Talking about performance nutrition, periods, and mental health for athletes in women's sports. Lane 9 aims to raise awareness of REDs and eating disorders, and hosts an international collective of Women's Sport & Health clinicians to help athletes build their care team.
Latest episodes
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58 min
NC State's Kate Putman on REDs, Period Pain, and Why She Adopted a Dog Mid-Season
What does it actually look like when a collegiate athlete decides to take women's health into her own hands, and bring her whole team along with her? Kate Putman is a senior at NC…
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57 min
Core Values, Process Goals, and Who You Are Outside of Sport — with Courtney Stone, LCSW
What if the most important thing you could do for your athletic performance had nothing to do with training? Heather sits down with Courtney Stone, a licensed clinical social worke…
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43 min
Hannah Ballowe: Elite Runner, PhD Student, and REDs Researcher
What would change if we gave athletes a real framework for understanding REDs, before something went wrong? That's the question driving Hannah Ballowe's entire career right now. Ha…
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48 min
Your Pelvic Floor Is Talking — Are You Listening? Mbong Henry on Pelvic Health for Every Athlete
What if the leaking, the urgency, the butt pain, and the pressure weren't just things you had to live with? Heather sits down with Mbong Henry, a pelvic floor and orthopedic physic…
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43 min
100 Episodes, Almost 10 Years, and We're Still Here: A Lane 9 State of the Union
What does it look like to build something for almost a decade — not because you had a perfect plan, but because you kept showing up? For the 100th episode of the Lane 9 podcast, ho…
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41 min
Fueling Through Injury: Nutrition, Body Image, and Getting Back on the Bike with Shira Evans
What do you actually eat when your body is healing — and you're not allowed to move? That's the question Shira Evans, RD, CSSD, found herself living through after a significant cyc…
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35 min
A Co-Founder Check-In: Traveling, Training, and the Sub-3 Journey with Alexis Fairbanks
What does it look like to chase a goal and then permit yourself to let it breathe for a season? Host Heather Caplan, RDN, is joined by her Lane 9 co-founder Alexis Fairbanks for an…
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15 min
Give Yourself Some (or a lot of) Credit: A 2026 Midsummer Check-In
"I have no doubt you could run that half-marathon, but I understand the hesitation." That note from her physical therapist is what Host Heather Caplan, RDN, needed to hear, and thi…
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52 min
Fueling for a Sub-3 Marathon: Laura Filla on Ferritin, Nutrition, and a Breakthrough Marathon
What does it take to reach sub-3 with your period intact and your body well-fueled? That's the question Coach Laura Filla can now answer from experience. After four years, ten mara…
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34 min
What Does a REDs Diagnosis Actually Look Like? Dr. Rosa Pasculli Explains
What does it actually take to diagnose REDs, and what happens after? If you've ever wondered what's going on behind the scenes when a sports medicine physician suspects REDs, this…
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49 min
Miran McCash on Women in Run Coaching, and the Conversations Girls Aren't Having With Their Male Coaches
What does it actually take to build a girls' running program from three athletes to a full roster, and what does it cost the coach who gets it there? That's at the heart of this co…
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Mary Cain on REDs, Period Health, and Why Sports Should Be Healthcare - This Is Not About Running
What if we stopped treating sport like entertainment and started treating it like healthcare? That's the question at the center of this conversation with Mary Cain: professional mi…
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60 min
Osteitis Pubis Postpartum Experience with Coach Becky Anthony
"Once I started doing more core work...prescribed to me by a pelvic floor DPT, and what everyone says you should be doing after pregnancy...I was feeling pain," shares Lane 9 Coach…
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58 min
Nutrition: Signs You're Actually Eating Enough as an Athlete (and How to do That!), with Dietitian KC Stockmon
"The [symtpoms] of under-fueling, and REDs, make it a lot harder to meet your [calorie] needs," shares dietitian KC Stockmon. "It's kind of this vicious cycle." We're here to talk…
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42 min
Eating Disorder History, Stress Fractures, and Finally Fueling Enough for a Big Marathon PR with Amy Sams
" I also learned the hard way. I did pay the price for several years. I had a lot of injuries, and I was in the stress fracture cycle for seven years. And that was a wake-up call.…
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43 min
What young athletes need to know: Periods, bone injuries, and eating enough with DPT and Coach Bethany Brausen
"It took me several injuries to really figure out...this is going to keep happening unless I do something big about it," shares coach and DPT Bethany Brausen, a member of the Lane…
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42 min
Athlete Perfectionism & Exploring Self-Worth in Sports with Dr. Savannah Landis
"Being the best is not the end all be all. And can you have self-confidence [in sport] without being the best?" Dr. Savannah Landis, Lane 9 Clinician, asks us to consider how perfe…
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52 min
Molly Huddle: Pregnancy fears, support systems, and how SHE has navigated training with two kids
"I was honestly terrified of [pregnancy]. I feel like whenever I looked around in the sport, I didn't see it. And if someone did get pregnant, it seemed like they disappeared. And…
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13 min
Pep Talk: You're NOT the Exception to Adequate Fuel, Periods, and Rest
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42 min
Pro Runner Gabi Rooker on Fibroids, Fertility Treatments, and Training for Boston 2026
" I've had a lot of colleagues who have navigated infertility and have been really open about it, which has helped me." Professional runner Gabi Rooker joins the Lane 9 Podcast to…