Episode 414 - Chad Wittman - What do you do when life falls apart?

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

In addition to being a global executive and leadership strategist who has led $400M+ businesses at adidas and Reebok, driven global rebrands, and coached leaders from chaos and crisis to clarity and confidence, resulting in major transformation, Chad is a friend of 15 years. We met sitting at the negotiating table between CrossFit and Reebok, and then spent the next few years managing the newly minted relationship from each respective brand.

Chad is now the Cofounder of ACTIV8, which helps teams reduce friction, build trust, and perform at their highest potential.

https://chad.activ8myidentity.com/

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0:00.0	Okay, got the red smoke.
0:03.0	Gun runs. North and south.
0:06.0	West of the smoke.
0:07.0	West of the smoke.
0:08.0	Okay, copy, west of the smoke.
0:11.0	I'm looking at danger close now.
0:13.0	Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it.
0:16.0	You're cleared hot.
0:17.0	Copy, cleared hot.
0:18.0	Wow, you just knew that. You didn't even have to hear my voice.
0:21.4	You just sensed it, huh?
0:23.4	One of us does this for a living.
0:27.3	Clearly.
0:28.1	Yeah.
0:28.9	Where should we begin?
0:31.3	Well, do you remember where we met?
0:35.0	Here's the funny thing.
0:36.2	I don't know where to enter into this conversation because the volume of stories we have.
0:41.2	And then we had this massive gap of zero stories.
0:44.8	But I don't remember the exact day, but I remember exactly where I met you because it was in August of 2010.
0:50.7	Yeah, the games.
0:53.2	Is it at the games or after? I met you at the negotiating table. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was after the games, because that was going to ask. Yeah. No, so it was October. Would have been October. Nope. No? We were meeting in a hotel and I know this because my mother died while I was sitting in a conference room with you guys. Oh, I remember that. August 26th.
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