Victoria Bradford Styrbicki on Running the Mississippi River

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In 2019, Victoria Bradford Styrbicki ran the length of the Mississippi River. Not content with the physical challenge of doing that, she used the run as a way to hear about people’s lives and their stories about the Mississippi River. In this episode of the podcast, I talk with Victoria about the project called Relay of Voices, about the inspiration and the physical challenges. We also talk about the importance of listening, about what she learned about our relationship with the big river, and about the upcoming launch of her new website that will showcase the people she met. In the Mississippi Minute, I confront my irrational fear of spiders and do a little research about orb weavers.