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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

PTO's 2021 Business Plan with CEO Sam Renouf

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The CEO of the Professional Triathlete's Organisation, Sam Renouf, joined us on the podcast to recap how their plans for 2020 went (spoiler alert, they were burned to the ground by COVID) and what their plans are for 2021.

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0:00.0

I don't know what NTK is talking about with what she wants for this intro. So I'm going to hand the

0:05.4

football over to you. What do you want? I was just saying we should, you know, celebrate that we're in

0:09.3

2021 now. We're out of the awful year that was 2020. It's over. It's over. Is it? I mean, you know,

0:16.4

2020 was bad. 2021 is going to be better. Hopefully we're going to see racing. You know, life is

0:21.5

going to return to normal. That's where I've got my hopes placed. I believe in the stock market

0:25.9

terms, that's called the dead cat bounce. Even a dead cat, if you throw it on the ground, it bounces.

0:32.1

So it's not that the cat is alive anymore. I'm counting on the bounce. You know, I need something to keep me going.

0:38.3

Oh, you're so hopeful. I am. And there's good reason to be hopeful in which this can lead us

0:43.2

great segue into the podcast because we've just spoken with the CEO of PTO, the professional

0:49.7

for athletes organization, Sam Reneuf, about, you know, how 2020 went and what they're expecting

0:55.9

in 2021. And gosh, if they do what they say they're going to do, things are going to get really

1:00.6

exciting. Yeah, we had Sam on back in January, basically when they first launched. And we

1:07.1

talked largely just about what the broad strokes were of the PTO. What is the purpose of it?

1:11.9

And it left me hopeful because I certainly believe that there needs to be change in triathlon,

1:17.3

but it left me with an equal amount of questions about, you know, how are you going to make

1:22.6

this work?

1:22.7

How are you going to do this?

1:23.6

Everyone says they're going to get eyeballs into triathlon.

1:26.5

And everyone says they're going to help the into triathlon and everyone says they're going

1:28.1

to help the age groupers. But meanwhile, something like 98% of the start line at an Ironman

1:35.6

race is age groupers. And meanwhile, all we hear about is the pros. So like, how do you start

1:40.9

balancing all of these different conflicting interests and goals that a lot of people

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