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We’re Building A School In Guatemala ≠ Impossible

January 4, 2013 By Joel Runyon 19 Comments

We did it. We freaking did it. I remember shooting this video in LA back in July and wondering "What the heck amI getting myself into?" Apparently the answer was: An Awesome Adventure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvaQICpAcOM The goal was $25,000. We smashed that a week early (on Christmas no less), and raised $26,406 Because of you guys, 1,000 kids in Guatemala are literally going to have the chance to do something they thought might be ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: big win, generosity, Impossible, impossible ones, mind blown, pencils of promise, pop, we built a freaking school

25 Things To Do With 25 Dollars

October 25, 2012 By Joel Runyon 8 Comments

Greetings from NYC. I'm here meeting with the crew from Pencils of Promise for a few days and visiting the city for the first time in over a decade before coming back to Chicago tomorrow and running the 50k ultramarathon this weekend. Things are busy! --- If you're like me, you rarely use cash anymore. Nevertheless, I probably have about $25 on me at all times for random purchases, cash fare, or in case of emergency, etc. Here's 25 things to do with the ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible List Tagged With: adam braun, giving, Impossible, impossible ones, impossible school, justin bieber, pencils of promise, scooter braun, sophia bush

How You Can Help Sponsor The Ultra & Get A Personalized Video From Me

October 12, 2012 By Joel Runyon 6 Comments

A little over 6 weeks ago, we announced we were going to build an #impossible school through a partnership with Pencils of Promise. The goal was big – really big – $25,000 to build a school by the end of the year. As part of the effort, I'll be running my first ultra marathon at the end of the month and running a 50k along the south short of Lake Michigan in Chicago and invited everyone to join in and do something impossible, set a goal and raise money for ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: adam braun, chicago ultra, how to sponsor the ultra, impossible hq, impossible ones, justin bieber, pencils of promise, sophia bush, ultra-marathon, ultramarathon for charity

An Update On The #Impossible School Campaign

September 14, 2012 By Joel Runyon 4 Comments

At the beginning of last month, we launched our first every charity intiative with Pencils of Promise. You can read the full announcement here, but here's the gist: We going to raise $25,000 to build an #impossible school in Guatemala and make education possible for 1,000 students. Since then, we've raised $7,184.31 of $25,000 – almost 30% BOOM! Nicely done team! But there's still a ways to go and still few months to make things happen. Here's an update ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: education for all, guatemala impossible school, Impossible, impossible charity initiative, impossible school, pencils of promise, pop

Impossible Ones: A Brand New Impossible Thing (or Two) And How You Can Help

August 8, 2012 By Joel Runyon 43 Comments

In case you haven't noticed, we've got a lot of things in the works around Impossible HQ and the blog lately. We're releasing a fitness program in a few weeks, and over the weekend we  murdered our servers from last week's post (thanks to Jeff for un-murdering them), but that's not all. Today we're announcing 2 new impossible things: you ready? This is going to be fun. --- The BackStory A key thread throughout everything we do here an HQ is focused on ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, The Impossible, The Impossible List, Updates Tagged With: do the impossible, do things that havent been done before, Impossible, impossible hq, impossible ones, pencils of promise, pop

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