Travis Pastrana: Motosports Champion and NitroCircus Co-Founder

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

He's a motorsports competitor and stunt performer, winning championships and X Games gold medals in major events like supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. Never a challenge too daring, Travis Pastrana also competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing and the Global RallyCross Championship for Subaru Rally Team USA, where he strung together a number of Top 10 finishes. Pastrana's a household name in sports. He's amassed over 10 million followers across his social media platforms. Yet even more impressive than the wins and social influence, Pastrana co-founded Nitro Circus, which in 2013 merged with the Raine Group, and is considered a billion dollar sports franchise, according to Forbes. Talk about the modern athlete. Pastrana is the best in the world, creates premium content, launched an event circuit, hired employees, raised money, and is now taking his sport to all new heights. In this episode, we’ll talk about “the flow state” of action sports athletes, how they put their lives on the line, and how Travis is a man of "commitment to the task". Pastrana lets us into his world of fitness and nutrition, injury recovery (there has been a lot), and how to start a sports league.

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0:00.0	Today's guest is hands down the most versatile performer in racing and freestyle.
0:07.0	He's also the most celebrated motocross freestyle in the world.
0:11.0	He's amassed over 10 million followers on social media, but he's the most
0:15.6	celebrated because he's backed by data and wins. He's the winner of more X-Games
0:20.3	Golds, Gravity Games Golds, Dutor, Red Bull X Fighters, Golds, and when that wasn't enough, he stepped
0:27.5	into NASCAR and put together a string of top 10 wins.
0:30.9	Travis Pestrana is a household name in action sports and quickly becoming a household name in all of sports.
0:38.4	When I met him two years ago at a Red Bull event, it was a special moment for me, but not just
0:42.3	because of who he is, but how kind he was.
0:45.4	We exchanged numbers, have stayed in touch.
0:47.7	Now fast forward to podcast launch, I scheduled the time to talk about not just his world-class
0:52.1	athleticism, but how he's built the next
0:54.7	a billion-dollar sports franchise in Nitro Circus. Talk about the modern athlete.
1:00.5	Travis Pastrana is the best in the world. He creates premium content, launched a freestyle event
1:05.8	circuit, hired employees, raised money, JVeed with the Rain Group, and we're only seeing the first of it I think.
1:14.2	In this episode we'll talk about the flow state of action sports athletes how they put their lives on the line and
1:17.9	how specifically Travis is a man of commitment to the task. Trav also lets us into his world of fitness and nutrition, injury recovery.
1:26.3	There's been a lot of it.
1:27.8	And then we dive into the nitty gritty of Nitro Circus.
1:30.9	It was a blast.
1:32.3	I'm your host Paul Rabel and welcome to
1:34.5	suiting up podcast where I interview athletes, media executives, team owners, and
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