

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Joe De Sena
Learn the Spartan mindset. Founder & CEO of Spartan Race and NY Times best-selling author, travels the globe seeking and answers authors, academics, athletes, adventurers, entrepreneurs, CEOs and thought leaders. It will shift your thinking, make you laugh and and give you the tools you need. He's on a mission to find the secrets to success in all aspects of life. Not only does Joe interview epic people, he has brought together an amazing panel to break down and analyze every aspect of these interviews. We give you the ultimate blueprint and action steps to assimilating these powerful conversations into your own life.
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Aug 23, 2018 • 3min
Do You Need Better Friends? SPARTAN WAY ep 002
You've heard the phrase, You are the average of your 5 closest friends. Well, this isn't news. It's been implemented in the business world, the Military and even Presidents have used this "mastermind principle" to make one another better. Here's how: LESSONS: Surround yourself with people who make you better and vice versa. Invest in yourself. This creates "skin in the game" and you are more willing to take action with your new information. Do a self audit. Is your environment supporting your goals and helping you achieve more in life? LINKS: Joe Polish Interview https://youtu.be/yDGu8k0XyHk More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com Read "The Spartan Way" https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book "Think and Grow Rich" http://a.co/h3XqppW SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP & Zach: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod Follow Zach on Instagram https://instagram.com/zevenesh Follow Zach on Twitter https://twitter.com/zevenesh Zach's STRONG Life Podcast https://apple.co/2vFaCv1 CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh 2018 Spartan

Aug 22, 2018 • 2min
How to Flip Failure SPARTAN MIND ep 002
Failure is part of the human experience. We all fail. When we see failure as negative, we are not only less likely to challenge ourselves but we are also more likely to get weighed down by the experience. If you begin to consider failure as both purposeful and positive, you can gain extraordinary wisdom and growth. In this episode, learn which questions can help you flip failure upside down so that the experience works to refine you rather than define you. LESSONS: • Failure happens to all of us. • When you see failure as purposeful you can learn and grow from it. • Ask yourself these three questions when you experience failure so that you can gain the most from the experience: 1. What wisdom can I gain from this? 2. What does this failure mean about me that I need to pay attention to? 3. How does this failure refine me? SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Host: Dr. Lara Pence Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence 2018 Spartan

Aug 21, 2018 • 30min
209: Joe and Jason Treu | What is REALLY holding you back?
Find out why Joe De Sena calls this executive coach, the Human Whisperer. Jason helps people to gain self-awareness, to discover blind spots and identify past traumas that are hindering that leap from being a 1 billion dollar company to a 5 billion dollar company. What simple adjustments can you make in your life and in your corporations to stop living in peaks and valleys? Here are some "recipes and anecdotes to avoid rock bottom," and realize your true potential. LESSONS: Ask others to rate your relationships with them on a scale from 1-10 Note your external vs. internal scoreboard Listening is as important as being heard Try talking last in a meeting Share, open up and interact with people Trace back to time you didn't feel "enough," understand it. Ask yourself, when your doing anything, why you're doing it? Get to "emotional core," stop hiding, ask questions The only bad workout is the one you don't do Take a leap of faith in your life This episode of "Spartan Up!" is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan TIME STAMPS: 0:00 Hosts intro 1:25 Interview begins 3:00 how to go from millions to billions 3:45 what do you do at rock bottom 4:45 how to be vulnerable as a CEO 6:20 phases of being broken as part of life 8:30 sustaining new patterns 9:45 how do you shift a paradigm 10:30 breaking bad eating habit patterns 16:00 recipes and anecdotes to avoid rock bottom 18:00 why Joe does burpees 23:20 Sefra, Johnny, Col. Nye and Joe De Sena LINKS: More about Jason https://jasontreu.com/ His Book https://www.amazon.com/Social-Wealth-Extraordinary-Relationships-Transforming-ebook/dp/B00N9CA1QY) SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye. Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra © 2018 Spartan

Aug 16, 2018 • 5min
Do You Know Your True North? SPARTAN WAY ep 001
Joe and Zach get together to record the first ever Spartan Way episode while discussing a favorite topic at Spartan, Finding Your True North. Your True North is all about discovering your WHY? Why were you put on this earth? What is the 1 thing you are so passionate and excited about that you can keep doing for the next 25 years? If you're unsure what your True North is, don't worry! Zach & Joe discuss the different ways you can discover your True North. Sometimes you find your True North and other times, it finds you. Enjoy the show! LESSONS: What are The Questions & Lessons to ask yourself to help find your True North? What is Joe's "shotgun approach" to finding your True North? Finding your True North requires getting out there and doing work, making mistakes and experimenting. What is the The BIG lesson Zach learned from Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach? Ask yourself the question, What will keep you excited for the next 5, 10 or 25 years? LINKS: Dan Sullivan Strategic Coach https://www.strategiccoach.com/ More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com Read "The Spartan Way" https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP & Zach: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod Follow Zach on Instagram https://instagram.com/zevenesh Follow Zach on Twitter https://twitter.com/zevenesh CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh © 2018 Spartan

Aug 15, 2018 • 3min
What is Emotional Acuity? SPARTAN MIND ep 001
As much as you may want to, you can't actually control which emotions arrive at any given time. You can, however, control how you respond to them when you are tuned in and paying attention. Becoming more aware of your emotional state gives you greater agency over your choices, behaviors, and ways of relating. In this episode, learn a simple three-step process that can help you increase your emotional acuity and become more intentional with how you choose to respond. LESSONS: We must be increase our emotional acuity if we want to be intentional with our choices. Tuning in to your emotional state is similar to tuning in to your physical state. A three step-process can help to increase your emotional awareness: Where Am I Feeling? : a full body scan to check-in with the physical sensations of your emotions. What Am I Feeling? : expand your emotional vocabulary and use more descriptive words to identify which feeling is arriving. How Do I Want to Respond? : make intentional choices with how to move forward with greater awareness of the emotion that is at play. SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Host: Dr. Lara Pence Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence © 2018 Spartan

Aug 14, 2018 • 29min
208: Sanjay Rawal | RUNNING TRANSCENDENCE
What does it take to hunt an antelope barefoot in the Kalahari Desert? Run 3,100 miles around the same ½ mile block in Queens, New York for 52 days straight? Or become a Marathon Monk that must complete 1,000 days of consecutive running or be put to death? Find out how this inspired Joe to start Spartan and the persistence and perseverance witnessed through the lens of documentary filmmaker Sanjay Rawal who believes our "first form of prayer was with our feet- when we hunted, we followed animals, we tracked, we foraged…" learn from these cultures of endurance how inner progress can lead you to transcendence. LESSONS: Get joy from the pain Humans have a primal connection to the earth through movement- running, hunting, hiking was a part of everyday life- KEEP MOVING ! Self transcendence comes through perseverance and persistence Track your inner patterns - choose trajectories to catch what your hunting for "Happiness is solely dependent on your physicality - if you're not challenging yourself physically you're not challenging your mind and heart" This episode of "Spartan Up!" is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan TIME STAMPS: 3:00 What inspired Joe to start Spartan 5:00 find transcendence through movement 6:45 the San Bushmen of Botswana 8:00 how does man persistence hunt in the desert 9:30 how do you track antelope ? 16:30 what was humans original religion? 18:20 what is the transcendence run ? LINKS: 3100 Run and Become Film https://3100film.com/ 3100 Film on Facebook facebook.com/3100film SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye. Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra © 2018 Spartan

Aug 7, 2018 • 32min
207: Tom Bilyeu | YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH THIS MINDSET
Can you change the way you think? This week's conversation is all about how to change the way you think about what is possible and how to create "the most empowering place on earth." Joe on his perpetual QUEST to rip people off the couch, talks with Impact Theory's Tom Bilyeu about creating a media platform that empowers people to leverage their behaviors. The idea is to meet you where you are - with your nutrition and your mind. In this episode explore the "why" of suffering, the disruptive power of narrative and remind you that "you are what you do habitually." Find out how Tom plans to make you better. LESSONS: Dont be less of what you could be- work your way to success Utilize the Growth Mindset: learn, grow, get better and read a lot Impact takes time Intelligence isn't a static unchangeable thing Build something you are all passionate about Building a community is the best marketing of all time Leverage people's behavior rather than trying to change it IT'S ALL ABOUT MINDSET What you build your self esteem around really matters You are what you do habitually CRUSH A.N.T.S. (Automatic Negative Thoughts) - Dr. Daniel Amen This episode of "Spartan Up!" is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan TIME STAMPS: 2:00 if you work hard will your efforts be rewarded ? 4:00 how to change your mindset 6:20 being too stupid to quit 8:00 learning the ways of a startup 9:00 what is success? 13:00 does suffering break people? 17:00 how to meet people where they are at LINKS: Impact Theory https://impacttheory.com/ Quest Nutrition https://www.questnutrition.com/ SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye. Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra © 2018 Spartan

Jul 31, 2018 • 35min
206: Peter Jackson | Infinite Collaboration
Feed your mind, shoot for the long odds, look for mentors and draw your ideas out with us at Dodgers Stadium. What does it take to succeed in the software industry? Peter thinks it's "timing, tenacity, execution and when you're getting out." We explore what an infinite blank canvas for intuitive collaboration on the cloud looks like with the founder of Bluescape. It has revolutionized the way that the federal government, movie, real estate industry and nomadic remotely located entrepreneurs all over the world collaborate digitally. Like Peter said, "when your an entrepreneur you have to think like your going to the majors- get up earlier than everyone else and come home later!" LESSONS: Learn how to read people using ALL your senses It's all about timing, tenacity, execution and demand You are the brand of your organization Feed your mind to be a good leader Design your business to decrease turnover Collaboration is key - technology can help when working remote You need mentors Think like your going to the majors: get up early, come home late This episode of "Spartan Up!" is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan TIME STAMPS: 2:30 using all your senses to read people 4:30 techniques for emerging markets in software 5:45 surviving Kuwait 7:00 what does it take to succeed 9:00 feed your mind 10:00 how to design your business 14:30 what is Bluescape? 20:00 Mentor network and "pain stories" 24:00 lonely time in startup world LINKS: Bluescape https://bluescape.com SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye. Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra © 2018 Spartan

Jul 24, 2018 • 24min
205:Brian Scudamore | Built a Fortune with Garbage
Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine- Brian shifted the paradigm of "ordinary home services and turns them into exceptional experiences." This week Joe discusses some shady junk removal of his own, learns the Painted Picture Method of envisioning your vision & how a high school dropout stuck with his not so sexy business to disrupt a market and make it a multimillion-dollar franchise. One man's trash is another man's treasure ! LESSONS: Things take time ! Be relentless Believe in a future vision Utilize free press Systematize, franchise & scale This episode of "Spartan Up!" is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan TIME STAMPS: 2:00 Do you take your dad's advice? 5:20 How to systematize, franchise & scale 6:25 The Painted Picture 7:30 The Age of Storytelling LINKS: https://www.o2ebrands.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianscudamore/#19e5588e70d3 SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye. Synopsis – Matt Baatz & Sefra Alexandra © 2018 Spartan

Jul 17, 2018 • 27min
204: Brendan Murphy | The Creative Connector
From the art of the trade on Wall Street to the trade of art beyond canvas - Brendan Murphy entices you with his positive energy, imagery and outlook on life. A prior professional basketball player in Europe and member of the elite Malibu Mob, he believes his greatest currency is his network of friends. LESSONS: Don't be afraid to pivot Think broadly Embrace the unknown LIFE IS LIQUID Get rid of devices and be in the moment This episode of "Spartan Up!" is sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 20 travel packs free when you order at https://athleticgreens.com/spartan TIME STAMPS: 2:50 The currency of friendship 9:00 A broad pivot: Wall Street to wall art 13:00 Jump in and take the next steps 15:30 To get clarity put your devices down LINKS: https://www.brendanmurphyart.com/ SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye. Synopsis – Matt Baatz & Sefra Alexandra © 2018 Spartan


