Welcome to Season 4 of Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy Podcast. Happy New Year, I pray you all have a blessed and prosperous year. Let’s dive into the benefits of staying focused this new year. I have found that with goal setting, less is more.
The problem we can face each January is creating plans that we are not ready for. Whatever goal you set it is not going to magically happen because it’s January of a new year. I’m going to share with you some of the things that I will be working on in 2022.
Take a listen. I pray that this will motivate you no matter what your goals or aspirations are.
Episode Highlights:
My goals related to fitness, health, and racing
How I plan to stay consistent with reaching these goals
How I start each new year
How to not be overwhelmed and burn out in regards to reaching your goals.
Why consistency is the key
Why it helps to have tribe in regards to goal setting
Get a copy of the book Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A Journey Back to Wholeness👉🏾here. It is available in hardback, paperback, and newly released audio form.
Get a copy of the book Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A Journey Back to Wholeness👉🏾here. It is available in hardback, paperback, and newly released audio form
Dominique King discovered healing through therapy, and running was a vital part of it. Dominque’s goal is to reach people like her that are looking for a platform that deals with everyday issues of running, marriage and family. Through her platform “Lean In With The King” she shares experiences, advice while offering support.
Her mantra is, ‘I live everything that I do with with two things, find your dirt and connect and more importantly be well; you are worthy.’
Episode Highlights:
Why Dominique started running with a healthier mindset
Road running versus trail running
Dealing with harassment while road running as a woman
How to keep safe while trail running and recommendations
The best way to use your taser while running, especially for women
Her scariest experiences while trail running
How running with her husband has changed their relationship.
Guest Bio
Dominique has always been a runner. Running has intertwined itself in her life at various stages. Growing up she used running as a way to escape her home environment. She used to run and walk between towns trying to make sense of why things shook out the way they did for me. In her older years running was her way of maintaining an unhealthy view of what she thought her body should be. The beautiful chapter of her run journey began the moment she decided she wanted to live. She started extending herself grace. The grace that she now tells everyone else to do for themselves. She discovered healing through therapy and running was a vital part of it. She also has a website, a blog, and a podcast.
Get a copy of the book Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A Journey Back to Wholeness👉🏾here. It is available in hardback, paperback, and newly released audio form
Not everyone runs to lose weight. Sandra Mikulic is a plus-size runner, mom of 4 who started running at the age of 43.
She has used running to better her mental health and physical health. She believes that running is for everyone and no one should be held back by societal limitations on body size and weight.
She shares how she has overcome depression and anxiety through running, raising her 4 kids, the podcasts and books that have changed her life and why she runs 5k every single day.
If you have failed and tried again, this episode will encourage you!
Episode Highlights:
How her childhood traumas affected her as an adult
What inspired her to start running at 43
Documenting her journey on Instagram
Why she started running 5km a day in 2019 to date
How running changed her neuroplasticity and helped her heal a lot of trauma anxiety.
Her podcast and book recommendations
Her favorite race and participating in Olympic distance triathlon
The dangers of social media to women and the younger generation
Her life-long commitment to love herself truly
Guest Bio
Sandra Mikulic is a self-proclaimed athlete of 250 pounds who is a Runner, triathlete and ultra runner. In March 2018 at the age of 43, she started running and that’s where her story of self-transcendence begins. On January 1, 2019, she started the challenge of doing 5kms every day. It has changed her neuroplasticity and healed a lot of trauma and anxiety. It has changed her life. She has finished 3 marathons, 20 half marathons, one 50 km race and a triathlon in 3 years. She embodies an active life now and empowers people that size does not matter!
Get a copy of the book Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A Journey Back to Wholeness 👉🏾here. It is available in hardback, paperback, and newly released audio form
Do you believe in divine intervention and that everything happens for a reason ? Today, I welcome Dr. Shannon Goode to the show.
She is a primary care sports medicine physician who lives in New Orleans. She joined the staff of Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute in September 2020. After completing a fellowship in Sports Medicine at U F. H. Wilson Memorial Hospital in New York. She went to undergrad at Howard University, another HBCU.
She also is an athlete, she was a competitive swimmer. She swam most of high school and also participated in other sports.
In this episode, she shares her not-so-smooth journey to becoming a doctor, failing and trying again, the importance of having a support circle and why she absolutely loves where she is today.
If you have failed and tried again, this episode will encourage you!
Episode Highlights:
Swimming competitively in high school and becoming a lifeguard at 16
Deciding to study sports medicine versus athletic training.
Studying sports medicine at Howard University, D.C
Attending Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN
Failing her clinical tests and moving back home
Working at Bloomingdales
Getting into residency training at the University of Miami
Her support circle, her girls, her mom, her grandmother, her father
Concussion management and her advice to young athletes
Guest Bio
Dr. Shannon Goode is a primary care sports medicine physician who joined the Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute in September 2020 after completing her fellowship at UHS Wilson Memorial Hospital in Binghamton, NY. While in upstate NY, she served as clinical faculty for the UHS Wilson Memorial Hospital Family Medicine residency program, as well as associate team physician for Binghamton University and SUNY Broome Community College. As an Ochsner physician, she serves as the team physician for Xavier University and Dillard University as well as various high schools in metro New Orleans.
Dr. Goode graduated magna cum laude from Howard University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Medicine. While at Howard, she immersed herself in the community by participating in a community service organization with a specific interest in cultivating the minds of youth in the surrounding neighborhoods. She then matriculated on to medical school at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, where she continued to give back to her community. While at Meharry, she served as the president of the Student National Medical Association.
Dr. Goode then went on to complete her residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Dr. Goode is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Primary Care Sports Medicine.
Dr. Goode cares for patients and athletes of all ages. She specializes in concussion management and ultrasound-guided procedures. She is the champion for Ochsner’s Healthy Joint Program and has a special interest in sports medicine as it pertains to women. Event coverage for Dr. Goode has ranged from triathlons to amateur WWE events.
Dr. Goode is originally from Chicago, IL where she was a competitive swimmer through high school. Mentoring high school, college, and medical students who are interested in pursuing a career in medicine is a passion of hers. In her spare time, she enjoys socializing, reading, and spending time with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
Get a copy of the book Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A Journey Back to Wholeness 👉🏾here. It is available in hardback, paperback, and newly released audio form
