Sadie Lincoln: barre3 Founder on Building a Business and a Life.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Sadie Lincoln had a powerhouse career in a global fitness company, where her husband Chris also worked. But deep down, she knew the company she was helping to grow was no longer aligned with who she was and how she wanted to contribute to the world. Her career in wellness was leaving her unwell.
So, she and Chris decided to quit their jobs, sell their home and move from the San Francisco area to Portland, Oregon, in the name of pursuing a dream. Together, they founded barre3, a whole-health movement studio and community that has now grown to more than 100 locations worldwide.
In today's episode, we explore Sadie's journey growing up in an alternative family with her mom and a small group of friends - her "aunties" - who all raised their kids together. We dive into her love of movement and creativity and teaching, her openness to following serendipity into the world of fitness, and her emerging commitment to helping women cultivate and share their voices.
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| 0:00.0 | So when Sadie Lincoln was growing up as a little kid, she was kind of raised by her mom |
| 0:09.0 | and a group of counterculture friends, all women with kids who brought them up as a sort |
| 0:14.8 | of collective family and they eventually moved from New Mexico to Eugene, Oregon and |
| 0:21.0 | stayed this kind of really beautiful family. |
| 0:23.4 | Eventually, as most kids do, she started to rebel against this and went as bad as mainstream |
| 0:27.8 | as she could. |
| 0:29.2 | But the lessons from that time in her life just keep resurfacing over and over, reflecting |
| 0:34.6 | on doing in her work, reflecting on the importance of family, of movement, of relationships. |
| 0:41.2 | This just kept coming back. |
| 0:43.0 | Sadie eventually went to college and found her way into the fitness world where she became |
| 0:48.7 | a member of a team that grew this legendary global fitness brand called 24-hour fitness. |
| 0:54.8 | But something wasn't right now. |
| 0:55.8 | After about 11 years or so, she realized she needed something else personally and she |
| 0:59.9 | wanted to create something else that was very different and served a different need |
| 1:03.4 | in that market. |
| 1:04.9 | She took some time with her husband, Chris, and then married and a mom of two kids. |
| 1:10.3 | They decided to team up to launch something called bar three with a first location in |
| 1:15.8 | Portland, Oregon, one of my favorite places. |
| 1:18.6 | That has rapidly exploded into a global brand of its own with more than 100 studios, empowering |
| 1:26.9 | people to reconnect with their own intuition with movement, empowering the franchise owners |
| 1:31.7 | to really also step up and have something they can claim ownership of and create in their |
| 1:36.8 | own form and shape and customize and bring their soul, their voice to the world. |
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