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Empowering Connections: The Rise of Nameless Run Club (Drew Tegui and Stefan Finke)
Building Community Through Running: The Nameless Run Club Story
In this episode, host Bryan the Botanist sits down with Drew Tegui and Stefan Finke, the passionate co-founders of Nameless Run Club. They discuss their motivations, origin stories, and the unique approach that sets their organization apart. From introducing cold plunges to curated wellness experiences, Nameless Run Club is more than just running—it's about building a community. Discover how they started from humble beginnings, the partnerships they've formed, and their vision for the future. Special shout-outs go to their supporters and various partners. Don't miss hearing about their upcoming events and innovative plans on how they keep their runners engaged.
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hey I'm here with Drew and Stefan from Nameless Run Club. What's up guys? We're good. You know, just, uh, had a long drive. I came from Boca today. Wow. All the way down to Miami. Yeah. Thanks for having us. We're excited to be here. Talk about nameless and Sneaker Impact and hopefully a possible, uh, collaboration in the future. So,
0_Bryan:yeah, I heard about you guys from Joao Alcolea. Yeah, from Pushing4New. Yeah, Pushing4New, yeah, he's a good friend of mine. I said, Joao, do you have anyone you'd wanna recommend for the podcast? And he said, right away, you guys. And he gave me one other name too. And that person's coming on next week, so. Awesome. I like to follow up on leads and then I started checking you guys out on Instagram and I saw the amazing events you guys are doing in Fort Lauderdale and soon other places in South Florida. And what else did I wanna say in the beginning? Um. Oh, you guys helped move the couch in as the guys check, check out the couch. He's moving company. Yeah, they, they're nameless.
0_Drew and Stefan:on forward, if you see this couch here, that was Nameless Moving
0_Bryan:Right? We have new Feng shui in the house. We have two guests today, which is shaking it up. Drew has the RODE wireless mic on, so we tested it out before He's gonna, he's on a separate audio channel than me and Stefan Finke. Yep, that's how you pronounce it. And Drew Tegui from Nameless, the founding partners. Um, so yeah, I checked you guys out on Instagram and it just looks like a lot of fun and really high-end partners and beautiful experiences you're creating for people. Tell us more about like your journey, where it all started and like where you're at. Catch us up a little bit. You kind of, kind of, honestly take turns. Started with
0_Drew and Stefan:Drew for sure. I mean, you could start off when did it, when was it
0_Bryan:born? When was name this run club
0_Drew and Stefan:Um, so I graduated from school. I went to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Uh, I graduated in May, came down here. I played college football, so. You know, I tore my a CLI had to retire, uh, senior year. Um, I was very competitive. I was always very athletic and honestly, I was terrible at running and I was like, I want to take this year to get better at running. And we had a couple buddies that had some aligned values. Um, you know, we had some free time over the summer. And we saw, of course, you know, Frankie doing an amazing job at Brickell Run Club and we just saw a need for that in Fort Lauderdale. Also our age group and demographic. I think there was a lot of need, um, you know, a lot of people moving down, wanting to meet new people, necessarily not going out and drinking and spending a lot of money and all that stuff. And, you know, we got a pretty good core group to come out and run. Um, and to go off of what you were. Uh, originally saying about the experiences, that's something that we've just always valued and, and prioritized. So now it's plunges, B12 discounts ables. ables. But when it was us at the beach, it was free water and Gatorade. so. Okay. So there was a humble beginning to it. Oh yeah. It was always like something, it was always running always thought of something for that's something that we really were able to capitalize on, was run and something, and. And What we find that's different from our run clubs from most other run clubs is that we get a lot of first time runners out and that that has that combination of social anxiety and physical anxiety that when they overcome it after the run, the social hour afterwards is amazing and actually took us a couple times to realize that you gotta get through the run to get to the social part. Like a lot of people are so anxious before the run and it's normal, like we'll go to. Run clubs and we will be anxious before and then
0_Bryan:afterwards you feel totally relaxed afterwards. Exactly. The endorphins hit. This is a
0_Drew and Stefan:crazy dopamine spike with the endorphins and everything. And the exercise
0_Bryan:goes quicker too. The running goes quicker.
0_Drew and Stefan:Running goes quicker. We are so blessed to have, for Lauro Beach is our, one of our venues we hear from all the run clubs, especially out west. Like, man, if we only have the beach to run by and Why
0_Bryan:did you call it nameless?
0_Drew and Stefan:That's a, that's a great question. Can I take this one actually? Yeah. Yeah. So, um, we. Like I said, we had a bunch of. Friends in a core group that had aligned values and we were just kind of shooting ideas out and we didn't have a name for the group Mm-hmm. So it was actually called Nameless Group chat. Oh wow. And we were trying to come up with names and I just saw the name in the group chat. I was like, man, I love That fits it. Perfect. And we were just talking about like what we could actually do with this. We had just gotten approached by like our first sponsor. We're like, well, okay, this could be something more than. You know, just mm-hmm. Meeting and running and I was like, what? What we want to do differently, what we see a need for, and most important thing is to not have barriers. So that was the first thing we did was like disassociate from the city. And so, yes, like we are rooted in the city and we care about the community. We want to keep growing it, but we can do that in every city. Why not? There's seven days of the week. Yeah. Instead
0_Bryan:of like Lauderdale Lakes run club. Exactly. Mm-hmm. Which we love every community. Like I live in the Upper East side and I, but I signed up for your, your event tomorrow. Check it out. Oh, awesome. There we go. The the wharf. At the wharf event. The wharf. Yep. In Fort Lauderdale. That's awesome. You talk about that. Yeah. So you guys have a big event tomorrow, and do you do it every week or is it a couple times a month? How do you I a Sunday one too.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. So with the wharf, that's, uh, it's biweekly every other Thursday pretty much. Okay. Every Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale and, um. Um, before that too, I actually wanna like dig back into topic how we started. We actually met through bro club.
0_Bryan:Okay. Stefan and I met through club. Yeah. How did you guys meet?
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah, so again, he had his, uh, back it up. His buddies. Yeah. Back it up a little bit.
1_Drew and Stefan:And, um, pretty much how me and Drew met was actually through a nameless run club. Funny story. Um, he already had like the plan in the works, you know, he had a group chat called like nameless group chat and stuff with him and his buddies getting started up. And, uh, you know, in the meantime where in the same time, um, I was actually just going on beach runs with my friends, you know, like not trying to start a run club at all whatsoever. Actually just, you know. Friends on a run, we posted on Instagram stories like, and stuff like that. Nothing too crazy. And, uh, a mutual friend of ours actually, uh, dmd me, he was like, Hey, like I see you doing beach rounds, like, can we pull up? And I was like, yeah, sure, that'd be great. More than merrier. And then from there, you know, I, uh, was talking to Drew, picking his brain about, you know, like the whole growing club idea. Asking him like administrative, uh, questions and stuff, because that's the accountant to me. And, uh, you know, he just like was answering these questions and he was just like, you know what? You sound like you know this a lot more than, uh, I do and we would love to have you like a part of, like a division really. And I was like, yeah, like I'll help out. And um, I. You know, as, uh, the run club grew, so did my responsibilities and my, uh, my impact on it overall and just the overall run club has been growing like crazy. So from, uh, just running with friends, it turned into, you know, a nationwide initiative. So that's how me and Drew met and that's it.
1_Bryan:cool. Alright guys, we're back after a short break. So Drew, uh, continue telling us about the
1_Drew and Stefan:yeah, yeah. I don't know where we got cut off, but basically, um, like I was saying, we always prioritize the experience, right? And that's what we wanted to do moving forward. So at some point we were meeting at the beach. Um, we were paying for parking ticket or we were paying for parking, and basically everyone was going to markets or after to get food. And we were like, all right, how can we elevate this experience? And at that point we got approached by these awesome venues with healthy food, healthy options, um, good vibes, good social presence, um, great owners. So those three were pressing grind, quarter deck and veil. so we were basically moving around between those, which started our business plan of moving around not in the place. Um, so eventually we got offered by Veil to be, uh, exclusive with them. Which opened up an opportunity travel statewide. So had Oh wow. Boca del Rey, Brickle, uh, Pinecrest, Tampa, Orlando, right. Places that we touched yet. Mm-hmm. so that was a green light for us to go ahead try out this business plan. And what came with that was, know, runners get free assay bulls after the run, like little sample bowls. Um, they help us set up the plunge, um, 15% off menu and were helping with content basically everything to elevate experience, which as everyone knows, that's a domino effect of getting more, like even more benefits for the runners stuff. As we find more sponsors and as we more people, we can do more things that's just, um, something we capitalize, capitalize on moving exclusive with them forwards as well as not obviously working other clubs as well. like we could our, uh, experience authentic.
0_Bryan:Beautiful. Um, how long? Yeah, you wanna shut the door? How long, how long has, uh, nameless been in, um, in existence? How long have you guys been active? Uh,
0_Drew and Stefan:since like, we, um, formed the LLCI would say since early October.
0_Bryan:Okay. So this is all fairly new in the last year. It's really grown. Yeah. No, that's great. I mean, but I love your guys' media. I mean, thank you. You're capturing really well. What, what you guys are doing. I saw one in the last week where it was the cold plunge and it just looked like a lot of fun. And I've, I like the cold plunge, so I think that that's really good, that it's more than just a run and you guys are making it really fun for people to connect with other people. Um, then the anxiety goes away during the run and all the fun of afterwards. So
0_Drew and Stefan:yeah. And we make going into a freezing tub of water enjoyable. Yeah. Seriously. Like that's that, how does that get provided?
0_Bryan:Did you buy that or does one of the partners provide that? Yeah, we, we bought it. Bought it. So that's iconic for your club then. It's an
0_Drew and Stefan:but it's worth it. Like it's an experience that we want to give. And you know, we were talking a little bit about it off camera, but like a lot of people approach me on the backend side and they ask like, how do you do this for free? Like, why you should be tar charging people. Sure. Um, but we don't, it's, it's for the community. So the Run
0_Bryan:club is a hundred percent free.
0_Drew and Stefan:The runs that are consistent are free. Something all runs are free. All runs are like, there's always an option to run free every Yeah. I think the one
0_Bryan:that I signed up for tomorrow on Thursday at um, yeah, at the Morph is free even I noticed I got it through Sweat Pal. Yep. Sweat Pal. Yep. I saw that through your Instagram. I didn't have it actually. And then I was like, I was asking my coworker about it.'cause I'm kind of like a boomer. I'm not really, but I call myself one. I'm a little older and um, I just, you know, we used to use Eventbrite and all these things or it used to just be, just sign a waiver at the first run club. But that's great that the app, but by the way, I was looking at most of the things in the app they charge you for, yeah. 40 to 60,$50 for these group classes and you guys are putting this stuff on for free. So that's a huge amount of value. But then you also have some experiences that are ticketed. We
0_Drew and Stefan:some elevated experiences where we. um, rent out a venue. We provide a meal the experience. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Um, we have full plunges saunas, B12 NAD plus massages, crowd therapy, yoga classes, cryo, um, live music, everything like that. And like, we're always experienced above everything of course. And so when we say that we're charging 25 to$30 for an event, our runners know it's gonna to be a top experience. They're gonna get to$300 of value out the event. Wow. At least. At least. And then we have giveaways, ND plus giveaways. And NAD plus shot is 50 to Sure. To get into the Yeah. Itself is more than our ticket. So you
0_Bryan:guys have negotiated great value for the community? Oh, a hundred percent. Everybody went.
0_Drew and Stefan:that that's
0_Bryan:something that we, the ticket events aren't$300. No, no, no. They could be
0_Drew and Stefan:our first round of tickets for our, you're proving the concept and people love our like runners that are consistent are at all of our events. Like we'll open up a 20, a 1999 ticket for the event, which we had 25 people secure on May 10th. Wow. For June 21st event.
0_Bryan:Because you had guaranteed
0_Drew and Stefan:I didn't even, everything like I'm like, listen, we're gonna do a ticketed event. Mm-hmm. a$20 ticket. We're gonna figure everything else. to elevate, otherwise you can come as a general public if you wanna lock it in right now, at the lowest cost ever, bang. And we're providing dinner. Mm-hmm. We're providing dinner. Oh, wow. Yeah. On the$19 ticket. Okay. Is that for the nighttime ones then? It's for all of them.
0_Bryan:Wait, this is the one I'm going to in the morning. No, that's, that's
0_Drew and Stefan:a happy hour social
0_Bryan:mine's a happy hour's free. The Sunday one is in the morning. Yeah. Only
0_Drew and Stefan:one's in the morning. And this is summer solstice theme. It's the hottest day of the year. Okay. So we said, all right, let's do it at night. So no one's doing it at night this Sunday. Yeah. We had to pay to open the venue back up, um, for the evening. But we timed it so that we have an exclusive Spike ball tournament before the Oh yeah. It's gonna, we can win up to$500 in prizes. Then the event starts with the breath work, the 5K, and then we have certified yoga instructors doing a Sunset. Wow. Yoga. Oh my sunset yoga Workshop. This is a special event. Yeah. So as the sun's going down, we're gonna have a yoga lots class in the lawn. They have four plunges sauna, two red light, and then we'll be providing dinner. Sun goes down, we're gonna have the concert. We just bought the glow sticks and everything. Wow. That's this Sunday. That's next Saturday. next Saturday, two Saturdays tickets are actually going pretty I'm gonna
0_Bryan:have to come to that one. That one sounds Oh, a hundred percent. It's a straight time. You should, yeah, I'm, I'm hoping so this Sunday, I think I also, is it Sunday? One in the morning? Always. Yeah, Sunday's in the morning. Okay. So Saturday the previ, the following Saturdays at night. And that's your
0_Drew and Stefan:It's our first time ever doing it at night. Um, where, what venue is that one at It's at the space Delrey. So the spaces of recovery venue. Okay. With multiple plunges saunas, red light, um, breath wear classes, stuff like that. So a day passed there is$40. Oh wow. And it's for an hour. Okay. Yeah. So we are opening it up to the public. It's like a wellness clinic for like three hours. three hours for a fraction of that price. The space plus dinner, plus wellness shots. We have a bunch room, you know, I wanna try
0_Bryan:like the soak where you, where you go in the flotation tank. A float. But I also want do, yeah, I want to get one of those from my house potentially. But then I wouldn't want one with a top on it. I was thinking about it'cause that'd be kind of weird'cause I'd live by, I would get so claustrophobic. I get claustrophobic and there I might like fall asleep meditating. And then
0_Drew and Stefan:I think some of'em have like the red light also. They probably have ways to go. Yeah. Or if
0_Bryan:you keep it. But um, I go in the ocean a lot and uh, as much as I can. Yeah. And I went swimming with a open swimming club last Sunday in Miami Beach. Oh, that's cool. It was my first time ever going so I'm into trying new clubs right now and just going and driving a little bit like that one I drove to South Beach. I live here near Sneaker Impact. You guys live in Boca, so shout out to these guys, right? Boca? Yeah. I live in Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale and Boca. And they drove down to Miami to this little river studio. So shout out to them and they're patient. We had a little snafu where my memory card over. It was maxed out, but there was nothing on it. It was like a ghost memory card. And, and these guys were patient while I reformatted it. And now we're in the second, uh, take of the podcast. But, um, this is really cool. So you guys found a winning formula, and was this what you guys were doing before, was organizing events or like what do you do else in your life like this? You know, like, tell us, what do you like to do when you're not hosting nameless Run club. Planning
0_Drew and Stefan:more,
0_Bryan:Yeah. You guys are entrepreneurs. Yeah. What do you do? What else do you do to make ends meet? Do you have a side hustle besides this, or is this the main hustle?
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah, this is, uh, honestly, like, it's, it's competing with, uh, my main income right now. It can be, yeah, it can be the main. So that's the goal. We wanna go full time with this. It's a, it's a passion. It's our tagline, like no name, just passion. You know? Again, the whole idea behind it is like bigger than a person. It's about the community. Okay. And, um, yeah. How do you have it, do you have it structured
0_Bryan:all then set up then financially? So it can be a like a. The, the pillars are in place. Like, did, did you guys see, uh, there was a recent interview I did with, um, a guy from Michigan named, um, Joe, uh, Robinson. He said the four pillars for a successful run club, and one of'em is having the financial mm-hmm. All set up. That was like number three. And number four was competition. Um, number two was charity, I believe. Healthy
0_Drew and Stefan:competition there. Something, uh, it was
0_Bryan:actually like the last one and he said it's the least important in that like, you want to have people breaking tape and being on the podium. Yeah. So he's a run club on Detroit. Oh. School competition. Um, like competition. Ac, ac, ac accolades. I don't know if you call it. Yeah, I remember what you call it. But just some type, you know, you want to see your brand breaking the tape is what he said. But number one was, I believe connecting. Yeah. He said number one was connecting. At the end of the day, people just want to connect. Yeah. The community's all about a bunch of different people. It's about you. Another person's not like you. Another person's not like you. They're all, they're not like you. They're all coming together. And that's a community. Yeah. Exactly. And then you guys are helping them connect. That's pillar one. Yeah. And then pillar two is giving back. So I know you guys said you're giving back a lot too.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. I think the coolest testimonial I've gotten at least recently was somebody came up to me and he was like, yo, I've been to all the run clubs, but you know, I keep coming in nameless because you say hi to me every time. So just because I go and I take the time in the beginning to basically welcome everyone. Give them a little bit of background, which I do a similar thing when people follow, I reach out and give them Oh wow. Some background information. I, yeah, I don't know how. So you guys try to like, interact with that? Yeah, actually every single person individually, it's insane first name.
0_Bryan:Um, and you guys have been getting bigger groups. I've been seeing too, like, that can get hard when you have more than 30 or 50
0_Drew and Stefan:I also just wanted to go back, um, yeah, I'm a, I was a computer science major, so I graduated with a computer science degree. Um, and I was, I'm doing like full stack software engineering Mm-hmm. Full time. Um, so when I'm not doing software engineering, working on this and haven't seen friends in a while you can do both. Yeah. They won't compete against each other too much. Yeah. I mean, it, some stuff has, well, you have background
0_Bryan:in computer engineering. That's really cool.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. So obviously was able to make our website. Okay. Um, and,
0_Bryan:then Stefan, you have a big background in accounting, which is important too, you said, right? Yeah, exactly. Because you have to have like an MBA type aspect to like, how are we gonna make this successful? Yeah. Which is, you know,
0_Drew and Stefan:but we're, we're all hands on. Like
0_Bryan:we do very
0_Drew and Stefan:a bunch like.
0_Bryan:we do whatever needed. I like that it doesn't have a home in one place. It can move and be like, whenever,
0_Drew and Stefan:like he has like something important to do that day or like a personal thing. Mm-hmm. Like thing and like I'll literally just take it on and vice versa. Wow. So it's really easy.
0_Bryan:That's a great partnership and yeah, you have to pick your, your founder as well and make sure that. You guys are on the same page. Core values, all the, you know, yeah. Vision is the same and
0_Drew and Stefan:they say don't go into business with your friends, but we became friends through a business, yeah, that's, I don't know what the rules are there, but it is it's worked out great. So, well, yeah, I mean that's probably what you shouldn't do. Like we were kind of strangers at that point. Yeah, we, we were a hundred percent strangers when we signed the LSC agreement together. Really? Yeah. Wow. It was like our, like our third time hanging out. So that's actually
0_Bryan:probably a good thing then.'cause then, you know, if, if you had ever had like fights, you know, before with each other, then like, we've actually like never really fought either, so that, this way you're more like friends, but you weren't like super deep in friendship where there could be like Yeah. Um, liabilities. Yeah. Now he's
0_Drew and Stefan:like my brother, like, yeah, it's crazy. He
0_Bryan:gives me
0_Drew and Stefan:a lot of freedom for the front end stuff and I give him a lot of freedom for the backend stuff. And it,
0_Bryan:you have to do both. I mean, you have to pay, pay both your taxes, make your paperwork, and llc I have an LLCI know it's a lot of work and, and accountant is valuable. So if you can do the accounting, but that's awesome. So. Man, you guys have like, I'm sure big dreams and big goals and mm-hmm. Tell us more about the run club. Like what does the run of show look like when people sign up or when they show up? Like what do they, what, how is the run of show? How does like the events look?
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. Like from the beginning, honestly, like, you know, we go through Sweat Pal. So you RCP when you show up, uh, we have someone at the front on a table. Uh, there's a table there. Yeah, there's a table. So we check people in, so we'll do it too sometimes. Nice. Just to say hi to everybody. Of course. Yeah. Very
0_Bryan:cool. We, we like to inter not all the clubs, everything. Not everyone uses a checkin system like that. Sometimes it's just like locate.
0_Drew and Stefan:also gives us an opportunity to send out pictures to everyone after the run. Okay. So I'll make sure to upload everything, edit it with our, our presets on Lightroom, and then I'll send everyone the pictures. People love. How do you get them? The
0_Bryan:photos?
0_Drew and Stefan:So we have the sweat house, oh, through sweat
0_Bryan:house, uh,
0_Drew and Stefan:email blast feature, which is Oh, okay. Really helpful.
0_Bryan:Oh, so you collect the email and then they can get
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah, so they sign the waiver to be a part of the club. Okay. And then through their account we have the, the contact information that we can use to reach out, like send them, uh, then through the app they can see Hey, we're coming back to the wharf next Thursday. Nice. Mm-hmm. People tell me all the time, like, I don't know if you have an event unless you blast us. So yeah, it's been super helpful to use the SMS email blast feature. Um, and then we also get them the, the, the content and stuff. We've a lot of people. Yeah. People will love photos of themselves. They repost it, they love it so much. That's awesome. That's free advertising. Yeah. Yeah. Your photos are
0_Bryan:really good too. Yeah. So,
0_Drew and Stefan:yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And, um, there some good, we'll splice in a
0_Bryan:couple, this is probably a good point. I'll splice in a video they give me right here and we can talk over it. So when I splice something and we can just talk. So lately you guys have had videos of people jumping into the cold plunge. What else? Um, how long are the runs and where do the
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. I like, honestly, I'll be like giving instructions on my, on like a megaphone or a microphone and I'll have a camera the other hand. Yeah. then we'll send everyone over, like to start the run and then I'll like, I'll like sprint somewhere. He'll sprint somewhere. We'll take pictures. Like we're gonna do everything until we can't. Yeah. Because like one, we know what we were looking for. Yeah. And we trust ourselves to do it. Yeah. But you know, we've recently expanded to an incredible intern network that have been so helpful for us. Mm-hmm. Crazy good team. Um, we've to delegate a lot of work, like some, um, newsletter and outreach stuff, um, like content generation and media, all that stuff. Um, and. Uh, design, like everything that, you know, we're good at. But if we can put our time and effort into what we're really good at, which is coming up with ideas, um, and executing them, like, it's just extremely Yeah. So in the last two weeks, we've been blessed with, um, a great network who, you know, are, they're learning from us. Obviously we know a thing or two about starting a business, and hopefully we some of them down the road. That's the goal. So, yeah. And we only hired people that like, are very competent and like have shown like a track record and what they're interested in and like, honestly, I learn from them sometimes and it's awesome. Like it's a great relationship and it, it's, it's very smooth the way it works. So you guys
0_Bryan:have an organization now, I mean, works more? Yeah, you Should see our notion. Our yeah, it's crazy, like business development and accounting and just marketing and everything. Everything. Everything's planned up. Do you have a website that people can go to regularly then? Yeah. Nameless run.com. Nameless run. I coded it.com. Sweet. Yeah. Do you help build it? I coded the whole thing. Oh, it, so it's like a custom website, like animated Like
0_Drew and Stefan:I did it in React and then I,
0_Bryan:I put Oh wow. I used the, that's very cool that you, that you were able to do that for your, for your company. I used, that's a nice feature. Hey, our founder wrote this website itself versus just a standard GoDaddy website I've built and deployed
0_Drew and Stefan:it on Fly, which is a really cool third party. Super easy. It's basically a, a walk. I
0_Bryan:I can appreciate that though.'cause one of the organizations I helped found called Miami Mushroom Fest. We had a custom website done that was animated by my friend who does it work for the Associated Press. But he builds websites on the side and he built a beautiful website and he worked with us, you know, on our vision. And so I can appreciate the process'cause I've been involved in about, you know, five to 10 big website builds for other companies. Even Sneaker Impact. Oh that's, had a new website done last summer and really tighten it up and what do you want the vision to be and you know, the colors and everything. It goes a long way. Functionality
0_Drew and Stefan:that fine detail, you know. Yeah, It's cool for like it to be broken down into the code because I have a lot of freedom of what we can do and I just haven't had the time like
0_Bryan:can, so do you have a media page or anything? Like where are your, where's your media then? Can we put this episode embedded into the website? Yeah. A hundred. Okay. That would great.
0_Drew and Stefan:I can do whatever I want on the website. That's the whole, that's why
0_Bryan:we're Do you do a blog on it or do you I was just curious. Would
0_Drew and Stefan:literally love to if I more time doing, yeah. Yeah. Even if it's like
0_Bryan:informal, just like my lifestyle, like what I'm doing on a day running, helping run this company, you know, helping both of you maybe could be taking turns, you know, it's obviously nameless
0_Drew and Stefan:so it's not like. We're throwing ourselves out here. Yeah. You guys, the faces of it, are you, what we've realized you're, you're the two founders here. The face of the Yeah. What we've realized of why like it's harder to like duplicate our infrastructure and how it's also gonna be a little bit of a struggle to expand fully and franchise is that we are the experience at some point. Like we are welcoming everyone. We are, we are absolutely carrying the hype and the energy and your personalities. We put 30 to 40 hours a week into planning the two to three events we have every weekend. Like it's not, people think that we just show up host. Yeah. You can't do another job on the side. Every single that we work with has to be happy. Like they have to be happy right. Otherwise it doesn't, it looks very sloppy or it doesn't work. Doesn't, we don't do sloppy, Exactly. We show up and
0_Bryan:like, I don't know. I'm here with the, the endless run club. No, it's like, I've gone to some events before where like the staff at the place we're going has no idea that this run club is crashed in this place. You know? Yeah. They're like, no name. How does the free drink? I, that's why
0_Drew and Stefan:a lot of people ask like why like. How do, how do we do it for free? Like why don't we ticket it? Right. But you do have
0_Bryan:the ticketed experiences, which is huge.'cause then you can get like the food that you really want versus a sample. Yeah. Or, but I also want to add too
0_Drew and Stefan:that the, the running aspect of the ticketed events are free. We have had people come to just run and then just. Go like enjoy the rest of their day, whatever they're doing in that location. Okay. You know, so. So if you
0_Bryan:wanna stay somewhere for the day Yeah. It is your value to get the ticketed. Oh yeah, for sure. So you can stay and relax.
0_Drew and Stefan:It's like the running after party, you can call it basically at the venue at the venue with food. Yeah. With the recovery
0_Bryan:where is that at? I'm just curious. That's at the space in Del Rey. That's, yeah. So we do it like once a month pretty much. What is veil? Can you just give us in a
0_Drew and Stefan:yeah. It's a, it's like a healthy or like
0_Bryan:kitchen they've got, so they're a restaurant. Protein bowls. Bowls, yeah. Okay. So they were big partners of yours. Yeah. Veil essential.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. And then you get to pick like, you know, your base, your protein toppings, things like that. Okay. You know, so it's really easy going Are think Fort Lauderdale? Yeah, they're in Fort Lauderdale. That's why we started. That's what I'm
0_Bryan:saying. They have multiple locations, so I'll get to check'em out tomorrow when they come. Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:They have a a, a Miami location as well too. They're all over the place. That's how we were able to expand to Tampa, because they have a location there Sunday's at Vail.
0_Bryan:Okay. Yeah. So it's a really healthy place to eat.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah, exactly. Which is part of our personal brands as well. How we, you know, live and eat and carry ourselves and how we're training for our, our races and stuff like that. Mm-hmm. Is of course mostly what we eat. So it was easy for us to get behind, um, a healthy venue like mm-hmm. That's awesome. It's been so, you know, supportive and, and helpful in our, in our journey and our growth. For sure.
0_Bryan:Do you guys have any running companies involved or any aspects of running that you're adding in? Like, tell us a little bit about the run component of the run.
0_Drew and Stefan:Oh yeah, we, yeah, we're actually, so, uh, we're gonna be racing our own half marathon with, uh, this company called, uh, integrity Multisport. They host like different, you know, I've heard of them. They did the Keep the Bisque in half. Yeah, they do triathlons too, but they're doing a Key West one. It's called the Southern Most Half Marathon on October 12th. Okay. And I reached out to them, they were really cool. And then, uh, now we're gonna host the official shakeout on the day before for bid pickup. And then we're gonna basically just elevate that experience too, you know. Nice. Bring the coal plunge, all that and stuff so people, you know, can enjoy the, the day before the race. Key West, key West. Key West, like wow. Yeah. I've gone Southern most. Yeah.
0_Bryan:I mean, yeah, we've, I've gone down there a fair amount of times. I love Key West. It's been about a year, but, uh, where that's for in what month? October. October, okay. So
0_Drew and Stefan:it won't be as hot. Okay. So right now, Southern most half
0_Bryan:marathon,
0_Drew and Stefan:Southern most half marathon code nameless for a discount too. Since we're associated now, we don't, we don't, we don't make anything from it. don't, yeah, not a single dollar. We try, if
0_Bryan:I can go down, I will. I have the Chicago Marathon that month I'm signed up for. Oh, nice. It's in the early part of the month. I'm signed up and it's like October 8th or seventh, but if yours is later in the month, I love Key West personally. I've DJ'ed down there and then also I've done NAR Relay where we've gone from Key. Oh, nice. Actually we went from Ki Bisque to Key West for Ragnar twice, and then they stopped doing it in the 2000
0_Drew and Stefan:that's, that's a
0_Bryan:that's a marathon. It was a 210 mile like relay relay for a team. Wow. You can have six people or one, or you can have I think 12, two vans of six. It's been a minute since I've done one, but I did one in Colorado. That was epic. That ended at Aspen and I did one in the Midwest from Madison where I was born to Chicago.
0_Drew and Stefan:How's your experience running marathons in different altitudes?
0_Bryan:Um, I will say it's a lot harder. Yeah.'cause I've trained in Guatemala and I've done marathons in places like LA where it's not. Very high altitude, but LA's a hard course. And then I've done Chicago, Boston new, I've done a lot of the marathons. I've done over 50 marathons now, so I'm kind of a marathon snob and I've been have all the Do you have all the medals? I do. They're, they're all getting accumulated with dust at home. Like, it's so crazy'cause like you can't even, I have ones from 2008 and stuff that are like, you know, really getting down there. But, um, they've gone through several moves. Um, but I cherish every experience. It's really about the experience. It is because like the medal you wear for one day, but the experience you remember, I remember many of these experiences in London and Berlin. Yeah. Other places in Miami. I've done many races down here and it's cool that you are, are you guys, what other types of things are you thinking about creating over the next six months to a year?'cause you're a really young organization right now. Yeah. So like, and also, um, like how many miles are you running on average? Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:So to go back into the event experience really quickly, you know, you check in. You're welcomed, people asking you how your day is. Uh, if you need a hydration, energy drink, whatever it is. Okay. You tell them why you, they wear the wristbands is to get discounts for whatever venue we're at. Also, lets the other sponsors know you're part of the event because it's also, you know, public. You could just sign up once you get there. Okay. Even if you didn't intend to go for the event. From there, you know, there's a like a little like gap between, you know, arriving and then the run. So we make the announcements. We basically just yell on a mic, welcoming everybody. We say mm-hmm. What's up nameless? Run club, introduce ourselves. We tell'em warmups are about to happen. We warm up together. And then from there, then we split up into different mileage groups and, and we offer basically a walking group. We do one mile, two mile, three mile, and sometimes even five depending on where we are. Sure. Where, where, if it's accessible. And, uh, the reason why we offer these different mileages and we have a PACE leader for each of them, by the way. Of course. Wow. Yeah. For
0_Bryan:even the walk groups. Yeah, even the walk, you have a walking leader. That's huge. Yeah. Because the biggest rebuttal, I don't run. That's the hardest thing I think to provide is for that many groups. A pacer.'cause like it's easy enough for like the sub eight minute group and like the sub 10, but then are the 10 to 15. But then like they have walk groups. Yeah. That provides a lot of good structure. And people, it's, it's amazing because some days I don't feel good enough to run.'cause I run a lot, but some days I'm sore. That's the whole point. And like I might wanna walk five miles. And the fact that you guys got a walk leader or four miles. Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:Sometimes they'll run back too. stay together, walk down, and then run back. That's actually something that I wanted to add that's a little bit different about our experience. One, we host the warmup, like, and we're bringing you two do. Yeah. Like we mostly him though. We're like a lot of run start running. Just listen, jumping around. Yeah. Like I actually lead them through like a college football warmup. Oh wow. And like, I'm making sure everyone's smiling. I'm cracking jokes and like the, the vibes are high. I just say high five. Everyone looking good today we take like, let's get the video. Everyone doing like a little warmup lab, but our routes are down and back. Okay. So So if you ever want to turn around and head back, can like if, yeah. let's say you signed up for the five and you wanna do three, you know, you hit that 1.5 and you just come right back. And so, you know, it's, it's very. It's very relaxed. It's like more of a guide. Like a lot of people are like, oh, like do I have to run a three? No, you can run half a mile for all I care. The three mile route is a guide. Mm-hmm. If you walk down the first mile in the walk group and you decide, Hey, let me try jogging back. Yeah. Why not? The only, like, the main reason why we have the walk group is be inclusive, but the whole experience is to encourage and to get people out of their zone. Cool. So a lot of times people will start with a one and two months I like that there's a walk.'cause sometimes there's pressure on you and you don't feel like running that day. Yeah.
0_Bryan:I've had and I'm like a really serious runner. Yeah. Like I used to have run clubs and we didn't have all the apps back then. Yeah. I'm like super dating myself, but we didn't have the Sweat pal apps and uh, we just had to get the word out with Facebook, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. This is Yeah, exactly. It was all just Facebook back then. And in event right now Facebook is very, I don't know, people, they say like, you have to be over 40 or 50 to be on Facebook. I dunno. That's what they say. And like, all the groups now are on, you know, and they've all got, you know, very, they're all providing great experiences. At the end of the day, my run club is more about like hard track workouts.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah.
0_Bryan:That's the one I hosted and I did it for 10 plus years, but we struggled to get 20 plus people on average, mid 20 or 30 because it was such a serious hard Yeah. Come to the track and like there wasn't really an option for, I mean, you could walk a workout and you could do a walk and you could, we had walkers once in a while, but to really structure it where you have an option for one or two, or three or four, five mile walk. And there's a person in charge of that group. So it's not like they by themselves, you have so many options for people. Yeah. Where it's not about, you get much more people that way, which mm-hmm. The last, I've interviewed about four or five run club leaders now in the last two months. And it's all the same. Formula is be inclusive. Yep. Offer something for everyone. Create a amazing experience and a lot of value. And don't make it about the competition, which is what I was saying the fourth pillar is. Mm-hmm. Is like the accolades are like, oh my God, we have an Olympic trials candidate, or This person's going to Boston and like they're in a different category. You know, it's like everyone's in the same category.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah.
0_Bryan:And to be honest, yeah. No one really cares about your PR that much or your Yeah, that's true. Races, it all matters just to you more than anyone. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it does matter to some runners and some runners are very focused on wanting to get a long run in and they just, yeah. But I think what you guys are creating is a fun community and of friends and. It just sounds fun. So I'm excited to go experience my first one tomorrow night with you guys and uh, it's gonna be a blast. How many people come on average And what is it that, that one
0_Drew and Stefan:should be 200 at
0_Bryan:200. Oh my god. I was gonna guess. Is it more than 50? We have two, 200
0_Drew and Stefan:people right now,
0_Bryan:so. Wow. And I've never been to the wharf, but I've heard lots about it, so I've seen a lot of photos. Oh, that's very nice. I've been to the one, I think in Miami, but I don't go out to Fort Lauderdale much. Doesn. Yeah, it's the same exact style though. I, so I've been to the one in Miami before it got destroyed. Our rent. What they changing something else? Yeah, it's a
0_Drew and Stefan:It's a new, it's a new project.
0_Bryan:was on,
0_Drew and Stefan:I think it's called The Dream. It's by Driftwood Capital. I just know it'cause of capital, but it's a beautiful outdoor
0_Bryan:venue and it can help 200 people. So you guys take it over. Do you guys have jerseys yet? Or shirts or We've got some shirts, have to go get'em one, we'll get him a shirt. Actually have one in the car. Do you have one on right now, or No,
0_Drew and Stefan:not right now. I was gonna wear it. But you're
0_Bryan:Marino. Show him the package. Yeah,
0_Drew and Stefan:he's, uh, yeah, it's this guy lifted right there.
0_Bryan:One of these chairs out here. Drew by himself. And then he could've just, I mean. Yeah. Yeah. I can tell he used to be a college football player because you got,
0_Drew and Stefan:like I really
0_Bryan:have new runner.
0_Drew and Stefan:He's just spinning the couch on his finger. Yeah, exactly. Pick
0_Bryan:up this couch. He's making me and Stefan look like shrimps over here.'cause I mean, yeah, I He could pick up the couch and spin it on his finger. Mm-hmm. Like
0_Drew and Stefan:that's, I really don't have like the runner body honestly. But you know, and that was another thing that I was gonna say was people aren't pring or sprinting, but it's honestly the best way to train. Obviously you know, it's great you get the runner's high. Plus it's great to take care of your body by doing
0_Bryan:cardio. And then the attitude is everything. You guys, I can tell you guys have a winning attitude. Let's just be honest. Thank you. Little dorky. But you guys are, guys have winning attitudes and attitude is everything they say. Yeah. It's a hundred percent true's attitude. And when you're hosting people, it's so true. Because you can't ever be in a bad mood or No, never. That's exactly what we tell our team
0_Drew and Stefan:too. Yeah. Like it's very welcoming. Very true. The experience starts with them when they get to the front. And it's actually something I met the, uh, I met the raw dog guys at Gym Shark. Shout out Noah and them. Um, that was like one of the, I was picking their brains for like probably five minutes each, whatever I could get. And that was at the point where we were just starting too. yeah. Mm-hmm. We were at that point, venerating that that run club, um, and everything that they were doing seemed to align with our mission. Yeah. Um, you looked at other, obviously clubs for like, obviously our own take on it. Yeah, for sure. Um,
0_Bryan:but what was the name of that group? Rod Dog Run Club.
0_Drew and Stefan:Okay. But they, they really emphasized that nothing else is important besides the experience that you provide. And it starts with you and they're like, ditch the pillar one, this is the phone ditch, whatever, like be in the front. High five. Everybody smile on your face. Like when people come. It's the best experience that they have. And when they leave, they can't wait to come back.
0_Bryan:That's
0_Drew and Stefan:awesome.
0_Bryan:Yeah. Yeah.'cause too many, even of the races now, everyone's got the phones out. When I heard you guys say ditch the phones, that's a huge, like, little nugget of truth. Like you just gotta ditch phones. Like we have'em connected to our face like 19 hours of the day. Yeah. Like, so it's like just. Yeah, running. I think that's why all these people
0_Drew and Stefan:like want connection even more in person is because like, they're just like scrolling through social media all day. You know? It just, you know. Well some
0_Bryan:places now, like comedy places, they put your phone in a, you know, in a, in a sleeve. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Lock it up. Because they don't want that actually. Could be the mothership does that I love. Yeah. We love Tony. Kill Tony. Yeah. I, uh, I went, well, you know, uh, we're a apolitical podcast, but I love Kill Tony myself. I've watched many an episode, but, uh, yeah, I got to go to the mothership twice for sneakers. That'ss. Awesome. How is it in person? Mo was incredible. I got to see Joe Rogan and uh, actually we saw Tony Hinchcliffe even do a bottom of the barrel. So those guys with Brian Simpson were doing Bottom of the Barrel.
0_Drew and Stefan:Okay.
0_Bryan:Uh, I dunno if you've heard of that show. No, I haven't. It's in, I think the Little boy, which is a smaller room. And then there's the other room, which is bigger. I forget the name of it. It's named after the nuclear bombs that were dropped. Little boy, Big boy or something. Yeah. I forget the other one. Big brother.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah.
0_Bryan:And uh, but basically they have this show called Bottom of the Barrel, where you just write it something on a piece of paper, three ideas and they, or two at least. And then they pull your name, they pull it out. At some point they reach their hand in the barrel and they don't, I dunno if they get everyone,'cause there's about 50 to 80 people in the room. But it was amazing. I saw about 10 to 20 comedians and they lock your phone up there. Yeah. So I've been there twice. And you, so back to the, sorry for the side tangent. I think locking up the phones is an incredible idea in this day and age. And then you guys have the team that gets to beautiful stuff. Although you don't want to control people and their habits either. If someone wants to be on their phone Yeah. And they wanna make a cool reel, so be it. Yeah. But I think just having the structure in place, you guys have the mentality of. Connect with people. Yeah. Um, there's a DJ I really like who says like, um, don't record the moment. Enjoy it. Yeah. And this never happened is this music label. So yeah. We actually
0_Drew and Stefan:have a, a really cool idea. Um, I don't know if you wanna go into the details, but it's very, the high level details. You, it's, it's, you got it. Um, obviously
0_Bryan:first on Sneaker Impact news. Go ahead. Exactly.
0_Drew and Stefan:Um, so obviously our motto has been like, no name, just passion, right? So we are all about throwing stuff on the wall and seeing what works. It's a trial by error approach that probably wouldn't work for a lot of other people, but it's been really successful for us, mainly because we put a lot of time and effort into it and we have a great community backing us. Um, so we were thinking about doing some sort of, wait, wait really quick. When does this come out? Uh, it could come out this week, so, uh, this week I guess we're just gonna have to launch it. I can, we should launch it for July week the
0_Bryan:longest. I can hold it. It'll be till like mid next week, like one week from now. But it could come out this week. Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:I mean, we are, are, let's do it. We're definitely talking about getting into like the. The run and rave type of thing. Okay. Um, but a EDM and music and dancing. That's a great idea though. A lot of people like the experience. Basically people together after the run. Right. That's what we're always trying to problem solve. We meet weekly, we go over like the stuff that happened the weekend before, like, oh man, everyone left the run. Like, I would, I would
0_Bryan:nominate a late morning or a mid-morning like disco party. Yeah, yeah. Or some type of music party. We, we've done it before and it was a great time. And just have it be like sober. Of course.'cause like yeah, with the run club, it aligns with it unless you wanna do alcohol. But a lot of'em now, like, there's one called Daybreaker in Miami. It's been going on for a long time. Yeah. And they are a sober dance party on Saturday mornings. That's cool. But they don't do a run, they just do yoga. Yeah. So I think it'd be really cool
0_Drew and Stefan:the wharf when we promote drinks, like I don't drink. he doesn't drink. So some runners like to drink, you Yeah. Which is fine. it's ride, start drinking 8:00 AM on a Saturday. But we pushed the narrative that yeah, because on will after the run. But really like. like, we emphasize like, hey, like you don't have to drink after this. This is just a nice venue that we like to meet at. Yeah. Have good also there coconut water. Yeah, there's mock
0_Bryan:now everything's about the mocktail nowadays. I just enjoyed it. Yeah, just the experience.
0_Drew and Stefan:It's just elevating the experience. Yeah. But I just wanna finish my thought. So we're gonna call it, uh, no connection, just Connections. So basically find a way, and I don't want to get too into it because I have a couple of ideas that we're still talking about, but find a way to limit phone use and Okay. Have a week. So I was going down the right vein of this. You have a week to think about it. um, you know, real, real life connections and that, that, Yeah. And
0_Bryan:it's not gonna be like, necessarily where you kick'em out because like at, at a club in Miami, you know, they used to, for certain shows, for that artist I told you about lane eight, if you did bring out your phone and start recording, they the, the bouncers would remove you. Oh wow. I think they gave you one warning and then they would actually carry you out. I saw. Yeah. So it actually enforced it.'cause he got thousands of people at his shows, you know, and he's very big dj so there's some DJs who don't want to, and there's some comedians and some clubs and I think that's a really cool, so I'm glad that I wasn't just going on about this random side view of mine all comes back that you guys have been thinking about the same
0_Drew and Stefan:No connection, just connection. No connection. You see, it's gonna be great out.
0_Bryan:Very cool. I think that's important because, you know, when you go out to eat with people sometimes they say, oh, everyone put their phone in the center because otherwise you have the person, it's called fabbing. And I looked it up one time. That's the term for it. Yeah. So I, I, I looked it up at my office when I used to work at a place in Miami Beach, I think. But I was like, what is it called?'cause I knew it was a social faux pa. But it's called P-H-U-B-B-I-N-G, fobbing. It means ignoring someone. Uh, so Fobbing meant what is it? You're there, but you're there, so the phone is a pH. Yeah. And then, yeah, fing means that you're not paying attention to them, but you're just paying attention to your phone, but you're in the same room as them. Yeah. Yeah. So it's
0_Drew and Stefan:actually an epidemic. I'm guilty of it. Yeah. Uh, I, I, I can't, that's why eat without YouTube sometimes. think that's why we picked up yoga recently, which obviously is different for like guys, like a lot of guys maybe they'll do yoga, but they won't post about it. Like, we are pretty adamant about how important that can be, like to your lifestyle between stretching, meditation and just unplugging awareness. And that those three like pillars or those three elements of yoga have been super beneficial for me at least. It's crazy. There's hidden strength and, and, and flexibility, of course. Yeah. but it's also an hour that I put down my phone, like we live on our phones. Like if I have free time, I'm reaching out to people, Hey, like I'm the founder of Nameless Fund. Come check us out. Like, nice On demand. So when is the yoga
0_Bryan:classes built into this calendar? Sometimes. Is it at every meetup or, so we just do it like in our personal lives. We're talking about our personal lives. Okay. Do you do offer it at, at
0_Drew and Stefan:do, we
0_Bryan:We
0_Drew and Stefan:offer like, tease classes basically because there has to be some form of line between like, is it after the run or it's after our run. We actually did a meditation and, and stretch yoga class before one of the runs. Okay. Okay. With Carrie. Shout out Carrie. She's awesome. She teaches in my building on Monday nights, so I go, um, as part of like the experience of living at, at my residency. But um, yeah, we we're like, I've been saying, it's all about the experience and our infrastructure is run and something, and something. That's what's been super successful for us. It's obviously a little more work for us to put together, like just meet and run, you anybody could do that. It would be very simple, but just not the nameless way to do that. And, you know, eventually, You know, every city has a nameless run event to look forward to over the weekend. It's a great
0_Bryan:name to put anywhere in the us. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, you could have one in la Easy, New York all over the place. It's like Nameless
0_Drew and Stefan:runs and then Chicago City. Yeah. Nameless from Chicago. Nameless runs. I'm from the Midwest,
0_Bryan:Orlando, whatever. Yeah. Um, but yeah, every city. That's very cool. So you can grow it out from that way. Yeah. Leadership roles. Yeah. Yeah. And I like that the Run club is more just in like the name, but it's actually not what it is about. It's more, way more than a run club. It could be the society actually were talking about like the no name, the Nameless Society, you know, no name, you know, group. Just like, you know, it's a social club, but it's, I like the run club part that attracts, you know? Yeah. Because if you have a run, it's a little intimidating for some people. Yeah. It could be, it could turn off some people for, but it also attracts, the run club scene is exploding in the last five years. Yeah. Ever since 2020. Pretty much. It was exploding in the 2000 tens, but then it took off like no other in 2020. I think it's'cause people love. Just connecting in the community. Yeah. And all these big
0_Drew and Stefan:brands are expanding on like their running lines. Marketing is huge. Like crazy. Insane. Yeah. There's so many brands
0_Bryan:now that wanna get involved too, that will pay money to get activated. Yeah. And like Frankie showed that with Brico, there was like an article he posted on LinkedIn that was like, more than ever brands now are willing to pay to be in a budget for, uh, a run club.
0_Drew and Stefan:But what's special is that we invest in these brands that work with us. We don't just say, Hey, like, set up quid pro quo. Give us money and we'll feature you. we don't do that. I think that's why we've been so successful with our So how does recently, how does work
0_Bryan:then that you work with them long term? Yeah. I mean, we help build programming for them, but I mean, you guys obviously have to get paid by them for bringing in people. Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:we just make sure that they get the most out of their experience with working with Okay. Uh, like, not to go too in detail about, you don't need to go into detail about the payment. No, but I mean, not about the payment, but just our structure that we offer them. It's, it's more than just being a part of our events. It's like real, I'm did you have to, is being very integrated into our events. into our that that takes a lot of trust from the brand. Of course does. Versus just like it takes a lot. We love our sponsors and they make everything happen. And you know, I think our real selling point is that we are gonna work personally to make sure they see the ROI from the experience, but also there's no better benefit to having a positive experience associated with your product. So when somebody comes to our event and they're associating these, these sponsors, product placements, obviously they're paying for product placement as well. There's nothing more valuable than that. Yeah. Like for example, like Jim Molly too. Like they, they were the very first like sponsor we've ever had. It's an energy drink. Okay. Like a pre-workout, you know, they invested in us when we were like 30 people run club. We two followers. That's amazing. 200 followers on Instagram.
0_Bryan:So they've been with you since the early days, so you early days Yeah. To take care of them too.
0_Drew and Stefan:Exactly. So like, they trusted us with their product and then content now. Yeah. And then now they have like a bunch of people that are in our run club. They're like their ambassadors now and things like that. So the networks stretched bigger than us and it, it was a great partnership and uh, we would definitely, you know, we're not working with them currently at the moment, but like, I still drink Jam Molly, and like, it's, it's, it's delicious. And then we, hopefully we could work again in the future. And, uh, just examples like that, you know, especially just like given value too and like showing them what we're capable of. Then that's how we earn the trust really too. And then also, you know, our resumes on Instagram and our, and our other like social media platforms as well, so they could see what we could do online as well. Mm-hmm. And, um, yeah, it's just successful event after a successful event. Like, knock on wood, it's just been Yeah.
0_Bryan:With large groups. Yeah. It doesn't even matter the size of the group. Hundred plus people, but you need someone like for the check-in and then you need a videographer. You have a videographer every,
0_Drew and Stefan:we were doing all of it.
0_Bryan:you're doing the video on top of it. We're
0_Drew and Stefan:all of it until we were able to expand to this intern network three weeks ago. And the check-in process.
0_Bryan:Yeah. That was like, I was always in the front. That's a huge logistical process. Yeah. I'm really good at wristband right now. Like, oh my God, we have to provide the staff for your group. They don't wanna have to feel that they have to provide the check-in staff.
0_Drew and Stefan:No. Yeah, we do everything ourselves. So like we make the band lives easier. Provides now
0_Bryan:that keeps things organized. Oh, we're, they're with a special group.
0_Drew and Stefan:It makes everyone else's lives easier. And it's part part of the experience club. Like the run club starts when you get your wristband. That's all part of the experience. And um, I would just say like one of the coolest testimonials I've gotten, we've gotten some really cool ones from runners like seriously, that almost keep us going. We're keeping us going. We weren't bringing anything in. Yeah. Before we monetized. Before we monetized. Just their support through love was like keeping you going their perspective on how we were benefiting their lives. Oh, that's, yeah. Brought them friends and everything like that. Like we created friend groups, we created relationships. Like We are known as the run club that hangs out outside of run club. Like that's what a lot of people say. Yeah. So that was one of the coolest testimonials that I've gotten. And then also from a sponsor just said that, you know, the community was so cool. They were so willing to try the product. People were posting on their stories without even them asking to. Wow. just being very reciprocate, uh, reciprocating the product. Um, and like, just being willing to try it out. And, and it's just a good representation of our community. Yeah. They trust us that deeply. And then when we even launched our ticket at events too, like once a month, like they trusted us and they all talked about how great it was. And that's why they keep coming back to, and it's just like. We built so much of a reputation so that you could trust us no matter what we do. And that, that's our, basically our branding. And what's really hard to replicate? About Replicate? I can't talk. Replicate. There you go. I got it. Don't worry. You guys know what I meant. I, I started the stuttering. Yeah. all me. But yeah, so it's just honestly execution, like, it, it's honestly not that complicated of a business plan, but it's just execution, honestly. Showing up every week, every day. The passion the trust goes both ways. It's the sponsors trust us with. Uh, making that the experience is good and the runners trust us that if we bring someone to the experience, it's going to be good. So it's a two ways trust and it, and it just makes everything work.
0_Bryan:you guys are growing your team now,'cause I can imagine just two people, you know, sometimes you might, well, actually three. Three. We
0_Drew and Stefan:actually have a partner in Tampa too. We have a partner. She's the best. Yes. Shout out Ella. Ella Ella. Yeah. She's a, she's amazing. She shark athlete, so she has, she's a little bit older than we are. She has a lot of experience, um, growing a business, growing a page, and basically started as like a friend slash consultant and then invested so much time in us without asking for anything in return. And eventually, yeah. And she's in the Tampa area and she's in the Tampa area. Perfect. And eventually it became a founding partner role. Oh, wow. Um, but it was hours out her. No, you need help. Yeah. I mean, I could in something that was Yeah. Yeah. If you're gonna take it on a bigger scale, you have to actually hire
0_Bryan:people in for some of these roles.
0_Drew and Stefan:She's leading like most of the marketing strategy and then also. With a larger following gets approached by a bunch of really cool opportunities that we've capitalized on since partnering with her for Wow. Yeah.
0_Bryan:So this has changed your life in the last
0_Drew and Stefan:year or so? I would
0_Bryan:say,
0_Drew and Stefan:yeah. In a big way. It's insane. Like, we don't even, you all of a sudden have all these friends now, like we are going out is to run club. Like we hang out with these people. Yeah. And they wanna hang out the outside of the run they don't leave. Where's the next one? Where's the next party? The event end at 12 and we will be like cleaning up. We, we scrub the plunge, we do everything. Oh wow. We put all the seats back, put all the seats back. We make sure that the venue is cleaner than we found it. People are still talking, They're hanging out. It's like three, 4:00 PM like, ah. It's funny. pretty, let's go home. It's so funny. I love it though. It's a good, positive experience. Very cool. I know we keep talking about it, but that's, it's, that's the root of why it works.
0_Bryan:Yeah. Yeah. And eventually with more people joining your team, you guys will mechanize it so that it's just whoever is the host that day.'cause you guys can't always be there, but you will be most of
0_Drew and Stefan:it.
0_Bryan:the
0_Drew and Stefan:whole thing that we have to I know that's what I
0_Bryan:challenge with as a rung club leader myself, is always being there. It's a struggle sometimes. Yeah. It's like three days a week now, so.
0_Drew and Stefan:Well, we have to structure a scalability. That's the
0_Bryan:most important. Scalability. Yeah. You can't be in Tampa and Miami at the same time, so Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:Not alive.
0_Bryan:Maybe. But, uh, no, it's really cool to see, I mean, that you guys, all these new run clubs that are not focused necessarily on being the fastest one at the next race, but they're more focused on just creating a community. Yeah. Um,
0_Drew and Stefan:I was never even familiar. I, I don't even think I've been to a run club before I started a run club. That's great. Yeah. Same. can't that you naturally built a great one. You didn't go to all the
0_Bryan:iconic ones of South Florida.
0_Drew and Stefan:Frankie and Brick Bull and I had some friends that went to it, but it just seemed like, you know, they were just running together, which I know now it's more, yeah. Oh yeah. They have programming of course. Yeah. Um, but to me it almost felt like we were starting something and we kind of did. We, if you see like we more and more events are like fitness and then wellness. I really think that we were part of that foundation of like fitness followed by wellness wellness socials. Yeah. We brought the run to a wellness event. We started hosting 5K and wellness socials. Like, so I do think that we had some, you know, foundation in some of these. Yeah. Creating a luxury experience. It looks like now it's almost like we can sit down and almost start something new like we're doing, we're doing a brand new event in North Miami called uh, at Platinum Paddle. So it's gonna be a happy hour run. Mm. And paddle. So we're gonna have food trucks, paddle, run, What is Paddle? Is it paddleboard? It's like pickle pickleball, So totally. But like off the wall. P-A-D-E-L-I saw it on, I saw it on
0_Bryan:Instagram. Yeah. So it's, that's the up coming now, it's pickle ball type thing? Yeah. Yeah. We played it in um, Austin or Atlanta a couple weeks ago. My coworker and I went to a conference. It was my first time, well, that I saw people playing pickleball. I didn't play. That's cool.
0_Drew and Stefan:What conference was that? Uh, it
0_Bryan:was called Run Summit. Run Summit. That's cool. So eventually there's one called TRE that you guys could go to eventually. It's called the Running Event this year. It's in San Antonio. It was normally in Austin every year. Wow. And it's like, we call it the Super Bowl for the industry, for the business side of the industry. And there are a couple run clubs there, but more than anything, like influencers do go, but more than anything it's all the companies. Yeah. So Sneaker Impact's gone the last four years. Mm-hmm. And I've gone three times to Austin this year. It's in San Antonio, it's in December, first week of December. It's called the Running Event. Yeah. We gotta check it out. So that's one that you guys might want to go to is like media. If you're thinking of like also networking, growing through networking too. You will see some influencers and insiders there. Yeah. You'll also see every. Design rep, like I met, um, the design team for the Asics Nova blasts and super blasts. But like the Nike design teams, they are like Nike and Brooks and all these companies bring in a lot of their employees. Yeah.'cause it's more to meet with the stores. But I did notice influencers and run clubbers walking around that it's a ticketed event. Um, it's not open to the public. It's a conference. It's an expo. It's an expo. It's actually a giant expo and a giant expo hall. And then they have some side conferences available. Sponsor run Summit was more about sponsor. Love the expos. Yeah, it was, it's insane. Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:It you we're still looking for a shoe sponsor. So that's what I was wondering is if any
0_Bryan:like brands have reached out
0_Drew and Stefan:us. They've reached out to us, but you
0_Bryan:I could name a couple that
0_Drew and Stefan:have a precedent where, you know, we're looking for more of a long term monetary partnership where we can grow. And, and be scalable like I talked about. And you know, like it is a community event, but it's also a business. Yeah. And like like, we provide a lot of value and we're not even asking for anything crazy, but we just, we want, Uh, we don't want to be like throwing a bunch of stuff at our runners. We want to find partners that want to work with us for a long period time. Very quality too, because you guys are, and our funnel. Hey, what shoe do you recommend? the best? Two.
0_Bryan:Not some cheap food. No, exactly. We're not gonna
0_Drew and Stefan:gonna work with just like, kind pull buck or just an elevated experience.
0_Bryan:Yeah. Nutrition company doesn't, isn't really the best you wanna be with the best in all categories.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. What healthy soda do you recommend? Boom. What, what, um, vitality drink do you recommend? Boom. Water and like, whatever it is, it's gonna be one from each niche Yeah. That we want to grow with. Yeah. And we're just waiting for the right ones. Um, because we, we put in so much time, and the most important thing besides what we've talked about, experience and, and scalability too, is reputation. Mm-hmm. Yep. Like without reputation, we can't do everything that we're doing. Like I just said, brand new event next Thursday at a paddle ball, uh, a paddle court place in a new city with a new group, it's only possible because we have, you know, that infrastructure of trust and like Stefan was saying, reputation, resume, basically publicized. And it's true. I can, I can confidently say that I can go to another city and pull at least 50 people in the first time. Wow. Possibly a hundred. You know, we, our, our goal is hundred minimum. Does social
0_Bryan:media help a lot or is it also just yours? Past attendees? Crucial social media. It's a lot of word of
0_Drew and Stefan:mouth though. Like when I, even when I. Especially like the share people are sharing it. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And then another, do you guys
0_Bryan:have like a, a group for anyone who's gone? Or is there like a big group, like a big discord or like WhatsApp?
0_Drew and Stefan:that's actually funny.
0_Bryan:has it gotten outta control? This
0_Drew and Stefan:is a great, this is actually something that we something that we should some, some growing have We have some growing beans. Yeah. Um, so Instagram provides a really cool feature called a broadcast channel, which you hit a certain amount of followers and then you can do this almost like instant message like a news kind of thing without, without the congestion of like people bomb
0_Bryan:I saw it recently, I joined a couple when I got a little alert,
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah, yeah. But like it's pretty controlled. Like it's one person sending updates. So. We didn't have the luxury to do that. So every single time I would message a follower, I'd say, thank you for reaching out. This is Drew. Thank you. Uh, sorry. Thank you for following. Here's what we got coming up. You know, if they engaged in that, in that message, I would say, Hey, do you wanna join our group chat? And I would manually add them to group chat. Yeah. Okay. And so it got to a point where we have nine with 250 people in each one. Right Yeah. On Instagram. Nine different group chats. I manually built nine. Yeah. Why do you need nine though? Did you just give it separate? Just have 2000 people in our group chat. Oh.'cause you can only have 200. You can only have two. Yeah. They max it out. So every time I go this time, oh my
0_Bryan:god. Yeah. That's madness.
0_Drew and Stefan:A
0_Bryan:never heard nine different group chats. That's, you gotta see you we're just adding. Just adding. But then I guess you can just share it across all nine. But the same message. But they can't interact. Exactly. Gotta do what you No, they're allowed to
0_Drew and Stefan:Like you
0_Bryan:can't. How would they interact from one chat to another? Is there any way
0_Drew and Stefan:like sometimes people will accidentally send like reels in the chat or like, oh, and they'll get shared from one and then 250 people get notified about like maybe an inappropriate reel or something. Yeah. I's the thing about that groups, as soon as they, as soon as I see like blah, blah, blah, sent into nameless rooms. Seven. You got it. Police it. You gotta, someone's gotta be moderated. And there's a difference between deleting and unsend And some people don't know that. I'm like the red button that says Unsend, please hit it. Okay.'cause then it's stuck there forever if they press But we do now have a WhatsApp chat with like 500 people. Um, our Sweat Pals SMS blast can reach up to 3000 Oh wow. hosted 3000 unique people. Um, obviously that's, that's limited. Um, but it's, it's a great, uh, benefit to being on their success team, which they recently brought us onto. Um, so that's an exclusive partnership with that ticketing platform as well. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
0_Bryan:Yeah. I would imagine that's pretty important to have your members be able to chat outside of the club, you know, in an
0_Drew and Stefan:well, we don't, we don't want them interfering with our announcements, No, of course not. But I just,
0_Bryan:maybe they can chat maybe at mainly at the events and, but there could be a Reddit page eventually for nameless run club letter. Oh, that's a good idea. If it had to be like underground and it wasn't sanctioned by you guys, like we're the unofficial. Fan Club of the nameless. Yeah, We've had
0_Drew and Stefan:some copycats pop up, but
0_Bryan:No, but you, yeah. I mean, I guess otherwise Discord is where I've seen it, you know, for certain groups I'm in. Um, I'm trying to think of how else you can organize that big of a group.
0_Drew and Stefan:Uh, we got, we have a newsletter but 3003
0_Bryan:year, um, app is good. Yeah. And, and that, that app is, is sounds like
0_Drew and Stefan:we've hosted a total of 10,000 people with 3000 different people. Oh wow. So like the
0_Bryan:RSVPs can say something in there like, I'm excited to go. Or is anyone driving from, you know, oh my god, coral.
0_Drew and Stefan:I mean we used to be able to do stuff like that. It just didn't really sense for us. No, it's too confusing. Yeah. Just anything, too much clutter. Anything that people have to do that's. Extra mm-hmm. could interfere with our Reach, can
0_Bryan:they see who's coming or do you have an RSP coming? Yeah, everyone can see who's coming. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've seen a couple other registration systems. I'm just curious if it shows how many RSVPs. Yeah, it's really
0_Drew and Stefan:cool. And you can swipe through the for you page on that app and see if there's any other fitness events that you want to go to. yeah, not a paid advertisement, but cool out. Yeah, I, but that's what we used in the beginning. It
0_Bryan:asks what you want to do. Right. I put
0_Drew and Stefan:yeah, yeah, yeah. And we put filters on our runs, like, uh, coal Plunge Run, social Gen Z, whatever. Now, obviously we're fully inclusive, but it's just mm-hmm. That's awesome. An extra feature that we can add. We've actually seen a pretty big shift from our demographic being 18 to 24 was like 50%, where now 25 to 35 is actually our 50%. Okay. Yeah. Which is really cool is we've seen it shift. So
0_Bryan:you do get a lot of like younger runners from like 18 to 25 as well, and then you get a good chunk from 25 to 35. Yep. like
0_Drew and Stefan:25%, 18 to 25, um, 25%, 60%. 25 to 45, 60. That 60% chunk, is that
0_Bryan:wow. It's still a very young club.'cause I think a lot of the stores I go to, some of the store run clubs and there's sometimes more like people in their thirties, forties, and fifties, sixties, which
0_Drew and Stefan:sponsors either love or they hate or they're up to trying something new and we tell Sounds
0_Bryan:like you have a diverse group though. I'm sure you get Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. I might be in the older section. No, no, there's plenty in mid forties, so,
0_Drew and Stefan:So, well it's, it's important for the community to be like people that are residents. Also, I Yeah. I feel most 18 to 24 year olds may not be locally I would get,
0_Bryan:I would love the one that has the B12 and the NAD'cause I love NAD.
0_Drew and Stefan:That's, that's our,
0_Bryan:had that done. I've had injections done in Bogota in places like that. Um, ozone and, um, PRP, and that's a little higher end stuff, but I've had B12 and all these different things, you know? Yeah. Sometimes we offer more
0_Drew and Stefan:than the ticket?
0_Bryan:Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, that's, is it an IV or is it a
0_Drew and Stefan:there is an IV option for like 50% off, but I don't think anyone's secured that yet. But yeah, like we were talking about summer solstice, sunset Social, June little, uh, June 21st, six to 9:00 PM Um, we got Spikeball Tournament 5K, sunset Yoga, healthy Veil Dinner, little Sundown concert. The venue has four Plunges Sauna, two Red Light Is this the one in Delray? That's the one in Delrey. So that's June That's on a Saturday. that's on a Saturday. It's on a Saturday. I think 40% of the tickets are gone already, so, yeah. Yeah. gonna have to look up that one. Yeah. And you can bundle three tickets for 10% off. Yeah. Better with friends baby. Okay. I'm gonna try to go up with a couple
0_Bryan:friends. Yeah. Delray iss a little bit of a road trip, but I like it. I Delray a lot. I love, I like Del Re it's a very peaceful community. Um, it's known as a very chill place to go. Yeah. I love living out there. There's lot of wellness places up area too. Yeah. And I'm love for the hike.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah, exactly. And to answer your question previously too, we had, uh, there's this one girl I know that she's awesome and she comes from like Homestead sometimes for our Delray events.
0_Bryan:So you get some people to drive. Yeah. I know where Homestead is. I've gone out there quite a few times. It's far Yeah's an hour from right here and we're near downtown. It's about an hour from here to Del Rey. Yep. Yeah. Because Fort Lauderdale is about 40 minutes
0_Drew and Stefan:just getting outta
0_Bryan:40. Yeah. It depends if there's good traffic or not. Yeah. It depends on if there's
0_Drew and Stefan:You hit the, the i theory or whatever traffic time on 95. Yeah. Every time.
0_Bryan:So you guys have committed people and I love what you said that you've had people there that have like found like best friends or like Yes, like, like a huge friend group. Oh my gosh, it's insane. You've had some awesome origin Yeah. And
0_Drew and Stefan:they've been equally integral in us growing as well, So Cool.'cause they're consistent. Yeah. I mean we'll be there. We used to say like, um, at least if no one showed up, we would run. Yeah. That used to be our thing. Um,
0_Bryan:least get a
0_Drew and Stefan:But you know, now we know that.
0_Bryan:Do you guys still get a run in though? Like if you're managing it?'cause you probably don't after just the behind the scenes. Sometimes after like if like
0_Drew and Stefan:I need to be a PACE leader then yeah, for sure. Yeah. So, but the most important thing starting to talk about, the Key West Half Marathon, we're also partnering with Runa, which is, I dunno if you've heard of runa, the, is that an app for training? Training? Yes, I've heard of it. Runa, R-U-N-N-A. Yep. we're both using it right now. It's been incredible. It's really cool. Like talks to you while you run, like faster, Do you have to have your phone with you? Uh, you could just use a watch. you can use a watch. I don't have a I use Garin, but yeah, I have I have like a whoop, but I need to switch to Garmin. I have an Apple right now, but yeah, you could definitely just use a watch. But otherwise Yeah. On your apple. I'm sure you can
0_Bryan:load it on
0_Drew and Stefan:there. Yeah. so it has me running six days a week, um, with my off day on Friday. Yeah. So my off day used to be Saturday, but we did our long runs on Thursdays and all that stuff that we're, that we set up our plan to be synced. Mm-hmm. Um, so most of the times after Saturday run club where I'm, we're already up early, blowing up the plunge, making sure everything's good, moving all the furniture, we're running five miles after Yeah. For our easy run at 95 degrees a Saturday. Whoa. At like noon. Yeah, after everything is taken down, gotta get it in. So feel great after. Make sure that nobody, uh, drains the plunge until I run and I get to Yeah. Yeah. We drainers. I'm excited
0_Bryan:to try the plunge. I tried one once and it was a tough experience. It was in Miami Beach. Um, at Normandy Isles. I've done multiple in my life. I think the last one I did, it was in last year and the. Lifeguards at the Normandy aisle pools, they have like a storage container, like, you know, the blue ones or whatever. They just put some ice in there. They put a lot of ice in there and they get in there and they pride themselves. Were they trying to move your foot through the ice? They tried to pride themselves on how tough they can be and like they're in there for over five minutes. I couldn't even make it a minute. It's not even, I started hyperventilating'cause I wasn't ready for it. Like, I wasn't ready for how cold it was gonna be. Yeah. And I went right in and I got right out within like 10 seconds. Can Heart seconds. Yeah. I wasn't prepared for it. And then the second time I went in for like 30, but I was like, yeah. And I couldn't, I don't know because I think I've gone into other ones in my life. Like I've obviously seen a lot of podcasts and I'm a podcaster and I'm a big Joe Rogan fan, so I know about Cope Loan does. Yeah. Andrew Huberman, um, the, uh, the Huberman wipes now there's a whole thing. It's so funny. Yeah. They have a shirt. Um, but, uh. I just, I don't know. I think that some people do it like less intense in these lifeguards, like they pride themselves on like, it was like pure ice. It might've been a little water, but no, I'm excited to try it.'cause I saw people getting in and it was like 10 at once. Yeah. Every, it was like 12. Even everyone stepped in it once. It was a real, it looks so cool. Yeah. And then all of a sudden you're in there with 12 people and then you have multiple
0_Drew and Stefan:well they all
0_Bryan:all hose off before, but you must have a bunch if you're getting 200 plus people. You said you have a couple now?
0_Drew and Stefan:No, we only have one.
0_Bryan:thinking about said the space in Del Rey hat, they
0_Drew and Stefan:have four plunge like Like Oh yeah. Non portable ones that are like the ones that are circulating all that stuff. But that's actually what I was gonna say was it's a lot more fun to go in with a lot of people, but if somebody moves, it gets colder. and then It's this like domino effect of the It's probably easier to get with more people. It's, it's, it's more fun. But if people are like moving the water around, the recirculating of the ice actually drops the temperature so it feels a little bit colder. So maybe someone is like, oh, I can't do it. And they get out and they start splashing the water and everybody need to keep
0_Bryan:replenishing ice for all the people or how
0_Drew and Stefan:I mean we, we order a certain amount of ice and it, it, It lasts pretty much the whole time because people see, don't see ice, and they're like, how long do
0_Bryan:you stay in for in general? Three
0_Drew and Stefan:minutes. That's it. Just don't think there's any added benefit after three
0_Bryan:minutes. Wow.
0_Drew and Stefan:Okay.
0_Bryan:Yeah. So three minutes of just being tough. And then the next group
0_Drew and Stefan:goes, get the inflammation reduction, you get the metabolism spike, you get the dopamine. And then about at that a minute and a half to two and a half minutes, you get that, that like protein, the, the super protein shock release. Um, that's like incredibly, uh, metabolic. And after that it's mostly just like burning your skin. So getting in and getting out a couple times, three minutes. A lot of people will do sauna in between or something like, yeah, that's definitely cool. But, um, I don't, I'm, all the research I've done, I don't see any benefit past three minutes. Okay. That's really important. Yeah, I like that, that you presented
0_Bryan:that. And
0_Drew and Stefan:it's also
0_Bryan:there is burning that happens. I had a couple Achilles surgeries in the last year, so I had to ice my foot a lot and I noticed I was burning the skin by keeping the ice packs on too long. Yeah. And I was using pure ice and I was sticking it into buckets of ice and I was like, this isn't right, because I did read online, you can burn your skin. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy from contact. And
0_Drew and Stefan:and like I was saying
0_Bryan:three minutes, you can actually
0_Drew and Stefan:give yourself a heart attack Whoa. water too cold. Yeah, sure. Because it's an insane adrenaline spike. Yeah. Wow. And, uh, like the neuro epinephrine boost and, and all the dopamine spike and all that stuff. I swam in cold
0_Bryan:lakes, so, but I, so I understand the principle. It's just really good. You feel refreshed when you get outta that horse. Oh yeah. So yeah, it's great from a good night too.
0_Drew and Stefan:hours, hours of elevated dopamine.
0_Bryan:Hours.
0_Drew and Stefan:Hours. Literally. Yeah.
0_Bryan:Which is a feel good chemical.
0_Drew and Stefan:It's also a motivation Motivational. Yeah. It's a motivation hormone. Wow. will keep you basically, uh, contradicts like cortisol. So keep you stress locked in and, um, get locked. So your Saturday's just gonna be super happy Yeah. After that.'cause you're gonna feel really good And it's, it's a dopamine spike without a crash. Mm-hmm. You know, a lot You know, a lot of this like caffeine, supplemental centric Sure. Dopamine spikes that people search for and chase after. You know, it's a very, uh, detrimental crash after, after the spike. So, and then obviously that's where the addiction comes in and stuff like that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. The amphetamines. Yeah. So it's one that's addicting, but healthy.
0_Bryan:Well, I'm definitely gonna try out the cold plunge. I'm, I've always wanted to. I think that's great.
0_Drew and Stefan:you'll have to come to the Delray one because, okay. It's not tomorrow. Brick Brickle says No to Plunges, Lardo, they don't have either. We do plunges that at the Happy Hour
0_Bryan:run. Okay, so you don't always bring the inflatable.
0_Drew and Stefan:Happy hour. Run Benefit is the first a hundred people to show up, get a free drink ticket. Okay. And then it's BOGO Martinis that could also be mocktails. And then we'll have a chiropractor after the giving you free adjustments. Cool. So that's. Run and free drink and Cairo.
0_Bryan:looking to just socialize more. I've been kind of a shut in for the last year, so it'll get me out of, we've done a couple of events. Sneaker Impact task, speaking of which, you know, we were with Hollywood Run Club a week or two ago and you guys said you're from Hollywood and we've done stuff in the last, we're doing something with Joe Ws, um, group. Yeah. For six 14, which is a Saturday, uh, at the, uh, pushing for, pushing for new, pushing for new, um, and Jasmine's gonna lead that. I'll be there too. But we would love to do something with nameless if we could get Yeah. Do a Sneaker Impact, uh, related event at some point. Mm-hmm. Um, be one of the people that can, um, just help educate and be part of the event. Uh. Um, I, I want to take you guys on a tour right now. I know. It's almost four 30 here, Tom. Let's do it. We can wrap it up, but, uh, yeah, I wanna show these guys, uh, the grinding system before they turn it all off. But, um, it was really awesome to meet the two managing Yeah, you as well. Founding partners of Nameless Run Club. And it's just so cool to discover things in South Florida and anywhere you live that brings people together because oftentimes we get like a little sad or depressed because mm-hmm. You know, we, it's hard. I was listening to an audio book called the Let Them Theory and adult friendships are a little harder to make than when you're in school.'cause you're, when you're in school, you're all on the same track. So like in high school and college. Exactly. On the same track, at the same point in life, when you're an adult, you have to be outgoing. Mm-hmm. And proximity Matters, which is what you guys are all about. You're providing something in Fort Lauderdale for people, or Del Re or for
0_Drew and Stefan:Tampa. Right. But
0_Bryan:the proximity is where you're gonna pull people from. And then the third one is, um, I. It is just, um, sometimes going first mm-hmm. When you're at a social event. I, I rather really good advice to go first and introduce yourself right away. Yeah. You actually get social points for going first, I guess. Yeah. It's not about keeping points either, but you do get, there's, there's a psychological like, um, someone's keeping score etiquette of going on, of just like, that person gets extra points in my mind. It could just be in your mind just'cause they introduce themselves to me. Yeah. Because when you're in a setting, it's important I think to be outgoing. And to introduce yourself.'cause otherwise people are all shy. I'm very shy at some events. I can be like a wallflower wall and I need a drink or two to feel relaxed. No, but at a rum club, I don't, you know, that's a nice thing. Yeah.
0_Drew and Stefan:it's easy to just pull out your phone
0_Bryan:or I'll talk to people after the rum, but I will talk to'em beforehand too. Just get to know a couple, make a couple, learn a couple names. Yeah. And you meet people organically throughout the event with 200 people. I'm assuming you're gonna meet a lot of people. Yeah, I go to some run clubs. There are 30 people and I meet plenty of people. All of a sudden I got 10 new friends.
0_Drew and Stefan:And even, even for us too, like one of like the people I, I lived with the most, his name is Malik. Like, he's just like, he inspires me in different ways too. Like, just different people. Like I've met through run club. Like even this morning, like our, our resident DJ at Run Club, I ran with him this morning. He was wearing like a 30 pound ruck. Uh, Matt, the DJ by the way. Nice. And, uh, shout on Matt. So
0_Bryan:does he DJ some of the events? He does, yeah, he does. He DJs
0_Drew and Stefan:like, uh, bigger clubs too. It's like he is been with Yeah. Flat up and out. Very cool. Yeah. And then, uh, he's helping out, um, with other opportunities too that are out the box and will announce soon. And we're super excited for that. And, uh, yeah, it's really cool. Yeah.
0_Bryan:I'm excited to go to your events and I think I, I have a couple of, I think, I think you guys already have a bunch of great ideas and I just think my quick little idea, we can talk more off Yeah. The channel when we're walking, but I think it'd be really cool to do something on an island someday or to like do something on the beach where it's like more of like, like a camping experience. A camping experience. That would be dope. Yeah. Yeah. I'm open to anything like, like Gin Springs, you know, nameless Run Club edition, you know, that's a little far away. But we, to Jackson go anywhere to be honest. It's an awesome spring system. You could have an awesome run back there and you can soak in the cold springs. Those are cold springs
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah. Cold springs are really
0_Bryan:Oh dude, that'd North Florida Easy experience could do. Or you could go to Wiki Wie River over by Tampa. Yeah. For your TAM ones. Have you heard of Wiki Wie?
0_Drew and Stefan:That's the one that
0_Bryan:it's a kayaking. I went kayaking there. It's so beautiful. Yeah. And you could take, you can soak in it. There's manatees. It's gorgeous. So you guys can, and I think going to an island down here, we can talk about it if you ever need help. I know some DJs that do that, and it's successful. The hardest part is providing the transportation. Otherwise people have to paddle over. Yeah. You have to provide the service of the, like a ferry. We can even cut that part off at the end. But it's a business idea. We can keep it. Yeah. But no, I'm so excited for nameless because you guys are a young group of runners and leaders and you're, uh, you're encouraging everyone and. The, um, reputation that you guys have earned is because of your passion
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah.
0_Bryan:And because of who you are. So it's just really exciting to meet you guys.'cause I hang out with a lot of the Miami run scene stuff.
0_Drew and Stefan:Yeah.
0_Bryan:And I, my coworker and some other people told me about you guys and I looked you up and I was like, there's so much going on out there that we don't, if we don't pay attention.
0_Drew and Stefan:Mm-hmm.
0_Bryan:You know, you just gotta get active in your community, you know? Yeah. You don't have to be a serious runner, you can just go out. Yeah. Some people wanna walk their dog for a
0_Drew and Stefan:mile or two. Exactly. We have a lot of dogs that nameless too. Yeah. We got a couple dogs, some nameless dog. Yeah,
0_Bryan:so the nameless, yeah, the Nameless Movement. It could be called instead of the Nameless Run Club. But I love Nameless Run Club too. Be you talking
0_Drew and Stefan:Nameless Social Nameless Club, nameless We think about just probably Dropping Club, to be honest. We don't know yet. We'll see. It's good to
0_Bryan:have the Run Club on there, as we said, but eventually it can be even bigger. Like the Nameless Enterprises or something. Yeah, we were thinking about like nameless
0_Drew and Stefan:run,'cause it could be like nameless run, not enterprise festivals, this, this, that. You know, just like different name ideas. It just rolls off the tongue. One word nameless. Yeah, that could work too. Yeah. Yeah. But we're super excited to have you back, come out to one of the runs and yeah, just wanna like leave I guess you with some advice, general advice. Yeah. Gimme some advice from my first one into the runs like. one, like give everybody a chance, like I've met some incredible people at Run Yes. that I probably would never have met anyways, but maybe ha wouldn't have given the time of day. Um, outside of run club and I make sure to put in extra effort I wanna make sure everyone's comfortable, but also just to get to know, like our community. We always ask for feedback, all that stuff. And I've Mm-hmm. And I've just met some incredibly talented and just people that have taught me a lot, given me a lot of ideas, um, and some great friends that I've made. And one approach that you can do is just go up to someone and be like, Hey, do you wanna run together today? And you just run together. And when you're doing something that's harder than talking to somebody mm-hmm. You'll start talking to'em. Like, the run itself is is a more more demanding to get your mind off it off than, than, than, you know, going up to somebody and talking to'em. Yeah. So, throughout the run you'll just start naturally talking. Yeah. Ask how many miles are you gonna run today? Really cool. Which group are you gonna join? Literally up. Hey, what's your pace today? Yeah. I haven't seen you around, like, whatever, like the icebreakers are there, like it's part of the event. Of course. And you know, come just ask how many miles
0_Bryan:you're planning running and just ask as many people as you can.'cause sometimes you'll find the group, oh, I only wanna run two or three today. Okay. I'm gonna go with
0_Drew and Stefan:this group. I, I always ask it and check into'em like, how many miles do you plan to run today? Exactly. And I get that. Come check with us and we'll, we'll do the hard work. the groups. Yeah. I plan in my head, you're from Del. Well you have Del Del. Boom. There you go. Exactly. So that's something that VO has put a lot of time into. So Very cool. And then even like just introducing'em to the pace leaders as well. So the pace leaders really help, like, you do that at the beginning of the club? Yep, exactly. And then like, and then people that don't like really get, like if I don't check into specific person or I see someone like against the wall, like by themselves, I offer them a water or energy drink, whatever we have to offer. And then just ask'em about themselves. And then again, just pick their brain and just go from there. So yeah. What do you know about what, what do you, what type exactly. You know, like when we would go to like high school and we would all like start every year with like some form of like introduction to the, to the class. Mm-hmm. Because after you like. Be uncomfortable for a minute and speak everything after that seems effortless. Like you are more inclined to participate and speak once class. What's icebreaker? There's obviously a science behind these dumb icebreakers that we hate. Sure. But there's a reason for it. But you can just treat that, you know, it can, it can translate to going to these social scenes and these run clubs where, you know, you just gotta get that uncomfortable first time out of way. Mm-hmm. And after that it's just, it's gonna be a really positive experience. awesome. You can do that before the run. You can hang out for a little bit. Exactly. It's not what we're here for, to help out. And you know, whether it's handing out water, I'll go and I'll ask people, Hey, how'd you hear about it? It's like, whatever. whatever I start the conversation off with. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you know, once they get that first word in, it's a lot easier. Yeah. That's awesome. And another part too that was actually kind of funny from last week, um, on Saturday is, uh, it was so, I don't know how like it just happened, but like a buddy of mine, you know, I was leading the two mile group. Mm-hmm. And he was just playing like Katy Perry, like out loud. And I was like singing with him and I was like, wait a second, let's, let's do karaoke.'cause two mile group. I was like, we need to be conversational based. Mm-hmm. So everyone stays. And I was like, what's the best way to figure out if someone's gassed out? Then them like, you know, doing a little karaoke line. Wow. So we kept it slow enough so we stayed together and we all had a great time having karaoke Wow. For the run. So like now karaoke on the run. Yeah, exactly. That sounds fun. Yeah. Run club karaoke I guess you could say. So I'm keep doing it. It's fun, it's awesome. It's cool. And a lot of them like bonded and then someone DMed me like, yo, like that karaoke thing like was so fun. Like I'm definitely coming back for that. I was like, that'd be great. So, know, you ran two miles. Yeah. It was so much easier to run the two miles too. Yeah. I had to keep tracking, like picking up my phone to see, because I would like lose track. I'm like, oh my God, it's already a mile. Like we have to turn around. we always say worst case scenario, you ran a 5K like absolute worst scenario. Yeah. You go to the bar, you're down$200 and you have a hangover. At least if you come the run club, like you're getting a workout you're gonna trick yourself into absolute worst case scenario, best case scenario. Might meet a partner for life. Who Yeah.
0_Bryan:Wow. Very cool. Uh, the Nameless Run Club. I'm gonna check it out tomorrow guys, and I'll put in, um, some video to show you guys what they're all about and check them out on Instagram. Um, this has been really fun having you guys. We'll, we'll do something fly by, flew by you. Were right about
0_Drew and Stefan:that. But thank you so much for your time. Yeah, thanks for, thanks for having, I'm excited for the Toury right now.
0_Bryan:Yeah, yeah. Let's do it. Awesome guys. Well, drew and Stefan, thank you again from Nameless Run Club. Thank you. Check'em out on Instagram guys and on their, their website and on the Sweat House app. Yes, sir. Alright guys. See you later. Sounds good.
Stefan and Drew:What's up? Nameless Run Club. Let's make some noise. Bring it in. Bring it in. Bring it in. Bring it in. Bring it in. Bring it in. Bring it in. Alright. One more round. One more round. Let's make some noise, baby. We're here. Let's, if you don't run me, my name is Stefan. This is my co-founder Drew, and I'm gonna let him take from here. What up Fort Lauderdale? How are we doing guys? One more time. Make some noise. Make some noise. We're about to run. Let's go. Yes. Thank you guys so much for coming out. We have so many amazing people out here. We just want to thank you guys one more time. We're starting some really cool sponsors on Sunday. We're gonna have some really cool stuff out the runs, drinks, snacks, goodies. Shout out to Jack Rabbit for coming out. Coolest app on the platform since Flappy Bird. You know what we're talking about. Shout out battle cancer for sponsoring the run today. They got a great run in Miami, August 2nd. It's a race and it's supporting cancer. And, uh, real quick, if you're interested in becoming a nameless run ambassador, we got some really cool opportunities. You get some merch, get some discounts. There's some paid opportunities. Last thing. Take some videos. Post us on your story. Tag us. We got a two mile run around Tarpon River. Follow the person in front of you. Don't get hit by a car. And I'll see you guys when you get back. Have fun. Let's go one more time. Alright. Get started. Go ahead. Go ahead.
