He’s the producer behind three of the world’s leading fitness documentaries. He’s one half of the dynamic duo that is hit YouTube channel “The Buttery Bros.” He has exceptional hair.
And, as it turns out, Marston Sawyers is human, too.
“It’s a very fun show and we try to keep it lighthearted, but behind the scenes, I was broken,” he says of the early days launching The Buttery Bros in the aftermath of CrossFit Headquarters’ 2019 mass layoff and media purge. “I felt like I’d got my heart ripped out.”
If you’ve only seen him on the screen, hanging with elite athletes and delighting fans with absurd challenges (like an ultramarathon … in Crocs), you might think it’s all glitz and glamor. But behind the sunnies and beneath the pat of butter is a very real human with a story to tell: of struggle, perseverance, loss, and growth.
“I feel like I've leveled up the way that I feel about sharing my own personal journey and my own vulnerability,” he says. “And it's cool to be able to take a really tough topic that's very personal to me and be able to put it out there for people to see.”
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Babies, vulnerability, and the “male boob job”
3:40 Afib out of the blue
9:56 Pondering mortality
11:40 Change of pace and new life stages
20:04 Growth from vulnerability in storytelling
27:28 Storytelling outside of CrossFit
31:37 What CrossFit could learn from HYROX
45:38 From childhood obsession with the camera to CrossFit documentarian
1:01:17 After the great CrossFit media purge: Starting over, persevering, and staying the path
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https://youtu.be/loh4ZdzoNRE?si=fH-hH82UNHCaiUD7
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