"I Almost Got Fraser Kicked Out of The Games" ft.Matt O'Keefe
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Elite influencer and sports marketing guru, Matt O’Keefe, joins The Brute Strength Podcast for the second time after his original debut on episode 47. This week he’s going to dive deeper into his growing apparel line, Redline Gear, and share inside stories about what it’s like managing top-tier athletes such as CrossFit champ Mat Fraser. He’s also got some great tips for those looking to make a career out of training and competing.
Topics:
02:50 - Redline Gear and Mat Fraser
11:55 - Loud & Live Sports
22:00 - New structure of CrossFit
32:10 - Making a career out of training and competing
38:00 - Tips for managing athletes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back. This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week's guest is Matt O'Keefe. |
| 0:32.0 | Matt is the owner of Red Line Gear and the president of a company called Loud and Live Sports, |
| 0:37.6 | which just bought the majority shares of Watapalooza earlier this year. |
| 0:41.7 | And it also encompasses his work as an agent to a lot of the top |
| 0:46.1 | athletes like Matt Frazier, Katron David's daughter, Cole Seger etc. |
| 0:51.2 | And I've gotten kind of an inside look at Matt's success |
| 0:55.7 | over the past five or so years. |
| 0:57.7 | He's actually even stayed at my grandma's house |
| 1:00.1 | in New Roads, Louisiana. |
| 1:02.2 | And I wanted to give him the platform to just talk about how he's become |
| 1:07.7 | so successful, because I think all of us can learn something from it. The way that he does business |
| 1:12.4 | is very ethical and he does it in |
| 1:15.9 | service of others and to create value for others. So we start to show off by |
| 1:20.0 | talking about how he got started as an agent by meeting Matt Frazier, how he almost got |
| 1:26.1 | Matt kicked out of the 2014 games. |
| 1:29.2 | It's a great story here. |
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