153: Vanessa O'Brien | A Mountaineer's Life Lessons

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Will lessons learned behind the desk transfer to physical challenges? This week's guest says yes! When you stop climbing corporate ladders, what do you climb next? For Vanessa O'Brien the answer is almost everything! The more difficult the better. She applied what she learned in the challenging environment of the Fortune 500 to the natural environment in a dramatic way. The extreme conditions taught her valuable lessons about happiness and success. Growing up, she was thrust into a challenging situation as well. Learn how O'Brien has combined all these life lessons into a satisfying and productive life.

Lessons:

1. Three S's of success: speed, simplicity and self confidence apply as well on the mountain as behind the desk. 

2. Try something new, make a change, you can always go back. 

3. You will fail, don't panic. It just means you're going to succeed.

Link:

Vanessa O'Brien | Mountain Climber, Explorer, Speaker http://vobonline.com/ Vanessa O'Brien Breaks Explorer Record https://youtu.be/xeyEn1K6J2U  

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast here in the Amy Barn and Pittsfield, Vermont.
0:04.0	Behind the camera we have Marion who I'm going to acknowledge first and foremost.
0:07.0	We have Chris Irving, who is joining us from Spartan HQ.
0:11.0	We have Sefra, beside him. We have Colonel Nye beside her and I'm Johnny
0:16.0	Wade as always. This week we have Vanessa O'Brien. Vanessa is most famous for
0:21.4	having completed the Explorerorers Grand Slam.
0:24.0	You're going to find out what that is,
0:25.5	but more importantly, you're going to find it how she can show you how to apply
0:29.0	what she's learned in extreme adventure to day-to-day life.
0:32.0	She's also been very successful in the corporate world,
0:34.1	and we're gonna find out all about that.
0:35.6	We are here for Spartan Up Podcast in New York City
0:40.2	with Vanessa O'Brien, who was the first ever to set the speed record, top seven summits, and
0:47.0	two polls.
0:48.0	That's right.
0:49.0	And what year did you do that?
0:50.0	That was 2012, 2013. 2012.
0:53.4	So you were like a teenager.
0:55.6	Oh, well.
0:57.8	You know, 40 is the new 30, that kind of thing.
1:00.3	What got you to do that? Like how?
1:03.0	Well, so I was in a period of transition.
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