Runner's Round Table

Stephanie Diaz
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Runner’s Round Table is a podcast where Stephanie Diaz aka The Cookie Runner talks to female runners and run coaches about all things running. While each season has a different theme, the root of these conversations is a curiosity about our love for running, sharing people’s running stories, and exploring ways to make running more inclusive.

  1. S6E35 - Beyond Pace: You Can Be a Hero with Jess Santora Sikorski

    2D AGO

    S6E35 - Beyond Pace: You Can Be a Hero with Jess Santora Sikorski

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Jess Santora Sikorski (@Jess_Santora) about her journey from running to be as small as possible to running to make life as big as possible, redefining her WHY for running after challenges with her mental health and an eating disorder, and being a St. Jude Hero.   Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k4bD_u6MKdo About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Jess Santora Sikorski: Jess Santora Sikorski is a St. Jude Hero, RRCA-certified running coach, and middle school math teacher. She leads a local running community with a mission to make running accessible and welcoming for all. Jess’s passion for running in support of St. Jude was born from her own journey through mental health challenges, and it continues to fuel her commitment to making a difference. Through running, fundraising, and volunteering, she shares that passion and purpose with others. Follow her @Jess_Santora https://instagram.com/Jess_Santora

    50 min
  2. S6E34 - Beyond Pace: Joy Ride with Jillian Reyna

    5D AGO

    S6E34 - Beyond Pace: Joy Ride with Jillian Reyna

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Jillian Reyna (@jillian_risereign) about the post-partum running memory that was all about running for fun, taking it all in, and discovering what’s possible when the running goal is Joy. (Note: there were technical issues with internet connectivity) Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/843xLbEmk9A About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Jillian Reyna: Jillian is a RRCA and V.O2 Certified Distance Running Coach and the owner and founder of Rise & Reign Training and Nutrition. Jillian is a lifelong athlete and former collegiate runner who brings her passion for running, strength training and cross training to her coaching. As a mom of two little girls, she is dedicated to inspiring others, especially parents, to pursue their goals while embracing the joy and strength found in the journey. Jillian thrives on building connections within the running community and takes pride in supporting others to exceed their limits and achieve their goals. She’s here to help you chase your next goal - follow her on Instagram @jillian_risereign https://www.risereigntraining.com/services-pricinghttps://instagram.com/jillian_risereign

    54 min
  3. S6E33 - Beyond Pace: Planting Seeds in Threes with Vanessa Peralta-Mitchell

    APR 27

    S6E33 - Beyond Pace: Planting Seeds in Threes with Vanessa Peralta-Mitchell

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Vanessa Peralta-Mitchell (@vcpmitchell) about the journey to becoming a marathoner at the 2013 New York City Marathon. Note: this is a journey that includes talk of miscarriage and Hurricane Sandy. Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H1X8FzYcYjY About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Vanessa Peralta-Mitchell: Vanessa C. Peralta-Mitchell is owner of VCPM, Inc., a business dedicated to using the Power of the Pavement to empower women to live a life without limits. Her commitment is to amplify the voices unheard through her Game Changers program which redefines run leadership & through her PWRHER’D program which revolutionizes road racing. As a Run Coach, a Founder and an advocate for women in the running space, she is redefining the run industry and bringing in a wave of much needed change. She is her father’s wit, her mother’s grit and the tenacity of her family & Ecuadorian ancestors which drives her belief that we ALL have the power to create impact. https://vcpm.com/https://www.instagram.com/vcpmitchellhttps://www.instagram.com/gamechangersrun/https://pwrherd.com/https://www.instagram.com/pwrherd

    49 min
  4. S6E32 - Beyond Pace: Something Other Than Myself with Hildee Weiss

    APR 24

    S6E32 - Beyond Pace: Something Other Than Myself with Hildee Weiss

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Hildee Weiss (@momoffive68/@Hildeeweiss) about her book, “Embracing My Inner Athlete” and the 5K memories that prove shorter distances can have just as much meaning and emotion as longer distances.Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H1X8FzYcYjY About Stephanie Diaz:Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Hildee Weiss: Hildee Weiss is a wife, mother, and grandmother whose work spans a wide range of topics—from soap operas and parenting to pregnancy loss and fitness. She published Forever Our Angels and Remembering Our Angels: Personal Stories of Healing From a Pregnancy Loss under the pen name Hannah Stone. She also contributed a patient’s perspective on pregnancy loss in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, published by Springer in 2018. In July 2014, Hildee made the decision to prioritize her mental and physical health. She began working with her personal trainer and friend, Jeff Yannarell, and her life hasn’t been the same since. She continues to chronicle her running and fitness journey on her blog: youwantmetodowhat.home.blog. https://youwantmetodowhat.home.bloghttps://sites.google.com/view/Hildee-Weiss-authorhttps://instagram.com/momoffive68

    1h 8m
  5. S6E31 - Beyond Pace: Tingling Inside with Nikki Love

    APR 20

    S6E31 - Beyond Pace: Tingling Inside with Nikki Love

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Nikki Love (@nikkiloveruns) about chasing awe, running as an adventure, and the tingly feeling that makes running worth it. Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HTT-RZGlTNo About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie\ believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Nikki Love: Nikki Love is an endurance adventurer, author, speaker, and Sport and Exercise Psychology undergraduate at Loughborough University. At 56, she set the women’s record for running across Australia - 4,044 km in 76 days - building on previous challenges like 63 marathons in 63 days across the UK and multi-country runs including around Ireland, the length of Wales, the length of Scotland, and across the Netherlands, all since turning 50. Now 58, Nikki is combining her lived experience with academic study to explore how mindset, motivation, and midlife physiology intersect. Her TEDx talk, Running Into the Gap, challenges the research and cultural blind spots that treat ageing as decline, and invites us to see midlife as a time of potential, performance, and power. Through her adventures and studies, Nikki explores what happens when we stop treating age as decline and start studying it as potential - asking what might change if we began seeing this stage of life as a launchpad, not a limitation. https://nikkilove.co.uk https://www.chaseyourextraordinary.comhttps://instagram.com/nikkiloveruns

    58 min
  6. S6E30 - Beyond Pace: Follow My Feet with Leslie Gregory

    APR 17

    S6E30 - Beyond Pace: Follow My Feet with Leslie Gregory

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that captureeach guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Leslie Gregory (@TWENTYSIXDIAMOND) about the run that changed her life and what running a marathon taught her about joy and setting boundaries. Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FnIz1CZ-3os About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Leslie Gregory: Leslie Gregory is the Founder of TWENTYSIXDIAMOND, a luxury fine jewelry brand creating gold and diamond "Everyday Medals" for athletes. With over 15 years of experience in global luxury merchandising and retail leadership, Leslie held senior roles at Mulberry, Ben Sherman, Theory and more, leading international buying, retail expansion and multi-channel growth strategies. Most importantly she is an avid jogger, one time marathon finisher and cheerleader to all. https://www.twentysixdiamond.comhttps://instagram.com/TWENTYSIXDIAMONDhttps://instagram.com/TWENTYSIXDIAMOND_Athleticshttps://instagram.com/TWENTYSIXDIAMOND_Cheerhttps://instagram.com/TWENTYSIXDIAMOND_Sororities

    51 min
  7. S6E29 - Beyond Pace: Chasing Fun with Friends with Jen Steele

    APR 13

    S6E29 - Beyond Pace: Chasing Fun with Friends with Jen Steele

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Jen Steele (@misadventuresofamarathoner) about what it means to chase fun her way while running with friends. Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U_8DVoL8GSs About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Jen Steele: With over 5 years of experience coaching hundreds of runners and 14 years as an adult runner, Jen Steele's specialty is helping runners conquer their road running goals, from 5k to marathon. She believes one of her greatest specialties as a coach is the ability to help athletes, especially busy mother runners, make their training and run goals work for them and their lives, without sacrificing the other parts of life they love. www.misadventuresofamarathoner.comhttps://instagram.com/misadventuresofamarathoner

    48 min
  8. S6E28 - Beyond Pace: In the Trenches with Kristin Stokes

    APR 10

    S6E28 - Beyond Pace: In the Trenches with Kristin Stokes

    Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Kristin Stokes (@K_stokes829) about her most recent marathon experience, a marathon with the backdrop an MS relapse and navigating life as a new mom of two. This conversation is a reminder to train your mind as much as you do your body. Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zBc7-36D7XI About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/https://thecookierunner.net About Kristin Stokes: Run Coach, RRCA Certified, Mother Runner of two, Avid Marathoner currently training for her 22nd marathon while navigating motherhood and life, loves empowering all runners and believes every runner has a runners’ body! To learn more about Kristin give her a follow on her instagram @k_stokes829 https://instagram.com/K_stokes829

    40 min
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4.7
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About

Runner’s Round Table is a podcast where Stephanie Diaz aka The Cookie Runner talks to female runners and run coaches about all things running. While each season has a different theme, the root of these conversations is a curiosity about our love for running, sharing people’s running stories, and exploring ways to make running more inclusive.

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  • Creator
    Stephanie Diaz
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    154
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Stephanie Diaz
  • Show Website
    Runner's Round Table

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