Sara Fix on Kona, Entrepreneurship, Humanitarian Work & Family

This episode (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sara-fix-on-kona-entrepreneurship-humanitarian-work/id1281672367?i=1000393207766&mt=2) features Sara Fix, owner at Endure It! Sports, and multiple top finisher at the Ironman Triathlon Championships in Kona. She is also an award-winning business woman, coach, and humanitarian—the whole package—as well as an extraordinary mother of three. Learn how to get started in triathlons, getting fit or coming back from an injury, as well as managing multiple demands on time, and her approach to living a life in full!

Show Notes:

1. (3:13) Endure It!, Sara Fix’s coaching, training, and equipment retail facility.
2. (4:40) Kona, the Ironman World Championship
3. (20:37) Ironman Wisconsin, an Ironman race located in Madison, WI.
4. (23:12) Ironman Canada, an Ironman race located in Canada (though not the one Sara Fix competed in, which has been discontinued)
5. (23:15) Ironman Florida, an Ironman race located in Florida
6. (27:08) U.S. Navy Commander John Collins, the man who first suggested the idea of the Ironman Triathlon to settle a fitness debate
7. (27:32) Julie (Moss) Allen, a famous Ironman finisher
8. (44:52) Chicago Hope Academy, a nondenominational college preparatory high school
9. (44:54) The Community House in Hinsdale, IL, a nonprofit organization that offers both community recreation and quality social services
10. (46:51) Brian Liston of Liston & Tsantilis, P.C., Sara’s first race sponsor who encouraged donation to Chicago Hope Academy
11. (48:36) Beat the Bird, a 5K race put on by Endure It! and Sara Fix, the proceeds of which
12. (52:14) Endure It!’s Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
13. (52:23) Sara Fix’s Instagram and Facebook

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