Hello and welcome to another episode of RunPod. I'm Jenny Faulkner and I would say,

look, I'm going to say that this episode has an important message of bravery, of courage,

of sheer determination, but also on top of all that, it shows how running can be hugely

beneficial to an individual

by ultimately offering a boost to your mental health. So today we're going to be hearing the

story of the fabulous M. Campbell, a writer and speaker who quite simply loves running and she claims

she could talk endlessly about the positive ways

that running has enhanced her life. Now, she turned to running after a time of adversity for

Emma is also a three times cancer survivor. We will talk about that along with many other things,

but first of all, let's just say hello, M hello. Hello, hi Jenny. How are you?

Not bad. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I'm kind of, you know, sitting upstairs,

quiet house, kids at school, feeling, yeah, in a happy, happy, good place today. Good. I'm pleased

to hear it because it's, you know, it's great to

have you on Run Pod, but you don't mind me saying you are still relatively new to running,

I guess, as well, aren't you? Yeah, I'm new to kind of what I would call proper running as in

life-changing running. I was listening to your Amy Lane on, you know, previous episode just this morning. And I really

related to what she was saying about the kind of running in your 20s and 30s. For me, it was very

much a kind of, oh, you know, not liking what I saw in the mirror and the kind of almost felt like a

punishment. And so I dabbled with it over the years and I would go through phases of

throwing myself around the common and feeling quite miserable.

But I'd say, yeah, we're coming up to two years of it feeling very, very different.

And that coincided with last year's third cancer diagnosis and kind of the realization that running could just be this, it's become this incredible

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