124: Pete Cossaboon and Nelson Diaz | The Dash Between Birth and Death Dates

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Not wanting to spend his life on the sidelines, blind athlete Pete Cossaboon started participating in Spartan events. He sought out and found a way to achieve this seemingly impossible goal. Nelson Diaz has dedicated himself to facilitating the implausible achievements of adaptive athletes through compassion and action. The events only have meaning and purpose to the degree that they can be applied to life at large and to what extent the athletes can use them to tell their unique story to the world.

Lessons:
- Any new situation, when confronted, evolves from fear to adaptation.
- If life is a dash between you birthday and your death day, measure your value by the lives you have you changed in the interim.
- Avoid distractions to the degree that they are diverting you from the main purpose of your life.

CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, Dr. Delle & David Deluca
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2016 Spartan

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. Here we are at Brooklyn Boulder. This is a really cool and this is a two part one and you know a real neat
0:07.5	contrast. We've got Nelson D.S. the second one. Nelson is a really dynamic high energy guy who has devoted himself to helping other people.
0:16.4	He takes his own physicality and helps other people.
0:18.2	It's amazing.
0:19.2	He tells some great stories.
0:20.2	One of the guys that he works with is... Blind Pete, Pete Casaboom.
0:25.0	And so Pete, it's really cool.
0:27.0	This one, at the very start I thought, I had to lean in because Pete's a slow talking guy kind of quiet.
0:33.0	But by the end, man, there were some huge, huge lessons of this one.
0:37.0	So really lean into this one.
0:38.0	It's two parts, Pete, and then we're going to go to Nelson,
0:42.0	but first we're going to talk about, not talk what we're going to go to Nelson. But first we're going to talk about,
0:43.2	not talk, what we're going to do.
0:44.5	Joe, I'm Joe, Johnny,
0:46.2	Separra, Tim Nai, and Marion.
0:50.1	Here we go.
0:58.0	All right, we are here. All right, we are here in Vermont for Spartan Up Podcast with Pete. It was 100% blind?
1:00.0	Yes.
1:01.0	100% blind, but comes out and does these events.
1:04.0	With a navigator, what would you term the person that helps you?
1:08.0	Guide.
1:09.0	I apologize for that.
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