We Are Superman
Founded by David Clark, a former 320-pound alcoholic, drug addict, food junkie turned accomplished endurance athlete, bestselling author, plant-based fighter, and happiness warrior. Ultramarathoner and coach Bill Stahl is continuing David's legacy to bring you inspirational stories of ordinary people overcoming alcoholism, addiction, obesity, or catastrophic injuries or illnesses to accomplish epic achievements like running ultramarathons, climbing Everest, etc. We also bring you world-class athletes and others involved in the endurance sports space, medical providers, and others who can help you up your own game in athletics as well as in life so you feel, look, and perform better. As David said, we will help you look into the far side of the universe where anything is possible and all things are eventual.
Episodes
363 episodes
#342 - WE ARE LEN FORKAS CONNECTING KIDS WITH CANCER ONE SUMMIT AT A TIME
We haven’t chatted with anyone in Nepal for a couple of weeks, so we thought we’d go back there with Len Forkas, who is heading to Mt. Everest to cap bagging all of the Seven Summits – the tallest peaks on all seven continents. This achievement...
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Season 9
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Episode 16
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1:59:39
#341 - WE ARE TRAVIS ROBINSON WITH AN INSPIRING "SCREW YOU" ATTITUDE TOWARD PARKINSON'S
Travis Robinson was an active 35-year-old IT project manager, spending much of his leisure time in the outdoors rockclimbing, when he began noticing weakness in his hands, which is not good news for this pursuit. This led to a diagnosis of earl...
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Season 9
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Episode 15
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1:23:59
#340 - WE ARE CHRIS FISHER AND ERIN TON ON MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES HIGHER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
Chris Fisher and Erin Ton are very down-to-Earth people, but they are also way-up-in-the-air. As in, they are almost constantly on a mountain, very high mountains. And when I say constantly, I mean they are pretty much always climbing, ru...
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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1:36:26
#339 - WE ARE MELISSA DAVEY BOLDLY LAUNCHING A NEW CAREER IN HER SIXTIES
Melissa Davey took the adage about it’s never too late to try something new quite seriously. This wasn’t about jumping out of an airplane kind of stuff. In her sixties, she retired from a lengthy corporate career to pursue her second act and dr...
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Season 9
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Episode 13
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1:19:05
#338 - WE ARE TOM BARNUM, AN ATHLETE SHOWING THAT ACHIEVING SOBRIETY IS A TEAM SPORT
The WASP has had a long history of inspiring stories about people overcoming alcoholism and addictions, but I really like the story and approach presented here by Tom Barnum. He is a former college and NFL player, who was on two teams that won ...
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Season 9
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Episode 12
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1:31:26
#337 - WE ARE MITCH DULLECK HAVING HIS DREAM RACE ON ALASKA'S IDITAROD TRAIL
This is the type of adventure story you don’t get to hear about very often. You very likely know something about Alaska’s Iditarod Trail dog-sledding race, a grueling, multiday wilderness endurance test from Anchorage to Nome. Did you know that...
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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1:40:34
#336 - WE ARE MASON WRIGHT, THE "BUFF RUNNER" RUNNING ACROSS AMERICA FOR SINGLE PARENTS
Listing 285-pound defensive lineman or being the fifth-ranked high schooler in the nation in the discus on your resume aren’t typical prerequisites for running across America. But former big guy Mason Wright, who at 17 years old could bench pre...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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1:54:50
#335 - BILL'S EXCELLENT EUROPEAN ADVENTURE (AND AFRICA, TOO)
I want you to explore the world! With a little creativity and ingenuity--and a willingness to get out of your comfort zone--you can have experiences that will open your eyes to people and places that will enhance your life in ways you can't ima...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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1:34:10
#334 - WE ARE MAX MADORSKY KICKING, CHOKING, AND PUNCHING HIS WAY BACK FROM 300 LBS.
I first met Max Madorsky when the kids on my cross country team at Littleton H.S. invited me to join them at an all-you-can-eat sushi joint in the southern suburbs of Denver. They had invited along this guy who had this amazing capacity to shov...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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1:41:24
#333 - WE ARE MADDY REYNOLDS, AN EXCEPTIONAL TRAIL RUNNER TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR (PUN INTENDED)
Even though Maddy Reynolds was not a runner, COVID-19 spurred her and her homebound friends to start running around the limited area they were allowed to in their neighborhood in Sydney, Australia. On a lark, they decided to run their own marat...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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2:08:08
#332 - WE ARE SCOTT HANLEY INSPIRATIONALLY MOVING ON HIS OWN PATH TO TAME PARKINSON'S
I love when people don’t accept the status quo from the medical field. One disease where there is no known cure, and not much is known about its cause or treatments for it, is Parkinson’s an uncurable neurological disease. So Scott Hanley of Be...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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1:35:21
#331 - WE ARE THE RIDE 2 END ALZ
As the world’s population ages, more and more of us are affected by diseases, truly horrible diseases, like Alzheimer’s. The latest studies show that 1/3 of seniors will have some level of dementia by the time they pass away. That’s staggering....
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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1:15:14
#330 - WE ARE DAN HERMAN BLASTS YOU PAST QUITTING ON YOUR NEW YEAR'S GOALS
It’s always great to jumpstart a new year talking again with Dan Herman of Dan Herman Performance. We are past the so-called quit day after which many people’s resolutions have gone down the drain, so Dan and I talk about both setting goals as ...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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1:14:03
#329 - WE ARE PATRICK LI INSPIRING OTHERS TO TAKE UP THE SWORD
I have always thought that everyone has a sport or activity in which they could be world-class, but sometimes we haven’t tried it and discovered which one it is. Maybe it’s karate or curling or backgammon. Or as I’ve told kids I’ve coached in t...
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1:02:33
#328 - WE ARE PAUL JAMIESON REMARKABLY RECOVERING BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
We are heading back Down Under for this episode to speak with a super-inspirational Aussie named Paul Jamieson, who at the age of 32 suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a freak wakeboarding accident. He spent the following half a year i...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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1:23:50
#327 - WE ARE KAT EDWARDS ANDERSON TURNING SCARY THINGS INTO BIG WINS
Let’s start off 2025 with someone who had a breakout 2024, and like the final episode of last year with Mary Denholm, in which there is a lot of great information from which to learn. I met the impressive Kat Edwards while on a mountain-climbin...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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2:04:43
#326 - WE ARE MARY DENHOLM AND HOW SHE ENGINEERED AN INCREDIBLE 2024
I thought it would be good to end the year with someone who had a mind-blowing 2024. Mary Denholm finished it off at the JFK 50-miler, where she was the second female with a time of 6:04:15, which was faster than the previous course record. Her...
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Season 8
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Episode 42
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1:48:26
#325 - SOBER F*CKING CHRISTMAS 2024 WITH GARY STOTLER, CHAD PRICHARD, AND ED BARNETTE
It’s time for our annual tradition started by David of Sober F*cking Christmas. As you may know, in his book Out There, David describes how on one Christmas Eve, on one of his usual stumbling drunk days before he got sober, he was attempt...
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Season 8
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Episode 41
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1:53:05
#324 - WE ARE MEGHAN HUNTER, ON TRACK TO STAR AGAIN AFTER A HARROWING ACCIDENT
Meghan Hunter was an eight-time state track champion in Utah at Provo High School, including 2018 when she swept titles in the 100, 200, 400, and 800 meters, an almost-unheard-of spread of talent. Her impressive times included a blazing state r...
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Season 8
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Episode 40
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1:05:09
#323 - WE ARE JAMES GAA TURNING TRAVAILS INTO TRIUMPHS
I have one more great guest with an awesome story who ran the American Heroes Run this year. James Gaa completed 36 laps, or about 37 miles, of the 9 hour and 11 minute run. Pretty darn good for a guy who only began running a little more than a...
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Season 8
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Episode 39
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2:12:09
#322 - WE ARE LEAH GARCÉS ASKING YOU TO PARDON A TURKEY
Just in time for Thanksgiving and the holidays, I am very excited to bring you this chat with Leah Garcés, the CEO of Mercy for Animals, which is promoting a campaign to Pardon a Turkey. The idea is to celebrate the holidays in a kinder way by ...
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Season 8
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Episode 38
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56:26
#321 - WE ARE SOLEIMAN BOLOUR EMPOWERING MEN TO ACHIEVE INNER FULFILLMENT AND PURPOSE
Despite the beginning of more focus now on mental health, especially after the well-publicized battles that were brought forward by gymnast Simone Biles and tennis player Naomi Osaka, there is still a stigma for men to seek assistance, unless y...
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Season 8
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Episode 37
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1:11:36
#320 - WE ARE CHAIWEN CHOU, NEVER LETTING OBSTACLES BLOCK HER DREAMS
I met Chaiwen Chou on the trip I took in March to the Atacama Desert of Chile that was led by Tyler Andrews of Chaski Endurance Collective. Two things immediately stood out about Chaiwen: one was her gorgeous purple hair, and the second was the...
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Season 8
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Episode 36
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1:38:39
#319 - WE ARE JUNKO KAZUKAWA, THE GODZILLA OF DISTANCE RUNNING
Our guest today is a local running and coaching legend here in Colorado who is also well-known worldwide. Junko Kazukawa came late into the running world, but has been a prolific endurance athlete, while exuding tons of positive energy. This ye...
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Season 8
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Episode 35
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1:19:52
#318 - WE ARE STEVEN SAMPSON BEATING A TUMOR AND SETTING THE BAR HIGH ON HIS YOUNG LIFE
We have had some uplifting performances by young runners in American Heroes Run. Last year, we had the formerly overweight high school freshman who completed the marathon. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago a freshman cross country runner named ...
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Season 8
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Episode 34
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1:28:35