Owen is joined by Mike Ripley, owner and operator of the bike and trail running race event businesses, Mudslinger Events and Oregon Trail Runs. A long time bike advocate and event organizer, Mike has always been a bit of a workaholic which really comes across in his story about the early days of managing pizza restaurants while building his race event business. The amount of relationships and logistics that are involved in putting on over a dozen race events every year is astounding. Mike explains some of these and other intricacies of being self-employees for over a decade.
FIND Mike
www.mudslingerevents.com/
www.oregontrailruns.com/
TIMESTAMPS
(0:00) Intro
(0:33) What Mike does
(4:22) Designing a race
(6:44) His career
(11:50) Buying a blue sky business
(14:29) How he learned how to run a business
(21:08) What goes into organizing a race event
(25:10) Knowing when to (not) listen to others
(31:45) The value of in-person events today
(43:46) What does he see in his future?
(46:59) Plugging into the local event communities
(49:56) Balancing work tasks and personal life
(57:05) Mike's advice for a Bossless Path
(1:04:21) How to find Mike
(1:04:41) Wrap up
(1:05:05) Outro