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Steady State Podcast reframes the popular, yet limited narrative about rowing culture. We celebrate the expansive array of rowers, coaches, and coxswains in a podcast designed to savor real-life experience from launch to cox seat at every level.

Rachel Freedman 1/19/24 Rachel Freedman 1/19/24

Coach Libby Boghossian Picks Up Where SafeSport Leaves Off

Teens are aware of stranger danger from a really young age, but most of them have never thought about misconduct from known adults. Using SafeSport training as a springboard, Coach Libby Boghossian leads in-depth discussions with her Brookline High School rowers about the concepts of consent, power imbalance, and coercion.

Rachel Freedman 6/9/23 Rachel Freedman 6/9/23

Letting Go of Perfection: Coastal Rowing

In 2021, USRowing boated its first-ever Beach Sprints National team and in 2022 Next Level Rowing appeared on the scene, training high performance rowers who have gone on to win medals at domestic and international coastal regattas. To talk about this discipline which has been raced for generations in Europe, we connect with coastal rowing rising stars Christopher Bak and Christine Cavallo, and their coach Ben Booth, co-founder of Next Level Rowing.

Rachel Freedman 4/14/23 Rachel Freedman 4/14/23

Dr. Mary O’Connor: Fighting to Save Women’s Rowing

Dr. Mary O’Connor was a member of the influential 1976 Yale women’s rowing program that sparked big changes following the passage of Title IX. Today, she’s a member of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports – an advocacy group “seeking to elevate and empower female athletes by protecting safety, fairness, and opportunity for girls and women.”

Rachel Freedman 1/6/23 Rachel Freedman 1/6/23

S4E1: For Lisa Stone and Daughter Gevvie, a Philosophy of Joy

Seattle has the Pococks. Philadelphia has the Kellys. And Boston has the Stones. We’re really excited to kick off season 4 with mother/daughter Olympians Lisa and Gevvie Stone. Lisa was a member of the first U.S. women’s Olympic rowing team in 1976 and went on to a 42-year coaching career. Gevvie was a natural when she took up rowing in high school and was a member of the 2012, 2016 and 2021 U.S. Olympic teams.

Rachel Freedman 12/23/22 Rachel Freedman 12/23/22

[S3]Ep26: CRI Octogenarian 8+ Proves Rowing is for the Ages

When eight octogenarian rowers and a coxswain take on the Head of the Charles, the lessons are huge: about lifelong fitness, being relentlessly active, and those moments you can only find after shoving off the dock.

Rachel Freedman 5/27/22 Rachel Freedman 5/27/22

[S3] Ep. 11 - Susan Kinne: A Meditation on Boats

When Susan Kinne cracked the bottom of a wooden hull, she never could have guessed that nearly 25 years later she’d be a master craftsman handling boat repairs of all sizes at Lake Washington Rowing Club. Just north of 70 years old, Susan handles everything from setting pitch to building Frankenstein 3x boats, is a powerhouse with tools and in a scull, and is a well of information about Pocock Racing Shells.

Rachel Freedman 4/2/22 Rachel Freedman 4/2/22

[S3] Ep. 7 - Lisa Lowe: Building Powerhouse Rowers

The aches of a teenage growth-spurt, years of collegiate and high performance training and racing, and injuries sustained in an accident, all inform Lisa Lowe’s personal and professional attitudes and opinions about self-care and injury management.

Rachel Freedman 10/27/21 Rachel Freedman 10/27/21

[S2] Ep. 14: Margie Elsberg is Setting Her Own Pace

In the 1960s, Margie Elsberg was dismissed by a male coach at Boston University. Today she and husband Mickey proudly carrying the torch for I, J, and K category rowers.

Rachel Freedman 3/24/21 Rachel Freedman 3/24/21

Ep. 16: Club Spotlight - Nassau Rowing Club

We’ve begun a semi-regular series spotlighting clubs around the world. On this week’s episode we’re heading South to spotlight Nassau Rowing Club in The Bahamas. With plenty of sunshine, gorgeous water, and social distancing measures, NRC offers learn to row, juniors, collegiate, and masters programs. We admit we’re pretty jealous… and curious.

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