We Work Until It’s Done: Caity Henniger on Rogue Fitness and its Response to COVID-19 PH143

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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I had to opportunity to sit down with Caity Henniger to learn more about the mission and values Rogue was founded on, and how those principles are driving their business during this time of uncertainty. We chatted about her days as a competitor, how she balances her role as an executive with her own personal health, and we were even able to steal a few minutes from Rogue's Director of Product Development, Ahmik Jones, to learn more about the processes behind shifting gears from manufacturing fitness equipment to manufacturing PPE.

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0:00.0	everybody puts their boots on the same way and what that means is it doesn't matter your title here.
0:05.6	You know it could be the people on our leadership team, you know Bill and I, or it could be,
0:09.7	you know, the person coming in their first day on the job on the assembly line.
0:14.0	Everyone is the same and everyone's going to be treated the same and if it goes back to
0:18.7	that first one we work until it's done if there are boxes that need to go out the
0:21.6	door or we need to make more barbells, you're going to see the top
0:25.4	leadership down going out and helping right now. And you know we did get overrun before we
0:30.9	can hire some people. We have everyone in our office right now.
0:33.7	They are doing shifts on our production floor.
0:36.3	And that's really what this is all about.
0:37.9	And you see people, you get experiences
0:39.5	that you normally wouldn't have.
0:40.6	Like to go out and build a barbell
0:41.9	and maybe you're in our IT department,
0:44.0	like a lot of places you wouldn't have that opportunity, but we live by that standard. Everybody
0:48.8	puts their boots on the same white. Hello and welcome to pursuing health.
0:57.0	I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-fit-game athlete.
1:02.0	Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge and Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode.
1:14.3	In this episode I sat down with Katie Henninger 2008 Crosspit Games
1:18.9	champion and key leader at Rogue Fitness alongside her husband and Rogue Fitness owner, Bill.
1:23.7	If you're familiar with Cross Fit or Fitness, there's no doubt that you've heard of,
1:28.4	used, or are maybe an owner of equipment from Rogue Fitness. The company has grown from an idea shortly
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