135. Rozalynn Frazier, Health Magazine Senior Fitness Editor
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
"I'm in a position where I can help make decisions that put images out there of diverse people. That's very special, and it's an important job."
Rozalynn "Roz" Frazier is the senior health editor at Health magazine, where she's worked for the past decade. On this episode, Roz talks about breaking into the publishing industry (and that time she interviewed a mostly unknown-at-the-time Alicia Keys while working at Essence), and everything that comes with being a fitness editor. She talks about the state of the fitness industry, and her mission to get more women of varying shapes, sizes, and colors represented. And she shares her running story: how she got started, what her road to becoming a ten-time marathoner has looked like, and what's up with everyone's obsession with time goals. Finally, Roz — a self-proclaimed sneakerhead — shares her favorite gear picks, from sports bras to shorts to her favorite shoes for every distance.
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What you'll get on this episode:
- Roz shares her career journey from college to Essence to her current position at Health (3:25)
- On confidence, maturity, and getting cut from the soccer team (13:30)
- What's kept Roz at Health for 10 years? And how she's advocating for diversity on the job, in the industry, and beyond (16:20)
- All about press trips — the amazing, the Alps, and the "no thanks" (23:00)
- How Roz's workouts have changed over the past 10 years — and how a journalism class assignment made her want to run a marathon (34:45)
- That time Roz hung out with little-known-at-the-time Alicia Keys (57:15)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm Allie Feller and I'm your host. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm a freelance writer and editor, a seven-time middle of the pack marathoner and a new mom. |
| 0:18.4 | Every week on The Alley on the Run Show, I talk with inspiring men and women who lead |
| 0:22.7 | interesting lives on the run and beyond. And while running is what brings us all together |
| 0:27.9 | on these episodes, I'm looking for more. So join me every Thursday to learn about the decisions |
| 0:33.4 | people have made to get where they are today, the good ones and the bad ones, and how getting |
| 0:38.2 | sweaty has factored in. My guest today is Rosalind Frazier. She's the senior fitness editor at Health |
| 0:44.8 | Magazine where she's worked for the past decade. Before that, Ros was at Essence Magazine and I |
| 0:50.1 | love the story about how she got hired there and broke into the publishing industry, which, of course, |
| 0:54.8 | shares on this episode. Ros is a soccer player turned 10-time marathoner and she's got a great |
| 1:00.7 | story about how she got started running with the help of Nike Run Club and a few encouraging coaches. |
| 1:06.5 | We talk journalism, we talk running, we talk the state of the fitness industry, we talk about |
| 1:11.3 | fun and flashy press trips, and what makes Ros say yes or no to all the offers she gets. |
| 1:17.1 | And because she's a total gear head and has made a career out of gear testing every product known |
| 1:22.1 | to runners, I got Ros to share her favorite running must-have, not sponsored, just super legitimate, |
| 1:28.1 | been there, tried that advice. This conversation is honest, it's genuine, and it's fun. I hope you |
| 1:34.7 | love it, so let's get to it. Rosalind Frazier, welcome to the Allie on the Run show. I'm so excited |
| 1:45.6 | to get to sit here with you today. I'm so happy to be here, Allie. Thanks for having me. So we've |
| 1:50.6 | known each other for like 10 years now, which doesn't seem like it, because this is the first time we've |
| 1:55.6 | really like sat down and not just been in passing at some fitness event, but Coach Kane introduced us. |
| 2:02.0 | My first running coach turned winning efficient. My first running coach. Yeah. It still gives me advice |
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