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Biography

Emme works as an automotive journalist and gets to travel the world, driving the good, the bad and ugly and telling her story at places like Motortrend, Car and Driver, CNET, The Verge and Jalopnik. Last year she took her lifted Miata to a class win at the Mint and has since been the first Miata to race at Rage at the River and in the Desert Challenge at King of the Hammers. She has raced locally and in Baja in a 2/1600 as well as class 11 and is one of the few to have campaigned an all-electric vehicle in a motorsports event, having taken the Rivian R1T to a top 5 finish in the Rebelle Rally. She has also competed alongside Tanner Foust in the Volkswagen I.D.4 in the Mexican 1000 in Baja California, Mexico. She has won the Rebelle Rally in a Jeep Wrangler and a Rolls-Royce Cullinan and earned a top 5 finish in the Gazelle Rally in Morocco in a Land Rover Defender.

Major Wins

2023 Mint 400, 2018 Rebelle Rally, 2019 Rebelle Rally

Meet Emme Hall, off-road racer; Miata lover, cat herder, freelance journalist. A woman of many talents and a bright personality, you’ll enjoy this one! Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.

6:30 – I was never the ingenue, I’m way too weird for that!

10:42 – because life is too short to drive something that isn’t fun

19:22 – I was in my late 30’s. That’s old to start racing, because you got fear.

31:11 – So you should see these straight lines, and there are people where it looks like spaghetti!

35:39 – I got to drive with Tanner Faust riding right seat for me

43:17 – At the Mint 400, Matt Martelli gave us a gambler class, they gave us 100 miles, one lap.

54:00 – That sounds good, let’s get a $400,000 Cullinan to take on an off-road rally

Special thanks to 4low Magazine and Maxxis Tires for support and sponsorship of this podcast.

TRANSCRIPT

[00:01:39.520] – Big Rich Klein

On today’s episode of Conversations with Big Rich, I have the pleasure to speak with Emme Hall.

[00:01:46.270] – Emme Hall

Hey, Big Rich, how are you doing?

[00:01:48.360] – Big Rich Klein

I’m doing pretty good. Just to let everybody know, Emme is an off-road racer, a rally competitor, an event emcee, freelance automotive, a media representative, and a past Rebelle winner.

[00:02:02.110] – Emme Hall

I’m like, I do so many things. I’m not good at any of them, but I do a lot of things.

[00:02:07.380] – Big Rich Klein

Hey, you know what? Like I’ve always said, it’s better to be a Jack of all trades than a master of none.

[00:02:15.590] – Emme Hall

Absolutely.

[00:02:19.340] – Big Rich Klein

How’s your day going?

[00:02:21.550] – Emme Hall

I had a great day. I was working on… I’ve got a 2015 Chevy Colorado, and it’s got total chaos, upper control arms and Uni-balls, and all that stuff. This is a truck that I inherited from my dad, and he was not the best at pr

American model

Melissa Owens Miller (born June 30, 1963), known professionally as Emme, is an American plus-size model, social reformer and body image advocate. Emme gained worldwide fame as the first full-figured model chosen for People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, first in 1994, then for a second time in 1999. Emme is largely recognized in the 1990s as the leading model in the profession, as well as its highest earner.

Early life

Born Melissa Miller in New York City, Emme was raised in Saudi Arabia, and returned to the United States as a teenager to attend Kent School in northwest Connecticut.

In her book, she tells the story of her stepfather instructing her at age 12 to strip down to her underwear while he took a black marker and drew circles on her outer thighs, hips, stomach and arms to highlight where she needed to lose weight.

Syracuse University awarded Emme a full athletic scholarship and she became a member of the crew team; she is also a member of the Syracuse University Orange Plus Hall of Fame, where she was inducted for her significant contribution to women's athletics and to the sport of rowing In addition, Emme was invited to the U.S. Olympic Team trials, as well as several U.S. National Team trials.

After graduating in 1985, she spent two years in F