How I Built This How I Built This

Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix

2023-03-13 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 24m ·by Guy Raz / NPR
Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
How I Built This
0:00
--:--

About this episode

In 2007, Steven Sashen went on a 5K run in his bare feet, an experience that felt so surprisingly natural that it led him to launch one of the best-known minimalist shoe brands in the world. After reading the best-seller Born to Run by Christopher McDougall and fashioning his own, thin-soled sa