Today’s guest got her start as a swimmer qualifying for the ‘88 Olympic trials. After graduating from Yale University, she moved on to a professional triathlete career, eventually winning the 2004 Ironman Wisconsin, wearing a prototype she designed of the first-ever running skirt – a skirt that launched a revolution in women’s fitness clothing. Nicole DeBoom is the Founder & CEO of Skirt Sports, an athletic apparel brand designed to fit real women’s bodies, with the goal of helping them find strength, power and happiness through running. Her non-profit “Running Start” partners women with “barriers to fitness” with Personal Motivators, and trains them for their first 5k. Her inspirational podcast Run This World features visionaries and people who are making change in the world.Today, she sits on the other side of the table for an interview with The Boulderista.

Jules Schroeder is a visionary and musician with a mission of inspiring people to create a life of their own design. Jules is ranked by Inc. Magazine in position #1 of the “Top 27 Female Entrepreneurs Changing the World in 2017” and an influential “Top 40 Millennials to Follow in 2018” and has reached 1 million people with her Forbes column and podcast.

Motivated by a near death experience, Jules transformed her life and created the brand: Unconventional Life, a top-ranked podcast, 5-day mastermind event and global community of like-minded entrepreneurs, creatives and thought-leaders from over 75 different countries who are redefining success on their own terms. Hear Jules’s story first hand, as she shares her message, music and tells us why Boulder is both her laboratory and her sanctuary.