Best The Hodges Partnership Podcasts (2024)

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Smita Warrier 29:32

5h ago29:32

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No argument here. Runners are pretty incredible people, in our opinion. It takes a certain amount of self-will, motivation – or whatever you want to call it – to get up, get out there, and log those miles every day. Or even when you don’t run every day. And while running might feel like a personal, sometimes selfish pursuit, we meet runners all the…

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Despite Surprise Bowman Departure, 2x Bronze Medalist Ilya Kharun is Thriving at Arizona State 45:32

1h ago45:32

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Fresh off of leading Arizona State to its first NCAA team title in program history, Bob Bowman announced he would be leaving to head up the swim and dive program at Texas. A number of athletes left Arizona State following this announcement, either to follow Bob Bowman to Austin or pursue their swimming at other programs. One athlete who had trained…

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168 - Fires in Waste Industry with Ragni Fjellgaard Mikalsen 51:28

1h ago51:28

51:28

Fires in the waste industry are not discussed much unless one sees a giant smoke plume in the media, followed by advice to close your windows. In these (rare?) cases, we remind ourselves of the massive industry related to storing, sorting and recycling garbage, and the obvious environmental hazards such fires pose. From 2017 to 2020, Poland experie…

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Ep.#57: Following Her Calling: Kristen Reeder's Journey from HR Director to Leadership Coach with Legacy Leadership Coaching 18:31

4h ago18:31

18:31

Ever wondered what it takes to leave a secure job and follow your passion? This episode features an inspiring conversation with Kristen Reeder from Legacy Leadership Coaching, who did just that. Kristen shares her remarkable journey from her role as HR Director for the city of Auburn to launching her own leadership and HR consulting business. Drive…

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How Ukraine restored its food exports to pre-war levels - with Taras Kachka 1:02:21

18m ago1:02:21

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Ukraine has succeeded in restoring its food exports to pre-2022 levels. It has achieved this tremendous victory despite the loss of large swaths of its agricultural lands to occupation, combat, and mines. Ukraine also had to overcome the loss of several key ports, Russia’s attempts to blockade Odesa and its surrounding ports, and the threat of ongo…

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Hunter Armstrong Describes Overcoming Losing Loved Ones & Depression to Win Gold in Paris 1:28:57

44m ago1:28:57

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Hunter Armstrong was one of the more surprising narratives from Team USA at the 2024 Olympic Games. While the former world record holder in the 50 back narrowly missed the final of the 100 back, his freestyle seemed to more than make up for it. He split 46.7 to help the men win the 400 free relay then was given anchor duty on the 400 medley relay, …

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Ben Proud Breaks Down Intricacies of Sprinting, Winning Olympic Silver in the 50 Free 58:33

2h ago58:33

58:33

Ben Proud had won every accolade out there in the 50m free: LCM World title, SCM world title, Commonwealth champion, European champion. But in Paris, he finally earned an individual Olympic medal, touching second for silver. Ironically, it came at a point in his career when he wasn't focused on the result of the race. After Tokyo, Proud almost step…

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Bring Your Kid to Work Day with The Hodgettes 8:00

5h ago8:00

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In this special bonus episode, we’ve compiled some of the soundbites from our interview sessions with the kids of Hodgers during our inaugural Bring Your Kid to Work Day. You’ll hear from kiddos between the ages of 2 and 16 talking about their favorite things and taking guesses about what exactly it is their parents do. Episode Highlights You’ll fi…

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Ukraine-Qatar relations | Ukraine’s global partnerships #4 41:28

1h ago41:28

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Ukraine and Qatar - two nations with seemingly little overlap. But what brought these countries closer? How did Qatar become involved in Ukraine's most sensitive humanitarian issues? How does Qatar navigate its stance on the Russian invasion, and why does it matter? And what cooperation opportunities between Ukraine and Qatar should we look out for…

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Debate on NATO’s future: Ukraine’s role - with Andreas Umland 27:01

1h ago27:01

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On July 8th “The Guardian” featured an open letter titled, “The Nato Alliance should not invite Ukraine to become a member”. It claimed that, by admitting Ukraine into the Alliance it would reduce the security of other Nato allies, at a considerable risk to all. In this episode, we argue the opposite: that Ukraine’s NATO membership will be an asset…

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Tom Perri – pacer, author, friend, and cancer fighter 24:29

11h ago24:29

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We are thrilled to welcome our dear friend Tom Perri to the Running Around Charlotte Podcast. Tom is not just an extraordinary runner but an incredible inspiration to everyone who knows him. He has run the Novant Health Charlotte Marathon ten times and has paced runners in marathons all over the world. Despite battling stage 4 prostate cancer, Tom …

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Hubi Kos Explains How Training with Bob Bowman Made the Olympics Easy 58:01

4h ago58:01

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In just 12 months, Hubi Kos became a world champion, NCAA champion, European champion, and finally Olympic champion, taking gold in Paris in the men's 200 back. With Leon Marchand as his training partner and Bob Bowman as his coach, Kos has made great strides in the pool over the last 18 months since he's lived in the US. Kos explains that Bowman o…

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167 - CFD for consequences and fire growth with Jonathan Hodges 52:38

2d ago52:38

52:38

In this episode we talk with Jonathan Hodges of the Jensen Hughes on his experience with using advanced modelling in the realm of fire safety engineering. Jonathan sheds light on how the modelling is used at various Jensen Hughes offices around the world, highlighting interesting differences they see across their practice. The core of the talk revo…

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The Bachelorette's Thomas Nguyen Discusses Discusses Experience with Reality TV, Pro Swimming 15:21

3h ago15:21

15:21

Thomas Nguyen is best known now for being a contestant on the 21st season of The Bachelorette. But before that, he was an NCAA DII All-American for Florida Southern and trained with SwimAtlanta in hopes of representing Vietnam in the 2016 Olympic Games. Listen to what Nguyen has to say about his experience in the dating and swimming pools over the …

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Ukraine-Canada relations | Ukraine’s global partnerships #3 42:42

3d ago42:42

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Ukraine and Canada share a strategic relationship. It is bolstered by a large Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and an extensive legal framework, that allows for easy cooperation. Yet, we must ask: Does the label "strategic" reflect the real nature of their bilateral ties? And, in light of Russia’s aggression, is Canada responding adequately to the Russ…

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Siobhan Haughey on Being a Hong Kong Icon, Partnership with Chanel, & Uncertain Future in Swim 42:25

2d ago42:25

42:25

Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey showed out in Paris, winning bronze medals in the 100 and 200 freestyles, both of which were the fastest fields in history. That put Haughey's overall Olympic medal count at 4 (after winning double silver in Tokyo), making her the most decorated Olympian in Hong Kong's history. The world champion and NCAA All-American jo…

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A Constraints-Led Approach to Swimming with Andrew Sheaff 31:45

2h ago31:45

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"It’s extremely challenging to help swimmers develop skills that win races. It’s overwhelming trying to teach skills to each and every athlete, particularly when it seems like no one is listening. And everything that’s learned seems to disappear once it’s time to start training, or when it really counts in championship races that matter. The soluti…

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10x Olympic Medalist Caeleb Dressel Unpacks His Paris Olympic Games 1:13:23

3h ago1:13:23

1:13:23

10-time Olympic swimming medalist Caeleb Dressel is happy to be back on his Florida farm after the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. His results were mixed. He knows that. He knows he fought hard, and he didn't exactly have the Olympic Games he wanted. At a minimum, he's just glad he did it, went to Paris, because there were two moments when he thought he …

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Sprint Queen Sarah Sjostrom Breaks Down 50/100 Free OLYMPIC SWEEP 31:16

7d ago31:16

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Sarah Sjostrom dreamt of winning Olympic gold in the 100 free. Literally. She had a dream about herself winning a gold medal in the 100 free. Then did it. Sjostrom, the world record holder in both the 50 and 100 freestyle, had achieved everything in the sport there is to achieve in both events outside of individual Olympic titles in both. Coming in…

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Sarah Hodges, NHCM Ambassador 21:47

14h ago21:47

21:47

If you’ve been running around Charlotte at all, you’ve probably rubbed elbows with some of the 2024 Novant Health Charlotte Ambassadors. This year’s team is easily our best squad yet. Not only is the Ambassador team TWICE AS LARGE as years past, it’s also even more diverse, and with members spread far and wide around the area. Sarah Hodges is a mem…

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Kate Douglass Reminisces on First Olympic Gold Medal, Looks Forward to SCM Racing in Fall 44:19

15d ago44:19

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Heading into 2024, Kate Douglass had pretty much everything one could have on a swimming resume: NCAA champion, American record holder, and world champion. In Paris last month, she added Olympic champion to that list. When the competition was over, Douglass walked away from the 2024 Olympic Games with 4 medals, 2 from Team USA relays (gold, silver)…

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166 - Bio-based insulation with Patrick Sudhoff 49:03

4h ago49:03

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In the everchanging world every now and then we get a new driver, that dictates most of our choices. In the current built environment and building industry, carbon dioxide feels like such a driver. We don't like it, we want to get rid of it... One way is to sequester or store large amounts of CO2 in our buildings. Ways to do that - more obvious is …

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Olympic Champion Regan Smith Opens Up About Mindset Shift That Saved Her Swimming Career 1:24:07

11d ago1:24:07

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Heading into the 2024, Regan Smith had been one Olympics, won 3 medals there, won 9 world championship medals, won an NCAA title, and set 3 world records. But none of it was enough to make Smith feel good about her accomplishments in the pool. Since the 2022 season, Smith has been slowly working on changing how she views her swimming and the succes…

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4x Olympic Swimming Medalist Gretchen Walsh Unpacks Her First Olympic Games Experience In Paris 39:02

2h ago39:02

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Gretchen Walsh barely missed making the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team in Tokyo, but she made up for it at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, winning four medals. Gretchen had a lot of naysayers from outside of the United States. Swim fans knew she was great based on her 2024 NCAA DI Championships performance, clearly the greatest in history. Many critics felt …

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SwimSwam Talks to "The Muffin Man" of Paris: Norway's Henrik Christiansen 30:25

1h ago30:25

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Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen came into his 3rd Olympic Games looking for memories in the pool but left with much, much more. After going viral during the Games on TikTok for a video featuring one of the Village's chocolate muffins, Christiansen ran with it and soon became known as the Olympic Muffin Man. Listen to what inspires Christianse…

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Kaylee McKeown Gives Candid Look into 5-Medal Paris Performance, Struggles with Confidence 47:12

5d ago47:12

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At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Kaylee McKeown became the first woman to ever win back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 100 and 200 backstroke. She also became Australia's most successful individual medalist with 4 golds. And surprisingly, she's just as human as the rest of us. From how she reflects on Paris, you wouldn't immediately realize her…

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Rebel with a Cause: How Cam McEvoy Rejected Traditional Swim Training and Won Olympic Gold 1:26:08

2h ago1:26:08

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After his 3rd Olympics in 2021, Cam McEvoy was burnt out with swimming and retired, thinking that was it for his swimming career. After 2 years of studying high performance within weight lifting, track, and cycling, McEvoy wondered if principles from each sport could be applied to swimming. The sprint star decided to give swimming one last chance, …

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Brian Mister, Around the Crown 10k 26:12

4h ago26:12

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We’re excited to kick off this episode of the Running Around Charlotte Podcast with our good friend Brian Mister! As the race director and co-founder of the Around The Crown 10K, Brian has become a guy to know in the Charlotte running community. His passion for running and commitment to fostering a welcoming environment for all participants makes C…

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165 - Best Practice vs. Appropriate Practice with Arnold Dix 59:01

5h ago59:01

59:01

Is the "best practice" always the best approach to solving an engineering problem? Can we consider "best" and "appropriate" practices synonymous, and if not - how big is the gap between them? Join us as we welcome Professor Arnold Dix back to challenge conventional wisdom in engineering. Focusing on the nuanced distinction between "best practice" a…

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5x Olympic Champion Ryan Murphy Unpacks His Experience in Paris 27:26

2h ago27:26

27:26

9-time Olympic medalist Ryan Murphy unpacks the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Murphy takes us inside the Olympic Trials to the Olympic Games process, sharing insights, stressors, and the mood as Team USA worked through the grueling 9-day event. Murphy details his 100 back, mix medley leadoff, and the 4x100 medley leadoff. Murphy also digs into the 200 …

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How Bob Bowman Guided Leon Marchand to 4 GOLD MEDALS at the Paris Olympics 50:52

4h ago50:52

50:52

French Swimmer Leon Marchand won 4 Gold Medals at the Paris Olympics, going a perfect 4-for-4 in his individual events. Marchand was coached by Bob Bowman leading into the Olympics, the same man who helped Michael Phelps win 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Bowman takes us into the Olympic Games and shares behind-the-scenes stories of…

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10k Silver Medalist Moesha Johnson on Going Viral in TikTok, Swimming in Seine River 53:37

3d ago53:37

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After missing Olympic qualification for Tokyo in the pool, Moesha Johnson decided to dip her toes into open water racing. In 2 short years she became a world champion, and one year after that she won her first Olympic medal, a silver in the 10k. From strategizing how to race in the Seine River to going viral in TikTok during the Games, Johnson reca…

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What's it Like Being a Photographer at the Olympics? 43:15

11d ago43:15

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SwimSwam photographer extraordinaire Jack Spitser has documented swimming at the highest level for years and is just coming off of his biggest competition yet: the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Spitser recalls the ups and downs of travel, work/life balance (aka all work and no life), and navigating unexpected road bumps during an Olympics Games. Betwee…

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Notre Dame Men's Swimming Team Suspended 1 Year for GAMBLING 11:59

22d ago11:59

11:59

The Notre Dame men’s swimming program has been suspended for a minimum of one academic year after an investigation into potential gambling. The men’s swimming and diving programs are coming off their best combined finish at NCAAs in school history as they were 10th at the 2024 NCAA Championships. Just after U.S. Olympic Trials in June, the school a…

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Olympic Champion Dan Wiffen Breaks Down Epic Win in 800 Free 52:00

17d ago52:00

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At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Dan Wiffen became the first Irish swimmer to win a gold medal in swimming since 1996. After winning double distance gold at the 2024 World Championships earlier this year, the Loughborough resident swam a gutsy race in the 800 free and came out on top ahead of USA's defending champion, Bobby Finke. Wiffen explains t…

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Mike Lopez 24:37

29d ago24:37

24:37

As you can imagine, we get a LOT of emails about the Novant Health Charlotte Marathon. Folks have all kinds of questions, and lots of them are the same. Hence the term, “frequently asked questions,” right? A few months ago, we got a question we’ve NEVER gotten before. Mike Lopez emailed asking whether or not the map for this year’s event was finali…

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Episode 30: Email Marketing with Megan Wilson 26:59

23d ago26:59

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In this episode of Teaming Up, Amanda Christian is joined by Megan Wilson, creative director of Sweet Talk Strategy, to talk about the evolution of email marketing and why it’s a critical channel for communicators. The episode highlights the affordability of email marketing and positions it as a safer channel for marketing compared to social media …

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164 - Experiences with AI with Xinyan Huang 54:24

7h ago54:24

54:24

The last time I had Xinyan on the show was in 2021, and we were all excited about the possibilities that AI could bring to Fire Safety Engineering and Smart Firefighting. Three years have passed, and while we are still excited, we can now talk about experiences. What worked and what did not? Where were the challenges, and what was simple? You can o…

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Olympic Champion, World Record Holder Bobby Finke Wants More Distance Swimming Events 57:57

10d ago57:57

57:57

Bobby Finke walked away from the Paris Olympic Games as the back-to-back champion in the 1500 free, the world record holder in the same event, and USA's only individual male gold medalist in swimming. The distance phenom walks us through his experience in Paris, from the bittersweet feeling of earning silver in the 800 to topping the podium on the …

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Ep. #55: Keeping Cool: Forrest Harmon's Journey in HVAC Excellence with Harmon Mechanical 8:00

29d ago8:00

8:00

Ever wondered what it takes to keep your home cool during those blistering summer months? Join us on the Good Neighbor Podcast as Forrest Harmon, the insightful owner of Harmon Mechanical, shares his incredible journey from a high school graduate to a thriving business owner in the heating, air, and plumbing industry. Forrest opens up about the tri…

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Ep.#56: Transforming Communities through Faith: Daniel Gonzalez and the Latino Ministry at First Baptist Church Opelika 15:16

22d ago15:16

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Have you ever wondered how a ministry can transform an entire community? Daniel Gonzalez joins us on the Good Neighbor Podcast to share the incredible journey of the Latino Ministry at First Baptist Church in Opelika. From knocking on doors and visiting construction sites to connecting families with vital services, Daniel's inspiring story takes yo…

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Alex Shackell on Winning Olympic Gold in Paris 1 Week Before Starting Senior Year of High School 28:20

7h ago28:20

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17-year-old Alex Shackell just finished what has been, in her words, the best month of her life. This whirlwind started when she made the US Olympic team alongside her brother, Aaron, in their hometown of Indianapolis. After experiencing training camp in beautiful Croatia with Team USA, Shackell headed to Paris, where she made her first individual …

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9x Olympic Medalist Kyle Chalmers Debriefs Paris Olympic Games, Looking Toward LA28 47:42

15d ago47:42

47:42

Kyle Chalmers is an Olympic champion and after Paris, a 9x Olympic medalist, winning two silvers and a bronze at these most recent games. The Australian swimming legend logged a 47.xx (flat start and relays) seven times throughout the 9-day meet, with his only 100 free swim not in that category coming in his prelims 100 free, where he was 48.0. Cha…

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2024 Olympic Review - Women's Edition | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN 51:01

1M ago51:01

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The 2024 Olympic Games are officially over (in the pool) so let's talk about it. We dissect the best of's from the women's swimming competition in Paris.By SwimSwam

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Arianna Shahin, Ambassador 23:58

1M ago23:58

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Our 2024 Novant Health Ambassador squad is bigger and arguably the best we’ve ever had. That’s no shade on previous year’s groups, at all. That’s just our excitement about this bigger, more diverse, and exciting crew that’s out there repping at EVERY event, race, and run club in the area. If you’ve not run into one of these 50 folks, you’ve probabl…

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