Podcast
Conversations about brand building, endurance sports, and the habits that support long-term growth. New episodes regularly.
Recent Episodes
EP 12
Building Consumer Brands From Scratch
A conversation about what it really takes to launch and scale a physical product brand.
EP 11
Endurance & Entrepreneurship
How training for ultramarathons has shaped the way I think about building businesses.
EP 10
Supply Chain Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Real stories and takeaways from navigating global supply chain challenges.
Beyond the Pavement: How to Turn Every Ride Into an Adventure
Let’s be real for a second. We’ve all been there. You’re staring at your bike, or maybe you’re already five miles into your usual loop, and it feels like… well, work. You’re checking your watch, monitoring your heart rate, and hyper-focusing on the "output." But what happened to the fun?
The Art of Looking Around: Why Your Daily Trail Run is More Than Just Miles
Let’s be real for a second: life is loud. Between the endless pings of Slack notifications, the mountain of emails, and the general chaos of the "daily grind," it’s easy to feel like you’re just a cog in a very busy, very noisy machine. For me, the antidote has always
Survival, Grit, and the Blink of an Eye: My Lake Falcon Story
"Life can change in the blink of an eye, then change again…. In August of 2021 my son Jax, good friend Jay and I went down to the border of Mexico on a fishing tripThe lake we went to is part of the Rio Grande, Lake Falcon, and is part
What Start Up Entrepreneurs Eat
So it’s funny, I generally eat healthy, but when you have 11 people helping you to run your business but you need 22, there is just not enough time in the day. It’s unbelievable how many times that there is only 5 minutes for lunch, or a few seconds between
Orange Mud Profile – Active Gear Review
Running our own business has been a ton of fun but the process of getting it cruising is always way harder than you think! I had a great time sitting down with Zachary to go over our business from concept to current date and gave some insight into not just
Do you shop local?
We’re pumped to have this feature in the “locally made” segment of CBS LA. Sourcing local does mean a lot to us, even though most consumers really don’t seem to care as long as the quality is there. We figure that sourcing local creates local jobs which can’t be bad
How Much Does It Cost to Start A Brand?
Makers Row recently asked us a bunch of questions on how we started our brand, how much it cost, challenges, etc to build a company. It really was pretty funny how spot on the guess was with the launch, but that was only phase 1! Bottom line it takes a
Makers Who Made It
We’re pumped to be a part of the “Makers Who Made It” book that was recently released by the founder and CDO of the Grommet. Check it out for a great read of Orange Mud’s back story as well as 100 other inventors, entrepreneurs and makers who have launched on
Day 366+
This week marks 1 year since I quit my full time career in the medical device industry to run Orange Mud full time. Granted it was a full time second job for the previous couple years, just with way too many nights and way to many loooonnggg weekends. All this with 2