Kieren O’Hanlon
Kieren opens up about his health challenges, and how he is still perfecting the balance of being a loving husband, father and his well-being.
More Than Our Story
Ruthie Sloan
Ruthie shares her story of courage and determination as she balances motherhood, trail running, and getting diagnosed with cancer during COVID, yet maintaining unwavering strength and belief in herself.
Highlights
It's because you see some of these people doing crazy, awesome, courageous things with their life that you give yourself permission to try it out on your own.
It's not about somedays or one day, it's about just jumping in and being courageous together.
Every time I've gotten into something, it just kind of balloons and catapults into like, what's next? What can I do now?
Learning how to trail run... was learning how to run through the darkness, and learning about my body.
My body, which was this powerful engine that could run trails and do ultras... shut down.
Healing is a journey and it doesn't happen overnight... There's a physical component and a mental, psychological component that you're dealing with.
And then I look up all of a sudden, and I turn my headlamp off and there is this whole sea of stars above me that are just the most magical thing I had ever seen... And I realized that I was never alone that night. That I could run through that night... and going through some of those tough races was the fuel that I needed to understand what it meant to keep going.
When you have people that show up and be brave with you the things that you're capable of doing is just astronomical.
I can either stay in brokedown palace, which is really not an option, or I can go and write a better story, and that's exactly what I did was I wrote a better story.
Time is the most precious commodity we have.
And the fact of the matter is it doesn't have to be pretty. It just has to be done.
It's not about feeling sad that your record is taken away. It's feeling excited that women are seeing potential and saying, you know, if she can do it. Why not me?
Daniel
Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit.
Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.
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