Megan Jastrab on her bronze at the Olympics, overcoming mental barriers & leaving home for professional cycling

Watts Occurring

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Leisure, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.8 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week on Watts Occurring Femmes, Megan Jastrab talks all about her journey to bronze at the Tokyo Olympics for the United States. She dives into why she moved to the Netherlands and the differences between cycling professionally in Europe to the US. Megan tells Manon and Emma about her injuries and how she overcame the mental barriers to get back to peak performance, and how she juggled two degrees alongside her career as a professional athlete! She also chats all about her fundraising to help junior cyclists in the US. Watts Occurring Femmes is brought to you by Rouvy, and hosted by Pinarello. Want a free month on ROUVY, on us? Use code FEMMES when you sign up and explore everything ROUVY has to offer. SIGN UP HERE: https://rouvy.com/?utm_source=gtcc&utm_medium=direct-buy&utm_campaign=rouvy-brand&utm_term=femmes-podcast ROUVY connects indoor and outdoor by bringing the real routes from around the world to your home and ROUVY's new Route Creator tool allows users to film, upload and ride their favourite loops on ROUVY. Fancy a trip to your local Pinarello retailer? Visit https://pinarello.com/global/en/store-locator to find your local store today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.5	After like the classics, I would be like on the bus at like 7 p.m.
1:15.6	Just like writing essays.
1:17.3	My parents were pissed with me.
1:19.4	They were like, you told us you weren't even got a podium.
1:21.0	Like we would have came over.
1:23.2	You said you'd never done a team suit before?
1:25.4	And then you went to the Tokyo Olympics and got bronze.
1:26.1	Yeah.
1:27.3	Wow. Wow. Shammai Emma. Shmai, Manum. And welcome back to What's the Karen fam, brought to you by Ruby, hosted by Penerello. We've had so many amazing guests on, haven't we? So many. I've been loving it. Yeah, I've learned so much from them all. And I've loved just hearing and listening and understanding their stories and things like that. And today we have Megan on, Megan Jastrab, from the Netherlands. And she's here today to talk about her US GoFundMe page and, yeah, all about cycling and how she got into the sport. So I'm really excited for this one. Let's welcome here to the pod. Welcome to the podcast, Megan. It's so good to have you on. Thanks for having me. I'm excited. We're so excited as well.
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