The Founders of Freetrain
Power Hour
Adrienne Herbert
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Freetrain is the brainchild of two former professional athletes who met playing football in 2011.
Forever searching to improve the enjoyment of their workouts, and with an eye on a future away from football, they looked to create something to help adapt working out to a rapidly evolving modern world. At the end of 2018, they settled on the idea of finding the best possible solution to carrying your phone whilst you worked out and called their company Freetrain. In the beginning, they cut designs out of old T-shirts and got our grandparents to stitch the first basic prototypes. There were lots of after school football sessions and part time jobs necessary to help fund the development and manufacture of our products, but they carried on with a single creative purpose: to give people more freedom while they train... Finally, in the summer of 2019, the Freetrain V1 vest was born, and runners, cyclists and casual gym goers all over the world began to share their vision...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author. |
| 0:10.9 | Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, |
| 0:17.1 | change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what |
| 0:22.7 | motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and |
| 0:29.5 | inspire so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals. |
| 0:37.9 | Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast and welcome Jack and James the founders of Free Train. |
| 0:43.5 | How you doing? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, good, thank you. |
| 0:45.6 | Very good, thank you. |
| 0:46.5 | Nice to be here. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, it's great to have you both here and to be back in the studio yet again. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm loving recording with people again, not just dialing in via Zoom from my |
| 0:56.1 | home. And I'll be honest, I'm really excited to have this conversation today for two reasons. |
| 1:01.9 | So firstly, what I've read about you both, I really have loved researching the journey. I love |
| 1:08.3 | the story. And so I can't wait to get into all of that. I've got loads of |
| 1:11.5 | questions and secondly because for any of the listeners who are familiar with free train, the brand |
| 1:17.4 | and also the free train, specifically the running vest, then they've probably seen me wearing it on |
| 1:21.5 | Instagram. I am a customer of yours. I bought the product a few years ago I think and I've even |
| 1:27.4 | bought them as gifts for other people. We see them everywhere. You cannot the product a few years ago, I think, and I've even bought them as gifts for |
| 1:28.2 | other people. We see them everywhere. You cannot go to a London park and see people running or |
| 1:33.5 | cycling without seeing your free train running vest product. They are everywhere. So, congratulations |
| 1:39.2 | on that, on the success. Thank you very much. It's really nice to hear. Are you aware of that or you like, do you know what I mean? |
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