Episode 526: Jackie Hoffman – Founder of Peace Runners
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
I met Jackie Hoffman at the Chicago Marathon a few years back! I was so excited to learn about what he is doing with Peace Runners in Chicago. He is the president and founder of Peace Runners. Through his own transformation, his vision and inspiration for Peace Runners 773 were fostered. He grew up in Garfield Park and has brought a running program back to the neighborhood that he grew up in. His own childhood inspired him to be a proponent for change. He really focuses on the life expectancy gap, specifically in his neighborhood in Chicago. It is much lower than the average life expectancy in the US.
Jackie played football in college and then professionally. Now he is a runner through and through! He just ran the NYC half marathon right before we recorded!
Peace Runners is a nonprofit organizations that advocates for health equity. Their programming empowers, educates, and brings awareness to holistic health and wellness through physical, mental, and social wellbeing while creating safe spaces for movement in our underserved communities.
This was such a joy and honor to talk to Jackie!
What we talked about:
3:30- Racing the NYC Half Marathon with his wife
5:50- Jackie’s history with running
8:00- Meeting his wife
9:00- The different role that football and running have played in his life
15:55- His trajectory through college
17:55- Role models in his life
22:25- Lessons he’s learned
25:35- Starting Peace Runners
34:30- The movement to create more running communities in underserved communities
35:45- His job outside of Peace Runners
38:30- Finding his purpose with Peace Runners
41:40- His dreams with Peace Runners
47:45- Overcoming moments of doubts
47:15- Jackie’s goals with running personally
55:10- End of podcast questions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody. Welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hine. I'm your host Lindsay. Thanks so much for |
| 0:24.2 | joining me today. Have you all checked out the Trail Network podcast yet? I am so |
| 0:28.8 | excited that we launched that in the Sandy Boy Productions network. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm so honored that the women hosting that podcast, |
| 0:35.8 | Rachel Drake, Katie Asmith, Hillary Yang, |
| 0:39.2 | and Leah Ying Lane have trusted us |
| 0:41.1 | to edit and produce the show. |
| 0:43.5 | They're doing amazing and they've already had so many amazing conversations |
| 0:47.0 | and guests over there. |
| 0:48.2 | So make sure you're subscribed. |
| 0:50.4 | It's called The Trail Network Podcast. All right, my guest today is Jackie Hoffman. |
| 0:55.0 | I met Jackie in Chicago at the Chicago Marathon in 22, I believe. |
| 1:00.0 | Maybe it was 2023. now I can't remember one of those years I think it was |
| 1:06.1 | 2023 and I was so excited to learn about what he's doing with Peace Runners in Chicago. |
| 1:15.2 | He's the president and founder of Peace Runners and through his own personal |
| 1:19.4 | transformation his vision and inspiration for Peace Runners 773 was fostered. |
| 1:25.0 | He grew up in Garfield Park and has brought a running program |
| 1:30.0 | back to the neighborhood he grew up in. |
| 1:32.0 | His childhood inspired him to be a proponent of change. |
| 1:36.2 | And one of the things that he really focuses on now |
| 1:39.3 | is the life expectancy gap specifically in his neighborhood in Chicago and it is much |
| 1:47.7 | lower than the average life expectancy in the US. Jackie played football in college and he is a runner through and through now. |
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