058: Evan Dollard | The Only Sure Way to Avoid Regret

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How does one, like Evan Dollard, become an American Gladiator? The frank answer, according to him, is that you don’t. Instead you make all the preparations within your power; go where the action is; pursue your passion to the fullest; make yourself known and talk to the right people and do everything to put the odds in your favor. If it doesn’t work out chances are that you’ve created an environment where something else, maybe even something better, will. This is the way to live a fully realized life, one without regrets. Dollard is living it and he has some valuable wisdom to help you live it too.

Lessons:

1. It’s worth laying the groundwork when pursuing an opportunity because even if it doesn’t pan out, you’ll be ready for the unexpected opportunity that may be around the corner.
2. The riskier path is worth it even if you don’t meet your goal since it means eliminating the “what ifs” and “if onlys” and living a life without regret.
3. Always move forward: If you see a stagnant pond you don’t drink from it but instead seek out the fast flowing stream with the freshest water.

Transcript

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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	Hi, welcome back everybody. We are still here in the barn in
0:16.3	beautiful Pittsfield, Vermont and as always to my left is
0:20.7	Sephipper Johnny, and Joe.
0:25.0	And over on my right is Marion, the producer puts us all together.
0:29.2	I, of course, am Colonel Tim Nye.
0:31.4	And today we're going to talk about Evan
0:33.4	Dallard who is an American Ninja.
0:36.7	American Ninja warrior used to be a gladiator guy, one of those guys, a real life
0:41.1	gladiator.
0:42.1	So Joe, what do you think? What do I think? I think we should watch a damn show. What do you think?
0:46.0	Let's go to it. Let's see what Evan has to say.
0:48.0	We are here for Spartan Up Podcast on a cruise ship with Evan Dollard be famous gladiator.
0:55.2	Yeah, you could call me a famous gladiator.
0:57.4	But you were an actual gladiator or you were the host of the show?
1:00.4	I was I was a contestant first season so they did two seasons of a reboot
1:04.2	with Pol Kogan and Lélau Lee and I was a contestant first season one and they made me the
1:09.3	gladiator rocket for second season. Nice how was it? It was fun. I got it was fun to be on both sides of it, you know?
1:15.0	Because as a contestant, there's a certain amount of adrenaline that comes with these giant dudes chasing after you,
1:21.0	racing up a rock wall going down the gauntlet.
1:23.0	Then to be on the other side of it and be the one chasing after the athletes was a lot of fun too.
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