172 Lars Tandrup - His Purpose? To Find Opportunity in Unthinkable Adversity

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Matt welcomes longtime Purple Patch athlete, Lars Tandrup, back to the podcast.

In 2018, Lars and his wife lost everything in the Santa Rosa fires. He was left, quite literally, with only his pajamas - and even those were on fire as he escaped through acres of flames to safety.

A few months after this tragedy, Lars came on the podcast to discuss how he hoped to emerge from this adversity. He sought purpose, clarity, and a fresh start with gratitude.

Now, almost three years later, Lars returns.

What actually happened in the aftermath? How did he do? How has his perspective changed, and how has he used adversity to help others, especially in a year when we've all faced the unthinkable?

Lars did, in fact, set his lens forward and developed key elements for an arsenal of performance that he continues to share often in work presentations. This toolbox is paramount to his personal health and has certainly been a catalyst to growth for those he works with on a daily basis.

What Are A Few of the Lessons He Carries With Him?

Finding Purpose in Tragedy - Helping others by sharing your experience, being a lighthouse for those in need.
Embracing Adversity as Opportunity - What can you learn from adapting to stress? Is this a chance to grow and learn? Adversity is not unique, but your response is critical to your path ahead.
Developing Tools to Help Deal with Adversity - Learning to react to stress in a more productive way, getting to the root cause of problems, controlling negative self-talk

Ultimately, says Lars, living the Purple Patch Pillars of Performance have helped him emerge stronger from this tragedy, and the integrated training, recovery, nutrition, and strength have provided him with the confidence and fortitude to help others.

And, when you help others, you use adversity as an opportunity for good.

Episode Timestamps

00:00-03:15 - Welcome and Introduction to the Episode

03:15-06:25 Squaddie Update - Join our Global Squad Community

06:35 - The Meat and Potatoes - Lars Tandrup on Setting the Lens Ahead Through Adversity

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.3	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:20.1	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever,
0:23.6	your host Matt Dixon. And this week, we welcome back a guest. Now, some of you guys might
0:31.1	have listened to episode one with our guest today. And if you did, I know that you'll remember it because it was one of those
0:40.9	episodes that shook you to the bone, but it also inspired you with a great perspective of how
0:48.9	we should all go about leading our life towards performance. Let me start how I started the last episode when we had our guest today last Handrip join
0:58.6	us.
1:00.1	Have you ever pondered on losing everything?
1:03.9	I mean completely everything.
1:08.1	Going through an experience that leaves you on the edge of life and you barely emerge out of it.
1:14.7	You have no possessions and you are stripped quite literally down to your pajamas.
1:22.7	Oh by the way, those pajamas are on fire.
1:27.1	What would happen as you emerge out of this?
1:30.2	What would be the mindset?
1:32.3	What would be your lens on performance?
1:33.9	The absolute forcing of an opportunity for you now to reinvent yourself and restart almost everything.
1:45.0	For Lars Tandrup, this was his story.
1:49.0	In his 50s, a leading consulting with a major company,
1:54.0	born in Denmark, now living in California,
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