052: Robyn Benincasa | The Transformative Power of Adventure

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Adventure race champion Robyn Benincasa delved into her paddling passion by entering and excelling in a kayak ultra endurance race several hundred miles long. Several world records and hip replacements later, she is still going strong. It is her core philosophy that once you find something that you’re good at, pursue it with every ounce of your being. Since she’s channeled much of her boundless energy into her foundation, Project Athena, that helps women who’ve survived medical setbacks, this is great news for them. Benincasa will describe the transformative power of adventure and persistence in this episode.

Lessons:

1. Make the effort to find your strengths and continue down that path.
2. To bypass the victim mentality, always be working towards a big goal.
3. Success is driven, not by money, but the desire to fully realize what you’re capable of.

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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
0:05.0	and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	Welcome to the
0:13.0	the interview barn in Pittsfield Vermont. We got a rainy day. You'll probably hear it on the tin roof.
0:16.4	There are five of us here that I'd like to introduce. To my left we have
0:19.9	Sefra and I'm just gonna leave it at that because it's such a great name
0:22.8	Cephra. To my right Joe I have to go with your last name to Saina and Colonel
0:28.5	Tim Nye over here and I would say certainly not least we have Marion Abrams behind the camera who puts us all together and makes us all look good and it really keeps us on track so thank you very much Marion
0:39.3	Thank you so this interview is with Robin Benicasa. Joe you met with her and I've raced with her.
0:45.5	Yeah, impressive lady.
0:46.4	Incredible.
0:47.1	So what was it, four hip replacements?
0:49.4	We're going to hear about how you keep going and setting world records with four hip replacements.
0:54.2	Yeah, she eats BarbWire for breakfast.
0:55.9	She is the toughest woman alive.
0:58.2	It's good?
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:01.3	We are here Spartan up the podcast with Robin Acosta super human. She said four hip replacements.
1:07.0	Four hip replacements. She just paddled a hundred miles to get here at San Diego.
1:11.0	That's totally not true. She started in Seattle. We're going to talk
1:14.4	about that. So just give me quick rattle off like top 10 biggest athletic
1:20.3	accomplishments. Oh geez oh. Oh my geez, let's see.
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