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Jeremy, my husband decided to like, “Hey, we need to start something on our own.” And that’s when we actually established the ROLL Recovery and worked on our products and launched it.

That is the interesting part. I learned that so much after leaving the road because it is all of a sudden your brand and something you have to focus on. And I had never had a small business like that. 

What’s funny is I feel like it’s evolved as I’ve learned more about the profession. So honestly, in the beginning it was maybe a simple explanation of, “Well, I want to help people. I really love the health care field.

It was definitely not planned. So I run. It was my thing. That’s what I grew up wanting to do, be a runner. And that’s obviously why I went to school, like to continue to stay competitive post-high school.

I definitely do focus on runners. And I think it was just kind of this thing that smacked me up the side of the head a couple of years into my career where I was like, I’m a runner. I’ve been a runner for a long time. And I feel like I understand them really well.

I was recruited. I did go on a recruiting trip. I went to the University of North Carolina. But it was a situation where I was like kind of right on the cusp. I wasn’t a scholarship athlete and it wasn’t a guaranteed spot.

I have like an expectation of performance. So if you’re not hitting that expectation. Then I, I think I let you know by not being interested, you know, rather than, you know, because most of the athletes have worked with my career, I would say that’s kind of a common thr...

Better shape you and I think if you have kind of that stubborn mentality, that that goes a long way, too, because it’s not easy coming out of surgery and rehab from surgery. But I think having that mindset of, you know what, this isn’t going to, you know, I’ll run into p...

Being Performance Director. It essentially means that you’re responsible for everything that touches the athlete away from the sport. So of course it bleeds onto the field a ton with the conditioning, the preparedness for the game and all that sort of stuff. So we start ...

The community aspect to these events, including if you go to a race over a weekend or these festivals of gathering time, running and with music, there’s so much more that’s come up in the last, I would say 5 to 10 years, especially specific to like ultra and trail runnin...