Today on the podcast my guest is Hollie Hughes. She is the mother of four and she pushes her son Jonah, who has Cerebral Palsy, in a Team Hoyt chair. He is 12 now and she has been pushing him since he was a baby. Jonah and Holly run so many miles and races together. Jonah is her biggest cheerleader. She has run a sub-3 hour marathon while pushing Jonah. Most recently, Jonah and Hollie ran a 50 mile race and ran it in 7 hours and 53 minutes. We cover a wide range of topics in this episode.

Trigger warning: at the beginning of the episode, we do discuss some pretty severe mental health struggles and the topic of suicide attempts does come up in this episode. 

What we talked about:

5:00- Breaking the Guiness Book of World Records for the half marathon while pushing a chair

6:45- Who Jonah is and what Hollie and Jonah do together

8:35- What the Hoyt chair means to Hollie and Jonah

12:55- Hollie’s diagnosis with Addison’s disease 

20:45- Being present with all of her kids

26:10- Sending her daughter off to college

31:05- Walking through a divorce

39:40- Hollie’s career

40:40- Advocating for Jonah

46:15- Her strength training routine

55:30- Hollie’s training and the recent 50 miler

1:12:35- End of podcast questions

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