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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In this episode of the Bare Performance Podcast, Nick Bare sits down with Nick Symmonds and talks about his journey to the Olympics.
Symmonds is a retired American middle-distance track athlete, two-time Olympian, CEO of Run Gum and resident of Eugene, Oregon. His best 800 meter is 1:42, best mile is 3:56 and is a 6 time US National 800 meter champion.
Listen to Nick talk about his journey to the Olympics, his training/diet routine and transition to a full-time entrepreneur after his professional running career.
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0:00.0 | So today we have special guest, Olympian, entrepreneur, CEO, Nick Simmons. Welcome to the show. |
0:18.3 | Thanks man, glad to be here. I'm really excited for this conversation today, |
0:21.5 | because it's two things I'm super passionate about. One business, entrepreneurship, |
0:27.4 | which I want to talk about, run gum and building that business, and then running and fitness. |
0:34.0 | Those two things together, it's like, that's my world. It's been my world forever. |
0:37.8 | I think I first learned about you from my subscribers on YouTube. They're like, |
0:43.5 | dude, you have to meet Nick Bear. You have to go meet him. He's everything that you're about. |
0:48.2 | Fitness, also the hybrid athlete idea. I just really subscribed that whole mentality, |
0:53.7 | and then just the entrepreneurial side. I subscribe to your channel. This guy is amazing. |
0:58.0 | I really need to go see your setup, which has been incredible by the way. Then also just learn |
1:03.3 | your story. You have a really incredible story. It's been so powerful for us. Our story is a whole |
1:10.0 | building the business, building the military, building the industry, building the team. |
1:16.0 | I've learned from that. You've seen how powerful that story is. People find it and they attract to it. |
1:23.2 | They are part of it. People are part of the story. Our brand does really well is storytelling. |
1:30.0 | We've seen that work. Now we tell our story or really passionate about telling other people's stories as well. |
1:40.3 | Olympian. I think this is the first time I've ever had a past life. |
1:43.6 | I have a lot of questions. |
1:47.3 | Sure. Pepper, me, man. I have a lot of questions about that. |
1:49.4 | For your audience, I said this last night. I say nothing's off limits. You guys can ask me anything. |
1:52.8 | You can't offend me. Take it any direction you want to go. It's an odd story. Goofy kid growing |
1:59.9 | up and boys the Idaho. Short little white kid. No one expects him to go on and make an Olympic final, |
2:04.3 | but it worked out for me that way. That's when I'm going to need started that. |
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