Motivate to Move

Benjamin Smith loves disc golf and is very passionate about the sport. He has been playing since 2003 and has designed and built over 44 disc golf courses, which is very impressive. Ben has developed a disc golf lesson plan that he taught over 20,000 people. Ben is working on disc golf to be recognized as a National Sporting Organization, more recognition for the sport he loves. Disc golf is poppi...

How do you handle it when your big event is cancelled last minute? In this episode, we chat with Kristine Cormier about the cancellation of the 2023 Mont-Tremblant Ironman Event. A true champion, Kristine speaks of the positives in this disappointing situation and is already looking forward to the next chapter. Kristine gives her time as a coach for junior and adult athletes. Many long nights of s...

If you have run with the Moncton Running Room Run Club on Wednesday evening, you will recognize this week's guest. Michaela Forgeron agreed to sit down and chat with us and tell us all about the Wednesday evening Run Club, how covid affected the Run Club, the number of runners, and how things are starting to get back to normal. Michaela has done many cool things, such as hiking up Mount Katahdin i...

Denise Trask is tonight's special guest and has always been very active. Hiking, biking, running and she got up to a 3rd-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, very impressive. In 2019 Denise was diagnosed with Breast cancer but she didn't just sit back, not a chance. In this episode, we discuss her fight with Breast cancer and how Denise dealt with everything during Covid. Denise got involved with the...

Helena Millar is tonight's guest and it's not hard to see why we would want her on our show. Helena has done and is doing a ton of things, Half marathons and marathons, plus biking and swimming and having a bit of fun thrown into the mix as well. Helena tells a wonderful story about her marriage and how that translated into doing an Ironman, very interesting. We learn how she got to New Brunswick,...

Tonight we welcome a friend back on our podcast. Mark McColgan is in the saddle once again and we start off chatting about what Mark has been doing lately. The answer of course is being very busy with his running while promoting Saint john trail Running and getting the message out there for all trail running. Mark is very passionate about organizing races and getting all the information about a ru...

Tonight our very special guest is someone that loves contributing to the trail running community by putting on events to keep people motivated and fit. Jos Eijkelestam is originally from the Netherlands, go team orange crush, and has lived in the Fredericton area for many years. After speaking with Jos for a few minutes, his passion becomes infectious and you want to jump up and join one of his ev...

Tonight our very special guest is Sarah Badger, I met her while in Saint John last year running the Bootstrap Boogie and we just had to have her on our show. Sarah loves to run anywhere she can lace up a pair of sneakers and hit the trail or road. In this episode, we discuss mental health in general and how Sarah deals with her own issues. Sarah tells it like it is and how running helps to keep he...

Apologies for my poor voice on this episode, I was fighting a bit of a cold at the time but the show must go on. We welcome Shannon and Marc Melanson back to our show this evening, two very special people who are always motivated to keep moving. Both love to ride their bikes, run, hike, and keep active. They enjoy going to Disney and running in costume as a couple, and we learn how they chose the...

Troy Johnston is this week's guest and we are very pleased to bring him to our listeners for those who may not know him. What is it that Troy does? If you have done any adventure racing in the area, there is a good chance it was one of Troy's events. Try founded Natural Selection Adventure Racing back in 2007 so people could play in the woods. Seeing a void for this type of activity Troy took the...

Garth Millar is tonight's very special guest and as many of you know Garth and his wife Helena organize a ton of running events in the area. Shoppers run for women right here in Moncton, the recent run at the Hopewell Rocks Multi-terrain Race, and our very own Legs for Literacy. We talk about many more in this episode, and you hear some of the incredible stories Garth tells us about setting these...

Covid seriously changed people's habits, especially exercise and sports. Luc and his son Antoni discovered Disc golf because of Covid, they liked it but it was placed on the back shelf for a time. Luc convinced his son to go and give it another shot, Antoni really disliked Disc golf at first but then everything changed. Now, Antoni has a great deal of upside in this sport, being sponsored and help...

Tonight we have a very special guest, someone that needs no introduction, John Kelly. As many of you know, John is an endurance athlete and Ultra trail runner. John has agreed to spend some time with us this evening and talk about Ultra trail running and many aspects of these events. John dedicates himself to his family, his work, and trail running. In this interview we discuss many of the events...

Trail running is very popular these days and Ultra trail running and challenging oneself is even more popular. When Tim McDonough contacted us and wanted to set up a podcast episode or as I like to call it these days " Podclass", I knew this was going to be a good one. We learn a lot from these six gentlemen; in part 2 we pick up where we left off. We learn more about what makes Ultra trail runnin...

You are thinking about trying an Ultra trail running event and it could be your first time or perhaps your 10th but either way your just not sure. Fear not dear listeners, we have a blast of a two part podcast episode for you. Thank you Tim McDonough for setting this up with the awesome group of guys that went with him to the Zion event in Apple Valley Utah. With Tim we have Brian Demmings, Brian...

I honestly had no idea what Pickleball was until YouTube showed me, what is it you might ask? Pickleball is a paddle sport combining elements of Tennis, Badminton, and table tennis. Our guest this evening, Joy Stafford, is crazy about Pickleball and after watching a few videos I know why. Joy loves to stay active in several ways, she has done countless half-marathons plus several other runs includ...

What time of year do people play ball hockey? It could be any time, Summer, Winter, Fall or Spring, anytime is ball hockey time. That is what we discuss in this episode, ball hockey and why people play, where do they play? Is ball hockey just something that young children play outside? or do all sorts of people play at any age? These questions and more are answered by our two guests this evening,...

You are in your late 20s and you believe you will never be good at any sport. You have tried several over the years and they just don't interest you enough over a long period of time to stick with them. Maybe your confidence declines, or maybe it doesn't, either way, sports and you are just not a thing, something doesn't feel right and you are not sure what it is. Then you discover Snowboarding an...

Kevin Haigh has indeed been everywhere, with over 20 different countries visited and lived in. England, Holland, Brazil, Brunei and New Zealand just to name a few. Kevin has a ton of experience with many sports, including Rugby, Cricket, rock climbing, Kayaking, Jiu Jitsu, Judo and of course running. All this plus very recently Kevin received his first black belt in Judo, an amazing accomplishment...

As kids, we stayed active, for our guest tonight Richard Mallet that was also the case. Even today Richard plays hockey, softball, golf and running is a big part of his lifestyle. It wasn't always the case though, like most of us Richard has had his good times and bad. At one point Richard had a 54-day run streak going, very impressive. His life changed and like all of us, he lost his motivation....

Rural New Brunswick and what can happen in small places. A business closes and makes an excellent opportunity for another and that opportunity is kickboxing and gymnastics. Tonight our guest is Shawna Allaby and our main focus is on the kickboxing side of things. Shawna has been on our show before but now she is into the teaching side of kickboxing for adults and children. We hear what goes into t...

What would you think if you were told that you had blood cancer? You manage to survive and once again the blood cancer comes back, how would that make you feel? You would probably feel pretty crappy, and rightfully so. Not Boyd Dunleavey, it only made him more determined. With a very nice running streak under his belt and a very lofty goal of Km that he would like to finish for the year, Boyd has...

Tonight our very special guest is Philippe Suzor-Morin chatting with us all the way from Toronto. It doesn't take long to realize Philippe is a highly motivated runner that is constantly finding more and more ways to run plus more distances to overcome. Philippe tells us about how he was breaking ankles as a teenager and because of this, he had to find other ways to keep active, such as running. T...

Tonight our very special guest is Amy Pidt and it isn't tough to see Amy is very motivated. Always on the go and never stop, even on the weekends. Amy used those to change all the siding, doors and windows in her house. Amy had a few MMA fights and we have a youtube clip to share below, check it out, her opponent never had a chance. Going to the gym and riding her motorcycle wasn't enough either,...

For this episode, we travel across the pond to Great Britain and sit down with a very well-known Champion bodybuilder. Joe Cramond is a Business Development Manager who talks about Peak Performance Mindset and how that mindset can transfer to other sports and other aspects of life. Joe tells us how it all started and how at an early age he was the very shy type. With great determination, Joe overc...