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The Nick Bare Podcast

105: Building the Brand: Part 6 "The Storytelling Machine"

The Nick Bare Podcast

Nick Bare

Health & Fitness

55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In Part 6 of the series, I take time and recount the journey of BPN from April 2019 to summer of 2022, highlighting our move to a second warehouse, the introduction of the hybrid athlete, and the explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.


We'll talk about some personal milestones, such as my first Ironman, tackling the Leadville 100, and shifting focus to the committed audience. I'll emphasize the importance of storytelling, community building, and lessons learned from endurance training that parallels business and life. The episode reflects on both professional and personal growth, especially after becoming a father.


CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and Recap of Chapter Five

01:17 Building a Brand: Lessons and Growth

02:09 Endurance Journey and Pandemic Challenges

03:37 The Hybrid Athlete and Business Evolution

04:35 Fatherhood and Shifting Focus

05:42 Key Lessons from Chapter Six

09:59 Content and Storytelling Machine

12:31 Ironman Prep and Business Chaos

21:05 Leadville 100: A Life-Changing Experience

31:01 Rocky Raccoon 100-Miler: Overcoming Adversity

32:28 Marathon Training: Achieving New Personal Records

34:16 The Obsession with Improvement

38:36 Endurance Training and Business Parallels

52:09 Building a Community, Not Just an Audience

58:07 Personal Growth: Balancing Family and Ambition

01:02:58 Conclusion: Reflecting on the Journey


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MENTIONS:

Watch More Than the Miles:

https://youtu.be/6GdPP_a2sNI?si=b-l4_oI9KZhi8Q_2


Half Time by Bob Buford

https://www.amazon.com/Halftime-Significance-Bob-P-Buford/dp/0310344441


From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks

https://www.amazon.com/Halftime-Significance-Bob-P-Buford/dp/0310344441


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Transcript

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0:00.0

previously on building the brand.

0:02.7

So I'm on this 18 mile training run and I'm 10 miles in.

0:07.0

And when I'm 10 miles in, my legs hurt.

0:09.1

I'm tired.

0:10.5

I'm fatigued.

0:12.0

And I say I'm done for the day.

0:13.4

Man, if I quit on this run, what does that say about my character?

0:17.4

What else will I quit on in my life?

0:19.4

The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.

0:21.9

So I go back to where I stopped and I get to mile 18. I run eight more miles and then I go one more.

0:27.9

One more mile than I was supposed to just to prove to myself that I could. And I take my hat off,

0:32.7

flip it over. I take a sharpie marker and I wrote one more under the bill. And I take a photo of it and I posted on

0:38.0

social media and the response was wild. All of these people started taking their hats off,

0:43.8

writing one more under the bill. After establishing going more than seeing Julie Moss cross the finish line

0:49.3

at the Iron American World Championships in 1982, I was like, this is going more. That's what it means. I need to

0:55.7

experience this. I need to train for this. So that's what I did. I committed to Iron Man, Florida,

1:01.8

which was 2019. After that, I was, I was addicted to endurance training. Now, between 2019 and 2020,

1:10.5

we grew 400%. It was, it was nuts. There's no other way

1:15.4

to explain it. We went from about $4 million in revenue to $22 million in revenue in one year.

1:22.2

One of the real problems that I experienced when I was in my Iron Man prep is that I couldn't find a fuel source that

1:29.2

wouldn't destroy my stomach. So we created G1M Sport. We created a product that solves real problems.

1:36.6

G1M Sport is now our best selling product under the entire BPN line. I committed to running a

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