“God was telling me that He gave me a gift to run with the best guys in the world, but He gave me that gift so that I could help other people.” - Ryan Hall

“I started seeing myself how God sees me, and that was a really, really powerful shift for me.” - Ryan Hall

“I want to extract all these lessons that God's taught me, all the things I feel like He's told me along the way, and I want to share those with people so I can help them on their journey.” - Ryan Hall

“I believe that it's in our imperfections that we're beautiful. When we're broken, we’re beautiful.” - Holly Dowling

“I think the greatest gift we can give to ourselves is permission to love ourselves for who we are.” - Holly Dowling

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0:00.0	I went from a kid who hated running to a kid who was devoted, devoting my life to the passion of seeing how good and more than that seeing what God had put inside me and trying to get the most out of myself.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.
0:20.0	Today's guests share how they've stopped measuring themselves against the world standards
0:24.6	and have come to know their value in God's eyes.
0:27.4	Former Olympic runner Ryan Hall, an inspirational thought leader Holly Dowling.
0:33.0	First up, Ryan Hall grew up loving every other sport but running.
0:37.4	However, over the years he cultivated a God-given passion for the sport and learned resilience
0:42.3	and diligence were the keys to competing in the Olympic
0:44.6	Games in 2008 and 2012.
0:48.0	Today, Ryan tells us how his faith sustained him during a time when the way forward seemed unclear and how God is now using
0:54.8	him to help people around the world with the sport he loves.
0:58.8	My name is Ryan Hall and kind of what I'm best known for is I compete in the 2008 and the 2012 Olympic Games for the United States in the marathon.
1:09.0	I ran professionally for over 10 years and have the American record in the half marathon.
1:16.0	And I'm also a dad of four adopted girls from Ethiopia.
1:22.0	They're all biological sisters and now currently retired
1:26.4	from professional running and an author speaker and and mostly a dad and husband.
1:33.0	So I grew up in Big Bear Lake in Southern California.
1:36.0	It's a small resort town of about 9,000 people and I'm in the middle of five kids.
1:42.0	So we had a big full energetic household.
1:45.7	Got very strong parents that brought us up in a Christian home and you know lots of
1:51.1	memories of church and family Bible studies and they introduced us to
1:56.2	Jesus at a very young age.
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