Climb Your Mountain

Updated: 04 Dec 2025 • 196 episodes
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Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how to eat, train, think, and above all live like a mountain athlete. Each week, Sarah will teach you practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, deal with training setbacks, save time, and stay happy and healthy through the long training season. Sarah earned her high altitude mountaineering certificate from Colorado Mountain Club in 2017 at age 41 and has since summited peaks in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA, including Mount Rainier. She's also completed six (and counting) ultramarathons. She's living, breathing proof that you don't need to be 22 and have 6% body fat to be an endurance athlete. On this podcast, she shares her no-nonsense advice on fitness, (un)diet, motivation, and self belief to help you train for your goal. It's a mix of interviews and solo jam sessions you won't want to miss. So subscribe and get ready to blow your own mind.

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It"s my 50th birthday. And I"m not here to give you a load of bullshit about how excited I am, or how 50 is the new 40. The late 40s have been TOUGH. And that"s true for most people. Statistically, 47 is the most unhappy age. (Yes, actual scientists have studied this.) It"s the collision of parenting, elder care, and p

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As you gather with loved ones this holiday season, you may hear lots of opinions about yourself how you"re living your life. Things like ... 😭 You"re too fat. 😭 You need to get a grownup job. Yanno, like cousin Becky the neurosurgeon. 😭 It"s a shame you"re still single. 😭 You better hurry up and have kids (or anoth

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Your life could use a glow up. But is life coaching really the answer? What the hell happens in those sessions? Cause if it"s just talking, you could do that with your bestie. If it"s just advice, you could get that from your opinionated big sis. Or ChatGPT. If it"s just a step-by-step how-to process, you could get tha

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How do you know you"re doing life "right?" It"s a question that can come up at midlife, at the end of an era — or anytime in our disconnected, technology-numbed-out world. 🤔 A lot of people try to get life "right" by doing the socially approved things — prestigious job, 2.5 kids, house in the burbs. 🤔 Some look to so

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Did you know that 70% of people have used an AI like ChatGPT for therapy, coaching, or emotional support? So if you"ve ever tried this — or use it daily — you"re far from alone. You may also have heard negative news coverage around using AI for mental health support. (For example, many states and professional organizat

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PRE EPIC SERIES Last month, I shared a series called Do Your Epic Shit. And some common feedback was: "This is amazing. AND.  I don"t feel like this is my starting point.  I"m just overwhelmed, dysregulated, confused, and not able to take even small steps. First I"d love to learn the basics. The foundational skills tha

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