Running, Mentorship, and Embodying Bravey with Alexi Pappas

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Alexi Pappas is a wildly talented, multi-faceted athlete. She’s a professional runner, an author, a champion for mental health, a guide runner for blind athletes, a filmmaker, and an entrepreneur. When she runs, Alexi is often wearing a huge smile on her face and a healthy dusting of glitter across her cheeks. Alexi’s running journey has taken her to through peaks and valleys and she’s using her story to mentor the next generation.

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0:00.0	Exciting news you guys, wild ideas worth living is now available on YouTube.
0:07.0	You can find our latest episodes uploaded their weekly, plus video clips with some of our guests that give you a peek behind the scenes.
0:14.1	Check out all the content at YouTube.com slash REI. Alexi Paphas is one of the most multifaceted athletes I've ever met. She's a professional runner, an author, a champion for
0:36.2	mental health, a guide runner for blind athletes, a filmmaker, and an entrepreneur.
0:43.0	When she runs, Alexia is often wearing a huge smile on her face and a healthy dusting of glitter
0:48.5	across her cheeks.
0:50.3	She believes no one should have to pick and choose between wild ideas.
0:54.4	Instead, Alexi follows all of her dreams wherever they take her.
0:59.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas worth living, an REI co-op studio's production brought to you by Capital One.
1:10.0	Alexi Papappas, Pappas, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:16.4	I'm so excited to talk to you.
1:18.4	Thank you for having me.
1:20.1	I think we should go back in time and tell people a little bit about your badass running background.
1:26.5	Can you just give us like a quick and dirty bio of your running?
1:30.4	Yeah, sure. So my dad put me in sports since I was like four years old. So soccer,
1:36.1	basketball, softball, gymnastics, running was the strength in all of them.
1:41.1	It was very clear I was like,
1:43.0	could steal bass as faster than anybody in softball
1:47.1	and things like that. And so running was a thing
1:50.5	that I knew I was destined and doomed to do.
1:54.2	And I ran a freshman sophomore year of high school
1:58.0	and I was one of the best in California.
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