DiscoverThe Mother Runners Podcast with Whitney HeinsHow Our Childbirth Experiences Impact Our Running Mindsets
How Our Childbirth Experiences Impact Our Running Mindsets

How Our Childbirth Experiences Impact Our Running Mindsets

Update: 2025-08-06
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In this episode, all four of us share our birth stories and how our experiences impact our running today. While we are all runners and moms, our childbirth experiences are all so different as is our relationships between giving birth and it impacting our running and mindset. 

We hope you find it helpful, inspiring, and of course—makes you laugh. Thanks for listening!

THIS EPISODE IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY RELAY ACTIVE.

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Whitney Heins is a mom of 2, a lifelong runner, a VDOT-certified running coach for moms who run, and founder of the resource, themotherrunners.com. When training for her first marathon as a mom, she found a dearth of information related to running and motherhood. She also felt extremely isolated as a new mom. As a former TV journalist and a freelance writer she decided to use her skills to fill the void with an online resource and community, called The Mother Runners. Whitney also recognized a need for run coaches who understood the demands of motherhood, so she also became a running coach—unearthing a passion for helping moms reap the rewards and empowerment of running. Coming out of a long injury cycle, she ran a 2:54 marathon and 1:20 half marathon in her 40s. She lives in Knoxville, TN with her husband, two kids, and three dogs.

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How Our Childbirth Experiences Impact Our Running Mindsets

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