Hollarhype: A 30-Second Message Can Help You Keep Going

Your toughest mile rarely needs a lecture. It needs a voice that cuts through the noise at the exact right time. Coach Christine sits down with Emily, co-founder of the Hollarhype app, to talk about what happens when encouragement stops being a post-run comment and becomes real-time support that lands in your ears mid-hill, mid-workout, or mid “I might quit.”

Emily explains how Hollarhype works: you go live before you start, your people get a notification, and their short voice messages stream over your music without you touching your phone. No typing, no scrolling, and no pressure to respond. We unpack why the one-way design is the secret sauce for accountability and motivation, especially for runners who want community but do not want another chat thread to manage. If you have ever wanted race-day energy on a random Tuesday track session, this is for you.

We also go deeper than running. Emily shares how the same real-time voice messages can support someone through weekly medical treatments, caregiving, and other uphill moments when in-person connection is not possible. We talk about the practical side too: how choosing the right group, adding an honest status, and giving a little context helps your hype squad show up with more personal, meaningful messages. Then we look at how nonprofit endurance teams use tags and shared communities to connect runners across races and fundraising missions.

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Transcript

Need Someone In Your Corner

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Have you ever been in the middle of run, a workout, or just having a tough day and thought I could really use someone in my corner right now? Well, today's conversation is all about the power of encouragement at exactly the moment you need it most. I'm talking to Emily from HollerHype, and yes, runners, this one is gonna hit you right in the feels. We're talking about community, motivation, real-time support, and why simple voice message can sometimes be the thing that helps you take one more step. So let's get right into it. Welcome to Extraordinary Strides, the podcast for everyday runners doing extraordinary things. I'm Coach Christine, and we're here to explore the mindset, stories, and perspectives that help running fit into real life. Not the other way around. So today's conversation is all about motivation, encouragement. It's definitely about hyping you up with the power of community, and I'm really excited for you to hear it. So let's get into it because I'm joined by Emily, co-founder and one of the minds behind Holler Hype. It's an app built around encouragement, accountability, and showing up for yourself and others. If you've ever had a run where you just needed someone in your corner, this conversation is for you. What I love about what Emily and her team are building is that it meets runners where they are, not where they think they're supposed to be. Welcome, Emily. How are you doing today?

SPEAKER_01 1:15

I'm doing great. Psyched to be here, Christine. Thanks for inviting me and Holler Hype into the chat.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

I was super stoked. I mean, it's such a cool concept, it's such a cool app. And I know lots of folks within the Extraordinary League and Extraordinary Strides community have been using it. Also, Disney Day Drinkers. I mean, there's you're in all of the communities, my friend. So let's talk about how you really have helped to connect those communities. Before we get into Holler Hype, I kind of want to know a little bit about you, and if you could give me a kind of a background as to how you got into running or movement or fitness before Holler Hype even came into play.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Yeah, um, gosh, thanks for asking about that. My world as it pertains to running started so so long ago. I guess arguably back in middle school, doing a classic turkey trot. I think a lot of people can relate to that. You're like, oh, why do we have to do this? You know, it feels like mandated by the school. And if I think back to that time, I actually I remember doing my first turkey trot in like jeans and sketchers, loafers, like was not prepared, you know, it was just doing the thing the kids were doing. Um, fell in love with running right away and all the way up to college. So I ran at the University of Rhode Island on their track and cross-country team, and it was through that experience that I started thinking about the dynamics of holler hype, not the product itself, but um the benefits that the product brings in terms of like real time, real deal support from people that care about uh rooting you on, which is something I experienced all the time at practice being on an intense track team. It's not just at the races where people are, you know, screaming their heads off. The practices were really tough, so people were really supportive of one another between the different training groups and rooting each other on around our indoor track when we were doing uh training cycles, just to really try to, you know, simulate that intensity required for training and pushing yourself. And throughout that process, I had a number of injuries that landed me in like the cardio room simulating running, not actually running, totally not as cool. Really good training for the mind. It's psychologically tough doing you know hours and hours on an elliptical machine or in the deep end of the pool for a couple months at a time. But yeah, um, the truth is like that circumstance was lonely. And it I had people in my life that really um cared to check in and um root me on, like, hey, you're gonna get you're gonna get back out there soon. That was really nice. So I wasn't actually alone in my life. I had amazing friends, family, teammates um that were reminding me that you know the time's gonna pass, gonna get back out there soon. But the grind of alternative training and cardio rooms, it was just tough. It was tougher than I wanted to admit that it was. And one day one of my training partners kind of showed up in the gym next to me, like yelling, screaming her head off, kind of like it felt at practice on the track, and it really did give me that boost. Like, if it it might sound corny, but that's how it really felt. It was like the right time, the right voice. It felt like she really cared, she was just being herself super candid, and um reminding me that that last 10 minutes really mattered, and what I couldn't stop thinking about from then was hmm, like that made a big difference, even though I was in a really cynical mindset in general. It was this positive force that came in and and did give me that jolt, and you know, aren't so many of us going through our uphill moments, battles in life where we could use a boost like that? Um, how do you tag it in though? Like it's out there was my belief, but how do you tag it in at the right time? So that's when I started thinking about holler hype because of my background in running, but did not know what the future would hold in terms of this product.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

I love it. And I feel like the natural organic question is what actually is holler hype? Um, because I have my own mindset about what I think I would describe it as, but I want to hear from you, the actual pro and brilliant mind behind it. What so for somebody who's never heard of Holler Hype and they're thinking, okay, what are they even talking about? How do you explain what it is?

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Yeah, so it's an app that helps you get real-time, real voice messages that magically drop in over your music. So it's coming through your headphones, right over your music when you're in the middle of a challenge. And a lot of runners really love that. So I'll just use the running example, even though it's not tethered to running. You're going up a hill, you're doing a training run, you've got your favorite playlist on, you had turned holler hype on earlier before you even got on the road, and now all of a sudden, like your grandma pops in over your music, and then like your coworker pops in after that, and it feels like wow, where did that come from? You almost forget you even turned it on. Um, because you don't actually hit play when a hype comes in, it just magically streams in over the music, set it and forget it. Um, so that's kind of like what it is and how it works. Um, and a few other important things for me to point out for the fundamentals is that hypes are one way, so there's no responding. And that's something that makes it really different from other communication apps is it's like the giving without the expectation of getting something back in return, like our mantras hype it forward. You get the notification when somebody's live. Like Christine, if you and I were in the same group and you go live on Holler Hype, I'm gonna get a notification that says, like, hey, Christine's live right now, don't miss it, don't miss out. And when I tap that, I record my voice message like 30 seconds max. It's not like a monologue. Um, and as soon as I finish recording my boost message to you, it's already in your ears. Um, and it's it's as simple as that.

Setup, Notifications, And One-Way Hypes

SPEAKER_00 7:32

That's very cool. So let's get into the nitty-gritty of like how does it exactly work? So, does grandma need an iPhone or an Android or some type of mobile device? And she's gonna download this app. She's going to then see this notification pop up, and then what? What does she need to do?

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Yes. So everything you just listed is a yes. Okay. Um, when grandma sees the notification, she's gonna tap on it and she's gonna see a hauler hype's just gonna pop open with a record button that shows above the record button, you know, your name. So we'll say Christine, and if you turned location on like GPS on, it will show how far you've run so far, how many hypes you've gotten so far, and your status. Because when you go live, you're gonna give a it's kind of like a tweet, a little status to give grandma and others some context about what it is that's going on. So maybe you say something like, This is my longest run before the big race. Oh my gosh, I've never run this far before, which is a status I see all the time, actually. Um Grandma, you know, back to grandma, she tapped on that notification, so now she sees kind of the the dashboard, the summary of what's going on, hits record, and she has 30 seconds at the most to say whatever it is that she wants to say to you. And um, after she's done, she just hits confirm and then it's on its way to your ears.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Okay, okay, so it is really simplistic. I mean, it's like once you download it, it's kinda like you said, it is a bit set it and forget it. And I assume that for the runner, again, like you mentioned, you're you're turning it on at the beginning of the run, and then that's it. There's no more messing with it or pulling out your phone or anything of that sort. I love that it can be played over your music track. Is it all audio that it can be played over? Like if I'm listening to an audiobook, okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Very good. Yes, although the most desired experience is probably over music, just because it feels the most layered and additive in that sense. We hear less disruptive of like you're right at that cliffhanger of the book and then I mean exactly because it doesn't pause your existing audio, the existing audio just gets quieter and then the hype comes in. So um, yeah, we hear folks say things like, Oh, that felt like my own music video or like my own personal movie moment. Um so we suggest the music experience, but technically speaking, it does work with other uh forms of audio playing.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

So I think one of the things that I take away from it when you're describing why you developed it, why you had that, you know, that light bulb moment, and kind of how it plays out. It's to me, it's almost like having that race day energy on an everyday workout, if that makes any sense. Where it's like we all know how different it feels when you're at a big kind of big crowd races and you have that those vibes, even if you feel like you're absolutely exhausted and you can't go another step, and then someone out there just yells, keep going. It's usually a stranger. They even say, Hey, I'm proud of you, stranger. Something about that actually puts a pep in your step, even more so when you know you're gonna be able to find your family out in the crowd or family and friends. So it feels like it brings that into an average Tuesday when I'm doing track workouts, for example. So I I love that aspect of it. But I'm kind of curious what because I'm also hearing you say it's not specific to runners. I kind of just my mindset always goes to that specifically, but how else it can it be used?

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Yeah, it it is hugely popular among the running community, which we love and was intentional from the beginning. Um, however, we thought it was really important that Hollerhype is a flexible app that can support other uh scenarios, especially like going back to the Genesis story. It became clear to me that there are all sorts of uphill moments that people go through that maybe you know they pop their headphones in, they're kind of going through their own thing. Like, for example, a medical treatment. So there's there's somebody in my life who goes through a pretty tough medical treatment once a week for three hours, and um, it's challenging because it's um not the place where she wants to be in a lot of ways, and so she puts her headphones on because she's sitting in the chair for three hours, and there are all sorts of medical treatments. Um, chemotherapy is one that comes to mind for a lot of people in this circumstance where you know maybe they want to, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Um so if you make yourself a hype squad of the people that you trust and that you want to hear from during moments like that, um, I mean, sitting in a chair receiving treatment is in some ways kind of the opposite of running. You're completely stationary. Um, but anyways, the app works exactly the same as it would for somebody that's running, where the the problem that somebody is up against is like, hey, I'm going through something kind of tough. I'm kind of in my own bubble at the moment. I got my headphones in, I'm listening to my music, I'm doing my thing, but I could use a boost, I could use some folks that care about me chiming in to help me through this, and so that person goes live and then receives hypers the same way that uh, for example, marathon runner would on a long run going up and down hills. Um, another example that comes to mind, gosh, right around this time three years ago, um four years ago? Yeah, time really flies. My grandmother was going through hospice and declining from dementia, and it was really tough on my family the way that it is tough on a lot of families, where it's it's difficult to kind of organize everybody and figure out visitation, and there's never enough time. You know, there's people are traveling, they can't travel, etc. Right. Long story short, um, I wrote a letter to the nurse, gave her a phone, and said, Can you just turn Hollerhype on when she's awake and turn it off when she's asleep? Because that's gonna signal to all of us, like, hey, now is the time to have those extra bonus moments. Like nothing compares to in-person support, like holler hype is not trying to um reduce those moments, they're so valuable. It's like the human experience being with one another, but it's not always possible, and it's not always possible as frequently as we would like it to be. So, in my grandmother's experience, yeah, gosh, it was four years ago because the winter Olympics were on. The nurse set a status that said, uh Dorothy's awake right now, figure skating's on, she's watching the Olympics, and I was in Whole Foods, and I got the notification. I still remember it this vividly. And I chimed in and said, like, hey Nana, like, do you remember back in like 1998 when we would argue over whether Terry Lapinski or Michelle Kwan deserved a gold medal? Like, sorry that that Michelle didn't win, but I was like a huge Terry Lapinski fan. I was a little kid, you know, and I was like, and we had ice cream every night, and and so there was so much value that Holler Hype brought to me in that circumstance as the hyper because it unlocked this micro memory just from the status that the nurse chose to leave. And overall, I'm telling this story because it is again very much not running, and because you're trying to make me cry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Such a beautiful, powerful moment that you would not have been able to have in any other capacity.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, I mean, it's true, and I I would go and visit her as much as I could at her hospice facility. Like, again, nothing replaces that, but um, we actually found that her caretakers were like, wow, I don't know where these messages for her, she didn't have headphones in. She just had like the hypes blasting out of the speaker of the phone. Um, and I think my uncle had put on some of her favorite music just like in the background. So there was music playing, but anyways, um, yeah, there was a lot of really positive observations from her care team just saying, like, you know, she's really smiling when these hypes come through, they didn't know what to call them, of course. They're like these magical voice messages that come out of nowhere.

Hyper Versus Hypee And Group Control

SPEAKER_00 16:03

I I think it's a perfect, it's a great reminder that this allows us to kind of transcend miles or distance, and we can still really make a powerful impact in someone's life or have a powerful impact made on ours, which leads me naturally to the next question. Do you prefer to be the hyper or the hype-e? And is these the right are these the right terminology? Is it hyper and hype E?

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Yeah, no, no, it's perfect, it's perfect. Um, yeah, gosh, now that I have reminded myself of that story, I feel like I gotta say the hyper. Um, I love sending hypes. You know, sometimes when I'm tagged in, more and more of my friends lately have been like hopping on the holler hype train, which has been fun and special for me. Um, because these are people that I care deeply about and have, you know, personal conversations with on a somewhat regular basis, but there's still something uniquely special about seeing a friend of mine go live and say something along the lines of I'm getting my few miles in tonight because this is what is best for my motherhood. You know, she's got she's got a little one at home and is adjusting to that life and also is navigating um some other mental health related things. And even though we still get on the phone and even though we're still in a WhatsApp chat, when I see the signal that she's out getting her miles in and really putting putting her health first, no matter like figuring out the babysitter situation, whatever it needs to be, that she really carved out that time for her. I feel so lucky that I get to chime in and just and that she's tagged me in as well. Like, I don't know, it just feels amazing. So I think I gotta go with the hyper for me, even though I do love getting hypes.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

So give me, I'm hearing you say tag me in. What what does that mean for a person who's gonna be using the app? How are we tagging someone in?

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Yes. Um, so glad you asked because what I mean by tagging in is just that I'm in her group, and so when she goes live, I'm gonna get the notification. So she didn't have to choose me specifically in in terms of adding an extra step, but that's an aspect of holler hype that I also love is that if you're in a group with others and they go live, you don't have to guess. Like, do they really want to hear from me? Yes, they want to hear from you. You got the notification, they want to hear from you, and it kind of just takes a lot of that second guessing out of it that I know I experienced a lot in other aspects of my life that I think has been gravitating towards the hyper preferences that it just feels so good to get for me to get that notification, quote unquote tagging me in because there's no second guessing, and I'm just like, oh, she wants to hear from me, and I'm gonna chime in right now, and I'm just gonna be myself and not overthink it because I was alerted that now is the time.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

Oh, I love I love that as well. Like it's like, oh, she doesn't like clearly she made this conscious choice, so she wants me here, she wants my support. So basically she's inviting me out for lunch. I don't have to overthink this at all. Um, so I get to be with her for the process. That's a fun way of of like reframing it because I do think that there is a tendency to overthink and we don't want to be a bother or an intrusion. Um, but this is actually like a really welcome intrusion, if you will. Okay, so yes, we know we kind of know we can create our our own little communities, our own little groups, and I assume that we can also go live within those different groups. So let's say will we get notifications across the board, or does the runner potentially get an opportunity, or the user, I should say, um, that's gonna get hyped. Are they able to just choose selectively which group they want to make aware of what they're going on and doing that day?

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Yes. So you can be in as many groups as you want in Holler Hype. Um, perhaps you made your own group and you invited some friends or some family members to that group, and then you get invited to a different community. Maybe it's like a virtual run club or whatever it might be. A lot of folks end up in multiple groups, whether you're the one that made the group or not, you can always go live to any group that you are a part of, and that can be a different choice for each time that you go live. So, for example, like one day you might decide, you know what, like this is really just for my super close friends, because maybe you are sharing something close and personal, and you don't you just feel more comfortable sharing it to the smaller group that is just a specific uh group of people. And then another day you might say, like, you know, I'm doing the longest run I've ever done in my life, and you're like, the more the merrier. I want everybody that I'm connected with in Holly Ripe to get the alert, to get the bat signal, to get tagged in. Um you can go live to all the groups in that situation. So you can decide each time is this going out to all my groups, or is it just going out to like one of them, two of them?

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Okay, gotcha. So that it really again, of so the person, the user is totally in control, which I'm gonna take it back to the encouragement, the motivation, the words of um just maybe wisdom, or or just shouting people up when you are in the group or you're as a hypee. I want to know what I can do to be the best, like person who's gonna be hyped. What do I need to do? Do you it sounds to me like what I'm hearing you say, Emily, that yes, you can set it or forget it. But there is something really valuable of like giving a little bit of just a uh a little snippet, if you will, of what my workout's gonna be or what I'm doing, or a little bit maybe even kind of like the old school um Facebook, what are you thinking or what's on your mind? Kind of does that is that kind of what you would have seen that those seem to be the ones that are more powerful or more poignant for other individuals that are gonna be hyping you up?

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Yes, yes. We we have a lot of nerdy conversations over here on Planet Hype about that very thing, Christine. We're like, what is it that draws in the best hypes? That is like the question that we're always trying to learn more and more. Not that any one hype is better than another hype. No, I know what you're saying. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Right. Okay. I'm gonna choose a little bit of everything, right? Like maybe it's a time of day. Clearly, if you're gonna go out for your run at three o'clock in the morning, you may not have as many hypes, but again, it could be in different time zones. So who knows? Maybe you will. Um so now the most important question. What as a hyper do I say? Like, what are the like really strong, powerful things that I could record? Um, what what are some of the things that you've heard or you've received that have really resonated with you?

Writing Statuses That Invite Real Support

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Hmm. Okay, I'm gonna answer that question, but also go back to your previous question as well, because I think the two go hand in hand in a lot of ways. So we find that when people share more and perhaps even share most honestly when they're setting their status, which is that step before like choosing which groups are gonna get the alert, the bat signal, the notification. Um the more that somebody shares about what it is they're up against, we find not only the more hypes do they get, but the more engaged, um, heartful hypes um come their way. So for maybe for example, if we we see when someone says, I'm doing the longest run I've ever done in my life, they that's something that a lot of people can relate to because it doesn't matter what the number is. A lot of people have experienced the longest run that they've ever done. It doesn't matter if that's five miles, 17 miles, 27 miles. Um the longest that you ever have before is like amazing. And it's for that particular number, it's only gonna happen once for you until then you do you go further than that time. So that has been something that we've just noticed, draws a lot of people in and definitely reduces any of that second guessing um that I had mentioned earlier. Um so there's other examples of like ways that people can be very honest, forthcoming, vulnerable, etc. Um, by the way, there's also like a fun way to choose in like a gif. Like you mentioned Facebook, how am I feeling? So we approach that with these like fun animated gifts that can uh post with your written out status so that let's say you're feeling nervous. You don't have to say I'm nervous, you can choose like one of the nervous-looking gifs to make it easier for people to express themselves and like have fun. We want people to have fun and holler hype and not not feel like it's super, I don't know, like utility or prescriptive. So there's that aspect. But now to your question about like what drives the best hypes, it's absolutely just being yourself, and the the easiest way we find that people can be themselves is if statuses kind of like invite people in with context. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

So kind of taking a look at the tacos before a track, and now I'm a little scared of what's gonna happen today. Like, I think that everybody can relate to that. Like, I shouldn't have had tacos last night before my workout. People are definitely gonna want to say, yeah, good luck. Hopefully you have a bathroom nearby. But so basically, to be a good to get good hypers, you have to really I mean I'm hearing connection, Emily. That's what comes to mind. Like a little bit of honesty, transparency, and connection. So it's not just really just turning it on, which you can, but if you really want to have that connection, it sounds like having that just little extra second of really being transparent with those in our lives or in our circles.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Absolutely, because we find a lot of people really do want to hype it forward, as we call it. People, people want to lean in, they want to chime in, they want to support you, they want to give you that boost. Um, and so sometimes when we hear a hype that is like, all right, Christine, you got this, and maybe that's the whole hype. It's usually because the status didn't share more context, especially as communities in Holler Hype grow and grow and grow where you don't necessarily know each other. Like it's funny that you brought up like the this person that's running at three in the morning. We saw a lot of 5 a.m. running activity across different groups, Eastern time. Um, but these folks weren't connected with one another, so we made a 5 a.m. runner community that's very easy to find in the app. Because we realized these folks, a lot of them are doing it, and a lot of them are going live on Holler Hype, but they're not getting each other's um back signal notification, they're not getting tagged in because they're not in the same group. So once we made that, so many folks started joining it, which is beautiful because they have this thing in common where they want to work out really, really early in the morning. Um, so now a lot of them are hyping each other because they have that in common, but they don't actually know each other, you know? So uh and we love that. We think that's a beautiful aspect of humanity revealing when it can be doing like some of its best work, like people just supporting one another, even though you're not friends and you're not family, and you don't work together and you don't know each other. So when you when you just take a minute, or not even a minute, I shouldn't put it that way, because it doesn't take that long, like 15 seconds to give a little extra context in your status. We find people are able to um show up more fully in the way that it seems they really want to be.

Nonprofit Teams, Tags, And Big Meaning

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Yeah, I I think that to me is the biggest takeaway from our conversation because I think that really it does make a huge difference from what I'm hearing in terms of what people can can get into in action. Okay, I before I know that we've we've talked a lot because I'm so fascinated by this, because one of my things that I'm that I feel most passionate about is really having that community connection, and I think that's exactly what Holler Hype does, and it does it on really like on my terms, where I don't have to necessarily be out there for a schedule. It could be whenever it is being able to connect with people. I'm a little curious though, too, because I think that what I just heard you say is hey, we're in the background, we're observing what's what's going on, we're trying to make sure that everybody's being seen, met, and heard, but you also do a lot with communities that are connected regarding nonprofit spaces. Can you give us a little bit more ideas about that or how maybe organizations can stay together through Holler Hype?

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Yes, we love working with nonprofit orgs. Um, so many of them are representing just incredible missions, move the world forward. Um, and a lot of them have endurance teams that support a lot of their fundraising goals. So that's how we started working with nonprofit orgs, um, like American Cancer Society, Longevity, Dana Farber comes to mind and others, um, just naming a few, where something that they have in common is they have teams across different races. So back to this aspect of people that have something in common but they don't actually know each other. Um, if they work with us behind the scenes, we get them a special community up and running on Holler Hype where those different endurance team members can choose different tags when they're onboarding. So that when one goes live and they're doing a Tokyo marathon, for example, other Tokyo runners within, let's say longevity can be like, oh no kidding, Ned, like I'm doing Tokyo too, and it just feels kind of cosmic. Like that's been really, really cool for nonprofits, in addition to um one tag that I just think brought so much value was the in memory of and in honor of tag and survivor for American Cancer Society. So during the Chicago Marathon this past fall, I was out on a walk in my neighborhood, and I'm in so many of these groups, but a lot of them blossom and blossom. Like, I don't I don't know who's in there. I'm just I'm just kind of there as someone that helped the group get up and off the ground. And this one person was live, um, Chicago Marathon, American Cancer Society runner. So I tapped on because I got the bat signal, tapped on the notification, and it showed like they were at mile 25, and she had the survivor tag because they're a community that has tags, and it really kind of stopped me in my tracks because I've a family my aunt was going through late-stage cancer chemotherapy at the time, and I was just like, Oh my gosh, like you are a cancer survivor, and you are at mile 25 of a marathon right now. Like, I don't know you, and you don't know me, but just what you're doing gives families like mine, like hope and inspiration. Just because of this super what felt serendipitous, small, real-time, fleeting moment where I felt so just grateful and fulfilled that I could send her a hype and want to let her like I wouldn't have known that context without her having the survivor tag, you know, it just afforded so much more value for our connection there. Um, so stories like that are happening within nonprofit entities that come in and use Holler Hype all the time that really reinforce that, like, you know, this is about so much more than running.

A Final Boost And How To Join

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Amazing. I love that. I I again connection is the first thing that comes to mind. And I think in a world where connection does feel quite disconnected, this is giving us an opportunity to really feel close and empowered and encouraged. Um, yeah, I love this. So thank you so much. But Emily, before we officially sign off, I think that I have to put you on the spot and ask if you could be recording a holler hype right now for every runner or person who's moving and shaking, however they want, that's listening right now. What would you want them to hear?

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Oh gosh, I think I would say if you're out there moving right now, gosh, isn't that half the battle? Like you showed up for yourself right now. That's what I'm talking about. Maybe I'm talking to myself, Christine, because I know that's the hardest part for me is actually getting out there. So absolutely, absolutely. Not a small one, it's a big one. Keep it going.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

You heard it right here from while she is the CEO. I want to call her our the chief hype officer for today's conversation, that's for sure. So, Emily, thank you so much for this conversation. And friends, remember if you're listening and this episode resonated. I hope that it reminds you you don't have to do it alone. So please find the link in episode notes to Holler Hype and our community. I want to see you in there hyping it forward for those in all of the communities or tags. Um, you'll find those links, and again, you're welcome to reach out to either of us. So, my friends, join my email list if you want to stay connected and see what's coming next. And until next time, keep moving forward, one extraordinary stride at a time.