Back on My Feet- The Power of Running to Overcome Homelessness
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🗓️ 7 December 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Katy Sherratt is the CEO of Back On My Feet, a non-profit organization that helps homeless and those down on their luck get – you guessed it! – back on their feet.
But they do it with running!
Members of Back On My Feet meet three times a week for morning runs on top of interview training, health and wellness education, and other services that help them find jobs and get their lives running again.
As CEO, Katy brings her philanthropic eye and economics experience to an already thriving business.
We discuss the ways she's increased donations, increased programmatic impact, and improved the ways the company measures the success of its members.
There are waiting lists of people waiting to participate in Back On My feet, and Katy shares the way we can all help out.
Here are some of the topics we'll discuss today:
- Everything Katy's accomplished with Back On My Feet
- How health and success work together to create social wellness
- The ways running builds self-esteem and empowers individuals
- How individuals and the corporate world work together for social wellness
- What we can all do to be more socially aware
- How we can donate our time and money to Back On My Feet
Questions Katy is asked:
3:34 When did Katy move over to the United States?
4:30 Why is running so special?
5:33 Do you run in the mornings?
7:02 What has Katy accomplished with Back On My Feet?
9:00 What is Back On My Feet and how does it work?
11:28 Everyone with Back On My Feet gets a free pair of running shoes
12:08 What's it like being a Back On My Feet alumni?
13:13 How did you convince your sponsors to get involved?
15:05 How many members join marathons?
16:10 Which cities participate in Back On My Feet?
17:06 How can we get in touch with Back On My Feet?
18:10 How big can Back On My Feet get?
19:24 How do the sponsors help members find jobs and get back on their feet?
21:20 Does Back On My Feet offer interview training for members?
22:32 How do donations work with Back On My Feet?
24:45 What attracted Katy to Back On My Feet?
25:53 What attracts Katy to social wellness?
26:40 What social differences do you see between the UK and the USA?
28:22 Are things moving in the right direction?
29:35 How many different ways can corporations work with Back On My Feet?
31:11 Why is running so empowering?
33:43 What moment brought it home for Katy?
36:29 How Katy's mom inspires her
38:07 How is the running community like a family?
39:20 How does recruitment work?
41:15 Why do you start running so early in the morning?
43:27 The story that impacted Katy the most
46:28 What happens at the beginning and the end of each run?
49:18 The Final Kick Round!
Quotes by Katy:
"I run a mile a minute in how I act in daily life, and for me when I go running it's a moment of clarity."
"Back On My Feet starts with running."
"Companies and corporations want to work with non-profits in a unique way. They want a variety of ways."
"The reason we use running is because anyone can do it. We are born to run."
Links:
To get involved: info@backonmyfeet.org
How to get your business involved: partners@backonmyfeet.org
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| 0:13.6 | I think it's just knowing that they can turn up on that Wednesday morning and they're not going to get judged and they're not going to get looked at like the homeless and they're going to be out there doing something for themselves whether it's running a mile or running miles, and they're going to be doing it with other people. And at that moment in those morning runs, we're all the same. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:29.0 | So together, we can train a smarter, healthier healthier and faster running community. |
| 0:35.0 | Now here's your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the |
| 0:45.9 | Runto the Top podcast brought to you by Run So last week we heard from Dr David Menkov about recovery and how our nutrition can be improved to get the most out of our training without putting our long-term health at risk. |
| 1:00.0 | So if you didn't listen to that one, make sure you go back and check it out. So I remember when I was living in Philly and I first heard of this company today. |
| 1:09.0 | I thought it was an incredible initiative and one of those things that just warms your heart to know that people really are that genuine, kind and just helpful to those in need. |
| 1:20.0 | We all know how powerful and wonderful our running community can be, but this just shows a deeper power of just what running can do to turn someone's life around. |
| 1:32.0 | And I know you're going to love this episode and maybe even shed a few tears. |
| 1:36.4 | After reading through your podcast surveys, we are officially going ahead with the |
| 1:41.2 | Ask Coach style podcast a few times a week, but you have to wait a few |
| 1:45.8 | more weeks to hear the name that one of you did come up with for the show and I'm very |
| 1:50.9 | excited about that. I'll share more about that next week, but I just want to thank you again for not only taking the time to tune in every week, but for taking the time to fill out the survey and give really thoughtful answers. It really means the world to me and it will help make |
| 2:05.8 | run-to-the-top even better next year, with hopefully a new graphic and new intro music too. So that's enough from me. |
| 2:14.0 | Let's get ready to meet Katie Sherritt, CEO of Back on My Feet. |
| 2:18.0 | We will be right to her after we hear and thank our sponsors. |
| 2:22.0 | Running is tiring. here and thank our sponsors. |
| 2:29.0 | Running is tiring, we know that, but the accumulation of miles is what really gets us, leaving us sore and exhausted. |
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