28 - Rachel Entrekin

About this episode

Bora Ergör interviews Rachel Entrekin about embracing challenges in running and life.

Welcome to a brand new episode of Take Off Your Shoes! My guest today is the one and only Rachel Entrekin! I’ve been told before that my conversations feel like therapy sessions for my guests. To be clear, I am not a therapist, but I always feel happy to hear that I allow them to share and perhaps work through things in the meantime. More than anything, I appreciate their candor, vulnerability, and openness. This conversation with Rachel felt like a therapy session for me. Getting to know her and seeing how she has shifted her mindset to embracing hard things, in and outside of running, and how she started seeing them as moments of practice, hit home in a way that’s hard to put into words, especially how I’ve been reacting to some recent events. One thing that I don’t think I’ll forget easily was her description of how we can choose who we are in the face of a challenge, and how we can take ownership of our responses. I think, and hope you all agree, that the challenges we take on in the realm of (ultra)endurance go beyond the physical. I truly believe the mental side we hear about can be beautifully exemplified by Rachel’s words and actions. It’s not necessarily about pushing…

People in this episode

Host: Bora Ergör

Guest: Rachel Entrekin

Topics covered

• mindset
• endurance
• vulnerability
• running
• personal growth

Keywords

• mindset
• endurance
• running
• vulnerability
• personal growth
• challenges
• therapy

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