157: Beauty Queen and Death Racer Neely Fortune
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Wearing a pageant sash did not come naturally to Neely Fortune, that's why she did it. Her challenges with social anxiety, especially in public speaking, were what spurred her into the pageant world in the first place. Then she used the platform to promote PTSD awareness, a cause close to her heart. Through a number of happy coincidences it lead her to Spartan Race, the Death Race all eventually to a role as Race Director of a Spartan Agoge. In this episode Neely talks about the qualities that enabled her rising fortunes. Lessons: 1. Seek out situations that will give you the qualities you seek. 2. Find your area of weakness and tackle it. 3. Pursue your passions to the fullest extent and see where they lead. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle Synopsis – Matt Baatz © 2017 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Spartan up the podcast. |
| 0:01.6 | Today we are talking to Neely Fortune, who I will get to in a second, but first I have Chris Irving, |
| 0:07.5 | true legend on my left. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Sepfra, I hope I'm a legend. |
| 0:10.8 | Colonel Nye. |
| 0:12.0 | Old enough to be a legend. |
| 0:14.0 | Johnny Waite, we all know that he is. |
| 0:16.0 | Marion, the Empress of legendary Nis. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay, so we will go back to Mealy Fortune who, she was Miss Vermont and in the Miss America pageant. |
| 0:25.8 | Miss USA. |
| 0:26.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:28.8 | And also a death race finisher and she's just a really brilliant sweet awesome well-rounded |
| 0:35.4 | human being and just race directed the Passeagogy and has a lot of really awesome |
| 0:40.5 | applicable things to say. Great to see strong women like beautiful in every way and |
| 0:45.4 | I'd also just like to mention that Neely does a lot of work with people with PTSD |
| 0:49.9 | and she's drawn on some of her own struggles in the past and raised a lot of money for different |
| 0:54.8 | organizations helping with that. |
| 0:56.6 | So she'll share some of that. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, so what's our charity this week, Chris? |
| 1:02.2 | Our charity this week is Team Red White and Blue. Team Red White and |
| 1:05.8 | Blue connects veterans to their communities through athletic and social endeavors. Check |
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