Running Meets You Where You Are | with Roberto Mandje | Ep. 162

This week I sit down with Olympian, coach, and father of three Roberto Mandje, and what struck me most wasn't the résumé — it was how he talks about being stronger than he ever gave himself credit for. Roberto grew up between Barcelona, West Africa, and the U.S., raised by a single mother who never once told him what he couldn't do, and he carried that into a twelve-year running career that peaked at the 2004 Athens Olympics, lining up in the 1500m next to the very runner whose poster hung on his bedroom wall. In this episode, we talk about what it actually feels like to stand at that start line, what running alone in the woods still teaches him that a desk never will, and how becoming a father — and, more recently, walking away from the organization he'd spent a decade helping build — forced him to ask what he's actually building his life toward now. This one is about identity that doesn't collapse when the structure around it changes, and about what it means to leave every place, and every person, a little better than you found it.———💫 Read the Full Reflection:  https://liveyourjune.substack.com/p/when-the-structure-disappears-the———💫 Connect with Roberto:Visit his Website: mandjecoaching.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertomandje/Instagram: @robertomandje———💫 Join the Soulstigator Movement!➡️ Take the Motherhood Survey: https://forms.gle/ozuRfLMwYubq9PdPA➡️ Free Clarity Call: DM Me “CLARITY” on IG @wendyposillico➡️ Visit our website: liveyourjune.com