093: Jennifer Gilbert | Success After a Random, Near-fatal Attack

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Gilbert, a wildly successful events entrepreneur, was assaulted to an inch within her life outside her friend’s New York apartment. Not only did she survive but she went on to live a very rich and fulfilling life. How? The struggle was all too real. It wasn’t an overnight transformation. She was able to recognize the vast, and sometimes elusive, source of resilience that she discovered that day and draw on it to create the kind of life she always wanted. Her story is jarring, graphic, visceral, enraging, senseless, but at the same time life affirming, hopeful, and deeply important.

Lessons:
1. The resilient person that you are in your most challenging moments is there for life to aid you whenever the need should arise.
2. Fear is the worst feeling to make a decision from.
3. Beautiful things often grow from dark, ugly places like flowers from compost.
4. You cannot control one thing in the world except who you are afterwards, whether you move towards the light or wallow in the darkness.

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	Hey, we're here for the Spartan Up Podcast. We are in one of the many Barnes at
0:16.5	Pittsfield, Vermont and this is a really interesting one today. I'm gonna introduce my my our panel not my panel
0:25.2	it's Joe's panel really Joe's not with us today. Our producer Marion behind the
0:29.8	camera who always does such a great job putting this together.
0:33.0	One of the things she's done today in her wisdom is brought in a replacement for Joe who's away in Mark Webb.
0:37.5	Mark you're visiting us from New Hampshire, I believe.
0:40.0	Yeah, glad to be here.
0:41.0	I'm not sure whether it's less or more stressful to be this side of the camera.
0:44.0	And if you ever wonder what our New Hampshire accent sounds like it's that.
0:47.0	This is the exact new one of them.
0:49.0	And if you want to know more about Mark, we've actually done a podcast in him.
0:52.0	That's true.
0:53.0	Yeah, he has been a guest on our show before
0:55.0	and has a great story himself.
0:57.0	Speaking of legends.
0:59.0	So am I.
1:00.0	I don't get to be a legend.
1:01.0	I defer to you.
1:02.0	A few more years, you'll be a legend. I defer to you. A few more years, you'll do. A
1:04.4	Retired Colonel Nye is with us today. I am going to call
1:09.1	Sefra a legend. Sefor, you're certainly a legend in our minds.
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