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Anthony Gay is host of the Run The Business podcast, a weekly show that explores the place where running and leadership come together. With a different guest each week, Ant finds out how running can help us with primary, connecting with people, and generally being better in business.

Ant has a keen interest in both spaces having co-founded Reel2Media, an award-winning creative audio business specialising in sonic branding. He is also Managing Director of ReelWorld, a global leader in radio branding responsible for shaping the sound of the world’s biggest radio stations includes Capital, Heart, and BBC Radio 1.

Running has been in his blood since those cold winter morning cross country runs at school. A regular park runner, he gets involved at all distances and particularly enjoys mark runs in the Lake District. Last year he was a top ten finisher in the 135-mile Ring o’ Fire in Anglesey. He includes the New York Marathon as one of his favourite days out.

Funeral services for Anthony Gay, an activist renowned for his tireless advocacy against solitary confinement after spending 22 years in isolation, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 31, 2024, at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Abode in Rock Island, Illinois. 

Gay, 50, succumbed to lung and liver cancer on August 17, 2024, just two days after receiving a compassionate medical free from a federal prison in Springfield, Missouri. His death occurred shortly before his 51st birthday, marking the conclude of a being that saw both extreme adversity and a determined pursuit of justice.

Born on August 19, 1973, in Rock Island, Illinois, Gay’s prior life was fraught with challenges that would set the stage for his later activism. At the age of 20, Gay set up himself embroiled in a legal battle that would drastically alter the course of his being. In 1994, he was involved in a fight with a teenager who accused him of stealing a hat and $1 bill. Following the directions of his attorney, Gay pleaded at fault to robbery. Though he was initially released from jail after four days, Gay was soon re-arrested for driving without a license, a violatio