The Start Line Girls (Jules and Dee) were honoured to be asked to host the Emancipated Run Crew Women’s Discussion Panel Event in celebration of International Women’s Day on 8th March! We recorded live from the event and to end March we are dropping it now so all those who missed out will get the opportunity to hear this amazing session (please forgive the background noises!) The event, for black and brown women, was curated by co-founder of Emancipated Run Crew and our running brother Trojan Gordon as part of a series of ERC panel discussions . It was held in the beautiful FS8 gym, and started with a great fit session for the ladies, followed by the panel discussion on community, safe spaces and mental health, centring on the lived experiences of black and brown women. Taz, Kelly and Mercy were amazing panellist, shared their stories so openly and vulnerably, but from a position of confidence and strength! The audience were engaging and as we ran out of time were keen to hear more. Watch this space for part 2!!! Thank you to all who attended!PANEL:🏃🏽‍♀️@challengetaz Taz Tudor - Emancipated Run Crew🏋🏾 @mercybrown Mercy Brown  - Weightlifter - European silver medalist🏊🏾‍♀️@kellysmith.onthego Kelly Smith - Triathlete creator of Black Try a Tri Triathlon CURATOR: Trojan GordonSUPPORTED BY: Lululemon Europe, Regent Street and FS8, Oxford CircusSupport the show

The Start Line Girls (minus Pet!) headed back to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January 2023. We caught up with some of our favourite people in the running community, and all this week we'll be sharing the goodies with a new set of bonus episodes fresh from the  Emancipated Run Crew stand!  In today's final episode from this bonus series, Jules is in conversation with Lisa Jayne Henry-Arscott from the Black Trail Runners family.  Lisa talks to Jules about how she started trail running, her love of cold water swimming, as well as about her love of history and why her childhood memories of Notting Hill Carnival made last year's Black Crews United Carnival Run so special for her.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

The Start Line Girls (minus Pet!) headed back to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January 2023. We caught up with some of our favourite people in the running community, and all this week we'll be sharing the goodies with a new set of bonus episodes fresh from the  Emancipated Run Crew stand!  Today Dee grabs a chat with Andre Coggins, founder of the Mafia Moves community, who tells us about his move from being a solo track runner to discovering through the crew running experience after joining the legendary Run Dem Crew, that people can run together for fun!  After a period of injury, and a few years of persistent suggestion from Track Mafia's Cory Wharton-McFarlane (aka BitBeefy) Andre finally set up Mafia Moves to create his own local running community. Andre tell Dee how sometimes its necessary to break a few rules in order to break barriers.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

The Start Line Girls (minus Pet!) headed back to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January 2023. We caught up with some of our favourite people in the running community, and all this week we'll be sharing the goodies with a new set of bonus episodes fresh from the  Emancipated Run Crew stand!  In today's bonus episode, Dee & Jules are joined by another ERC member Taz Tudor (or Challenge Taz as she's known on Instagram) who talks about how she turned around a bad relationship with sports as a child by sheer determination after she went to running school to change from running "like Phoebe from Friends" to multiple marathons.  We discuss the importance of finding your tribe, and how it is possible to use a bad running situation to drive positive organisational change.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

The Start Line Girls (minus Pet!) headed back to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January. We caught up with some of our favourite people in the running community, and all this week we'll be sharing the goodies with a new set of bonus episodes fresh from the  Emancipated Run Crew stand!  In this bonus ep, Dee and Jules chat to one ERC’s most ambitious runners, Stephen D'Souza, known on Instagram as @ParkRunnerUK, and to his ERC running family as "Mr Sponsorship" due to his love of the brand with the Three Stripes! Stephen tells us about how joining ERC has changed his life, taking him from a zero miles runner to a marathon hero, as he defied all expectations last October by running the London Marathon with only 6 weeks of training! Prepare to be amazed... We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

The Start Line Girls (minus Pet!) headed back to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January. We caught up with some of our favourite people in the running community, and all this week we'll be sharing the goodies with a new set of bonus episodes fresh from the  Emancipated Run Crew stand!  In  our second bonus ep this week, Jules is in conversation with Tazneem, more widely known as @thishijabiruns, a woman who has become a role model to Muslim women and girls, by showing the world that South Asian women run too!  Tazneem shares her running goals for this year, which includes running the Edinburgh Marathon, as well as talking about how she became an Aspics Front Runner and why it's important for her to be an ambassador for The National Running Show.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

The Start Line Girls (minus Pet!) headed back to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January. We caught up with some of our favourite people in the running community, and all this week we'll be sharing the goodies with a new set of bonus episodes fresh from the  Emancipated Run Crew stand!  In  our first bonus ep, this week Jules catches up with Trojan Gordon, who alongside Jules and Dee co-founded ERC. Trojan and Jules chat about the importance of having groups like Emancipated Run Crew attending events like The National Running Show and why being able to create safe spaces within such events are vital for real conversations around diversity and race in order to drive really change in the running community. We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

Ahead of our return to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January, we’ll be giving you a daily dose of TSL goodness as we kick off the New Year with the rest of our series of bonus episodes recorded live last May from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  For our final bonus ep this week, we are happy to introduced the woman who runs to the beat of calypso, Marcia Bartholomew, known on Instagram as Marcia_Runs_After_50, who talks to Jules about discovering running just before turning 50, finding her tribe in Run Mummy Run and Black Girls Do Run UK, and the amazing power of community. We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

Ahead of our return to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January, we’ll be giving you a daily dose of TSL goodness as we kick off the New Year with the rest of our series of bonus episodes recorded live last May from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  In today's bonus episode we catch up with Ruden Bhutia, founder of Runderbolts - a diverse running family who have been making waves on the running scene since 2017 with their legendary epic running adventures which have included the crew running 10K in 10 countries in ten days, 100K across Europe to raise funds to provide aid for the Nepal earthquake victims and improving the livelihood of Tibetan refugees.  Ruden shares why running is important to him - but not so important that he wouldn't stop in the middle of a half marathon to take some else's photo - he's just that kind of runner and a legendary guy. We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

In the second of our special bonus episodes this week recorded live last May from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South, Dee catches up with the amazing Prabina Talary,  runner, cyclist, swimmer, mother - Prabina is a Swimmathon UK Amabassador who has run marathons, competed in duathlons and triathlons, and a champion for increasing participation by the Nepalese community, and particularly  Nepalese women, in these sports.  Prabina shares with Denise memories of growing up as part of the Nepalese Gurkha community, and the transformational experience of finding her tribe amongst fellow female runners with RunMummyRun and amongst her Nepalese community with Runderbolts. We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

Ahead of our return to The National Running Show Birmingham, with the Emancipated Run Crew over the weekend of 21 and 22nd January 2023, we’ll be giving you a daily dose of TSL goodness as we kick off the New Year with the rest of our series of bonus episodes recorded live last May from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  For our first bonus ep, Jules chats to ERC’s most lyrical member, Allen Richards, otherwise known as Coach Al or Big Al, about how running has helped him to find community and family ,as well as helping him to redefine himself after a life as a respected martial arts practitioner. We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

Whoooaaa! Where did 2022 go??? The Start Line Girls are back after a little hiatus over the summer (and autumn!) and here we are at Christmas already!!! But the great thing about that is this is the first TSL Christmas episode! Yes, we managed to pull it outta the bag to celebrate the season (and to mark the official end of the first (3 year long!) season of The Start Line Podcast)  and got round the table together to record this special episode. We take a look back at what we did over the summer/autumn including our highlight-the Lisbon Half Marathon and 8k, which marked the inaugural ERC running holiday! We hear from our Emancipated Run Crew family about their experiences of racing abroad. We also share what makes Christmas special to us, and discuss ways of staying motivated to keep moving throughout the holiday season. Wishing a Happy Christmas and a joyous New Year to all our listeners! See you in ‘23!We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Theme music: Street Festival by Franco Eneiro. Used under licence.Canon and Variation by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/Hip Hop Christmas by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/Support the show

October marks Black History Month in the UK, and to celebrate this The Start Line Girls are taking a look at people who are making history in the Black Community.  In this special episode we speak to Jesse (Specs) Spellman, creator of online running publication Mid Strike Magazine, an avid runner since 2016 and proud member of Black Men Run NYC.  Jesse's goal was to create a diverse magazine which showed our run culture and journeys. As a runner Jesse always struggled to find stories of runners that look or sounded like him and other runners in the black community, both in the US and worldwide, so he decided to launch Midstrike Magazine, a publication which celebrates the beauty of blackness and champions our stories, recognising amazing people, giving the spotlight to those who are often not celebrated.  As Jesse takes on the London Marathon on 2nd October 2022, we celebrate him and the team at Midstrike for the wonderful job they do in celebrating us!You can follow Midstrike Magazine on Instagram or head to their website to subscribe.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Theme music: Street Festival by Franco Eneiro. Used under licence.Support the show

After an unannounced summer hiatus, The Start Line Girls are back! Join us as we recap on what we got up to this summer, get the lowdown our favourite restaurants in Croatia (Corto Maltese and Pandora Greenbox in Split; Paradise Garden in Hvar) and hear about Dee's birthday trip to Porto.  We also hear from ERC members Rachel and Nina, who dropped us a voice note, sharing their thoughts on participating ERC's Black Crews United Carnival Run (Rachel) and the experience of running on the mother continent in Marrakesh (Nina). We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Theme music: Street Festival by Franco Eneiro. Used under licence.Support the show

We continue our series of bonus episodes recorded live last month from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  This time Dee meets new ERC recruit Anthony Roache and finds out about life as a new dad and runner as well as hearing how this remarkable runner managed to run three marathons on three consecutive Sundays as well as fasting for Ramadan!We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

A special treat for listeners as The Start Line Girls bring you all the juice from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  In these bonus episodes, Dee & Jules chat to ERC members as well as show attendees who share their running stories as well as their experiences at The National Running Show.  In this short session we catch up with Aubrey, a personal trainer and new runner who shares his goals as a new runner as well as this thoughts on why representation matters .We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

A special treat for listeners as The Start Line Girls bring you all the juice from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  In these bonus episodes, Dee & Jules chat to ERC members as well as show attendees who share their running stories as well as their experiences at The National Running Show.  ERC's youngest official member, Nina Ashton, joins Jules for a quick chat, as she shares her experience of growing up as a young black girl in Farnborough (home to National Running Show South), how she worked her way from being a 50 minute 5K runner to a sub-50 minute 10K runner and how being part of the ERC family has transformed her experience of running.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebookby searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Support the show

A special treat for listeners as The Start Line Girls bring you all the juice from the Emancipated Run Crew stand at The National Running Show South!  In these bonus episodes, Dee & Jules chat to ERC members as well as show attendees who share their running stories as well as their experiences at The National Running Show.  For the first episode of this special NRS series,  we chat to fellow ERC member Lionel Mullins about how he discovered running as a way to relieve the stress of his father being diagnosed with dementia.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Theme music: Street Festival by Franco Eneiro. Used under licence.Support the show

The Start Line Girls have an extra special treat lined up for their 3rd anniversary edition, as they are joined  by their good friend, award-winning leadership coach, author, speaker and educator Michelle Moore.  Michelle joins TSL to talk about her  acclaimed debut book Real Wins, which draws on Michelle's work delivering coaching and leadership programmes during a twenty year’ career in senior leadership roles across sport, government and education. Frank, funny and fierce, Michelle explains how she uses lessons learned during her careers and also her experience as a young athlete to provide tools for overcoming fears and negative self-talk and shows us how failures to lead us to success which is framed on our own terms, and why challenging preconceptions and stereotypes around race, class and gender is the key to securing Real Wins. Check out Michelle's website to find out more about Ms Moore and where you can buy your own copy of Real Wins.We also talk about that Samsung ad and why Petrina thinks it's just a matter of common sense!We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Theme music: Street Festival by Franco Eneiro. Used under licence.Support the show

Celebrating International Women's Day and Women's History Month, The Start Line Girls take a look back in the archives to their favourite moments from the ladies who have graced The Start Line Podcast over the last 3 years. Check out the featured episodes:Ep 5 - But My Hair… (Yes, Black Girls DO Run!) featuring Matila Egere-CooperEp 7 - It Just Gets Better with Time (featuring Donna McConnell)Ep 13 - We Run: TSL Meets... Black Girls Do Run UKEp 16 - What Happens When You Break The Silence?Ep 17 - It's All About The Race!Ep 22: World Cancer Day: Steph’s StoryEp 23: TSL In The Round For International Women's Day - Being A Mistress of Her Own DestinyEp 26: Going Behind the Podcast with Pilar Arthur-Snead from The Last TenthEp 31 - Learning to Dance In The RainWe'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com (where you can also get your hands on some TSL merch!).  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Theme music: Street Festival by Franco Eneiro. Used under licence.Support the show