I'm just so proud of myself that I had the courage to like find out what if and to go down that road and not knowing

Where it would lead and if it would turn into something beautiful like it did or if it just kind of you know one of those enjoy the journey kind of things

Hey everybody Emily Abadi here coming to you from the AG studio. You are listening at episode

196 of hurdle a wellness focus podcast where I connected everyone from your favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their highest highs

toughest moments and everything in between we all go through hurdles in life and my goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with

intention so that you can strive toward your own big potential and of course have some fun along the way let me tell you today's

episode there's a lot there's a lot of fun here to motto the newly minted newly minted American record holder in the

woman's marathon. She is a professional runner and my new BFF don't just take it from me Kira says so in our combo. I absolutely

loves it the opportunity to chat with Kira to motto today not far removed from her shiny new American record of two

hours 19 minutes and 12 seconds breaking Deena Caster's previous record from London in 2006. I adore Kira I

adore her energy I adore her spirit it didn't hurt that we started today's conversation with her complimenting me but there are

so many sentiments takeaways and awesome nuggets of wisdom in our conversation today that I am excited to bring to you

regardless of whether or not you are a runner that are helpful and useful and wonderful Kira's journey is one of

perseverance and grit in today's episode she talks about her brief stint as a professional athlete after college

stepping away from the sport ultimately because of an injury and pursuing other things in life that made her

happy during that time including getting married becoming a mother of two also a full time realtor only to find

her way back to running after dabbling in a bunch of other sports and modalities knowing that this was a

at the time hobby that brought her so much joy and soon enough that hobby would become a fiery very

real commitment to self and going after her big crazy goals for episode 196 Kira talks about what it's

been like for her to juggle so many hats what it was like to have a breakout year during 2020 and the

prep and the build up that came to that record breaking Houston marathon at the beginning of 2022 plus

what's on top next and if you are not inspired to eat at least a full sleeve is it a sleeve there's

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