422: Shannon Rowbury and Jessica Dorrington - Strong as a Mother
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Shannon Rowbury, a 3x Olympian and Olympic bronze medalist, is no stranger to C Tolle Run. This time, she’s back with a brand-new accomplishment on her résumé: author. She’s joined by physical therapist and pelvic health expert Jessica Dorrington to discuss her new book Strong as a Mother: Your Complete Pregnancy-to-Postpartum Health Program. Carrie, Shannon, and Jessica have a heart-to-heart about their athletic feats, motherhood, marathon training, and Shannon’s journey into writing. They also share why they teamed up to create the motherhood movement 4twomom. Whether you’re a mother runner or not, this conversation will leave you inspired to keep getting after it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. Today we welcome |
| 0:11.5 | back to the show three-time Olympian and Olympic bronze medalist and now author Shannon |
| 0:17.0 | Rowberry. But she's not alone. She brought her co-author, Jessica Dorrington, who's a physical |
| 0:22.3 | therapist and pelvic health expert on the show with her today. We're going to hear all about |
| 0:27.6 | how these two teamed up. Their backgrounds, motherhood, the motherhood movement called Run for Two |
| 0:33.5 | that they started, their new book, and so much more. So let's get after it. |
| 0:40.5 | All right, ladies, oh my gosh, before we even hit record, we have been having fun. So this is |
| 0:45.4 | going to be a good time. I mean, we've already been through, you know, having babies, |
| 0:49.5 | HRT, all of the things. But I just first and foremost want to just say congratulations to you, too. |
| 0:55.0 | The book is coming. It is coming out. You have to be so excited. Thank you. We are. It's been a long |
| 1:01.9 | time in the waiting. It's been our labor of love, we call it, almost nine years from when we |
| 1:07.6 | started this venture to when it's coming out. |
| 1:12.8 | Oh, my goodness, nine years. |
| 1:15.1 | I mean, that is like a career in itself. |
| 1:17.9 | So I want to get into all of it. |
| 1:21.0 | But before we do that, I just want my audience to get to know you. |
| 1:24.9 | Shannon, you've been on C-Tali Run and, you know, in the running world, |
| 1:26.1 | a lot of people know you. |
| 1:28.5 | Jess, a lot of people know you too out in Portland. You work with a lot of the athletes, but I would like my audience just to be |
| 1:33.7 | refreshed. So let's just start with you, Shannon. Talk a little bit about who you are, but not only |
| 1:38.8 | just as an athlete, like where you are now in your life. Like, I want to always know where do |
| 1:43.6 | people go from this awesome sport. |
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