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73 - How to Be a Role Model: Mirna Valerio
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:36:44
Publish Date: 2018-07-04 04:08:00
Description:

Ultrarunner Mirna Valerio is a role model for many because by doing what she loves, she shows others what is possible. She’s modeling being a black, fat girl running, moving her body up and over mountains. Which begs the question - what are you modeling for others?

Women featured in this episode: Mirna Valerio, AKA "The Mirnavator." Mirna is a full-time ultrarunner, author, and public speaker. She blogs at Fat Girl Running and Runner's World.

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Hosted by Gale Straub

In this episode, you'll hear:

  • Why when Mirna coached high school students, she taught them to love running as a lifestyle
  • How Mirna answers the oft-dreaded question, "What do you do?"
  • How nature and trail running impacts Mirna personally
  • The ways in which joy and suffering balance each other in ultrarunning
  • Why it's important to put in the work, but why it's also important to rest and listen to your body
  • Why Mirna doesn't believe changing one's outward appearance leads to happiness
  • How our culture uplifts a certain beauty standard, and the ways in which Mirna believes this is changing
  • What she's learned from other plus-sized women about what they want their outdoor apparel to be like
  • What Mirna thinks about being a role model for others
  • Who Mirna looks up to in her everyday life
  • Advice for listeners on how they can be a role model

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Music is by Lee Rosevere, Kai Engel, and Steve Combs via Free Music Archive (CC by A license)

Music is also by Memory Palace.
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