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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Full Race Refunds for Challenge Family Races with Zibi Szlufcik

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

With races around the world postponed or cancelled thanks to COVID-19, many athletes have been left in the lurch as IRONMAN refuses to give refunds or, in some cases, even race deferrals.  But that's not been the case with the Challenge Family races. On the podcast today we talk to the CEO of Challenge Family, Zibi Szlufcik, who explains Challenge's decisive actions in cancelling races and giving refunds to athletes around the world.  

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK.

0:09.0

In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love.

0:23.0

Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science,

0:28.4

and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident

0:34.1

and your finish lines strong.

0:36.3

And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep

0:39.5

this show fun and accessible for everybody. Let's do it. Today's podcast is brought to you by thefeed.com.

0:45.5

You love to feed. I enjoy feeding. Fun story about the feed.com. Originally, all of this triathlon

0:52.2

Taron podcast, YouTube, website, everything started out as

0:56.0

a race nutrition, as in like your number one most important race.

1:01.5

And my idea was that I was going to review and give advice on how to use nutrition products.

1:07.8

So I was going to try all the electrolytes and bars and shoes and gels and then

1:12.0

give advice on which ones I liked and then how to use them in different scenarios. And in the

1:17.0

startup process of buying three or four thousand dollars worth of nutrition products, somebody said,

1:23.3

hey, you know that exists on the feed.com. And I was like, oh, oh, I'm going to do it better.

1:30.1

Well, I didn't end up doing it better. And five months later, I owned $4,000 of gels and shoes and bars.

1:35.6

We had a room full of gels and shoes. Yeah. So I was taken care of for a few years. That was great.

1:40.7

But I continued on with doing YouTube videos, which I liked a lot more than selling

1:46.1

gels and chews and bars. And the feed.com went on to grow essentially the business that I had envisioned.

1:51.9

If you go there, you'll see a review of every single product and advice on how to use it and exactly

1:59.8

what I wanted to build because it's more than just going to

2:03.4

Amazon and buying a product. You need advice on when, how to use products, who they're good for,

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