Beyond Running

Episode 6: What running can teach you. Rickey Gates. by airelibre.run

Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel is a Native American rights activist, as well as a talented distance runner. Jordan made headlines in 2019 when she ran the Boston marathon with a red hand painted across her face to bring awareness to Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. Though this is the story she’s most well known for, Jordan’s activism goes much further. Join us as we discuss the importance of visibility, the impact of ignorance and how following your passion can lead to greater

Mirna Valerio is hard to describe in a word. She's an ultrarunner, an adventurer, a writer, former educator, mother, trained singer... as soon as you start to speak with her, her laughter and energy fill the space, making her passion for life evident. Join us as we discuss Mirna's experiences with failure, her thoughts on confidence and authenticity, and the way she experiences being a runner.

For this episode of Beyond Running, we sat down with runner and mindfulness ambassador for the L.A. running community, Hakim Tafari, who told us about the different chapters of his journey and how a life of obstacles led him to embrace running, mindfulness and eastern medicine as ways to reconnect to himself and turn his life around. Join us as we discuss everything from running and veganism to budhism and eastern medicine in this eye opening and awe inspiring conversation. Hakim has been part of

Ben and I sat down recently to discuss some of the latest research into how exercise affects the brain, and specifically, running. While Ben isn’t leading any of these studies in his work, he acts as somewhat of a translator in his writing, helping us to understand the cutting edge of brain science. He’s spent the past decade and a half in the lab, looking at how the brain grows and works during our lifetime. And being a keen runner, Ben is curious to look at real evidence, and science… that