Sidney Baptista: The Business of Inspiring People to Run - R4R 316
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sidney Baptista is a coach, leader, and activist, and the founder of PIONEERS Run Crew in Boston. He’s also the founder and CEO of PYNRS Performance Streetwear, which was selected to be part of REI’s “Navigate” program and won the grand prize at the Black Ambition Gathering on the Vineyard competition this year. Yet despite those successes, as an entrepreneur, he still faces challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:14.1 | Together, we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps |
| 0:21.6 | us become better people, whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the |
| 0:26.1 | rest of the world still sleeps or befriending the strangers next to you at the |
| 0:29.8 | start line of a race. We are here to connect with others who see running as the common |
| 0:34.8 | dread that weaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from |
| 0:40.1 | all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello my friends, welcome to episode 316 of the Running for Real podcast. Thank you for joining me. |
| 0:53.6 | I am excited that you are here and excited to welcome back my guest, where |
| 0:59.1 | this episode is between myself and a friend. It's going to feel very, very casual and |
| 1:06.6 | relaxed and just conversational, but I think it's also talking about a lot of things that we all |
| 1:12.1 | struggle with. So while Sid Baptista has been on the show before, you might remember that this was |
| 1:18.4 | an actual episode I recorded and then lost. I didn't get his file, we lost it, we re-recorded and |
| 1:25.0 | did an episode together where he was half the episode I was half just talking by myself |
| 1:30.2 | about failure, about screwing up, about owning your mistakes, about being okay with mistakes. |
| 1:35.7 | Now today is a continuation of that and I'll tell you about it in just a second, |
| 1:39.9 | but who is Sid? Well, Sid is the founder of Pioneers Run Crew in Boston, the Pioneers performance |
| 1:46.5 | streetwear brand and he's a coach for pace, which is an online coaching platform. |
| 1:51.3 | Today, Sid and I are going to talk about how you might see from the outside how everyone looks |
| 1:58.4 | like they're succeeding, things are going up and up and you're going to hear about some of the |
| 2:01.8 | incredible opportunities that Sid has been given, but how that is always laced with crushing lows |
| 2:08.2 | that make you even wonder if you can do this at all. This is a very raw conversation, a very real |
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