Pat Buchanan, PhD, is a coach specializing in female athlete longevity at the intersection of sports medicine, neuroscience, and performance. She earned her AB at the University of North Carolina while playing basketball. She later earned an MS in Physical Therapy from the University of Indianapolis where she discovered Moshe Feldenkrais’s method of using movement to increase awareness, reshaping her view of brain-body-performance connections. She completed professional training in this approach and, in the process, was introduced to Esther Thelen, whose research in dynamic systems theory and motor development transformed movement science. Pat pursued her PhD in Human Performance under Thelen at Indiana University, who also trained in the Feldenkrais Method during that time. These threads formed Pat’s holistic approach, focused on lifelong neuroplasticity and building awareness to reduce injury risk and unlock untapped performance.

Pat's career eventually took her to Beijing, where she worked with Chinese athletes ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games. Today, she coaches high-performing female athletes to stay in play, sustain peak performance, and confidently step into longer, more aligned careers. She is the author of Relieve Your Pain and is based in Boone, North Carolina.

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Katie Tolles is the Head Women's Coach for Case Western Reserve University's rowing team and the Director of Communications for the Cleveland Rowing Foundation's Board of Directors. Katie speaks to host Elizabeth Emery about the beauty of teamwork, being on the water, coaching high school and college athletes, travel, fear, and jumping right into things.

Katie's rowing career began as a freshman walk-on at Marietta College. She knew nothing about the sport when she started, but quickly rose through the team, becoming a leader early on in the Women's 1V8+ & 1V4+ for her four years of undergrad. Katie pursued elite rowing at Vesper Boat Club on Boathouse Row in Philadelphia in 2016. That summer she and her teammates went on to win Club Nationals and Canadian Henley.

Katie served as a founding coach for Magnificat High School and designed the branding for the rowing programs at Magnificat High School, Cleveland Foundry Juniors and Case Western Reserve University. Today, Katie is a competitive athlete who sculls on the Cuyahoga River. She recently placing 5th at The Head of the Charles.

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Justine Siegal is the Co-Founder and Commissioner of the Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL), which will launch its inaugural season on August 1 featuring some of the top players in the world. She made history as the first woman to coach for a Major League Baseball organization (2015) and is the founder of Baseball For All. Her A’s jersey is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and USA Today named her, "100 Most Powerful People in MLB.” Justine received her PhD from Springfield College (MA).

In the episode, Justine talks with host Elizabeth Emery about her own experience fighting to play baseball, her career in coaching, why it’s so important for her that girls have the opportunity to play baseball if they want to, what it was like being the first woman to coach men’s baseball, women’s sports now, and looking forward into the future through her daughter.

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