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Do Hard Things Today — 100 episodes

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The Importance of Nutrition with Dr. Stephanie Machacek

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Preparing for the Dopey Challenge: Insights from a Disney Running Veteran

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Seven Life Lessons Learned at 53

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The Power of Showing Up: Unlocking Your Potential

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Mastering the Minute: How Doing Hard Things Today Shapes Your Future

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Conquering the Disney Marathon: Insights from the 2026 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend

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Breaking the Quitters Day Cycle: Realistic Resolutions for 2026

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Winning Seven Seconds at a Time: Lessons from Nick Saban's Coaching Philosophy

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Conquering the Dopey Challenge: Strategies for First-Time Runners at Disney

10

Conquering the Dopey Challenge: A Roadmap to Success at the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend

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Five Focus Items For Success

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Faith Drives Troutman's Journey

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The Dopey Challenge: Breaking Down Some BIG Changes

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Learning To Handle Stress

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The importance of meal planning with Kamilla Whitney

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Five For Friday: Five Ways To Grow

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Why Is Nutrition So Important? - with special guest Dr. Stephanie Machacek

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FIVE FOR FRIDAY: Five ways to be more confident

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Pelvic Health: What is it, and why is it important?

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Five For Friday: Let's Get Faster!

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The Run Disney Dopey Challenge: Choosing your race strategy

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Running For Your Life: A mom's journey from youth running to Boston Marathon to aspiring Triathlete

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Bicycle Safety For Your Training Rides

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Five For Friday: How to break bad habits

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The 2025 Run Disney Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge: Part 1

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Training, Training, Training

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SwimRun: It's more than just a different spelling

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Talking Positivity and Inspiration with Carolina Paredes Cox

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Five For Friday: Five(ish) Things You Should Say To Yourself

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How Can I Identify - And Avoid - Burnout?

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Five For Friday: Five(ish) reasons that you aren't losing weight

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Recapping the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend Races

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Five For Friday: How to break a bad habit

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Planning Your Year: Take Charge of Your Calendar to Take Charge of Your Life

35

Five For Friday: How to fix your relationship with food

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The Winter Challenge

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Social Media Sabotage

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FIVE FOR FRIDAY: How to prioritize your health in the new year

39

Running For Dummies: Let's Get Started

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Embrace A Morning Routine

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Are You Living Life Through The Windshield, Or The Rearview Mirror

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Creating Habits and Routines, Not Resolutions

43

What Goes In To Triathlon and Fitness Coaching?

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Extraordinary People Do Ordinary Things - Over And Over Again

45

What's New, and What's Coming Soon?

46

John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Respect

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Real Talk Monday: Who's going to tell you what you need to hear?

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Real Talk Monday: Nobody's Coming To Save You

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John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Solid Ground

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John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Addition

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The Dope Challenge: Four Months Out

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75 Hard: Getting Started

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John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Navigation

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John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Process

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John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Influence

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John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of the Lid

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Real Talk Monday: Failure Gives You Only Two Choices

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Five For Friday

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Self Care For Runners With Coach Katie Malone

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Monday Motivation: No More Excuses!

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Five For Friday: Nutrition For Runners

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Consistency Is King!

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Intermittent Fasting - Six Week Results and Surprises

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Five For Friday: Five Ways To Break Bad Habits And Form Good Ones

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Run Disney Dopey Challenge 2024, Part 1

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Real Talk Monday: Show Up!

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Five For Friday: Five Ways You Are Sabotaging Your Run Progress

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An Intermittent Fasting Case Study

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Tackling Your First 5K Or Triathlon

70

The Dreaded "B" Word: How To Set Your Budget

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How To Plan Your 2023 Race Season

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How Can I Get A Handle On My Finances?

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Start The New Year With The Great 8

74

Dopey Challenge: How'd It Go?

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Dopey Challenge: Race Week Is Here!

76

Dopey Challenge: Beyond the Races

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Dopey Challenge: What if I'm behind?

78

Dopey Challenge: What's My Strategy?

79

Monday Motivation: Lose 10 Pounds

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Dopey Challenge: Let's Talk Logistics

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So You Want To Be An Ironman?

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Monday Motivation: Establishing Good Habits

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Run Disney Dopey Challenge 2023 - Part 2: Eight Months Out

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Monday Motivation: Five Ways To Feel Better Today

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Monday Motivation: Balance and High Performance. Can You Achieve Both?

86

Ironman Chattanooga 70.3 Preview and Course Review

87

Run Disney Dopey Challenge 2023 - Part 1: Training to Train

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Hal's Ironman Experience 2021 - Part 2

89

The Dopey Challenge is Back! for 2022

90

We Are Back! Hal's Ironman Race Reports - Part 1

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Race Preview! - Ironman Chattanooga 70.3 - Interview with Matthew Roland

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RunDisney and Dopey Challenge Update

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Stepping Up to Half Marathon! 13.1

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Becoming a Faster Runner

95

So You Want to be an Ironman? - Part II

96

Top 5 Positives from 2020!

97

Planning NOW!! for the 2021 Running and Triathlon Race Season

98

Race Report! - Dark Horse Ultra 50K

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"I CAN HOLD IT?!" Stupid Things Runners and Triathletes Say

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10 Tips to Keep Your Fitness and Nutrition on Track