Katy Sherratt//Shawn Livingston
The Forward
Lance Armstrong
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Back on My Feet is a national organization operating in 12 major cities across the US. The organization combats homelessness through the power of running, community support and essential employment and housing resources. CEO Katy Sherratt joins Lance to talk about their mission and how they get homeless folks into running. They are joined by Shawn Livingston to talk about his success with the program. A veteran who was facing serious jail time got himself clean and did the BOMF program. He is now running ultra marathons.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay everybody welcome back to the Ford podcast as you can either hear or see I'm your host Lance Armstrong |
| 0:06.0 | My two guests this week super interesting Katie Schiratt runs an organization called Back on My Feet. |
| 0:13.6 | I've really gotten to be a big fan of the work that they do. |
| 0:16.7 | These guys are fighting or combating or taking on homelessness |
| 0:21.5 | through running, getting people. taking on |
| 0:23.1 | on homelessness through running getting people to commit to a structured running program |
| 0:28.3 | They have to commit to three days a week for 30 straight days and then you know and then on from there then they get them back into the |
| 0:34.7 | workplace and the success rate is is is astonishing so 13 chapters all around the country |
| 0:40.5 | one of which is here in Austin. |
| 0:42.7 | The second half of the show, |
| 0:43.8 | we're joined by one of their alumni, as they say, |
| 0:46.3 | Sean Livingston, who spent 10 years in the armed forces, |
| 0:50.2 | came back and was injured and just got mixed up and really a bad drug scene. |
| 0:58.0 | He was their member and they call all the people in the program members. |
| 1:01.8 | So not, you know, not participants, not, you know, |
| 1:05.3 | patients, whatever, they called them members. |
| 1:07.1 | And so he was their member of the year last year. |
| 1:10.6 | Guy, you know, was on the verge of four felony convictions for heroin possession, |
| 1:16.0 | did not have a home, did not have a job, and is now running 100 milers. |
| 1:21.0 | I mean, truly, not only, I mean mean all these guys are guys and gals are |
| 1:24.8 | heroes for fighting for us overseas but what a heroic effort to overcome such a |
| 1:29.5 | strong addiction to now as I told him in the show, you replaced one addiction with another. |
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