074: Sami Inkinen | San Francisco to Hawaii by Rowboat

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur and athlete Sami Inkinen, along with his wife, rowed 2,750 miles over 45 days without using any of the traditional “athlete foods” conventional knowledge says are essential: sugars and carbs. They didn’t starve, far from it. They came out of it healthier than can be expected from such an endeavor. Why? As fit as Inkinen is, he developed prediabetes by following the standard diet and surmised that sugar was the culprit. If someone like Inkinen is vulnerable, we should all be aware. Inkinen recounts his amazing journey from California to Hawaii.

Lessons:

1. The key to success is anything is a growth mindset: Don’t go through an experience, grow through it.
2. Sometimes you have to face a challenge as if you were eating an elephant, one piece at a time, slowly, as best you can.
3. The only way to escape an unpleasant experience is to embrace it fully, not fight it.

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 and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	All right, here we go go one more time we are back here in Pittsfield Vermont in the
0:18.2	Amy Barn right across from Joe Descenta's house and lodge and everything else but as always excuse me I've got on my right
0:26.8	Sephira over here on my left. I've got Johnny descenta and Johnny DeSana I've got Johnny Waite, and Joe just...
0:35.0	Oh my relation.
0:37.0	They've got emerged after all this time together.
0:40.0	And Joe Wade.
0:41.0	Behind the Sammy Incanin, the rowing vegan.
0:53.4	So, who rode across from San Francisco out to Hawaii,
0:58.0	with him and his wife in a boat together,
1:00.3	which for me would be.
1:01.6	Sounds like a honeymoon.
1:02.3	Awesome, awesome. I'm sure it would be a great opportunity to talk about a lot of things that I haven't talked about in years
1:08.0	So anyway I'm curious to hear how this how this went and what we can learn from it.
1:13.0	Yeah, sharks, whales.
1:15.1	You love sharks, don't you?
1:16.1	Fights.
1:17.1	Some interesting stuff that we can learn for our own lives.
1:19.8	All right, well great.
1:20.8	Let's hear about it. We're here in the mountains of San Francisco in an undisclosed location with Sammy Incanin for SpartanUp
1:28.9	Podcast.com.
1:31.1	Super successful guy, started many companies, right?
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