117: Nini Meyer | Sweat for Good

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Nini Meyer created Positive Tracks as a way to get kids moving and involved with a cause through athletics. She has witnessed it not only helping the causes, but connecting the youth with each other and teaching them to manage risk, take on challenges and get active. Since not every child enters the program with the same resources, it also teaches them the vital lesson of using what they got at the moment and building from there. A lifelong volunteer who adopted ultra-endurance running well into her adulthood, Meyer found a way to combine the two into something exceedingly positive.

Lessons:

1. Whenever you see the hazy outlines of a starting line begin to form, don’t turn away. Run straight towards it.
2. You can’t cross the ocean by staring at the sea.
3. Achieving challenging acts with groups creates a sense of shared struggle and perseverance propelling you towards your goal through

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0:00.0	This is the opening for Nini Myers, take one.
0:05.0	Okay, and then we're going to go like this.
0:07.0	You ready?
0:08.0	We're going to go pop pop, pop, pop, pop, together and you have them.
0:11.0	Yeah, sure.
0:12.0	Okay. Are you fired up, butter cup?
0:14.0	Fire it up, fired up, fire it up!
0:16.0	Fire it up!
0:18.0	Facts! Welcome Spartans. I am joined here today a little bit different for me at least. I've got on my
0:28.1	far left I've got Mark Webb a noted endurance athlete. I've got Dr. Johnny Waite standing here in the middle as our
0:34.9	anchor as always. We are trying to keep Sephiya in between the two of us to kind of keep her a little
0:39.9	bit focused.
0:41.9	I'm going to be tired. bit focused. And I of course, and the good, the good retired current home.
0:46.8	So anyway, today we're going to be talking with Neney Myers, an extraordinary woman who runs a charity that helps empower children give back to other children.
0:56.0	And she's got a really exciting story.
0:59.0	And she's full of energy.
1:01.0	She's full of energy.
1:02.0	Love her.
1:03.0	So you guys sit back, we're going to go and listen to her,
1:06.0	and we're going to come back and talk about it.
1:08.0	We're here at Boston Headquarters today,
1:10.0	and I am a pleasure to be sitting next to Nee Meir of Positive Tracks, which is a youth sports
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