
Nichole Baker: Part 3, on exploring the world by bike, screaming monkeys, and finding adventure in your backyard
In this third part of our ongoing series, Nichole Baker talks to Payson about some of her most thrilling and harrowing adventures by bike. From screaming monkeys, tree climbing tigers, and unexpected ...
1 Sep 20202h 14min

Nichole Baker: Part 2, on “voluntourism” and the two weeks in Haiti that changed her life
Nichole Baker returns to the show to talk about her rocky introduction to international charity work while on a trip to Haiti in 2016. Tasked with setting up a pathology lab and teaching local patholo...
25 Aug 20201h 56min

Nichole Baker, adventure athlete, philanthropist, and medical professional
Nichole Baker is an adventure athlete, philanthropist, and medical professional (who also happens to be Payson’s girlfriend). Her work as a pathologist’s assistant and athlete has taken her all over t...
18 Aug 20201h 12min

Eliot Jackson, downhill mountain biker
Eliot Jackson is a downhill mountain biker who rides for the Giant Factory Off-Road Team. He’s competed on the UCI World Cup circuit and on the Crankworx World Tour, finishing 3rd at Crankworx Rotorua...
10 Aug 20201h 3min

Mark Twight, mountaineer, author, and trainer
Mark Twight returns to the show to talk about transitions, decision paralysis, and, of course, the nuances and science of athletic optimization. Throughout his varied career, Mark has been a pioneerin...
4 Aug 20201h 27min

Sean Hopkins, SRAM engineer
Sean Hopkins is a quality engineer at SRAM. He joins Payson to talk about how he fell in love with bikes while growing up on the south side of Chicago, being stopped by the police as a child on suspic...
28 Jul 20201h 1min

Koen de Kort, road cyclist
Koen de Kort is a professional road cyclist who currently rides for the UCI WorldTeam Trek-Segafredo. After 15 years on the WorldTour, he is one of the most respected road captains in professional cyc...
20 Jul 202058min

Quarantine Companion #13 with Rachel Olzer
Rachel Olzer is an activist, evolutionary biologist, and mountain biker, who has become a leading voice in the current wave of racial justice advocacy taking place across the world. As a transracial a...
14 Jul 20201h 55min




















