The Good Race is for anyone trying to build a meaningful life without sacrificing their health in the process.
We’re told, mostly by implication, that ambition and wellbeing are opposing forces, that being tired all the time is simply the price of building the life you want. This whole platform exists to say: it isn’t, and there’s a better way to run.
The story behind it
For years, purpose and health felt diagonally opposed to me. I’d grind hard until I got sick, then drop everything to heal until the guilt pulled me back to the grind, each round more intense than the last. The lowest point came when I burnt out at the exact moment I thought I’d finally figured it out. The Good Race was built out of the long climb that followed, and out of hundreds of conversations with people caught in the same cycle. Eventually, I realized what I wanted to do: create a space where people feeling that same tension of ‘health versus purpose’ could have the knowledge, tools and conditions they need to live both.
The idea behind The Good Race
Health isn’t the reward you get after building the life you want, it’s what makes the building possible. I don’t believe we’re here to optimise our bodies endlessly. I believe we’re here to learn how to take care of what we’ve been given, and that doing so is what lets you move toward purpose from a place of strength rather than survival.
How we explore it
Through the podcast first, via conversations and practical resources where we explore movement, nutrition, rest, stress, health, purpose and everything in between.
I care deeply about making complex ideas understandable without stripping away their nuance. I also believe that knowing the science is just the start. How we actually live that knowledge depends on our bodies, our circumstances, our cultures, our work and the lives we are trying to build.
That’s why The Good Race brings together different kinds of voices: expert guests (like doctors, practitioners, coaches) alongside entrepreneurs, professionals, athletes and people simply trying to figure out how to live well in the middle of a busy life.
There is no single way to have a healthy life. But there are better questions to ask, better information to have, and better tools to help us make decisions for ourselves. The podcast is the start. Stay close, there’s much more to come.
Btw, why “The Good Race”?
I am a runner but the name actually comes from one of my favourite Bible verses, which evokes the idea that life is a race. It’s up to you whether yours is a sprint, a marathon, an ekiden or an ultra. That verse kept leading me to the same questions: if life is a race, what does a good one look like, and how do I run it? It took me years to get to this answer but here it is: to me it’s a life where I can have a positive impact on the world, while stewarding the life and health I’ve been given.
At the end of every episode, I ask my guests for their definition. No two people have ever answered the same way, and there’s so much wisdom in that range.
So, what’s your definition of a good race?
