#172: Dr Erin Ayala on Values, Mental Health & Redefining Self Care

I’m delighted to welcome Dr Erin Ayala to the podcast this week. Erin is a Licensed Psychologist, a certified Mental Performance Consultant and is listed as a licensed mental health provider on the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s Mental Health Register. What I love about Erin’s perspective is that it’s holistic: she recognises that daily life, health and athletic performance are intertwined and inseparable from one another. When she’s not at work, Erin is also an endurance athlete (having completed 9 marathons and 1 Ironman) and these days is focused on life as an elite cyclist. On top of that, she recently co-founded a cycling team called Stamina Racing Collective which prioritises people who would traditionally struggle to find a home in cycling (especially, black, indigenous, people of colour and non-binary and trans athletes) In this conversation, we discuss the power of values, the difficult decisions she had made based on those values and her surprising definition of self-care.

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#172: Dr Erin Ayala on Values, Mental Health & Redefining Self Care is an episode from Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women by Jen Brown.

This episode is 00:58:21 long.

This episode was published on Sep 19, 2025.

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