162: Q&A: Fitness Advice for New Dads, Am I Done with Preps and Races?, Hiring Insights, Phone Disciplines, & More
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m answering your Instagram Q&As. I talk leadership, hiring with the three Cs, fitness tips for new dads, and setting boundaries with tech. I lastly address racing after The Last Dance.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Why This Q&A Episode Exists
10:17 Q1: The Mentor Who Shaped Me (Captain Angove)
17:51 Q2: Hiring Red & Green Flags — The 3 C’s + ‘Energy Vampires’
27:07 Q3: Fitness Advice for New Fathers (Routine vs Responsibility)
34:54 Q4: Leadership Lessons From the Last Year
46:20 Q5: How BPN Operations Evolved: Vision, Focus, Systems, and ‘Unpurposeful Activity’
52:42 Q6: Phone & Tech Boundaries: Social Media Fasts and App Blocking
01:00:52 Final Q: Are Races/Preps Over? The ‘Last Dance’ Mindset + Wrap-Up
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | Today's episode is a question and answer that I prompted on Instagram a few days ago. |
| 0:18.2 | Some really good questions and things that I've wanted to touch on, |
| 0:22.6 | but haven't been able to find a way to naturally and organically incorporate them into an |
| 0:30.0 | episode up until this point. I was just talking to Matt, who is the podcast producer. |
| 0:36.7 | It runs the entire show. And there's a lot of conversations |
| 0:42.4 | that I have on a daily basis, whether that is talking to the BPN team or in one of our |
| 0:50.1 | leadership or brand meetings. I'm on a call with somebody or a group of people. And when I |
| 0:57.8 | leave these meetings or these calls, I typically just take notes of things that were said or |
| 1:06.1 | thoughts that I had that I wanted to retouch one at some point. |
| 1:12.8 | They left a lasting impression. |
| 1:15.3 | And this episode is one of those opportunities to incorporate some of this content. |
| 1:21.0 | Like this morning, for example, we had one of our all-hands meetings with the BPN team. |
| 1:27.3 | And we do this once or twice, sometimes three times a month here at BPN. |
| 1:36.3 | And this morning, which is a Thursday, the team arrived at 9.30 a.m., we kicked off a team lift, which was awesome. We all went into the gym, and we threw down. Everyone was training in their style. We had people doing strength workouts. Me and some of the guys did a back and biceps workout. There were people on treadmills. Oz is training for his first |
| 2:04.8 | half iron man. So he was on his bike doing an hour endurance bike session. There were some high rocks |
| 2:13.1 | circuits going down. So we trained for an hour and then Eric from El Ambre Taco pulled his |
| 2:20.6 | truck up behind HQ, served tacos to everyone. And then after that we had about an hour meeting |
| 2:27.8 | talking about some initiatives we're working on here at BPN and just some thoughts that I wanted to share |
| 2:35.5 | with the team and some of those things that I share with the team are incorporated into today's |
| 2:42.0 | question and answer. I also had this realization this past month and I just I just felt called to share this. |
| 2:55.0 | It's been an observation at most. |
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