BUILT DIFFERENT BY PAIN. POWERED DIFFERENT BY PURPOSE.
Your past doesn't break you, it builds you.
Everyone is recovering
from something.
I Am Redemption didn't start as an organization. It started with someone trying to get his life back. After serving in the military, struggling with addiction, and facing a 20-year prison sentence, he found the running community. He says running was the first thing that made his mind quiet enough to think straight, and the people he met there were the reason he kept showing up when he didn't trust himself to keep going.
IAR exists because a lot of people are carrying things they don't always talk about, whether that's addiction, trauma, personal struggles, or just trying to make it through the day. We're a nonprofit built on movement and community because both have the power to change lives. People come for different reasons, but there is a place for them here.
Too many people are walking around believing that what they've been through disqualifies them from a life that means something. The people who have been through the worst often have the most to offer the people around them. IAR is the place where people find that out for themselves.
IAR is founded by combat veteran and ultra runner Shawn Livingston, whose story is documented in 100 Miles to Redemption.
100 Miles
to Redemption
A raw, unfiltered look at what it means to fall completely and choose to rise anyway. Army veteran Shawn Livingston confronts heroin addiction, PTSD, and everything behind him, with a 100-mile trail race forcing the question of who he's going to be.
Available on Prime Video and Tubi.
