Kegels and Coffee
Episodes
Building A New Life & The American Dream
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My father, Hans-Georg Graf von Rittberg, was born on March 27, 1943, on his family’s estate in Pomerania during World War II. In early 1945, his mot...
Life Is a Quilt
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Creating Comes From Nothing
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Scotland, Angie Seckinger spent her childhood moving a lot all over the globe, from Pakistan, Columbia, Chile and Guatemala to Arizona, Washin...
This Is All I've Got
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 histo...
How to Find (and Practice!) Your Self-Care Routine
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Love & Loss
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christie Blackmon grew up in northeast Ohio. She studied marketing and psychology at Kent State University and started climbing in her twenties. Her n...
The Things That Keep Us Up At Night
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Califo...
An Outsider in Engineering: Breaking Into the Boys’ Club
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ta...
Traveling Spanish Style
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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....
We Are Not Robots, As It Turns Out
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 pas...
Loving in the Midst of Gunshots
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 pe...
Leaving Russia in Search of a New Life
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 nin...
The Simple Life
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Florian Friedel (aka ‘Flo’) was born and raised in Pforzheim, Germany. Flo started working as a programmer running cnc-machines when he was twenty...
To Have or Not to Have: That Is the Baby Question
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dutch People In the Mountains
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 democrat...
When Failure Dysphoria Is Turned Up
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Diamon...
Latino Love
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Chi...
Self Care: Are You Listening to Yourself?
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
A Father/Son Ascent Turns Epic
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 lun...
Learning Vulnerability
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Van Life, Desert Dwelling and the Luxury of Warm Toilet Seats
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
Boys Don't Cry
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hopper was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He began studying classical piano at the age of 5 which sparked in him a love for music that ha...
From Veterinarian to Pro Rock Climber to Mother
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Weidner grew up in Las Vegas, NV. After five years as a veterinarian and weekend warrior, she finally realized that what she really wanted to ...