Low-income accessibility to fitness, lifting weights to gain strength after domestic violence, and how to climb your way out of low points in sport and in life with Caitlin Constantine

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On this episode, we talk to Caitlin Constantine of Fit and Feminist!

Caitlin is an editor for The Penny Hoarder (a personal finance site aimed at millennials) and an endurance athlete who lives in the St. Petersburg area of Florida. She started running about ten years ago, and took up triathlon a few years after that. She blogs at Fit and Feminist and serves as a captain with the team sponsored by Coeur Sports, which is a woman-owned company that makes triathlon and cycling gear for women. In her spare time she volunteers as a guardian ad litem in the area's child welfare system and does activism related to reproductive justice and rights.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Transitioning from clumsy kid to ironwoman triathelete and ultramarathoner - Low income accessibility in fitness - The importance of social health and building community - Lifting weights to gain strength after domestic violence - How to climb your way out of low points in sport and in life.    ---

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