Everything You Need To Know About Sports Bras with Bravolution Founder Laura Tempesta
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Badass Lady Gang, meet Sports Bra Expert and the founder of Bravolution- Laura Tempesta! Laura is the only American with a Master’s degree in Lingerie Design, and the only person in the world with a custom-designed degree to study the engineering, design, performance and innovation of Sports Bras. In her previous job, she was Nike’s Sports Bra Innovation Director. Today, she consults with brands to help innovate sports bras so that they actually support us.
In this episode, we talk about everything from understanding how sports bras work, why innovation is moving at a snail's pace in the sports bra world, how to understand your body shape and size, why bra sizing is outdated and stupid, why removable pads are a thing, why sports bras are so expensive, to why it's taken so long for companies to make truly supportive and size-inclusive sports bras.
Check-out Bravolution: https://www.bravolution.com/
Follow Bravolution on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bravolution/
Download Bravolutions Guide Here: https://www.bravolution.com/download
Watch Laura's Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_tempesta_you_ll_never_look_at_a_bra_the_same_way_again
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey gang, it's me, it's Kelly and this is a very special episode of the Run Selfie |
| 0:10.2 | Repeat Podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm coming back from hiatus because I had the absolute pleasure to get to talk to Laura |
| 0:20.0 | tempesta. |
| 0:21.2 | She is a sports broad expert in the in the founder of bravolution. |
| 0:26.1 | It's a website that has just incredible resources that will help us all understand sports |
| 0:31.4 | bras, which I thought I knew all things about sports bras and deep diving this website |
| 0:37.9 | and getting to talk to Laura, holy moly, it both excites me because now we can know what |
| 0:46.8 | sports bras work and don't work for our bodies, our specific body shapes, which is so much |
| 0:51.4 | more than like bigger and smaller and angry because this is information that we should |
| 0:56.5 | be given growing up. |
| 0:58.0 | This is, it's insane that this is not like readily available everywhere and everyone knows |
| 1:03.2 | this. |
| 1:04.2 | A little bit about Laura, obviously she'll introduce herself, but she's the only American |
| 1:08.1 | with a master's degree in lingerie design and she's the only person in the world with |
| 1:13.2 | a custom design degree to study the engineering and the design performance and innovation of |
| 1:17.6 | sports bras. |
| 1:18.9 | She knows her stuff and she has this incredible guide online that you can download on bravolution.com. |
| 1:26.2 | She also has a TED talk, everything to find her in bravolution.com and all the resources |
| 1:31.0 | are linked below in the show notes. |
| 1:33.6 | But if you are wondering like why those little taco cups are the removal pads are in sports |
| 1:42.7 | bras. |
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