The Lucie Beatrix Podcast

Kara Dudley shares how a creative childhood and a leap into New York City acting quietly set the stage for her life as a runner and coach. We talk through what powered her biggest breakthroughs, including a 2:45 Berlin Marathon PR and the mindset it takes to keep showing up when training is not perfect. Kara's Instagram Lucie's Instagram • growing up in dance, theater, and music while never identifying as an athlete • moving to New York City with no job and learning the audition h...

Lucie Beatrix sits down with fellow running coach, Kati Billow to talk about nervous system regulation, mind-body connection, and the softer skills that can turn fitness into real performance. Katie shares how a traumatic NYC subway attack reshaped her relationship with running, coaching, and what it means to keep showing up when a race goes sideways. • growing up in dance and yoga then finding running later • building a running identity through community in New York City • training throu...

She’s the runner you’ve probably seen breaking the tape at NYC street races, calmly keeping the fast pace on a Nike long run, or somehow smiling after an all-day ultra effort of running 100 miles in 24 hours. My guest is my close friend and training partner, Lindsey Nelson, a 2:53 marathoner who pairs serious speed with serious life responsibility as a nurse practitioner student. We go back to the beginning, including Lindsey’s childhood cancer story. She shares how a bump on her forehead le...

A friendship that started with a shy hello after yoga turned into a decade-plus of bridge walks, bodega quests, and a shared obsession with doing hard things well. We pull back the curtain on how two self-described lone wolves built chosen family in New York—first through daily practice, then through the scrappy reality of making rent, and now through a strangely joyful sport most people only touch for ten minutes: the stair climber. You’ll hear how our rituals evolved from pre-Instagram yog...

On this episode of The Lucie Beatrix podcast, Lucie talks with friend Dan Meinhardt, a full-time musician living in NYC about living the dream and training for marathons. They discuss their time together altitude training in Park City, Utah as well as how Dan paced Lucie to win the Orchard Street Runners Prototype Half in NYC last fall. This episode was filmed at Floored Media in Long Island, NY.