Finish Line Moments: Moving Forward Together with Lisa Hallett - wear blue, Remembrance & the Power of Community

This Memorial Day season, Gretchen sits down with Lisa Hallett, co-founder and CEO of wear blue: run to remember, for a deeply human conversation about grief, movement, motherhood, military remembrance, resilience, and the extraordinary power of community.After losing her husband, CPT John Hallett, in Afghanistan in 2009, Lisa turned to running as a way through unimaginable loss and ultimately built a movement that has impacted thousands across the country through wear blue Miles, remembrance runs and connection that transcends sport itself.One of the most powerful threads throughout this episode is hearing Lisa talk not only as a widow, mother, advocate, and co-founder of wear blue but as herself, as an athlete, as a woman who has continued evolving, growing, competing, and discovering who she is through every season of life. Her strength comes through not just in what she has survived, but in who she has become.We also talk about the emotional power of the wear blue Mile movement as healing unforgettable stories from the running community and why remembrance matters - now more than ever and beyond her advocacy and leadership, Lisa is also a fierce endurance athlete in her own right: an ultrarunner, IRONMAN finisher, and someone who deeply understands what it means to keep moving forward when the road gets hard.Whether you’ve experienced a wear blue Mile before or are hearing about this movement for the first time, this is an episode about humanity, connection and what becomes possible when people choose to carry one another forward.