Maria Vargas: Stay Curious - R4R 356
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Maria Vargas is always up for a challenge. Since leaving the Running for Real team, she’s been adventuring with Yes Theory. But as she explains, you don’t have to go to exotic locations to expand your horizons; a new and fulfilling experience can be as close as your local coffee shop.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:14.1 | Together, we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps |
| 0:21.6 | us become better people, whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the |
| 0:26.1 | rest of the world still sleeps or befriending the strangers next to you at the |
| 0:29.8 | start line of a race. We are here to connect with others who see running as the common thread |
| 0:35.1 | that weaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from all walks |
| 0:40.6 | of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello my friends and welcome to episode 356 of the Running for Real podcast. Thank you for joining me |
| 0:52.9 | today. I'm excited that you are here and excited to welcome back a previous guest. This guest |
| 0:58.7 | was someone who was on the Running for Real team. She worked with us for a few years and now she |
| 1:04.2 | has stepped off to do things on her own consulting business which I love and I'm all about supporting |
| 1:12.3 | friends in their journeys, whatever that may be, even if yes, in my case, I lost out by losing |
| 1:19.3 | her on the team. So I'm excited to bring back Maria Vargas, who is a dear friend of mine, |
| 1:25.8 | and today we had a real purpose with this episode. I wanted this episode, well actually Maria |
| 1:31.0 | suggested I shouldn't say I. We wanted this episode to be a way of hearing about getting outside |
| 1:37.3 | your comfort zone, about doing things that initially bring that feeling in you of like, oh I don't |
| 1:43.7 | know if I can do that. And maybe you see myself or even Maria doing things like this and you think |
| 1:49.0 | how did these opportunities come about? A lot of it comes from taking those leaps of faith when you |
| 1:54.4 | feel uncomfortable. Like that time I jumped in a drum circle with my friend Elizabeth. There was |
| 1:59.5 | that voice that said, no, no, don't do that. And I ignored it for a second, took that leap and it was |
| 2:06.2 | so much fun. All kinds of examples of that you will hear today. But I wanted to bring Maria on |
| 2:11.5 | for this reason to kind of talk through the earbuds that might come into your mind and also talk |
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