Episode 4 features an interview with Honey Stinger co-owners Bill Gamber and Rich Hager, who reflect on the company's early days as a seat-of-the-pants startup and share why their own athletic lives and ambitions are such a key part of Honey Stinger's DNA.

Bill and Rich are entrepreneurs and business partners but most importantly they are dedicated athletes and adventurers, just like their customers. And from that point of view the two wanted to make something that not only they wanted and needed themselves but what they believed other athletes wanted and needed, too- a healthier, more natural source of energy.

That foundational belief not only guides the business decisions they make every day but it's part of Honey Stinger's culture and it's the reason the company was formed back in the first place in 2001.

Several years before that, Bill and Rich were competing in triathlons together. A key moment in their early attempts to get their company off the ground came at the Ironman in Kona, where they made honey-based smoothies for any of the competitors who wanted them. And that's just one of the great, fun stories the two share about the early, freewheeling days. You'll also hear in the episode about the third co-owner of Honey Stinger, Len Zanni.

There's something else that makes Honey Stinger's origin story unique. It encompasses several other companies: a honey-based food company started in Pennsylvania by Bill's grandparents in 1954, an apparel company Bill started while still in college and Big Agnes, a company that still makes high-end tents, sleeping bags and other camping gear. It is unlikely that without the help of these three start-ups that Honey Stinger would exist today.

Fuel School is back! In our second segment, Hive athletes share their nutrition strategies for before, during and after the Popular Brooklyn Half. 

Episode 3 features our first on-the-run interview—a unique conversation between host David Willey and Hive athlete Stacy McAllister, a former competitive figure skater and new ultra-runner. Most runners know that conversations they have out on the roads and trails are different. They're better. There's something about being outdoors, on-the-move, with endorphins flooding our brains. We tend to be more open, honest, insightful, self-deprecating, and present-in-the-moment. Usually, what gets said on the run stays on the run, but these interviews aim to change that. We essentially invite to you come along and listen in as David and Stacy, wearing customized recording gear on a five-mile loop in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, talk about her evolution as an athlete, the scariest—and most fulfilling—things about doing a 50-K, and how her grandfather, who died from complications related to multiple sclerosis, continues to inspire her to become a runner and continue to challenge herself with ambitious goals.

Episode 2 features an interview with Chhiring Sherpa, a revered climber and guide who has summited Mount Everest 16 times, but also works at Honey Stinger. Our second segment features an in-depth interview with Kim Hess, a Hive Gold athlete who's very close to becoming only the thirteenth woman to complete the Adventurers Grand Slam—that's climbing the Seven Summits (the highest peak on each of the seven continents) plus traversing to the North and the South poles. Kim began this quest eight years ago, and she's had some pretty extreme highs and lows, including a fall and emergency evacuation from Mt McKinley. She talks openly about all of it, as well as the challenges of being a woman in a traditionally male realm.

The pilot episode features an interview with pro marathoner, Hive Gold athlete and new mom Neely Spence Gracey, who had her first child, a son named Athens, this past July. In 2016, she won two half-marathons and finished as the top American at the Boston Marathon. Spence Gracey had planned to run through her pregnancy but ended up having to take six-months off from running, which she found to be surprisingly difficult and disorienting. She talks openly about her struggles and how she overcame them, and also about her post-pregnancy comeback, how being a working mom has changed her approach to just about everything, and how great it feels to be an athlete again. A second segment, called "Fuel School," shares nutrition strategies for before, during and after a big race from several half-marathoners from the Hive. There's also a conversation with Katie Black, who manages the Hive, explaining how the community works and what makes it so special.