Run with Purpose

In life we have these seasons that we don't alway recognize while we are in them, but man can we miss them when they are gone! This week on the podcast I go into some thoughts I have around seasons and what has been going on my life and what seasons may be approaching. My thoughts were a little all over the place, but hopefully, you pick up what I was putting down. Enjoy!

Sometimes it only takes a small opening for things to be blown wide open. This week on the podcast, I talk about how "giving an inch" can turn into much larger problems, if we compromise from the path we want to take. With each slight step off course, we will end up in a place that we had not imagined we would be. This doesn't always have to be negative, and hopefully, I can provide some encourage...

It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but relationships can be hard. We all tend to put things on others, many times without their knowledge, and then get upset when they don't meet our expectations. Or maybe there was that situation where someone hurt you, so we play the victim card or turn to gossip to bring them down further. Then we have those relationships that blindside us and we don...

Have you ever read an article or watched a video and it makes you stop and think? You take the message from it and soak it in, trying to understand how you can apply it to your life. This week on the show I talk about one of those moments, well actually a few of them that happened around the same time. Josh Lynott (whom I called John early in the episode) has a project called “A Note to the Runner...

So this episode was supposed to come out weeks ago, but... Let me stop myself right there! This is the problem; I instantly use an excuse instead of taking ownership of poor planning, time management, etc. This week on the show, I talk about excuses. I break down some reasons why I think we make excuses and talk through some ways to combat that instinct. This episode is one of those where I'm...

We have all had those relationships where we feel like maybe we are giving a little bit more than the other, but we just don't know what we should do. Do we hold back to balance things out or do we press on and continue as everything is okay? I don't think there is a right answer to this question but maybe we need to look at the question in a different light. This week on the show my good...

Relationships are tough! Whether we are talking about romantic relationships or not, we must do things to make them work. This week on the show, Kaela joins me in discussing how to come together in a relationship to make it work. We talk about the importance of communication, serving others and a few other aspects that we believe to be important to having strong relationships. We talk through some...

Sometimes life changes on us quickly and we have to adjust. That adjustment may not come as fast as we would like, but we have to continue after it, consistently to see the results in the long run. This week, Courtney joins me on the podcast to discuss her story and journey into running. We talk about identity, finding balance, relationships and a handful of other topics. Enjoy! Connect with Court...

Have you ever thought about the "why" you make the decisions you do? Like where do you have your trust and focus that has you lean one way versus another when making a decision? I know I talk about it a lot on the show in regards to understanding you, but I recently heard a quote regarding faith and actions that got me thinking. This week, I talk about faith and this aspect of "it&#...

We are able to accomplish more when we can get together as a group going towards a collective task or goal. Sometimes it can be tackling a large problem and other times it could be running a marathon, literally. This week on the show, Jessi joins me to talk a little bit about how running “side by side” helped build relationships and push our crazy to the limits. She is on her journey of running a...

New year and a new word! Looking ahead at 2024, I had been pondering what my "one word" would be for the year. What word would be integral to accomplishing everything I wanted for the year. Perspective Today on the show, I go over my thoughts about perspective and how it really can be the basis for a lot of our day to day actions. When we have the right perspective, we can spend our time...

As we approach the end of the year, we often take a look back and reflect on all that we did. Unfortunately, we tend to focus primarily on what we wanted to do, but didn't. Or maybe the things that we tried to do but "failed." Today on the show, I talk about reframing our mindset away from the "checklist" of the things I completed vs didn't and shifting that thought pro...

Sometimes, I like to do things a little bit differently and that is what this episode is! I've wanted to see how well ChatGPT could put together a script for an episode, so I finally tried it out. This week's shorter episode is just a script from ChatGPT about purpose and intentionality. I was going to include some personal insights and stories but I decided to leave it verbatim to see wha...

Have you ever completed a big goal or had a long journey come to an end? How did you feel? How did others interact with you? As I neared the end of my journey, folks would ask me what was next. Once I finished the question turned to “do you feel lost?” This week on the show I break down why I think our minds go to this way of thinking and some ways we can break from that cycle. Enjoy!

Sometimes, there can be topics that we just don't bring up, as we can get a little uncomfortable. This often happens when it comes to relationships between parents and their kids. Since I don't have first-hand experience with this, I had the pleasure of having Kelli from On Our Best Behavior podcast on the show this week to talk through her story. She started a podcast with her son that ha...

So often, we look too far ahead at our destination or goal that we lose sight of the journey along the way. When we remove our gaze from the next step, we are more likely to stumble or even worse, start drifting or compromising when it seems to far out of reach. This week on the show, I break down a little more the idea of taking "one step at a time." I take a look back at my recent race...

Do you ever hear a poem or a song and it just resonates with you on a deeper level? This episode came to be from exactly that. This happened to me recently from a reel on Instagram. It had my brain thinking and working it all out on a different level. Taking the thoughts from Louis the Hippe about having others define you, turned into my thoughts about why we do this, scratch that, why I do this!...

You hear it all over the place. From social media, coaches, I mean even this podcast! The idea that we need to make it happen. We need to do it! But even though it’s a simple message, it isn’t always easy. This week on the show I break down some of my thoughts regarding barriers to us being able to “do it”. This is a topic I have talked about in parts but this episodes merges them together a bit....

You hear this from all over the place. YOLO! You only live once, so do whatever you want. Live up your best life, doing what you please. But what if we flipped it around and used that YOLO mentality to serve someone else? This week on the show, I dive into exactly that. This thought came to me during a run about what if we changed our mindset and looked first to serve others. I believe that there...

Back at it! This week on the show, I catch up on how the summer has been going and all the moving around we have been doing (literally to Chicagoland). More importantly, I talk about the idea of bringing it back to the basics. So often we do nothing at all because we overwhelm ourselves before giving ourselves a shot. We can easily get caught up in what everyone else thinks or how everyone else wi...

In life, we all have different paths that we take. We tend to lean into the paths that are more comfortable, sometimes limiting what we do to stay in those walls of comfort. But what if we reframed our minds, took the time, and found joy in the things that help us grow? This week on the show, Heidi joined me to discuss the topic of finding joy. She shares a little bit about her journey and how tha...

Isn't it interesting how much support and energy we feel at the beginning and end of things? How it pushes us to jump off the start quickly or maybe we sprint once we see the finish line? But what about when you are in the middle, how are you pushing on? I think when we can understand how best to react in the middle, that's when we see can see the most growth. This week on the show I break...

Everyone once in a while, you just need to go off script! That is exactly what Kati and I did this week on the show. We just talked about everything that is going on in our lives and ended up spending a lot of time talking about being and doing. When we try to follow someone else's to-do list, we can end up living a life that isn't our own and end up unfulfilled in it. But when we focus on...

When things slow down, do you enjoy the "rest" or do you find a way to fill the "free time"? If you are anything like me, the quiet is an uncomfortable place to sit. But when did busy become our default mode? When did we start rushing through things, always in a hurry to fill every moment? This week on the show I discuss my thoughts on this topic. I take a look into my current...

How often do we get to a place where we said we can’t do something, you know, just because. It’s always been that way or that’s just how you were told things worked. Throughout life we end up building this rulebook in our heads that is then used to limit the actions that we take. When we allow the rulebook to dictate our actions we are limiting our potential of new experiences and growth. This wee...