Podcast S1|E13: 8 Steps to Charity Running Success (Part 3)

Podcast S1|E13: 8 Steps to Charity Running Success (Part 3)

This is the last installment of my 8 Steps designed to set you up for success as a charity runner. If you haven’t listened to Parts 1 & 2, please go back and do that before continuing with this episode. Today we discuss the final three steps – the doing part! 

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Podcast S1 | E5: Emma Walsh, Team Chicago Commons is Family

Podcast S1 | E5: Emma Walsh, Team Chicago Commons is Family

My guest today is Emma Walsh, Development Manager and marathon fundraising team coordinator for Chicago Commons. Join us as she discusses the impact this 128 year old organization is having in Chicago and how their marathon fundraising team is assisting in funding those efforts. With program sites in Bronzeville, Pilsen, Humboldt Park, and Back of the Yards, Chicago Commons offers support to many of Chicago’s under-resourced neighborhoods.

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Podcast S1 | E4: 8 Steps to Charity Running Success (Part 1)

Today we begin a discussion about the how-to of successful charity running. 

If it’s cold and snowy and icy where you are right now, like it is here in northern Illinois, you may be having trouble getting motivated to run. Don’t worry so much about that. I have no doubt that you will find your mojo. 

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Rethinking my professional strategy…going back to my roots

Rethinking my professional strategy…going back to my roots

If I had one piece of advice to give someone who wants to move to a new city, it would be “find a job first.” When I came out to Chicago over two years ago knowing only two people here, I had secured only a (very) part-time position, and planned to build my business with the rest of my time. It never occurred to me that two people probably wasn’t a sufficient network to do that.

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