027: Wes Chapman | Are You Talking or Doing?

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Until Joe dragged him out to do burpees, Wes Chapman hadn't formally exercised in fifteen years, but don't label him gritless. He is the founder of three successful podcasts and is a master at identifying and fomenting human potential where many have lost hope. When he calls people who want to change the world cocky, crazy, stupid yet confident, one has the sneaking suspicion he's engaging in self deprecation. He has started A Human Project which empowers troubled youth to rise above their situation through respecting them, and it is bound be world altering.
Watch the video episode at http://spartanuppodcast.com/027

Lessons:
1. Empower troubled kids by giving them responsibility and ownership over their situation.
2. To change the world you have to be cocky enough to think you can, crazy enough to know you can, stupid enough to actually try, and confident enough to share the responsibility.
3. Just be good and it doesn't matter what you believe in.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it. Farm Barn and it's the Spartan Up Podcast.com. We've got Colonel Tim Nye on the
0:27.9	far side here. Beside him we have our Wild Woman,
0:30.9	Sefra who leads a rewilding enterprise here in Pittsfield, Vermont.
0:35.4	We've got Joe, founder of Spartan Race, doesn't need much more introduction than that, and I'm
0:39.4	Johnny Waite, and we've been interviewing some incredible people with the unflagging help of Marion
0:48.1	Abrams. Marion is our camera person who really is not just the fifth person on the show but I would say the heart and
0:53.9	soul of the show and I really do me that she keeps us moving she keeps us on track
0:56.9	and she lives in the basement here in the barn every week you'll see us here in the
1:00.8	barn and you probably wonder how we I come down from the woods
1:05.2	Johnny they bring me in from Canada well you parachute it in on this one
1:09.4	girl and mine comes in on this chopper which I came on had. And I wrote in on a motorcycle.
1:14.0	So we're here.
1:15.0	But this is not about us.
1:18.0	As much as sometimes we like to think it is.
1:20.0	It's really about our guests.
1:21.0	And our guest for this one one West Chapman has an enterprise
1:25.0	called the Human Project.
1:26.8	Joe you interviewed him here in Pittsfield I believe.
1:28.9	Cool. So what's he do what's this all about we're gonna find out you've actually
1:33.7	talked to him so yeah he just he wants to help people he's one of the people uh... just like other
1:37.9	guests we've had that are much bigger than themselves and uh...
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