Spotlight 802 is a monthly speaker series that brings engaging voices from across Vermont to share their insights, experiences, and expertise, sponsored by Mascoma Bank. Each month features a new speaker exploring a wide variety of topics – ranging from innovation and entrepreneurship to athletics, culture, and community impact. Whether you’re looking to be inspired, learn something new, or spark meaningful conversations, Spotlight 802 is your front-row seat to ideas that shape our world. Each evening consists of free appetizers from 5:30-6:00pm, followed by a speaker and Q&A from 6:00 to 7:00pm in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium within City Hall (180 Market Street).

On Tuesday, March 31st, hear from 5x CrossFit Champion Mat Fraser & HWPO Brand Officer Sammy Moniz.

Mat Fraser is the Founder and Chief Product Officer of HWPO Training and a retired Professional CrossFit Athlete. Mat’s mantra, “Hard Work Pays Off” (HWPO), guided him to become the most decorated and dominant athlete in the history of CrossFit, which now drives him in business.

In his competitive career, he earned five consecutive CrossFit Games Titles as the Fittest Man on Earth (2016 – 2020) and finished on the podium seven consecutive times (2014-2020).
Before finding CrossFit, Fraser had an entire career in Olympic Weightlifting. He was the 2009 Junior National Weightlifting Champion and a Resident Athlete at the Olympic Training Center.

Sammy is the voice, vision and leader in culture at HWPO Training. She’s responsible for bringing our core values (SHOW UP. WORK HARD. MAKE YOURSELF PROUD.) to the forefront of everything we do and how we are represented in marketing and media. Before guiding the brand at HWPO she was the third wheel to Mat Fraser and Matt O’Keefe on the wild ride of collecting CrossFit® Championships while exploring a career in food blogging.

Sammy is a cookbook author and has run a successful food blog and Instagram famed for the food she created for 5x CrossFit Games Champion, Mat Fraser called Feeding the Frasers. She has always loved the way food creates community and has taken the same approach to building a strong community within the walls of HWPO and beyond to our community of HARD WORKERS. She is our leader in building consistency in daily movement for a happy and healthy life, all while being a mom to two little girls.

This program is open to South Burlington and surrounding community residents! Free and no registration required.