Taking Chances – Why not you?
Taking Chances - Why not you?
Podcast Description
Have you ever taken a chance on yourself? How did it work out? Be your own voice. Share your stories. Success. Business. Advice. Adversity. Overcoming. Adapting. Running Stories. It's not always the WHY's? sometimes it's the How's? Mental Health.
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Focuses on themes of personal success, mental health, and the various challenges of running and business, with episodes highlighting experiences like ultra marathons, motivational discussions with athletes, and advice on adapting to life changes, such as the conversation with Mark Dowdle about ultra running and insights from UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich.
Taking Chances – Why Not You? What if the only thing standing between you and doing something extraordinary… is the decision to try?
Taking Chances – Why Not You? is a podcast that turns curiosity into courage. Each episode features genuine, down‑to‑earth people who have achieved remarkable things—Olympic gold medalists, world champions, Guinness World Record holders, ultra‑distance race winners, Leadville Trail 100 finishers, backyard ultra champions, and founders of successful businesses.
These aren’t stories about superhumans—they’re conversations with real people who took chances. Through honest conversations, we explore how they faced doubt, risk, failure, and fear—and why they decided to go for it anyway.
The goal isn’t to impress you. It’s to challenge you to ask a powerful question:
Why not me?
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Scott Kummer is an attorney, doberman owner and quite possibly the most painstakingly average runner known to man. Scott has stumbled through numerous plus 4 and 5 hour marathons. He’s DNF’ed the 150 mile, 100 mile, 50 mile and marathon distance. He was once kicked out of an ultra running group due to allegations of cyber-bullying. He has a habit of offending people by accident while trying to help them. He is a co-founder of the Flatlander Ultrarunners in Chicagoland which has rapidly grown to over 1,100 members. He came up with the idea for Ten Junk Miles after becoming frustrated with hearing interview after interview of Scott Jurek and deciding that runners needed more: more discussions of bathroom breaks that went wrong, pacer stories from hell, DNF reports, stories of getting lost on the trail and other related matters.
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