Alec Merlino | Finding Your Why in Endurance Sports & Life as a Full-Time Content Creator

Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson

Emma Abrahamson

Running, Sports

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode Emma sits down (in-person!!!) with Alec Merlino, full-time endurance athlete and content creator living in Carlsbad! In this episode, Alec talks about how he got his start with endurance sports and triathlon, being a content creator, finding his "why" with endurance sports during a bike ride in Hawaii and so much more. You can find Emma on Instagram at @emmaabrahamson and on her YouTube Channel. Follow Convos Over Cold Brew Podcast on Instagram at @convosovercoldbrewpod. Follow Alec on Instagram at @alec.merlino and on YouTube.

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0:00.0	What's up fellas? Welcome back to Converse Over Cool Brew with me, your host, Emma Abrahamson.
0:05.2	On today's episode we have Alec Merlino. He lives here in San Diego in Carlsbad.
0:10.3	I met him at a run club a while back, but he has a super interesting story.
0:14.2	He's a man of many talents, I will say. He does Iron Man's, Half Iron Man's.
0:18.8	He's also a full-time content creator, and you guys' content is absolutely top tier.
0:24.0	Like his production quality, I can't even, we kind of talk about it in the episode,
0:27.4	like it's just, it's 10 million times better than mine, I will say it.
0:30.2	He was on, I think season 37, I'm Survivor, and was also on the TV show White Lotus.
0:35.1	He's an awesome guy, and I just wanted him on the podcast, share a little bit about himself, so
0:38.5	I hope you guys enjoy it.
0:39.6	Oh, well since I've been on it. Yeah, I do a lot, because they make me kind of nervous, you know.
1:01.9	Why didn't you do nervous? I don't know, because it's like, what kind of questions you got over there?
1:06.4	They're not that juicy, who I guess we can make it juicy.
1:09.1	Yeah, so what's the first one?
1:11.4	Intro. Oh, intro.
1:13.4	Yeah, well Alex, both of the podcasts, I'm excited to have you on.
1:17.7	You're a man, why do you know this? Why do you know this?
1:21.7	It's too much pressure.
1:22.9	No, it's not, we're just having conversation.
1:24.7	You're a man of many talents, so do you want to just give us a rundown of who you are,
1:29.8	what you're about to get started?
1:31.2	This is in person too, for England listening.
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