Aly Criscuolo: Don't Be Afraid to Dream Big - R4R 411
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Director at New York Road Runners, Aly Criscuolo is able to channel her passion for environmentalism into positive action. She’s clearly making an impact; NYRR’s latest sustainability initiative, Team for Climate, sold out within two minutes of its launch.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running For Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
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| 0:20.0 | and discover ways it helps us become better people. |
| 0:23.0 | Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the rest of the world still sleeps, |
| 0:28.0 | or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race, |
| 0:31.0 | we are here to connect with others who see running as the common |
| 0:34.8 | thread that leaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people |
| 0:39.8 | from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello my friends welcome to episode 411 of the running for a podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'm excited that you are here and friends I am |
| 0:58.3 | Very excited to introduce you to my guest today. My guest today is who I call my sustainability sister. |
| 1:06.4 | She is the person more than anyone else who is the one I speak to when I am |
| 1:11.7 | struggling with feeling like I am not making a difference or that we are |
| 1:16.6 | doomed or we are helpless and every single time she brings me back to hope. |
| 1:22.0 | If you are someone who struggles with feeling that way sometimes, |
| 1:27.0 | regardless of your environmental advocacy, even if you are at the very beginning of your journey. |
| 1:33.0 | Ali is going to be that person that helps pull you back out of that. |
| 1:37.0 | And you're going to hear her talk today about a phrase that she says to herself |
| 1:41.0 | and that her family have always said to her that I think it is going to relate to a lot of you and remind a lot of you to keep going no matter whether you are at the beginning and for you your environmental switch is going from a styrofoam cup to a plastic cup or |
| 1:56.4 | whether you're like Ali and I and you think about this all day every day and you work in it. |
| 2:02.1 | So I'm excited for you to meet the Sustainability and |
| 2:05.9 | Corporate Social Responsibility Director at New York Roadrunners. She was also |
| 2:10.0 | in the Green Biz 30 under 30 so she's done a lot already in the |
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