Abusing Myself to Support the Abused

Written By Christian Griffith

Running 3000 Miles Across the United States of America to Prevent & Treat Child Abuse

Sometimes, I can’t even believe it myself. Like a dream. I mean, I ran 3,142 miles, from the dirty ol’ East River in Manhattan, NY, to the beautiful Bay of San Francisco, CA.

Thirty miles a day.

Twelve pairs of shoes.

Five months beating the streets America across twelve states:

  1. New York

  2. New Jersey

  3. Pennsylvania

  4. Ohio

  5. Indiana

  6. Illinois

  7. Iowa

  8. Nebraska

  9. Colorado

  10. Utah

  11. Nevada

  12. California

And finally, one year later, I am ready to relive it. Recount it. Share my stories with the world.

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Christian Griffith

Christian Griffith lives, eats, sleeps, and drinks digital marketing and advertising strategy on a daily basis.

His career has been deeply entrenched in branding, web development, internet marketing, online advertising, and creative strategy since 1997, but believes AI and big data to be the biggest advancements to hit business in a lifetime.

After 25 years in executive leadership, Christian Griffith left his last gig as SVP of Digital Strategy at Atlanta ad agency, Freebairn and Company, to start his own shop in 2015 called Live for a Living. A wildly successful 10-year run with Live for a Living opened the doors to an additional venture focused squarely on the advantages that AI brings to business. Now, with the 2025 launch of Kai Daddy Digital, he's helping clients get a serious edge by using cutting-edge AI and big data digital strategies on the marketing platforms that have proven to work for over a decade.

Christian loves being daddy to daughter, Kai, first and foremost, leaning into challenging fitness-type events and extreme sports for fun after that. In 2018, Christian ran 3,142 miles across the USA, New York to San Francisco, in an effort to raise $1 million for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse.

In 2025, Christian launched 5-Minute Fitness, a program as he calls it, “to eliminate all barriers to fitness training success,” targeting at-risk individuals such as the sedentary or over-40 crowd. As of this writing, he has over 600 members.

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