Making Healthy Living Easy and Affordable For Everyone w/ Gunnar Lovelace - 298

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Gunnar Lovelace is founder and Co-CEO at Thrive Market, an online wholesale-buying club committed to sustainability and social justice.

Lovelace is a is a lifelong health advocate and serial entrepreneur. He grew up as a child of a single mother, and experienced first hand how hard it was for families on fixed budgets to make healthy choices.

At Thrive Market, he and his partners are on a mission to make healthy living accessible and affordable to everyone. Thrive Market is sort of an online Costco, full of only healthy, high quality products.

In this episode, we dive into how Thrive Market built their business, what strategies they use to offer high quality foods to underserved markets, why we need more supplements than ever before, the new regenerative organic certification, and more.

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Barbell Shrugged helps people get better. Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.

Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast and Barbell Logic.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The core challenge is that we've now got seven and a half billion of us on the planet.
0:04.8	For the vast majority of our species, it was less than a billion of us.
0:08.0	And then with the birth of agriculture, you suddenly have this new capability to produce
0:12.9	food at a higher quantity from a very localized area on a consistent basis.
0:17.9	So that gives birth to modern civilization and trade and business and arts and language and
0:23.2	all the things that we love and also all of our hopes and fears.
1:00.0	Laurence and Andrews Varner and we came up here to Green Venice Beach.
1:04.3	We're in the Del Rey, up here in LA.
1:08.5	And we dropped into Thrive Market to hang out with Bernard Lovelace, the founder, co-founder
1:15.3	of Thrive Market.
1:17.5	And I'm really looking forward to finding out exactly what it is that why you started this
1:25.6	thing in the first place and what exactly it is.
1:27.8	Sure.
1:28.9	Well, it's great to have you guys here.
1:31.2	I don't think I've ever been interviewed standing up by three people at the same time.
1:36.4	So this is the first whole new experience.
1:39.5	Whole new experience.
1:40.4	It's can't take at least a week to digest what happens.
1:43.2	Hopefully, I'm not that backed up.
1:48.1	So do you want me to kind of get into the high level?
1:50.8	Yeah, you know what?
1:52.0	I'm curious as to why it is that you...
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