Enter the Dragon Boat with Chris Head and Connie Flesuras (Episode 54)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Never underestimate the power of menopausal women. Their years of experience and deep well of physical and mental strength uniquely positions them to move mountains--or at least a fully loaded dragon boat weighing more than a ton. This week’s guests Chris Head, a newbie dragon boat racer with the Dragon Divas, a team of Breast Cancer survivors and Connie Flesuras, longtime coach at Dragon Boat Training, Inc. share their experiences with this unique sport and how the dragon boat community has changed their lives. Connie Flesuras has a dragon boat training business in Portland, Oregon and has coached the USA National team and helped to create the first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team in the United States. She also started a team called Power Surge for 40+ women—because they aren’t hot flashes, they’re power surges. You can learn more about her and the sport at https://www.dragonboattraining.com/about_us. If you want to see her women’s dragon boat racing community in action, check out the short film Paddles on The Water from this year’s virtual Portland Film Festival. Chris Head is a personal trainer from St Paul Minnesota who got into dragon boat racing after six months of chemo and radiation following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2019. You can learn more about the team, the Dragon Divas at https://www.dragondivasmn.org/. **Support the Podcast** InsideTracker: 25% off at insidetracker.com/feistymenopause Nuun Hydration: 30% off at nuunlife.com with the code HITPLAY Previnex: 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,
0:19.7	and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.4	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.0	So I get requests from time to time to feature women in alternative sports.
0:38.4	So this week, I am quite excited to announce that I have a doozy.
0:44.5	Dragon boat racing.
0:46.6	Yep.
0:47.4	Dragon boat racing.
0:49.2	And if I'm honest, this week's guests actually found me.
0:53.3	Chris Head, who is a dragon boat newbie, emailed me and
0:56.5	said she had heard so many great sports on the show, rock climbing and biking and triathlon and
1:02.4	ultra running and so forth, but I had never mentioned dragon boat racing. She went on to explain
1:08.4	how instrumental it has been for her as a breast cancer survivor to find this amazing team of dragon boat racers, the dragon divas, a team of breast cancer survivors.
1:20.2	Then she went on to explain how they had just worked with another amazing dragon boat racer, Connie Flissaurus, who has a dragon boat training business in Portland,
1:29.0	Oregon, and has coached the USA national team and helped create the first breast cancer
1:33.9	survivor dragon boat team in the United States. Contacted Connie, and she told me that she had
1:40.0	started a team called Power Surge for 40-plus aged women because they aren't hot flashes,
1:46.1	their power surges. And she feels that women in our demographic are uniquely positioned to be
1:51.9	amazing dragon boat racers. Naturally, I had to have them both on. Their love for this unique,
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