Introducing: The Only Way is Through

In this new series from Under Armour and iHeartRadio listeners are dropped inside the lives of the elite athletes that constantly push themselves to be greater than yesterday. Hear as they share their approach to training, competition and recovery in intimate conversations with renowned journalist Cal Fussman. Each episode will feature some of the world’s most accomplished and compelling athletes, their coaches, and other critical figures in their lives, offering listeners exclusive content that aims to educate, entertain and most importantly, motivate.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Through the word alright, come over hard words, the training,
through competing, through recovery all right. The only Way is
Through is a new podcast from Under Armour and I
Heart Radio. This podcast will drop listeners into the minds

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of today's greatest competitors, players, coaches, and athletes will sit
down with New York Times bestselling author and renowned journalists
Cal Fussman. They'll share intimate and personal stories of performing
at the highest level. What was it like for two
time gold medalist Natasha Hastings to train her way through pregnancy,
to change the stigma and to push for the podium

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in Tokyo? Training with bundling the oven is a little
bit like, uh, surrender. I guess you know when I
think about my pregnancy, when I think about this child. Um.
I want it to be ever clear that motherhood doesn't
have to mean giving up on your dreams. What fuels

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x M M a fighters to an ultra marathon or
Kyle diets after surviving the tumor inside his brain. I
don't think anything's easy. Like, if I'm gonna do it,
I'm gonna do it full fledged and hard as I
possibly can. Recovery and coming back from a surgery and everything.
It was like, I don't think I've ever been so
determined in my life to get back on my feet

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when things got hard. What help? Michael phelps push harder.
So there are things that you're gonna have to put
your body through and your mind through if you want
different results. I learned very fast. I couldn't roll out
of bed and break a world record. I had to
put time into it. I had to make sure I
did every small thing right. We have to be on
top of it, and if you're not, you're just giving

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it up. Here stories from these athletes and more as
we discover what drives them and pushes them through the
only way is through premieres Tuesday, January one. Listen on
the I Heart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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