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The Lane 9 PodcastSasha Gollish on Perimenopause, and Gender Equity in Sport"My big fear with all of this is the trickle down," Dr. Sasha Gollish joins us on the episode, to chat about her work in Gender Equity in sport, her time as a professional runner for team Canada, how she knew she was in perimenopause, and much more. Gollish ran at a younger age, but took some time off and worked as an engineer in Toronto before getting back to the sport at a high level. We talk about what it looked like to go back into competitive running, working with Oiselle and Asics, going to the...2025-05-0158 min
Consummate Athlete PodcastWhere Are We Now? Update on Women's Sport ResearchThis episode is a preview of Molly's new podcast with Dr. Sasha Gollish called 'Strong Girl Talk Podcast'. In this preview episode Molly and Sasha discuss the state of research that focuses on women in sport. Please subscribe and follow the new STRONG GIRL TALK PODCAST at this link. The podcast is released weekly. Get subscribed via Substack so you don’t miss a single show! This Episode is Brought to You By: PAYABLE APPS - Use our link Payableapps.com/ATHLETE – to pay no app fees for 6 months plus for a limited time new users , who use Square...2025-03-2134 min
Strong Girl TalkWelcome to the Strong Girl Talk Podcast!Whether you’re a strong girl yourself or are raising one, this show is for you!Welcome to Strong Girl Talk! You’re the first to hear about our exciting new podcast—three full episodes will be dropping on International Women’s Day (yay!) so check your inbox then. For now, here’s what you can expect: Author & Strong Girl Publishing founder Molly Hurford and Dr. Sasha Gollish, Executive Director of Yellow Running Shoes, have teamed up to bring you Strong Girl Talk, a new show will cover the latest in sports science with a foc...2025-03-0701 min
Let's Take This OutsideDr. Sasha Gollish - Runner and AdvocateSasha is a Krono Nutrition Athlete, and we’ve teamed up with Krono to giveaway 2 of their discovery boxes on Instagram, including bars, gels and electrolytes. Head to the Let’s Take This Outside Instagram for your chance to win, and also use the promo code outside20 to get 20% off at krononutrition.com until March 31.Dr. Sasha Gollish is a passionate advocate for gender equity in sport, a Team Canada middle- and long-distance runner, and a dedicated mentor to young athletes. With a career spanning elite athletic competition, coaching, engineering, and research, Sasha combines her...2025-03-0443 min
OFX PodcastOFX EPISODE 177: TRAINING AROUND PERIMENOPAUSE WITH SASHA GOLLISH.
OFX EPISODE 177: TRAINING AROUND PERIMENOPAUSE WITH SASHA GOLLISH.
Brought to you by Duonamic and AirRelax.ca.In one of our most intelligent and informative episodes, we welcome elite runner Sasha Gollish to discuss all the ins and outs of being a high level athlete, how performance is affected by menopausal changes, and more importantly, what you should do about it.ReplyForward
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Run Canada PodcastEP 192. LIVE from TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon: Women in the MarathonIn the third installment of recordings from the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon stage: Women in the Marathon. This event was the second live discussion held by Canada Running Series to examine women's challenges in getting to the start line, this time focusing on the marathon. Moderated by Michelle Kay with Sasha Gollish and Melanie Murzeau, the panel was a beautiful cross-section of female runners: Gaby Alcala, Cory Freedman, Allison Hill, Nattalyee Randall and Lauren Roberts. These amazing humans have both experienced their own challenges in getting to the start line AND helped others overcome their obstacles, so the discussion...2024-03-0951 min
Inspired Soles179. Sasha Gollish, Dr. Georgia Lefas & Jamie Donaldson | The Run Retreat SpeakersGot feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textToday’s episode features three incredible ladies who all have speaking roles at The Run Retreat, an inaugural women’s event that will be taking place in beautiful Hecla Provincial Park, 2 hours north of Winnipeg, MB, from June 7-9, 2024. Three-time Inspired Soles guest Sasha Gollish is our keynote speaker and in addition to being an elite Canadian runner, she is also the Director of Community Engagement at the University of Toronto’s Mental Health & Physical Activities Research Centre. A lover of moving her body in nature, Sasha b...2024-03-0550 minInspired Soles172. Val Schonberg | Fueling for the Menopause Transition (CMA Menopause Series 6/6)Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textVal Schonberg is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with The Menopause Society (previously known as the North American Menopause Society) and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Val owns a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where she specializes in midlife health and menopause, recreational and professional sports nutrition, all types of eating disorders and helping individuals break free fr...2024-01-161h 05Inspired Soles170. Amanda Thebe | Menopocalypse Author on Staying Fit Through Menopause (CMA Menopause Series 5/6)Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textAmanda Thebe is a Fitness and Women’s Health Expert from Toronto, ON and an affiliated member of the Canadian and North American Menopause Society. She is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too and has nearly 30 years of experience in the fitness industry. As a highly-regarded expert on women’s fitness and health, Amanda joins us as part of this series on menopause to talk about the role fitness plays in surviving and thriving throu...2024-01-021h 06Inspired Soles168. Dr. Nese Yuksel | Menopause 101 (CMA Menopause Series 4/6)Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textDr. Nese Yuksel is a full Professor with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Alberta. She also holds a cross-appointment with Alberta Health Services and has been practicing in the areas of menopause and osteoporosis for nearly 25 years. She is passionate about bringing her clinical experience to inform her research and teaching. Dr. Yuksel is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP, formerly NCMP) and the current president for the Canadian Menopause Society. Basically, she is very qualified...2023-12-191h 00Inspired Soles166. Carrie Oswald | Medically-Induced Menopause (CMA Menopause Series 3/6)Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textCarrie Oswald is a 56-year old postmenopausal woman who underwent a hysterectomy at age 33 for uterine fibroids that were causing constant periods and extreme blood loss. Although her uterus was removed and she no longer had a monthly menstrual cycle, she still has her ovaries and therefore experienced classic perimenopausal symptoms in her mid-to-late forties such as hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings. Once those symptoms completely subsided around age 50, Carrie made an active decision to get back into shape. She joined Orange Theory fitness and loved...2023-12-0837 min
Athletics Ontario Running PodcastEP 97 - Dr. Sasha Gollish, Athletics Ontario Road and Trail Ambassador We welcome back Dr. Sasha Gollish to the Trillium Running Podcast for a conversation all about FUN. Host John Shep catches up with her 2023 year, her 2024 goals and an extremely insightful project Sasha is working on to ensure sport and athletics are mentally healthy and FUN! Find out more about Sasha on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sgollishruns/ Register to be an Athletics Ontario member: https://athleticsontario.ca/2022-ao-membership-registration/2023-12-0736 minInspired Soles165. Sasha Gollish | Perimenopause & the Competitive Athlete (CMA Menopause Series 2/6)Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textSasha Gollish is a 42-year old elite middle and long distance runner who holds the masters world record in the indoor mile (4:38.73) and also represented Team Canada in the marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Sasha has been very open on social media about the challenging perimenopausal symptoms she’s been navigating for the past several years and we just love her honesty & transparency on a subject matter that has historically been clouded in secrecy and shame. Seeing female athletes at the top of their gam...2023-12-0636 min
Chasing Pr's - A Running PodcastThe Joy of Running with Elite Runner Sasha GollishSpecial Guest: Sasha Gollish. Known for a diversified running career spanning from 800 meters to marathons, Sasha revealed the key components that fuel her running journey.
Highlighting the integration of her athletic endeavors with a holistic lifestyle approach, Sasha emphasized on the significance of enjoying varied physical activities aside from running. Encouraging runners to engage in cross-training, strength training, and participate in activities like Nordic skiing, cycling, or using an elliptical, she advocated the idea of being a holistic athlete.
Sasha also shared her experience on dealing with injuries. She reinforced the concept of appreciating changes and setbacks, and the...2023-11-301h 05
Hit Play Not PauseTaming the Hormonal Perimonster with Sasha Gollish (Episode 156)A few years ago, elite Canadian runner Sasha Gollish started experiencing some symptoms that had her wondering what the hell was up with her body—crime scene (or as she called them firehose) periods, strange memory lapses, times in races when her legs were flailing and her muscles were not responding the way they typically would as she struggled to find her stride. She wondered if she was sick. As you likely guessed by now, she wasn’t sick. She was in perimenopause. After suffering alone for a bit, Sasha decided to open up and share her experiences online, not...2023-11-2955 min
C Tolle Run337: Sasha Gollish - Lights My Soul on FireCarrie chats with Dr. Sasha Gollish! The Canadian national champion and world record holder in the indoor masters mile talks about maintaining her fire as she gets older, how she is helping make roads safer for pedestrians as a civil engineer, the power of positivity, observing the changes that perimenopause and menopause bring to your body, and much more!2023-07-271h 05
C Tolle Run337: Sasha Gollish - Lights My Soul on FireCarrie chats with Dr. Sasha Gollish! The Canadian national champion and world record holder in the indoor masters mile talks about maintaining her fire as she gets older, how she is helping make roads safer for pedestrians as a civil engineer, the power of positivity, observing the changes that perimenopause and menopause bring to your body, and much more!2023-07-271h 05
Run Canada PodcastEP 166. Women in the Marathon with Sasha GollishLast week, the Toronto Waterfront Marathon held a run and panel discussion to talk about the fact that last year only 28% of their marathon registrants were women. These conversations, along with some survey data they had collected ahead of the event were the beginning of a fire lit in panellist Sasha Gollish: elite runner and community superhero. I chatted with Sasha about the panel discussion, the research she is continuing to do to look at races around the world, and how we collect more data to move to action.2023-07-2245 min
Run Canada PodcastEP 146. Live with Alison Mariella DésirI am thrilled to share the recording of our first-ever live virtual community event, Running and Reading with Alison Mariella Désir. We discuss her first book Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport that Wasn’t Built for Us. If you haven’t read this book yet, you can find it anywhere books are sold, and if the cost of books is a barrier, check your local library for a copy. This book is a really important read and you will be glad you made the time for it. A big thank you to Sasha Gollish and Quint...2023-02-0459 min
Athletics Ontario Running PodcastEP 45 - iRun's Book Club "Sasha's Stories," with Sasha Gollish and Ben Kaplan, and Michael Brennan, Author of "RUN? I Can't Even Jog My Memory"Let's talk about books! All December we are talking about books on the Trillium Running Podcast and we start with a double dose. First, Dr. Sasha Gollish and iRun's Ben Kaplan introduce us to the "Sasha's Stories" book club and we nerd out about the books we love. Then, we bring back RD and Race Consultant Michael Brennan to talk about his book, RUN? I Can't Even Jog My Memory. Link to Sasha's Stories: https://www.irun.ca/index.php/welcome-to-sashas-story-the-sasha-gollish-book-club-for-irun/ Link to Michael Brennan's book: https://www.amazon.ca/Cant-Even-Memory-how-run/dp/1777737508/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3...2022-12-0833 minInspired Soles108. Sasha Gollish | 3rd at Canadian Marathon ChampionshipsGot feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textThis conversation with elite Canadian runner, Sasha Gollish, was recorded one week before the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, which she just completed in a personal best time of 2:31:40. This race also served as the Canadian Marathon Championships so Sasha’s incredible performance landed her on the podium in 3rd place alongside Tokyo Olympians, Malindi Elmore and Dayna Pidhoresky. After turning 40 last December, Sasha kicked off her unbelievable record setting year by running a masters world record for the indoor mile (4:38.73). She then proceeded to run every sin...2022-10-251h 21
Athletics Ontario Running PodcastEP 30 - Dr. Sasha GollishLiving a thoughtful life as a high performance coach, engineer and athlete - that is Dr. Sasha Gollish, world masters record holder. On the Trillium Running Podcast with host John Shep, we learn about the head, heart and body elements that keep her passionate and achieving on the road and track. Find her on Instagram or her website.2022-08-2539 min