This episode, we talk with Elana Schwam. She tells us about her start to ultimate, as well as her beginnings with Brute Squad, and she talks about how the team has progressed since its first championship, as well as what keeps it as one of the best teams in the world year after year.
Schwam also tells us about how the Brute community has helped her through some of the toughest parts of her life, including her cancer diagnosis, and also through a miscarriage, as well as the death of her daughter Zoë. A content warning for this episode: this episode contains discussion of cancer, miscarriage, and stillbirth. This episode also has an explicit rating for language. Thanks so much to Schwam for sharing her story with us!
This is the last episode of Season 1 of Share the Air. To listen to us during our hiatus (we will be back!), please check out our Patreon page, where you can listen to bonus content every two weeks! We already have four bonus episode out, filled with new interviews, great stories, and extra content that we couldn't fit into the original episodes.
Share the Air is hosted by Tulsa Douglas and Luisa Neves. It is planned, edited, and produced by Tulsa Douglas, Luisa Neves, and Tim Bobrowski. Share the Air's music is by Grey Devlin and Christopher Hernandez. Share the Air is sponsored by the National Ultimate Training Camp, VC Ultimate, and the Centre for Applied Neuroscience.