Alex Panayotou: "When you're speaking from the soul, and you're speaking about life, about things that you know, you can't make mistakes–because this is living. Life is not picture perfect. Life is not a cookie cutter. What I have to say about living is do it. I don't mean breathing and having your heart go boom, boom, boom. We get to grab life and live, regardless of what's going on around us. Life is too wonderful not to be living it fully. 

I've been through the struggling spectrums through my earlier years, less living and more surviving. I started living when I discovered I had a gift for running, which is when I started to listen to my inner voice. 

It's important to listen and not necessarily to our logic. 

When I started to run very long distances solo, I initially thought I was doing it for charity. In reality, I was doing it to let go of my demons and all the things holding me back in my life.

 As I began to truly live, my thoughts started to change. 

My life started to simplify. I started to gain clarity. I started to leave behind the things that were holding me back. Not just the inner things–the outer things as well. I gained the ability to live my emotions and appreciate life like I hadn't before.”  

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Have a listen as I interview my special guest Alex Panayotou. 

Find out how to grab life and “live it” no matter what’s going on around you.