Our co-founder, Gilbert Tuhabonye, is featured on the On My Way podcast where he and host Lorena Junco Margain discuss profound tragedy, grace, hope, and forgiveness. Listen as the two discuss Gilbert’s journey of hope and healing as he built a new life in the United States; a life built on faith, family, and running.
Lorena Junco Margain, Danielle Sweeney, MD, FAAP — Gazelle Foundation Board Member, and Gilbert Tuhabonye at podcast recording for On My Way: Running For His Life.
In the episode Gilbert and Lorena discuss what extent of tragedy can the human spirit endure and still be able to go on to lead a fruitful, meaningful life?
Gilbert talks about his book This Voice in My Heart: A Runners Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness, growing up in Burundi, on a peaceful mountainside surrounded by family, discovering the sport of running as a child, and later surviving ethnic genocide at his school. Gilbert survived but was badly burned and doctors told him he would not run again. But what doctors could not foresee, was the resilience, and greater purpose of Gilbert and his life story.
About On My Way Podcast
Everything that has happened in Lorena’s life has laid the foundation for the life she lives now and the life she hopes to build in the future, just as the rugged road you are traveling at this moment is laying the foundation for all the possibilities of you. Every one of us has our own journey, and we are all continually on our way. On My Way, a podcast hosted by Lorena Junco Margain, may be the telling of Lorena’s extraordinary story but it actually is a mirror of your’s. Whether you feel like an outsider, a victim, abnormal, blessed, or just plain normal – On My Way is all about helping you connect your dots. So tune into each season where we will be sharing in stories of some of Lorena’s dearest friends and talking family, art, injury, forgiveness, and more!