Miles For Life

Now that the kids are finally old enough, and her husband´s career is on track, Christina is determined to return to the working world once their summer vacation in Sardinia is over. However, during a routine check-up, fate steps in. Diagnosis Cancer. But where many others might see it as a stroke of bad luck, Christina sees it as a challenge to start fresh. She will not let another day go by without finally taking charge of her life. It is an illness that only she alone can bear, take responsibility for, and overcome. Foregoing the usually prescribed chemotherapy route, she decides instead to start training for a half marathon. She runs because of inherit healing effects endurance training provides, and soon discovers that it has set her on the path to a much more self-determined, happy, and heartfelt life. Immediately following her multiple operations and within the space of only one year, Christina organized an international move from Switzerland to the United States and participated in five half marathons as well as a 100-mile challenge in 2020. She attributes her accomplishments to her dry humor, a long-lost love, and her two courageous children. A marvellous book for all women. It is like having a top-notch life coach neatly wrapped into a paperback book. Seldom have I highlighted so many passages in any other book as much as I did in this one or made as many connections to countless people around me. But read it for yourself. Gaby Abels, Hamburg, Germany Sensational! A super good book that tackles life´s poignant topics. Very humorously written. A must read! Joséphine Saffert, Nashville, TN/USA

Christina Mathesius was born in 1969 in Heidelberg/ Germany and currently lives in Nashville/USA & Zug/Switzerland. She is an expert in marketing and sales, a business coach and trainer, as well as a keynote speaker. She has held a number of leading manager positions, including in international retail fashion. After the birth of her two children, she focused her attention on her family and supporting her husband's career. For this reason, the family moved from Dusseldorf to Switzerland. While abroad, she continued her career, among other things, as a lecturer for Marketing and Sales and went on to establish her own company, CM Marketing and Sales Consulting, in 2018. In the summer of that same year, she was initiated into the Senate of the Economy, and the family made the move to Nashville, Tennessee. Alongside her role as vice president of the Senate of the Economy USA, she continues to build up her consulting firm in Europe and in the US. In January of 2021, she was elected to the board of directors for the Sister Cities of Nashville and represents Nashville in its partner cities all over the world. In the summer of 2017, Christina received the diagnosis of breast cancer. Immediately following surgery and still during her radiation treatments, she began to train for a local half marathon. Since her three operations in less than one year, she has participated in five half marathons and, in the fall of 2020, successfully completed a 100-mile-challenge.