KHC 126 - Jessi Gabriel

Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

Cameron Hanes

Health & Fitness, Sports

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Join us for a conversation with Jessi Gabriel, director of marketing at Grand Slam Track. Grand Slam is an elite track event series featuring the sport's biggest stars in head-to-head competition. Jessi talks about how Grand Slam is helping transform the track world, her experience in marketing in the track industry and more! Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cameronrhanes Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameronhanes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camhanes/ Website: https://www.cameronhanes.com Follow Jessi: https://www.instagram.com/jgabriel16/ Learn more about Grand Slam Track: https://www.grandslamtrack.com/ Thank you to our sponsors: LMNT: Visit https://drinklmnt.com/cam for a free sample pack with any purchase Hoyt: http://bit.ly/3Zdamyv use code CAM for 10% off Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% your first order MTN OPS Supplements: https://mtnops.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off and Free Shipping Sig Sauer: https://www.sigsauer.com/ use code CAM10 for 10% off optics Grizzly Coolers: https://www.grizzlycoolers.com/ use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off Timestamps: 00:00:00 Grand Slam Track & The Sport of Track 00:06:51 Compensation in the Grand Slam 00:13:20 Jessi’s Knowledge in Marketing 00:20:43 Jessi’s Background, Traveling, & Minnesota 00:26:08 Track Athletes Regimens 00:32:51 Ad Break (LMNT & Ketone-IQ) 00:35:07 Rivalries in Track 00:41:27 The Relationship Between the Olympics & the Athletes 00:54:24 Marketing: Continually Learning About the Industry 00:57:31 Telling Athletes Stories 01:02:31 Finding Media Talent for Grand Slam 01:03:55 Sh*t Talk, Drama, & Tension Between the Athletes 01:09:12 Eugene Track World Championships & the 2020 Olympic Games 01:14:29 Jessi’s Advice to Athletes from a Business Standpoint 01:19:28 Ben Blankenship: The Endless Mileage Project 01:30:35 QA: Will Track Start Hosting Big Guest Appearances? 01:33:58 QA: Will There be Qualifying for the Average Joe Runner? 01:39:12 QA: Resistance from Any Traditional Track Organizations? 01:43:04 QA: Your Opinion on Ultramarathons in the Olympics? 01:49:05 Outro

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0:00.0	Every step I take I move my truth.
0:02.5	Every time they tell me stop I use.
0:04.2	Every comment hate that makes my feel.
0:06.0	Gather up my energy and boom.
0:07.9	I had them talking saying the way that I move it's so reckless.
0:10.5	That is a part of my mind I've been blessed with.
0:12.2	Giving my blood so I am relentless.
0:15.8	All right, this is the Keep Hammering Collective.
0:18.0	We're with Jess, Jessica, Jesse, J.ay dog gabriel you got it jennie gabriel okay oh i
0:26.4	so i was so focused on your first i know i screwed with the last name gabriel okay um how are you doing
0:33.4	i'm good yeah it's been busy oh man well mean, this is cool because I'm a huge track
0:41.0	fan, which a lot of people from Eugene are, I think, but I remember, you know, my grandma lived
0:48.7	on 24th and Emerald, which is just kind of a little tiny hill over from Hay Hayward and the track meets would be going on and
0:55.7	I didn't have any money but I'd go up there and just like be hanging on the cyclone fence just
0:59.7	watching all the athletes but uh so been immersed in track around here forever and now you work for
1:07.2	grand slam track and tell me about that yeah I mean I so I've actually worked in
1:12.9	track and field for a while I used to work at Tracktown USA which is a local nonprofit here
1:19.9	and Eugene that puts on large scale track and field events including the Olympic trials. I know
1:24.5	you've been to a couple of those. And then I was also,
1:28.2	I was the communications director at the World Championships when they were held here in Oregon.
1:33.3	And so, yeah, been in the sport and been around the sport for a long time. I was a D1 athlete
1:38.9	at Minnesota. I coached sprints jumps while I was there when I was in grad school and had
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