Behind The Wheel Podcast

Darius attended UMBC on a full scholarship where he ran track, after graduating with a mathematics he hung up his spikes and began his a career as a math teacher. During his summer vacation he volunteered at 1012 Sports in Baltimore. The experience impacted him so much that he decided he'd pick up his running shoes and run for a cause. In this episode we talk about what the transition was like for him from the the track to the road. On Saturday October 20th we'll tackle the Baltimore Half Marathon together.

Daisha is a college professor, mother of two beautiful children an 11yr old and 9yr old one of which is autistic. After the birth of her daughter she gained weight but, managed to work it off by doing P90X and Insanity workouts. However, Dasiha wasn't as fortunate after the birth of her son due to complications during pregnancy; she gained 60lbs. At her peak Daisha was 262lbs today she works diligently to maintain 160lbs with the assistance of her virtual trainer Lamar Fernanders. During this episode Daisha shares her weight loss journey and her recent experience celebrating Will Smith's 50 birthday with him in the Grand Canyon, an event made possible by Omaze.

Lilly grew up in East LA one of the toughest neighborhoods in California, where you either become a victim or a survivor-Lilly choose the latter. In High School she ran cross country, upon graduating she decided to serve her country by joining the Army. After being called a "one trick pony" because she only ran marathons at the time-she started a two year quest to become a triathlete. The road to becoming an ironman wasn't easy. Lilly went from not owning a bike, knowing how to swim, getting injured, having an operation, shattering her toe to fully recovering and crossing the finish line a few weeks ago in Augusta GA.

Typically not the faces that you'd see doing an IRONMAN but, then again these two are not your typical average Joe's. Swift & Miles met through their shared passion for triathlons and the power of social media specifically the Black Triathletes Association BTA.

After both going through a divorce and battling depression they needed to find something to do with their new found spare time. Traveling along two separate paths at the time, not knowing each other they decided to pour themselves into the wide world of triathlons.

Miles started his journey in the sport riding a Huffy 10speed with sneakers. now he's on a quest to complete an IRONMAN on every continent. Swift is on his way to completing 12th IRONMAN which would qualify him to race on "The Big Island", every triathletes dream-Kona.

We catch up with them in Italy a few days before the race. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did putting it together, if that's the case rate and write a review. Thank you.

Khadijah is the 1st Muslim Woman Triathlete to qualify for Team USA, during this episode she recaps her race IRONMAN 70.3 South Africa World Championships experience. She's a project manager by day who is sponsored by F2C Nutrition, Trisports.com, Asiyasport and Adidas. But, bigger than all of that she's a mother and fierce competitor.

Daniel is a husband and father of two beautiful children, he's programmer/coder by day and fitness enthusiast nutrition coach and stand up comic by night. He is the founder of Sore Hungry Happy and Team Fight or Flight Brands. Sore Hungry Happy focuses on physical, mental and spiritual health. Team Flight of Fight is were Daniel helps train people preparing for PT for police, military, covert government assignments.

Jason spent years designing medical staff plans now he's designing custom TRI Kits for professional triathletes to weekend warriors. We talked about how he turned his passion into a business.

When Cheryl is not racking up podium wins or running with the Brooklyn Running Club or training with Project Moonshot; she's assisting other in the pursuit of their full potential.

Tarik is the owner and founder of the Premier Barber Institute & Sharper Image Barbers. He is a coach mentor educator and entrepreneur. At an earlier age Tyrik had a dream of opening his own school and barber shop, his story is one of persistence and dedication. He travels the world sharing practical principles that transforms lives.

Polo is the owner of Juuice Atlanta, after near death scare he decided to take control of his health and he started juicing and hosting juice parties. As his business started expanding it was time to start looking for a new location. PT Cross-Training seemed like the ideal fit. We had the opportunity to take the show on the road, I hope enjoy it.