Inspiring a Global Running Movement with Mina Guli

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Mina Guli is a water advocate and ultrarunner who has dedicated her life to solving one of the world’s most urgent issues—the global water crisis. She runs marathons all over the world to raise awareness, logging thousands of miles across deserts and along rivers to change the way people, companies, and governments think about water.

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0:00.0	As a surfer, I feel most at home in or near the ocean, and I know I'm not the only one.
0:09.5	Many scientists suggest that people are drawn to and comforted by water because it's vital to human life.
0:15.9	Hiking to a waterfall or sitting on the bank of a river can reduce your heart rate and lower your blood pressure.
0:22.4	But it's easy to lose sight of how precious this resource really is.
0:27.3	Water advocate Mina Guli runs marathons all over the world to raise awareness about the global water crisis.
0:34.7	Mina has logged thousands of miles across deserts and along rivers to change the way people,
0:40.4	companies, and governments think about water.
0:43.4	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI Co-op Studios production presented
0:50.1	by Capital One and the REI Co-Op MasterCard.
0:57.4	Mina Gouli, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:01.1	So glad to have you on.
1:02.4	Thank you, Shelby.
1:03.1	It's great to be here.
1:04.1	Have you always been a runner?
1:05.5	No.
1:06.6	No, Shelby, when I was a kid, I hated running.
1:09.5	I was like the little kid in the corner
1:11.7	that would never get picked for sport teams, and I avoided doing sport like the plague. Sometimes
1:17.7	I look back and I'm like, what happened to me? The truth is nothing happened, except that I got
1:22.5	suddenly motivated by a mission that was much bigger than myself. And now I find myself every day going out and doing these crazy runs.
1:31.3	And the irony is I'm really bad at it, like I'm really slow.
1:35.3	I'm not naturally a runner.
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