Active Faith Podcast

It has been 6 months and Andrew offers some reflections and thoughts on lessons learned and some announcements about the community moving forward.

Lindsay joins to talk about her experience in caring for herself and others.

Thomas joins to talk about his journey with Multiple Sclerosis and how it has impacted his life journey and gives him new perspective on his active lifestyle.

Since 2017, Shood has distributed over 10,000 pairs of shoes in RVA. Robin founded Shood as an opportunity to give back to the community that she lives in. She found an opportunity to use something that many folks discard and give them a second life to help those who are in need in the Richmond community. The average running shoe has a life span of 300-500, but that doesn't mean it still can't giv...

Sean is always trying to be the best version of himself. Sometimes that means running as fast as he can and pushing the limits. Other times it means offering grace in the midst of growth.

Turner Wilkes joins to talk about the meditation of nature as a form of worship and self-care.

A brief summary of this episode

Jessica is a mom of three and military spouse whose active journey has been through many iterations. She talks about how she balances life to stay active.

Sarah is a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina and mother who joins to talk about her prenatal and postnatal journey as someone who enjoys running.

Joe is a United Methodist Pastor who joins us to chat about his experience with the connection between food and activity.

Kimberly talks about her experience with falling short of completing the Dopey Challenge, and what it meant to keep her love for running in doing so.

Candace joins to talk about her experience participating and completing the Dopey Challenge as part of the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend.

Mochel Morris joins us to talk about the connection of our body, mind, and spirit. We dive into connecting the active to the spiritual and engaging in activity through meditation.

Josh Wax joins to tell about his journey in the weightlifting and strength training world. How did he get there, and how has he gone from feeling weak to using his strengths.

Teer talks about an injury that has caused him to transition the way he trains and the way he is able to run. In the process talks about the running goals he still has and how he hopes to accomplish them.

Deborah Lewis joins us to talk about how she has responded to limitations (in the forms of injuries) in her active journey and what it has taught her about herself.

Amanda Ward joins us and talks about her journey in becoming a marathoner and what it has meant to be a wellness coach and focusing on the whole person as she helps people in their self-care journeys.

Ashley Oliver unpacks her journey and how her mental health and struggles with an eating disorder has impacted the ways in which she is active in life.

David Vaughan joins us and shares his about the convictions that lies at the heart of his active lifestyle.

We are joined by Evan Taylor to see his journey of achieving awesome goals with the help, support, and encouragement from a community he has surrounded himself with.

Pastor Glenn Riggs joins us to talk about how he tries to prioritize self-care and how not to beat ourselves up when it doesn't go the way we plan.

Alex Joyner joins us to talk about his journey to and through the 2021 Richmond Half Marathon and what it meant to set and achieve goals for the race.

Rev. Sarah Locke joins us to talk about her journey into an active lifestyle, and how she has changed the way she views activity in her life.

Let's begin our journey by determining our own why? Andrew talks about his running journey and how defining our why becomes important for our own active journeys

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