Jennifer Vollmann gave up a career running a global education nonprofit to become a stay-at-home mom. She loved her daughter. She also had no idea who she was anymore. The play dates, the dinner parties where everyone talked about their jobs, the loneliness — she was disappearing into a life she’d never wanted.

Then she signed up for a triathlon at 35. She won her age group. Eight years later, she’s competed at four Ironman World Championships and became one of the first three women to make the time cutoff at the Himalayan Triathlon. She also got divorced, started over with everything she owned in two trucks and built a coaching business from scratch.

Plus: the mindset framework she teaches every client, the Mother’s Day note from her daughter that says it all and a toast to freedom.

Here you go:

At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?

New episodes every Wednesday.

Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com

Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

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Executive producer | Sara Glassman

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When Hilary Simon was 14, her parents sent her to an all-girls boarding school in the Berkshires to keep her safe. Instead, she was groomed and abused by a history teacher who had been doing it for over a decade before she arrived — and would continue for years after. The school knew. Other students reported it. A girl was expelled for speaking up. Nothing changed.

In this episode, Hilary sits down with Erica Brinker to tell the full story — the grooming, the silence, the fawning response that shaped her survival, the therapist who abused her when she finally tried to get help, and the phone call 20 years later that changed everything. She and fellow survivor Melissa Ferris brought criminal charges, went public in Vanity Fair and are now fighting to close a legal loophole in Massachusetts that still allows teachers to claim a student consented.

Plus: what the courtroom felt like, the trauma response nobody talks about, and a toast to burning it all down.

If you or someone you know needs support:

RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or Text 988

Here you go:

At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?

New episodes every Wednesday.

Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com

Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

Instagram: @at.the.brink.media

Executive producer | Sara Glassman

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ashlie Molstad went from a corporate desk at Nike to becoming the #1 Beachbody coach in the world — twice. She went viral in 2016 for a body-positive photo that landed her in People magazine and on CNN. But at the top of her game, she felt empty. The goals she’d spent her whole life chasing stopped meaning anything.

In this episode, Ashlie sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about living with depression while performing success, walking away from a seven-figure career that no longer aligned with who she was, and what life coaching taught her about the difference between being driven and being free.

Plus: Taylor Swift as a life philosophy, what she hopes her kids say about their childhood, and a toast you’ll want to steal.

Ashlie Molstad

🔗 https://ashliemolstad.com

📸 @ashliemolstad

Here you go:

At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?

New episodes every Wednesday.

Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com

Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

Instagram: @at.the.brink.media

Executive producer | Sara Glassman

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.