MOTHERHOOD IN FOCUS: Stephanie Bruce On Humility & The Importance Of A Stellar Support System
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Leading up to Mother's Day, I'm chatting with six extraordinary women. Some moms. Some not. But, each has a story to tell, forever shaped by the women that came before them.
Ten years. That's how long Steph Bruce has been chasing her Olympic dreams. During that time, she had two sons within a 15-month period (not planned), has dealt with injuries, launched a successful business (what's up, Picky Bars), and so much more. In today's episode, she explains how — how she's stayed so steadfast on her goals, how she's recovered after a difficult labor while managing diastasis recti, and how proud she is of the children she's raising. She also confesses a shameful moment, and unpacks the importance of a great support system, believing in yourself, and working with people (and companies) that believe in your big potential.
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| 0:00.0 | think once I let go of what I considered like mom guilt of hey I'm trying to |
| 0:04.6 | pursue these big dreams and goals but I also have my two children at home I'm |
| 0:09.9 | gonna miss some things in their life but hopefully when they grew up they |
| 0:13.9 | look back and say wow like my mom was really set an example of go after your |
| 0:18.8 | passions pursue your dreams because they realize like that fills me with so |
| 0:23.3 | much purpose and I can only hope that my boys find something in their life that |
| 0:28.2 | they're like truly passionate about pursuing hey everyone Emily Abadi back |
| 0:47.5 | in your feed today with another day of our motherhood in focus series this |
| 0:53.6 | week on the show leading up to Mother's Day I am chatting with six |
| 0:56.9 | extraordinary women some moms some not but each with a story to tell forever |
| 1:02.6 | shaped by the woman that came before them today I'm bringing you my |
| 1:06.6 | conversation with Steph Bruce she is a professional runner for hookahs and a Z |
| 1:12.0 | elite she's also a mother to two little boys and co-founder of picky bars who |
| 1:18.1 | happens to be sponsoring this week of content in addition to that as if it |
| 1:22.4 | wasn't enough she also runs a coaching business alongside her husband |
| 1:26.6 | called running with the Bruce's where they live in Flagstaff Arizona I was |
| 1:31.8 | am to talk with Steph today because she just keeps it real whether we were |
| 1:36.0 | chatting about motherhood or running or injury or her values like she has a |
| 1:42.2 | beautiful authenticity that I truly appreciate Steph shares in today's |
| 1:46.8 | episode what it was like giving birth to her two boys 15 months apart not on |
| 1:51.8 | purpose and how she felt some shame after unexpectedly getting pregnant with |
| 1:57.8 | her second all the while hoping to make an Olympic team we chat about the 10 |
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