BONUS: Take the Leap: Kate Veronneau on Adventure and Trying Something New at FeistyFest
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Selene welcomes longtime friend, cyclist, and women’s sports powerhouse Kate Veronneau to the show for a preview of the first-ever FeistyFest in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
For Kate, the location is personal: The Valley Preferred Cycling Center is where she first fell in love with bike racing, found her cycling community, and eventually launched a career in the sport. She shares how a casual Friday night trip to watch track racing turned into an entry-level “try the track” class, a relocation to the Lehigh Valley, and years immersed in one of the most magical cycling communities around.
Selene and Kate talk about what makes the Lehigh Valley so special: quiet roads, covered bridges, gravel before gravel was “gravel,” beautiful trails, and a deep community of people who love to ride, run, explore, and support one another.
They also dig into what attendees can expect at FeistyFest: track riding, gravel, trail running, lifting, swimming, pickleball, community, laughter, and the kind of grown-up summer camp energy that reminds women how good it feels to try new things.
Kate also shares why women-only spaces can be so powerful, especially when women feel safe, supported, and encouraged to step outside their comfort zones. Whether you’re a seasoned athlete or brand new to an activity, there is something magical that happens when women come together, lift each other up, and give each other permission to live a little bigger.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it is bonus time. Yes, this is a bonus episode. It is hosted by Celine Yeager, who is the host of the |
| 0:18.1 | Hit Play Not Pause podcast here on the Feisty Media Network. And her guest is Kate Verano, the host of the hit play not pause podcast here on the feisty media network and her guest is |
| 0:23.7 | kate verino the director of women's strategy at swift and one of the most influential figures in |
| 0:28.6 | women's cycling today and verano is the headline speaker the keynote speaker at feisty fest in |
| 0:37.0 | in lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:39.9 | That is where Celine lives, and it is a part of the country that is very special to Kate |
| 0:45.4 | Verano. Kate talks about how it feels, it's going to feel like coming home for her because |
| 0:51.1 | the Lehigh Valley and the very velodrome where it is the events |
| 0:55.4 | happening is where she discovered and fell in love with cycling. So really great conversation |
| 1:00.7 | between Celine and Kate. I think you will enjoy it and hopefully it's going to get you |
| 1:06.7 | fired up to join us at Feisty Fest this September. Enjoy. Kate, welcome to the show. I am so happy to see you. I mean, I'm always happy to see you, |
| 1:26.3 | and I have to tell you that we all here in the Lehigh Valley, just being with pride, every time we see you standing in France, like at the Tour de France Femm of X-Wift, or like at any of the other races that you, it's so cool to see what you're doing. Thank you. I love it. And yeah, the Lehigh Valley and my crew, my early bike crew, is such a |
| 1:49.1 | huge place in my heart. Well, let's talk about that a little bit because you're coming back. |
| 1:55.4 | You're coming for our first annual Feisty Fest. Everyone is very excited about that. |
| 2:02.2 | Tell us a little bit about like you coming back and what you're going to do. Are you going to be talking to us, addressing the |
| 2:07.5 | crowd, keynoting? Yeah. Well, when I was chatting with Catherine at Feisty and she mentioned this idea about this festival. And then |
| 2:20.0 | she mentioned that it was going to be in the Lehigh Valley. And I was like, we're in the Lehigh |
| 2:25.2 | Valley. And she said, you know, the, the Valley preferred velodrome, which is where I got my start |
| 2:31.0 | in this, uh, bike world. It was my everything. |
| 2:35.5 | I literally was, I think it started because I was just, I had moved to Pennsylvania. |
| 2:43.0 | My husband's from Pennsylvania. |
| 2:44.5 | I had moved there and I was always looking for fun things to do. |
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