCAA eligibility joins us on the Lane 9 Podcast. Fiona competed for, and completed her undergraduate degree at Princetown Uni…

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Rachel Drake Wants to Share the Struggle, and her JFK 50-Miler Course Record 56:40

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Rachel Drake is a professional trail runner with Nike, co-host of The Trail Network Podcast, mom of 2-year old Lew, and a newly-minted medical resident in Salt Lake City, UT. A few weekends ago, she ran, won, and broke the course record for women at the JFK 50 Miler in northern Virginia—a huge accomplishment on its own, but especially considering a…

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Dr. Sarah Lesko on How the NCAA is Failing Female Athletes 54:02

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Dr. Sarah Lesko is MANY things—a runner, parent, practitioner, and a staunch advocate for female athletes of all ages, devoting her work to getting and keeping girls in sports. We couldn't have been more excited to chat with her, getting the story of her days as a collegiate athlete, why she took more than 15 years off of running and how that actua…

Heather Caplan Podcasts

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The Lane 9 Podcast

Heather Caplan RDN and Alexis Fairbanks

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Spilling the Beans

Amanda Lambrechts, MS, RD, LN

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Renee Hodges DPT: What endurance athletes need to know about Bone Stress Injuries 46:02

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Meghann Featherstun RDN: Running after a sacral stress fracture, and sports nutrition trends in 2025 58:08

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Jess McClain on Fueling, Pro Running Round 2, and her 2025 Boston Marathon 1:00:01

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Sasha Gollish on Perimenopause, and Gender Equity in Sport 58:13

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Emilia Benton, 14x marathoner and freelance journalist 38:54

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Alexa Efraimson: From pro runner at 17 to Registered Dietitian helping athletes fuel without restriction 48:58

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Molly Bookmyer, Elite runner on making big fueling changes, and finding what works for you 43:57

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Navigating disordered eating, amenorrhea, and performance anxiety in collegiate athletics with Natalie Tyner 45:11

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Annie Rodenfels: Period health, Queerness in running, Body dysmorphia, and coaching herself (for now!) 55:25

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Lindsey Hein on Running After a Hysterectomy, Mastectomy, and Four Kids! 52:44

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Equinox Trainer Amanda Katz on Nailing the Basics (Fuel!), Eating Disorders, and "Looking" Fit 58:02

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Neely Spence Gracey, Running 4 Marathons in 2024 and What's Next 57:30

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Amelia Boone, on Eating Disorder Recovery in Her 40s 39:49

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Why we started Lane 9, 8 years ago (Part 1) 48:44

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Julianne Morse on how therapy and nutrition counseling fueled her to big PRs as a D3 athlete 42:37

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Val Rubio Meza, from 400m to a 2:55 Marathon at CIM 47:31

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Katie Steele on Mental Health in Sports, Coaching Dynamics, and "The Price She Pays" 53:57

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Cate Barrett: Unlearning "faster is better", and rebuilding postpartum 1:01:25

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Caila Yates RDN on Running Groups and Diet Culture, How to Fuel Adequately Anyway 57:13

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Marine Corps Marathon Winner Tessa Barrett on Navigating Early Success, Grief, and Post-Collegiate Running 52:22

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5 Big Changes to Lane 9 in 2025! 13:24

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2x Olympian, Weightlifter, and RD2Be Jourdan Delacruz, of Her Athlete 52:28

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Georgetown Athlete Fiona Max on Performance Anxiety, Owning Your Training, and Recognizing Perfectionism 50:00

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Rachel Drake Wants to Share the Struggle, and her JFK 50-Miler Course Record 56:40

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Dr. Sarah Lesko on How the NCAA is Failing Female Athletes 54:02