Ep 679 | 'I Started By Buying A Batch Of Foil Blankets' Disrupting The Trail Running Behemoths - Harrier Founder Kate Parker
Bad Boy Running
Jody Raynsford & David Hellard
4.7 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Our interview of Kate, you're going to love it. |
| 0:02.1 | The reasons why one of them talks about how she actually launched the business and the fact |
| 0:07.0 | she dipped a turn in the water, really clever ways to actually test if a business is viable |
| 0:14.0 | before you then quit your job, which she did pretty early. |
| 0:17.2 | We then go into the details of how do you test, how do you find suppliers, which countries in the world make the best zips, how many minimum orders do you need to order polls, all these things, but along that her journey as well. |
| 0:31.6 | And at the end, talking about one of the challenges she's found about representing a trail running brand when she's not been able to run herself as a mom and a small business owner and how she's come to terms with that. Really fascinating episode, guys, hope you enjoy it. They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running. |
| 0:55.1 | Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running Podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller. |
| 1:01.5 | Come back. |
| 1:04.5 | Baby, come back. |
| 1:06.1 | But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. |
| 1:08.9 | I must admit I was a clown to be messing around. |
| 1:13.2 | But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town. |
| 1:17.1 | So do bad, is this next episode, I think, is going to be quite different to our usual |
| 1:21.3 | fare because I'm, I've wanted to speak to our next guest to tell the story of what she's done for your sake |
| 1:31.1 | to hear about the amazing things she's doing. |
| 1:33.3 | But I actually also have wanted to interview her purely for my own sake because I'm so intrigued |
| 1:38.8 | to understand how she's achieved, what she's achieved, because from my point of view, having experienced my |
| 1:47.5 | journey with Cathy Bullitt, performance bullet, what she's managed to do so quickly is, |
| 1:53.3 | is quite frankly phenomenal. And I'm blown away by the success she's had. And so i just want to be her biggest cheerleader but also to |
| 2:04.8 | find out like how the hell have you done this this is incredible so welcome to the podcast the |
| 2:10.1 | founder of harrier um kate mackenzie wee oh thank you for such a lovely intro and um Yay. |
| 2:20.6 | Thank you for such a lovely intro. |
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