80. Gilad Jacobs, CEO NormaTec
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Call me G,” was the first thing Gilad Jacobs told me when I met him, and that’s pretty indicative of the kind of guy he is. Personable. Friendly. Also — hardworking. For almost eight years now, Jacobs has been the CEO of Boston-based recovery favorite NormaTec — best known for their Pulse 2.0 Recovery system, which hooks up to the big compression boots you see everywhere from NFL sidelines to the local physical therapist’s office. In episode 80, he talks to me about his late mother — an MD and bio engineer who started the company — and the special relationship they had. He gets honest about the #hurdlemoment of losing her, and how that changed his life forever both personally and professionally. We also touch on things like navigating being “not-so popular,” and — of course — the benefits of compression.
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EVENTS
Live Hurdle with Charlie Dark, October 30, 2019 [link]
UCAN Marathon Stories, November 1, 2019 [link]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here with episode 80 of hurdle. Love nice around numbers like that. |
| 0:07.9 | A podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten through |
| 0:13.4 | tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness. On today's episode, I'm going to be chatting with Gilad Jacobs. He is the |
| 0:24.2 | CEO of Norma Tech, and we'll get into what that is in just a little bit. Before we do, |
| 0:31.1 | shout out to my sponsor, Athletic Greens. I'm sitting here working on the weekend, looking at this beautiful pen they sent to me so thoughtful with my Chicago time inscribed in it. |
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| 0:49.4 | Athletic Greens is a greens powder that I take every single morning. It is my daily dose of over 75 whole food |
| 0:56.6 | sourced ingredients as well as 12 servings of fruits and vegetables, prebiotics, probiotics, |
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| 1:09.2 | deal. It is 20 travel packs, a $79 value, absolutely free with your first purchase. |
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| 1:33.0 | Another huge thank you to today's sponsor, Whoop. I'm looking at my new Woopstrap 3.0 right now, and I just changed out my band and my hardware to a nice crisp white, |
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| 2:00.8 | out for a run. |
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