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Directionally Challenged

REPLAY: Run Like Your Life Depends On It with Anthony Williams

Directionally Challenged

Kayla Ewell

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.94.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Original Airdate: January 16, 2023


Kayla is joined by inspirational community leader, Anthony ‘Cool Ant’ Williams, who founded the non-profit Neighborhood Hero. Neighborhood Hero’s mission is to make neglected areas healthier spaces for its inhabitants. They discuss how his group of runners came about and the inspirational people around him growing up helped mold the hero he is now today. 


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0:00.0

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know in this episode we do discuss suicide. So please take care while listening

0:14.3

Hey guys, it's Kayla Candace isn't able to join us today, but we are all still so

0:20.5

Directionally challenged. We thought we'd have it all figured out by the time we were in our 30s and surprise

0:26.1

We don't and that's okay. You know

0:30.2

Sometimes it's easy to feel and say I'm just one individual. What difference can I make?

0:37.3

Well, the answer is a huge impact if you set your mind to it today

0:41.3

I am sitting down with one of my newest friends and favorite people his name is Anthony cool Aunt Williams

0:49.3

As soon as I heard his story

0:51.0

I knew I had to have them on directionally challenged because aunt saw a problem with his community and he didn't wait for anyone else to step in

0:58.0

He stepped up and started to fix it step-by-step

1:00.7

Aunt is here to share his story and how just a few pieces of paper and a lot of motivation changed an entire

1:07.7

Community so without further ado here is Aunt Williams

1:14.0

And you're here Aunt Williams. I'm so grateful that you joined me today

1:19.2

You and I met at a football game and

1:22.4

Somewhere around the third quarter you started sharing your story with me and I was

1:26.7

Really excited and motivated and I think our world can feel so big sometimes and it's easy to feel like I'm just one small person

1:36.2

What difference can I make and I I want our list?

1:39.8

I'm you're the answer to that. I mean you approve of the answer

1:42.4

You know, I want our listeners to know that they can make a difference. So I knew I had to have you on

1:48.9

Can you start from the beginning talk to us about where you're from in Baltimore and can you take our listeners to the

1:55.2

Beginning of the pandemic when you realized COVID-19 was affecting your community so drastically

2:01.6

Yes, definitely so originally from East Baltimore and I grew up in the same home for 29 years

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