Nir Eyal

Okay, I, you know, that's someone else's problem.

Well, one day, one of these men at the homeless shelter makes a joke.

and says, is all you do run all day?

And she jokes back, is all you do stand there all day?

And then they start having a little rapport.

And the next day, they have a little bit more of a conversation.

And this is something she never did before.

She never had this conversation with a person at a homeless mission.

And then they started forming a bit of a relationship.

And then after a few days of this, she stops in her tracks and she asks herself, how come I'm the runner and they're homeless?

Why can't we all be runners?

And so she has this crazy idea of what would it be like to run with homeless men.

And that's exactly what she does.

She forms a group called Back on My Feet that teaches unhoused people how to get back on their feet, how to get their life back in order

First, by starting with physical fitness.

Now, she's not trying to fix homelessness as a systemic issue.

We're all very aware that homelessness is not fixable just with running shoes, that it involves unaffordability of housing, it involves mental health issues.

There's lots of issues to homelessness.

But she wasn't worried about all that.

She just wanted to help people in this one mission, in her neighborhood, she wanted to do something for them.