How to Run for Life
My inner athlete propelled me to level up.
Little did I know that it would take the world to shut down with a global pandemic to help me find my happiness and lead me to honoring my true self, while discovering a whole new side of me—as I unleashed my inner athlete.
It took 365 days to turn my life around and have one of the most transformational years of my life. I gained an entirely new, fresh perspective and way of life after losing a parent, going through a divorce, and turning into an All-American sprinter, law school student, finding my coach, Richard Rucker, UCLA’s head coach in club track and field and Beverly Hills High head track and field Coach, and living my healthiest and most energetic life. Coach’s nickname for me was the “female Forrest Gump,” as he had to train me to run with the right technique. Through blood, sweat, and tears at 6 a.m. training every day, I lost 30 pounds from running 1,000 miles, but my change was even more transformative than that.