Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes Is A Gold Podcast, the best place in the

entire world including Olive Canada to learn how to build new thoughts, new actions, and

new results.

I'm your host John Akef and today I'm joined by Brendan Lenter.

Who's that?

I'm so glad you asked.

Brendan Lenter is a writer, illustrator, speaker, and ultra runner.

In 2019, he set out to complete 52 marathon distance runs in 52 weeks and survived while

having fun part of the time.

That is a ton of marathon distance runs.

I asked him all about that in this interview.

Lenter is a columnist at Outside Magazine and his writing has appeared in Runner's World,

National Geographic Adventure, Climbing, and Alpineist, and on CNN.com and in dozens

of other publications, including his website, semirad.com, that's semi-rad.com.

He directed the 2017 short film, How to Run 100 Miles, which screened at film festivals

in more than 20 countries and on six continents and was viewed more than 5 million times

online, he lives in Montana.

I first found Brendan Lenter, the via his Instagram account, semi-underscore rad.

I kept seeing this brilliant, hilarious, insightful work, all these illustrations about goals

and happiness and life, and so I thought, who is this dude?

So I signed up for his newsletter, I bought one of his posters, he did an elements chart

of an adventure, it's like the different elements, but it was like a periodic table of

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