Episode 246 | Simon Freeman and Mario Fraioli on Teamwork and Support Crews in Running, Business, and Life

About this episode

Mario Fraioli and Simon Freeman discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with good people in running, business, and life.

I recently sat down with my good friend and  frequent podcast guest Simon Freeman , the co-founder and publisher of my favorite running magazine,  Like The Wind , for our third quarterly conversation of 2025, which you can listen to wherever you get  the morning shakeout  podcast. An excerpt of this exchange can be found in Issue #46 of  LtW , which comes out this week. (You can buy a copy or subscribe  here .) In this episode we discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with good people in running, business, and life. Click here for complete show notes and sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday. Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Mario Fraioli

Guest: Simon Freeman

Topics covered

• teamwork
• support crews
• running
• business
• life

Keywords

• teamwork
• support crews
• running
• business
• life
• Like The Wind
• podcast
• friendship
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Like The Wind, the morning shakeout podcast

Books & works: Issue #46

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