Topher Gaylord | BYP 007

Billy Yang Podcast

Billy Yang

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4.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Topher Gaylord is many things: a storyteller, an avid traveler, a successful business man in the outdoor space and an incredible athlete in his own right. We discuss how he broke into the outdoor space, how his friendship with the "Ultramarathon Man" Dean Karnazes influenced his decision to become a distance runner and some of his keys to living a fruitful and empowered life.

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0:00.0	So I said, I said, hey, I want to go into the outdoor industry or I want to go into the sports industry. I knew that that was a real passion for me, but also recognized like you can't just go into the industry because you want to go play around and have more vacation or hang around and talk about sport all the time.
0:27.0	You have to still be able to provide value and really useful skills to the company.
0:34.0	Hello,
0:39.0	Hello, podcast land and welcome to another episode of the Billy Yang podcast.
0:45.0	I'm your host Billy Yang and how is everyone? I missed you guys.
0:50.0	It's, um, 2018 has been already proven to be a pretty crazy year, but I mean that in the best sense possible.
0:59.3	Between client work, between touring behind my film, my latest film, which is the why about my Leadville
1:07.5	100 race and a film thanks to the support of Gu Energy Labs, I've been working on to explore some of the reasons as to why we deliberately and intentionally put ourselves through great distress and discomfort.
1:25.0	Sometimes there are moments of bliss of course and excitement and
1:28.4	stoke and all that great stuff but I really wanted to explore especially to the lay people out there why people do these crazy 100 mile races and of course now there are 200 mile races and I feel like we just keep ratcheting things up as we're
1:47.4	want to do as human beings probably.
1:51.1	And yeah, you know I had a great showing up in Heelsburg in the San Anselmo store of
1:58.3	SF-R-C which is a San Francisco running company. Shout out to all my Marin homies, Brett and all those guys and Dan and the guys at elevation culture for putting the event together but we had a
2:17.3	tremendous showing met some great people and I was like why didn't I do
2:22.3	events down in the San Diego area before so
2:26.0	Shout out once again to you guys to everyone who showed up and again to my friends at elevation culture I will definitely be back.
2:35.0	Before we launch into this episode I wanted to read this quick email that I received from Jack and I would hold his last name because he is a military man.
2:47.3	He goes on to write, Billy, my name is Jack.
2:49.5	I live in Anacortes, Washington.
2:52.4	It's about two hours north of Seattle, not far from Bellingham and down the street
2:56.4	from Ferry to San Juan Islands. Lots of great running up here and lots of time to spend with one year listening to birds with the other
3:04.9	listening to podcast. I like to give you some feedback on your first several
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