Oh, Baby! with Liz Carlson (Episode 86)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

As women are living longer, pursuing higher education, and chasing athletic goals well into midlife, the decision if, when, or even how to have a baby has become increasingly complex, because the old formula of graduate, get married, have kids just doesn’t work the way it used to. So this week’s guest, Liz Carlson, created her own formula and after her decades-long pursuit of professional and athletic excellence, had her first baby at 43 and her second last year at age 52.

Liz is a former elite bike racer who was setting records and pushing U.S. women’s track cycling to the next level at an age when most track cyclists have long retired or hit the master’s circuit. She made the first-round cuts for the 2008 Olympic team in her late 30s, made the U.S. team again at age 41 and pursued a spot for the women’s team sprint at the 2012 Olympics. The Olympic dream wouldn’t come to fruition, but she broke records and discovered hidden talents and learned life lessons that stick with her to this day. You can read about that journey here. We talk about how our upbringing and adult life trajectory was affected by Title IX and the women’s movement of the 70s and (of course) menopause and what it’s like to have a baby in your fifties!

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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, and other experts to help 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.
0:32.4	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:34.7	I hope you all are well, and I just wanted to take a quick second and say how
0:39.2	cool it has been to meet so many of you out in the wild at races and events. It really
0:44.6	warms my heart when people come up and they say they listen to the show and it's making a difference
0:48.6	in their lives. That's what we're here for. So thank you. I really, really appreciate it.
0:55.8	All right. So this week, I'm diving into a topic. I honestly don't think about too much these days as a mom of a
1:00.9	college student. Babies. As women are living longer, pursuing higher education and chasing athletic
1:07.7	goals well into midlife, the decision if, when, or even how to have a baby
1:13.4	has become increasingly complex because the old formula of graduate, get married, have kids
1:18.5	just doesn't work the way it used to. And well, as you'll hear, this week's guest and my very
1:24.4	long-time friend, Liz Carlson, just went ahead and created her own formula.
1:29.5	I credit Liz for helping me find my own path as a young adult. We met at Rodale Press,
1:35.5	the then publishers of men's health, women's health, prevention, runners' world, and bicycling,
1:39.8	just to name a few of their titles. And I would see this woman out riding hill repeats and squatting
1:45.4	heavy ass weights in the company gym and chasing her athletic dreams. And I was like,
1:50.6	I'd like to see what that's all about myself. Because I was in my mid to late 20s at the time,
1:55.8	too, and it didn't occur to me that I could pursue being an athlete at that time of my life.
2:01.7	Watching her make bold choices helped me see that I could make bold choices too and
2:06.0	chase my own athletic pursuits. Liz's pursuits included chasing world championships
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