Team

Our founder and CEO Sara Gross believes that through storytelling, education and community building we can shift the dial to a more inclusive culture for female athletes and active women and girls. After defending her PhD in Women’s History in 2008, Sara competed as a professional Triathlete for thirteen years and won two Ironman titles along the way. The most feisty thing Sara has ever done is start a media company with no clue how to actually do that. Bootstrapping and getting the best out of people are her superpowers.

Kathryn is a triathlete turned gravel cyclist, general lover of all types of outdoor adventures, and the Founder of Girls Gone Gravel. She has been published in USA Triathlon Magazine, Cycling Tips and has been a regular contributor for Triathlete Magazine articles. She works full-time for Feisty Media as a brand manager, helping active, performance-minded women find the resources they need to do the things they love.

In addition to being the host of Hit Play Not Pause, Selene Yeager is the Leader and Content Manager of the Menopause Feisties. She is a top-selling professional health and fitness writer who lives what she writes as an NASM certified personal trainer, USA Cycling licensed coach, Pn1 certified nutrition coach, pro licensed off road racer, and former All-American Ironman triathlete. Selene is feisty in many ways but especially because she talks about menopause out loud, without embarrassment, in traditionally male spaces.

Kelly O’Mara is the former editor-in-chief of Triathlete Magazine. She was the original co-host of the wildly popular If We Were Riding podcast and writes the weekly Triathlonish newsletter. Kelly mostly writes about sports and the outdoors (and gets tired of explaining she’s not a fitness writer) for places like espnW, Outside, Competitor, and for countless endurance brands. She lives across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and is also a regular contributor to the area’s NPR station, KQED.

As our Feisty Operator, Ella Hnatyshyn manages various operational tasks, putting her business degree to good use while also feeding her passion of elevating women in sport. She also competes as an elite triathlete, having recently completed her first pro 70.3.

As our Social Media Coordinator, Millie makes sure the content we are sharing is “on-point”! She creates social media content, edits articles and does so much more! Millie is a fierce advocate for women and puts much of her spare time into maintaining a current understanding of intersectional feminism. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology from St. Francis Xavier University. Millie is an experienced multi-day hiker, tree-planter, and badass outdoors-woman.

Kristi Mohn is an Emporia, Kansas local. Her cycling journey began in 2004 and she hasn’t looked back since, though she does still enjoy the occasional jog. She joined the UNBOUND Gravel team early on, and worked hard to get more women at gravel start lines ever since. Her main passion in the cycling space has been all about more inclusive start lines, and collaborating and brainstorming ways to make that happen.

Carrie Barrett is the producer of multiple Feisty podcasts as well as a self-proclaimed, reluctant triathlete. Today, she splits time between Bend, Oregon and Austin, Texas where she’s a coach, writer, podcast host and producer. Her willingness to just jump in and go for it makes her feisty – whether it’s trying a new sport, moving to a new town, or asking for an interview. Great lessons always emerge from giving it a go!

Lynda has been coaching sport for 30 years. With a career in Business Performance Coaching, Change Management, Strategy and People Management, her coaching experience in both business and sport has a common theme of helping people be the best version of themselves. As a dual citizen of both Australia and the U.S., Lynda has competed in Sprint, Olympic, 70.3, and Ironman triathlons and has represented both countries at ITU World Age Group Championships.

Lydia Russell is a professional short course triathlete competing as a U23 for team USA. Originally from Philadelphia, but now based in Tucson, she is a lover of all things outdoors anywhere. Through her experiences competing at a variety of levels within just a few years, she has become passionate about empowering the next generation of women in sport. She hopes that through her work at Feisty she can learn skills to advocate for women’s voices to be elevated in traditionally male dominated spaces.