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We are the Löw Tide Böyz (Chipper and Chris), a Swimrun team based in Northern California and we're on a mission to help grow the sport of Swimrun in the United States while striving to make it as accessible, inclusive, and diverse as possible. On our podcast we share our love for the new-ish sport of Swimrun and interview race directors, athletes, and other cool people in the space all the while chronicling our own training and racing adventures and having as much fun as possible in the pro ...
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She Pivots

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Join Emily Tisch Sussman as she sits down with a diverse group of women to explore how their personal experiences led to their pivot and eventually their success. She Pivots challenges the typical definitions of success and explores the role our personal stories play in our professional journeys. The series will celebrate those who have made bold moves with a view towards inspiring others to pursue their own non-linear paths. Be sure to subscribe and follow us on Instagram @ShePivotsThePodcast.
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Welcome to episode 314 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Our annual show kickoff is still going strong with this week’s guest. Joining us to talk about Swimrun, surfing, podcasting, and writing is pro surfer and author Kyle Thiermann. We talk about his first Swimrun experience at ÖTILLÖ Catalina in 2025, what it’s like to be a pro surfer, a…
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Welcome to episode 313 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s our first show of 2026 and as per tradition, we are kicking off the year with a banger of an episode. Joining us in ringing in the new (Swimrun) year are the reigning ÖTILLÖ World Champions Arnaud de Lustrac and Jérôme Gueguen, A.K.A., Team The Kebab League. This was an awesome c…
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Welcome to episode 312 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s time for our annual tradition to close out the year with a look back at our experiences and look forward to what will be “THE YEAR OF SWIMRUN!” in 2026. We’ve had a lot of new experiences this year and are grateful to end our season on a high note. Next year will be an awesome on…
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Welcome to episode 311 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got yet another great one this week! Joining us to discuss the new ÖTILLÖ Swimrun personal coaching option is head coach, former world champion, and all around amazing athlete Ulrika Ericksson. If that name sounds familiar, we interviewed her way back in Episode 141 right after …
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Welcome to episode 310 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s finally time for our last race report of the year! Chipper raced the California International Marathon this past weekend and he shares all the feels from his first proper marathon in years. And by “proper” we mean actually training for a marathon. (Spoiler Alert: he had a great r…
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Welcome to episode 309 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Joining us to share what was one of the best Swimrun stories of the year is Vincent Meyer. He was a late (like really late) substitute for this year’s One Water Race and his story of how it all transpired for him to race as part of Team 7 …
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Welcome to episode 308 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We've got a great show for everyone this week and absolute zero Black Friday mentions (except for this one.) Coach Liz Gilden is back for our fourth installment of Fika with Coach Liz to answer all of our off-season questions and how to get set up for an epic race reason in 2026. Happ…
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Gotham FC, New York and New Jersey’s Women’s Soccer team, has already made history as the #8 seed heading to the 2025 NWSL Championship in San Jose after knocking out the top-ranked Kansas City Current. But can they bring home the gold? In this She Pivots Minisode, host Emily Tisch Sussman taps soccer experts, World Cup champions, Gotham’s GM, team…
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Welcome to episode 307 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have a fresh installment of Low Tide Labz this week! Annie Molsberry joins us to discuss Snake and Pig Swim goggles. We put these to the test and share our review of what they claim to be the “world’s most comfortable goggles.” In this episode we break down everything you need to k…
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Welcome to episode 306 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s time for our last race report of the year. We wrapped up our Swimrun season in usual fashion at ÖTILLÖ Austin over the weekend and (Spoiler Alert!) it was a blast. In unusual fashion, we ended up winning (yes, you read that right) the Team division finishing as the first team ove…
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Welcome to episode 305 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Joining us on the podcast this week is the incomparable Mara Tynan. Not only is she an awesome Swimrunner but she's an even better person. In this wide ranging conversation we talk about our shared love for the sport, her academic pursuits, and so much more. We loved this conversation…
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Welcome to episode 304 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Our favorite journalist, Adam Skolnick, is back on the show to talk about living a wild life, his new book, American Tiger, and of course, Swimrun. Adam is a gem and it was great to have him back on the show. His novel comes out on Decembe…
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Welcome to episode 303 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great show for everyone this week! Joining us from the UK are our friends Claire and Piers Vallance, A.K.A., Team Vallance Precision Fuel and Hydration, for a proper Swimrun chin wag. In this conversation we chatted about their race history, why they love Swimrun, and what…
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Welcome to episode 302 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a new installment in our ad hoc Swimrun 201 series for everyone this week. We received a thoughtful listener question a few weeks ago (thanks Ethan!) that inspired us to tackle the moving target of balancing Swimrun and life. In this episode, we answer Ethan’s questions whil…
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Welcome to episode 301 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s rock flute time again! Fresh on the heels of this past weekend’s Inaugural ÖTILLÖ Colorado, we share our race report for the event. As our friend Phil quipped, “the Swimrun circus came to town” and it was a blast to see friends old and new and experience anew the epic/random plac…
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Welcome to episode 300 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It's rock flute time…again! This time we are going into the hot tub time machine to go back to record the only race report missing from our Swimrun/Podcast journey: California Swimrun 2018. This was our first Swimrun and a fitting look back as we celebrate our 300th episode of the sho…
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This week marks a special moment on She Pivots—it’s our season finale, and Emily is joined by the incomparable Paloma Faith. On this episode, Paloma opens up about her boldest reinvention yet: pivoting from chart-topping singer and actress to author of her raw and bestselling memoir, MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and Fckery*. With her trademark …
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Welcome to episode 299 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It's rock flute intro time which can only mean that we have another race report for everyone this week. Fresh off this past weekend's Swimrun Cape Cod, Chris and his partner for the race Emily St. Germain, A.K.A., Team No Tide Donuts, talk about all the sights and sounds of what was a…
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Welcome to episode 298 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We're stoked to welcome back to the show our dear friends Chrissy and Bill, A.K.A., Team Mr. and Mrs. B. Not only are they super experienced Swimrunners taking on some of the most challenging races out there but they are also two of the nicest people that we've met on our Swimrun jour…
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Julie Wainwright’s career (and personal life) is a masterclass in resilience and reinvention, having seen Pets.com collapse on the very same day her marriage ended. On this episode of She Pivots, Julie opens up about the highs of leading companies at the forefront of the dot-com boom, and the devastating lows of reaching a personal professional roc…
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Welcome to episode 297 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Joining us to discuss mental strategies for when you’re on the other side of the mountain top–such as having just raced ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship–is sports psychologist and extreme endurance athlete Dr. Erin Ayala. In this con…
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Latham Thomas is changing the way the world thinks about birth, wellness, and motherhood. As the founder of Mama Glow, she’s helped families, including celebrities like Alicia Keys, Anne Hathaway, and Gabrielle Union navigate the journey to parenthood with knowledge, support, and joy. On this episode of She Pivots, Latham opens up about the birth o…
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Welcome to episode 296 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! What a weekend! We just finished broadcasting the 19th Edition of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship and needless to say it was a blast! While the FOMO of not racing was sky high, we certainly got a new appreciation for the race as we followed all the teams along the legendary cou…
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Sloane Stephens is a Grand Slam champion whose career has been defined as much by resilience as by remarkable wins. On this episode of She Pivots, Sloane opens up about her journey from a late-blooming tennis prodigy to a U.S. Open champion, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. She reflects on navigating the grief of losing her father and stepfather a…
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Welcome to episode 295 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Chris just got back from ÖTILLÖ Mackinac Island where he raced as part of Team Musubi & Mofongo with friend of the podcast John Branderhorst (part of Team Kancho Boyz.) They had a blast racing the last(?) edition of the race in northern Mi…
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Elizabeth Sneed is the face and founder of Curvy Surfer Girl—a global body-positive movement empowering women of all shapes and sizes to find strength, joy, and belonging in the waves. But few would have guessed that she would make a career from the waves after she nearly drowned at fourteen. In this episode, Elizabeth shares her journey from a tur…
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Welcome to episode 281 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We've got a great one for everyone this week. Dominik Leu of ÖTILLÖ joins us to preview this year's edition of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. In this episode we share an overview of the race experience, discuss who's gunning for the podium in each team division, and share exc…
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Sima Gandhi's professional resume reads like a blueprint for success—but her story reveals a far more complex reality. On this episode of She Pivots, Emily speaks with the entrepreneur, lawyer, and former Plaid executive in her first public conversation about the personal journey that reshaped her life. At the height of her career—helping lead one …
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Welcome to episode 293 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Gear Talk is back...but it's now called Low Tide Labz. In this episode we discuss the Frank Paddle LTBz Signature paddle, a.k.a., The Stoke Masters, a.k.a., The LTBz'z, a.k.a., The New Hotness. We worked with Frank Paddle for almost a year in designing these paddles and we're stoked w…
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Michelle Betos spent over a decade breaking barriers in professional soccer, not just as a standout goalkeeper and National Women’s Soccer League Goalkeeper of the Year, but as part of the group of women that fought to build the league from the ground up. In this episode, she reflects on the grit it took to stay in the game when the pay was low, th…
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Welcome to episode 292 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. A Swimrun legend joins us on the podcast to discuss his recent victory at ÖTILLÖ Gothenburg and his upcoming One Water Race. Of course, we are talking about none other than multiple Swimrun World Champion Adriel Young. In this conversation…
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Tony Award–winning actor and writer Sarah Jones has built a career blending culture, politics, and humor — all while embodying a kaleidoscope of unforgettable characters. In our final live episode recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Sarah joins Emily for a conversation about her groundbreaking podcast, America, Who Hurt You?, which puts the natio…
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Welcome to episode 291 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got our first official LTBz team race report for everyone this week. 2025 has been the most varied year of Swimrun for us to date where we've raced with different partners, distances, etc. but we finally towed the line with our usual team format for this past weekend's Folsom Sw…
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Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, has carved out a remarkable global career in journalism and economics — one that spans continents and cultures. In this special live episode recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Zanny joins Emily for a conversation about her unexpected path from a rural England farm to the helm of one of the …
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Welcome to episode 290 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got an epic episode for everyone this week. Joining us to recap their adventure at this year’s Rockman Swimrun are our great friends Liza Dunham and Mike Schiepke, A.K.A., Team Cali-Coed. (If this team sounds familiar, we interviewed them for Partners Month all the way back on E…
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Chanel’s President of Arts, Culture & Heritage, Yana Peel, has carved out a singular career at the intersection of art, innovation, AI, and global community building — all driven by her belief in the power of creativity to shape culture and spark change. In this special live episode recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Yana sits down with Emily fo…
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Welcome to episode 289 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We've got an all-timer for everyone this week. Joining us to discuss her preparation for The One Water Race (and Swimrun) (and life) is elite Swimrunner Kayla Kobelin. She's racing as part of Team 7 in this year's race and we discussed what actually makes this race the "ultimate proof…
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Former National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has held some of the highest national security and domestic policy roles in the U.S. government — but her defining strength may be her ability to lead with both head and heart. In this special live episode recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Ambassador Rice sits…
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Welcome to episode 288 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We've got a great show for everyone this week. ÖTILLÖ Whistler took place this past weekend and Chris raced the Sprint distance with fellow Swimrun evangelist, Annie Molsberry. In this show we share all the sights and sounds of the second edition of this amazing race...and perhaps sav…
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Charlotte Jones is the powerhouse Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer of the Dallas Cowboys — but her most defining moves have happened off the field. In this special live episode recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Charlotte opens up about growing up in one of the most iconic families in sports, and what it’s really like to build a …
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Welcome to episode 287 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re both back from our respective vacations and got the idea of putting together a show about our best thinking on planning an awesome Swimrun family vacation. So here it is! In this episode, we share our best thinking on how to pitch, plan, and execute an epic Swimrun adventure wit…
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Victoria Jackson is a beauty industry pioneer whose billion-dollar brand helped define the “no-makeup makeup” movement — but her most powerful pivot came far beyond the world of cosmetics. In this episode, Victoria shares how building her business from her garage was just the beginning of a life shaped by resilience, reinvention, and purpose. When …
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Welcome to episode 286 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We're on vacation this week but the show must go on! In this episode, Chipper shares his race report from Swimrunman Lac De Vassiviere from this past weekend. It was an epic adventure and included all the positive Swimrun vibes that we love about this sport. Enjoy! ~~~ That’s it for t…
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I’m so excited to be re-releasing my conversation with Joy Mangano to celebrate Joy: The Musical, now on stage in New York City! I was thrilled to go see the show, a vibrant retelling of Joy’s extraordinary journey from single mom to superstar inventor. Known for creating the Miracle Mop and portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the hit 2015 film Joy, …
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Welcome to episode 285 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Elite swim coach and founder of Effortless Swimming, Brenton Ford, is back on the show with fresh knowledge bombs. In this conversation we chatted about becoming comfortable with open water swimming, optimal drafting techniques for Swimrun…
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Kaitlyn Joshua is a faith organizer and activist whose advocacy for reproductive freedom is rooted in one of the most painful experiences of her life. In this episode, Kaitlyn shares how what began as a planned pregnancy turned into a medical crisis—when she was turned away from the emergency room twice while miscarrying, left to suffer for months …
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Welcome to episode 284 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We are excited to welcome back our good friend and super experienced swimrunner, Marcus Barton for an in-depth course preview of the Rockman Swimrun, one of the most challenging swimruns in the world. Marcus shares his personal connection to the race, having first competed in 2015, an…
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Margot Blouin is the founder of Cadstrom, a rising tech company whose success is deeply rooted in her personal journey. In this special Pride Month episode, Margot shares how embracing her identity as a transgender woman wasn’t a detour from her professional path — it was the key to unlocking her full potential. For years, she hid her truth while b…
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Welcome to episode 283 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We just got back from Bellingham Swimrun and the vibes were as Swimrun-y as ever! Joining us for this race report is our dear friend, and now teammate, Annie Molsberry. We raced as a three-person team and had a blast enjoying the amazing venue of Lake Padden. In this episode we breakd…
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Jessica Vosk is a Broadway powerhouse, beloved for her unforgettable roles as Elphaba in Wicked, Jenna in Waitress, and now starring in the critically acclaimed Hell’s Kitchen. But before gracing center stage, Jessica’s path took a very different turn — one that led her to a high-powered career on Wall Street. In this episode, Jessica shares the re…
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