CrossFit CEO Don Faul on The Magic of CrossFit PH276

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Don Faul is the CEO of CrossFit, the world’s most effective program for improving health and performance through nutrition and exercise. Prior to joining CrossFit in August 2022, Don served as CEO at Athos, a next generation smart clothing company focused on building better athletes. Before Athos, Don held leadership roles at multiple Fortune 500 companies including Pinterest, where he led community outreach, international growth, and business partnerships as head of operations; Facebook, where he built and led the company’s global user, developer, and payments and risk operations teams as vice president of online operations; and Google, where he built and managed the operations supporting merchants using Google’s commerce and payments products. Don started his career as a Marine Infantry Officer, serving as a Platoon Commander with 1st Light Armored Battalion and 1st Force Reconnaissance Company. Don completed combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq before leaving active duty in 2003. Don graduated with Honors from the United States Naval Academy with a BS in Systems Engineering and received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Don currently sits on the board of Nuru International, a nonprofit focused on battling extreme poverty through sustainable development efforts, and More Perfect Union, a veteran-led organization focused on civic education, leadership development, and community service to bring Americans together. In his free time, Don enjoys reading, being a soccer dad, and (obviously) doing CrossFit. You can connect with Don via Instagram. @donfaul Related Episodes: Ep 29 - Dave Castro on Applying Lessons Learned as a SEAL, His Daily Routine, and Directing the CrossFit Games Ep 58 - Nicole Carroll on the early days and preserving the culture of CrossFit If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating or share your feedback on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health every week. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

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0:00.0	I think it is, it's really in the central part of managing growth well because you can,
0:06.7	if you lose sight of what makes you special and unique, that change in evolution can
0:11.6	erode the entire foundation upon which this magical thing is built.
0:15.6	So for us, a big part of what we've been spending time on over the last few months is really
0:21.0	distilling what is the essence of what makes CrossFit so special, so life-changing that
0:27.4	drives the results that fundamentally have powered a lot of our growth.
0:31.6	And how do we distill those down to something that we can look at and all agree upon?
0:36.0	And that foundation for us will represent the non-negotiables.
0:40.0	We're not going to change in these.
0:42.3	What it'll also do is create, clarify the space around it where we have the flexibility
0:49.3	to experiment and change.
0:51.8	Hello and welcome to Pursuing Health.
0:58.2	I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, Family Physician and Former CrossFit Games Athlete.
1:02.6	Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and
1:06.9	medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.
1:10.6	Thank you so much for joining me.
1:12.2	Now let's get started with this week's episode.
1:17.9	Welcome back to Pursuing Health.
1:19.5	I am very excited to be here today with Don Fall, who is the CEO of CrossFit.
1:24.9	So thank you so much for joining me.
1:27.0	I have been listening to a lot of interviews that you've done lately and I am so excited
1:32.9	to talk to you and just to get to know you.
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