The Mayor of Running With Bart Yasso
This week Coach Blu revisits the mayor of running, by interviewing Bart Yasso. Listen as we release this interview originally airing on June 6, 2016. Having thought we lost this episode, it was wonderful to rediscover, and as you're here, still very reverent.
Bart Yasso joined Runner's World in 1987 to develop the groundbreaking Runner's World Race Sponsorship Program, creating a vehicle for Runner's World to work with over 7,000 races representing 4 million runners per year. Inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions.
Yasso also invented the Yasso 800s, a marathon-training schedule used by thousands around the world. He is one of the few people to have completed races on all seven continents from the Antarctica marathon to the Mt. Kilimanjaro marathon. In 1987, Yasso won the U.S. National Biathlon Long Course Championship and won the Smoky Mountain Marathon in 1998. He has also completed the Ironman five times and the Badwater 146 through Death Valley. He has also cycled, unsupported and by himself, across the country twice.
Listen as both he and Josh Hansen visit with Bart about addiction, recovery, and how great minds think alike.
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Try as Hard as You Can, and Believe with Brandon Doman
On today's podcast Coach Blu interviews Coach Brandon Doman, Brigham Young University Quarterback, drafted to the NFL by the San Francisco 49ers and then coaching with the Brigham Young University Cougars as the offensive coordinator. Listen as they have a coach to coach conversation about the differences between calling the shots and making the plays. They dive deep into what a coach means to not only the players that follow but also, what can be learned by overcoming a closed mindset. They discuss the concept of relationships that need to be established in order for true team building and how to find inspiration when all seems too overwhelming or impossible. Coach Doman repeats time after time, to 'try as hard as you can and believe it's possible.'
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Staying Fit ODAAT with Miguel Reyes
Listen as Coach Blu interviews Miguel Reyes on his recovery path, finding redemption through the grace of having an incredible run-in with the law, family system issues, and then redemption. There are two parts of the story that begin with his own starting line, his history, the path he chose, and the significant issues he found himself in after promising he would never turn out like his father.
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Running Rich
On today's podcast Coach Blu interviews are our very own Athlete and a huge part of Team AIIA, Rob Rich. Along with his wife Stephanie. They dive deep into Rob's ability to strengthen the team by being an active member, the depression he suffered that almost took his life, turbulence that life sometimes throws at us, and how to overcome some of the darkest moments by constantly moving forward. Rob does an eloquent job explaining how the team has increased his desire to help those in need, inspire others to achieve goals and, never take life for granted. Listen to Rob give Coach Blu a dose of his own medicine when he was called to action rather than allowing fear to sideline him.
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Runners in Recovery With Bob Balfour
This week's podcast finds Coach Blu speaking with Bob Balfour, a pillar in his community, working his way through life by serving others who have been affected by addiction, are pursuing recovery, and building bridges between law enforcement and the recovery community.
Bob speaks about his childhood, situational issues through family systems that sidetracked his progression. Bob comes with a powerful history of seeing both sides of addiction, the consequences, and redemption. He talks about going from addict to ultrarunner and Ironman. Then turning his attention to health and wellness through running, coaching, and building others to do the same. Bob has truly become Boston-strong.
Bob is a storyteller, and as you listen to his life, you'll understand why he was also able to build a relationship with Coach David Clark, as Bob was a crucial mentor through David's Boston quad experience.
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It's Not Sweat, It's Badwater
This week Coach Blu interviews Jarom Thurston, an avid ultra-marathon runner, and Coach Blu's brother-in-law. Listen as Jarom discusses his running career, tackling adversity, pushing through the DNF's, experiences, and knowledge gained through never settling and not giving up. Jarom has a belief and attitude that nothing is impossible. Still, even at some of the most disappointing and darkest moments in the races he's participated in, he's always found a way to come back, return and get his heart back into the game. Jarom has been an inspiration, mentor, and even coach to the Addict II Athlete team since the beginning of our journey. It's easy to recognize the passion and the love he has for the sport of ultramarathon, running, and helping others achieve goals they never thought possible.
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Continuous Strength
This week Coach Blu interviews our own athlete, Selena Armitage. She shares about how her problems with a club foot and surgery led to opiate addiction as well as an abusive relationship causing emotional pain, which was relieved by her addiction. Selena, has worked to find her voice and her recovery. Athlete Armitage is an amazing woman who does not allow her physical disability and prosthetic limb to slow her down.
"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Primal Freedom
In this week's podcast episode Coach Blu interviews Alex Corbett, a member of the Primal Roots running and recovery group located in England. They believe in the healing power of nature and fitness. Listen as they discuss the erase and replace philosophy and how Alex turned a life of alcoholism, aggression, and self-doubt into a life of service, running, and relationships. There are so many correlations between running and recovery and Alex does an excellent job at describing why moving from the traditional methods of recovery opened his mind, heart, and body. Alex goes from an addict to runner. Alex has a powerful story and when you feel the love that he has for the freedom of sobriety has brought to his life, we hope that it will inspire you to do the same for yours.
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Mindset Is Everything with Shadrach Feild
Coach Blu interviews Shad Feild, cowboy, pilot, and son of Lewis Feild. After a traumatic plane crash in August 2020, Shad didn't know if he would ever walk again. He met team Addict II Athlete when he started a HIIT class with Coach James Johnson to help him build his strength back. Coach Johnson immediately invited him skydiving with the team to help him erase and replace that experience.
Shad shares how his mindset was the pinnacle to being able to handle this trial. Shad said, "I was taught from a very young age to get back on that horse when you get bucked off! It’s not always easy to conquer our fears but it’s so freeing. I felt like it would be a good way to erase some of the negative brought on by the accident and replace it with something BIG, something I’d remember and have somewhat of a fresh start with my love for aviation."
You can watch the last few minutes of the plane crash here, subscribe to Shad's YouTube channel, and follow him on Instagram.
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Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts by Michael Brody-Waite
In this week's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Michael Brody-Waite, entrepreneur, author, TedX speaker, and person in long-term recovery. Listen as Michael describes life as an addict, spending every waking hour doing whatever it took to stay high, including stealing from my friends and family.
Michael describes taking a chance on himself and seeing that his addiction didn't have to be a death sentence, in fact, it could be utilized to create an unstoppable force. Michael moves from addict to entrepreneur and leader. As many of you on Team Addict to Athlete understand, to turn the mess into a message you only need to flip the script. Use the same energy in a positive light thus producing amazing outcomes. In his book 'Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts', you will hear that your addiction does not have to dictate your future. It's time to use the same energy for positive outcomes, rather than the negative aspects of active addiction. You have the power to become an agent of recovery.
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Intentional Walk by Corey Harrington
An intentional walk occurs when the defending team elects to walk a batter on purpose, putting him on first base instead of letting him try to hit. Intentional walks -- which count as a walk for the hitter and a walk allowed by the pitcher -- are an important strategy in the context of a game. They can be used to put a runner on first base, setting up a potential double play.
Listeners, today's podcast features Corey Harrington an inspiring man who had aspirations of playing professional baseball and due to some unfortunate experiences, made it as far as the minor league. But his story didn't end there. Listen as Coach Blu and Corey talk about the secrecy of addiction and the fear of letting other people know. Then intentionally walking into recovery by choosing to let others in. Personal accountability, a healthy dose of trust, and Corey has now been able to turn the mess into a message. Corey shares his story on athlete to addict to athlete and ultimately Ironman.
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The 'Long' Road To Success
Today, Christy Long, a single mom, a woman in long-term recovery, and member of Team AIIA talks about her recovery, her passion for service, and going back to school to pursue a career in counseling and therapy. Listen as she describes the mindset of wanting to help people that society seemingly has cast away. She shares how her passion is to help the prison population reacclimate into society after having dealt with the aftermath of incarceration. Christy has a very genuine heart and has turned the mess of addiction and emotional turbulence into a mindset and purpose to serve all those she works with.
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How to Face Fear with Pat Miletich
On today's podcast, we speak with Pat "The Croatian Sensation" Miletich. Listen as Coach Blu and Pat discuss his history and family, ultra running, a career in mixed martial artist (MMA) well known for his fights within the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Interestingly, the conversation focuses on overcoming fear, replacing it with faith, belief, and strong perseverance related to personal grit. Pat is very passionate about not backing down from a fight whether it be from addiction or life itself.
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Captain My Captain with Athlete Chelsie Olsen
Today Coach Blu interviews one of our very own Team Captains. Chelsie Olsen is a member of the Home Team of Addict II Athlete. Athlete Olsen and Coach Blu have a very long history. He has seen her successes and assisted her through some low points in her life. Listen as she describes life in addiction, her surrender, and her request for help. She shares how to use child protective services as a resource rather than a roadblock despite having significant issues, which has created a resource for her to understand that families are forever. Her story is one not to be missed as she describes never quitting, the true meaning of grit, and how to open your heart and trust again so that anything can happen.
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The Gold Medal of Recovery with Carrie Steinseifer Bates
In this week's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Carrie Steinseifer Bates, a 3-time Gold Medal Olympic Swimmer having competed in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles California. Listen as she describes life just below the waterline, growing up in an alcoholic home, and how she used the freedom of the pool to escape the world, discovering the water as a safe place where she would work out her fears, frustrations, and a good place to work out emotions because “No one can see you cry under the water”.
Following her 1984 Olympic success, Carrie missed qualifying for the 1988 Olympics. As that chapter closed she continued to progress in College, swimming, and coaching, starting a family, and becoming a mother. Unfortunately, addiction also began to take a stronghold and as she describes it, "distracted her from what her true and authentic purpose was".
Listen as she describes her recovery in aspects of several treatment episodes and then coming to an awakening that she faced and knew the only way to genuine recovery and sobriety would be laid upon the foundations of honesty. With multiple treatment episodes under her belt, like false starts on an Olympic journey of recovery, she finally learned and ultimately took the dive into understanding, emotional balancing, and overcoming adversity where she became the woman and mother she had always wanted to be. After 18 years absent from the water she took the plunge again and became an Ironman triathlete. Carrie says, “True Champions never let the fire inside them die out”, and she is an example of what can happen if you truly want to go for gold in recovery.
Today she continues to maintain an active lifestyle and has found her true calling in assisting those on the starting blocks of sobriety by working at Hazleden Betty Ford in Oregon. This is a podcast not to be missed, as you will feel the passion she has for life noticed after gold in the Olympics but also, life after addiction.
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Just Start
On today's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Ed Barnett, an athlete he met through Coach David Clark and the Ten Principles Legacy Warriors group. Listen as he describes life before a meeting Coach Clark that ended up changing his life. Ed describes the meeting as a turning point in his life that put him on the path to weight loss, overcoming adversity, and opened up possibilities he never thought possible. Ed describes his life working in the NASCAR industry, the tools he learned about himself through his weight loss journey, becoming an athlete, and the tools throughout that have now positioned him as the owner of ECB Sports Management and MMA. Ed has an inspiring story and shares memories of Coach Clark that he holds very dear. Listen and be inspired to just start your recovery, just start your weight loss, just start living your life.
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Coach Bill Stahl
Today Coach Blu is proud to interview Coach Bill Stahl. Coach Stahl was a friend and colleague to our own David Clark and has since relaunched David's We Are Superman podcast as the host, mentor, and advocate for the Warrior program. Coach Stahl has been an avid ultra runner, cross country coach and has utilized all that he's learned to get him across some pretty amazing finish lines in life. Listen as they discuss coach David Clark, the legacy left behind, and the future of the sport of running.
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Remembering Superman
Athletes, today we are dropping a very special episode. This was the very first interview I was able to do with the late Coach David Clark in 2017. Having thought this episode was lost when our former platform Pod Bash moved to the Radio Ronan network, I was happy to have found this episode and relive the chemistry, content, and friendship that developed from this meeting. In the short time, we were able to know David he taught us a lot about life, sobriety, and of course living every moment as if it's your last.
We lost Coach David Clark following a surgery he had last May. February 5, 2021, would have been Coach Clark's 50th birthday. What a fitting tribute to be able to re-experience the relationship we had with Coach Clark. Listen and enjoy as we discuss so many of the founding principles Addict to Athlete has come to know.
David shares his story of recovery from alcohol. He shares how he went from a 320lb alcoholic to ultra runner, coach, vegan, and sober warrior.
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Boston Strong with Henry Ward
Today's guest is ultra-runner an advocate of recovery, Henry Ward. Henry discusses the intricacy of his addiction, how difficult and challenging it was to uproot himself from his hometown of Boston Massachusetts, and make a fresh life in Arizona. Then to have that fresh life consumed once again by alcoholism, emotional isolation, and ultimately therapeutic intervention. Listen as he describes how difficult it was navigating addiction with a new marriage and how his choice of turning his life over to something of greater value has created a path to recovery, stronger relationships, and ultra running. Henry shares how he moved from addict to ultrarunner and more.
Learn more about Henry Ward's efforts to advocate for sobriety through his nonprofit program Running Without the Devil.
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Dr. Bob Lynn: Recovery Takes Place In Our Community
On today's podcast Coach Blu talks with Dr. Bob Lynn, National and International Professional Clinical Advisor, Professor, Trainer, and Researcher. Dr. Bob has served in the addiction recovery world for over 50 years. He is the founder of the Addiction and Behavioral Health Alliance and has a unique view of the history and trends of addiction recovery.
Listen as Coach Blu and Dr. Bob discuss client-centered recovery, the need for more impactful programs with measurable outcomes. They discuss the importance of long term care and supportive communities to help people reach long term recovery. Dr. Bob provides insight, hope, love, and motivation simply by seeing each individual and working to address their needs. Dr. Bob's patient-centered approach of meeting the person where they are, to see their unique gifts and talents to strengthen the whole person has truly promoted change, hope, and direction in thousands of individuals. If you or a loved one have ever struggled with addiction, this is a podcast not to be missed so that you may be aware of the best kind of treatment for addiction recovery.
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