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#386 How this CEO redirected his drive for competitive sports into business after a near-death experience

The Mentor with Mark Bouris

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The Trauma of Going to the Olympics

"I pushed myself beyond a level that you could potentially kill yourself," he says. "That's probably one of my biggest learnings in life, is how to calculate the levels where you go and don't go it too far." He was up at 4.30 in the morning going to swimming classes before school,. I'm coming home from school and doing a 10, 15k run, right? As a 16, 17-year-old, trying to compete with doing my education at the same time. A traumatic experience during year 12 had a traumatic experience when she went to the Maccabere Games.

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