Kegels and Coffee
What’s a Kegel? WTF am I doing with my life? What if I don’t want babies? Am I the only one that doesn’t have it figured out? Settle in and join host Isabel von Rittberg in her raw, vulnerable, and sometimes outrageous conversations about the things that keep us up at night. No topic is taboo, nothing is off limits.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Life Is a Quilt
My mother, Gretchen Elizabeth Wetzel, was born in Glendive Montana in 1949. Her mother’s family had arrived in covered wagons in Willow Creek Valley in 1891. But this is not where the traveling ended…
Creating Comes From Nothing
Born in Scotland, Angie Seckinger spent her childhood moving a lot all over the globe, from Pakistan, Columbia, Chile and Guatemala to Arizona, Washington DC, Maryland and Germany. Her dad was a fore…
This Is All I've Got
When I first moved to Spain late last summer, I expected to jump straight into my new job at a local winery, guiding tourists and explaining the history of Priorat. I had prepared and studied for the…
How to Find (and Practice!) Your Self-Care Routine
We recorded this episode with Laura Jolley late last summer. I had found her yoga class in Grand Junction shortly after moving there and it changed the entire experience of a difficult phase of my li…
Love & Loss
Christie Blackmon grew up in northeast Ohio. She studied marketing and psychology at Kent State University and started climbing in her twenties. Her new passion led her to travel throughout the US, M…
The Things That Keep Us Up At Night
IF YOU ARE CURIOUS WHY MY PODCAST IS CALLED ‘KEGELS AND COFFEE’ THIS EPISODE HAS THE ANSWER FOR YOU!
Susan Vachon and I go way back to the California days. She danced for my company in 2009 and has b…
An Outsider in Engineering: Breaking Into the Boys’ Club
Janet Tsai grew up in Colorado and with parents from Taiwan always was a minority within the white world of the Front Range. In our conversation we talked about what it felt like to grow up in Fort C…
Traveling Spanish Style
Colette McInerney grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She fell in love with rock climbing, and the lifestyle that came with it, while she was in college. Colette is a talented climber and has a magic to…
We Are Not Robots, As It Turns Out
Welcome back to Kegels and Coffee! I am excited to start off with the one and only Steven Dimmitt, host of The Nugget Climbing Podcast. Known as a passionate rock climber who interviews world-class r…
Loving in the Midst of Gunshots
I got back to the US on May 27th, three days after the Uvalde Texas school shooting where 21 children and teachers died. Five days later, four more people were killed in the hospital shooting in Tuls…
Leaving Russia in Search of a New Life
Dasha Kan was born in Ufa (Urals), Russia. Growing up, she spent a lot of time with her grandparents. Dasha fell in love with rock climbing at age nine and won four world youth championships in speed…
The Simple Life
Florian Friedel (aka ‘Flo’) was born and raised in Pforzheim, Germany. Flo started working as a programmer running cnc-machines when he was twenty years old, the same year he fell in love with rock c…
To Have or Not to Have: That Is the Baby Question
Sarah Dao was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. Her father is from Vietnam, her mother is German. Sarah started climbing at the age of fourteen and since then has only taken two non-climbing vacati…
Dutch People In the Mountains
Wendy Dijs was born in 1979 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Her parents were both artists and lived a very comfortable life in a country that was democratic, took good care of its citizens and also suppo…
When Failure Dysphoria Is Turned Up
Madaleine Sorkin travels to climb long, difficult rock walls from the Rockies to Yosemite where she has freed up to 5.13+ on El Capitan and the Diamond on Longs Peak. She has completed first free asc…
Latino Love
Cayden Eldridge grew up on the East Coast, just outside Washington, DC. He was raised by a Chilean mother and an American father. Annual visits to Chile where he spent time with his nine aunts and un…
Self Care: Are You Listening to Yourself?
Emily Korth is an artist and climber who has spent the greater part of a decade living out of vehicles and traveling in pursuit of fulfillment. You can most likely find her climbing in Rifle Canyon, …
A Father/Son Ascent Turns Epic
Klaas Willems was born in 1986 in Leuven, Belgium with a genetic lung and digestive disease called Cystic Fibrosis. CF causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system and other organs in the body…
Learning Vulnerability
Jenna Blumenfeld grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut where she began her formal ballet training at the New England Academy of Dance. After high school, she discovered modern dance, eventually leading …
Van Life, Desert Dwelling and the Luxury of Warm Toilet Seats
Natalie Jaime grew up in Fayetteville, NC. She got her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a focus on media production at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and then proceeded to move…