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Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson

Spencer Brown aka The Athlete Special | How YouTube Has Impacted His Running Career, Signing with the Brooks Beasts, & More!

Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson

Emma Abrahamson

Sports, Running

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to today's episode of Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson. In this episode Emma sits down with one of her OG YouTube inspirations Spencer Brown from The Athlete Special. They talk all about starting their YouTube channels in college, how much running social media has taken off, him getting a professional contract with the Brooks Beasts, and starting beef in the running world. You can find Emma on Instagram at @emmaabrahamson/@onecrazedfoodie and on her YouTube Channel. Follow Convos Over Cold Brew Podcast on Instagram at @convosovercoldbrewpod. Follow Spencer on Instagram at @theathletespecial and on YouTube at The Athlete Special!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up fellers? Welcome back to Commerce Over Colbrew with me, your host, Emma Abrahamson.

0:07.0

Today we're talking to Spencer Brown, also mostly known as The Athletes Special YouTube on the gram. He's a running

0:16.0

YouTube he ran at Georgetown and now he is signed to run for the Brooks

0:21.5

Beast as a professional runner which is super exciting for him and

0:26.4

you guys probably already know who he is if you watch my channel you've probably seen his videos as well

0:30.8

and you're probably already subscribed but this conversation

0:34.0

was super fun we talk all about running and YouTube and I just love talking to

0:37.8

Spencer it's super easy to talk to him we have many things in common so it's always

0:42.2

an easy flowing conversation so I hope you guys enjoy

0:45.6

the episode. A ride Spencer. All right Spencer Brown. The athlete special welcome to the

1:08.3

podcast. Can you give a little rundown of who you are and what you're about?

1:14.4

Thank you so much for having me on today.

1:16.3

Emma and I have actually kind of known each other for a long time.

1:21.0

We haven't seen each other in person in quite a while or even a lot but I went to school at Georgetown University. I was another D1 runner

1:30.2

And I had a YouTube channel kind of parallel to one Emma was in college as well

1:34.8

She popped off first and then kind of helped me get bigger on YouTube. So she was big shout out to Emma right now. She got me to where I am today.

1:43.2

You were the first like N-Souba runner

1:45.3

to blow up and kind of revolutionize YouTube

1:48.9

for YouTube runners.

1:50.4

So yeah, I have a YouTube channel called the Athletes Special and I am currently living in Seattle

1:56.4

I just signed a one and a half year contract with Brooks Ronning to run for the Brooks Bees

2:07.4

So I'm in a pretty cool spot right now and yeah, I'm just excited to be on here. Wow, Spencer, you really just gasped me up there.

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