Nicole DeBoom: How I Overcame My Allergy to Exercise | The Healing Grove Podcast

The Healing Grove Podcast

This week I brought in my longtime friend fellow Yale Swammer, Nicole DeBoom. You may remember Nicole because she interviewed me for the trailer of the Healing Grove Podcast way back when. Well, she is back to interview me again because, at the time of this conversation, I was about to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim through the Greek Cyclades islands with some swim buddies from college. This opportunity came to me seemingly out of the blue last fall, and though I can't say that I initially jumped at the idea of getting back into swimming training after 31 years out of the water, the long and the short of it is that I ultimately decided that I wanted to be the person who says YES! to adventures that thrill yet terrify, and so here I am.
If you'd asked me ten years ago whether I thought I'd ever be strong enough to swim 5000 meters a day in the open water for 7 days straight, I would have said "Not a chance." Back then I was still crawling out of the hole that was Lyme disease for me: 30 lbs down, barely able to pick up my one-year-old, and frankly a shadow of my former self. So it just goes to show what can happen when you get to the other side of your Lyme Healing Journey. And in honor of Lyme Awareness Month, I have decided to take a deep dive into the learnings of this swim adventure with me.
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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Kristin and Nicole chat about why Kristin asked Nicole to interview her (00:00:50)

3. They discuss how and when they met (00:03:46)

4. Kristin talks about her swim career (00:05:07)

5. When her love for swimming started (00:07:01)

6. Kristin talks about when she realized that she was a competitive swimmer (00:09:14)

7. How she ended up at Yale University (00:10:35)

8. Nicole speaks about her experience of swimming with Kristin at Yale (00:14:29)

9. How Kristin met her husband while at Yale (00:15:16)

10. Ways that she overcomes the mental battle that she faces when it comes to exercise (00:16:48)

11. What brought her back to swimming (00:21:55)

12. How Kristin pushed through her training when it got hard (00:28:15)

13. Even when exercise is hard, you won’t regret doing it (00:31:21)

14. Kristin talks about her first swim meet as a Masters swimmer (00:34:46)

15. How Kristin is using her return to swimming to help others (00:43:29)

16. What happens after her trip to Greece? (00:45:31)

17. Nicole DeBoom talks about the evolution of her company, Skirt Sports, and what is coming in the future (00:47:02)