143. Confronting Inequality, with Black Girls RUN! CEO Jay Ell Alexander
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is Jay Ell Alexander. She’s the owner of The Vaughn Strategy, a public relations strategy consulting firm. And in 2018, she become the owner and CEO of the Black Girls RUN! Organization.
Black Girls RUN! wants to encourage African-American women to make fitness and healthy living a priority. Their goal is to create a movement to lower the disproportionately high health outcomes in the female African-American community and subsequently, lower the number of women with chronic diseases associated with an unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle.
Our discussion today focuses on the history of Black Girls RUN, the health disparities African-American women experience, how we can all work together to create a more equal playing field, and how you can get involved with Black Girls Run.
Thank You PATH Projects
I also want to express my gratitude for the ongoing support from PATH Projects. They make affordable running gear that’s incredibly high quality. You can find everything from running shorts to headwear on their site.
Currently, I’m wearing the Sykes 5″ Shorts (see them in action in this video), the Pyrinees hooded sweatshirt, and the Torch base liner. Their gear is unique, stylish, and a premium quality that feels great to wear. And because they are a direct to consumer shop, PATH skips the retail markup and keeps prices affordable.
I personally love how functional their gear is – both for running and wearing around the house. Check them out, you won’t be disappointed!
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set go. |
| 0:04.8 | This is episode 143 with marathoner and the CEO of the National Running Organization Black |
| 0:10.5 | Girls Run Miss J. L. Alexander. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the strength running podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Jason Fitzgerald and I'm your host and the head coach of Strength Running. |
| 0:28.0 | The goal of this podcast is to make you into a better runner. I'll be bringing you the power players and the fitness industry |
| 0:34.0 | to help you reach more of your running goals. You're going to hear from elite runners, |
| 0:38.0 | sports psychologists, strength experts, coaches, best-selling authors, physiotherapists, and other leaders in the running |
| 0:46.1 | community who can help make our running dreams become a reality. |
| 0:50.8 | Because as I like to say, knowledge is a competitive advantage. |
| 0:54.0 | If you're new to the show, we have 142 other episodes, |
| 0:58.0 | a video channel on YouTube or our homebase Strengthrunning.com, |
| 1:02.0 | where you can see all of our coaching programs |
| 1:05.2 | detailed guides on everything from fart like training to core workouts to how you can master your mindset |
| 1:12.4 | and become a more mentally tough runner. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm also excited to continue our sponsorship with Path Projects. |
| 1:19.2 | They're doing some new things right now. |
| 1:21.0 | First, they have a whole new website that you can check out at path |
| 1:24.1 | projects.com and I'm really excited about their new three inch running shorts. |
| 1:28.7 | My other path shorts are five inch and they're great for strength training casual wear working out in the yard |
| 1:34.9 | but these three inch shorts are going to be my go tos for running check out all their |
| 1:38.8 | products at path projects dot com before we start I also want to mention that I announced on social media last week |
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