Hal Stern
11  year  Mo Bro
platinum club
hall of fame

$7,778

Target: $11,910
raised $75,869 since 2012
My motivation
Fundraising for cause areas including:
Men's health
Prostate cancer
Testicular cancer
Mental health and suicide prevention

As Nigel Tufnel once said, "This one goes to 11." My 11th Movember campaign is bigger, better, and yes, one louder than before.

After losing our mom to pancreatic cancer early in 2024, our dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer just a few months later. He's under treatment, feeling good, and told me early on "Use my story for Movember this year."

So here's his story: Dentist, saxophone player, handyman, fisherman, painter. He taught me about jazz, being a father, and finding the right fastener for all problems. He has always been "one higher" in his own quiet way.

As I’ve heard from you over the last decade of campaigns, men’s cancers, mental health and their intersections impact nearly everyone. I'm squarely in the middle of that Venn diagram this year.

Our theme song for men's health and mental well-being isn't something in a minor key. It's an anthem. A march. A downfield.

Your generosity and support have also been "up the way up" as I’ve had 4 consecutive years in the top 150 in the US, 3 $10k+ years and a lifetime total over $68k.

This year's goal (as a starting point): $11,910 taking me to $80k lifetime. Another top 150 finish. And of course, let's turn the amp all the way up, all the way up, then go one higher.

It's personal for me.

My "Mo Your Own Way" goal once again this year is to complete 60km on the rower. I will share some crazy things as I pass various fundraising goals, and starting early this year will help.

How I'm
getting involved
2 of 60 kilometres
rowing
2.05 kilometres
I'm moving 60km this Movember for the 60 men we lose each hour of every day. This is about 15 average sessions for me and about twice my normal pace
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1 hour(s) ago
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an anonymous supporter
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So proud to be part of your kindness.

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an anonymous supporter
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So proud to be part of your kindness.

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Todd and Jill Miller
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Glad that you are carrying this torch. We are very happy to support your effort.

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Todd and Jill Miller
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Glad that you are carrying this torch. We are very happy to support your effort.

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NAGARAJA SRIVATSAN
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Hal, Happy to support you towards your goal. Worthy cause indeed.
Best Regards Srivatsan

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NAGARAJA SRIVATSAN
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Hal, Happy to support you towards your goal. Worthy cause indeed.
Best Regards Srivatsan

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Kristin Lamendola
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Proud of you for continuing to do this!

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Kristin Lamendola
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Proud of you for continuing to do this!

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Always inspiring, Hal!

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Always inspiring, Hal!

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Hope Joel continues to get good news.

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Hope Joel continues to get good news.

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Thank you for continuing to inspire us to do more!

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Thank you for continuing to inspire us to do more!

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Happy day of-day of Movember! Greetings from Boston where the Pru Center walkway always reminds me of the cargo carrier from Space:1999.
Thanks for your support and contributions - 1/2 way to goal!

5 day(s) ago

Happy day of-day of Movember! Greetings from Boston where the Pru Center walkway always reminds me of the cargo carrier from Space:1999.
Thanks for your support and contributions - 1/2 way to goal!

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As a goalie dad, I don’t like to see goals but in this case I hope you hit the goal and then some!

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As a goalie dad, I don’t like to see goals but in this case I hope you hit the goal and then some!

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Movember USA
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Thanks for kickstarting your fundraising early! Here's another $25 on behalf of Movember's generous partners.

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Thanks for kickstarting your fundraising early! Here's another $25 on behalf of Movember's generous partners.

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Hal

You are an inspiration.

With warmest regards

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Hal

You are an inspiration.

With warmest regards

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Hal,

You're an inspiration - you'll smash the target for sure. Looking forward to following on Strava.

Rob

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Hal,

You're an inspiration - you'll smash the target for sure. Looking forward to following on Strava.

Rob

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Thanks for your support of these important men's health issues!

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Thanks for your support of these important men's health issues!

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I rowed 2.05 km00:10:00

hello movember 2024! let’s do this - warm up post hockey row to get started

Previous year's activities
46 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 2.71 km00:15:00

46 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 4.5 km00:30:00

46 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 2.68 km00:15:00

46 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 1.92 km00:10:00

47 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 1.86 km00:10:00

47 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 5 km00:30:00

47 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 1.86 km00:10:00

48 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 2.85 km00:15:00

48 Week(s) Ago
I cycled 4.51 km00:12:30

48 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 1.1 km00:06:00

Previous year's posts
48 Week(s) Ago

final Movember row - cranky machine from 20 years ago with no drag but have now rowed in 4 locations during this campaign

48 Week(s) Ago
I walked 1.26 km00:18:07

49 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 3.75 km00:20:00

49 Week(s) Ago

move mission accomplished with 4 days to go!

49 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 3.85 km00:20:00

49 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 3.76 km00:20:00

50 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 3.82 km00:20:00

50 Week(s) Ago

easy like sunday morning (for you 70s fans): 3,800m and some Goose live at Red Rocks. love ir when the two opening jams fill my 20 minute row with light and funky bass

50 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 5 km00:29:00

50 Week(s) Ago

the mo is calling - 5011m in a 30 minute class, new personal best, rockin the new mo shirt to boot (llama taboot iykyk)

50 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 4 km00:20:24

50 Week(s) Ago

40km of 60km and happy halfway thru Movbember! i’m on the Sheraton Boston rower for the 2nd time in a week. watched rowers on the Charles this morning and impressed, again

51 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 3.1 km00:16:35

51 Week(s) Ago

Thanks to some remarkably generous donors, I'm just $43 shy of another $10,000 year. I've heard from a few old work friends who were there for my first few Movember campaigns, and some newer co-workers who share a passion for promoting health and health issue awareness.

51 Week(s) Ago

60% of challenge accomplished for rowing and 80% fundraising. And tomorrow is the 33% point of Movember! Thanks team!

51 Week(s) Ago
I rowed 2.82 km00:15:00

51 Week(s) Ago

Over the summer I read Gerda Barker's memoir "Don't Stand In Line," an homage to the late punk/early industrial music scene coming out of Chicago largely featuring Barker's husband -- Paul Barker -- as bass player for Ministry. The mental health issues of everyone in and around the band, including Al Jourgensen, and the cameo appearances by Billy Tucker (Princeton area Regressive Aid, several tours with Ministry) and his eventual suicide after a bout with testicular cancer, were remarkably and poignantly conveyed. Instead of a tell-all torrid tale, Barker shares what it was like for the band families to deal with the roller coaster of emotions and creative outputs, the joy of music and the despair between. It was definitely in my Movember 2023 notebook as one of the better views of the impacts of men's cancers and mental health.

51 Week(s) Ago

tonight’s row in virtual alaska!

52 Week(s) Ago

nice 15 minute row - instead of hydrow athlete i chose the Trey Anastasio Band show from 4-30-22 in Atlanta, one of the last amazing shows with the late James Casey at full strength

52 Week(s) Ago

Hit the 1/4 point in rowing last night with a solid 20 minute Buffy "sweat row".
Am I feeling it today? Yes. Am I feeling the Movember love on 11-1? Bigger yes! Am I feeling the incredible support and encouragement of this 55-person boat, pushing me past the halfway point in fundraising? Huge yes!

Happy Movember, team

53 Week(s) Ago

A first for me: Three days in a row (pun intended) putting in the work, the leg push and the meters. I've connected my Strava app (which I use religiously to track workouts and long walks) to Movember so my rowing auto-posts over here.

This is what day one looked like in my new Movember swag. Photo credit Coach Whitney

53 Week(s) Ago

Welcome to Movember 2023! I’m out of the starting block a few days early to allow for wedding and Belgium trips.

Got 5303m in the can today and was proud to show off my newest Mo swag

104 Week(s) Ago

Happy first full week of Movember, team

Duran Duran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame over the weekend, and guitarist Andy Taylor missed the gig because he's dealing with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/07/duran-duran-andy-taylor-reveals-he-has-stage-4-cancer
Duran Duran was a staple of my WPRB DJ years before their music settled into the music vernacular ("Girls on Film", "Rio", "Hungry Like a Wolf").

This is why we grow, row and mo(ve).

104 Week(s) Ago

one of the Movember slogans is “know your nuts” - in this case creepy steampunk Mr Peanut would like you to self examine

105 Week(s) Ago

Today is the 48th Hebrew calendar anniversary of my Bar Mitzvah: the story of Noah. People think of the post-flood rainbow as a covenant (commitment); the key word in the preceding passage is "remembered." The rainbow appears because the Almighty remembered Noah for doing the right things even under pretty weird circumstances.

It seemed auspicious for the weekend to start Movember as I have more people, more stories, more personal impact to remember, lives impacted and dignity and bravery and sometimes weird circumstances. And I make an increasing commitment to raise money, push my physical limits, and raise awareness.

154 Week(s) Ago

You guys are nuts!!! (How appropriate!!). Goal #3 passed on the way to an all-time campaign record, aiming for $35,000 lifetime and maybe 5 figures this year?

154 Week(s) Ago

Pain? Endurance? Soul? Actually, just singing along to "Slip Kid" from "The Who By Numbers." Had the album on my mind quite a bit since the Phish "numbers" show in Las Vegas. Shout out to middle/high school buddy Mark Addeo who got the Who/whole rock and roll thing long before the rest of us.

I'm $12 away from $8,000, and $278 away from goal #3. Happy weekend, Mo Team.

154 Week(s) Ago

Over the summer I briefly played bass in a "pickup band" and we played a lot of Badfinger - the band you heard but don't know. "Come and Get It," "If You Want It," "Day After Day" - all Badfinger. They sound a little Beatles-like mixed with power pop of the early 1970s (McCartney wrote some songs for them). When legal and financial messes took center stage, vocal/guitar player Pete Ham and bass player Tom Evans committed suicide. Outside, these guys had an outsized influence on rock and roll. Inside, they were the tortured from so many angles artists. Be kind to each other, Mo Bros.

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