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Episode: 357. Championing Women In Sport: How To Take Up Space & Better Support Mothers With Alysia Montaño
Description: Alysia Montaño has never stood down from a challenge. Making waves when she ran the 2014 USATF Championships at 34 weeks pregnant, the activist, mother, and Olympian wants other women to know that they have value exactly as they are. That's the driving force behind her non-profit, For All Mothers, that aims to eliminate the motherhood penalty — the phenomenon by which women face economic, social, and health disadvantages after becoming mothers — through the public lens of sports. In this week's episode, we talk about how life is for Alysia now that her work is focused own her activism instea...