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Fight or FlightVoices from the edge. Lessons from the fire.We don't chase guests. We find people doing the work—quietly reshaping the worlds of design, sport, warfare, movement, code, commerce, and spirit.
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S2E42 | Nicole Malachowski: Thunderbird Pilot. Then Nearly 9 Months She Couldn't Walk or Speak (opens the original)
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Fighter cockpit. Thunderbird three. West Wing. Then a tick bite took her legs. Took her voice. Nearly nine months of stillness. Col. Nicole Malachowski (Ret.) built a career at the edge of human performance. First woman to fly combat in a modern fighter jet. First woman on a DoD jet demonstration team. White House Fellow. Adviser to two First Ladies. Commander of a $1.1B squadron. Then illness took the body that built it. Resilience returns you to who you were. Resurgence makes you someone new.
2E41 Body By Craig | The Human Body, A Creator's Craft (opens the original)
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Fight-or-Fl1ght | Season 2, Episode 41 | Craig of Body By Craig, personal trainer and human performance coach, on preparing bodies for pageantry, athletics, and peak performance as a craft. Four guests. Four creators. Four separate conversations. One question, asked in four different mediums. Glenn McMahon (S2E38) builds brands. Steve Smith (S2E39) designs the sneakers in demand. George Esquivel (S2E40) hand-stitches leather into something that outlives a trend. Craig (S2E41) builds the body its
S2E40 George Esquivel | Grew Up Around Guns & Crime, Now Makes Shoes for Brad Pitt, LeBron & Madonna (opens the original)
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Fight-or-Fl1ght | Season 2, Episode 40 | George Esquivel, founder of the House of Esquivel, on childhood survival, faith, and building a bespoke luxury footwear brand from a garage. Guns in the house. A father who was a career criminal. A mother who was conflicted. Always seeking better despite the oppression. George Esquivel inherited a work ethic. Faith. Creativity. And the ability to FIGHT, for BTR™ Consider this resume: By fourteen he knew where the guns were kept. By nineteen he put his own
S2E39 | Steven Smith | REBELLION IS THE RECIPE. HE'S BEEN COOKING FOR DECADES. (opens the original)
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Some products are iconic. They move audiences to want more. Others are functionally forgettable. A transaction. A moment. Never a movement. Some designers iterate. Refine what exists. Others duplicate, chasing short gains. A select few imagine what might be. New expressions of symmetry, function, form. BTR™. Better in style, performance, value. An even smaller few deliver, repeatedly, with the unexpected. Content that captures imagination and consumer enrollment. Regardless of brand. Regardless
S2E38 | Glenn McMahon | He's built, sold, and saved brands for over 30 years. What most never learn. (opens the original)
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Donna Karan. Dolce & Gabbana. Giorgio Armani. St. John Knits, sold in 2013. Then interim leadership and advisory work across fashion, tech, hospitality, and luxury appliances. Thirty years. Build it. Sell it. Save it. Glenn identifies industry vulgarities and celebrates the imagination that moves audiences to enroll, not those who survive on forgettable transactions. Decisive. Gentle in delivery. Firm in the follow-through. Inside this episode: complacency as the industry's most uncomfortable tr
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