Today’s guest is the dynamic Dylan Johnson. Dylan is one of the all-time good guys in the cycling world who just so happens to be a multi-dimensional talent on and off the bike. He’s perhaps best known as a professional bike racer competing in the biggest and baddest ultra-endurance off road bike races in North America. As a racer Dylan has an extensive resume, including a top ten at the 2018 Unbound and he was one of 35 men and 35 women selected for the inaugural Life Time Grand Prix in 2022...

Today’s guest is the Alaska raised, Harvard graduate and professional bike racer, Kristen Faulkner. Like so many of our guests, she has a unique and remarkable story. Kristen entered her first professional race in Europe in 2020 and her meteoric rise in the fast and furious sport of road cycling shot her into the woman's world tour in a spectacular fashion. But before she became one of the fastest women in the pro peloton, racing the biggest road races in the world, she worked in the Silicon...

Today’s guest is the one and only, Haley Smith. Haley is a professional mountain bike racer who hails from Canada and has represented her country on some of the biggest stages including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Haley is a regular on the UCI Women Elite Cross Country Mountain Bike World Cup circuit and in 2022, Haley explored for the first time, the gravel scene here in North America, dipping her toe in by competing in the inaugural Lifetime Grand Prix Series—where she walked away as the...

Hello and welcome to the freshest episode of The Bounce Forward Podcast. I’m your host, Michael Leach and today’s guest is the multilayered, multidimensional and colorful Carter Roy, who appeared on Law and Order last night. If you haven’t listened to Part One of this two-part episode, I’d highly encourage you to give it a listen.   I hope you’re hooked by that opening and ready to take the deep dive, as listening to this man riff on the guitar gives me chicken skin every time. In part one...

Today’s guest is the multilayered and multidimensional, Carter Roy. For a podcast showcasing freewheeling conversations diving deep into the psychology of the comeback—a show that emphasizes stories of endurance and perseverance, Carter may be the ultimate guest, as his story is the epitome of endurance and perseverance.  Carter Roy is one of one, articulate, thoughtful, wise and multi-talented. Carter’s truly a modern-day renaissance man. He’s an actor, artist, author, singer and song...

We all face challenging circumstances such as loss, heartache and disappointment, but what if we could bounce forward from that experience to become our strongest and truest self. Today’s guest, Rose Grant truly is the epitome of what it looks like to do just that. Rose has demonstrated what it looks like to bounce forward with grit, grace, determination and courage. Rose is a 5x Mountain Bike Marathon National Champion and two-time Leadville 100 winner. She didn’t start her professional...

In this episode we dive even deeper with Gwendalyn Gibson. Gwendalyn is a professional mountain bike racer, riding for the distinguished Trek Factory Racing Team. She’s here to aspire and inspire. She’s thoughtfully working to become her strongest and truest self and she’s on a mission to make a difference in this world while lighting the world cup mountain bike scene on fire, and we’re really going to get to know Gwendalyn Gibson in part two of her story. In part two of The Rise of...

Gwendalyn Gibson is a professional mountain bike racer from Grand Junction, Colorado. She races for the Trek Factory Racing Team as an Elite World Cup Cross Country rider. She’s a 2x National Champion at Colorado Mesa University, she won Nationals in 2016 at Mammoth, California, she took a top ten at the Under 23 World Championships in 2021, and she burst onto the world stage having a breakout year in 2022. Her meteoric rise in 2022 allowed her to take the UCI Elite World Cup Cross Country...

Dr. Nathan Varley is a well-known and award winning environmental entrepreneur and explorer in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He’s the co-owner and co-founder of Yellowstone Wolf Tracker and Yellowstone Reports. Dr. Varley has a long history of exploring the remote peaks and corners of Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding wilderness landscape and is nearing 100 peaks climbed in Yellowstone. He grew up in Yellowstone National Park, received his master’s in Wildlife Biology at...

Connor Fields is a three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, a Pan American Games Gold Medalist, winner of the Red Bull Revolution and he’s the first American to win an Olympic BMX Gold medal. He turned pro at age of 15 and at 17-years-old, Connor became the youngest rider to ever podium a BMX World Cup. Connor is celebrated in the BMX and cycling community at-large as one of the ALL-TIME greats to ever race on two wheels. In the semi-finals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, on the brink of...

Hi, I'm Michael Leach, dad, author speaker and coach.  I've been talking about launching a podcast for a long time now—for many moons. The stars have aligned and I’ve been working around the clock, and the people I’ve been eager to sit down with for a conversation have jumped on board, ready and willing to make a contribution to the cause and I’m so excited to share their gold—to share their stories. We’re calling this first episode, Episode 0, so consider this the official launch of The...