How Spartan is Facing Challenge: Joe De sena, Carola Jain & Mike Lunardeli

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The world is facing a new paradigm and as a global events / racing company we at Spartan have had to pivot and pivot quickly to adapt. Today Joe De Sena, our host & the CEO of Spartan, speaks with Spartan's Chief Marketing Officer Carola Jain and our host Col. Tim Nye speaks with Spartan's VP of Merchandise Mike Lunardeli. We ask how Spartan as a company and a culture is stepping up to face its current business challenges. We have been learning & talking about resilience, performance under pressure, and facing up to difficult challenges for years on this podcast - now we get to see Spartan put these lessons into action. What has been going on from the inside and how as a company and global community we are forging forward and taking on obstacles as they arise. Until we can race again, the trends have shifted to online content, home gyms and a massive surge in the desire to own your own equipment. Spartans will come back from this, a stronger community than ever. Take care of eachother, take care of yourself and keep moving! Aroo.

LESSONS

Pivot quickly
Take care of your community
Be creative with content
Try new things
Build a good team
Train where you are
Find the best version of yourself
Keep moving!
Give it your all

LINKS

https://shop.spartan.com/

This episode is brought to you by WINE4RUNNERS.COM/SPARTAN

TIME STAMPS

0:00 The pod team introduces this special episode via zoom

2:35 WINE4RUNNERS.COM/SPARTAN intro

3:05 Interview begins with Spartan CMO Carola Jain

3:55 the reality for Spartan

5:05How to keep a largely furloughed staff motivated

6:40 How kids are understanding this situation

7:40 How do we take care of our community

8:55 A 50,000 ft view of what's going on at Spartan

9:05 Shifting to online content & demand for equipment

13.55 Spartan at the forefront of social media reframing

15:40 Assessing the "new normal"

17:25 Two areas Joe feels like he "failed"

19.25 WINE4RUNNERS.COM/SPARTAN break

20:25 Part 2 begins with Colonel Nye & VP of Merchandise Mike Lunardeli

19:25 Getting people to find a better version of themselves

21:55 How Spartan Merch began & developed

23:55 Positioning Spartan as a global fitness brand

25:55 Best sellers - and providing global access

27:25 Shifting landscape with the shutdown

28:55 New trend of creating home gyms

33:55 working overtime and giving it our all

35:55 discounts & race deals- optimism & hope

38:05 The Colonel, Johnny, Marion & Sefra discuss the interview

42:35 Spartan Up community leaning in everyday at 2pm EST on zoom : 510-734-9695

44:25 WINE4RUNNERS.COM/SPARTAN Close

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena & Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. You'll notice we are virtual this week.
0:04.0	Why? You know why. We're at home just like you are, but we're going to keep the world moving forward.
0:09.0	You know what, for five years we've been talking about resiliency, creativity under pressure, when and if to ever give up and how to pivot.
0:16.0	And after five years we've got some great ideas about how to do that.
0:19.0	So we're pivoting today.
0:20.0	We are bringing this to you virtually.
0:22.0	I want to make sure I've got this right. We've got our producer Marion up there.
0:26.0	We've got Retired Colonel Tim Nye up there. We've got several of the seed hunters over there.
0:31.0	And as always, I'm Johnny Waiteite and what we're doing today is we're
0:34.4	interviewing some of the Spartan team because we want to bring you behind the
0:37.2	scenes and just happen to the Spartan mindset and what's keeping this company
0:40.8	resilient alive and ready to serve our community keeping this is a
0:45.0	resilient alive and ready to serve our community as soon as we can get back to action.
0:46.6	That's right, Johnny, this is a two-part show,
0:48.8	something a little bit different.
0:50.3	We've got Joe DeSena, our CEO and founder.
0:53.0	He goes and he interviews
0:55.4	Corolla Jane, the chief marketing officer for his part.
0:58.4	That's right, Tim. I feel like I should do the Brady Bunch, like,
1:01.3	look to the side.
1:02.5	Okay, and our second part of this interview
1:06.1	is with you and Spartan's head of merchandise
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