Tribalcast: Recent Episodes
Ryan Dreyer
An all in audio experience pursuing a happy, loving and fulfilled life. Topics often include nutrition, physical health and mental frameworks. All in an effort to seize everything that this life has to offer.
Started a new couples devotional and being prompted to find Jesus in the Old Testament. Genesis 1 and 3 connected to John 14 and Revelation 1.
It’s challenge week inside Tribal!! We have 2 specific training challenges that all athletes are taking on. This episode explains the challenges, why I’ve set these benchmarks, and how these fit into the team vision and annual calendar
Kevin Rudd and I grew up going to school together - and only recently reconnected after we discovered our shared passion for endurance.
Kevin joins the pod to talk about reclaiming his health through endurance - and building a life of adventure, discipline, and accomplishment. He recently completed Leadville 100 and has finished all kinds of endurance events ranging from ultras to Ironmans, while remaining present for his family and building a successful professional life.
To learn more about Kevin and follow his journey, check out his Instagram @krudd.jr
Most athletes waste energy trying to be their leanest, strongest, and fastest every month of the year.
In this episode, we break down how to align your goals with the season, and the simple way to map training phases so you actually improve.
In this episode, I break down exactly how I overcame the overwhelm of making quality YouTube videos.
I share how mastered the simplest gear set up, learned editing in a day, and shifted from self-promotion to actually teaching.
If you want to create better content with less friction, this will help your process.
Learn how to design a life that feels expansive and meaningful
We share stories of athletes who turned discipline into courage and daily training into a path for personal transformation.
This is the first episode of a revamped Tribal Cafe structure.
In this episode, I break down my experience racing the Leadville Trail Marathon. You’ll hear 9 tactical lessons on everything from heart rate execution to real-time problem solving, plus insights on choosing new arenas of competition, and how honoring the bigger picture can transform your approach to training and racing.
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How small businesses and side hustles got space to grow within the team weekend.
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How we responded to the swim cancellation - and rallied together to work through disappointment.
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Behind the scenes on how Tribal Team Races are evolving in real time.
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Download the Run. Write. Build. Daily Blueprint HERE: https://runwritebuild.com/daily-blueprint
Introducing Run. Write. Build. — a simple operating system and the next evolution in my coaching framework. You’ll also hear my fully revamped vision for content, marketing, and community—built around structure, intention, and real value delivery.
Get Endurance Accelerator: my free mini-course packed with training strategies and mindset shifts to live life on your terms.
In this episode, we explore what it means to live a high-agency life.
From Mason’s trip to Colorado, to Blaine’s bike evolution through shared effort, to Brian Reilly building endurance culture from his hometown in Virginia—these are stories of athletes who chose action over excuses.
Plus, a preview of Tribal Trailfest and why this team is built different.
In this episode, we explore the power of creativity—writing, building, and sharing ideas online. Just like in training, the key is showing up, taking risks, and embracing the process. Run. Write. Build.
Here's a step by step guide on how I went from idea to free live workshop > free mini course > landing page > email drip > paid product for my writing school, Tribal Quillkeepers.
First podcast I've ever recorded while on the bike.
Here's my real life training flexes from this past weekend - and how I turn schedule obstacles into more gains.
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The worst place to be in life is knowing exactly what you want - but being afraid to go get it.
In this pod, I share everything that has gone into my new writing coaching program within Tribal Training - Tribal Quillkeepers.
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3 specific times my mind tried to get me to bail
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2 specific tactics that helped me push through fears and doubts along the way
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3 steps of building a free product and developing it into a paid offer
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Early stages of brand building
Jamie addresses slanderous accusations made on The Matt Bank Show. And shares new perspectives on the Tribal Team Ultra at Elephant Mountain 50.
Matt Bank blesses us with 5 life lessons extracted from Elephant Mountain 50 & gives insight to how the Fast Group's race unfolded.
This is the first time we've done an in-person post race podcast with all athletes. This is the full breakdown of the Elephant Mountain 50 team race experience.
Goldstein and I reflect on our observations from the recent Team Ultra experience at Elephant Mountain 50
Sharing what's helped me put together the most consistent 7 weeks of training in the past year, my strategy for cross training in ultra prep, using mini metrics to hold swim and bike accountable and more.
The prompt I covered was:
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list the Top 3 people who know your work
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list the Top 3 people who believe in you
Sharing what I learned this year as a coach on race selection, my philosophy on A, B and C races and doing both big races and local ones.
The 3 things it takes to run a successful marathon in an Ironman and how to get creative building a process that keeps you healthy.
How proper Masculine Leadership allows the Feminine to relax into ease, flow and trust.
This is foundation of building and maintaining peace in the home.
This is a continuation of the last Paradox Podcast with more distilled ideas and examples across training, biz building and lifestyle.
Exploring how "Paradoxes are signs of deep truth" across training, creativity and self-expression.
Updates on our new Tribal Strength Programs, the 2 on 1 Self-Leadership coaching package Goldstein and I have been testing, Tribal Trail Fest vision updates, December Athlete Testing and some new ideas on selecting races for 2025.
EK joins the pod to chat on his training philosophies and coaching experience.
We get into a specifics of my development roadmap, the lessons from EK that I think have shown up most in my process and what aspects of EK's coaching have been absorbed into Tribal.
To learn more about EK, check out his website www.ekendurancecoaching.com
He's also on Instagram @ekendurance
This is an expansion of our evolving conversation on the Hero's Journey that weaves in creativity and artistic expression through endurance.
Here's the backstory, inspiration and process of bringing the Tribal "Enter Action With Boldness" Elephant logo to life
I have a limited amount of merch available for to the public with the new logo. You can order it through the link below. (Store closes Nov. 5 and orders will be delivered early Dec.)
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Here's complete detail on the personal breakthroughs I was chasing in my 5th Ironman and a reflection on the beautiful ways the Ironman journey has improved my life.
Discovering your personal style in endurance training and how to authentically integrate it into life.
This is a full podcast on my race experience at Ironman Chattanooga, what it was like to adapt to the cancelled swim and how I pulled off the best race of my life.Want to learn more from me and experience what I'm building?Click here to apply to Tribal: www.traintribal.com
Paul Millerd has been a big inspiration on my writing journey. I speed read his book The Pathless Path in 2023 and loved his ideas on breaking free from the "Default Path" in life and carving your own. His new book, "Good Work" comes out next week.
This was my first time having a guest on the pod and enjoyed the chance to connect aspects of Paul's journey becoming an online writer to themes of endurance and taking more from life.
You can follow Paul on Twitter HERE
You can buy The Pathless Path HERE
And you can preorder Good Work HERE
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The #1 takeaway from this podcast is that everyone should be shopping at Whole Foods in their Tribal kit.
This was a recorded community call where we had athletes share on recent race experiences
Tara, Brandon and myself shared on Oregon 70.3
Andrew shared on his first 100k at The Guzzler in Australia
Phil shared on a huge PR/Podium at a local Olympic
Do you want to get faster and better at endurance? This episode is for the athlete ready to evolve beyond just finishing, improve their training process and throw down on race day.
Watch this on YouTube if you want to see all the screen shares and behind the scenes of my process. All ideas will still resonate over podcast audio though.
I share my big recent breakthrough on what this book is, they key ideas and how they fit together, where I'm taking inspiration and how I'm thinking about captivating the reader.
Plus I show my Notion outline, how I'm using Substack to publish along the way and what ideas I have for my first draft.
Matt Bank did AC 70.3 using an Online Training Plan. And his race experience was miserable. After the race, he joined Tribal and has taken full advantage of the Team resources and Coaching experience. And his race experience could not have been more different.
This pod is with Cam on his experience DNFing at IM Nice '23, joining Tribal a few weeks later and finding redemption at IM Nice '24. My favorite part of Cam's story is how his more authentic self was revealed over the past year. And how it shined bright through his entire race experience.
Live workshop with Goldstein and I revisiting the 4 Values of Endurance Philosophy that we built together when we first synced up in Fall 2022. We refine, build and expand on those with what we've learned through the team since then.
We've had a lot of talk on subjective wins in training, racing and life. Time to recalibrate by remembering that truth lives in the objective.
It's 70.3 season inside Tribal with tons of athletes taking down races. I built this as a resource that shares everything you need to know for fueling on the bike.
Here are the 5 themes we saw emerge through Zion and Chattanooga 70.3 We share what they are and what specific athlete stories we see these themes in.
This is a very special episode with my Dad. We talk about the entire experience of him doing his first 70.3 and how we used training as a launching pad for rebuilding our relationship and creating a new foundation as father and son.
This is a roundtable pod with a bunch of the guys who did the Team Race at Chattanooga 70.3
Big takeaways were how our best parts can shine when we are surrounded by the Team.
This is all of the pre-race set up for the team. I mention in the beginning that it'll include race day. But I decided to split it into 2 parts.
This is a very authentic and actionable conversation on fasting.
Matt Bank asked how to introduce fasting amidst endurance training.
Instead of just giving a blanket answer, we dug into why he wants to start fasting and what his current eating routines are.
We learned the gains he's looking for are found in more structure around daily eating habits.
This conversation gets into Libby's experience balancing overnight shifts in prep, breaking out of her shell to take on this Team race as a whole and how her race unfolded.
Biggest lesson from Libby's experience was how overwhelming it can be to compare yourself to others. And how focusing on yourself and your own process is how you can best be set up for success.
Libby's recording got split into 2 parts and it was simpler to do separate uploads. Part 1 is #61 on the Tribal podcast feed.
This conversation gets into Libby's experience balancing overnight shifts in prep, breaking out of her shell to take on this Team race as a whole and how her race unfolded.
Biggest lesson from Libby's experience was how overwhelming it can be to compare yourself to others. And how focusing on yourself and your own process is how you can best be set up for success.
Libby's recording got split into 2 parts and it was simpler to do separate uploads. Part 2 is #62 on the Tribal podcast feed.
Compete insight to Jamie's mindset balancing endurance training with his roles as a husband, father of 3 girls and Battalion Chief of the Oakland Fire Department.
Plus full detail on his training specifics, his mindset unlock since joining the Tribe and his heroics conquering Zion 100.
This is a must listen for any dads who are wanting to show up more for themselves and their family.
Trevor shares the mindset behind his total life overhaul from being 300lbs in Jan. 2020.. to becoming an Ironman (and more) in 2023.. to now running 100 miles in April 2024.
We also dig into his athletic background as a kid, his health scare in 2020 and his perspective now living a completely different life.
"I was looking for something to break me. And I found it"
Josh Payne shares a powerful perspective on failure and not getting beat down by coming up short.
Dylan Spina shares openly on the "positive aggressive" mindset that he cultivated playing football, in the military and in competitive strength training... and how it does not always translate to success in endurance.
We chat on the tactical moves Spina made in Zion 100, his mindset toward keeping the team together and how he is growing from the experience.
This is a raw and real podcast where Brandon courageously shares the truth in his shortcoming at Zion 100.
We dive deep into his mindset in training, the areas of training he overlooked and the specific moment in the race where he let himself quit.
This is a must listen for anyone taking on a daunting challenge.
Here's how Tribal athletes are creating their own legend within the larger mythology of Tribal Training.
This conversation was inspired by Blaine's heroics on the Guacamole Mesa Loop (and getting me back to mile 70) at Zion 100.
This is a monster episode that dives deep into Louie's mindset and gets extremely tactical with the mental/race strategies that helped him keep going... all the way to the finish line.
We also hear his perspective on the team experience and he shares guidance on where less experienced athletes could improve.
My favorite unlocks from this episode were learning the mental strategies that helped Louie conquer Zion 100: the Deep Well of Gratitude, Race Resets, Aid Station Time Blocks, "We're Just Right Here", "Everything Is Fine" and more.
Here's Cam's experience building into Zion, preparing to race, getting sick the night before and shifting his mindset to go full support for the team.
Here's Mike Donatelli's experience pacing miles 80 to 100, keeping our 3 athletes together and getting them across the finish line.
There is no way I make it to Mile 70 without Blaine. And this podcast is all about his perspective on our adventure into the night.
We also get incredible background on Blaine's journey from the "lowest" entry into endurance with Tribal (a solo 70.3) to participating in our peak Team experience just a few months later.
Do you want in on the next Tribal Training Team Ultra?
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Do you want in on the next Tribal Training Team Ultra?
Join the Waitlist for the Tribal Ultra VIP Experience at Antelope Canyon Ultra here:
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Here’s what it was like having the whole team stay in a house together. The 4+ “workshops” that organically emerged. And how just by being around each other guided us to elevate our prep.
Here’s the Tribal Training team race progression and how the spirit of competing together came to life.
This is a mini masterclass on how I strength train for endurance. 3 Key principles: Movements that support swim, bike, run. Limiting CNS fatigue while maintaining progressive overload. Logistically easy and efficient.
Here's what I want athletes to feel when they join Tribal.
And how my vision for the athlete experience is manifesting in real time.
We have 2 huge races in the next 5 weeks (Zion 100 and Chatt 70.3) that are both enormous evolutions of the Tribal Race Experience.
I also share how past initiatives and races have been building toward these and what these experiences include for athletes.
Do you want in on the next Tribal Training Team Ultra?
Join the Waitlist for the Tribal Ultra VIP Experience at Antelope Canyon Ultra here:
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Big time Tribal Cafe with 9 athletes joining. We had great shares on the pitfalls of comparison, where it benefits us and lots of real life examples of both.
Here's my keynote speech on endurance mindset and my journey into triathlon from the Do Hard Things Conference in August 2023.
The speech is followed by audience Q and A.
Here's how I cook fresh meals that I love in less than 10 minutes. And without clean up.This is my day to day cooking system that I've refined over the past 5 years of endurance training.As a bonus, I included my on-the-go protocol for Single Serving Grocery Shopping.
Why prioritizing the long run is a mistake. How endurance is about managing low intensity and fueling to keep going. Tactical protocols 8 weeks out from a 70.3.
As a new dad, I felt how an unpredictable baby sleep routine made it HARD to build on personal, fitness or business goals.My wife and I decided to hire a baby sleep coach and instantly were living in a totally different reality.Deep baby sleep. Naps on schedule. Sleeping through the night. And more.The protocol we got on was so helpful that I just have to share it.So here's the exact playbook we used. Plus some laughs at the parenting tricks I tried that were compromising the mission.
In this episode, I help an athlete uncover why he's stuck with such a low HR on the bike (relative to his run).
I do a full review of race data, bike power files, specific training sessions and more.
Watch this on YouTube to see my screenshare with full athlete data review:
https://youtu.be/jWxpo1YKYqM
In this episode, I chat with Dylan Spina on my nutrition mistakes coming out of IMFL and over the winter, some diet boundaries that helped me right the ship and a new diet protocol that's giving me clarity on meal combos.
Thanks to Spina for providing additional nutrition knowledge that added great depth to the conversation
This is an expansion of the last Tribal Cafe.
I felt called to share more on how I created my own games in life back when I was still working my corporate job and just getting into endurance and online business.
In this month's Tribal Cafe, Ryan and Jordan discuss the importance on establishing boundaries in life to create freedom and space to pursue goals and play the game you want to play in life.
We discuss physical boundaries, mental boundaries, language boundaries and relationship boundaries.
This is a continuation of last episode that shares how the endurance mindset helped me show up as a dad and husband right after my ride.
It’s the 5 year anniversary of the day I bought my bike and signed up for my first 70.3 - and the same voice of doubt that showed up early in my journey is still present. I wanted to share this episode to highlight that while the finish lines are awesome, it’s the overcoming of this voice in random training sessions that keeps me coming back to endurance.
In this episode, Ryan and Jordan share one of the emergent ideas from their biz trip in January - the "Maze of Meaning".
Key Highlights:
- The Maze of Meaning illustrates how each person has their own purpose and path to breakthrough/transcendence, even if working towards the same goal.
- Making sacrifices is heroic and inspires others. The right sacrifices set you up for transcendence.
- There are stages to making a big change - commitment, removing negatives, removing positives, accepting sacrifice, transcendence.
- Surrounding yourself with people aiming higher pulls you up. Your sacrifices and transcendence can lift up others.
In this episode, I chat with Trevor Coulter and Cameron Pearson to hear all about their success at Coldwater Rumble 100k.
We also have Louie join the call to help extract lessons from the race for the Tribal Training's upcoming Team 100 miler - Zion 100.
Really dope to hear all about their personal paths to race day, how it went for them and what the experience meant to them.
Also very valuable to hear their gear, nutrition and Aid Station insights/lessons learned.
In this episode, Ryan and Jordan chat all about the new mascot, Chief Manitou.
Ryan shares the origin ideas and design work, then Ryan and Jordan do a live workshop breaking down the core themes and symbolism, share stories from Native American/Indigenous tribes in Canada, The Great Plains and in Boulder, CO.
This episode shares how I’ve made sense of Tribal Training/my life now using “breadcrumbs” from my past experiences. Breadcrumbs are things you participated in from earlier stages in life that absolutely lit your soul on fire. Looking back on these now will help reveal what deeper experience qualities speak to your soul’s purpose.. and the whole idea is that once you identify those, you can start adding them back into your life now.. just using different experiences, opportunities or goals.
3 examples of me using vacation to create adventure, experience and root home the identity I was chasing. This is how you flip the entire perspective of vacation being a fitness setback into it being an advantage that moves your mission forward.
My brother Chunk works an engineering 9-to-5 and is reconnecting with the passion of his youth (piano). He played at an open mic in Boulder last night, so we hopped on a pod to talk about the night and his overall musical journey.
Looking at the year ahead for the team, events, call structure, opportunities for athletes and more
I read this line - “It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness” - and immediately was like wow… it is human nature to prefer being shackled to assurance rather than expose yourself to the risks of freedom. So many parallels to my entrepreneurial and coaching journey. Felt called to hit record, read and share my thoughts.
This episode is all about viewing sport as play and separating that play from the rules and constraints of every day life.
Ryan & Jordan explore how play is used to create meaning, how fine tuning attention immerses you into play and how play solves our need to become more than we currently are.
Some other topics covered: how wisdom is only acquired through experience, how ego is used effectively and how humility helps us extract lessons learned in the arena.
In this episode, I chat with Jonathan Hayes and hear how he went from struggling with "stick-to-itiveness" in the past... to rewriting that story and conquering his first 70.3 in less than 6 months on Team Tribal.
Jonathan joined the first Endurance Accelerator cohort in July, which was his first time ever joining an online community or men's group.
We talk about what he was looking for when he joined, how the community helped him stay committed to his goals, how his lifestyle choices (specifically around drinking) organically improved and how he redefined what he's capable of on race day.
We also get into race specifics and hear how his day unfolded.
Really great episode with a dude who absolutely earned every bit of progress and growth he's experienced these last 6 months.
Congrats on your finish line Jonathan!! Here's to many more.
This is 3 person episode with Nick Diller and Blaine Bursey recapping their first 70.3 (Florida 70.3 on 12/10/2024).
Both these guys signed up 4-5 months from the race and fully bought into the process.
It was a pleasure for me to hear directly from them on the significance this accomplishment had on their lives.
We talk about their full race experience, training challenges, why they signed up to begin with, what they were looking to find within themselves on the journey... and how they grew as men in the process of crossing the finish line.
This is the first episode of Tribal Cafe!
Tribal Cafe is a coffee shop style conversation between Ryan Dreyer and Jordan Goldstein all focused around fulfilling potential through mental, physical and spiritual development in sport.
This episode starts with the idea of finding fulfillment when you miss time or distance goals in a race. We use Ryan's recent 10:19 Ironman (short of sub-10 goal) and Jordan's 25 mile fasted trail run (short of 26.2 marathon goal) to mine real life examples of our process.
The conversation expands to include topics like ignorance in objective goal setting, how meaning and joy is found in subjective victories and making progress on the process and even some golf analogies at the end.
Full recap of my Ironman Florida race and experience. Everything from travel and prep mistakes to race morning breakfast to fueling during the race and more. Hope you enjoy!
I share my 7 months leading into IMFL and how this race served as a cap on the craziest season of challenge and growth I’ve ever experienced in life. I made it out alive ✊🏼🔥🪓
Recapping race week with the team, their families and friends and what we got into down in Florida.
In this episode I answer training and race day questions from a beginner triathlete taking on their first 70.3
Full breakdown on Oregon 70.3, why I signed up for it, my life and training leading up to it, mental preparation, race week logistics, course preview, race recap and how we recovered.
In this Community Chat episode, I sit down with Jordan Goldstein to break down his fasted trail marathon attempt. We cover Jordan's athletic philosophy, how he got into trail running, where he came up with the challenge, why it was significant for him and how it went down.
This is the first installment of a new segment called Community Chat. In Community Chats, I speak with Tribal Training athletes to hear more about why they got into endurance training, how it's changed them as people and the impact it's had on their life.
Keith is a husband, father of 2 boys and small business owner. After watching his childhood best friend battle stage 4 cancer, he started looking for a new way to push himself mentally and physically.
In this episode, Keith shares how endurance training has improved his confidence, patience, focus and had a powerful ripple effect on the people around him.
Episode #1 of a 10 part series I’m sharing on how endurance elevated my entire life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur my whole life. But I lacked the character traits and skills to act on that desire. Once I got into endurance, my perception of myself changed and I finally found the courage to do what I always wanted.
The simplest and most effective breakdown of weight loss. You cannot fail if you follow these.
Super simple breakdown of the 6 cardio zones using Heart Rate, Rate of Perceived Exertion and Talk Test to understand them, their function and benefits.
Some more detail on the Low Carb approach, science behind it, benefits, drawbacks and more.
Taking a look at some holes in my low carb approach at past Ironman races and what I’m doing leading into Ironman Texas. Coming to you live from the Dog Park!
Save your mental energy, avoid needing to recommit to things you already said you’d do and learn to trust yourself.
In this episode I brain dump on the idea that setting personal goals is a way to keep you preparing for opportunities you don’t even know exist yet.
We post up at Full Cycle Colorado Multisport and dive into where we’re at with our training, what’s changed since our first tri, what were doing in Boulder and recap the Tri Boulder Sprint triathlon we completed this morning!
Ryan and Chelsea post up at Philadelphia Brewing Company, grab a couple beers and unpack everything from their first triathlon. Hour 1: Ry and Chels go back and forth breaking down the swim, bike and run legs of the race. Hour 2: Finish line feelings, highlights, training prep, day before prep and arrival to race. Last 25 mins: our journey's to the starting line and what the sport has done for us.
Welcome to episode 1 of my podcast! In this episode I break down my recent 1 on 1 retreat with Zach Homol. I talk about the masterclass and coaching program that Zach is helping me build and the progress we made during our time together. You can find more from Zach on Instagram and Twitter @zachhomol