March 3, 2025 • 30 mins
Sadie Glenn is ready for a new NHRA drag racing season that begins this weekend in Florida. Not only as a businesswoman and wife, but as a racer herself. We start the first part of our conversation discussing being on the verge of a new NHRA season; living in NASCAR country; the background of her start in drag racing; the balance of being a part-time driver and her husband being a full-time driver; the approach to her driving career and how often she competes; the reality of trying to be a driver and how that was going to look; the idea of driving being good for the soul; being a cancer survivor and how that effects her today.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey, everyone, Welcome to the Racing Writers Podcast. I'm your host,
Kelly Krandall. Our guest today is Sadie Glenn. Sadie is
an outstanding human and a hustler in NHLA drag racing
and that is why she's on the podcast today. So
in part one of our conversation, as I have split
it into, we're gonna get to know Sadie's background, how
she got into drag racing and going from the Pacific
Northwest to North Carolina where she is the wife of
(00:30):
KB Racing pro stop driver Dallas Glenn. But she is
also a racer herself in the sportsman division, so we're
gonna learn all about that and their background, their history,
how Sadie got into drag racing as I mentioned, and
her approach to her part time racing. Sadie is also
the owner of sr Driven Media that's gonna come up
in the second part of our conversation, and the work
that she does for many drivers across the drag racing landscape.
(00:54):
So we're starting off just getting to know Sadie and
her background, as well as how she is a cancer survivor.
That's part of her story, and that's all coming up
in this episode, so I hope you enjoy it, and
let's jump right into it. Here is the ever wonderful
Sadie Lynn on the Racing Writers Podcast. All Right, I
(01:17):
like to believe good things come to those who wait.
And I say that because Sadie feels like we've been
trying to do this for a while, but we both
work in racing and shit happens, and sometimes you just
need to reschedule two, three, four times. But we're here,
We're doing it, and I'm looking at it the end goal.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Girl, we did it. I just man, even in.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
The off season, I like to be like, oh, I'm
so on top of it in the off season because
I'm home for more than three days at a time,
but you know, marrying Dallas and being you know, the
shops like fifteen minutes away. So like right before this,
I'm like in the shower and he texts me. He's like, hey,
(01:55):
I need all the stats for my hero cards. I
was like, literally right now. I was like, okay, So
it just never stops, you know. But he's working really
hard on my engine right now. So I'm not saying
nothing because that's how he pays me back.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So we're gonna jump.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Into all of that. But as you said there about
the off season, it's funny because me being the NASCAR person,
we are already in the thick of our season, but
y'all over on a drag racing side haven't really kind
of officially started yet. There was the big event down
in Bradington, but the official NHA mission food season hasn't
started yet, but it's fast approaching. So I guess, as
(02:34):
you were saying there, what are these last couple weeks like,
as you guys get ready to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Be back on road.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, I feel like Bradenton was a lot of fun
to get like the rust off. Our off season's only
like two months, but it's like, all of a sudden
we're back. I'm like, okay, did we do everything on
everyone's cars.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Like maintenance wise?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You know, we're about to find out on the first
couple test days if we're terrible or not.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So the last couple of weeks we went.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
To Bradenton, we came back and it's mainly been getting my.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Drags are ready. Obviously, Dallas and all the KB cars
have been working six days a week all winter, so
you know they're crazy. But since my first race is
at the Gators in two weeks. We're kind of like
in the nitty gritty, but we kind of tend to
do that every time. I'm like, oh, we're going to
(03:26):
be so productive.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We're you know, we're going to do it, and you know,
we're like fifty percent not dying right now.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It sounds like you do work and live in racing.
That's exactly what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes, yeah, it's literally been my life since I was
ten years old when my dad started drag racing. So
it's been drag racing or die since then. I mean,
we do live in NASCAR country, so I feel like through.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You and like just seeing all the people around here,
I'm like, I'm slowly learning about NASCAR people. But I'm like, man,
this is like a whole nother thing. I'm like, what
is this?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So I'm just like, Okay, maybe my attention span is
only meant for drag race.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well it's the only thing, you know, But that's an
interesting dynamic. I hadn't thought of it that way. When
you're a drag racing family and you guys aren't the
only one I know. There's a couple drag racing folks
that live in the Charlotte area or the Moorsville area.
But how interesting is that dynamic to be again, you're
involved in racing. You guys race in one of the
biggest you know, the drag racing series right of the
(04:40):
United States. But what is it like, as you said,
to be situated not in drag racing country, you're in
NASCAR country, right, to like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Not be in nd Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So I mean going from living in the Northwest in Oregon,
where people like when I told them I race, they
would look at me funny and like ask if I
raced in a.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Women's league, which is fine, they don't know any better.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But I was like, no, I race against like my
dad and my dad's friends, Like I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And so moving here to see like race trailers going
down the main road and.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Like just open bed trailers with any kind of car,
I was like, Dallas, this is where we were meant.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
To live our whole stinking lives.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm like, this is crazy. So usually when I tell
someone that I work in racing, obviously they're like, oh,
what NASCAR team do you work for.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm like, I don't, So, you know, sometimes I'm like, oh,
it's just like drag racing.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Like sometimes it doesn't compute drag racing.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I was like, it's a quarter a mile and we
go really fast, you know, kind of like you know,
I hate to compare it to like fast and furious,
but for like the general public, like.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sometimes that's all I got. I'm like, yeah, we're super fast,
and then it's over. That's a good sumb it up.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So I know you've talked about your story before, but
I wanted to bring it to my audience if you
don't mind, So yeah, set it right there. You're from
the Northwest. Let's dig into as you you said there
about your dad, how you got into racing and kind
of it's always been your life in what you've known,
and you race yourself even still to this day. So
let's just dig into it. Where do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So my dad raced in the seventies in the eighties
and then started having children and was responsible.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And then in.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Two thousand, after my dad has spent like ten years
restoring hot rods and going to hot rod shows and stuff,
he's like, you know what, I want to get back
into racing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And at that time I was ten. So the first
year was just me being the crew chief.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I thought the crew chief of his forty eight Anglia,
which is like a British Ford. It's like a ninety
inch wheelbase car. It's very squirrely, but it's so cool.
So we would just go to Woodburn Dragstrip, which was
an hour from our house, and we.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Would race there like twenty times a season, and then we.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Would only go out of town like once a year
to Boise, Idaho at Firebird and that's like my favorite
track of all time. And I saw little kids driving
cars and I was like, what the heck.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Like at first, I was like, well, I had a
go cart that had a roadster body on it so
I could like drive it at hot rod shows, which.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't know why they would let like a seven
year old drive a go cart around all these expensive,
beautiful cars at hot rod shows. I'm like, I would
never do that now, but they did because the nineties
were crazy. And so I got a Junior dragstore the
following year and it's pretty much been the love of
(07:57):
my life since then.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I'm thirty five now, so I love it. Yeah,
it's the best.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm so glad It's an interesting dynamic because I love
the fact that Dallas has gone from crewmember to this
fantastic driver getting his shot now and competing for championships
in pro stock, but you're also still racing. How do
you balance that? How do you balance what you've got
going on being the supportive wife and we're also going
to get into your other businesses here at a second,
but the supportive wife who also there's weekends where you're
(08:30):
still in the dragster. You're competing for yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, so that ooh, I don't really.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There was like Charlotte, I think two years ago, I
had just bought in my dragster because when I moved here,
I kept my dragster at home with my parents, and
you know, because shipping it across the country was wild,
I was like no, like I no, So I was like,
drag racing will always be there for me. So eventually
(08:59):
I to get back into it. So it did take
like ten years, but you know, every year I would
like manage to talk someone in too, let me drive
their stuff, like once or twice a year.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I'm like, thank you. I just need like a little
like like a hit. I just need a hit. You know,
it sounds so like a drug addiction, but it is.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It is.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Racing is an addiction.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It really really is so bad but so good. And so.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You know, I met Dallas through racing, used to race
and Division six together, so we've always been at the
same time racing, like he was in stock Eliminator and
I was in Top Dragster. And then when we moved
over here, you know, he spent those ten years on
the crew and doing the back half for Jason Lyn,
(09:46):
Kyle Koretzky, all those super cool people that we love.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But the last couple of years have been a transition
for me.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I'm like, okay, so Charlotte, I went to the semi finals,
and by the time you get to the semi finals
and Top Dragster, it's like four or.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Five rounds already that you've done, and they only do
the semi and the finals on Sunday. So I was
so excited to be racing on Sunday at a national event,
like with my brand new car, like I had never
really run a national event seriously before, but all I
could think about I was like, Okay, I'm in the lanes.
(10:26):
Dallas is probably going to be coming in the lanes
real soon, you know, And I.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Was like, what happened? What a good problem to have
in a great world.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
If I was going rounds and he was going rounds
and we were both in the finals or something, I
don't even know what I would do, but I think, like.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Say I won, I would run before him, and then
of course they would want to interview me, I'm assuming,
But then I would literally just get on a scooter
and come right back down to the starting line. I guess,
I don't know, And so it's been you know, I
don't race that often.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I have like five or six races a year, but
it gets complicated, Like usually I have my stuff set
up so he doesn't have to worry about me. Like
usually I'll come to his pits right before I go
up to the lanes and say, hey, this is what
I'm thinking about.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Dialing, and we'll look at the computer real quick.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But often he's not with me on the starting line
or anything, which is fine.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He's usually like pulling.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Out a clutch or something like that, and so I'm like, Okay,
here's what I'm thinking. I'm going up and then he's
just like listening on n h RAA TV basically bless
him and so it gets a little complicated, but he's
there when he can be. But sometimes, like last year,
we had a lot of trouble like Gremlins with my dragster,
(11:53):
and it was almost a relief that it wasn't like
Norwalk I'll never forget was super like super long a
week and Dallas is doing so well, but my dragster is,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Being less than kind.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And I was like, I'm almost thankful it didn't do
well this weekend so I can have a second to breathe.
I was like, okay, doubt, Like Dallas is going, I'm
back in my pits, which are on the other side
of the racetrack, you know, because I don't want to
park in their pits.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I think that's I don't know. I'm like, I don't
need to park in your pits, weirdo, Like, I don't know,
so long winded answer. Uh, it is complicated, but it
is so fun. We just don't think about it until
two days later when we're just sleeping all day.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, as you said there, you don't race full time, right,
You pick and choose your racing. And I'm sure it's
also financially dependent and all of that that comes with
being involved in racing. So how do you approach then
the driving aspect in terms of how much you're going
to race, where you're going to race, and again just
balancing kind of that career, Yeah, because clearly it's something
you still want to do with you you don't want
(13:10):
to give it up.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Right, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I have loved Top Dragster since I started racing it
when I was twenty one, and I just love bracket racing,
like I love the superclasses, and people are.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So good in all the classes.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But I don't know, I've just always loved fast bracket racing,
probably because I'm better at that than like ratio stuff,
for super confidence stuff, I'm like, oh my gosh, the
numbers are too much. So luckily with NHRA schedule there's
only ten or eleven depending on the year national events
(13:48):
at Top Dragster even runs at so that narrows down
my choices.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Quite a bit. And then since it's just me and
our truck and trailer, I'll drive to the race if
it's within like nine or ten hours, but any if
it's gonna take me two days, I don't like to
get to the race. I'm like, no, I can't.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Like if I can get there in one day, perfect,
but anything longer than like ten hours, I'm like, Okay,
this is a while. So that really only leaves a
lot of opportunities for like Charlotte, Gainesville.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I think this year I'm gonna race at Richmond, which
will be fun. Obviously. Bristol, Oh my god, I love
that track so much.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh my god, it's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I like, I'm just staging my car. I was like,
how is this like built into this mountain? Like that's
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's what I tell people. It's just I That's how
I describe it. I'm like, it's just picturesque. You just
have to see it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yes, I was like, this place is crazy, and you
know it's so well kept too, you know. So you know,
I don't have a lot of choices on where I
want to race, but I do have more than previous.
When I was in Division six, it was like Seattle
or you go like all the way down to Pomona,
which was like a twenty hour drive, or Vegas was
(15:08):
a twenty hour drive.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I'm like, ooof no thanks.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So since I fund my own drag stir through my business,
which I'm very lucky to have happen. Obviously, I do
have some associate sponsors that help with entry fees and
fuel and all that stuff, which is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But since I'm my own sponsor, I can kind of.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Pick and choose where I want to go and when
I don't want to go, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Henry, maarent be nice.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Be nice.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Henry's just as well known because of social media.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So oh man, that dog. He he actually rules the
whole family, and people think, oh, Dallas, he's so successful.
It's it's Henry. It's Henry. Yeah. And he's such a
dog dad too.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That cracks me up, Like that's the best, is it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
He'll just like walk around with him like he's like,
look at my dog, and he has this habit of
showing it. Like if you say you have a dog,
he will go through archives of photos of Henry and
show you everyone. I'm like, dude, not everyone wants to
see every picture of your dog, like it's.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The best, right, Because you said, there's probably this perception
of Dallas Glenn pro stock driver, winning races, getting his
hands dirty working on these cars, and then he got
the dog dumped under his arm, he's got a seven
pound Pomeranian.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Let's go. Ah.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I love that. Was this something Sadie, that you knew
early on in life was going to be the path,
that it wasn't gonna be something that you were going
to do full time, that it was just going to
be when you could do it kind of how I
can ground up what I can scrounge up. It was
it clear early on in life, Okay, I love to race,
but I'm not going to be superstar. I'm not going
to be full time driver.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Right So growing up, I was like, I'm going to
race top fuel the end, like I before, well, right
up to the point that Dallas and I got together
in twenty twelve, I was in school for marketing at
Portland State and I was like, you know, I'm going
to learn how to market myself and get into top fuel,
(17:24):
you know. And I hadn't been to a national event.
I was like, I just know I want to race professionally.
And so after I think it was in twenty thirteen,
I got my top alcohol license in Jerry Darien's car,
and I had I had like two months to find
a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And obviously that did.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Not happen, But honestly, I just wanted the license to
say that I had it because I can keep it forever,
so it's always just in my back pocket.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But you know, as I got.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Older, I was like, what about racing makes me happiest.
Is it because I want to drive a top fuel
car and be famous or is it because I just
like the competition and the people and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And I was like, you know, I just like bracket race.
Like after I didn't bring my car with me to
North Carolina, it was kind of a step back. I
was like, Okay, let's focus on why I love racing,
and it's just racing at whatever level.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And so after going to national events for a while
through my work.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I was like, you know, it's not really all that
it's cracked up to be.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Like some people live in the dream, love it, having
a great time, but I just don't know if that's
for me. And that's okay what I like to race
in top alcohol, I wouldn't say no, but I don't
know if i'd ever get my top fuel license.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think I'm good. Like two fifty, I was like,
I'm good, So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Maybe if I'm made more hits in the top alcohol card,
be like, okay, time to go top fuel racing, which
totally would happen.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But I think growing up, you know, a little girl,
you always want to be the best of the best.
So I was like, I'm going to race professionally the end.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And then as I grew up, I was like, Okay,
I can still race, but I can I found another
love of, you know, social media management, marketing and doing
that and photography.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I was like, I can do.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I can have more than one dream and still keep
both of them, which is cool. So you know, obviously
as a little girl, I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
And then life didn't hit me in the face or
anything like that, but.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I was like, let's be realistic, right, It.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Was more of just looking realistically at what life was
was going towards.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, like, let's maybe it's not all about you, you
know all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But I was raised like an only child, so all
my half siblings were older, so yeah, you know, it's
not all.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
About you, girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But not everybody has that realization. That's interesting, right, Like
not everybody or not everyone wants to admit that they
fight for and they're stubborn when it comes to I'm
going to chase something no matter what, and hey, sometimes
it works for folks, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yes, I am far too self aware for that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's not that I like gave up, but I was
just like, let's be realistic about why I love racing and.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
What class that is and what I got to do
to race in that class and still support my husband,
support my business and my clients through that.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And this is like such a nice mixture between the too.
So yeah, look at us maturing and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's crazy. I don't handle adulting. Well, I don't know
about you.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I should not be an adult.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I say the same thing. I feel like I'm still
in college sometimes. But that's probably goes back to what
we were talking about off air. When you live in
hoodies and leggings all the time, that doesn't exactly help
you feel much.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Harm Like I sometimes I'm like still wearing the same stuff,
you know, going to class. I still have the nightmares
that I have a paper due yep, you know, like
I did in college. So it's basically like I'm there.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, same. I have weird dreams or like even daydreams
sometimes where I don't know why. I'll have these random
thoughts where it's like today me today at thirty five,
I'm like, how did I ever not go to class? Like,
because today I would think about I'd be worried about
what I missed and what I was supposed to be doing.
Back then, you didn't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
You're like, if I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
To class, I'm not going to class, Like, yeah, I can't.
I can't. Somehow I wrapped my mind around it.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Then, and like didn't buy the books that they wanted
us to buy because they were so expensive at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I'm like, how did I learn anything or get
any assignments done?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I really I don't understand. How did I work a locker?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't know how did Like these are the thoughts
I have at thirty five that when we were doing it,
when we worked through insta, How.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Did I remember my locker number in middle school and
high school?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
How did I do that exactly exactly? Oh my gosh,
what does driving what does still racing today? What does
that do for you? Or why is that good for
the soul? Sadie that you still get behind the wheel.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, I'm really glad that you asked that, because it
is just good for my soul. Like I I just
have loved drag racing since I was ten years old,
and it's brought me my family that's not my family,
my I met my husband through drag racing, and so
I I don't know what it is like.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Obviously there's a lot of adrenaline, but I just feel
so at ease. Brother, Sorry, I just feel so at ease.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
So it has just always been my place to kind
of like I'm pretty anxiety driven obviously, like pretty igh strung,
so it's a way for me to like just get
it out, which is so nice.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So I just love.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That feeling and it's kind of kind of a therapy
session for me in a way, like being in the
car and thinking about everything that needs to go well
in the car that I'm not worried about anything outside
of the car, which is a nice escape for me
for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Before we talk about your business, which we've mentioned a
few times, there's one other thing I want to talk about,
and I hope I have this correct. A cute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, okay, yeah, so that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Is a big part of your story and I've read
a little bit about it, But what I wanted to
ask first is not just necessarily the journey, but but
I guess I'm curious of when you knew something was
wrong and kind of the journey since then of going
through that.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, so I was diagnosed when I was two years old,
and so you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Wouldn't have known something was wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, I like, it's so weird. I do remember a
lot of things that happened when I was super young
in treatment, which is weird, but I think that's on
you know, trauma. So diagnosed up two and I did
four years of chemo, so by the time I was six,
you know, there's like a five year period where you're
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in remission. But at the end of the five years
was when I turned eleven and and I was cancer free.
And that's the same year I started driving junior dragsters.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So in this way, it was.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Kind of like a big drag Racing was like the
beginning of this new part of my life in a way.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
With that, I don't think i've ever really thought about
until just now.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But I'm really close with my parents, and it's always
been like if there's a problem, we're gonna fix it,
Like we're just gonna like hunker down and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And that was kind of my parents' mentality when I
was diagnosed. You know, they had their day to be
sad and be like freaked out.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And then my mom's like, you know what, we're just
in action mode now until this is over. And my
mom's a badass, so she's like, this is what's happening,
not out, mom, Bam bam bam, shout out Lori.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And so I feel like through that, I've always been
a very determined individual, you know. Now that I'm older,
I'm like, man.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Some of my friends they have been have kids that
are now the age where I was diagnosed, and I'm
like that is wild, Like, how hey, how are we
old enough to have kids?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
But you know, I don't even know what my parents
went through. That's crazy. So I do remember a lot,
but not enough to I just remember like the tail
end of it, which is which is nice.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You know, Yeah, how about today? Is that something that
stays with the person? Is that something that could come back?
I mean those might sound like, you know, ridiculous questions,
but I'm just I'm curious when somebody goes through something
so dramatic and traumatic at a young age. How does
that play into the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, it's It's funny, like some days I don't even
remember that I had cancer because you know, I'm thirty five,
excuse me. But there are some days where you know,
I'm like, I'm I can tell I'm not one hundred percent.
And you know, when I went through treatment in the
(27:09):
early nineties, a lot of it or all of it
was experimental, so I like I had gray hair when
I was nine or ten. You know, I remember finding
one on like my tenth birthday and like crying because
I was double digits, like just like little stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now it has helped me be more empathetic and compassionate
towards people. I think I've always had that in me,
but I think that that comes from that experience, and
then just now in life, like it's never that serious,
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you know, like I don't know like.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Some people are. Stuff gets me worked up all.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The time, and then I'm like, okay, first offt chill,
and like, first off, it could be worse, not to
invalidate my feelings or anyone else's, but you know, I
just feel like it could be so much worse and
it's never that like, oh I didn't win that round, Okay,
(28:17):
Well I could be going through chemotherapy treatment again right now.
So the likeliness of the leukemia coming back, I think
as far as I.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Go along, it's less. But obviously it could come back,
but I don't. I think the chances are pretty low,
which is really nice. So that is that is good?
So yeah, yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I appreciate you talking about that. And then we have
it part one. We still have so much more to
talk about, so please come back next week as we
are going to dig into Sadie's role and how she
hustles at the racetrack. As I mentioned being the owner
of SR Driven Media, how that came about why she
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does it and what she does for many different drivers
in the drag racing community. The NHRA is back this weekend.
They are in Gainesville, Florida to kick off their twenty
twenty five season. Sadie will be there not only doing
her job as SR Driven Media, not only as the
wife of Dallas Glenn, but she is going to race herself,
so she will be in competition in Gainesville coming up
(29:26):
this week.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So as we wrap up.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Part one, please leave our rating and review let me
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Monday for Part two with Sadie Glenn on The Racing
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Writers Podcast st
Hey, everyone, Welcome to the Racing Writers Podcast. I'm your host,
Kelly Krandall. Our guest today is Sadie Glenn. Sadie is
an outstanding human and a hustler in NHLA drag racing
and that is why she's on the podcast today. So
in part one of our conversation, as I have split
it into, we're gonna get to know Sadie's background, how
she got into drag racing and going from the Pacific
Northwest to North Carolina where she is the wife of
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KB Racing pro stop driver Dallas Glenn. But she is
also a racer herself in the sportsman division, so we're
gonna learn all about that and their background, their history,
how Sadie got into drag racing as I mentioned, and
her approach to her part time racing. Sadie is also
the owner of sr Driven Media that's gonna come up
in the second part of our conversation, and the work
that she does for many drivers across the drag racing landscape.
(00:54):
So we're starting off just getting to know Sadie and
her background, as well as how she is a cancer survivor.
That's part of her story, and that's all coming up
in this episode, so I hope you enjoy it, and
let's jump right into it. Here is the ever wonderful
Sadie Lynn on the Racing Writers Podcast. All Right, I
(01:17):
like to believe good things come to those who wait.
And I say that because Sadie feels like we've been
trying to do this for a while, but we both
work in racing and shit happens, and sometimes you just
need to reschedule two, three, four times. But we're here,
We're doing it, and I'm looking at it the end goal.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Girl, we did it. I just man, even in.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
The off season, I like to be like, oh, I'm
so on top of it in the off season because
I'm home for more than three days at a time,
but you know, marrying Dallas and being you know, the
shops like fifteen minutes away. So like right before this,
I'm like in the shower and he texts me. He's like, hey,
(01:55):
I need all the stats for my hero cards. I
was like, literally right now. I was like, okay, So
it just never stops, you know. But he's working really
hard on my engine right now. So I'm not saying
nothing because that's how he pays me back.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So we're gonna jump.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Into all of that. But as you said there about
the off season, it's funny because me being the NASCAR person,
we are already in the thick of our season, but
y'all over on a drag racing side haven't really kind
of officially started yet. There was the big event down
in Bradington, but the official NHA mission food season hasn't
started yet, but it's fast approaching. So I guess, as
(02:34):
you were saying there, what are these last couple weeks like,
as you guys get ready to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Be back on road.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, I feel like Bradenton was a lot of fun
to get like the rust off. Our off season's only
like two months, but it's like, all of a sudden
we're back. I'm like, okay, did we do everything on
everyone's cars.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Like maintenance wise?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You know, we're about to find out on the first
couple test days if we're terrible or not.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So the last couple of weeks we went.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
To Bradenton, we came back and it's mainly been getting my.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Drags are ready. Obviously, Dallas and all the KB cars
have been working six days a week all winter, so
you know they're crazy. But since my first race is
at the Gators in two weeks. We're kind of like
in the nitty gritty, but we kind of tend to
do that every time. I'm like, oh, we're going to
(03:26):
be so productive.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We're you know, we're going to do it, and you know,
we're like fifty percent not dying right now.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It sounds like you do work and live in racing.
That's exactly what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes, yeah, it's literally been my life since I was
ten years old when my dad started drag racing. So
it's been drag racing or die since then. I mean,
we do live in NASCAR country, so I feel like through.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You and like just seeing all the people around here,
I'm like, I'm slowly learning about NASCAR people. But I'm like, man,
this is like a whole nother thing. I'm like, what
is this?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So I'm just like, Okay, maybe my attention span is
only meant for drag race.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well it's the only thing, you know, But that's an
interesting dynamic. I hadn't thought of it that way. When
you're a drag racing family and you guys aren't the
only one I know. There's a couple drag racing folks
that live in the Charlotte area or the Moorsville area.
But how interesting is that dynamic to be again, you're
involved in racing. You guys race in one of the
biggest you know, the drag racing series right of the
(04:40):
United States. But what is it like, as you said,
to be situated not in drag racing country, you're in
NASCAR country, right, to like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Not be in nd Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So I mean going from living in the Northwest in Oregon,
where people like when I told them I race, they
would look at me funny and like ask if I
raced in a.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Women's league, which is fine, they don't know any better.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But I was like, no, I race against like my
dad and my dad's friends, Like I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And so moving here to see like race trailers going
down the main road and.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Like just open bed trailers with any kind of car,
I was like, Dallas, this is where we were meant.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
To live our whole stinking lives.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm like, this is crazy. So usually when I tell
someone that I work in racing, obviously they're like, oh,
what NASCAR team do you work for.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm like, I don't, So, you know, sometimes I'm like, oh,
it's just like drag racing.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Like sometimes it doesn't compute drag racing.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I was like, it's a quarter a mile and we
go really fast, you know, kind of like you know,
I hate to compare it to like fast and furious,
but for like the general public, like.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sometimes that's all I got. I'm like, yeah, we're super fast,
and then it's over. That's a good sumb it up.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So I know you've talked about your story before, but
I wanted to bring it to my audience if you
don't mind, So yeah, set it right there. You're from
the Northwest. Let's dig into as you you said there
about your dad, how you got into racing and kind
of it's always been your life in what you've known,
and you race yourself even still to this day. So
let's just dig into it. Where do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So my dad raced in the seventies in the eighties
and then started having children and was responsible.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And then in.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Two thousand, after my dad has spent like ten years
restoring hot rods and going to hot rod shows and stuff,
he's like, you know what, I want to get back
into racing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And at that time I was ten. So the first
year was just me being the crew chief.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I thought the crew chief of his forty eight Anglia,
which is like a British Ford. It's like a ninety
inch wheelbase car. It's very squirrely, but it's so cool.
So we would just go to Woodburn Dragstrip, which was
an hour from our house, and we.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Would race there like twenty times a season, and then we.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Would only go out of town like once a year
to Boise, Idaho at Firebird and that's like my favorite
track of all time. And I saw little kids driving
cars and I was like, what the heck.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Like at first, I was like, well, I had a
go cart that had a roadster body on it so
I could like drive it at hot rod shows, which.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't know why they would let like a seven
year old drive a go cart around all these expensive,
beautiful cars at hot rod shows. I'm like, I would
never do that now, but they did because the nineties
were crazy. And so I got a Junior dragstore the
following year and it's pretty much been the love of
(07:57):
my life since then.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I'm thirty five now, so I love it. Yeah,
it's the best.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm so glad It's an interesting dynamic because I love
the fact that Dallas has gone from crewmember to this
fantastic driver getting his shot now and competing for championships
in pro stock, but you're also still racing. How do
you balance that? How do you balance what you've got
going on being the supportive wife and we're also going
to get into your other businesses here at a second,
but the supportive wife who also there's weekends where you're
(08:30):
still in the dragster. You're competing for yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, so that ooh, I don't really.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There was like Charlotte, I think two years ago, I
had just bought in my dragster because when I moved here,
I kept my dragster at home with my parents, and
you know, because shipping it across the country was wild,
I was like no, like I no, So I was like,
drag racing will always be there for me. So eventually
(08:59):
I to get back into it. So it did take
like ten years, but you know, every year I would
like manage to talk someone in too, let me drive
their stuff, like once or twice a year.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I'm like, thank you. I just need like a little
like like a hit. I just need a hit. You know,
it sounds so like a drug addiction, but it is.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It is.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Racing is an addiction.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It really really is so bad but so good. And so.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You know, I met Dallas through racing, used to race
and Division six together, so we've always been at the
same time racing, like he was in stock Eliminator and
I was in Top Dragster. And then when we moved
over here, you know, he spent those ten years on
the crew and doing the back half for Jason Lyn,
(09:46):
Kyle Koretzky, all those super cool people that we love.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But the last couple of years have been a transition
for me.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I'm like, okay, so Charlotte, I went to the semi finals,
and by the time you get to the semi finals
and Top Dragster, it's like four or.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Five rounds already that you've done, and they only do
the semi and the finals on Sunday. So I was
so excited to be racing on Sunday at a national event,
like with my brand new car, like I had never
really run a national event seriously before, but all I
could think about I was like, Okay, I'm in the lanes.
(10:26):
Dallas is probably going to be coming in the lanes
real soon, you know, And I.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Was like, what happened? What a good problem to have
in a great world.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
If I was going rounds and he was going rounds
and we were both in the finals or something, I
don't even know what I would do, but I think, like.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Say I won, I would run before him, and then
of course they would want to interview me, I'm assuming,
But then I would literally just get on a scooter
and come right back down to the starting line. I guess,
I don't know, And so it's been you know, I
don't race that often.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I have like five or six races a year, but
it gets complicated, Like usually I have my stuff set
up so he doesn't have to worry about me. Like
usually I'll come to his pits right before I go
up to the lanes and say, hey, this is what
I'm thinking about.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Dialing, and we'll look at the computer real quick.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But often he's not with me on the starting line
or anything, which is fine.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He's usually like pulling.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Out a clutch or something like that, and so I'm like, Okay,
here's what I'm thinking. I'm going up and then he's
just like listening on n h RAA TV basically bless
him and so it gets a little complicated, but he's
there when he can be. But sometimes, like last year,
we had a lot of trouble like Gremlins with my dragster,
(11:53):
and it was almost a relief that it wasn't like
Norwalk I'll never forget was super like super long a
week and Dallas is doing so well, but my dragster is,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Being less than kind.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And I was like, I'm almost thankful it didn't do
well this weekend so I can have a second to breathe.
I was like, okay, doubt, Like Dallas is going, I'm
back in my pits, which are on the other side
of the racetrack, you know, because I don't want to
park in their pits.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I think that's I don't know. I'm like, I don't
need to park in your pits, weirdo, Like, I don't know,
so long winded answer. Uh, it is complicated, but it
is so fun. We just don't think about it until
two days later when we're just sleeping all day.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, as you said there, you don't race full time, right,
You pick and choose your racing. And I'm sure it's
also financially dependent and all of that that comes with
being involved in racing. So how do you approach then
the driving aspect in terms of how much you're going
to race, where you're going to race, and again just
balancing kind of that career, Yeah, because clearly it's something
you still want to do with you you don't want
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to give it up.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Right, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I have loved Top Dragster since I started racing it
when I was twenty one, and I just love bracket racing,
like I love the superclasses, and people are.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So good in all the classes.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But I don't know, I've just always loved fast bracket racing,
probably because I'm better at that than like ratio stuff,
for super confidence stuff, I'm like, oh my gosh, the
numbers are too much. So luckily with NHRA schedule there's
only ten or eleven depending on the year national events
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at Top Dragster even runs at so that narrows down
my choices.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Quite a bit. And then since it's just me and
our truck and trailer, I'll drive to the race if
it's within like nine or ten hours, but any if
it's gonna take me two days, I don't like to
get to the race. I'm like, no, I can't.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Like if I can get there in one day, perfect,
but anything longer than like ten hours, I'm like, Okay,
this is a while. So that really only leaves a
lot of opportunities for like Charlotte, Gainesville.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I think this year I'm gonna race at Richmond, which
will be fun. Obviously. Bristol, Oh my god, I love
that track so much.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh my god, it's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I like, I'm just staging my car. I was like,
how is this like built into this mountain? Like that's
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's what I tell people. It's just I That's how
I describe it. I'm like, it's just picturesque. You just
have to see it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yes, I was like, this place is crazy, and you
know it's so well kept too, you know. So you know,
I don't have a lot of choices on where I
want to race, but I do have more than previous.
When I was in Division six, it was like Seattle
or you go like all the way down to Pomona,
which was like a twenty hour drive, or Vegas was
(15:08):
a twenty hour drive.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I'm like, ooof no thanks.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So since I fund my own drag stir through my business,
which I'm very lucky to have happen. Obviously, I do
have some associate sponsors that help with entry fees and
fuel and all that stuff, which is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But since I'm my own sponsor, I can kind of.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Pick and choose where I want to go and when
I don't want to go, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Henry, maarent be nice.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Be nice.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Henry's just as well known because of social media.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So oh man, that dog. He he actually rules the
whole family, and people think, oh, Dallas, he's so successful.
It's it's Henry. It's Henry. Yeah. And he's such a
dog dad too.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That cracks me up, Like that's the best, is it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
He'll just like walk around with him like he's like,
look at my dog, and he has this habit of
showing it. Like if you say you have a dog,
he will go through archives of photos of Henry and
show you everyone. I'm like, dude, not everyone wants to
see every picture of your dog, like it's.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The best, right, Because you said, there's probably this perception
of Dallas Glenn pro stock driver, winning races, getting his
hands dirty working on these cars, and then he got
the dog dumped under his arm, he's got a seven
pound Pomeranian.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Let's go. Ah.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I love that. Was this something Sadie, that you knew
early on in life was going to be the path,
that it wasn't gonna be something that you were going
to do full time, that it was just going to
be when you could do it kind of how I
can ground up what I can scrounge up. It was
it clear early on in life, Okay, I love to race,
but I'm not going to be superstar. I'm not going
to be full time driver.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Right So growing up, I was like, I'm going to
race top fuel the end, like I before, well, right
up to the point that Dallas and I got together
in twenty twelve, I was in school for marketing at
Portland State and I was like, you know, I'm going
to learn how to market myself and get into top fuel,
(17:24):
you know. And I hadn't been to a national event.
I was like, I just know I want to race professionally.
And so after I think it was in twenty thirteen,
I got my top alcohol license in Jerry Darien's car,
and I had I had like two months to find
a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And obviously that did.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Not happen, But honestly, I just wanted the license to
say that I had it because I can keep it forever,
so it's always just in my back pocket.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But you know, as I got.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Older, I was like, what about racing makes me happiest.
Is it because I want to drive a top fuel
car and be famous or is it because I just
like the competition and the people and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And I was like, you know, I just like bracket race.
Like after I didn't bring my car with me to
North Carolina, it was kind of a step back. I
was like, Okay, let's focus on why I love racing,
and it's just racing at whatever level.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And so after going to national events for a while
through my work.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I was like, you know, it's not really all that
it's cracked up to be.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Like some people live in the dream, love it, having
a great time, but I just don't know if that's
for me. And that's okay what I like to race
in top alcohol, I wouldn't say no, but I don't
know if i'd ever get my top fuel license.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think I'm good. Like two fifty, I was like,
I'm good, So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Maybe if I'm made more hits in the top alcohol card,
be like, okay, time to go top fuel racing, which
totally would happen.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But I think growing up, you know, a little girl,
you always want to be the best of the best.
So I was like, I'm going to race professionally the end.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And then as I grew up, I was like, Okay,
I can still race, but I can I found another
love of, you know, social media management, marketing and doing
that and photography.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I was like, I can do.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I can have more than one dream and still keep
both of them, which is cool. So you know, obviously
as a little girl, I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
And then life didn't hit me in the face or
anything like that, but.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I was like, let's be realistic, right, It.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Was more of just looking realistically at what life was
was going towards.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, like, let's maybe it's not all about you, you
know all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But I was raised like an only child, so all
my half siblings were older, so yeah, you know, it's
not all.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
About you, girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But not everybody has that realization. That's interesting, right, Like
not everybody or not everyone wants to admit that they
fight for and they're stubborn when it comes to I'm
going to chase something no matter what, and hey, sometimes
it works for folks, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yes, I am far too self aware for that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's not that I like gave up, but I was
just like, let's be realistic about why I love racing and.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
What class that is and what I got to do
to race in that class and still support my husband,
support my business and my clients through that.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And this is like such a nice mixture between the too.
So yeah, look at us maturing and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's crazy. I don't handle adulting. Well, I don't know
about you.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I should not be an adult.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I say the same thing. I feel like I'm still
in college sometimes. But that's probably goes back to what
we were talking about off air. When you live in
hoodies and leggings all the time, that doesn't exactly help
you feel much.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Harm Like I sometimes I'm like still wearing the same stuff,
you know, going to class. I still have the nightmares
that I have a paper due yep, you know, like
I did in college. So it's basically like I'm there.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, same. I have weird dreams or like even daydreams
sometimes where I don't know why. I'll have these random
thoughts where it's like today me today at thirty five,
I'm like, how did I ever not go to class? Like,
because today I would think about I'd be worried about
what I missed and what I was supposed to be doing.
Back then, you didn't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
You're like, if I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
To class, I'm not going to class, Like, yeah, I can't.
I can't. Somehow I wrapped my mind around it.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Then, and like didn't buy the books that they wanted
us to buy because they were so expensive at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I'm like, how did I learn anything or get
any assignments done?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I really I don't understand. How did I work a locker?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't know how did Like these are the thoughts
I have at thirty five that when we were doing it,
when we worked through insta, How.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Did I remember my locker number in middle school and
high school?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
How did I do that exactly exactly? Oh my gosh,
what does driving what does still racing today? What does
that do for you? Or why is that good for
the soul? Sadie that you still get behind the wheel.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, I'm really glad that you asked that, because it
is just good for my soul. Like I I just
have loved drag racing since I was ten years old,
and it's brought me my family that's not my family,
my I met my husband through drag racing, and so
I I don't know what it is like.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Obviously there's a lot of adrenaline, but I just feel
so at ease. Brother, Sorry, I just feel so at ease.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
So it has just always been my place to kind
of like I'm pretty anxiety driven obviously, like pretty igh strung,
so it's a way for me to like just get
it out, which is so nice.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So I just love.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That feeling and it's kind of kind of a therapy
session for me in a way, like being in the
car and thinking about everything that needs to go well
in the car that I'm not worried about anything outside
of the car, which is a nice escape for me
for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Before we talk about your business, which we've mentioned a
few times, there's one other thing I want to talk about,
and I hope I have this correct. A cute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, okay, yeah, so that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Is a big part of your story and I've read
a little bit about it, But what I wanted to
ask first is not just necessarily the journey, but but
I guess I'm curious of when you knew something was
wrong and kind of the journey since then of going
through that.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, so I was diagnosed when I was two years old,
and so you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Wouldn't have known something was wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, I like, it's so weird. I do remember a
lot of things that happened when I was super young
in treatment, which is weird, but I think that's on
you know, trauma. So diagnosed up two and I did
four years of chemo, so by the time I was six,
you know, there's like a five year period where you're
(24:54):
in remission. But at the end of the five years
was when I turned eleven and and I was cancer free.
And that's the same year I started driving junior dragsters.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So in this way, it was.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Kind of like a big drag Racing was like the
beginning of this new part of my life in a way.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
With that, I don't think i've ever really thought about
until just now.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But I'm really close with my parents, and it's always
been like if there's a problem, we're gonna fix it,
Like we're just gonna like hunker down and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And that was kind of my parents' mentality when I
was diagnosed. You know, they had their day to be
sad and be like freaked out.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And then my mom's like, you know what, we're just
in action mode now until this is over. And my
mom's a badass, so she's like, this is what's happening,
not out, mom, Bam bam bam, shout out Lori.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And so I feel like through that, I've always been
a very determined individual, you know. Now that I'm older,
I'm like, man.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Some of my friends they have been have kids that
are now the age where I was diagnosed, and I'm
like that is wild, Like, how hey, how are we
old enough to have kids?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
But you know, I don't even know what my parents
went through. That's crazy. So I do remember a lot,
but not enough to I just remember like the tail
end of it, which is which is nice.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You know, Yeah, how about today? Is that something that
stays with the person? Is that something that could come back?
I mean those might sound like, you know, ridiculous questions,
but I'm just I'm curious when somebody goes through something
so dramatic and traumatic at a young age. How does
that play into the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, it's It's funny, like some days I don't even
remember that I had cancer because you know, I'm thirty five,
excuse me. But there are some days where you know,
I'm like, I'm I can tell I'm not one hundred percent.
And you know, when I went through treatment in the
(27:09):
early nineties, a lot of it or all of it
was experimental, so I like I had gray hair when
I was nine or ten. You know, I remember finding
one on like my tenth birthday and like crying because
I was double digits, like just like little stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now it has helped me be more empathetic and compassionate
towards people. I think I've always had that in me,
but I think that that comes from that experience, and
then just now in life, like it's never that serious,
(27:50):
you know, like I don't know like.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Some people are. Stuff gets me worked up all.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The time, and then I'm like, okay, first offt chill,
and like, first off, it could be worse, not to
invalidate my feelings or anyone else's, but you know, I
just feel like it could be so much worse and
it's never that like, oh I didn't win that round, Okay,
(28:17):
Well I could be going through chemotherapy treatment again right now.
So the likeliness of the leukemia coming back, I think
as far as I.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Go along, it's less. But obviously it could come back,
but I don't. I think the chances are pretty low,
which is really nice. So that is that is good?
So yeah, yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I appreciate you talking about that. And then we have
it part one. We still have so much more to
talk about, so please come back next week as we
are going to dig into Sadie's role and how she
hustles at the racetrack. As I mentioned being the owner
of SR Driven Media, how that came about why she
(29:05):
does it and what she does for many different drivers
in the drag racing community. The NHRA is back this weekend.
They are in Gainesville, Florida to kick off their twenty
twenty five season. Sadie will be there not only doing
her job as SR Driven Media, not only as the
wife of Dallas Glenn, but she is going to race herself,
so she will be in competition in Gainesville coming up
(29:26):
this week.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So as we wrap up.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Part one, please leave our rating and review let me
know what you think. You can do that as well.
On social media. My ex handle, Facebook handle, Instagram handle
are all at Kelly crandall. You can also find me
on LinkedIn and other places to let me know what
you think of the podcast. So Part one, hope you
enjoyed it and I will see you back here next
Monday for Part two with Sadie Glenn on The Racing
(29:49):
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