Tell Me What It's Like
Tell Me What It's Like
Podcast Description
What’s it like to set a world record? To invent a new product? To survive an extremely rare illness?
On Tell Me What It’s Like, host Stacy Raine sits down with people who’ve lived through powerful and uncommon experiences. Each conversation explores how it happened, why it matters, and what it truly felt like to live through it.
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The podcast explores a range of deep and compelling topics, including setting world records, innovative product development, overcoming rare illnesses, and social activism. Specific episodes feature stories like Becca Pizzi's journey of running seven marathons on seven continents, Saundra Pelletier's fight to bring a new birth control to market, and Leigh Dzvonick's experience with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, reflecting themes of resilience, creativity, and personal empowerment.
What’s it like to set a world record? To invent a new product? To survive an extremely rare illness?
On Tell Me What It’s Like, host Stacy Raine sits down with people who’ve lived through powerful and uncommon experiences. Each conversation explores how it happened, why it matters, and what it truly felt like to live through it.
When Becca Pizzi got dozens of messages from friends about an extreme endurance race – seven marathons on seven continents in seven days – she knew she had to run it. In 2016, she became the first American woman to complete the World Marathon Challenge, winning with a total time of 27 hours, 26 minutes, and an average marathon time of just under four hours. Then in 2018, she did it again. Hear what it took to win it and what the miles have taught her in this episode.
“If my dreams don’t scare my parents, they’re not big enough.”
Hear Becca talk about:
- What it’s like to run 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days
- How her 8-year-old daughter helped her train
- Becoming a race director after running the challenge twice
- Her advice to people just starting out on their running journey
Mentioned in this episode and references:
- The World Marathon Challenge
- TB12 (Tom Brady’s fitness company), where Becca was a Peak Performer
- The Becca Pizzi Foundation
- The Becca Pizzi 5K in Belmont, MA
- Becca’s Feat on Feet, her children’s book published in 2020
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