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Some people just seem to inhabit joy.
Not the performed kind. Not the curated-for-the-algorithm kind. The real thing – day after day, mile after mile, no audience required.
Hellah Sidibe lives there. The audience of millions showed up anyway.
The clips started spreading back in the spring of 2021: a former pro soccer player grinning his way through a 3,000-mile run across America. Anyone who watched ended up asking some version of the same thing. Who is this guy? How is he so positive? Can anyone actually be wired this way?
Five years after his first appearance (ep. 612) – and 3,350 straight days of running later – Hellah is back, and the questions still stand. Pressed directly: in nine years, has there ever been a single morning he didn’t want to run?
Never. Not one.
Immigrant. Soccer player. Groundskeeper. Transcontinental runner. Content creator.
Go ahead and hunt for the portal into the darkness in this one. Good luck. It’s all smiles – and underneath the smiles, a fundamentally different way of walking through the world.
Topics include:
- The Tenets of the Run Streak & a Watch That Never Leaves East Coast Time
- Rungry, Running as Medicine & Never Once Not Wanting to Go
- The Mustang Lesson & Happiness as Moments Created with People
- Mali, a Piece of Stick & Joy as a Survival Skill
- The Lack Mindset & Rewriting the Stories Your Brain Tells You
- Grifters, the Manosphere & Modeling an Aspirational Life
- Five GPS Watches, 120 Pairs of Shoes & a 2:45 Marathon Goal
For those who prefer a visual experience, the conversation is available on YouTube. As always, the audio version streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Peace + Plants,
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