What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week I've got an interesting guest, owner of Red Line Gear and Team Management Company,

Matt O'Keefe. Matt is the Cross Fit agent.

He's a pioneer in the industry.

He represents Matt Frazier, Katrin Davis, Stodder, Brooke In, Sarah Sigma's daughter, etc.

Lots of the biggest athletes and what he is doing is he is allowing these people to become professionals.

He's helping them get endorsements and taking away all of the stress of managing the business

side and competitive side for these athletes so that they don't

have to stress about it. I know Matt personally I've known him for a couple

years now he's a tremendous guy and what he's doing is great. I think you guys will

really enjoy this show. If you would please go to brute strength training.

com backslash podcast backslash reviews and leave me a review real quit. Thanks.

Matt O'Keefe what's up man Mike how you doing my man?

Very good great to hear from you I miss you. I miss you too brother great to talk to you

absolutely catching up. I was sitting sitting down a couple days ago I forget when we scheduled this, but I was just all of a sudden, just really excited kind of about your story in general. I think it's just a really interesting one that a lot of people in the community have no idea is going on what you're doing and I just wanted to sit down and you know kind of

pick your brain about everything that you've learned over the past couple years

and gone through and stuff so I'm excited thank you well. Well, cool. Thank you very much. It's been pretty wild or I don't know the last couple of years. I bet it's been a ton of fun. I got to meet cool people like you so yeah I'm winning.

So will you just briefly tell us the story of how you became an agent in the first place

and started representing cross fit athletes?

Yeah, so I, you know, I'm a crossfitter, you know, as a fitness model model not a competitor obviously I have been cross-fitting

for about five years now and I was an insurance salesman and I was bored with my job so I you know saw an opportunity

actually in the clothing business that was you know an agent being an agent wasn't my start in this industry,

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