Running Anthropologist

Running Anthropologist


Latest Episodes

Earth Day, Earth Year: On Healing & Recovery
April 21, 2021

Welcome back! In our new season's first episode, "Earth Day, Earth Year: Healing & Recovery" we look at ways to heal our planet while healing ourselves, personally and collectively. We feature ultra trail athlete Michael Wardian (about Earth Day 5K and he

Life with G-ma, featuring Jan Dennis
January 17, 2021

This episode is all about Gma, our family nickname for my grandmother, Jan Dennis. The interview featured here took place during our many hours of free time in the pandemic year, and I actually spoke with her several times about her life stories and runni

Conscious Running in 2021, with Lisah Hamilton - Performance & Functional Movement Specialist
January 10, 2021

Lisah Hamilton is interested in helping us be more conscious of our movements and mental approach to running, as well as how we see ourselves. Her perspective on gives us insight into the emerging culture of conscious running, and is yet another example o

Light Emerges from the Darkness & Our 2020 Run-Down
December 26, 2020

In our last episode of 2020, we look for the light of hope just around the next bend, amidst great suffering & a year of global reckoning with the pandemic… none of us are immune and we all need an outlet. This has given the outdoor/trail and distance run

Beth Evans, on Wheelchair Racing & The Magic of it All
December 03, 2020

Beth is a champion endurance athlete and barely lets on when you meet her or talk to her about the sport she is now helping to shape, move forward and inspire change. She carries that magic with her, or perhaps gathers it to share back out, from Disney Ra

Running Multi-Day Challenges & Relays, feat. Rush Darwish & Team members
November 11, 2020

This episode features the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Refugee Life Foundation Rush Darwish (pictured above), who shares with us how and why The Refugee Life Foundation started, and the Running Refugees Relays shortly thereafter to fill a great need. Ru

Running Refugees Relay across Florida
November 01, 2020

Traversing 262 miles across the state of Florida with a team of 10, representing a global cause. From St.Pete beach up the coast, cutting inland through Ocala National Forest to St.Augustine! Some are on the ground in Florida and some joining virtually, o

Celtic Culture & Pandemic Running, featuring musician Marc Gunn
September 26, 2020

Marc Gunn is an acclaimed musician and storyteller, on the cultural rhythm and lore of history and fantasy, and hosts the most popular Irish and Celtic music podcast out there, performs and produces his own fusion music on the autoharp, as well as hosting

The New Civil Rights- Movement & Our Relationships, with Life Coach Jomil Bell
September 07, 2020

Jomil Bell joins us for a special Labor Day edition of the Running Anthropologist and shares her work of highlighting American stories within the context of "The New Civil Rights Movement". She also reflects on personal movement of the body, mind & spirit

Mario Mendoza on Faith, Hope, and Mountains
August 28, 2020

Ultra running mentor and one of our few Latino role models in the long distance & Ultra world, Mario Mendoza uses the unique space he occupies for goals much bigger than himself and his own goals. With typical Mario humility, he sits down with us to talk