What's up fellas, welcome back to Combos Over Cold Brew with me, your host Emma Averhamson.

Today we're talking to Sam Parsons, one of the founders of Tin Man Elite. Sam and I go

way back to high school where I met him for the first time at NXN in 2011 I believe.

Sam Ranna, NC State, now he is a pro runner for Adidas and obviously Tin Man Elite. He is the

creative director behind Tin Man Elite and in today's episode we talk about running the creation

of a brand from basically the ground up and Sam's goals for Tin Man Elite down the road and

much more. So let's just get into today's episode.

Okay Sam I am excited to have you on the podcast to get started you want to just give us a

little intro of who you are and what you're about. What I'm about, my name is Sam Parsons.

I'm a pro runner, I'm a creative, I'm an adventurer at heart and yeah that's good enough for me.

That's a good little intro. You and I go way back, we go way back, we go back to 2011 I think it's

when we met very briefly how far we've come now you know doing this podcast all those years up

until this moment we made it. I know it all led up to this actually. It's actually crazy how many

friends I still have from like meeting people back in 2011 in the running world like across the

country. It's kind of wild how the running world is too small I think but it is cool to see

like what everyone's done over the years. Yeah I mean there's so many people like just scattered

about from those like form of years that mean you went through you know like through being like

going to summer camps you know to NXN and those sort of formative things and like how those

people have all kind of branched out and gone their different ways whether it's with like brands

or with photos or on YouTube or doing their own running or you know like whatever it may be so

I still have that same network too so it is cool. Well honestly I need to start off the podcast

because we need to settle some beef from 2011. There's been the back of my mind forever so

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