Lee Sackett | Brooks Running, Running Industry Careers, Running Culture Talk

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Finn Melanson

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5 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Text us your thoughts about this episode or ideas for future episodes!In this episode we talk with Lee Sackett, a Product Manager for the Blue Line Innovation Footwear team at Brooks Running. The first half of our conversation focuses primarily on work, life, and career trajectory in the running industry. The second half dives into a flowy conversation about running culture, growing participation, increasing the entertainment value, and making connections with other sports to raise the l...

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0:00.0	Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I am your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode, we talk with Lee Sackett.
0:09.4	Lee is a product manager for the Blue Line Innovation Footwear Team at Brooks Running. As you know, I love having conversations with folks on the business side of the sport, specifically those who are paid to think philosophically about the sport and to grow the sport and who enable athletes to do anything
0:26.4	from simply participating to registering some of the greatest performances of all time.
0:31.6	And yeah, that's exactly why I wanted to have Lee on.
0:34.5	For the first roughly 35 to 40 minutes of the episode, we talk a lot about
0:39.4	career, specifically what Lee does, how he rose through the ranks at Brooks. And hopefully we
0:45.6	talk about it in a way that you, the listener, you know, if you're someone who has ever wanted to
0:49.6	work in this world, you feel like you have a better sense of exactly what it takes and how you can
0:55.3	get started. After that, in the second half of the episode, we get into a, I'll use the word
1:01.3	discursive conversation about running culture. We talk about what it takes to make art in this
1:06.1	world and all the different lenses you can look through, the psychology of folks that we want to recruit
1:11.9	into the sport, you know, the general population, how to create more entertainment value from
1:16.4	the sport, stuff like that. We also make some parallels between running and Lee's other great
1:22.6	passion, the world of cycling. Let's get started. Welcome lead to the show.
1:30.1	Lee Sackett, it has been a long time coming.
1:33.1	Welcome to the single track podcast.
1:35.9	Ben, thanks for happening, man.
1:37.3	I'm really happy to be here next to a really strong list of guests.
1:42.1	I'm honored.
1:47.4	Well, if we had a Mount Rushmore of minds that have been on the podcast so far, you're definitely on that. We've already put your face into that mountain.
1:52.5	If you think I'm not going to let you tell me the other faces on that mountain, right? Yeah,
1:57.8	you don't have to give me all three because I don't want you to like, you know, get in trouble within your guess.
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