Women's Hockey Life Podcast

Olympic gold medalist and eight-time World Champion Kacey Bellamy chats with Jaclyn Hawkins about her pro career, her Olympic experience and her thoughts on who'll win in Beijing.

This week on the Women's Hockey Life Podcast, host Jaclyn Hawks is joined by Boston College Eagles player Michaela Boyle. Boyle has gone through tons of adversity, between season-ending injuries and having to bounce around college programs. She shares his story and her journey in her career to date.

Co-host Ashley Mouzzon speaks with 2020 Beanpot Hall of Fame Inductee, Boston University alum and AIK player Reagan Rust. Reagan talks about her recent move from the United States to Sweden, playing with AIK and acclimating to the new culture. She also discusses her journey to BU after playing two years with RIT and making lasting memories in Boston. Outside of college hockey, Reagan also played a year with the PWHPA and recalls some fun memories of her experience.

Women's Hockey Life co-host Ashley speaks with former hockey photographer and first female to solely own a North American pro hockey team, Ellen Tully. Ellen talks about her long history in hockey and her passion for community and giving back to her hometown of Danville, Illinois. Ellen also talks about being an owner and building her organization, the Vermilion County Bobcats, from the ground up. She stresses the importance of building resources for her players and staff such as mental health services and tuition assistance.

Ashley Mouzzon speaks with Cornell University alum and USA Women's national ball hockey team assistant coach Amber Moore. Ashley speaks with Moore about her playing career, her time with the NWHL's Metropolitan Riveters, overcoming injuries and her newest role as an assistant coach. Moore also discusses her role outside of hockey in education policy and what fuels that passion to create a better education system for the next generation.

On this week's episode, Ashley Mouzzon speaks to Ohio State University alumnus and WCHA Champion, Olivia Soares. Ashley talks to Olivia about her start in hockey, playing and helping build the women's ice hockey program at OSU and winning the first ever WCHA Championship as a Buckeye. In her new role as the women's ice hockey assistant coach at Colby College, Soares aims to take her hockey career experience to help strengthen her athletes on and off the ice. She also talks about the importance of diversity and inclusion within the sport of hockey.

Ashley Mouzzon returns as co-host to speak with Olympic silver medalist and Boston College alum Molly Schaus. Molly talks about her brothers piquing her interest in hockey, her college career and her journey to the 2014 Olympics. She also details her retirement, coaching for the University of Massachusetts and her newest venture, Movement in a Box – a company focused on providing activities for young-aged kids that encourages physical activity.

In this week's episode of the show, WHL Academy mindset coach and certified sports counselor, Barb Egan makes her debut as co-host and speaks with former professional hockey player, Canada National Team member and contestant on Battle of the Blades, Jessica Campbell. The Cornell University alum recently launched her own brand, JC Powerskating, where she helps young skaters reach their full potential. Campbell discusses her hockey career, becoming a coach and turning her passion for power skating into a business. She also discusses the importance of mindset and how she incorporates that into coaching her athletes.

In episode 14, Women's Hockey Life Podcast co-host Ashley Mouzzon makes her debut by interviewing Arizona radio analyst Coyotes Lyndsey Fry. The Olympic silver medalist and Harvard alum is making waves in the hockey community through her own brand, Lyndsey Fry Hockey, and with the Coyotes as the director of external engagement and female hockey. The pair catch up to chat about Lyndsey's college experience and the hard lessons learned after she transitioned from online school to Harvard. They also talk about Lyndsey's outlook on the importance of mindset and mental health and her ventures as an entrepreneur.

In this episode, Jaclyn talks with two-time University of Wisconsin NCAA Champion and singer/songwriter Alannah McCready. The Minnesota native started skating when she was three and stepped into the goalie crease for the first time at the age of ten. As she found her passion on the ice, she also found her passion for singing country music. All throughout middle school and high school, McCready was the only student who was a member of the choir and an athlete. After she hung up her goalie skates, McCready decided to go all in as a singer/songwriter by pursuing her dream full time.

Jaclyn Hawkins chats with PWHPA member Chelsey Goldberg about her path to playing professional hockey and the years of adversity she faced dealing with injury and illness.

In Episode 11 of the Women's Hockey Life Podcast, Jaclyn Hawkins speaks with three-time Olympian and six-time world champion, Shannon Szabados. Szabados has spent her career breaking barriers as an all-star goalie who spent most of her early career playing with boys and men. A current member of the PWHPA, she has recently added the role of mom and children's author to her long list of accomplishments. Hawk speaks with Shannon about being a new mom, training, her new children’s book, Every Bunny Deserves to Play, and the strong mindset that has helped her through tough moments.

In the 10th episode of the Women's Hockey Life podcast, Jaclyn chats with new friend, Janine Charron, a former collegiate hockey player for the University of New Hampshire, business owner, breast cancer survivor and overall badass female who conquers any challenge she is faced with. Janine is no stranger to challenges. Despite everything she has dealt with in her personal life, she is grateful for having a strong sports background that has helped her develop the type of mindset to help her push through her struggles. Her love of sports came from her family and her own talent in the sport of ringette before she made the switch to hockey. Luckily for her, her strong skating abilities allowed her to pick up the game quickly. Janine discusses the impact sports can have on one's life and how it can set someone up to face real-world issues. From her experiences, she has developed the T.I.G.E.R method, a mindset tool to help make a significant change in life that requires introspection and action towards that change.

On the ninth episode of the show, Jaclyn Hawkins sat down with Blake Bolden, a scout with the Los Angeles Kings. Among many achievements in her life(such as being the first black woman to become an NHL scout and the first black player in the NWHL to name a few), Blake also played in the PWHPA, CWHL and even for HC Lugano in Switzerland. She was recently featured on the cover of USA Hockey Magazine. Bolden reflects on finding her love for the game through a family member, playing as mostly the only girl on her teams, and being the only black player on many teams until her senior year at Boston College. She talks about diversity and inclusion in the game and what needs to change. Throughout the conversation, Blake opens up about the various community efforts the LA Kings organization is doing and her involvement. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, Blake is working on various projects and it's exciting to hear what the organization is doing to spread awareness for the game as well as creating more diversity within the sport.

In this week's episode of the Women's Hockey Life podcast, Jaclyn Hawkins sits with master trainer, certified human behavior specialist and owner of Performance Mindset Coach, Gordon MacFarlane. Gordon breaks down the importance of coaches getting to know their athlete's personality from a mindset approach. Through this approach, Gordon discusses personality traits and how knowing an athlete's personality type can allow the coach to help the athlete perform at an even higher level. With his unique training models and his level of knowledge of human behavior is unmatched and this lively conversation will give listeners a glimpse of the powerful impact mindset training can have for both coaches and athletes.

This week on the Women's Hockey Life podcast, Jaclyn Hawkins chats with three-time Olympic medalist, former PWHPA member, CWHL and NWHL player and mother, Meghan Duggan. After announcing her retirement only a few short weeks ago, Meghan goes in-depth on her successful hockey career as she discusses the Olympics, the hardships and successes she has experienced, her support system and her son, George As Meghan details her career, she talks about having the goal of being an Olympic hockey player as a young girl and the way she shaped herself to ensure her goal was met. Also, as the U.S. Women's National team captain for 2014 and 2018, she reflects on her experiences as a leader and the tough conversations she was a part of in regards to the 2017 boycott of the world championships. Despite the difficulty of discussing a career as monumental as Meghan's in under an hour, she certainly packs in a powerful and inspirational conversation for listeners.

This week on the Women's Hockey Life Podcast, Jaclyn Hawkins speaks with Pearle Nerenberg, owner of Eat This For Performance and former women's ice hockey player for Cornell University. Pearle discusses her path to Cornell University and how hockey led her to work in nutrition. Her dedication and drive to help her teammates and family members were the beginning of her journey to working with athletes to improve their nutritional health. She details the lack of information on nutrition she received as a student-athlete and that often the information that was supplied was confusing and hard to follow. She admits that she knew there had to be a better way to break down useful tips for eating for performance. From that point on, her hard work ethic and determination led her to launch her own business, Eat This For Performance, which allows hers to assist athletes become the best version of themselves through proper nutrition.

In episode 5 of the Women’s Hockey Life Podcast, Jaclyn Hawkins chats with Karell Emard. Karell is a highly skilled player, currently a member of the PWHPA, a former student-athlete at St. Lawrence University. She was a member of Canada’s U-22 development team, and winner of the Clarkson Cup in 2017. She coached at Colgate University at the NCAA Division 1 level as well as with Concordia University in Montreal, and has become a celebrated ambassador and voice for the game. Walking down memory lane, Karell explains her early drive to attend St. Lawrence University and her transition from playing NCAA D1 ice hockey to coaching for Colgate University. Throughout the conversation, Karell reveals her path from player to coach and back to player and how her experiences have pushed her to not only keep playing, but also to keep moving forward and support the PWHPA’s goal of a professional women’s hockey league.

In episode 4 of the Women's Hockey Life podcast, host Jaclyn Hawkins chats with Maddy Millar, a former collegiate women's hockey athlete and freelance graphic designer. Maddy reflects on her time as a student-athlete and how the transition from college to the "real world" has affected her.

This week on the Women's Hockey Life Podcast Jaclyn Hawkins talks with the owner of Alive Counseling, certified sports counsellor, and WHL Academy mindset coach, Barb Egan. Throughout the episode, listeners get to know more about Barb's journey to becoming a mindset coach and sports counsellor, her D1 athletic career and her time as a D1 ice hockey coach. Barb sauces up some excellent mental health advice listeners can take and utilize on and off the ice, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the second episode, host Jaclyn Hawkins chats with Brianna Decker, two-time Olympian, PWHPA member and member of the U.S. National Women's ice hockey team. Throughout the episode, Jaclyn touches on Brianna's training during the COVID-19 pandemic, recovering through injuries and improving her mindset to motivate her on and off the ice. The fun doesn't stop there. Brianna also talks about her time as an assistant coach for the U-18 national women's hockey team and how coaching has broadened her perspective for the game.

On the first edition of the Women's Hockey Life Podcast, host Jaclyn Hawkins introduces the new weekly show and shares the three biggest lessons she's learned in pursuing her passion and dreams in the sport of hockey and elsewhere.