037: Dan Richards | When Should You Quit?

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dan Richards, Global Rescue CEO, is here to remind you that there’s a fine line between pushing through adversity and putting yourself in unreasonable peril. His company Global Rescue rescues those who walk that line then somehow slip, any place in the world. He shares stories of some of those rescues and what they taught him. http://www.spartanuppodcast.com/037

Lessons:
1. Never underestimate the environment.
2. You need to correctly calibrate your perception of risk to the environment you're entering and not just try to push through adversity.
3. The law of numbers will catch up with you, so scout out risks beforehand by analyzing the situation.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	All right, good morning and welcome back. We're here once again at the Spartan Up
0:16.6	podcast.com in the beautiful Pittsfield town town of Pittsfield in the Amy Lodge Barn.
0:25.0	I've got with me here this morning as always we've got Johnny, Dr. Johnny.
0:29.0	We've got Sethra, the Seed Queen, and we've got Joe DeSena.
0:33.6	And today we're going to talk about Dan Richards,
0:35.5	who is the founder of Global Rescue.
0:38.4	It was a pretty cool idea, right?
0:39.5	I mean, for years, we'd been leaning on Colonel Nye to extract us from difficult situations and
0:45.8	he wouldn't show up because he was busy with the military.
0:49.7	And so to have a private company that could rescue you in a tough situation.
0:55.0	Hey, we're here with Spartan Up the Podcast.
0:58.0	Our guest today, I should always be saying this by the way, our guest today.
1:01.0	I don't think I've ever said that.
1:02.0	As Dan Richards, CEO and
1:04.0	founder a global rescue. Global Rescue is a company that will just come rescue you
1:09.0	wherever you are. So we sell a membership that provides medical security and evacuation support for people who have oftentimes encountered what becomes the worst day of their lives.
1:19.0	So... Anywhere in the world. Anywhere in the world.
1:21.0	Anywhere in the world.
1:22.0	More than, typically it's used more than 160 miles from home.
1:25.3	So we do a lot internationally, but believe it or not, we do about a third of our mission volume domestically.
1:29.7	So somebody will buy our membership and be going to India or Nepal or someplace and then they'll come home and be
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