Meredith Atwood (@SwimBikeMom) is a formerattorney, podcaster and motivational speaker, and 4x IRONMAN triathlete. She is the author of the best–selling triathlonbook, Triathlon for the Every Woman, andthe new book,The Year of No Nonsense.She’s the host of the iTunes Top 50 fitness podcast, “The Same 24 Hours.”She has been featured in The Boston Globe, The New York Post, the Seattle Times and dozens of online publications. 

Meredith is a contributing writer to Psychology Today online, Triathlete Magazine and Women’s Running. She is a sobriety advocate, and the founder of Grateful Sobriety.She is a USA Weightlifting Level II, USA Triathlon Level I, and Precision Nutrition Level I Coach. She is originally from Georgia and lives in the burbs ofBoston, Massachusettswith her husband and two tweens. 

In this episode we talk about: 

• becoming a competitive weigh lifter at age 15 and how that shaped her high school experience and her view of the world
• how seeing the struggle of money her whole life made her chose a career that would have her make good money
• feeling like how just now at 40 she is finally stopping to ask herself what she wants instead of looking outside of herself
• knowing that law school wasn’t for her on the first day, but still following through with it
• being a people pleaser and becoming increasingly unhappy which led to heavy drinking
• why she gave up on weight lifting when she was near qualifying for the Olympics
• what she is doing differently now that her daughter is pursuing weightlifting 
• how being over-loved or smothered with love growing up affected her
• the post it note her husband left her that was her wake up call and led to her creating the year of no nonsense
• her peeling the truth onion idea of looking deeper at what is bothering you
• how to figure out what your own nonsense is
• how and why she started doing triathlons
• what led her to giving up being a lawyer
• how we both feel about branding yourself and building a business on passion and meaning and not the “rules”
• calling herself out on the daily lies she has been telling herself and upping her personal integrity 

• Which keychain she chose from my line and why! 

Get her book The Year of No Nonsense 

and Triathlon for the Every Woman 

Find her https://swimbikemom.com and @swimbikemom

We are giving away two copies of her book The Year of No Nonsense! All you have to do is share about the episode on IG and tag us to be entered!

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Lauren Zander

The Handel Group

My episode on her Podcast The Same 24 Hours  and as the conversation in video 

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